Ming-Yu KUODistinguished Professor

B.S. in Physics, National Chung Hsing University, 1997
M.S. in Materials Science and Engineering, National Sun Yat-sen University, 1999
Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering, National Sun Yat-sen University, 2004
Postdoc Fellow, Academia Sinica, 2006-2007
Assistant Professor, National Chi Nan University, 2007-2010
Associate Professor, National Chi Nan University, 2010-2014
Professor, National Chi Nan University, 2014-

1.Design, Synthesis, and Fabrication of Organic Field-effect Transistor
2.Design, Synthesis, and Fabrication of P-type Dye Sensitized Solar Cell
3.Computational Chemistry

Google Scholar:
https://scholar.google.com.tw/citations?user=dv4iTNwAAAAJ&hl=zh-TW

Selected Publications :
1.        Y. T. Wu*, M. Y. Kuo, Y. T. Chang, C. C. Shin, T. C. Wu, C. C. Tai, T. H. Cheng, W. S. Liu,”Synthesis,    
   Structure, and Photophysical Properties of HighlySubstituted 8,8a-Dihydrocyclopenta[a]indenes” Angew.
   Chem. Int. Ed. 2008, 47, 9891-9894.
2.       W. S. Liu, C. C. Liu, M. Y. Kuo*,”High Performance p-Channel Organic Semiconducting Candidates
    Based on Benzo[1,2-k;4,5-k']difluoranthene Derivatives” Chem. Eur. J. 2009, 15, 5896-5900.
3.       M. Y. Kuo*, C. C. Liu,”Molecular Design toward High Hole-mobility Organic Semiconductors:
   Tetraceno[2,3-c]thiophene Derivatives of Ultrasmall Reorganization Energies” J. Phys. Chem.
   C 2009, 113, 16303-16306.
4.       S. Z. Weng, P. Shukla, M. Y. Kuo, Y. C. Chang, H. S. Sheu, I. Chao*, Y. T. Tao*,” Diazapentacene
   Derivatives as Thin Film Transistor Materials: Morphology Control in Realizing High Field-Effect
   Mobility” ACS Applied Materials & Interface 2009, 1, 2071-2079.
5.       Y. H. Kung, Y. S. Cheng, C. C. Tai, W. S. Liu, C. C. Shin, C. C. Ma, Y. C. TsaiT. C. Wu, M. Y. Kuo*, Y. T.
   Wu*,”Synthesis, Structures and Physical Properties of Benzo[k]fluoranthene-Based Linear Acenes” Chem.
   Eur. J. 2010, 16, 5909-5919.
6.       Y. C. Chang, M. Y. Kuo, C. P. Chen, H. F. Lu, I. Chao*,”On the Air Stability of n-Channel Organic Field-
   Effect Transistors: A Theoretical Study of Adiabatic Electron Affinities of Organic Semiconductors” J.
   Phys. Chem. C 2010, 114, 11595-11601.
7.       H. I. Chang, H. T. Huang, C. H. Huang, M. Y. Kuo, Y. T. Wu*, ”Diindeno[1,2,3,4-defg;1',2',3',4'-
   mnop]chrysenes: Solution-Phase Synthesis and the Bowl-to-Bowl Inversion Barrier” Chem. Comm. 2010,
   7241-7243.
8.       C. C. Liu, S. W. Mao, M. Y. Kuo*,”Cyanated Pentaceno[2,3-c]chalcogenophenes for the Potential
   Application in Air-Stable Ambipolar Organic Thin-Film Transistors” J. Phys. Chem. C 2010, 114, 22316-
   22321.
9.       L. L. Lai*, C. M. Yang, C. C. Liu, K. L. Cheng, Y. S. Wen, C. H. Hung, T. T. Luo, M. Y. Kuo*,”Direct
   evidence of a liquid crystalline phase induced by intermolecular C-H…Cl interaction on the basis of IR
   spectroscopy and theoretical simulation” Chem. Eur. J. 2011, 17, 111-116.
