2016 Waterman Award

美国国家科学基金会（NSF）任命麻省理工学院化学副教授Mircea博士Dincã为2016年艾伦·t·沃特曼奖获得者。该奖项是美国国家科学基金会的最高荣誉，每年表彰35岁以下的杰出研究人员，并资助他或她在任何科学或工程领域的研究。Dincã博士开创了“对具有不同寻常电子特性的分子多孔固体的合成和理解的贡献，特别是创造性的合成设计，导致具有高导电性和氧化还原活性的微孔材料”。Dincã博士是他这一代最具创造力、生产力和创新精神的年轻科学家之一。他在化学、材料科学与工程、催化等领域的跨学科工作得到认可，设计了具有新颖电子特性和功能的新材料。Dincã是一位国际知名的多产学者，他开发了一项独特的研究计划，合成了新型有机和无机杂化材料，称为金属有机框架（MOF），并以前所未有的导电性和氧化还原活性增强了这些材料。Dincã博士正在革新微孔固体的主题，因为他利用一系列新颖的方法来创造具有无与伦比特性的材料。最近，Dincã的研究产生了一种新型mof，它可以作为多孔导体，具有高表面积和超过最佳导电聚合物的“电荷迁移率值”。具有这种特性的材料具有巨大影响和无数实际应用的潜力，包括储能、热电、传感设备和电催化的潜在用途。为表彰Dincã博士的杰出研究贡献，他获得了以下奖项和荣誉：梦想化学奖-波兰科学院（2015），埃克森美孚ACS固体化学教师奖学金（2015），道尔顿讲师-加州大学伯克利分校（2015），美国国家科学基金会职业奖（2015），Keith Fagnou讲师-渥太华大学（2015），汤姆森-路透社最被引用化学家名单（2014,2015），科特雷尔学者奖-科学进步研究公司（2014），阿尔弗雷德P.斯隆研究奖学金（2014），德雷福斯环境化学奖学金（2013），3M非终身教授奖（2013年），美国（ACS）跨大西洋化学前沿会议代表（2013年）。迄今为止，Dincã博士作为独立研究人员发表了57篇论文。Dincã博士获得了数学和物理科学理事会材料研究部的PI资助（CAREER award 1452612）。

The National Science Foundation (NSF) named Dr. Mircea Dincã, Associate Professor of Chemistry at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as the 2016 Alan T. Waterman Award recipient. This award is NSF's highest honor that annually recognizes an outstanding researcher under the age of 35 and funds his or her research in any field of science or engineering. Dr. Dincã pioneered "contributions to the synthesis and understanding of molecular porous solids with unusual electronic properties, especially for creative synthetic design leading to microporous materials with high electrical conductivity and redox activity". Dr. Dincã is one of the most creative, productive, and innovative young scientists of his generation. He is recognized for interdisciplinary work spanning the fields of chemistry, materials science and engineering, and catalysis, to design new materials with novel electronic properties and functionality. An internationally known and prolific scholar, Dincã has developed a distinctive research program that synthesizes novel organic and inorganic hybrid materials, known as metal-organic frameworks (MOF), and enhances these materials with unprecedented electric conductivity and redox activity. Dr. Dincã is revolutionizing the subject of microporous solids as he utilizes an array of novel methods to create materials displaying unparalleled characteristics. Recently, Dincã's research resulted in a new class MOFs that serve as porous conductors that exhibit high surface areas and "possess charge mobility values" exceeding the best conductive polymers. Materials exhibiting such properties have the potential for immense impact and myriad practical applications, including energy storage, thermoelectrics, sensing devices, and potential use in electrocatalysis. In recognition of Dr. Dincã's outstanding research contributions, he has received the following awards and honors: Dream Chemistry award- Polish Academy of Science (2015), ExxonMobil ACS Solid State Chemistry Faculty Fellowship (2015), Dalton Lectureship - UC Berkeley (2015), NSF CAREER Award (2015), Keith Fagnou Lectureship - University of Ottawa (2015), Thomson-Reuters Most Cited Chemists List(2014, 2015), Cottrell Scholar Award - Research Corporation for Science Advancement (2014), Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship (2014), Dreyfus Fellowship in Environmental Chemistry (2013), 3M Non-Tenured Faculty Award (2013), and the Selected US (ACS) Representative for Transatlantic Frontiers of Chemistry Conference (2013). To date, Dr. Dincã has 57 publications as an independent researcher. Dr. Dincã has received funding as a PI from the Division of Materials Research in the Mathematical and Physical Sciences Directorate (CAREER award 1452612).