Luscombe, Christine - University of Washington - Department of Materials Science and Engineering

个人简介

Christine Luscombe was born and grew up in Kobe, Japan. After receiving her first degree in Natural Sciences (Chemistry) at Trinity College, University of Cambridge in the UK, she joined Professor Andrew Holmes' and Dr Wilhelm Huck's groups in the Melville Laboratory for Polymer Synthesis at the University of Cambridge. In 2004, she became a postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory for Professor Jean M. J. Fréchet at the Department of Chemistry at UC Berkeley. She became an Assistant Professor at the Materials Science and Engineering Department at the University of Washington, Seattle in 2006, and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2011. She has been the Robert J. Cambell Development Professor since 2017. Her research ranges from small molecule to polymer synthesis and is directed towards the design, synthesis, and applications of functional macromolecules. Current topics of research include semiconductor polymer synthesis for photovoltaic applications and for flexible electronics. Education BA, MSci, Trinity College, University of Cambridge, UK, 2000 PhD, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, UK, 2005 Professional Employment Post-doctoral Fellow, Department of Chemistry, UC Berkeley, USA, 2004-2006 Assistant Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, USA, 2006-2011 Associate Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, USA, 2011- Adjunct Associate Professor of the Department of Chemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, USA 2013-

研究领域

Pi-Conjugated semiconducting polymers are actively under development for use in organic light-emitting diodes, thin-film transistors, and solar cells. However, the understanding of their performance in many applications is limited because of the difficulty in establishing detailed structure-property relationships, which arises from the disconnect in our understanding of microstructure development. The lack of a unified understanding in microstructure formation, in turn, partly comes from our inability to precisely control defects in pi-conjugated semiconducting polymers. Additionally, due to our limitations in controlling the synthesis of these polymers, the majority of studies related to these classes of materials have focused on linear polymers with broad molecular weight distributions. While it is widely recognized that, for traditional insulating coiled polymers, the topology and architecture of the polymers will greatly affect their properties, a detailed structure-property relationship for how the topology of rigid rod polymers such as pi-conjugated semiconducting polymers affects the microstructure and thus their optoelectronic properties has remained limited. With these factors in mind, the primary goal in our group has focused on the development of controlled polymerizations to synthesize precise polymeric structures and hybrid materials, to enable us to perform structure-property relationships that have not been possible to date.

