Dr Shih-chun (lawrence) Lo

Biography

Lawrence held a prestigious Swire Scholarship while carrying out his DPhil study on organic materials for solar cells and organic light emitting diodes (OLEDs) at the University of Oxford, UK, (1996-2000). His post-doctoral research at Oxford University focused on the design, synthesis and characterisation of fluorescent and phosphorescent dendrimers (branched macromolecules) for OLEDs. He played a key role in electro-active dendrimers development so that light-emitting dendrimers have been recognised internationally as the third main class of OLED materials (alongside small molecules and pi-conjugated polymers). In December 2007, he joined the University as a Lecturer in Chemistry of Materials.

Research Interest

His research group focuses on functional materials development (from novel molecular design, synthesis and characterisation to device fabrication and analysis) using small molecules, oligomers, dendrimers and polymers for opto-electronics (e.g., next-generation light-emitting displays, solid-state lighting, lasers, orgnaic solar cells, photodetectors and sensors, recent reviews: Chem. Rev. 2007, 107, 1097; Adv. Mater. 2007, 19, 1675), superconductors, health-care applications (e.g., cancer detection and therapy by multiphoton absorption: Nature Mater. 2005, 4, 435), and clean fuel generation (e.g., water splitting driven by sunlight; Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2009, 48, 2842). Most of the projects are highly interdisciplinary in collaboration with researchers within the School, University, Australia and overseas. Post-doc and PhD candidates who have excellent synthetic organic chemistry skills and experiences, and high interest in new materials development for organic opto-electronics should contact Dr Lo asap.