Milo Shaffer

Milo Shaffer is Professor of Materials Chemistry at Imperial College London, and was co-Director of the London Centre for Nanotechnology (2010-2020). He has extensive experience of carbon and inorganic nanomaterials synthesis, modification, characterisation, and application, particularly for nanocomposite and hierarchical systems, for both structural and electrochemical applications. Notable recent work includes new, patented methods for the dispersion, surface functionalisation and characterisation of carbon nanomaterials, and new approaches to the synthesis of functionalised oxide nanoparticles in situ. In general, exploitation of nanomaterials is limited by difficulties in synthesis and processing, and research focuses on these problems. Milo has been involved in a number of large programs, including HiPerDuct (hiperduct.ac.uk) and a number of projects on structural power (www.imperial.ac.uk/structural-power-composites). He currently leads the programme grant NextCOMP (nextcomp.ac.uk), and the Graphene Flagship initiative at Imperial. Milo has previously spent time working as a materials technology consultant in the areas of new technology development and exploitation, and has filed around thirty five patents, a number of which have been licensed commercially. He co-founded the spin-out company Solena Materials, developing new protein-based fibres. He has published over 250 peer-reviewed papers with a total of over 35000 citations, h-Index 88. He was awarded the Royal Society of Chemistry Meldola medal in 2005, a prestigious EPSRC Leadership Fellowship in 2008, and the RSC Corday-Morgan Prize in 2014. He previously served on the RSC Materials Chemistry Division Council, and now sits on the EPSRC Strategic Advisory Team for Engineering, and the editorial boards of Nanocomposites and International Materials Reviews. He joined Imperial in 2003 from the University of Cambridge. The research group focuses on Nanostructured Hierarchical Assemblies and Composites (or "NanoHAC"); further details can be found at www.imperial.ac.uk/nanostructures-and-composites.

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