Guillermo Bazan
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Guillermo Carlos Bazan | |
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| Born | |
| Nationality (legal) | American |
| Alma mater | California Institute of Technology Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Known for | Organic semiconductors Polyolefin Synthesis Bioelectronics |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Materials, Chemistry & Biochemistry |
| Institutions | University of Rochester University of California, Santa Barbara |
| Doctoral advisor | Richard Schrock |
Guillermo Carlos Bazan is a Canadian chemist, material scientist, and academic.
Bazan earned a B.Sc with Honors in chemistry from the University of Ottawa in 1986, and a Ph.D in Inorganic Chemistry from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1991. From 1992 to 1998 he was on the faculty of the University of Rochester. In 1998 he was appointed as a professor in the Chemistry & Biochemistry Department and the Materials Department at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Bazan has over 500 publications, an h-index of 91, and his work has been recognized by the Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award of the American Chemical Society (2007)[1] and the Bessel Award of the Humboldt Foundation.[2] He is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.[3]
Publications and Patents
- Synthesis, Morphology and Optical Properties of Tetrahedral Oligo(phenylenevinylene) Materials, Wang, S.; Oldham, W.J.; Hudack, R.A.; Bazan, G.C., J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2000, 122, 5695-5709.
- DNA Detection using Water-Soluble Conjugated Polymers and Peptide Nucleic Acid Probes, Gaylord, B.S.; Heeger, A.J.; Bazan, G.C., Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 2002, 99, 10954-10957.
- Fluorescein Provides a Resonance Gate for FRET from Conjugated Polymers to DNA Intercalated Dyes, Wang, S.; Gaylord, B.S.; Bazan, G.C., J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2004, 126, 5446-5451.
- Methods and compositions for detection and analysis of polynucleotides using light harvesting multichromophores, US Patent 7,214,489, May 8, 2007.
- Novel Organic Materials through Control of Multichromophore Interactions, Bazan, G.C., J. Org. Chem., 2007, 72, 8615-8635.
- “Plastic” Solar Cells: Self-Assembly of Bulk Heterojunction Nanomaterials by Spontaneous Phase Separation, Peet, J.; Heeger, A.J.; Bazan, G.C., Acc. Chem. Res., 2009, 42, 1700–1708.
- Streamlined Microwave-Assisted Preparation of Narrow-Bandgap Conjugated Polymers for High-Performance Bulk Heterojunction Solar Cells, Coffin, R.C.; Peet, J.; Rogers, J.; Bazan, G.C., Nature Chemistry, 2009, 1, 657-661.
- Chemically Fixed p-n Heterojunctions for Polymer Electronics by means of Covalent B-F Bond Formation, Hoven, C.V.; Wang, H.P.; Elbing, M.; Garner, L.E.; Winkelhaus, D.; Bazan, G.C., Nature Materials, 2010, 9, 249-252.
- Electrochemical Considerations for Determining Absolute Frontier Orbital Energy Levels of Conjugated Polymers for Solar Cell Applications, Cardona, C.M; Li, W.; Kaifer, A.E.; Stockdale, D.; Bazan, G.C., Adv. Mater., 2011, 23, 2367-2371.
- Non-Basic High-Performance Molecules for Solution-Processed Organic Solar Cells, van der Poll, T.S.; Love, J.A.; Nguyen, T.Q.; Bazan, G.C., Adv. Mater., 2012, 24, 3646-3649.
- Design Strategies for Organic Semiconductors Beyond the Molecular Formula; Henson, Z.B.; Mullen, K.; Bazan, G.C., Nature Chemistry., 2012, 4, 699-704.
- Design and Synthesis of Molecular Donors for Solution-Processed High-Efficiency Organic Solar Cells, Coughlin, J.E.; Henson, Z.B.; Welch, G.C.; Bazan, G.C., Acc. Chem. Res., 2014, 47, 257-270.
Awards and Recognitions
- Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, 2014
- Top 50 Material Scientists by Citation and Impact, Thomson Reuters, 2011[4]
- Professor of the Chang Jiang Scholars Professor, 2009
- Advanced Materials Editorial Advisory Board, 2008
- Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2007
- American Chemical Society Cope Scholar Award, 2007[5]
- Bessel Award, Humboldt Foundation, 2005
- National Science Foundation Special Creativity Award, 2003
- Union Carbide Innovation Award, 1999
- Union Carbide Innovation Award, 1998
- Closs Lecturer, University of Chicago, 1997
- Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation Teacher-Scholar Award, 1996-1998
- Sloan Research Fellow Award, 1996-1998[6]
- National Science Foundation CAREER Award, 1995-1998
- Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation New Faculty Award, 1992-1993
- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada Postdoctoral Fellowship, November 1990-May 1992
- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada 1967 Science and Engineering Scholarship, September 1986-June 1990
References
- ^ http://portal.acs.org/portal/acs/corg/content?_nfpb=true&_pageLabel=PP_ARTICLEMAIN&node_id=1319&content_id=CTP_004496&use_sec=true&sec_url_var=region1&__uuid=73275dd6-9833-4c62-ac3f-7eaf46eb4568
- ^ http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/article/7604
- ^ http://membercentral.aaas.org/fellows
- ^ http://archive.sciencewatch.com/dr/sci/misc/Top100MatSci2000-10/
- ^ http://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/funding-and-awards/awards/national/bytopic/arthur-c-cope-scholar-awards.html
- ^ http://www.sloan.org/sloan-research-fellowships/past-fellows/?tx_sloangrants_sloanfellows[action]=list&tx_sloangrants_sloanfellows[controller]=Fellows&cHash=8f53adde7b4458aff6de5c2679773fee
External links
- Bazan Research Group website at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
- Curriculum Vitae of Guillermo C. Bazan Retrieved November 13, 2012.