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

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

Jirat Chatsirisupachai

Visiting Research Scientist

Center for Polymers and Organic Solids

Patchareepond Panoy

Visiting Research Scientist

Center for Polymers and Organic Solids

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

Organic Electrochemical Transistors

Jakkarin Limwongyut

Graduate Student Researcher

Chemistry & Biochemistry, Materials Chemistry

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

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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