News and Press Highlights of our Research
2012
| 11/14/2012 | Our wrinkles and folds work is featured in Princeton Alumni Weekly. |
| 11/12/2012 | Lynn Loo named APS Fellow. |
| 10/31/2012 | Lynn Loo receives MESD's Owens Corning Award at the AIChE. |
| 10/08/2012 | Jeff Mativetsky's review on organic solar cells appears on cover of AIChE Journal. |
| 09/28/2012 | Jacob Tarver successfully defends his thesis! Congratulations Dr. Tarver! |
| 06/26/2012 | Jia Gao was selected to receive a Rubicon Fellowship from the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research. Congratulations, Jia! |
| 06/04/2012 | Double congrats are in order: He Wang named recipient of the 2012 Newport Graduate Award for Photonics and Leo Shaw '13 named recipient of the Michelle Goudie '93 Senior Thesis Award from CBE and the FEI Materials Characterization Award from SEAS! |
| 06/01/2012 | Solar cell efficiency boosted by Wrinkles and Folds; writeup in Physics World. |
| 06/01/2012 | Jong Bok's Wrinkles and Folds work highlighted in Nature Photonics News and Views. |
| 05/30/2012 | Professional Research Specialist position now available in our labs! For details, see HR website. |
| 05/08/2012 | Steph's work guiding crystallization in thin films around bends and corners featured on nanowerk. |
| 04/27/2012 | Jong Bok's work with wrinkles and folds in solar cells featured on EurekAlert. |
| 04/24/2012 | Steph Lee successfully defends her thesis! Congratulations Dr. Lee! |
| 04/23/2012 | Group members featured in Princeton Engineering video. |
| 04/23/2012 | Jong Bok's article Wrinkles and Deep Folds as Photonic Structures in Photovoltaics published in Nature Photonics. |
| 04/12/2012 | Steph Lee's article “Orientation-Independent Charge Transport in Single Spherulites from Solution-Processed Organic Semiconductors" featured on the cover of the March 28, 2012 JACS. |
| 03/30/2012 | Anna Hailey selected as an NSF Graduate Research Fellow -- congrats Anna! |
| 03/16/2012 | Princeton highlights our high-temperature flexible transistor work with Takao Someya! |
| 03/06/2012 | Lynn selected by the World Economic Forum as a 2012 Young Global Leader -- watch her speak!. Congratulations Lynn! |
| 03/06/2012 | Our collaboration with Takao Someya on high thermal stability organic transistors published in Nature Communications. |
| 01/12/2012 | Anna Hailey and Dr. Jia Gao join the group -- welcome Anna and Jia! |
2011
| 12/02/2011 | Luisa wins Gold Prize in the MRS student presentation section AND second prize in MRS's Science as Art competition for her electron microscope image! Kudos Luisa! |
| 11/09/2011 | Micrographs from Luisa, Anna, and Jessi selected to be on display in this year's Art of Science exhibit -- congratulations everyone! |
| 10/17/2011 | Jessi selected to receive second prize in the undergraduate poster session of this year's AIChE meeting! Congrats Jessi! |
| 09/27/2011 | Jessi receives the Siebel Energy Challenge Fund! Congrats Jessi! |
| 09/08/2011 | Jongbok promoted to Associate Research Scholar. Congrats Jongbok! |
| 08/16/2011 | Stephanie featured in Summer 2011 issue of E-Quad News and on SEAS webpage. |
| 07/26/2011 | Watch Lynn describe the field of plastic electronics -- and our contributions to it!. |
| 07/01/2011 | NSF highlights our research regarding enhancing the performance of conductive polymers!. |
| 07/01/2011 | Lynn promoted to Full Professor; appointed Deputy Director of the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment. |
| 06/20/2011 | Luisa Whittaker joins the group -- welcome Luisa! |
| 05/02/2011 | Roger passes his senior thesis defense! Congrats Roger! |
| 04/16/2011 | Anna receives a National Defense Science & Engineering Graduate Fellowship! Congrats Anna! |
| 03/30/2011 | Steph, Keith, and Jacob receive Schowalter Travel Grants to attend the 2011 APS March Meeting! |
