Polymer Morphology & Electronics Laboratory
Research Field
Yu-Cheng Chiu joined the Department of Chemical Engineering at Taiwan Tech. as a tenure-track assistant professor in August 2017. Currently, he is the Head of Polymer Morphology and Electronics Laboratory. Prior to joining the faculty, Yu-Cheng was a postdoc in the Zhenan Bao research group at Stanford University, where he studied on developing intrinsically stretchable/healable semiconductor and high-performance OFET by solution shearing. Before moving to Stanford, he received his PhD degree under the supervision from Prof. Wen-Chang Chen in December 2012 from the Chem. E at National Taiwan University and then stayed in the same group for his first post-doctoral research until Oct. 2014, where his research was aim to synthesize conjugated-based block copolymers for sensor applications and elucidate the electronic transporting behaviors at the semiconductor/polymer interfaces. BTW, he loves playing basketball very much.
My laboratory (Polymer Morphology & Electronics) specializes in the synthesis and characterization of rubber-like polymers, stretchable and self-healable polymers, nanocomposites, hydrophobic polymer membranes, and their application; polymer electrolytes for lithium-ion batteries; morphology polymers; fabrication of fully stretchable and self-healable thin film transistor devices; and fabrication of thin film transistor memory devices. In addition to polymer synthesis, we explore techniques, such as modifying existing polymer structures, nanoparticle incorporation, and surface modification, to impart additional functionalities. The laboratory members consist of a postdoctoral researcher, 4 Ph.D. students, and 13 Master students (including 6 international students). Our laboratory members are very friendly and enjoy working together, thus, we welcome students from different nationalities to work together to create novel research.
Our laboratory research topics are divided into 4 main parts, namely [1]. synthesis of stretchable and self-healable polymer, [2] synthesis of polymer electrolyte for lithium-ion batteries, [3] morphology of polymers, and [4] fabrication of thin film transistor devices (TFT) and TFT memory devices.
Honors and Awards:
- 2025-2029 Ta-You Wu Memorial Award Project, National Science and Technology Council, Taiwan
- 2025-2026 Taiwan Tech – Excellent Research Award
- 2024 Ta-You Wu Memorial Award from the National Science and Technology Council, Taiwan
- 2024 Taiwan Tech - PBL Teaching Award
- 2023 LCY Distinguished Young Professor Award
- 2023-2024 Taiwan Tech - Outstanding Research Award
- 2022 Outstanding Young Polymer Technology Award, The Polymer Society of Taiwan.
- 2022-2025 Excellent Young Researcher Project, Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan
- 2022 Emerging Investigators-Journal of Materials Chemistry C
- Rising Stars in Polymer Science 2022-Polymer Journal
- JAIST Visiting Research Fellow, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan (2021.12-2023.03)
- 2022 Taiwan Tech – Teaching Excellence Award
- 2020 Outstanding Young Scholar Award, the Taiwanese Colloid and Interface Society, Taiwan.
- Specially Appointed Assistant Professor, Hokkaido University, Japan (2018.06-0218.09)
- 2017-2018 Taiwan Tech - Young ScholarAward
- 2015 Best Research Paper Award for Postdoctoral Fellows the National Science and Technology Council, Taiwan
International Invited Speeches:
(1) Y. C. Chiu,* 2022, International Meeting on Information Display (IMID 2022), Busan, Korea. (Invited Speaker)
(2) Y. C. Chiu,* 2022, 71st Annual Meeting of the Society of Polymer Science, Japan (SPSJ). (Invited Speaker)
(3) Y. C. Chiu,* 2019, The International Conference on Electronic Materials Leading the Future (ICE-MLF 2019), Kyung Hee University, Seoul, Korea. (Invited Speaker)
(4) Y. C. Chiu,* 2019, The 3rd Japan-Taiwan International Engineering Forum, Tokyo, Japan. (Invited Speaker)
(5) Y. C. Chiu,* 2019, Frontiers in Multidimensional Organic Semiconductors, Korea University, Seoul, Korea. (Invited Speaker)
(6) Y. C. Chiu,* 2018, 7th Synchrotron Radiation in Polymer Science (SPRS 2018) , Gyeongju, Korea. (Invited Speaker)
(7) Y. C. Chiu,* 2018, Japan-Korea Joint Symposium on Polymer Science (2018 JKJS), Sapporo, Japan. (Invited Speaker)
(8) Y. C. Chiu,* 2018, 1st Asian-France Workshop (1st AFW) on "Soft Matter Self-Assembly & Applications", Grenoble, France. (Invited Speaker)
(9) Y. C. Chiu,* 2017, International Conference on Functional Carbons (2017 ICFC), Taipei, Taiwan. (Invited Speaker)
(10) Y. C. Chiu,* 2017, Japan-Taiwan Bilateral Polymer Symposium (2017 JTBPS), Yonezawa, Japan. (Invited Speaker)
2022-Present Associate Professor, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taiwan
2025-Present Chairman, Intellectual Property and Technology Transfer Center, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taiwan
2023-Present Research Fellow, Industrial Technology Research Institute, Taiwan
2022-Present Director, Semiconductor Executive Master of Research and Development, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taiwan
2021-2023 JAIST Visiting Research Fellow, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan
2018 Specially Appointed Assistant Professor, Hokkaido University, Japan
2017-2022 Assistant Professor, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taiwan
2016-2017 Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Yuan Ze University, Taiwan
2014-2016 Postdoctoral Scholar, Department of Chem. E., Stanford University, USA
Job Description
polymer design for OFET application
Preferred Intern Educational Level
undergraduate or master sutdent
Skill sets or Qualities
fundamental knowledge of polymer