{"id":3221,"date":"2012-01-23T11:54:03","date_gmt":"2012-01-23T11:54:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/thescepticalchymist\/?p=3221"},"modified":"2012-01-23T11:54:03","modified_gmt":"2012-01-23T11:54:03","slug":"reactions-su-yuan-xie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/thescepticalchymist\/2012\/01\/reactions-su-yuan-xie.html","title":{"rendered":"Reactions: Su-Yuan Xie"},"content":{"rendered":"

Su-Yuan Xie<\/a> is in State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces<\/a> & Department of Chemistry<\/a> at Xiamen University<\/a>, China, and he works on carbon-based materials – especially fullerenes.<\/p>\n

1. What made you want to be a chemist?<\/em><\/p>\n

The term of \u201celements\u201d is translated as \u201cYuan Su\u201d in Chinese. Almost certainly because my first name (Su-Yuan) is simply the reverse form of \u201cYuan Su\u201d, my classmates gave me the nickname of \u201cchemical elements\u201d since I was a little boy. To some extent, this chemistry-related nickname pushed me to study chemistry.<\/p>\n

2. If you weren’t a chemist and could do any other job, what would it be and why?<\/em><\/p>\n

I might have become a doctor, because I admire the people who cure disease and take care of patients. It is really excited to bring health and happiness to someone.<\/p>\n

3. What are you working on now, and where do you hope it will lead?<\/em><\/p>\n

I am working on synthesis of carbon-related materials, especially the fullerenes, a class of carbon cages with promising properties (such as electron acceptor) for photovoltaic application. Among various dreams, I hope that my work would bring more and more new structures of fullerene into the reality, and help people to find new electron acceptor materials used in future solar cells.<\/p>\n

4. Which historical figure would you most like to have dinner with – and why?<\/em><\/p>\n

I admire Sir Isaac Newton very much. He is the greatest physicist for his seminal discovery about Law of Gravity. I am wondering how he could discover the Law of Gravity from such an inappreciable fact with an apple dropping onto the ground.<\/p>\n

5. When was the last time you did an experiment in the lab – and what was it?<\/em><\/p>\n

My last experience to perform experiment was in 2005 when I spent sabbatical year in Clemson University. The experiment was about the functionalization of boron nitride nanotubes.<\/p>\n

6. If exiled on a desert island, what one book and one music album would you take with you?<\/em><\/p>\n

I would take the Fortress Besieged by Chung-Shu Chien, and a piano music album by Richard Clayderman.<\/p>\n

7. Which chemist would you like to see interviewed on Reactions – and why?<\/em><\/p>\n

Lawrence T Scott at Boston College, for his systematic research on chemical synthesis of bowl-shaped hydrocarbons that are so beautiful and in principle useful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Su-Yuan Xie is in State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces & Department of Chemistry at Xiamen University, China, and he works on carbon-based materials \u2013 especially fullerenes.  Read more<\/a> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":326,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reactions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/thescepticalchymist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/thescepticalchymist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/thescepticalchymist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/thescepticalchymist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/326"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/thescepticalchymist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/thescepticalchymist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3221\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/thescepticalchymist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/thescepticalchymist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/thescepticalchymist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}