The Odom group focuses on controlling materials at the 100-nanometer scale and investigating their size and shape-dependent properties. Our development of multi-scale patterning tools to generate hierarchical, anisotropic, and 3D hard and soft materials has produced advances in lasing, imaging, wetting, and cancer therapeutics.
Awards and Achievements
- Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry ( 2014)
- Executive Editor, ACS Photonics ( 2013)
- Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study Fellowship (Harvard University) ( 2011)
- Defense Science Study Group (DSSG) Member ( 2010-2011)
- Chair of inaugural Noble Metal Nanoparticles GRC ( 2010)
- Materials Research Society Outstanding Young Investigator Award ( 2009)
- National Fresenius Award (Phi Lambda Upsilon and ACS) ( 2008)
- NIH Director's Pioneer Award ( 2008)
- Cottrell Scholar Award (Research Corporation) ( 2005)
- Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship, 2005 NSF CAREER Award ( 2004)
In the News
- Northwestern Scientists Develop First Liquid Nanolaser (Northwestern University)
- Tiny Hitchhikers Attack Cancer Cells (Northwestern University)
- Researchers Create Laser the Size of a Virus Particle (Northwestern University)
- The Nano World of Shrinky Dinks (Northwestern University)
- Why Altering the Powdered Donuts at Dunkin' Donuts Is Bad for Innovation (The Huffington Post)