Prof. Chen received his PhD degree in the Chemical Engineering department from University of Rochester in 1993 and then served as a research scientist from 1993 to 1996 in studying gradient optical lens and fibers at the Industrial Technology Research Institute (Hsinchu, Taiwan). Then, he joined the National Taiwan University in 1996 and had been appointed as the Director of Institute of Polymer Science and Engineering, and Associate Dean of College of Engineering. Currently, he is the Dean of the College of Engineering. His research activities include electronic and optoelectronic polymers, block copolymers, and polymer nanocomposites. He mainly focuses on the establishment of structure-morphology-property relationships and employs the nanostructured materials for high performance electronic and optoelectronic devices. Recently, his research effort focuses on employing naturally rich resources of renewable materials for wearable electronics.
Prof. Chen has published 358 peer-reviewed papers with the total citation more than 10,600 and H factor of 55. His important achievements are exampled as the following: Discover new semiconducting polymers with the hole mobility of 8.06 cm2/Vs and 106, which maintains 1.0 cm2/V.s even under the 60% strain condition; employ organic nanostructures of nanowires or nanoparticles to significantly improve the performance of transistor type electrical memory devices; develop crystalline silver nanowires based highly conducting electrospun nanofibers to enhance the PCE of organic photovoltaic devices around 20% through the fiber pattern and plasmonic effect; employ oligosaccharides based renewable materials as the charge storage layer of transistor-type nonvolatile memory devices with a high on/off ratio and long-term stability. The published results have been featured in the leading journals of materials science as issue cover, such as Advanced Materials, Advanced Engineering Materials, and Advanced Functional Materials. His achievement has been honored with many prestigious awards including France-Taiwan Scientific Prize, Academic Award (Ministry of Education), Y. Z. Hsu Scientific Chair Professor-Nanotechnology, Fellow of Royal Society of Chemistry, Ho Chin Tui Award, Teco Award, and Outstanding Research Award (Ministry of Science and Technology, three times), etc.
Prof. Chen has found two industrial collaboration research centers and developed high performance electronic polymers, such as LCD/3C optical films, LED encapsulation materials, thermal stable transparent substrates and low dielectric constant low loss materials. The developed technologies have been granted 53 patents and transferred 19 technologies to the materials/chemical companies.