Directory

Thuc-Quyen Nguyen

CPOS Director
Professor, Chemistry & Biochemistry

3122 Chem
Organic semiconducting materials for molecular electronics and optoelectronic devices.

Zhiyu Bo

Graduate Student, Chemistry and Biochemistry
Advisor: Yang

 

Arunavo Chakraborty

Graduate Student, Chemistry and Biochemistry
Advisor: Menard; Co-Advisor: Sepunaru

Mingxuan Guo

Undergraduate Student
Nguyen Group

Shivshankar Mane

Postdoctoral Researcher
Carlini Group

Favorite Molecule: Norborene

Zhongze Qu

Graduate Student, Chemistry and Biochemistry
Advisor: Nguyen

Brian Roehrich

Graduate Student, Chemistry and Biochemistry
Advisor: Sepunaru

Thanh Vuong

Graduate Student, Chemistry and Biochemistry
Advisor:Sepunaru

Organic Semiconductors for Bioelectronic Devices and Photodetectors

Sangcheol Yoon

Graduate Student, Chemistry and Biochemistry
Advisor: Nguyen

Chem 1005C
Characterization of organic photovoltaics

Yunlong Zhao

Undergraduate Student
Yang Group

Muhammad Azhar Ansari

Visiting Graduate Student Researcher
University of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli
Nguyen Group

Synthesis of Novel Organic Semiconductors in the Context of Stable and Efficient Organic Solar Cells. Molecular Characterization and Study of Thin-Film Morphology of These Materials.

Guillermo Bazan

Professor Emeritus, Chemistry & Biochemistry

Polymer design, synthesis and processing.

Kennice Brennan

Undergraduate Student

Andrea Carlini

Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry

The Carlini Group synthesizes structurally dynamic biomaterials, which are integrated into wearable/implantable devices for closed-loop medical surveillance and therapeutic drug delivery.

Alyssa Carlson

Undergraduate Student
Sepunaru Group

Michael Chabinyc

Professor, Materials Department, UCSB

3219 Elings Hall
Organic and inorganic materials for electronic and photonic applications

Sangmin Chae

Graduate Student, Chemistry and Biochemistry
Advisor: Nguyen

Morphological studies of thin films and opto-electronics devices.

Betty Chen

Graduate Student, Chemistry and Biochemistry
Advisor: Yang

Jingcong Chen

Undergraduate Student
Nguyen Group

Organic photodetectors and organic photovoltaics

Xiaowang Chen

Postdoctoral Researcher
Yang Lab

Research focused on catalytic asymmetric synthesis with CO2.

Lei Cheng

Postdoctoral Associate
Yang Group

Research focused on nickel-catalyzed hydrofunctionalization of dienes

Lida Cheng

Undergraduate Student
Yang Group

Michael Chin

Graduate Student, Chemistry and Biochemistry
Advisor: Yang

Dylan Choi

Undergraduate Student
Nguyen Group

OPV and Machine Learning.

Yelim Choi

Visiting Graduate Student Researcher
University of Science and Technology (POSTECH)
Nguyen Group

Stable and Stretchable Organic Photovoltaics, Thin Film Morphology and Characterization of Semiconducting Materials, Interfacial Engineering of Optoelectronics.

Julia Chung

Graduate Student, Biomolecular Science and Engineering
Advisor: Sepunaru

Connor Davis

Graduate Student, Biomolecular Science and Engineering
Advisor: Sepunaru

Haowen Deng

Undergraduate Student
Yang Group

Xuan Sang Do

Visiting Undergraduate Student Researcher
Digital Materials Laboratory, VinUniversity, Hanoi City, Vietnam
Nguyen Group

Perovskite Light-emitting Diodes and Organic Electrochemical Transistors.

Wenzhen Fu

Postdoctoral Associate
Yang Group

Research focused on the development of novel chiral phosphine ligands for Ni-catalyzed asymmetric reductive couplings.

Joseph Gott

Undergraduate Student
Sepunaru Group

Rui Guo

Postdoctoral Associate
Yang Group

Research focused on the total synthesis of diterpenoid alkaloids and indole monoterpenoid alkaloids.

Alan Heeger

Professor Emeritus

4415 Broida
Semiconducting and metallic polymers with focus on high mobility field effect transistors and low cost “plastic” solar cells.

Kaipeng Hou

Visiting Postdoctoral Researcher
University of California San Francisco
Yang Group

De novo metalloprotein design.

Wei Huang

Postdoctoral Researcher, Center for Polymers and Organic Solids
Yang Group

Research focused on the development of cobalt-catalyzed stereoselective C-C bond forming reactions with unsaturated hydrocarbons.

