Guillermo Carlos Bazan is an American

chemist A chemist (from Greek ''chēm(ía)'' alchemy; replacing ''chymist'' from Medieval Latin ''alchemist'') is a scientist trained in the study of chemistry. Chemists study the composition of matter and its properties. Chemists carefully describe th ...

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, and

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. Bazan earned a

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with Honors in chemistry from the

University of Ottawa The University of Ottawa (french: Université d'Ottawa), often referred to as uOttawa or U of O, is a bilingual public research university in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. The main campus is located on directly to the northeast of Downtown Ottawa ...

in 1986, and a

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in Inorganic Chemistry from

Massachusetts Institute of Technology The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private land-grant research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Established in 1861, MIT has played a key role in the development of modern technology and science, and is one of the ...

in 1991. From 1992 to 1998 he was on the faculty of the

University of Rochester The University of Rochester (U of R, UR, or U of Rochester) is a private research university in Rochester, New York. The university grants undergraduate and graduate degrees, including doctoral and professional degrees. The University of Roc ...

. In 1998 he was appointed as a professor in the Chemistry & Biochemistry Department and the Materials Department at the

University of California, Santa Barbara The University of California, Santa Barbara (UC Santa Barbara or UCSB) is a Public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Santa Barbara County, California, Santa Barbara, California with 23,196 undergraduate ...

. In January 2020, he took a position at the

National University of Singapore The National University of Singapore (NUS) is a national public research university in Singapore. Founded in 1905 as the Straits Settlements and Federated Malay States Government Medical School, NUS is the oldest autonomous university in the c ...

. Bazan has over 670 publications, an ''h''-index of 120, and his work has been recognized by the Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award of the

American Chemical Society The American Chemical Society (ACS) is a scientific society based in the United States that supports scientific inquiry in the field of chemistry. Founded in 1876 at New York University, the ACS currently has more than 155,000 members at all d ...

(2007) and the Bessel Award of the Humboldt Foundation. He is a fellow of the

American Association for the Advancement of Science The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) is an American international non-profit organization with the stated goals of promoting cooperation among scientists, defending scientific freedom, encouraging scientific respons ...

Publications and Patents

*Synthesis, Morphology and Optical Properties of Tetrahedral Oligo(phenylenevinylene) Materials, Wang, S.; Oldham, W.J.; Hudack, R.A.; Bazan, G.C., ''J. Am. Chem. Soc.'', 2000, ''122'', 5695-5709. *DNA Detection using Water-Soluble Conjugated Polymers and Peptide Nucleic Acid Probes, Gaylord, B.S.; Heeger, A.J.; Bazan, G.C., ''Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA'', 2002, ''99'', 10954-10957. *Fluorescein Provides a Resonance Gate for FRET from Conjugated Polymers to DNA Intercalated Dyes, Wang, S.; Gaylord, B.S.; Bazan, G.C., ''J. Am. Chem. Soc.'', 2004, ''126'', 5446-5451. *Methods and compositions for detection and analysis of polynucleotides using light harvesting multichromophores, US Patent 7,214,489, May 8, 2007. *Novel Organic Materials through Control of Multichromophore Interactions, Bazan, G.C., ''J. Org. Chem.'', 2007, ''72'', 8615-8635. *"Plastic" Solar Cells: Self-Assembly of Bulk Heterojunction Nanomaterials by Spontaneous Phase Separation, Peet, J.; Heeger, A.J.; Bazan, G.C., ''Acc. Chem. Res.'', 2009, ''42'', 1700–1708. *Streamlined Microwave-Assisted Preparation of Narrow-Bandgap Conjugated Polymers for High-Performance Bulk Heterojunction Solar Cells, Coffin, R.C.; Peet, J.; Rogers, J.; Bazan, G.C., ''Nature Chemistry'', 2009, ''1'', 657-661. *Chemically Fixed p-n Heterojunctions for Polymer Electronics by means of Covalent B-F Bond Formation, Hoven, C.V.; Wang, H.P.; Elbing, M.; Garner, L.E.; Winkelhaus, D.; Bazan, G.C., ''Nature Materials'', 2010, ''9'', 249-252. *Electrochemical Considerations for Determining Absolute Frontier Orbital Energy Levels of Conjugated Polymers for Solar Cell Applications, Cardona, C.M; Li, W.; Kaifer, A.E.; Stockdale, D.; Bazan, G.C., ''Adv. Mater.'', 2011, ''23'', 2367-2371. *Non-Basic High-Performance Molecules for Solution-Processed Organic Solar Cells, van der Poll, T.S.; Love, J.A.; Nguyen, T.Q.; Bazan, G.C., ''Adv. Mater.'', 2012, ''24'', 3646-3649. *Design Strategies for Organic Semiconductors Beyond the Molecular Formula; Henson, Z.B.; Mullen, K.; Bazan, G.C., ''Nature Chemistry.'', 2012, ''4'', 699-704. *Design and Synthesis of Molecular Donors for Solution-Processed High-Efficiency Organic Solar Cells, Coughlin, J.E.; Henson, Z.B.; Welch, G.C.; Bazan, G.C., ''Acc. Chem. Res.'', 2014, ''47'', 257-270.

Awards and Recognitions

*Fellow of the

Royal Society of Chemistry The Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) is a learned society (professional association) in the United Kingdom with the goal of "advancing the chemistry, chemical sciences". It was formed in 1980 from the amalgamation of the Chemical Society, the Ro ...

, 2014 *Top 50 Material Scientists by Citation and Impact,

Thomson Reuters Thomson Reuters Corporation ( ) is a Canadian multinational media conglomerate. The company was founded in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, where it is headquartered at the Bay Adelaide Centre. Thomson Reuters was created by the Thomson Corpora ...

, 2011 *Professor of the Chang Jiang Scholars Professor, 2009 *

Advanced Materials ''Advanced Materials'' is a weekly peer-reviewed scientific journal covering materials science. It includes communications, reviews, and feature articles on topics in chemistry, physics, nanotechnology, ceramics, metallurgy, and biomaterials. Acco ...

Editorial Advisory Board, 2008 *Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2007 *

Cope Scholar Award, 2007 *Bessel Award,

Humboldt Foundation The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (german: Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung) is a foundation established by the government of the Federal Republic of Germany and funded by the Federal Foreign Office, the Federal Ministry of Education and Resear ...

, 2005 *

National Science Foundation The National Science Foundation (NSF) is an independent agency of the United States government that supports fundamental research and education in all the non-medical fields of science and engineering. Its medical counterpart is the National I ...

Special Creativity Award, 2003 *

Union Carbide Union Carbide Corporation is an American chemical corporation wholly owned subsidiary (since February 6, 2001) by Dow Chemical Company. Union Carbide produces chemicals and polymers that undergo one or more further conversions by customers befor ...

Innovation Award, 1999 *

Innovation Award, 1998 *Closs Lecturer,

University of Chicago The University of Chicago (UChicago, Chicago, U of C, or UChi) is a private research university in Chicago, Illinois. Its main campus is located in Chicago's Hyde Park neighborhood. The University of Chicago is consistently ranked among the b ...

, 1997 *

Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation The Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation is a New York City-based foundation founded in 1946 by chemist and investor Camille Dreyfus in honour of his brother, Henry Dreyfus. The two men invented the acetate yarn Celanese, and Henry Dreyfus was ...

Teacher-Scholar Award, 1996-1998 *

Sloan Research Fellow The Sloan Research Fellowships are awarded annually by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation since 1955 to "provide support and recognition to early-career scientists and scholars". This program is one of the oldest of its kind in the United States. ...

Award, 1996-1998http://www.sloan.org/sloan-research-fellowships/past-fellows/?tx_sloangrants_sloanfellows ctionlist&tx_sloangrants_sloanfellows ontrollerFellows&cHash=8f53adde7b4458aff6de5c2679773fee *

National Science Foundation CAREER Award The National Science Foundation CAREER awards, presented by the National Science Foundation (NSF), are in support of junior faculty who exemplify the role of teacher-scholars through research and education, and the integration of these endeavors i ...

, 1995-1998 *

New Faculty Award, 1992-1993 *

Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada The Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC; french: Conseil de recherches en sciences naturelles et en génie du Canada, CRSNG) is the major federal agency responsible for funding natural sciences and engineering rese ...

Postdoctoral Fellowship, November 1990-May 1992 *

1967 Science and Engineering Scholarship, September 1986-June 1990

References

External links

Bazan Research Group website
at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
''Curriculum Vitae of Guillermo C. Bazan''
Retrieved November 13, 2012.

Publications and Patents

Awards and Recognitions

References

External links

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