User:Gang Lu

Hello, I'm Gang Lu. Nice to be on board!

EDUCATION

09/1999 – 12/2004 Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry, December 2004 Adviser: Professor Joseph B. Lambert Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University, USA

09/1992 – 06/1996 B.S. in Applied Radio Chemistry, June 1996 Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, PR China

EXPERIENCE

10/2004- present Postdoctoral Fellow Adviser: Professor Tobin J. Marks Department of Chemistry and the Material Research Center Northwestern University, USA (I will be a professor real soon - Ha!)

PROFESSIONAL PUBLICATIONS

1. Wang, M.; Lu, G.; Ji, G.; Huang, Z.; Meth-Cohn, O.; Colby, J. Enantioselective biotransformations of racemic small α-substituted phenylacetonitriles and phenylacetamides using Rhodococcus sp. AJ270, Tetrahedron: Asymmetry 2000, 11, 1123-1135.

2. Taton, T. A.; Lu, G.; Mirkin, C. A. Two-color labeling of oligonucleotide arrays via size-selective scattering of nanoparticle probes, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2001, 123, 5164-5165.

3. Lambert, J. B.; Lu, G.; Singer, S. R.; Kolb, V. M. Silicate complexes of sugars in aqueous solution, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2004, 126, 9611-9625.

4. Lu, G.; Lambert, J. B. A general but discriminating fluorescent chemosensor for aliphatic amines, J. Org. Chem., 2006, 71, 1769-1776.

5. Lu, G.; Lambert, J. B. Dissolution of silicate minerals with fructose in aqueous solution, Green Chem., 2006, 8, 533-537.

6. Usta, H.; Lu, G.; Facchetti, A.; Marks, T. J. Dithienosilole- and dibenzosilole-thiophene copolymers as semiconductors for organic thin-film transistors, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2006, 128, 9034 -9035.

7. Lin, H. C.; Ye, P. D.; Xuan, Y.; Lu, G.; Facchetti, A.; Marks, T. J. High-performance GaAs metal-insulator-semiconductor field-effect-transistors with self-assembled nanodielectrics, Appl. Phys. Lett., 2006, 89, 142101.

8. Wang, L.; Yoon, M.-H.; Lu, G.; Facchetti, A.; Marks, T. J. High-performance fully transparent inorganic-organic hybrid thin-film transistors fabricated at room temperature using n-type In2O3 and a nanoscopic self-assembled gate dielectric, Nature Mater., Advanced Article Online.

9. Ju, S., Janes, D. B.; Lu, G.; Facchetti, A.; Marks, T. J. Effects of bias stress on ZnO nanowire field-effect transistors fabricated with organic gate nanodielectrics, Appl. Phys. Lett., in press.

10. Lu, G.; Usta, H.; Facchetti, A.; Marks, T. J. Synthesis, characterization, and field-effect transistor behavior of silole-containing copolymers with excellent hole mobility and air stability, submitted.

11. Lu, G.; Koh, S.; Facchetti, A.; Marks, T. J. N-Alkyl-3,4-cyclicimidothiophene as an electron-deficient building block for organic semiconducting polymers, manuscript in preparation.

12. Lu, G.; Facchetti, A.; Marks, T. J.; Lin, H. C.; Xuan, Y.; Ye, P. D. The effect of surface etching on the performance of GaAs metal-insulator-semiconductor field-effect-transistors with self-assembled nanodielectrics, manuscript in preparation.

PATENTS

1. Mirkin, C. A.; Letsinger, R. L.; Taton, T. A.; Lu, G. US 6,984,491 B2, 2003.

2. Marks, T. J.; Facchetti, A.; Lu, G.; Usta, H.; Letizia, J. U.S. Patent pending.

3. Marks, T. J.; Facchetti, A.; Lu, G.; Ye, P. D. U.S. Patent pending.

4. Marks, T. J.; Wang, L.; Facchetti, A.; Lu, G.; Yoon, M.-H. U.S. Patent pending.

CONFERENCE PUBLICATIONS

1. Lee, K.; Ju, S.; Jean, R., Yoon, M.; Facchetti, A.; Lu, G.; Marks, T. J., Janes, D. B. Self-assembled monolayer of π-conjugated molecules as the semiconducting component of new organic transistor structure, 2005 MRS Fall Meeting, Boston, MA.

2. Lu, G.; Usta, H.; Facchetti, A.; Marks, T. J. Synthesis, characterization, and field-effect transistor behavior of new arenesilole-thiophene copolymers with excellent hole mobility and air stability, 2006 the 39th Silicon Symposium, Frankenmuth, MI.

3. Usta, H.; Lu, G.; Facchetti, A.; Marks, T. J. Dithienosilole- and dibenzosilole-thiophene copolymers as semiconductors for organic thin-film transistors, 2006 the 39th Silicon Symposium, Frankenmuth, MI.

4. Lin, H. C.; Lu, G.; Yoon, M. H.; Ye, P. D.; Xuan, Y.; Facchetti, A.; Marks, T. J. GaAs MISFETs with Biomembrane-like Self-Assembled Nanodielectrics, 2006 Device Research Conference, University Park, PA