Shuming Nie () is a
Chinese-American
Chinese Americans are Americans of Han Chinese ancestry. Chinese Americans constitute a subgroup of East Asian Americans which also constitute a subgroup of Asian Americans. Many Chinese Americans along with their ancestors trace lineage fro ...
chemist. He is the Grainger Distinguished Chair in Bioengineering at the
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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. He was the Wallace H. Coulter Distinguished Faculty Chair in Biomedical Engineering at
Emory University
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. In 2007, Nie was elected as a fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE). In 2012, Nie was elected as a fellow of the
American Association for the Advancement of Science
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(AAAS).
He is a pioneer of single-molecular SERS. He is one of the pioneers of quantum dots for biomedical imaging.
Recent publications
* Shuming Nie. "Remembering Dr. Richard P. Van Duyne (1945–2019): Gentleman, Scholar, and Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering Pioneer". ''ACS Nano'' 2020, 14(1), 26-27. https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsnano.9b09759
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* Warren C. W. Chan, Shuming Nie. Quantum Dot Bioconjugates for Ultrasensitive Nonisotopic Detection. ''Science'' 1998. 281(5385): 2016-2018.https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.275.5303.1102
* Shuming Nie, Steven R. Emory. Probing Single Molecules and Single Nanoparticles by Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering. ''Science'' 1997. 275(5303): 1102-1106. https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.275.5303.1102
See also
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Surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy
Surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy or surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) is a surface-sensitive technique that enhances Raman scattering by molecules adsorbed on rough metal surfaces or by nanostructures such as plasmonic-magnetic silic ...
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Quantum dot
Quantum dots (QDs) are semiconductor particles a few nanometres in size, having optical and electronic properties that differ from those of larger particles as a result of quantum mechanics. They are a central topic in nanotechnology. When the q ...
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Paul Alivisatos
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Warren Chan
References
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Living people
21st-century American chemists
Chinese chemists
Chinese emigrants to the United States
Emory University faculty
Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
Nankai University alumni
Northwestern University alumni
Stanford University alumni
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign faculty
Year of birth missing (living people)