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Dong-Chan Lee

Assistant Professor for Organic & Materials Chemistry

Department of Chemistry
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
4505 Maryland Parkway
Box 454003
Las Vegas, NV 89154-4003
Telephone: (702) 895-1486
Fax: (702) 895-4072
Email: Dong-Chan.Lee@unlv.edu

Education

Kyungpook National University, Taegu, Korea, B. Eng., 1994; M. Eng., 1996
University of Massachusetts Lowell, Ph.D., 2001.
University of Chicago , Postdoctoral research associate, 2001-2004.
University of Chicago, Research scientist, 2004-2005

Research Interest

My research interest covers a broad interdisciplinary area including materials and surface chemistry. Current research focuses on the development of new electron-deficient semiconductors ranging from small molecules to polymers for optoelectronic applications such as organic field effect transistors and photovoltaic cells. Another research area I am strongly pursuing is molecular assembly utilizing both programmed layer-by-layer assembly and self assembly to produce surface based devices and nanostructured materials.

Selected Publications

1 Lee, D.-C.; Morales, G. M.; Lee, Y.; Yu, L., “Cofacial Porphyrin Multilayers via Layer-by-Layer Assembly“, Chem. Commun. 2005, in press.

2. Lee, D.-C.; Chang, B.-J.; Yu, L.; Frey, S. L.; Lee, K. Y. C.; Patchipulusu, S.; Hall, C., “Polymer Cushions Functionalized with Lipid Molecules”, Langmuir, 2004, 20, 11297-11300.

3. Qin, X.; Tzvetkov, T.; Liu, X.; Lee, D.-C.; Yu, L.; Jacobs, D. C., “Site-Selective Abstraction in the Reaction of 5- to 20-eV O + with a Self-Assembled Monolayer”, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2004, 126, 13232-13233.

4. Lee, D.-C.; Chang, B.-J.; Morales, G. M.; Jang, Y.; Ng, M.-K.; Heller, S. T.; Yu, L., “Functional Polymers for Layer-by-Layer Construction of Multilayers via Chemoselective Immobilization”, Macromolecules, 2004, 37, 1849-1856.

5. Chan, E. W. L.; Lee, D.-C. ; Ng, M.-K.; Wu, G.; Lee, K. Y. C.; Yu, L., “A Novel Layer-by-Layer Approach to Immobilization of Polymers and Nanoclusters”, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2002, 124, 12238-12248.

6. Ng, M.-K.; Lee, D.-C.; Yu, L., “Molecular Diodes Based on Conjugated Diblock Co-oligomers”, J. Am. Chem. Soc.,2002, 124, 11862-11863.

7. Lee, D.-C.; Sahoo, S. K.; Cholli, A. L.; Sandman, D. J., “Structural Aspects of the Thermochromic Transition in Urethane-Substituted Polydiacetylenes”, Macromolecules, 2002, 35, 4347-4355.