Jingdong Luo
Research Associate
Alex Jen research group
Telephone: (206) 543-1514
Fax: (206) 543-3100
Email: jdluo@u.washington.edu
Office: 437 Roberts
EDUCATION
09/1995 to 08/2000
Ph.D. Candidate with major in organic chemistry, Dept. of Chemistry, Wuhan University, P. R. China. Engaged in the research on design and synthesis of organic and polymeric electro-optic materials.
09/1988 to 07/1992
BS with major in physical chemistry, Dept. of Chemistry, Nankai University, Tianjin, P. R. China.
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
Design, synthesis and characterization of novel chromophores for second-order optical nonlinearity.
Design, synthesis and characterization of different polymer systems, such as guest-host, side-chain, main-chain and crosslinked polymeric electro-optic materials.
Design, synthesis and characterization of hyperbranched conjugative oligomers and polymers for electronic and photonic applications.
Design, synthesis and characterization of optically active polyacetylenes bearing amino acid, carbohydrate and nucleobase moieties.
Synthesis, processing and performance evaluation of various surface coating, mainly automobile coating.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
08/2001 to present
Postdoctoral research associate in Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Washington.
08/2000 to 07/2001
Postdoctoral research fellow in Dept. of Chemistry, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, P. R. China
07/1992 to 08/1995
Assistant engineer at the Research Institute of Coating in Wuhan, Twin-Tigers Coating Company Ltd., P. R. China.
TECHNICAL SKILL
Organic synthesis and purification. Free radical polymerization, ring-opening polymerization, step polymerization of a variety of monomers. Postfunctionalization of polymers. Standard Schlenk technique. Using and handling of air and moisture materials.
Design and synthesis of organic and polymeric materials, structure-property relationship evaluation, data analysis and interpretation.
FT-IR, UV-VIS, NMR, MS, TLC, DSC, TGA, GPC, viscometry, Circular Dichromism and X-ray diffraction for characterization.
Well-trained in the scientific/technical paper/report writing and reviewing process.
COMPUTER SKILLS
Platforms: DOS and Windows; Software: Chem Office, Chem Windows, Microsoft Office and Origin.
PUBLICATIONS
1. Luo, Jingdong; Qin, Jingui; Kang, Hu; Ye, Cheng. A Postfunctionalization Strategy To Develop PVK-Based Nonlinear Optical Polymers with a High Density of Chromophores and Improved Processibility. Chem. Mater. (2001), 13(3), 927-931.
2. Luo, Jingdong; Hua, Jianli; Qin, Jingui; Cheng, Jiqi; Shen, Yaochun; Lu, Zuhong; Wang, Peng; Ye, Cheng. The design of second-order nonlinear optical chromophores exhibiting blue-shifted absorption and large nonlinearities: the role of the combined conjugation bridge. Chem. Commun. (Cambridge) (2001), (2), 171-172.
3. Luo, Jingdong; Xie, Zhiliang; Lam, Jacky W. Y.; Cheng, Lin; Chen, Haiying; Qiu, Chengfeng; Kwok, Hoi Sing; Zhan, Xiaowei; Liu, Yunqi; Zhu, Daoben; Tang, Ben Zhong. Aggregation-induced emission of 1-methyl-1,2,3,4,5-pentaphenylsilole. Chem. Commun. (Cambridge) (2001), in the press.
4. Tang, Hongding; Luo, Jingdong; Qin, Jingui; Kang, Hu; Ye, Cheng. A novel synthetic strategy to develop second-order nonlinear optical polysilanes for potential photorefractive effects. Macromol. Rapid Commun. (2000), 21(16), 1125-1129.
5. Luo, Jingdong; Zhan, Caimao; Qin, Jingui. Synthesis of several novel multi-functionalized chromophores for second-order NLO. Proc. SPIE-Int. Soc. Opt. Eng. (1998), 3556 (Electro-Optic and Second Harmonic Generation Materials, Devices, and Applications II), 46-49.
6. Luo, Jingdong; Peng, Han; Cheng, Lin; Tang, Ben Zhong. Synthesis, light emission, and optical limiting of hyperbranched poly[phenylene-alt-(2,5-thienylene)s]. Polym. Prepr. (Am. Chem. Soc., Div. Polym. Chem.) (2001), 42(2), 527-528.
7. Luo, Jingdong; Xie, Zhiliang; Lam, Jacky Wing Yip; Qiu, Chengfeng; Kwok, Hoi Sing; Zhan, Xiaowei; Liu, Yunqi; Zhu, Daoben. Highly emissive aggregates of 1-methyl-1,2,3,4,5-pentaphenylsilole in solvent mixtures and polymer matrixes. Polym. Prepr. (Am. Chem. Soc., Div. Polym. Chem.) (2001), 42(2), 228-229.
8. Luo, Jingdong; Xie, Zhiliang; Peng, Han; Cheng, Lin; Tang, Ben Zhong. Soluble, hyperbranched poly(phenylenes) with high ligh emitting efficiency. Polym. Mater. Sci. Eng. (2001), 85 356-357.
9. Luo, Jingdong; Cheuk, Kevin Ka Leung; Lam, Jacky Wing Yip; Tang, Ben Zhong. Synthesis and chiroptical properties of poly(phenylacetylenes) bearing proline moieties. Polym. Prepr. (Am. Chem. Soc., Div. Polym. Chem.) (2001), 42(1), 541-542.
10. Cheuk, Kevin Ka Leung; Luo, Jingdong; Lam, Jacky Wing Yip; Li, Bing Shi; Tang, Ben Zhong. Synthesis and induced helical chirality of poly(phenylacetylenes) with monosaccharide pendants. Polym. Prepr. (Am. Chem. Soc., Div. Polym. Chem.) (2001), 42(1), 545-546.
11. Peng, Han; Luo, Jingdong; Cheng, Lin; Xu, Kaitain; Jia, Demin; Zhang, Dezhen; Xu, Zhongde; Tang, Ben Zhong. Light emitting and optical limiting properties of hyperbranched polyphenylenes. Polym. Mater. Sci. Eng. (2001), 85 383-384.
12. Peng, Han; Xu, Kaitian; Luo, Jingdong; Tang, Ben Zhong. Synthesis and photoluminescence of hyperbranched polyphenylenes. Polym. Prepr. (Am. Chem. Soc., Div. Polym. Chem.) (2001), 42(1), 560-561.
13. Luo, Jingdong; Qin, Jingui; Kang, Hu; Ye, Cheng. Synthesis and characterization of accordion main-chain azo-dye polymers for second-order optical non-linearity. Polym. Int. (2000), 49(11), 1302-1307.
14. Luo, Jingdong; Zhan, Caimao; Qin, Jingui. Progress of poled polymeric electro-optic materials. Chinese Polym. Bull. (2000), (1), 9-19.
15. Luo, Jingdong; Zhan, Caimao; Qin, Jingui. Bismaleimide resins modified by bi- or tri-allyl-functionalized azo chromophores for second-order optical nonlinearity. React. Funct. Polym. (2000), 44(3), 219-225.
16. Li, Zhen; Luo, Jingdong; Li, Jun; Zhan, Caimao; Qin, Jingui. Novel polyphosphazenes containing charge-transporting agent and chromophore as pendant groups. Polym. Bull. (Berlin) (2000), 45(2), 105-111.