Christine Luscombe

FRSC
Christine Luscombe
Christine Luscombe
Born
Christine Keiko Luscombe

Kobe
Alma materUniversity of Cambridge (BA, PhD)
AwardsNSF CAREER Award
Sloan Research Fellowship
Scientific career
FieldsPolymer chemistry
Organic electronics
Organic photovoltaics[1]
InstitutionsUniversity of Washington
University of California, Berkeley
Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology
University of Cambridge
ThesisSurface modifications using supercritical carbon dioxide (2004)
Doctoral advisorAndrew Bruce Holmes
Websitegroups.oist.jp/picpu/christine-luscombe

Christine Luscombe FRSC is a Japanese-British chemist who is a professor at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology.[2] Her research investigates polymer chemistry, organic electronics, organic photovoltaics[1] and the synthesis of novel materials for processable electronics. She serves on the editorial boards of Macromolecules, Advanced Functional Materials, the Annual Review of Materials Research and ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces.

Early life and education

Luscombe was born and raised in Kobe, Japan.[3] She became interested in chemistry at high school, and grew up surrounded by electronic devices developed by Sony and Panasonic.[4] She was an undergraduate student at the University of Cambridge, where she specialised in chemistry.[3] She eventually joined the group of Andrew Bruce Holmes, where she worked on polymer synthesis and earned her PhD in 2004.[5]

Research and career

with Samantha Phan
with Samantha Phan

After her PhD, Luscombe was awarded a junior research fellowship at Trinity College, Cambridge. She simultaneously joined the group of Jean Fréchet at the University of California, Berkeley.[3] After two years in California, Luscombe was made an Assistant Professor at the University of Washington. In her early career she was awarded an National Science Foundation CAREER Award, a DARPA Young Faculty Award and a Sloan Research Fellowship.[3] She was made an Associate Professor in 2011 and the Robert J. Cambell Development Professor in 2017. Her research considers the synthesis of conjugated small molecules and polymers for photovoltaics. She is particularly interested in the identification of structure-property relationships and achieving a better understanding of how microstructure impacts optoelectronic properties.[6] She has particularly focused on the rational design of high mobility polymers.[7] She has contributed to International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) initiatives on polymer terminology and polymer education.[8][4]

In 2020, Luscombe joined the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology.[9] In an interview with Chemical & Engineering News, Luscombe says that she began to feel unwelcome in the United States when Donald Trump instigated Executive Order 13769, the so-called Muslim travel ban.[10] She said that she chose to leave the United States due to the growing racism and mismanagement of the public health response to the COVID-19 pandemic.[10]

Awards and honors

Her awards and honors include:

Selected publications

Her publications[1] include:

  • All-inkjet-printed flexible electronics fabrication on a polymer substrate by low-temperature high-resolution selective laser sintering of metal nanoparticles[12]
  • The future of organic photovoltaics[13]
  • Direct nanoimprinting of metal nanoparticles for nanoscale electronics fabrication[14]
  • Semiconducting polymers : controlled synthesis and microstructure[15]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Christine Luscombe publications indexed by Google Scholar
  2. ↑ Christine Luscombe publications from Europe PubMed Central
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Christine Luscombe". faculty.washington.edu. Retrieved 2021-11-21.
  4. 1 2 Holt, Jade (2016-04-01). "Christine Luscombe: creating organic electronics". JPhys+. Retrieved 2021-11-21.
  5. ↑ Luscombe, Christine (2004). Surface modifications using supercritical carbon dioxide. cam.ac.uk (PhD thesis). University of Cambridge. OCLC 890159456. EThOS 615893.
  6. ↑ "Research". faculty.washington.edu. Retrieved 2021-11-21.
  7. ↑ "NSF Award Search: Award # 1533372 - DMREF-Collaborative Research: Developing design rules for enhancing mobility in conjugated polymers". www.nsf.gov. Retrieved 2021-11-21.
  8. ↑ "IUPAC Latest News". IUPAC | International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry. Retrieved 2021-11-21.
  9. ↑ "pi-Conjugated Polymers Unit (Christine Luscombe)". OIST Groups. 2021-04-12. Retrieved 2021-11-21.
  10. 1 2 "Asian scientists are rethinking the American dream". cen.acs.org. Archived from the original on 2021-05-07. Retrieved 2021-11-21.
  11. ↑ "7 University of Washington researchers elected to the Washington State Academy of Sciences in 2020 | Department of Chemistry | University of Washington". chem.washington.edu. Retrieved 2021-11-21.
  12. ↑ Seung H Ko; Heng Pan; Costas P Grigoropoulos; Christine K Luscombe; Jean M J Fréchet; Dimos Poulikakos (1 August 2007). "All-inkjet-printed flexible electronics fabrication on a polymer substrate by low-temperature high-resolution selective laser sintering of metal nanoparticles". Nanotechnology. 18 (34): 345202. doi:10.1088/0957-4484/18/34/345202. ISSN 0957-4484. Wikidata Q56945383.
  13. ↑ Katherine A. Mazzio; Christine K. Luscombe (8 September 2014). "The future of organic photovoltaics". Chemical Society Reviews. 44 (1): 78–90. doi:10.1039/C4CS00227J. ISSN 0306-0012. PMID 25198769. Wikidata Q38246884.
  14. ↑ Seung Hwan Ko; Seung Hwan Ko; Inkyu Park; Heng Pan; Costas P Grigoropoulos; Albert P Pisano; Christine K. Luscombe; Jean Fréchet (5 June 2007). "Direct nanoimprinting of metal nanoparticles for nanoscale electronics fabrication". Nano Letters. 7 (7): 1869–1877. doi:10.1021/NL070333V. ISSN 1530-6984. PMID 17547465. Wikidata Q46172445.
  15. ↑ Keiko., Luscombe, Christine (2017). Semiconducting polymers : controlled synthesis and microstructure. Royal Society of Chemistry. ISBN 978-1-78262-034-1. OCLC 974840301.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
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