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Shaw H. Chen
Professor & Chair
Arts, Sciences, and Engineering
Department of Chemical Engineering
Areas of expertise: Organic Semiconductors; Glassy Liquid Crystals; Optical, Photonic, and Optoelectronic Materials and Devices; Computational Chemistry; Self-Assembled Organic Thin Films.
Press contact:
Peter Iglinski
585.273.4726
Related Links:
Shaw Chen Home Page
Organic Optoelectronic Materials Laboratory
News Releases
Ching Tang, Developer of Organic Light-Emitting Diodes, Wins Daniel E. Noble Award
October 30, 2007
Chemical Engineer Shaw Chen Receives Lifetime Achievement Award
October 19, 2007
Forum titled "Will Fuel Cells Power Rochester's Future Economy?"
October 13, 2005
Biography
Shaw Chen’s research encompasses molecular design, computational chemistry, material synthesis and processing. Selected materials have beenused to demonstrate varied device concepts, such as nonabsorbing polarizers, notch filters and reflectors, polarized fluorescence and electroluminescence, organic solid-state lasers, modulation of nanoscale phase segregation. Potential applications for Chen’s research include optical information processing, display, and storage as well as organic photovoltaics.