10.    Md. M. Islam, F. Valiyev, H. F. Lu, M. Y. Kuo, I. Chao*, Y. T. Tao*,”High performance single-crystal field-
   effect transistors based on twisted polyaromatic semiconductor pyreno[4,5-a]coronen” Chem. Comm. 2011,
   2008-2010.
11.    T. C. Wu, C. C. Tai, H. C. Tiao, M. Y. Kuo, Y. T. Wu*, ” Nickel-Catalyzed-Cascade Cycloadditions of 1-
   Ethynyl-8-halonaphthalenes with Nitriles: Synthesis, Structure, and Physical Properties of New
   Pyrroloarenes” Chem. Eur. J. 2011, 17, 1930.
12.    T. C. Wu, C. C. Tai, H. C. Tiao, Y. T. Chang, C. C. Liu, C. H. Li, C. H.
   Huang, M. Y. Kuo*, Y. T. Wu* ,”Palladium-Catalyzed Cycloisomerizations of Diarylacetylenes: Synthesis,
   Structures and Physical Properties of Highly Substituted Naphthalenes and 8,8a-
   Dihydrocyclopenta[a]indenes” Chem. Eur. J. 2011, 17, 7220-7227.
13.    C. H. Li, C. H. Huang, M. Y. Kuo*,” Halogenated 6,13-bis(triisopropylsilylethynyl)-5,7,12,14-
   tetraazapentacene: Applications for Ambipolar Air-stable Organic Field-effect
   Transistors” Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 2011, 13, 11148-11155.
14.    T. C. Wu, H. J. Hsin, M. Y. Kuo, C. H. Li, Y. T. Wu*, ” Synthesis and Structural Analysis of a Highly
   Curved Buckybowl Containing Corannulene and Sumanene Fragments” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2011, 133,
   16319-16321.
15.    H. C. Tiao, Y. J. Lee, Y. Shan Liu, S. H. Lee, C. H. Li, M. Y. Kuo*, ”Effect of Hydroxyl Density on
   Condensation Behaviors of Self-Assembled Monolayers and Performance of Pentacene-Base Organic Thin-
   Film Transistors” Org. Electron. 2012, 13, 1004.
16.    C. L. Wang, C. M. Lan, S. H. Hong, T. Y. Pan, C. W. Chang, H. H. Kuo, M. Y. Kuo*, Eric W. G. Diau*, C.
   Y. Lin*, ” Enveloping Porphyrins for Efficient Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells” Energy Environ. Sci. 2012, 5,
   6933-6940.
17.    T. F. Yang*, K. Y. Chiu, H. C. Cheng, Y. W. Lee, M. Y. Kuo*, Y. O. Su*,”Studies on the Structure of N-
   Phenyl-Substituted Hexaaza[16]paracyclophane: Synthesis, Electrochemical Properties, And Theoretical
   Calculation” J. Org. Chem. 2012, 77, 8627-8633.
18.    M. J. Tsai, J. Y. Wu*, M. H. Chiang*, C. H. Huang, M. Y. Kuo, L. L. Lai*,” Infinite Copper(II)
   Coordination Architectures from a Resonative Aminotriazine-Derived Tripodal Ligand: Synthesis,
   Structures, and Magnetic Properties” Inorg. Chem. 2012, 51, 12360-12371.
19.    T. C. Wu, M. K. Chen, Y. W. Lee, M. Y. Kuo*, Y. T. Wu*,” Bowl-shaped Fragments of C70 or Higher
   Fullerenes - Synthesis, Structural Analysis and Inversion Dynamics” Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2013, 52, 1289-
   1293.
20.    W. C. Cheng, C. Y. Yang, B. Y. Kang, M. Y. Kuo, J. Ruan*,” Impact of undercooling on epitaxially oriented
   liquid crystalline organizations of poly(3-hexylthiophene) below the eutectic temperature” Soft Matter 2013,
   9, 10822-10831.
