OAK RIDGE, Tenn., May 1, 2019 – Sheng Dai, a researcher at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, has been elected fellow of the Materials Research Society (MRS).
MRS fellows are noted for their “distinguished research accomplishments and outstanding contributions to the advancement of materials research worldwide.”
Dai, leader of the Nanomaterials Chemistry group in ORNL’s Chemical Sciences Division, was cited “for significant and sustained contributions in pioneering and developing novel synthetic methods for functional carbon materials for energy applications.”
Dai is an ORNL Corporate Fellow and the lab’s most prolific author, with more than 700 peer-reviewed publications and 51 patents. He is also director of the Fluid Interface Reactions, Structures and Transport (FIRST) Center, a DOE Energy Frontier Research Center based at ORNL, and holds a joint faculty appointment in the department of chemistry at the University of Tennessee.
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