Members

Faculty

Thuc-Quyen Nguyen

CPOS Director and Professor

Chemistry & Biochemistry

Organic semiconducting materials for molecular electronics and optoelectronic devices.

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

Postdoctoral Researchers

Viktor Brus

Project Leader

Chemistry & Biochemistry

Novel doping of organic semiconductors; Generation-recombination processes in organic BHJ solar cells

Alex Moreland

Graduate Student Researcher

Chemistry, Materials Chemistry

Materials Chemistry

Tung Dang Nguyen

SNSF Research Fellow

Chemistry

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

Resume

Manjunatha Reddy G N

Research Associate

Chemical Engineering

Supramolecular assemblies, organic electronics, functional polymers, complex fluids, ion exchange resins, metal supported catalysts and organic-inorganic hybrid materials.

Seyeong Song

Postdoctoral researcher

Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry

Yude Su

Postdoctoral researcher

Chemistry Department

Material chemistry and Biochemistry

Bing Wang

Postdoctoral Researcher

Design and synthesis of conjugated oligoelectrolytes for biological applications.

Lingyun Zhou

Postdoctoral Scholar

Chemistry & Biochemistry

Synthesis and application of conjugated polymers in the field of semi-conductors

Visiting Researchers

Jirat Chatsirisupachai

Visiting Research Scientist

Center for Polymers and Organic Solids

Su Ryong Ha

Visiting Research Scientist

Center for Polymers and Organic Solids

Manufacturing high efficiency energy devices. Organic polymers, perovskite and nano crystals, which are various light absorbing materials used in solar cells.

Jaewon Lee

Assistant Project Scientist

Chemistry & Biochemistry

Design, synthesis and characterization of conjugated molecules

Patchareepond Panoy

Visiting Research Scientist

Center for Polymers and Organic Solids

Shafket Rasool

Visiting Research Scientist

Center for Polymers and Organic Solids

Charge carrier dynamics and their effect on long-term stability in organic solar cells

Dong Hwan Wang

Visiting Research Scientist - Center for Polymers and Organic Solids

Distinguished Scholar, School of Integrative Engineering Chung-Ang University

Organic Electronics (Organic Solar Cells & Photodetectors), Conducting Polymers, Nanomaterials Synthesis, Nanopattern Fabrication, & Nanotechnology (Soft Lithography).