Dr Shih-Chun (Lawrence) Lo

BSc/MSc (NCHU), GCHEd (UQ), DPhil (Oxford)
Position: Lecturer in Chemistry Materials

Centre for Organic Photonics & Electronics (COPE)
Room: 915
Building: 68 Chemistry Buildling
Phone: +61 7 334 67657
Email: s.lo@uq.edu.au

Biography

Lawrence held a prestigious Swire Scholarship while carrying out his DPhil study on organic materials synthesis for solar cells and organic light emitting diodes (OLEDs) at the University of Oxford, UK, during 1996-2000. His post-doctoral research at Oxford University focused on the design, synthesis and characterisation of fluorescent and phosphorescent dendrimers (branched macromolecules) for OLEDs. He has played a key role in electro-active dendrimers development so that dendrimers have now been recognised internationally as the third main class of OLED materials, alongside small molecules and polymers. In December 2007, he joined the University as a Lecturer.

Research Interests and Collaborations

Within the research Centre (COPE), we are focusing on molecular engineering (through molecular design, synthesis and characterisation, to device fabrication and characterisation). The main research areas include opto-electronics (for flat-panel light emitting displays, solid-state lighting and solar cells; recent reviews: Chem. Rev. 2007, 107, 1097; Adv. Mater. 2007, 19, 1675), multiphoton absorption (for health-care applications-detection and therapy; Nature Mater. 2005, 4, 435), and water splitting (for clean energy generation; Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2009, 48, 2842). Most of the projects are highly interdisciplinary in collaboration with researchers within the School, University, Australia and overseas. 

Selected Publications

42 refereed publications. (H-index: 17,  >1,500  total citations)  

Lo, S.-C., Harding, R.E, Shipley, C.P., Stevenson, S.G., Burn, P.L., Samuel, I.D.W., (2009) High-triplet-energy dendrons: enhancing the luminescence of deep blue phosphorescent Iridium(III) complexes, J. Am. Chem. Soc.  131, 16681-16688.

Lo, S.-C., Harding, R.E., Stevenson, S.G., Burn, P.L., Samuel, I.D.W., (2008) Solution processable phosphorescent blue dendrimers based on phenyl-dendrons and fac­-tris(phenyltriazolyl)iridium(III) cores, Adv. Funct. Mater. 18, 3080-3090.

Lo, S.-C., Burn, P.L. (2007) Dendrimers: Branched macro-molecules that form nanoscale molecular architectures, Chem. Rev. 107, 1097-1116.

Lo, S.-C., Shipley, C.P., Bera, R. N., Harding, R.E., Cowley, A.R., Burn, P.L., Samuel, I.D.W. (2006) Blue phosphorescence from Iridium(III) complexes at room temperature, Chem. Mater. 18, 5119-5129.

Lo, S.-C., Anthopoulos, T.D., Namdas, E.B., Burn, P.L., Samuel, I.D.W. (2005) Encapsulated cores: Host free organic light-emitting diodes based on solution processable lectrophosphorescent dendrimers, Adv. Mater. 17, 1945-1948.

Lo, S.-C., Richards, G.J., Markham, J.P.J., Namdas, E.B., Sharma, S., Burn, P.L., Samuel, I.D.W. (2005) A light blue phosphorescent dendrimer for efficient solution processed light-emitting diodes, Adv. Funct. Mater. 15, 1451-1458. 

Patents

Seven patent Applications in light emitting dendrimers. 

Funded Projects

ARC Discovery Project 2010-2012
Spin-liquids, antiferromagnetism, and superconductivity in organic charge transfer salts, synthesis, neutron scattering and theory
B Powell, S-C Lo
Total value of grant: $363,500

Smart Futures National and International Research Alliances Program 2009-2013
Organic solar Cell Alliance (OSCA)
P. Burn, P. Meredith, S-C Lo
Total value of grant: $2,000,000.

ARC LIEF (2011)
High pressure facility for optical spectroscopy – Investigation of novel superconductors and strongly correlated electron systems

Teaching

Nanoscience, organic chemistry, analytical chemistry, material chemistry.

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