Members

Faculty

Thuc-Quyen Nguyen

CPOS Director and Professor

Chemistry & Biochemistry

Organic semiconducting materials for molecular electronics and optoelectronic devices.

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Guillermo Bazan

Professor

Chemistry & Biochemistry, Materials

Polymer design, synthesis and processing.

Michael Chabinyc

Professor

Materials

Organic and inorganic materials for electronic and photonic applications

Alan Heeger

Professor

Physics, Materials

Semiconducting and metallic polymers with focus on high mobility field effect transistors and low cost “plastic” solar cells.

Alexander A. Mikhailovsky

Optical Characterization Facility Coordinator

Chemistry & Biochemistry

Ultrafast optical spectroscopy, scanning probe microscopy, physics of nanostructures.

Javier Read de Alaniz

Professor in Chemistry and Biochemistry and Associate Director of the California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI)

Chemistry & Biochemistry

The goal of our research is to develop robust and efficient synthetic approaches to functional materials, with a focus on the design and development of light-responsive materials and development of new methods to access well-defined polymers and biomaterials.

Lior Sepunaru

Assistant Professor

Chemistry & Biochemistry

Bioelectronics at the nano scale, including the study of enzyme catalysis and development of new generation of biosensors.

Yon Visell

Assistant Professor

Mechanical Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Haptic engineering, robotics, and the mechanics and neuroscience of touch.

Vojtech Vlcek

Assistant Professor

Chemistry & Biochemistry

Charge Transport and Charge Recombination; Interfaces in Organic Optoelectronics; Organic Semiconducting & Light Harvesting Materials

Fred Wudl

Research Professor

Chemistry & Biochemistry, Materials

Organic & Bioorganic; Materials Chemistry; Molecular Design & Synthesis; Devices, Assembly & Nanochemistry

Yang Yang

Assistent Professor

Chemistry & Biochemistry

The Yang laboratory devises novel biocatalytic strategies to tackle challenging problems in synthetic organic chemistry.

Postdoctoral Researchers

Qi Zhou

Postdoctoral Fellow

Chemistry & Biochemistry

Wenzhen Fu

Postdoctoral Associate

Chemistry & Biochemistry

Rui Guo

Postdoctoral Associate

Chemistry & Biochemistry

Shuyun Ju

Postdoctoral Researcher

Chemistry & Biochemistry

Dian Li

Postdoctoral Researcher

Center for Polymers and Organic Solids

My research direction is to realize non-natural reactions catalyzed by enzymes through the directed evolution of enzymes.

Jakkarin Limwongyut

Postdoctoral Researcher

Chemistry & Biochemistry, Materials Chemistry

Synthesis and molecular designs of conjugated oligoelectrolytes for whole-cell biocatalysis

Hoang Luong

Postdoctoral Researcher

Center for Polymers and Organic Solids

Nanofabrication, Optics and Magnetic Characterizations, Hydrogen Sensors, Organics Spintronics.

Alex Moreland

Posdoctoral Researcher

Chemistry, Materials Chemistry

Materials Chemistry

Tung Dang Nguyen

Posdoctoral Researcher

Center for Polymers and Organic Solids

Functional fibers and textiles, polymer and device engineering, micro/nano fabrication and thin films

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Visiting Researchers

Chokchai Kaiyasuan

Visiting Graduate Student Researcher

Vidyasirimedhi Institute of Science and Technology (VISTEC), Thailand

Banu Koz

Visiting Research Scientist

Assistant Professor, Karamanoglu Mehmetbey University, Turkey

Synthesis and characterization of functional materials for applications in organic optoelectronic devices

Melissa Moore

Summer Researcher

Center for Polymers and Organic Solids

Ana Pedro Paracana de Oliveira

Visiting Graduate Student Researcher

Center for Polymers and Organic Solids

Focus on the study, processing, and photonic application of organic semiconductors, mostly in its crystaline form.

Ahra Yi

Visiting Postdoctoral Researcher

Multi-scale Integrated Chemical Engineering (MICE) Pusan National University

Structural engineering of organic semiconducting and hybrid perovskite materials

Graduate Students

Morphological studies of thin films and opto-electronics devices.

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Alana Dixon

Graduate Student Researcher

Chemistry & Biochemistry

Fundamental study of excitons in organic semiconductors

Zhifang Du

Graduate Student

Materials Chemistry

Understand loss mechanisms in bulk heterojunction organic solar cells with nonfullerene acceptors

Synthesis of Organic Semiconductors and Conjugated Polyelectrolytes. Molecular Structure relationship to Organic semiconductor devices.

Kunyu Li

2nd Year Undergraduate Student

Chemical Engineering

Organic Electrochemical Transistors

Luana Llanes

Graduate Student Researcher

Chemistry

Organic Chemistry

Benjamin Luginbuhl

Graduate Student Researcher

Center for Polymers & Organic Solids

Organic Semiconducting and Light Harvesting Materials; Charge Transport and Charge Recombination; Renewable and Green Energy Technologies; Machine Learning
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