| 03/03/2011 | MRS's "Materials For Energy" blog describes our efforts to correlate the active layer's crystallinty in organic solar cells with device performance! |
| 02/20/2011 | Our recent work investigating the relationship between active layer structure and output current of organic solar cells highlighted by the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource's Science Summary! |
| 01/28/2011 | Jacob begins collaborations at NIST's Gaithersburg campus as part of his NIST-ARRA graduate fellow! Good luck Jacob! |
2010
| 12/17/2010 | Anna successfully defends her first proposition! Congrats Anna! |
| 12/07/2010 | Our organic electronic research highlighted at the recent Celebrate Princeton Invention event! |
| 12/02/2010 | Princeton University’s Siebel Energy Grand Challenge Program will be supporting two Princeton undergraduate summer interns to help us conduct solar cell research! The projects are entitled "Assembly of Nanomaterials for Organic Solar Cells" and "The Effect of Polymer Crystallinity in Polymer-Small Molecule Organic Photovoltaics" -- those interested should apply before January 25, 2010! |
| 12/02/2010 | Jacob selected as NIST-ARRA graduate fellow! Congrats Jacob! |
| 10/13/2010 | Princeton press release highlights "Plastic Electronics", a film short by Volger Steger describing our group's research! |
| 09/23/2010 | Anna receives first prize in poster competition at Rutger's IGERT meeting! |
| 09/21/2010 | Lynn invited to 2010 Summer Davos to discuss our progress in plastic electronics!! |
| 08/12/2010 | Watch Keith describe polymers at Princeton's 2010 Science and Engineering Expo! |
| 07/08/2010 | Our method of producing highly conducting polymers featured in Miller-McCune |
| 06/21/2010 | Anna receives an NSF-sponsored IGERT fellowship in Nanotechnology for Clean Energy! Congrats Anna! |
| 06/15/2010 | Our plastic transistors are highlighted by MSNBC in a feature on Princeton's Art of Science! |
| 05/21/2010 | Der Spiegel highlights Princeton's Art of Science collection featuring our all-plastic transistors! |
| 05/20/2010 | Our work on enhancing conductivity discussed in AIChE's Chemical Engineering Progress! |
| 04/18/2010 | Lynn discusses plastic electronics with Princeton's WPRB radio station -- check it out! |
| 04/14/2010 | Wei has accepted an offer to join the downstream division of ExxonMobil -- congrats Wei! |
| 04/12/2010 | European Plastics News details our conducting polymers breakthrough |
| 04/09/2010 | The cost-cutting advantages of our conducting polymers described in Plastics & Rubbers Weekly |
| 04/08/2010 | +Plastic Electronics, InstalBiz, and BrighterEnergy.org cover our recent advances in processing conducting polymers |
| 04/07/2010 | Our work featured in The Daily Texan: Innovative plastics promise to better medicine, energy |
| 04/06/2010 | Futurity, United Press International, Rapid Electronics, and EE Times highlight our method for enhancing conductivity in conducting polymers |
| 04/05/2010 | DailyTech and TheEnergyCollective describe our recent advances regarding conducting polymers |
| 04/03/2010 | Our work on highly conducting polymers covered in SifyNews |
| 04/02/2010 | Science Daily, Nanowerk, and Green.Blorge feature our recent conducting polymer work |
| 04/02/2010 | Our paper describing post-processing enhancement of conducting polymers selected as Editor's Choice in Science: "The Power of Annealing" |
| 04/01/2010 | DesignNews highlights our work on conducting polymers in plastic electronics |
| 03/30/2010 | Our recent paper on conducting polymers highlighted in Physorg, Gizmag, and NSF's News From the Field |
| 03/30/2010 | Princeton press release features our recent paper on highly conducting polymers -- "Plastic electronics could slash the cost of solar panels" |
| 03/24/2010 | Our paper on improving the conductivity of conducting polymers highlighted by PNAS Early News |
