Kenneth Poeppelmeier

{{Short description|American chemist (born 1949)}}

{{Infobox scientist

| name = Kenneth R. Poeppelmeier

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| birth_date = 6 October 1949

| birth_place = St Charles, Missouri

| alma_mater = University of Missouri, Iowa State University

| academic_advisors = John D. Corbett

| field = Chemistry

| work_institution = Northwestern University

| known_for = Solid-state chemistry, Materials chemistry, Catalysis, crystal growth, nonlinear optical materials

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| awards = Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Elected foreign member (2016) of Spanish Royal Academy of Sciences, Elected Honorary Member (2017) of the Spanish Royal Society of Chemistry (RSEQ)}}

Kenneth Reinhard Poeppelmeier (born 6 October 1949) is the Charles E. & Emma H. Morrison Professor of Chemistry at Northwestern University.{{cite journal |last1=Li |first1=Yadong |title=A solid-state chemist's eye for the development of materials science in China |journal=Science China Materials |date=2019 |volume=62 |issue=12 |pages=1783–1787 |doi=10.1007/s40843-019-1194-0 |doi-access=free}}{{cite news |title=KENNETH R. POEPPELMEIER |url=https://chemistry.northwestern.edu/people/core-faculty/profiles/kenneth-poeppelmeier.html |access-date=6 August 2023 |publisher=Northwestern University Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences}}

Poeppelmeier completed his bachelor's degree in chemistry at the University of Missouri in 1971. From 1971 to 1974 he taught chemistry at Samoa College as part of the Peace Corps.

After returning from Samoa, he attended Iowa State University and in 1978 was awarded a doctorate for his work on reduced scandium halide compounds under the direction of John Corbett. After graduation, he joined Exxon Central Research and Development where he studied the synthesis and properties oxygen-deficient perovskites. In 1984, he joined Northwestern University as an inorganic chemistry professor.{{cite news |title=Authors Biography for KENNETH R. POEPPELMEIER |url=https://shop.elsevier.com/books/comprehensive-inorganic-chemistry-ii/reedijk/978-0-08-097774-4 |access-date=3 October 2023 |publisher=Elsevier}}

His work at Northwestern has focused on the role of materials synthesis, transport properties, and materials design in the isolation of new compounds {{Cite journal| last1=Sheets|first1=W.C.| last2=Mugnier|first2=E.|last3=Barnabe| first3=A.|last4=Marks| first4=Tobin |last5=Poeppelmeier|first5= K.R.|date=2006|title= Hydrothermal synthesis of delafossite-type oxides|journal=Chemistry of Materials|volume=18|issue=1|pages=7–20|doi=10.1021/cm051791c |url=https://oatao.univ-toulouse.fr/2673/1/Sheets_2673.pdf }}{{Cite journal| last1=Kageyama|first1=H.| last2=Hayashi|first2=K.|last3=Maeda| first3=K.|last4=Attfield| first4=J.P. |last5=Hiroi|first5= Z.| last6=Rondinelli|first6=James|last7=Poeppelmeier| first7=K.R.|date=2018|title= Expanding frontiers in materials chemistry and physics with multiple anions|journal=Chemistry of Materials|volume=28|issue=1|pages=17–20|doi=10.1038/s41467-018-02838-4 |pmid=29472526 |pmc=5823932 |bibcode=2018NatCo...9..772K |hdl=2433/234674|hdl-access=free}} with applications in superconductivity,{{Cite journal| last1=Vaughey|first1=J.T.| last2=Thiel|first2=J.|last3=Hasty| first3=E.|last4=Groenke| first4=D. |last5=Stern|first5= Charlotte| last6=Poeppelmeier|first6=K.R.|last7=Dabrowski| first7=B.|last8=Hinks| first8=D.G. |last9=Mitchell|first9= A.W.|date=1991|title= Synthesis and structure of a new family of cuprate superconductors: LnSr2Cu2GaO7|journal=Chemistry of Materials|volume=3|issue=5|pages=935–940|doi=10.1021/cm00017a032 }} nonlinear optical materials,{{Cite journal| last1=Gautier|first1=R.| last2=Klingsporn|first2= R.P.|last3= Van Duyne|first3=R.P.| last4=Poeppelmeier|first4=K.R.|date=2016|title=Optical Activity from Racemates|journal=Nature Communications|volume=9|issue=6 |pages=772|doi=10.1038/nmat4628 |bibcode=2016NatMa..15..591G }}{{Cite journal| last1=Tran|first1=T.T.| last2=Yu|first2=H.|last3=Rondinelli|first3=James|last4=Poeppelmeier|first4=K.R. |last5=Halasymani|first5=P.S.|date=2016|title=Deep Ultraviolent Non-linear Optical Materials|journal=Chemistry of Materials|volume=28|issue=15|pages=5238–5258|doi=10.1021/acs.chemmater.6b02366 }}{{Cite journal| last1=Halasymani|first1=P.S.| last2=Poeppelmeier|first2=K.R.|date=1998|title=Noncentrosymmetric Oxides|journal=Chemistry of Materials|volume=10|issue=10|pages=2753–2769|doi=10.1021/cm980140w }} catalysis,{{Cite journal| last1=Lin|first1=Yuyuan| last2=Wu|first2=Zili|last3=Wen| first3=J.|last4=Poeppelmeier| first4=K.R. |last5=Marks|first5= L.D.|date=2014|title= Imaging the Atomic Surface Structures of CeO2 Nanoparticles|journal=NanoLetters|volume=14|issue=1|pages=191–196|doi=10.1021/nl403713b |pmid=24295383 |bibcode=2014NanoL..14..191L }} and energy storage.{{Cite journal| last1=Wan|first1=L.| last2=Incorvati| first2=J.|last3=Poeppelmeier|first3=K.R.|last4=Prendergast|first4=D. |date=2016|title=Building a fast lane for Mg diffusion in α-MoO3 by fluorine doping|journal=Chemistry of Materials|volume=28|issue=19|pages=6900–6908|doi=10.1021/acs.chemmater.6b02223 }}{{Cite journal| last1=Incorvati|first1=J.| last2=Wan|first2=L.|last3=Key| first3=Baris|last4=Zhou| first4=C. |last5=Liao|first5= Chen| last6=Fuoco|first6=L.|last7=Holland| first7=M.|last8=Wang| first8=Hao|last9=Prendergast|first9=D.| last10=Poeppelmeier|first10=K.R.|last11=Vaughey| first11=J.T.|date=2014|title= Reversible Magnesium Intercalation into a Layered Oxyfluoride Cathode|journal=Chemistry of Materials|volume=28|issue=1|pages=17–20|doi=10.1021/acs.chemmater.5b02746 }}{{Cite journal| last1=Sorenson|first1=E.M.| last2=Barry|first2=S.|last3=Jung| first3=H.-K.|last4=Rondinelli| first4=James |last5=Vaughey|first5= J.T.| last6=Poeppelmeier|first6=K.R.|date=2006|title= Three-dimensionally ordered macroporous Li4Ti5O12: effect of wall structure on electrochemical properties|journal=Chemistry of Materials|volume=128|issue=2|pages=482–489|doi=10.1021/cm052203y }} From 1995-2015, he was the materials editor for the American Chemical Society journal Inorganic Chemistry.