Research to me is a joyful journey as I get to know more and more about the intrinsic nature of matter.
As a chemist, I like to construct new molecules, but the more important thing is to understand the molecules.
The outcomes are fresh knowledge for our scientific community and useful materials for our daily life.
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Dr WU Jishan
PhD (Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research); MSc (Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry); BSc (Wuhan University)
Department of Chemistry
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- Low band gap polycyclic aromatic compounds for solar cells, bioimaging, molecular magnetics and defence‐related applications
- Functional pi‐conjugated polymers and discotic liquid crystals for printable electronic devices such as solar cells and field-effect transistors
- Graphene‐based composites for energy storage devices such as ultracapacitors and lithium ion batteries
- Supramolecular chemistry and responsive materials
- Created elegant methods of generating a series of soluble and stable zigzag-edged nanographenes exhibiting near-infrared absorption or emission spectra that have practical applications in organic solar cells, bioimaging, non-linear optics and defence-related technology
- Demonstrated that certain classes of nanographenes could show interesting radical character and unusual magnetic properties, opening up opportunities for the fabrication of open-shell nanographene-based organic spintronic devices
- Succeeded in template-directed synthesis of some new challenging supramolecular architectures
- Developed "top-down" synthesis of graphene-based materials that promise to impact significantly the design of energy storage devices such as supercapacitors and lithium batteries
- Pursues a cross-disciplinary approach to conduct cutting-edge research across the fields of organic chemistry, polymer chemistry, supramolecular chemistry and materials science
- Published about 95 papers, with most of them in first-class international journals and books, and more than 2,400 citations received
- Current Hirsch Index of 27
- Served as reviewer for various international journals
- Delivered more than 20 lectures in international conferences, symposiums and workshops, such as the International Symposium on Functional pi-Systems, International Symposium on Novel Aromatic Systems and International Conference on Materials for Advanced Technologies
- BASF–Singapore National Institute of Chemistry (SNIC) Award in Materials Chemistry (2012)
- Young Scientist Award, Faculty of Science (2011)
- Young Chemist Award, Department of Chemistry (2011)
- Young Scientist Award, Singapore National Academy of Science (2010)
- NUS Young Investigator Award (2007)
" There are many interesting fundamental problems in aromatic pi-systems. My dream is to develop new synthetic methods to turn all impossible missions possible and to exploit new aspects of their properties for practical applications."