| 01/07/2010 | Anna Hiszpanski joins the group -- welcome Anna! |
2009
| 12/10/2009 | Nathalie Pinkerton is co-organizer of “Imagine: a Sustainable World” to take place on Feb 12, 2010. The conference is sponsored by Princeton’s Office of Sustainability and the High Meadows Fund. |
| 12/08/2009 | Jacob Tarver selected as a finalist to compete for DPOLY’s Frank J. Padden Award at the upcoming APS meeting! |
| 12/02/2009 | Princeton University’s Siebel Energy Grand Challenge Program will be supporting a Princeton undergraduate summer intern to conduct solar cell research in our group! Those interested should apply before January 25, 2010 at http://www.princeton.edu/grandchallenges/energy/internshipshome/index.xml |
| 10/01/2009 | Lynn is named as the recipient of the 2010 John H. Dillon Medal of the American Physical Society. |
| 09/16/2009 | Stephanie's paper on controlling the grain size of TES ADT has been selected as the back cover of this months Advanced Materials issue! Congrats Steph! |
| 06/01/2009 | Kate and Joline are selected for the Ticona Award for Outstanding Senior Thesis and Sigma Xi Book Prize, respectively! Congrats Kate and Joline! |
| 05/14/2009 | Chang Su's paper on transient photovoltaic behavior in inverted organic solar cells identified in APL's Top 20 Most Downloaded Articles for the month of March! |
| 05/07/2009 | Joline is selected as one of seven finalists at the Undergraduate Research Symposium -- great work Joline! |
| 04/27/2009 | Joung Eun defends her thesis -- congratulations, Dr. Yoo! |
| 04/10/2009 | Nathalie receives the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship! Congrats Nathalie! |
| 03/30/2009 | Stephanie and Nathalie receive National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowships! Way to go Steph and Nathalie! |
| 03/29/2009 | Stephanie's paper on controlling nucleation and crystallization in solution processed organic semiconductors is accepted for publication! Well done Steph! |
| 03/13/2009 | Joung Eun's paper on polymer conductivity through particle connectivity is accepted for publication! Congrats, Joung Eun! |
| 03/04/2009 | Kate is selected to receive the Rudlin Senior Thesis fund! Congrats, Kate! |
| 02/24/2009 | Chang Su's papers on the thermodynamics of phase separation and transient photovoltaic behavior in inverted organic solar cells are accepted for publication -- well done, Chang Su! |
| 02/05/2009 | He Wang passes her generals and joins the group -- congrats and welcome He! |
| 01/20/2009 | Keith passes his first prop -- congrats, Keith! |
| 01/14/2009 | Stephanie passes her first prop -- congrats, Steph! |
| 01/08/2009 | Nathalie Pinkerton joins the group -- welcome! |
2008
| 11/21/2008 | Lynn receives a Dreyfus Research Award in Environmental Chemistry from the Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation. |
| 10/28/2008 | Kate and Joline are awarded the Lidow Senior Thesis Fund! Congrats Kate and Joline! |
| 10/14/2008 | Jacob wins award for Best Graduate Student Poster at the Society of Plastic Engineer's "New Approaches in Polymer Characterization" conference. |
| 09/12/2008 | Dr. Jongbok Kim joins the group -- welcome! |
| 08/13/2008 | Tracy defends her thesis -- congrats, Dr. Bucholz! |
| 09/12/2008 | Kate Barteau joins the group -- welcome! |
| 08/13/2008 | Tracy defends her thesis -- congrats, Dr. Bucholz! |
| 08/08/2008 | Lynn and Iain McCulloch featured as guest editors in the July 2008 issue of MRS Bulletin discussing the commercialization of organic electronics. |
| 07/25/2008 | Joline Fan joins the group -- welcome! |
| 06/16/2008 | Dr. Wei Tang joins the group -- welcome! |
| 06/02/2008 | Joung Eun is awarded the Edith and Martin B. Stein Solar Energy Innovation Award -- congrats, Joung Eun! |
| 05/01/2008 | Kate defends her undergraduate thesis -- congrats, Ms. Collier! |