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Buenaflor, J.; Sommerville, P. J. W.;Qian, H.; Luscombe, C. K. "Investigation of Bimetallic Nickel Catalysts in Catalyst‐Transfer Polymerization of π‐Conjugated Polymers" Macromol. Chem. Phys., 2019, Early view Huang, Y.; Liu, Y.; Sommerville, P. J. W.; Kaminsky, W.; Ginger, D. S.; Luscombe, C. K. "Theobromine and direct arylation: a sustainable and scalable solution to minimize aggregation caused quenching" Green Chem., 2019, Advance Article Huang, Y.; Elder, D. L.; Kwiram, A. L.; Jenekhe, S. A.; Jen, A. K. Y.; Dalton, L. R.; Luscombe, C. K. "Organic Semiconductors at the University of Washington: Advancements in Materials Design and Synthesis and toward Industrial Scale Production" Adv. Mater., 2019, Early view Phan, S.; Luscombe, C. K. "Recent Advances in the Green, Sustainable Synthesis of Semiconducting Polymers" Trends in Chemistry, 2019, 1, 670. Ghosh, R.; Luscombe, C. K.; Hambsch, M.; Mannsfeld, S. C. B.; Salleo, A.; Spano, F. C. "Anisotropic polaron delocalization in conjugated homopolymers and donor-acceptor copolymers" Chem. Mater., 2019, 31, 7033. Slomkowski, S.; Fellows, C. M.; Hiorns, R. C.; Jones, R. G.; Kubisa, P.; Luscombe, C. K.; Nakano, T.; Russell, G. T.; dos Santos, C. G.; Scholz, C.; Stingelin, N.; Walter, M. G. "List of keywords for polymer science (IUPAC Technical Report)" Pure Appl. Chem., 2019, 91, 997. Wolf, C. M.; Kanekal, K. H.; Yimer, Y. Y.; Tyagi, M.; Omar-Diallo, S.; Pakhnyuk, V.; Luscombe, C. K.; Pfaendtnder, J.; Pozzo, L. D. "Assessment of molecular dynamics simulations for amorphous poly(3-hexylthiophene) using neutron and X-ray scattering experiments" Soft Matter, 2019, 15, 5067. Tatum, W. K.; Resing, A. B.; Flagg, L. Q.; Ginger, D. S.; Luscombe, C. K. "Defect Tolerance of π-Conjugated Polymer Crystal Lattices and Their Relevance to Optoelectronic Applications" ACS Appl. Polym. Mater. 2019, 1, 1466. Cohen, T. A.; Milstein, T. J.; Kroupa, D. M.; MacKenzie, J. D.; Luscombe C. K.; Gamelin, D. R. "Quantum-Cutting Yb3+-Doped Perovskite Nanocrystals for Monolithic Bilayer Luminescent Solar Concentrators" J. Mater. Chem. A, 2019, 7, 9279. Onorato, J. W.; Luscombe, C. K."Morphological Effects on Polymeric Mixed Ionic/Electronic Conductors" Mol. Syst. Des. Eng., 2019, 4, 310. Flagg, L. Q.; Bischak, C. G.; Onorato, J. W.; Rashid, R. B.; Luscombe, C. K.; Ginger, D. S. "Polymer Crystallinity Controls Water Uptake in Glycol Side Chain Polymer Organic Electrochemical Transistors" J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2019, 141, 4345. Dong, B. X.; Nowak, C.; Onorato, J. W.; Strzalka, J.; Escobedo, F. A.; Luscombe, C. K.; Nealey, P. F.; Patel, S. N. "Influence of Side-chain Chemistry on Structure and Ionic Conduction Characteristics of Polythiophene Derivatives: A Computational and Experimental Study" Chem. Mater., 2019, 31, 1418. Huang, Y.; Luscombe, C. K. "Towards green synthesis and processing of organic solar cells" The Chemical Record, 2019, 19, 1039. Invited personal account. Li, Y.; Zhang. X.; Zhang, Y.; Dong. R.; Luscombe. C. K. "Review on the Role of Polymers in Luminscent Solar Concentrators" J. Polym. Sci. A Polym. Chem., 2019, 57, 201. Kang, L.; Xing, L.; Luscombe, C. K. "Exploration and development of gold- and silver-catalyzed cross dehydrogenative coupling toward donor-acceptor π-conjugated polymer synthesis" Polym. Chem., 2019, 10, 486. Gu, K.; Snyder, C. R.; Onorato, J.; Luscombe, C. K.; Bosse, A. W.; Loo, Y.-L. "Assessing the Huang-Brown description of tie chains for charge transport in conjugated polymers" ACS Macro Lett., 2018, 7, 1333. Chew, A. R.; Ghosh, R.; Pakhnyuk, V.; Onorato, J.; Davidson, E. C.; Segalman, R. A.; Luscombe, C. K.; Spano, F. C.; Salleo, A. "Unraveling the effect of conformational and electronic disorder in the charge transport processes of semiconducting polymers" Adv. Funct. Mater., 2018, 28, 1804142. Mazzio, K. A.; Prasad, S. K. K.; Okamoto, K.; Hodgkiss, J. M.; Luscombe, C. K. "End-functionalized semiconducting polymers as reagents in the synthesis of hybrid II-VI nanoparticles" Langmuir, 2018, 34, 9692. Ghosh, R.; Chew, A. R.; Onorato, J.; Pahnyuk, V.; Luscombe, C. K.; Salleo, A.; Spano, F. C. "Spectral Signatures and Spatial Coherence of Bound and Unbound Polarons in P3HT Films: Theory Versus Experiment" J. Phys. Chem. C, 2018, 122, 18048. Li, Y.; Tatum, W.; Onorato, J.; Zhang, Y.; Luscombe, C. K. "Low elastic modulus and high charge mobility of low-crystallinity indacenodithiophene-based semiconducting polymers for potential applications in stretchable electronics" Macromolecules, 2018, 51, 6352.