Department of Chemistry
Seminar Announcement
Date/Time/Venue
Title/Speaker
22 Mar (Tue)
10am – 11am
Recent Progress in Dr Chi Chunyan’s Research
Group
@ S8 Level 3
Executive
Classroom
Dr Chi Chunyan
Department of Chemistry
National University of Singapore
Host : Assoc Prof Xu Qing-hua
About the Speaker
Dr Chi received her Bachelor degree in chemical engineering from
Qiqihar University in 1998 and Masters degree in polymer chemistry
from Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of
Sciences in 2001. She did her PhD degree (summa cum laude) in
chemistry at Max-Planck Institute for Polymer Research (with Prof.
Gerhard Wegner) in 2001-2004 and continued as a Research Assistant
under Prof Wegner’s supervision from 2004-2005.
Dr Chi pursued her postdoctoral research as a Postdoctorate Research Scholar at the
University of California at Santa Barbara (with Prof. Guillermo C. Bazan) from 2005-2007.
She joined the Department of Chemistry, National University of Singapore in 2007 and is
currently a Research Fellow.
Dr. Chi is interested in synthetic chemistry of conjugated polymers, oligomers, dendrimers
and liquid crystals and their material properties and applications for printed electronics,
sensors and display techniques. She has published more than 30 peer-reviewed papers in
international journals.
Abstract
I will briefly introduce the research work in my group at NUS. The talk includes four parts: (1) novel
n-type acene-based semiconductors (e.g. 1-3); (2) high order acenes (e.g. 4); (3) triazatruxene-based
liquid crystals and two-photon absorption chromophores (e.g. TAT-Tn) and (4) H-shaped low band
gap ambipolar semiconductors (e.g. HT-Tn). I will discuss their synthesis, material properties and
device applications.
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References: (1) H. Qu et al., Org. Lett. 2011, 13, 924; (2) J. Shao et al., J. Org. Chem. 2011, 76, 780; (3) H. Qu et al, Org.
Lett. 2010. 12, 3360; (4) J. Luo et al., Org. Lett. 2010, 12, 5660; (5) H. Qu et al., Curr. Org. Chem. 2010, 14, 2070; (6) J. Luo et
al., J. Mater. Chem. 2010, 20, 1932; (7) B. Zhao et al., Chem. Mater. 2010, 22, 435; (8) J. Luo et al., J. Mater. Chem. 2009,
19, 8327; (8) J. Luo et al., J. Mater. Chem. 2009, 19, 8202; (9) J. Yin et al, Org. Lett. 2009, 11, 3028; (10) H. Qu et al., J.
Polym. Sci. Part A: Polym Chem. 2010, 48, 186.
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