| 04/18/2008 | Kyle defends his thesis -- congrats, Dr. Guice! |
| 03/05/2008 | Dmitry defends his thesis -- congrats, Dr. Krapchetov! |
| 02/19/2008 | Lynn selected as a Sloan Research Fellow in Chemistry. |
| 02/07/2008 | Tracy and Sally’s paper on low-k materials from fluorinated block copolymers featured on cover of Journal of Materials Chemistry. |
| 02/07/2008 | Joung Eun is awarded the Schowalter Travel Award -- congrats, Joung Eun! |
| 01/24/2008 | Jacob passes his first prop -- congrats, Jacob! |
| 01/24/2008 | Dr. Enrique Gomez joins the group -- welcome! |
| 01/17/2008 | Keith Gallow and Stephanie Lee join the group -- welcome! |
2007
| 12/17/2007 | Dr. Chang Su Kim joins the group -- welcome! |
| 11/01/2007 | Kate receives the Lidow Senior Thesis Fund -- congrats, Kate! |
| 10/15/2007 | Kwang defends his thesis -- congrats, Dr. Lee! |
| 10/09/2007 | Dmitry's paper on deprotecting Terphenyldithiol for assembly on GaAs accepted at Langmuir. |
| 10/09/2007 | Kyle's paper on thermoreversible phase transformations in concentrated PMA-PHD block copolymer solutions accepted at Macromolecules. |
| 09/11/2007 | Lynn to present Thiele Lecture in the Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Department at University of Notre Dame this fall. |
| 08/27/2007 | Kim's paper on TES ADT weak crystals accepted at Chemistry of Materials. |
| 08/10/2007 | Group moves to the Chemical Engineering Department at Princeton University. |
| 05/21/2007 | Lynn featured in Chemical Engineering Progress. |
| 04/20/2007 | Joung Eun's paper highlighted by Science editor. |
| 04/09/2007 | "Plastic with changeable conductivity developed by chemical engineer," College of Engineering Press Release |
| 03/26/2007 | Jacob receives an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship -- congrats! |
| 03/20/2007 | Joung Eun passes her prelim -- congrats, Joung Eun! |
| 03/15/2007 | Carolyn is selected as one of 60 US delegates to the Nobel Laureates meeting in Lindau, Germany, July 2007. |
| 01/22/2007 | Kim defends her thesis -- congrats, Dr. Dickey! |
| 01/19/2007 | Brian and Jacob pass the qualifying exams -- congrats, Brian and Jacob! |
| 01/12/2007 | Tracy Bucholz wins award for Best Graduate Student Poster at the Gordon Research Conference, Polymers (West) |
2006
| 11/17/2006 | Read about Raymond's paper on reactivity ratios of HEMA and DMAEMA in Macromolecules. |
| 10/16/2006 | Read about Dmitry's paper on chemical identification and orientation of quaterphenyldithiol on GaAs in Langmuir. |
| 10/11/2006 | Brian Goodfellow and Jacob Tarver join the group -- Welcome! |
| 10/01/2006 | Read about Kwang's paper on characterization of pentacene-polyaniline interfaces in Advanced Functional Materials. |
| 08/31/2006 | Maria Linuwih joins the group -- Welcome! |
| 08/31/2006 | Tracy passes her prelim -- congrats, Tracy! |
| 08/03/2006 | Read about Tracy's paper on semifluorinated block copolymers in Macromolecules. |
| 07/06/2006 | Kim's paper on solvent vapor annealing featured on the cover of Advanced Materials. |
| 06/22/2006 | Reken receives FEUR Fellowship from College of Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin. |
| 06/15/2006 | Lynn receives the Allan P. Colburn Award from AIChE. |
| 04/24/2006 | Kwang's paper on structural characterization of pentacene thin-film transistors is accepted in Advanced Functional Materials. |
| 04/20/2006 | ARP proposal for studying solution-processable organic semiconductors funded by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board. |
| 04/03/2006 | Kyle passes his prelim -- congrats, Kyle! |
| 02/28/2006 | Se Hoon Chang receives Intel Undergraduate Research Fellowship. Congrats, Shawn! |
| 02/24/2006 | Read about Kyle's paper on heterogeneous ATRP polymerization of HEMA and DMAEMA copolymers in Macromolecules. |
