Kian Ping Loh
Professor
National University of Singapor
Singapore
Biography
Kian Ping Loh is currently Provost’s Chair Professor in NUS and a well-known figure in the field of graphene and 2D materials research. Loh KP's team developed a strategy for the large area growth and transfer of graphene on silicon wafer (Nature 2014), a new strategy for the synthesis of graphene quantum dots from bucky balls (published in Nature Nanotechnology); fabricated the first broadband graphene polarizer (published in Nature Photonics); developed an industrially scalable strategy to process solution processed graphene for green catalysis, leading to a spin-off company. His awards include the President’s Science Award in 2014, the University Outstanding Researcher award in 2012, University’s Young Scientist award in 2008, American Chemical Society Nano Lectureship award in 2013. He is also head of the 2D materials group in Centre for Advanced 2D Materials, NUS also a co-director of the Shenzhen-NUS Joint Collaborative Innovation Center for Optoelectronic Science & Technology. He is currently the associate editor of the ACS journal Chemistry of Materials.
Research Interest
He research interest is Nano materials and Surface Chemistry