Ray Baughman#
| Membership Number: | 4459 |
| Membership type: | FOREIGN |
| Section: | PHYSICS & ENGINEERING SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2017 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED STATES |
| Homepage(s): | http://nanotech.utdallas.edu |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2001 - present Robert A. Welch Professor of Chemistry and Director of the NanoTech Institute, University of Texas at Dallas
- Honeywell International (formerly called Allied Signal, Allied, and Allied Chemical during the below periods)
- 1990 - 2001 Corporate Fellow
- 1978 - 1990 Manager
- 1974 - 1978 Group Leader
- 1970 - 1973 Staff Scientist
Fields of Scholarship
- Artificial muscles
- Energy storage, conversion, and harvesting
- Solid-state polymerization
- The science and technology of electrochemical devices, from sensors and fuel cells to batteries, supercapacitors, and actuators
- Theoretical and experimental studies of novel known and unknown forms of carbon
- Materials with extreme and rare properties
- The science and technology of nanomaterials
- Highly conducting organic polymers
- The self-assembly, properties, and applications of photonic crystals
- Nanomaterials processing
Honours and Awards
- 2015 Fellow National Academy of Inventors
- 2015 Foreign Fellow of the European Academy of Sciences
- 2015 R&D 100 Gold Award for Market Disruptor (for discoveries on polymer artificial muscles and their commercialization)
- 2015 Tech Titans Technology Inventors Award (awarded for the impact of inventions on society)
- 2013 The Carbon Award of the American Carbon Society "for contributions in Carbon Material Science and Technology"
- 2012 Award of the European Network on Artificial Muscles for Pioneering Work on Artificial Muscles (Potsdam, Germany)
- 2010 Honorable Yang Shixiang Professor of Nankai University
- 2010 Honorable Tang Aoqing Professor of Jilin University
- 2010 Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry
- 2008 Member Academy of Medicine, Engineering and Science of Texas
- 2008 Member National Academy of Engineering
- 2007 Distinguished Achievement Award of Carnegie Mellon Univ., for "a lifetime of distinguished achievement and leadership"
- 2006 NanoVic Prize (Australia) for science and technology leading to commercially applicable carbon nanotube sheets and yarns
- 2006 CSIRO Metal for Technical Achievement (CSIRO is Australia’s national science agency)
- 2005 New Materials Innovation Prize, Avantex International Forum for Innovative Textiles (Frankfurt, Germany)
- 1997 Foreign Member of Russian Academy of Natural Sciences
- 1997 Kapitza Metal of Russian Academy of Natural Sciences
- 1996 Cooperative Research Award in Polymer Science and Engineering (American Chemical Society)
- 1995 Chemical Pioneer Award of the American Institute Of Chemists
- 1981 Fellow of American Physical Society
