Nancy Sottos
Nancy Sottos | |
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| Alma mater | University of Delaware |
| Spouse | Scott White |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Materials science and engineering, molecular and electronic nanostructures |
| Institutions | University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign |
| Doctoral advisor | Roy McCullough |
| External videos | |
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| Nancy Sottos,“BP-ICAM Webinar Series 2016: Polymers with Biologically-Inspired Autonomous Functions”, The BP International Centre for Advanced Materials |
Nancy Sottos is an American materials scientist and professor of engineering. She is the Swanlund Endowed Chair and the head of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. She is also a co-chair of the Molecular and Electronic Nanostructures Research Theme at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology. She heads the Sottos Research Group.
Sottos studies deformation and failure of materials at mesoscale, microscale, and nanoscale levels, and has made significant contributions in self-healing material, advanced polymer matrix composites, and thin films. She is a pioneer in the area of adaptive materials, creating the first self-healing polymers with Jeffrey S. Moore, Scott R. White, and others as of 2000.