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Dr Pengchao Si

Research Fellow

Fields of Interest

Functional Hollow Nanoparticles; Nanostructures of chemical sensors; QCM sensors; ISE sensors; Conducting polymers on sensors; Electrochemsitry; In-situ/ ex-situ study of STM and AFM

Education

08/2004-11/2007 PhD of Chemistry, Institute of Science, Systems and Models, Roskilde University Center, Denmark

09/2002-12/2003 Master of Materials Science, Department of Materials Science and Technology, Shandong University, China,

09/1999-07/2001 Bachelor of Chemical Engineering, Institute of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering,  Harbin Engineering University, China

Research Experience

01/2008-Present Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Nanochemsitry Research Institute, Applied Chemistry Department, Curtin University of Technology, Australia

08/2004-11/2007 Research assistant(RA), both in Institute of Science, Systems and Models, Roskilde University Center and Department of Chemistry, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

08/2004-02/2007 Member of the EU project Nanostructures for Chemical Sensors (the EU 6th Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development, STRP 5058595-1)

08/2004-11/2007 Co-worker on R&D of gas sensors in Department of Sensors & Measurement, Force Technology, Denmark

12/2005-Present Co-worker on electrochemistry, STM and AFM in the group of Professor Jens Ulstrup in Danish Technical University, Denmark

07/2001-06/2004  RA, Key Laboratory of Liquid Structure and Heredity of Materials, Chinese Education Ministry, China

Selected Publications

  1. Pengchao Si, Qijin Chi, Zheshen Li, Jens Ulstrup, Preben Juul Møller, John Mortensen, Functional Polythiophene Nanoparticles: Size Controlled Electropolymerization and Ion Selective Response J. Am. Chem. Soc.; (Article); 2007; 129(13); 3888-3896.
  2. Pengchao Si, John Mortensen, Alexei Komolov, Jens Denborg, Preben Juul Møller, Polymer coated QCM sensors for detection of volatile organic compounds in mixtures Analytica Chimica Acta 597 (2007) 223–230.
  3. Pengchao Si, Jingdong Zhang, Preben Juul Møller, John Mortensen, The study on synthesis of Ionophore/Conductive organic polymer material and its applications in a novel Potassium sensor (accepted by the Eurosensor2006conference)
  4. Pengchao Si, Jingdong Zhang, John Mortensen, Preben Juul Møller, Jens Ulstrup,4VOCs detection using porous conducting polymer thin-film on Quartz Crystal Microbalance, 4th Annual Meeting in Graduate School for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology” (CONT), Denmark. Dec.7, 2006, oral presentation and poster.
  5. Pengchao Si, Alexei Komolov, Qijin Chi, Jingdong Zhang, John Mortensen, Preben Juul Møller, Derivated polythiophenes for gas sensing and ion sensing in solution accepted by NANOTECH-Northern Europe, 2007 (March 27-29) (oral presentation).
  6. Pengchao Si, Xiufang Bian, Junyan Zhang, Hui Li, Minhua Sun, Yan Zhao. Fragility of Al-Ni-based glass-forming melt Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter 15 (2003) 1–7.
  7. Pengchao Si, Xiufang Bian, Wang Li, Junyan Zhang, Zhongxi Yang. Relationship between intermetallic compound formation and glass forming ability of Al-Ni-La alloy, Physics Letters A 319 (2003) 424–428.
  8. Pengchao Si, Xiufang Bian, Hui Li, Yuxian Liu. Synthesis of ZnO nanowhiskers by a simple method, Materials Letters 57 (2003) 4079-4082.

Hobbies:

Swimming, Skating, Skiing, Travelling, Poker

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