Yueh-Lin Loo
{{Infobox scientist
| name = Yueh-Lin (Lynn) Loo
| image = Lynn Loo at World Economic Forum.jpg
| caption = Lynn Loo speaks at the World Economic Forum in 2012
| nationality = Malaysian-American
| workplaces = Princeton University
| alma_mater = University of Pennsylvania
| known_for = Nanotransfer printing
}}
{{Short description|Award-Winning Malaysian-American Chemical Engineer}}
Yueh-Lin (Lynn) Loo is a Malaysian-born chemical engineer and the Theodora D. '78 and William H. Walton III '74 Professor in Engineering at Princeton University, where she is also the Director of the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment.{{Cite web|date=2016-11-01|title=Lynn Loo|url=https://engineering.princeton.edu/faculty/lynn-loo|access-date=2020-06-22|website=School of Engineering and Applied Science|language=en-US}} She is known for inventing nanotransfer printing. Loo was elected a Fellow of the Materials Research Society in 2020.{{Cite web|url=https://acee.princeton.edu/acee-news/loo-energy-and-environment-expert-elected-fellow-of-leading-materials-science-organization/|title=Loo, energy and environment expert, elected fellow of leading materials science organization|website=Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment|date=25 February 2020 |language=en-US|access-date=2020-02-27}}
Early life and education
Loo was born in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and later lived in Taipei, Taiwan, where she attended Taipei American School. She moved to the United States to attend the University of Pennsylvania, where she completed bachelor's degrees in chemical engineering and materials science in 1996.{{Cite web|url=https://che.umass.edu/event/2nd-alumni-lecture-yueh-lin-lynn-loo-princeton-university-%E2%80%9Cwhat-governs-polymorphic|title=2nd Alumni Lecture: Yueh-Lin (Lynn) Loo, Princeton University, "What governs polymorphic accessibility?" {{!}} Chemical Engineering {{!}} UMass Amherst|website=che.umass.edu|language=en|access-date=2018-08-24}} She then pursued graduate studies at Princeton University, where she received a Ph.D. in chemical engineering in 2001 after completing a doctoral dissertation titled "Controlled polymer crystallization through block copolymer self-assembly."{{Cite book|last=Loo|first=Yueh-Lin|url=https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/3359793|title=Controlled polymer crystallization through block copolymer self-assembly|date=2001|bibcode=2001PhDT.......115L |language=en}}
Research and career
She worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Bell Laboratories for a year afterward before joining the University of Texas at Austin's Chemical Engineering Department.{{cite web|url=http://www.aps.org/programs/honors/prizes/prizerecipient.cfm?first_nm=Yueh-Lin&last_nm=Loo&year=2010|title=2010 John H. Dillon Medal Recipient|publisher=American Physical Society|access-date=November 15, 2015}} During her time at Bell Labs, Loo, along with Julia Hsu, accidentally uncovered duplicated figures in two papers by Jan Hendrik Schön, the first of many instances of academic fraud from the researcher. In 2004, she was included by MIT Technology Review on its TR35 list of under-35-year-old innovators for her invention of nanotransfer printing, a technique for printing nanoscale patterns onto plastic surfaces.{{cite web|url=http://www2.technologyreview.com/tr35/profile.aspx?trid=137|title=Yueh-Lin (Lynn) Loo, 30|work=MIT Technology Review|year=2004|access-date=November 15, 2015|archive-date=October 22, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221022011731/http://www2.technologyreview.com/tr35/profile.aspx?TRID=137|url-status=dead}} This technique allows for the creation of organic electronic devices by printing electrical circuit components onto plastic surfaces.{{cite web|url=http://news.utexas.edu/2004/09/20/nr_eng_nat_sci|title=Chemical engineer and biologist make list of world's top young innovators|work=UT News|date=September 24, 2004|access-date=November 15, 2015|archive-date=July 24, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160724153938/http://news.utexas.edu/2004/09/20/nr_eng_nat_sci|url-status=dead}}
In 2007, Loo joined the faculty of Princeton's Chemical and Biological Engineering Department,{{cite web|url=http://www.aps.org/programs/honors/prizes/prizerecipient.cfm?first_nm=Yueh-Lin&last_nm=Loo&year=2010|title=2010 John H. Dillon Medal Recipient|publisher=American Physical Society|access-date=November 15, 2015}} where, {{as of|2015|lc=y}}, she is the Theodora D. '78 and William H. Walton III '74 Professor in Engineering. Her research concerns the periodic structures of block polymers, organic semiconductors, and patterning techniques for plastic electronics.{{cite web|url=https://www.princeton.edu/cbe/people/faculty/loo/|title=Yueh-Lin (Lynn) Loo|publisher=Princeton University|access-date=November 15, 2015}}
Loo launched the Princeton E-ffiliates Partnership (E-ffiliates) in 2012.{{Cite news|url=https://www.princeton.edu/news/2016/05/20/lynn-loo-appointed-director-andlinger-center-energy-and-environment|title=Lynn Loo appointed director of Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment|work=Princeton University|access-date=2018-08-24|language=en}}{{Cite news|url=https://acee.princeton.edu/about/directors-message/|title=Director's Message - Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment|work=Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment|access-date=2018-08-24|language=en-US|archive-date=2017-11-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171113173132/http://acee.princeton.edu/about/directors-message/|url-status=dead}}
In 2016 she was appointed director of Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment.
