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Prof. Dr. Guillermo Bazan

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Academic positionFull Professor
Research fieldsElectrochemistry
KeywordsAntibiotics, Bioelectrochemistry, Bioimaging, organic devices

Current contact address

CountrySingapore
CitySingapore
InstitutionNational University of Singapore (NUS)
InstituteDepartment of Chemistry

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Gerhard ErkerOrganisch-Chemisches Institut, Universität Münster, Münster
Prof. Dr. Christoph BrabecDepartment Werkstoffwissenschaften, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen
Prof. Dr. Andreas LorbachJulius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, Würzburg
Prof. Dr. Paul BlomMax-Planck-Institut für Polymerforschung, Mainz
Start of initial sponsorship01/03/2005

Programme(s)

2004Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award Programme

Nominator's project description

Guillermo C. Bazan, Professor of Chemistry and Director of the Institute of Polymers and Organic Solids at the University of California Santa Barbara, USA, receives the Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel-Forschungspreis for his outstanding scientific contributions in polymerization catalysis and materials science. Professor Bazan has contributed significantly to the synthetic development of boratabenzene metal complexes. His work was essential to establish the use of these heterocyclic analogues of the Group 4 metallocenes as components of very active homogeneous Ziegler-Natta catalysts. In his research group Professor Bazan has designed and developed fascinating novel types of zwitterionic catalysts for olefin polymerization, and he has significantly influenced the important emerging field of tandem catalysis with his work. Based on the great success and experience in polymerization catalysis and the chemistry of polymeric materials Professor Bazan's research interest has increasingly shifted toward the design and development of advanced materials, especially of those that exhibit special opto-electronic properties. This recent very fascinating work includes syntheses and applications of novel photo-luminescent materials based on water soluble conjugated polymers. Some of this highly innovative research is directed toward DNA recognition and single molecule detection. With this wide span of highly visible scientific contributions carried out in remotely related very timely areas of modern chemistry Professor Bazan is recognized as a most original and successful experimentally oriented academic researcher among his age group.

Publications (partial selection)

2014Andreas Lorbach, Emily Maverick, Abel Carreras, Pere Alemany, Guang Wu, Miguel A. Garcia-Garibay, Guillermo C. Bazan A fullerene–carbene adduct as a crystalline molecular rotor: remarkable behavior of a spherically-shaped rotator. In: Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2014, 12980-12986
2014Telma Costa, Ana T. Marques, J. Sérgio Seixas de Melo, Alexander W. Thomas, Logan E. Garner, Ullrich Scherf, Guillermo C. Bazan, Hugh D. Burrows: Self-Assembly of Poly{1,4-phenylene-[9,9-bis(4-phenoxy-butylsulfonate)]fluorene-2,7-diyl} with Oppositely Charged Phenylenevinylene Oligoelectrolytes. In: Journal of Physical Chemistry, 2014, 613-623
2013Sofia M. Fonseca, Rita P. Galvão, Hugh D. Burrows, Andrea Gutacker, Ullrich Scherf, Guillermo C. Bazan: Selective Fluorescence Quenching in Cationic Fluorene-Thiophene Diblock Copolymers for Ratiometric Sensing of Anions. In: Macromolecular Rapid Communications, 2013, 717-722
2012Andrea Gutacker, Chi-Yen Lin, Lei Ying, Thuc-Quyen Nguyen, Ullrich Scherf, Guillermo C. Bazan: Cationic Polyfluorene-b-Neutral Polyfluorene “Rod–Rod” Diblock Copolymers. In: Macromolecules, 2012, 4441-4446
2012Zachary B. Henson, Klaus Müllen, Guillermo C. Bazan: Design strategies for organic semiconductors beyond the molecular formula. In: Nature Chemistry, 2012, 699-704
2012Jason D. Azoulay, Haiyang Gao, Zachary A. Koretz, Gerald Kehr, Gerhard Erker, Fumihiko Shimizu, Griselda B. Galland, Guillermo C. Bazan: Propylene Polymerization with α-Keto-β-Diimine Initiators Proceeds via Enantiomorphic Site Control. In: Macromolecules, 2012, 4487-4493
2011Jung Hwa Seo, Andrea Gutacker, Yanming Sun, Hongbin Wu, Fei Huang, Yong Cao, Ullrich Scherf, Alan J. Heeger, Guillermo C. Bazan: Improved High-Efficiency Organic Solar Cells via Incorporation of a Conjugated Polyelectrolyte Interlayer. In: Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2011, 8416-8419
2010Andrea Gutacker, Sylwia Adamczyk, Anke Helfer, Logan E. Garner, Rachel C. Evans, Sofia M. Fonseca, Matti Knaapila, Guillermo C. Bazan, Hugh D. Burrows, Ullrich Scherf: All-conjugated polyelectrolyte block copolymers. In: Journal of Materials Chemistry, 2010, 1423-1430
2010Corey V. Hoven, Huiping Wang, Mark Elbing, Logan Garner, Daniel Winkelhaus, Guillermo C. Bazan: Chemically fixed p–n heterojunctions for polymer electronics by means of covalent B–F bond formation. In: Nature Materials, 2010, 249-252
2010Zhao Chen, Xuan-Dung Dang, Andrea Gutacker, Andrew Garcia, Huaping Li, Yunhua Xu, Lei Ying, Thuc-Quyen Nguyen, Guillermo C. Bazan: Reconstruction of Conjugated Oligoelectrolyte Electron Injection Layers. In: Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2010, 12160-12162
2009Russel B. Ross, Claudia M. Cardona, Dirk M. Guldi, Shankara Gayathri Sankaranarayanan, Matthew O. Reese, Nikos Kopidakis, Jeff Peet, Bright Walker, Guillermo C. Bazan, Edward Van Keuren, Brian C. Holloway, Martin Drees: Endohedral Fullerenes for Organic Photovoltaic Devices. In: Nature Materials, 2009, 208-212
2008Mark Elbing, Andres Garcia, Slawomir Urban, Thuc-Quyen Nguyen, Guillermo C. Bazan: In Situ Conjugated Polyelectrolyte Formation. In: Macromolecules, 2008, 9146-9155
2005Nina Kleigrewe, Winfried Steffen, Tobias Blömker, Gerald Kehr, Roland Fröhlich, Birgit Wibbeling, Gerhard Erker, Julia-Christina Wasilke, Guang Wu, Guillermo C. Bazan: Chelate Bis(Imino)Pyridine Cobalt Complexes: Synthesis, Reduction, and Evidence for the Generation of Ethene Polymerization Catalysts by Li+ Cation Activation. In: Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2005, 13955-13968
2005Julia-Christina Wasilke, Stephen J. Obrey, R. Tom Baker, Guillermo C. Bazan: Concurrent Tandem Catalysis. In: Chemical Reviews, 2005, 1001-1020