| 02/2006 | Featured in "Nanotechnology – a Giant Leap for Science" by Linda Williams, a Newsbridge publication for middle school children (ISBN 1-4007-4585-3) |
| 01/19/2006 | Reken passes his qualifying exams -- congrats, Reken! |
| 01/14/2006 | Interview with Russ Capper on “The Business Maker Radio Show,” Houston 97.5-FM |
| 01/12/2006 | Lynn selected as one of ten 2006 Emerging Scholars by Diverse: Issues in Higher Education. |
| 01/06/2006 | “State Academy Tips Its Cap to Biochemist,” Dallas Morning News |
| 01/05/2006 | Lynn receives inaugural O’Donnell Award in Engineering from Texas Academy. |
| 01/05/2006 | “TAMEST Awards,” Houston Public Radio, 88.7-FM |
| 01/05/2006 | “Texas Academy Honors Loo as Outstanding Young Investigator,” College of Engineering Press Release |
2005
| 12/02/2005 | Information on the APS DPOLY Short Course on “Polymers in Existing and Emerging Patterning Technologies”, March 11-12, 2006 |
| 11/14/2005 | Kwang passes his prelim -- congrats! |
| 10/17/2005 | Raymond Teoh receives an Undergraduate Research Fellowship -- congrats Raymond! |
| 10/06/2005 | Post-doctoral associate opening. |
| 09/29/2005 | Reken Patel joins the group -- welcome! |
| 09/29/2005 | Se Hoon Chang joins the group -- welcome! |
| 06/04/2005 | Kyle and Joung Eun passed their qualifiers -- congrats! |
| 05/23/2005 | Read about Quinn's polymerization of MPDO in Macromolecules. |
| 05/17/2005 | Read about Dmitry's assembly of dithiols in Langmuir. |
| 05/11/2005 | Lynn Loo in ISA InTech. |
| 05/06/2005 | James presents his poster at the Undergraduate Poster Competition. |
| 04/22/2005 | Kyle presents at NanoNight 2005. |
| 04/05/2005 | Dmitry passes his prelim exam -- congrats! |
| 03/28/2005 | Rishi joins the group -- welcome! |
| 03/27/2005 | Lynn Loo receives 2005 Beckman Young Investigator Award. |
| 03/04/2005 | Alejandro Acuna receives an Undergraduate Research Fellowship -- congrats Alejandro! |
| 02/25/2005 | Watch Lynn Loo discuss polymer electronics for Take 5, a UT faculty lecture series. |
| 02/19/2005 | Read about Kwang's patterning of polyaniline in Applied Physics Letters. |
| 02/02/2005 | Alejandro joins the group -- welcome! |
| 01/12/2005 | Our work featured on UT's Research Site. |
| 01/03/2005 | Sally joins the group -- welcome! |
2004
| 12/08/2004 | Kim passes her prelim -- congratulations, Kim!! |
| 11/30/2004 | Read about our research in The Daily Texan. |
| 11/17/2004 | Read about our writeup in L'agefi. |
| 10/20/2004 | Read about Kim's copper patterning in Applied Physics Letters. |
| 10/11/2004 | James Norman receives an Undergraduate Research Fellowship -- congrats James! |
| 10/10/2004 | "Plastic Chips: Will Plastic Valley Dethrone Silicon Valley?"-- L'agefi, Lausanne, Switzerland Original write-up in French Translated into English by Richard Register |
| 09/29/2004 | New additions to our group -- welcome Kyle and Joung Eun! |
| 09/20/2004 | Lynn Loo named to the 2004 TR100 by MIT's Technology Review. |
| 09/17/2004 | "Chemical Engineering Professor Makes List of World's Top Young Innovators" -- College of Engineering Press Release |
| 09/08/2004 | Lynn Loo selected as one of 100 engineers to attend the NAE-sponsored Frontiers of Engineering Symposium. |
| 08/16/2004 | Solid-state electronics summer school. |
| 07/19/2004 | Kim Felmet wins one of three book awards for her poster contribution at Nanonight '04. Congratulations, Kim! |
| 07/05/2004 | Miriam Kalk, a high school student from Westwood High joins the group for the summer. Welcome, Miriam! |
| 06/21/2004 | Kim Felmet and Kwangseok Lee present posters at the 62nd Device Research Conference. |
| 04/30/2004 | Shannon Mitchell wins Undergraduate Research Poster Competition. Congratulations Shannon! |
| 04/23/2004 | Dmitry Krapchetov and Kwangseok Lee present posters at Nanonight '04. |
| 04/15/2004 | James Norman, a Chemical Engineering undergraduate joins the group. James will be carrying out chemical and physical characterization of conductive polyaniline. Welcome, James! |
