* 1996-1999 - National Science Foundation Predoctoral Fellow, Harvard University
* 2001 - International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry Young Chemists award for thesis
* 2001-2002 - National Research Service Award Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University
* 2002 - Research Corporation's Research Innovation Award
* 2002 - Dow Teacher-Scholar Award, inaugural recipient
* 2003 - American Chemical Society's Victor K. LaMer Award
* 2003 - David and Lucile Packard Foundation Fellow
* 2004 - National Science Foundation CAREER Award
* 2004 - MIT Technology Review Top 100 Innovators
* 2005 - Cottrell Scholar Award
* 2005 - DuPont Young Investigator Award
* 2005 - Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow
* 2006 - ExxonMobil Solid State Chemistry Faculty Fellow
* 2007 - Rohm and Haas New Faculty Award
* 2008 - Phi Lambda Upsilon's National Fresenius Award
* 2008 - National Institutes of Health Director's Pioneer Award
* 2009 - Materials Research Society Outstanding Young Investigator Award
* 2010 - Institute for Defense Analyses's Defense Sciences Study Group (one year)
* 2011 - Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study Fellow, Harvard University
* 2014 - Royal Society of Chemistry Fellow
* 2014 - Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists Finalist
* 2014 - International Precious Metals Institute's Carol Tyler Award
* 2016 - Materials Research Society Fellow
* 2016 - Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists Finalist
* 2017 - ACS Nano Lectureship Award
* 2017 - United States Department of Defense Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellow
* 2018 - American Physical Society Fellow
* 2018 - Research Corporation Cottrell Scholar TREE Award
* 2018 - Optica Senior Member
* 2020 - Royal Society of Chemistry's Centenary Prize
* 2020 - American Academy of Arts and Sciences Fellow
* 2020 - American Chemical Society's Award in Surface Chemistry
* 2022 - American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering Fellow
* 2022 - American Chemical Society's Crano Memorial Lecture (Akron Section) at Malone University
* 2022 - American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellow