Christine Luscombe received her Bachelor’s degree in Natural Sciences from the University of Cambridge in 2000. She then worked with Profs. Andrew Holmes and Wilhelm Huck in the Melville Laboratory of Polymer Synthesis at the University of Cambridge where her research focused on surface modifications using supercritical carbon dioxide for her PhD. She received the Syngenta Award for best organic chemistry project for her PhD. In January 2004, she joined the group of Prof. Jean Fréchet for her post-doctoral studies where she began her research on semiconducting polymers for organic photovoltaics. She was the recipient of the Lindemann Fellowship as well as the Trinity College Junior Research Fellowship (University of Cambridge) for her post-doctoral studies.
In September 2006, she joined the Materials Science and Engineering Department at the University of Washington, Seattle. She received a number of young faculty awards including the NSF CAREER Award, DARPA Young Faculty Award, as well as the Sloan Research Fellowship. Her current research focuses on the synthesis of semiconducting polymers for energy applications. She is currently serving on the Editorial Advisory Board for Macromolecules and ACS Macro Letters, and is an Associate Editor for J. Mater. Chem. A. She is also serving on the IUPAC Polymer Education and Polymer Terminology Committees.
Her recent papers include:
Thiophene based hyperbranched polymers with tunable branching using direct arylation methods
Ken Okamoto, Jeremy B. Housekeeper, Forrest E. Michael and Christine K. Luscombe
Polym. Chem., 2013, 4, 3499-3506
Simple procedure for mono- and bis-end-functionalization of regioregular poly(3-hexylthiophene)s using chalcogens
Ken Okamoto and Christine K. Luscombe
Chem. Commun., 2014, advanced article
Influence of fluorine substituents on the film dielectric constant and open-circuit voltage in organic photovoltaics
Pinyi Yang, Mingjian Yuan, David F. Zeigler, Scott E. Watkins, Jason Lee and Christine Luscombe
J. Mater. Chem. C, 2013, accepted manuscript
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