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Maksudul Alam, PhD, Team Leader, has over 15 years of
experience in the area of physical-organic chemistry, organic semiconducting
materials, synthesis (organic molecules, oligomers, polymers, and
nanomaterials) and characterization, photophysical and electrochemical
investigations, electrochemical production of nanomaterials, fabrication and
measurement of electronic and optoelectronic devices, sensors,
self-assembly, surface morphology and surface modification. He received his
doctorate degree from Tohoku University, Japan in 1999 with a particular
bent towards free radical reactions and excited state photochemistry of
organic molecules. Prior to joining InnoSense LLC in 2005, he worked as a
postdoctoral research associate at the University of Washington in Seattle,
where he designed and developed i) several new photoactive and electroactive
conjugated oligomers, dendrimers and polymers having robust high
temperature, high electron affinity, high photoluminescence efficiency and
high electron transport (n-type) properties, ii) the nanoscale
phase-separation in donor-acceptor binary polymer-blend systems and the
highly efficient tunable multicolor light-emitting-diodes (OLEDs), which
have potential applications such as display technology, tunable lasers,
tunable optical sensors/switches, to write and read optical information for
security purposes, and also for smart skins and color clothing in defense
applications, iii) robust and intrinsically fluorescent self-assembled
aggregates and microspheres of conjugated homopolymers, and iv) the
layered-nanostructure donor/acceptor polymer/polymer systems, and
demonstrated the efficient photoinduced charge transfer/separation and
photovoltaic (solar) cells for efficient conversion of solar energy. During
his stay at the University of California in Los Angeles in the past one
year, he has also developed template-free, site-specific and cost reducing
conducting polymer nanomaterials (wires and/or nanofibers), and fabricated
polymer nanomaterial-based electronic sensors in context of two-terminal
(diode like) and three-terminal (field-effect transistor) devices to detect
chemical and biological compounds such as DNA, proteins, peptides and
tracing cancer cells using the tunable electrical properties of the polymer
nanomaterials. He has published over 45 peer-reviewed scientific papers in
leading national and international journals.
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