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Teri W. Odom

Teri W. Odom is a chemistry topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Teri W. Odom rather than just read about it. In short: Teri W. Odom is an American chemist and materials scientist.

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Reference excerpt

Teri W. Odom is an American chemist and materials scientist. She is the chair of the chemistry department, the Joan Husting Madden and William H. Madden, Jr. Professor of Chemistry, and a professor of materials science and engineering at Northwestern University. She is affiliated with the university's International Institute for Nanotechnology, Chemistry of Life Processes Institute, Northwestern Initiative for Manufacturing Science and Innovation, Interdisciplinary Biological Sciences Graduate Program, and department of applied physics.

Education Odom attended Stanford University, where she earned a BS in chemistry, was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, and received the Standford's Marsden Memorial Prize for Chemistry Research (1996). She obtained her PhD in chemical physics from Harvard University in 2001 under the guidance of Charles M. Lieber, then conducted post-doctoral research at Harvard with George M. Whitesides from 2001 to 2002.

Career Odom joined Northwestern University's department of chemistry in 2002 and became the department chair in 2018. In 2010, she became the founding chair of the Noble Metal Nanoparticles Gordon Research Conference Between 2016 and 2018, she was associate director of the International Institute for Nanotechnology. Odom has worked on the editorial advisory boards of ACS Nano, Bioconjugate Chemistry, Materials Horizons, Annual Review of Physical Chemistry Natural Sciences, Nano Futures, and Accounts of Chemical Research. Odom became an inaugural associate editor for Royal Society of Chemistry's Chemical Science journal in 2009, a position she held until 2013. She was on the editorial advisory board of Nano Letters beginning in 2010 and became editor-in-chief in 2019. In 2013, she became a founding Executive Editor for ACS Photonics.

Research interests Research in the Odom group focus on controlling materials at 100 nm scale and investigating their size and shape-dependent properties. Odom group has developed parallel, multi-scale pattering tools to generate hierarchical, anisotropic, and 3D hard and soft materials with applications in imaging, sensing, wetting and cancer therapeutics. As a result of Odom's nanofabrication tools, she has developed flat optics that can manipulate light at the nanoscale and beat the diffraction limit and tunable plasmon-based lasers. Odom also conducts research into nanoparticle-cell interactions using new biological nanoconstructs that offer imaging and therapeutic functions due to their shape (gold nanostar).

Personal life Odom's husband Brian, now a physicist and astronomer at Northwestern University, piqued her interest in science by introducing her to the double-slit experiment while they were dating. He encouraged her to pursue undergraduate summer research, an experience that inspired her to continue studying physics and chemistry.

Awards and recognition 1996-1999 - National Science Foundation Predoctoral Fellow, Harvard University 2001 - International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry Young Chemists award for thesis 2001-2002 - National Research Service Award Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University 2002 - Research Corporation's Research Innovation Award 2002 - Dow Teacher-Scholar Award, inaugural recipient 2003 - American Chemical Society's Victor K. LaMer Award 2003 - David and Lucile Packard Foundation Fellow 2004 - National Science Foundation CAREER Award 2004 - MIT Technology Review Top 100 Innovators 2005 - Cottrell Scholar Award 2005 - DuPont Young Investigator Award 2005 - Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow 2006 - ExxonMobil Solid State Chemistry Faculty Fellow 2007 - Rohm and Haas New Faculty Award 2008 - Phi Lambda Upsilon's National Fresenius Award 2008 - National Institutes of Health Director's Pioneer Award 2009 - Materials Research Society Outstanding Young Investigator Award 2010 - Institute for Defense Analyses's Defense Sciences Study Group (one year) 2011 - Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study Fellow, Harvard University 2014 - Royal Society of Chemistry Fellow 2014 - Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists Finalist 2014 - International Precious Metals Institute's Carol Tyler Award 2016 - Materials Research Society Fellow 2016 - Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists Finalist 2017 - ACS Nano Lectureship Award 2017 - United States Department of Defense Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellow 2018 - American Physical Society Fellow 2018 - Research Corporation Cottrell Scholar TREE Award 2018 - Optica Senior Member 2020 - Royal Society of Chemistry's Centenary Prize 2020 - American Academy of Arts and Sciences Fellow 2020 - American Chemical Society's Award in Surface Chemistry 2022 - American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering Fellow 2022 - American Chemical Society's Crano Memorial Lecture (Akron Section) at Malone University 2022 - American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellow 2023 - National Academy of Sciences Member - Department of Chemistry 2024 - SPIE Mozi Award

References

External links

Northwestern Chemistry Faculty bio The Odom Research Group

Illustrations

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Teri W. Odom

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Teri W. Odom claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In chemistry, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Teri W. Odom before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Teri W. Odom ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Teri W. Odom

In research: Teri W. Odom appears in chemistry research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Teri W. Odom in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Teri W. Odom is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 1970s births, 21st-century American chemists, 21st-century American women scientists, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Teri W. Odom outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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Frequently asked questions

What is Teri W. Odom in simple terms?

Teri W. Odom is an American chemist and materials scientist.

Why does Teri W. Odom matter?

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Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

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