Yueh-Lin Loo

Yueh-Lin (Lynn) Loo is a Malaysian-born chemical engineer and a professor at Princeton University. She is known for inventing nanotransfer printing.

Biography

Loo was born in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and later lived in Taipei, Taiwan, where she attended Taipei American School. She moved to the United States to attend the University of Pennsylvania, where she completed bachelor's degrees in chemical engineering and materials science in 1996. She was awarded a PhD in chemical engineering from Princeton University in 2001, and worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Bell Laboratories for a year afterward before joining the University of Texas at Austin's Chemical Engineering Department. In 2004, she was included by MIT Technology Review on its TR35 list of under-35-year-old innovators for her invention of nanotransfer printing, a technique for printing nanoscale patterns onto plastic surfaces. This technique allows for the creation of organic electronic devices by printing electrical circuit components onto plastic surfaces. She won a Beckman Young Investigators Award in 2005, and awards from the Academy of Medicine, Engineering and Science of Texas and the American Institute of Chemical Engineers in 2006.

In 2007, Loo joined the faculty of Princeton's Chemical and Biological Engineering Department, where, as of 2015, she is the Theodora D. '78 and William H. Walton III '74 Professor in Engineering. Her research concerns the periodic structures of block polymers, organic semiconductors, and patterning techniques for plastic electronics. She received a Sloan Fellowship in 2008, won the American Physical Society's John H. Dillon Medal in 2010, and became a fellow of the American Physical Society in 2013. In 2015, Loo was a finalist for the Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists National Awards in the Physical Sciences & Engineering category.