Yueh-Lin Loo

Yueh-Lin (Lynn) Loo
Lynn Loo speaks at the World Economic Forum in 2012
NationalityMalaysian-American
Alma materUniversity of Pennsylvania
Princeton University
Known forNanotransfer printing
Scientific career
InstitutionsPrinceton University

University of Texas at Austin

Bell Laboratories

Yueh-Lin (Lynn) Loo is a Malaysian-born chemical engineer and the Theodora D. '78 and William H. Walton III '74 Professor in Engineering at Princeton University, where she is also the Director of the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment.[1] She is known for inventing nanotransfer printing. Loo was elected a Fellow of the Materials Research Society in 2020.[2]

Early life and education

Loo was born in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and later lived in Taipei, Taiwan, where she attended Taipei American School. She moved to the United States to attend the University of Pennsylvania, where she completed bachelor's degrees in chemical engineering and materials science in 1996.[3] She then pursued graduate studies at Princeton University, where she received a Ph.D. in chemical engineering in 2001 after completing a doctoral dissertation titled "Controlled polymer crystallization through block copolymer self-assembly."[4][3]

Research and career

She worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Bell Laboratories for a year afterward before joining the University of Texas at Austin's Chemical Engineering Department.[5] During her time at Bell Labs, Loo, along with Julia Hsu, accidentally uncovered duplicated figures in two papers by Jan Hendrik Schön, the first of many instances of academic fraud from the researcher. In 2004, she was included by MIT Technology Review on its TR35 list of under-35-year-old innovators for her invention of nanotransfer printing, a technique for printing nanoscale patterns onto plastic surfaces.[6] This technique allows for the creation of organic electronic devices by printing electrical circuit components onto plastic surfaces.[7]

In 2007, Loo joined the faculty of Princeton's Chemical and Biological Engineering Department,[8] where, as of 2015, she is the Theodora D. '78 and William H. Walton III '74 Professor in Engineering. Her research concerns the periodic structures of block polymers, organic semiconductors, and patterning techniques for plastic electronics.[9]

Loo launched the Princeton E-ffiliates Partnership (E-ffiliates) in 2012.[10][11]

In 2016 she was appointed director of Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment.[10]

Loo's research group studies solution-processable organic semiconductors and conductors.[12][13] She also researches soft lithography.[12] Using derivatives of Hexabenzocoronene Loo's group developed transparent near-UV solar cells for smart windows, which also contain electrochromic polymers that control the window tint.

Loo co-founded Andluca Technologies in 2017.[14][15]

Awards and honors

References

  1. ^ "Lynn Loo". School of Engineering and Applied Science. 2016-11-01. Retrieved 2020-06-22.
  2. ^ a b "Loo, energy and environment expert, elected fellow of leading materials science organization". Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment. 25 February 2020. Retrieved 2020-02-27.
  3. ^ a b "2nd Alumni Lecture: Yueh-Lin (Lynn) Loo, Princeton University, "What governs polymorphic accessibility?" | Chemical Engineering | UMass Amherst". che.umass.edu. Retrieved 2018-08-24.
  4. ^ Loo, Yueh-Lin (2001). Controlled polymer crystallization through block copolymer self-assembly. Bibcode:2001PhDT.......115L.
  5. ^ "2010 John H. Dillon Medal Recipient". American Physical Society. Retrieved November 15, 2015.
  6. ^ "Yueh-Lin (Lynn) Loo, 30". MIT Technology Review. 2004. Retrieved November 15, 2015.
  7. ^ "Chemical engineer and biologist make list of world's top young innovators". UT News. September 24, 2004. Retrieved November 15, 2015.
  8. ^ "2010 John H. Dillon Medal Recipient". American Physical Society. Retrieved November 15, 2015.
  9. ^ a b "Yueh-Lin (Lynn) Loo". Princeton University. Retrieved November 15, 2015.
  10. ^ a b "Lynn Loo appointed director of Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment". Princeton University. Retrieved 2018-08-24.
  11. ^ "Director's Message - Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment". Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment. Retrieved 2018-08-24.
  12. ^ a b "Lynn Loo | Princeton University Department of Chemistry". chemistry.princeton.edu. Retrieved 2018-08-24.
  13. ^ AndlingerCenter (2013-03-18), Lynn Loo, Ubiquitous Electronics Through Conducting Plastics, retrieved 2018-08-24
  14. ^ "Lynn Loo". princeton.edu. Princeton University. Retrieved 20 August 2024.
  15. ^ Seltzer, Molly (17 June 2019). "Alcatraz Island is unlikely place of learning for students of energy innovation". princeton.edu. Princeton University. Retrieved 20 August 2024.
  16. ^ "Yueh-Lin Loo". Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation. Retrieved 1 August 2018.
  17. ^ "Chemical Engineer to Investigate Ways to Help Plastic Conduct Electricity". Science X.
  18. ^ "2006 O'Donnell Awards Recipients". The Academy of Medicine, Engineering & Science of Texas.
  19. ^ "Allan P. Colburn Award for Excellence in Publications by a Young Member of the Institute". American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE). 28 March 2012.
  20. ^ "Past Fellows". Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
  21. ^ "2010 John H. Dillon Medal Recipient". American Physical Society. Retrieved November 15, 2015.
  22. ^ "Yueh-Lin Loo". Global Young Academy. Retrieved 2018-08-24.
  23. ^ "Owens Corning Early Career Award". American Institute of Chemical Engineers. 28 March 2012.
  24. ^ "Blavatnik National Awards for Young Scientists Announce 2015 Finalists" (Press release). New York Academy of Sciences. May 20, 2015. Retrieved November 23, 2015.
  25. ^ Self-powered system makes smart windows smarter, retrieved 2018-08-24