21.    R. Y. Tsai, Y. F. Huang, M. Y. Kuo, C. C. Tai, S. T. Liou, J. Ruan*,” Impact of Smectic Fluidity on the
   Development of Continuous Packing during Polymorphous Behavior of Alkyl-Substituted Terthiophene
   Derivative” Cryst. Growth & Des. 2013, 13, 561-571.
22.    C. N. Feng, M. Y. Kuo, Y. T. Wu*,” Synthesis, Structural Analysis, and Properties of [8] Circulenes”
   Angew. Chem. Int. Edit. 2013, 52, 7791-7794.
23.    M. K. Chen, H. J. Hsin, T. C. Wu, B. Y. Kang, Y. W. Lee, M. Y. Kuo*, Y. T. Wu*,” Highly Curved Bowl-
   Shaped Fragments of Fullerenes: Synthesis, Structural Analysis, and Physical Properties” Chem. Eur. J.
   2014, 20, 598-608.
24.    T. F. Yang, S. H. Huang, Y. P. Chiu, P. H. Chen, Y. W. Shih, Y. C. Chang, M. Y. Kuo*,”Pyromellitic
   Dithioimides: Thionation Improves Air-Stability and Electron Mobility of N-Type Organic Field-Effect
   Transistors” Chem. Comm. 2015, 51, 13772-13775.
25.    S. Mondal, W. H. Lin, Y. C. Chen, S. H. Huang, R. Yang, B. H. Chen, T. F. Yang*, S. W. Mao*, M. Y.
   Kuo*,” Solution-Processed Single-Crystal Perylene Diimide Transistors with High Electron Mobility” Org.
   Electron. 2015, 23, 64-69.
26.    H. C. Cheng, K. Y. Chiu, S. H. Lu, C. C. Chen, Y. W. Lee, T. F. Yang*, M. Y. Kuo*, P. P. Y. Chen*, Y. O.
   Su*,” Linear Oligoarylamines: Electrochemical, EPR, and Computational Studies of Their Oxidative States”
   J. Phys. Chem. A 2015, 119, 1933-1942.
27.    Y. C. Hsieh, H. Y. Fang, Y. T. Chen, Rong Yang, Chen-I Yang, Pi-Tai Chou*, M. Y. Kuo*, Y. T. Wu*,”
   Zethrene and Dibenzozethrene: Masked Biradical Molecules?” Angew. Chem. Int. Edit. 2015, 54, 3069-
   3073.
28.    Y. C. Hsieh, T. C. Wu, J. Y. Li, Y. T. Chen, M. Y. Kuo*, P. T. Chou*, Y. T. Wu*,” Dinaphthozethrene and
   Diindenozethrene: Synthesis, Structural Analysis, and Properties”  Org. Lett. 2016, 18, 1868-1871.
29.    C. N. Feng, W. C. Hsu, J. Y. Li, M. Y. Kuo*, Y. T. Wu*,”Per-​Substituted [8]​Circulene and Its Non-​Planar
   Fragments: Synthesis, Structural Analysis, and Properties”  Chem. Eur. J. 2016, 22, 9198-9208.
30.    D. Zhao, Z. Zhu, M. Y. Kuo, C. C. Chueh, A. K. Y. Jen*,” Hexaazatrinaphthylene Derivatives: Efficient
   Electron-​Transporting Materials with Tunable Energy Levels for Inverted Perovskite Solar Cells” Angew.
   Chem. Int. Edit. 2016, 55, 8999-9003.
31.    T. T. H. Tran, Y. R. Chang, T. K. A. Hoang, M. Y. Kuo*, Y. O. Su*,” Electrochemical Behavior of meso-
   Substituted Porphyrins: The Role of Cation Radicals to the Half-Wave Oxidation Potential Splitting” J.
   Phys. Chem. A 2016, 120, 5504-5511.