FAN, Jian
Ph. D., Professor
Email: jianfan@suda.edu.cn
Academic History:
B.S., Jilin University, 1998
Ph.D., Nanjing University, 2003
Research Experience:
2004-2005 Virginia Tech. Synthesized inorganic/organic phosphate materials to develop novel supports for heterogeneous catalyses
2005-2007 University of Nottingham. Incorporate C60 into carbon nano-tubes
2007-2009 University of Siegen. Synthesis of polymer via reversible covalent bonds.
2009-2013 University of California Santa Barbara. Organic solar cells and OFETs
Research Interests:
Design and syntheses of organic semiconductors and their application in organic solar cells, OFETs and OLEDs
Research Accomplishments:
Published over 80 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 fellowships including McNair Postdoctoral Fellowship and Alexander von
Humboldt Fellowship.
Selected Publications:
[1] Jian Fan, Jonathan D. Yuen, Weibin Cui, Jason Seifter, Ali Reza Mohebbi, Mingfeng Wang, Huiqiong Zhou, Alan Heeger and Fred Wudl, High Hole Mobility Field-Effect Transistors based on Co-Benzobisthiadiazole-Quaterthiophene, Adv. Mater. 2012, 24, 6164.
[2] Jian Fan, Manik Lal Saha, Bo Song, Holger Schönherr, and Michael Schmittel, Preparation of a Poly-nanocage Dynamer: Correlating the Growth of Polymer Strands Using Constitutional Dynamic Chemistry and Heteroleptic Aggregation, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2012, 134, 150.
[3] Jian Fan, Jonathan D. Yuen, Mingfeng Wang, Jason Seifter, Jung-Hwa Seo, Ali Reza Mohebbi, Dante Zakhidov, Alan Heeger and Fred Wudl，High-Performance Ambipolar Transistors and Inverters from an Ultralow Bandgap Polymer. Adv. Mater., 2012, 24, 2186.
[4] 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.
[5] Jonathan D. Yuen, Jian Fan, Jason Seifer, Bogyu Lim, Ryan Hufschmid, Alan J. Heeger and Fred Wudl，High Performance Weak Donor–Acceptor Polymers in Thin Film Transistors: Effect of the Acceptor on Electronic Properties, Ambipolar Conductivity, Mobility, and Thermal Stability J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2011, 133, 20799.
Edited by Juan Yang