Head of Business Cente
Fan, Jian
Ph. D.,Professor
AcademicHistory:
B.S.,Jilin University, 1998
Ph.D., NanjingUniversity, 2003
ResearchExperience:
2004-2005Virginia Tech. Synthesizedinorganic/organic phosphate materials todevelop novel supports forheterogeneous catalyses
2005-2007University of Nottingham. IncorporateC60 into carbon nano-tubes
2007-2009University of Siegen. Synthesis of polymer via reversible covalent bonds.
2009-2013University of California Santa Barbara. Organic solar cells and OFETs
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ResearchInterests:
Design andsyntheses of organic semiconductors and their application in organic solarcells, OFETs and OLEDs
ResearchAccomplishments:
Published over80 papers in peer-reviewed journals including Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., J. Am.Chem. Soc., Adv. Mater., J. Mater. Chem.., etc with H index of 31.Achievement in science has been recognized with several prestigious fellowshipsincluding McNair Postdoctoral Fellowship and Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship.
SelectedPublications:
Jian Fan, Jonathan D.Yuen, Weibin Cui, Jason Seifter, Ali Reza Mohebbi, Mingfeng Wang, HuiqiongZhou, Alan Heeger and Fred Wudl, High Hole Mobility Field-Effect Transistorsbased on Co-Benzobisthiadiazole-Quaterthiophene, Adv. Mater. 2012, 24,6164.
Jian Fan, Manik LalSaha, Bo Song, Holger Schönherr, and Michael Schmittel, Preparation of aPoly-nanocage Dynamer: Correlating the Growth of Polymer Strands UsingConstitutional Dynamic Chemistry and Heteroleptic Aggregation, J. Am. Chem.Soc., 2012, 134, 150.
Jian Fan, Jonathan D.Yuen, Mingfeng Wang, Jason Seifter, Jung-Hwa Seo, Ali Reza Mohebbi, DanteZakhidov, Alan Heeger and Fred Wudl,High-PerformanceAmbipolar Transistors and Inverters from an Ultralow Bandgap Polymer. Adv.Mater., 2012, 24, 2186.
Jian Fan, Yu Wang,Alexander J. Blake, Claire Wilson, E. Stephen Davies, Andrei N. Khlobystov,Martin Schröder. Controlled Assembly of Silver(I)-Pyridylfullerene Networks. Angew.Chem. Int. Ed. 2007, 46, 8013.
Jonathan D. Yuen, Jian Fan, JasonSeifer, Bogyu Lim, Ryan Hufschmid, Alan J. Heeger and Fred Wudl,HighPerformance Weak Donor–Acceptor Polymers in Thin Film Transistors: Effect ofthe Acceptor on Electronic Properties, Ambipolar Conductivity, Mobility, andThermal Stability J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2011, 133, 20799.