Dong-Chan Lee's Homepage - UNLV - Department of Chemistry

Welcome to the Homepage of
Dong-Chan Lee

Assistant Professor
for Organic Materials

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.	McGrath, K. K.; Jang, K.; Robins, K. A.; Lee, D.-C.* “Substituent Effect on the Electronic Properties and Morphologies of Self-Assembling Bisphenazine Derivatives” Chem. Eur. J. 2009, DOI: 10.1002/chem.200802148
2.	Lee, D.-C.* ; McGrath, K. K.; Jang , K “Nanofibers of asymmetrically substituted bisphenazine through organogelation and their acid sensing properties” Chem. Commun. 2008, 3636-3638.
3.	Lee, D.-C.* ; Jang, K.; McGrath, K. K.; Uy, R.; Robins, K. A.; Hatchett, D. W. “Self-Assembling Asymmetric Bisphenazines with Tunable Electronic Properties” Chem. Mater. 2008, 20, 3688-3695.
4.	Park, M.-K.; Lee, D.-C.; Liang, Y.; Lin, G.; Yu, L. “Defect-Free Polymer Multilayers Prepared via Chemoselective Immobilization” Langmuir 2007, 23, 4367-4372.
5.	Lee, D.-C. ; Morales, M.; Lee, Y.; Yu, L. “Cofacial Porphyrin Multilayers via Layer-by-Layer Assembly” Chem. Commun. 2006, 100-102.
6.	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.
7.	Qin, X.; Tzvetkov, T.; Liu, X.; Lee, D.-C.; Yu, L.; Jacobs, D. C., “Site-Selective Abstraction in the Reaction of 5-20 eV O + with a Self-Assembled Monolayer” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2004, 126, 13232-13233.
8.	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.
9.	Sandman, D. J.; Kim, I.-B.; Njus, J.; Lee, D.-C.; Cholli, A. L.; Sahoo, S., “Approaches to Conjugated Polymers via Solid State Polymerization” Macromol. Symp. 2003, 192, 99-113.
10.	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.
11.	Ng, M.-K.; Lee, D.-C.; Yu, L., “Molecular Diodes Based on Conjugated Diblock Co-oligomers”, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2002, 124, 11862-11863.
12.	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.
13.	Sukwattanasinitt, M.; Lee, D.-C.; Kim, M.; Wang, X.; Li, L.; Yang, K.; Kumar, J.; Tripathy, S. K.; Sandman, D. J., “New Processable Functionalizable Polydiacetylenes” Macromolecules 1999, 32, 7361-7369.