Guillermo Bazan

Professor Bazan is the Provost Chair at and is a member of the Departments of Chemistry and Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering. He also holds an appointment at the Department of Pharmacology in the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine. He has published over 770 publications (> 55500 citations, H-index: 123).

His awards and recognitions include 2019 Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher, 2017 ISI Highly Cited Scientists in Materials Science, Frontiers in Chemistry Named Lecture, Case Western Reserve University, Professor of the Chang Jiang Scholars, Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Chemical Society Cope Scholar Award, and the Bessel Award, Humboldt Foundation.

Five startup companies have been founded by graduate students or postdocs during their studies in the Bazan group (Sirigen, Apeel, Next Energies, Xiretsa, and Acoearela). Over forty of previous postgraduate students and postdoctoral fellows now lead successful academic or national research lab positions.

Degree

• PhD in Chemistry MIT; Postdoctoral Fellow at Caltech
• B. Sc in Chemistry (Summa Cum Laude), University of Ottawa

Research Interests

Living Materials, Gels for Energy Storage, Bioimaging

Selected Publications

• Vazquez, RJ, et al, Conjugated polyelectrolyte/bacteria living composites in carbon paper for biocurrent generation, Macromolecular Rapid Communications, 2100840, 2022.
• Limwongyut, J., et al, Amide moieties modulate the antimicrobial activities of conjugated oligoelectrolytes against gram-negative bacteria, ChemistryOpen, 11, e202100260, 2022.
• Quek, G, et al, Conjugated polyelectrolytes: underexplored materials for pseudocapacitive energy storage, Advanced Materials, 2104206, 2022.
• Quek, G, et al, Pseudocapacitive conjugated polyelectrolyte/2D electrolyte hydrogels with enhanced physico-electrochemical properties, Advanced Electronic Materials, 2100942, 2022.
• Tiihonen, A, et al, Predicting antimicrobial activity of conjugated oligoelectrolyte olecules via machine learning, Journal of the American Chemical Society, 143, 18917, 2021. Gillet, AJ, et al, The role of charge recombination to triplet excitons in organic solar cells, Nature, 597, 7878, 2021.
• Su, YD, A living biotic-abiotic composite that can switch function between current generation and electrochemical energy storage, Advanced Functional Materials, 31, 2007351, 2020.