Prof. Chi-Yang CHAO received BS in Chemical Engineering from National Taiwan University at 1994; and Ph. D. in Materials Science and Engineering from Cornell University at 2003. He then moved to Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern University, as a postdoctoral research associate. Starting from 2005, he worked for Materials and Chemical Research Laboratory, Industrial Technology Research Institute at Hsinchu as a researcher. He joined Department of Materials Science and Engineering, National Taiwan University from 2006 and he currently serves as a professor.

Multiscale Functional Polymer Laboratory at NTU was founded by Prof. Chi-Yang Chao since 2006.  The major interests are design, synthesis, processing and characterization of functional polymers to tailor the microstructure for designated properties. Systems that undergo self-assembly in different length scale including block copolymers, liquid crystalline polymers and polyelectrolytes are of special interests. Organic/inorganic and organic/organic nano-composites of block polymers with controllable microstructure are also studied. Synthetic tools include living polymerization methods such as anionic, ring opening and living radical polymerization. Evaluation of the microstructure and surface topography include TEM, SEM, AFM as well as synchrotron based SAXS and WAXS.