Sustainable chemistry
Dr. Chan’s interest in sustainable materials and green chemistry encompasses polymer upcycling, polymer recycling, and lignin depolymerization.
Selected papers:
1) Chan et al. ACS Catal. 2013, 1, 1369
2) Sardon et al. Green Chem. 2013, 15, 1121
3) Chou et al. Solar RRL 2022, 6, 2101035.
4) Valle et al. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2022, in press.
Organic electronics
Dr. Chan’s portfolio in this area includes two-photon fluorophores, J-aggregates, polymer electrets, light emitters, and other functional organic materials.
Selected papers:
1) Chan et al. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2009, 131, 5659
2) Gautam et al. J. Org. Chem. 2017, 82, 11008
3) Gautam et al. Chem. Mater. 2018, 30, 7055
4) Zhang et al. J. Mater. Chem. C 2019, 7, 7865
Polymer synthesis
Synthesis of biodegradable functional polymers for nanomedicine, novel polymerization methods, and postpolymerization functionalization.
Selected papers:
1) Sardon et al. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2013, 135, 16235
2) Chan et al. Chem. Sci. 2014, 5, 3294
3) Chan et al. Macromolecules 2016, 49, 2013
4) Chan et al. ACS Macro Lett. 2017, 6, 176