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Sarah Helen Tolbert is an American chemist who is a professor in the department of chemistry and biochemistry at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her research considers self-assembled nanomaterials, which includes inorganic phases and colloidal materials.
Sarah Helen Tolbert | |
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Alma mater | Yale University University of California, Berkeley |
Scientific career | |
Institutions | University of California, Los Angeles |
Thesis | High pressure studies on nanometer sized clusters : structural, optical, and cooperative properties (1995) |
Doctoral advisor | A. Paul Alivisatos |
Other academic advisors | Galen D. Stucky |
Website | tolbert |
Tolbert's father, Bert Tolbert, was a professor of chemistry at the University of Colorado Boulder.[1] She was one of four daughters.[1] Tolbert was an undergraduate student at Yale University. She moved to the University of California, Berkeley for graduate studies, where she studied the structural, optical and cooperative properties of nanomaterials.[2] She was a postdoctoral scholar at the University of California, Santa Barbara.[3]
Tolbert is interested in the nanoscale assembly of materials, and how these nanostructures give rise to novel phenomena. In particular, Tolbert has investigated arrays of colloids. Colloids assemble into closely-packed areas that can be used to create large scale periodic photonics materials.[citation needed]
Tolbert is interested in inorganic/organic co-assembly. To this end she combines block co-polymers or organic surfactants with short-chain inorganic oligomers. Her early work involved the development of novel conjugated polymer morphologies for efficient light-emitting diodes. Amongst these morphologies, Tolbert showed it was possible to embed polymers in a silica host matrix, where stretching the matrix results in aligned polymer chains that emit linearly polarized light.[4][5]
Tolbert works on self-assembled nanomaterials. She is particularly interested in introducing structure and periodicity to composite materials. Tolbert has studied phase transitions in inorganic solids. She has created novel, nanostructured electrodes to allow the fast charging of batteries.[6] These include molybdenum disulphide nanocrystal composites, where internal atomic-scale pathways allow lithium ions to speedily move through the electrode. The nanostructure electrodes not only support the efficient charging of batteries but also stable charge and discharging cycles.[6]
Tolbert is a developer for Battery Streak,[7] a spin-out company who look to reduce that charging time of electronic devices.[8]
Tolbert's three sisters are all academics, including atmospheric chemist Margaret Tolbert, political scientist Caroline Tolbert and ethnomusicologist Elizabeth Tolbert.[1] She was one of four daughters.[1] Tolbert met her husband, Benjamin Schwartz, whilst a graduate student at the University of California, Berkeley.[13]
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