| 04/06/2004 | Shannon Mitchell was named a College of Engineering Distinguished Scholar while Fawad was named a College Scholar. |
| 03/02/2004 | Shannon Mitchell was selected to receive an Undergraduate Research Fellowship for her work on processing-structure-property relationships of organic semiconductors. Congratulations, Shannon! |
| 02/02/2004 | "Chemical Engineering Professor Receives Grant to Support Microelectronics Research" -- College of Engineering Press Release |
| 02/01/2004 | Amado Guloy, a sophomore in Chemistry joins our group. Amado will be investigating the polymerization and degradation kinetics of cyclic ketene acetal monomers. Welcome, Amado! |
| 01/30/2004 | Dmitry Krapchetov and Tracy Bucholz pass the Chemical Engineering qualifiers -- congrats Dmitry and Tracy!! |
| 01/23/2004 | "$800,000 to Fund UT Plastics Research" -- Austin Business Journal on Keck support to establish an organic cleanroom facility on campus |
| 01/10/2004 | Prof. Loo receives an NSF CAREER Development Award! See university press release. |
| 01/05/2004 | Keck proposal for setting up an organic electronics cleanroom in the Center for Nano and Molecular Science and Technology (CNM) funded! See university press release. |
2003
| 12/14/2003 | Holiday brunch at Fonda San Miguel |
| 10/2003 | Prof. Loo named one of seven recipeints of the 2003 DuPont Young Professor Grant! |
| 08/21/2003 | DuPont Photomasks, Inc. visit. Thanks Franklin for an awesome tour!! |
| 11/13/2003 | Tracy Bucholz, a Chemical Engineering graduate student joins our group. Tracy is one of four Harrington Fellows across all graduate discipline at UT this year and recently received a Department of Homeland Security Fellowship. Congratulations and welcome, Tracy! |
| 06/19/2003 | Happy Hour at Trudy's |
| 05/2003 | Dmitry Krapchetov, a Chemical Engineering graduate student joins our group. Welcome, Dmitry! |
| 04/2003 | Shannon Mitchell (ChE '05) and Sham Hassan (EECS '04) are named a Distinguished Scholar and a College Scholar in the College of Engineering, respectively -- congratulations!! |
| 01/23/2003 | “Hot off the Press” -- Nature Material Update highlights our article in Appl. Phys. Lett. on thermal laser ablative printing of a large array of organic transistors on plastic |
| 01/06/2003 | “Soft and Pliable Electronics” -- Chemical & Engineering News features our work on nanotransfer printing |
| 01/05/2003 | “Texas Program Hopes to Fuse Nano and Manufacturing” -- Nanoelectronics Planet interviews Prof. Lynn Loo about the Integrated Nanomanufacturing Technologies Program at UT |
| 01/01/2003 | Kwangseok Lee, a Materials Science graduate student joins our group. Welcome, Kwang! |
2002
| 10/2002 | “Flexible Circuits by Lamination” -- Materials Today highlights our article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Science USA on our lamination technique for producing water-proof circuits with improved bendability; an image of our laminated circuit was selected to be on the inner cover of Materials Today |
| 09/21/2002 | “Stamps and Glue Make Circuits” -- Technology Research News highlights our article in Applied Physics Letters on nanotransfer printing |
| 09/2002 | Kimberly Felmet, a Chemical Engineering graduate student joins our group. Welcome, Kim! |
| 08/01/2002 | “Nanoscale Technique Prints Metal Films with Reusable Stamps and Tailored Surface Chemistry” -- Materials Research Society Bulletin highlights our research in contact printing with nanoscale resolution |
| 07/28/2002 | Prof. Lynn Loo is one of this year’s 11 recipients of the Camille and Henry Dreyfus New Faculty Award |
| 07/15/2002 | “Stamping Out Structures” -- Nature Materials Update highlights our transfer printing technique that exploits interfacial condensation chemistries |