Loo's research group studies solution-processable organic semiconductors and conductors.{{Cite web|url=https://chemistry.princeton.edu/faculty-research/associated-faculty/lynn-loo|title=Lynn Loo {{!}} Princeton University Department of Chemistry|website=chemistry.princeton.edu|language=en|access-date=2018-08-24|archive-date=2018-09-15|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180915231705/https://chemistry.princeton.edu/faculty-research/associated-faculty/lynn-loo|url-status=dead}}{{Citation|last=AndlingerCenter|title=Lynn Loo, Ubiquitous Electronics Through Conducting Plastics|date=2013-03-18|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWIQsbwpP3o|access-date=2018-08-24}} She also researches soft lithography. Using derivatives of Hexabenzocoronene Loo's group developed transparent near-UV solar cells for smart windows, which also contain electrochromic polymers that control the window tint.
Loo co-founded Andluca Technologies in 2017.{{cite web|url=https://loogroup.princeton.edu/about/lynn-loo|title=Lynn Loo|website=princeton.edu|publisher=Princeton University|accessdate=20 August 2024}}{{cite web|url=https://www.princeton.edu/news/2019/06/17/alcatraz-island-unlikely-place-students-energy-innovation|title=Alcatraz Island is unlikely place of learning for students of energy innovation|first=Molly|last=Seltzer|website=princeton.edu|publisher=Princeton University|date=17 June 2019|accessdate=20 August 2024}}
Awards and honors
- 2005 Beckman Young Investigators Award{{cite web|url=http://www.beckman-foundation.org/beckman-young-investigators/yueh-lin-loo|title=Yueh-Lin Loo|website=Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation|access-date=1 August 2018|archive-date=1 August 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180801221331/http://www.beckman-foundation.org/beckman-young-investigators/yueh-lin-loo|url-status=dead}}{{Cite news|url=https://phys.org/news/2005-05-chemical-ways-plastic-electricity.html|title=Chemical Engineer to Investigate Ways to Help Plastic Conduct Electricity|work=Science X}}
- 2006 O’Donnell Award from the Academy of Medicine, Engineering and Science of Texas{{Cite web|url=https://tamest.org/odonnell-awards/2006/|title=2006 O'Donnell Awards Recipients|website=The Academy of Medicine, Engineering & Science of Texas}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.aiche.org/community/awards/allan-p-colburn-award-excellence-publications-young-member-institute|title=Allan P. Colburn Award for Excellence in Publications by a Young Member of the Institute|website=American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE)|date=28 March 2012 }}
- 2008 Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellowship{{Cite web|url=https://sloan.org/past-fellows|title=Past Fellows|website=Alfred P. Sloan Foundation|access-date=2018-10-09|archive-date=2018-03-14|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180314000756/https://sloan.org/past-fellows|url-status=dead}}
- 2010 John H. Dillon Medal from the American Physical Society{{cite web|url=http://www.aps.org/programs/honors/prizes/prizerecipient.cfm?first_nm=Yueh-Lin&last_nm=Loo&year=2010|title=2010 John H. Dillon Medal Recipient|publisher=American Physical Society|access-date=November 15, 2015}}
- 2011 Appointed to the Global Young Academy{{Cite news|url=https://globalyoungacademy.net/ylloo/|title=Yueh-Lin Loo|work=Global Young Academy|access-date=2018-08-24|language=en-US}}
- 2012 Owens Corning Early Career Award{{Cite web|url=https://www.aiche.org/community/awards/owens-corning-early-career-award|title=Owens Corning Early Career Award|website=American Institute of Chemical Engineers|date=28 March 2012 }}
- 2013 Elected Fellow of the American Physical Society
- 2015 Finalist for the Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists National Awards in the Physical Sciences & Engineering category{{cite press release|url=http://www.nyas.org/AboutUs/MediaRelations/Detail.aspx?cid=52086edf-db92-4374-8d1e-a3acba42a845|title=Blavatnik National Awards for Young Scientists Announce 2015 Finalists|date=May 20, 2015|publisher=New York Academy of Sciences|access-date=November 23, 2015|archive-date=November 23, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151123143142/http://www.nyas.org/AboutUs/MediaRelations/Detail.aspx?cid=52086edf-db92-4374-8d1e-a3acba42a845|url-status=dead}}{{Citation|title=Self-powered system makes smart windows smarter|url=https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-06/pues-ssm062917.php|language=en|access-date=2018-08-24|archive-date=2018-08-24|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180824135057/https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-06/pues-ssm062917.php|url-status=dead}}
- 2020 Elected Fellow of the Materials Research Society
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