Stefan Ingvarsson

Graduate Student, Chemistry and Biochemistry
Advisor: Sepunaru

Yun Kyung Jung

Visiting Professor
Inje University / Professor
Nguyen Group

PSBN 2520E

Brian Kim

Undergradute Student
Nguyen Group

Benjamin Krohn-Hansen Krohn-Hansen

Undergraduate Student
Yang Group

Emmanuel Lanuza

Graduate Student, Chemistry and Biochemistry
Advisor: Nguyen

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

Chongtao Li

Undergraduate Student
Yang Group

Kunyu Li

Undergraduate Student
Nguyen Group

Organic Electrochemical Transistors

Yin-Chen Lin

Graduate Student, Chemical Engineering
Advisor: Sepunaru, Gordon, Morse

Sophie Lipkin

Undergraduate Student
Sepunaru Group

An Liu

Postdoctoral Associate
Yang Group

Research focused on fluorocarbon chain elongation.

Eric Liu

Graduate Student, Chemistry and Biochemistry
Advisor: Sepunaru

Xin Liu

Postdoctoral Researcher
Yang Group

Research on the development of new biocatalytic methods for organic synthesis.

Hoang Luong

Postdoctoral Researcher, Center for Polymers and Organic Solids
Nguyen Group

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

Alexander A. Mikhailovsky

Optical Characterization Lab Manager, Chemistry and Biochemistry

Chem 3312
Ultrafast optical spectroscopy, scanning probe microscopy, physics of nanostructures.

Alex Moreland

Posdoctoral Researcher, Center for Polymers and Organic Solids
Bazan Group

Materials Chemistry

Emile Morin

Graduate Student, Chemistry and Biochemistry
Advisor Carlini

Sam Mugiraneza

Graduate Student, Chemistry and Biochemistry
Advisor: Nguyen

Nathan Nasseri

Graduate Student, Chemistry and Biochemistry
Advisor: Carlini

Favorite Molecule: beta-alanine

Elena Nicolae

Business Manager
Center for Polymers & Organic Solids

2520A PSB-North

Miguel Orozco

Graduate Student, Chemistry and Biochemistry
Advisor: Sepunaru

Sung Heum Park

Visiting Professor
Pukyong National University / Professor
Nguyen Group

PSBN 2520E

Sofia Rivalta Popescu

Undergraduate Student
Sepunaru Group

Miao Qi

Visiting Postdoctoral Researcher
Yang Group

Protein design and engineering for catalysis

Javier Read de Alaniz

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

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

Chem 1161
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

Chem 4138A
Charge Transport and Charge Recombination; Interfaces in Organic Optoelectronics; Organic Semiconducting & Light Harvesting Materials

Hiba Wakidi

Graduate Student, Chemistry and Biochemistry
Advisor: Nguyen

Yuxiang Wan

Undergraduate Student
Nguyen Group

Huanan Wang

Postdoctoral Associate
Center for Polymers & Organic Solids
Yang Group

Devoted to develop novel biocatalytic strategies to solve the challenging problems in synthetic organic chemistry.

Quanquan Wang

Postdoctoral Researcher
Center for Polymers & Organic Solids
Yang Group

Sugar chemistry and Biocatalysis.

Stephanie Wang

Graduate Student, Chemistry and Biochemistry
Advisor: Sepunaru

Tianci Wang

Posdoctoral Researcher, Center for Polymers and Organic Solids
Yang Group

Research focused on the development of palladium-catalyzed asymmetric allylic C-H functionalization reactions.

Nick Watkins

Postdoctoral Researcher, Center for Polymers and Organic Solids
Sepunaru Group

Vivian Worthington

Undergraduate Student
Nguyen Group

Fred Wudl

Professor Emeritus, Chemistry & Biochemistry

3213 Elings Hall
Organic & Bioorganic; Materials Chemistry; Molecular Design & Synthesis; Devices, Assembly & Nanochemistry

Sheng Xu

Postdoctoral Researcher, Center for Polymers and Organic Solids
Yang Group

Research focused on C(sp3)-H functionalization via photo-HAT/nickel dual catalysis.

Yang Yang

Assistent Professor, Chemistry & Biochemistry

CHEM 1161D, PSBN 2608 (lab)
The Yang laboratory devises novel biocatalytic strategies to tackle challenging problems in synthetic organic chemistry.

Ahra Yi

Visiting Research Scientist
Postdoctoral Researcher - Multi-scale Integrated Chemical Engineering (MICE), Pusan National University
Nguyen Group

Structural engineering of organic semiconducting and hybrid perovskite materials

Jae Young Kim

Graduate Student, Chemistry and Biochemistry
Advisor: Nguyen

Chen Zhang

Postdoctoral Associate
Center for Polymers & Organic Solids
Yang Group

Research focused on carbohydrates chemistry and developed new photoredox methods for glycosylation and carbohydrate functionalization.

Kun Zhang

Visiting Graduate Student Researcher
University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
Yang Group

Liupeng Zhao

Postdoctoral Associate
Center for Polymers & Organic Solids
Yang Group

Research focused on the development of [2+2+2] cascade cyclization reactions involving indole derivatives

Ziyu Zhou

Visiting Graduate Student Researcher
University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
Yang Group