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Loon-Seng Tan is affiliated with the United States Air Force Research Laboratory in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Materials Science and Engineering, with a focus on subfields including Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, Materials Chemistry, Polymers and Plastics, Biomedical Engineering, and Mechanical Engineering.

The scientist's work encompasses several main topics such as synthesis and properties of polymers, liquid crystal research advancements, photochromic and fluorescence chemistry, nonlinear optical materials studies, photochemistry and electron transfer studies, advanced materials and mechanics, and interferon and immune responses.

Key recent publications by Loon-Seng Tan include:

  • Role of Alicyclic Conformation-Isomerization in the Photomechanical Performance of Azobenzene-Functionalized Cross-Linked Polyimides Containing Tetra-Substituted Cyclohexane Moieties, 2021, ACS Macro Letters
  • Intermolecular Interactions and Intramolecular Motions in Photomechanical Effect: Nonlinear Thermo- and Photomechanical Behaviors of Azobenzene-Functionalized Amide-Imide Block Copolymers, 2021, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
  • Assembly of 2',3'-Cyclic guanosine Monophosphate-Adenosine monophosphate and their spontaneous intracellular disassembly for enhanced antitumor immunity via natural STING pathway activation, 2024, Chemical Engineering Journal
  • Development of a Novel, All-Aromatic High Tensile Modulus Liquid Crystalline Polyimide for Fused Filament Fabrication Applications, 2024, Advanced Functional Materials
  • An enhanced spectrophotometric method for determination of hydrogen peroxide during vacuum ultraviolet photolysis of water, 2024, Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Ethiopia

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Loon-Seng Tan include:

  • David H. Wang
  • Kyung Min Lee
  • Deborah H. Lee
  • Matthew Baczkowski
  • Ramamurthi Kannan

Their work has been published in various venues such as:

  • ACS Macro Letters
  • ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
  • Chemical Engineering Journal
  • Advanced Functional Materials
  • Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Ethiopia

Best Publications

  • Multiphoton Absorbing Materials : Molecular Designs, Characterizations, and Applications

    Guang S He;Loon-Seng Tan;Qingdong Zheng;Paras N Prasad

  • Thermal Stability of Quaternary Phosphonium Modified Montmorillonites

    Wei Xie;Rongcai Xie;Wei-Ping Pan;Doug Hunter

  • Diphenylaminofluorene-Based Two-Photon-Absorbing Chromophores with Various π-Electron Acceptors

    Ramamurthi Kannan;Guang S. He;Lixiang Yuan;Faming Xu

  • Toward Highly Active Two-Photon Absorbing Liquids. Synthesis and Characterization of 1,3,5-Triazine-Based Octupolar Molecules

    Ramamurthi Kannan;Guang S. He;Tzu Chau Lin;Paras N. Prasad

  • Singlet oxygen generation via two-photon excited FRET.

    William R. Dichtel;Jason M. Serin;Carine Edder;Jean M J Fréchet

  • In Situ Synthesis of Poly(ethylene terephthalate) (PET) in Ethylene Glycol Containing Terephthalic Acid and Functionalized Multiwalled Carbon Nanotubes (MWNTs) as an Approach to MWNT/PET Nanocomposites

    Hwa-Jeong Lee;Se-Jin Oh;Ja-Young Choi;Jin Won Kim

  • High-Temperature and High-Energy-Density Dipolar Glass Polymers Based on Sulfonylated Poly(2,6-dimethyl-1,4-phenylene oxide).

    Zhongbo Zhang;David H. Wang;Morton H. Litt;Loon‐Seng Tan

  • Photomechanical Response of Glassy Azobenzene Polyimide Networks

    David H. Wang;Kyung Min Lee;Zhenning Yu;Hilmar Koerner

  • Two-Photon Excitation and Optical Spatial-Profile Reshaping via a Nonlinear Absorbing Medium†

    Guang S. He;Jacek Swiatkiewicz;Yan Jiang;Paras N. Prasad

  • Light-Harvesting Chromophores with Metalated Porphyrin Cores for Tuned Photosensitization of Singlet Oxygen via Two-Photon Excited FRET

    Michael A. Oar;William R. Dichtel;Jason M. Serin;Jean M J Fréchet

  • Contactless, photoinitiated snap-through in azobenzene-functionalized polymers

    M. Ravi Shankar;Matthew L. Smith;Vincent P. Tondiglia;Kyung Min Lee

  • Enhancement of Photogenerated Mechanical Force in Azobenzene‐Functionalized Polyimides

    Kyung Min Lee;David H. Wang;Hilmar Koerner;Richard A. Vaia

  • Modification of bisphenol-A based bismaleimide resin (BPA-BMI) with an allyl-terminated hyperbranched polyimide (AT-PAEKI)

    Haihu Qin;Patrick T. Mather;Jong-Beom Baek;Jong-Beom Baek;Loon-Seng Tan

  • Covalent modification of vapour-grown carbon nanofibers via direct Friedel–Crafts acylation in polyphosphoric acid

    Jong-Beom Baek;Jong-Beom Baek;Christopher B. Lyons;Loon-Seng Tan

  • Direct three-dimensional microfabrication of hydrogels via two- photon lithography in aqueous solution

    Shalin J. Jhaveri;Jesse D. McMullen;Rint Sijbesma;Loon-Seng Tan

  • Synthesis, Characterization, Two‐Photon Absorption, and Optical Limiting Properties of Ladder‐Type Oligo‐p‐phenylene‐Cored Chromophores

    Qingdong Zheng;Sandesh K. Gupta;Guang S. He;Loon-Seng Tan

  • Grafting of Vapor-Grown Carbon Nanofibers via in-Situ Polycondensation of 3-Phenoxybenzoic Acid in Poly(phosphoric acid)

    Jong-Beom Baek;Christopher B. Lyons;Loon-Seng Tan

  • Polymer design for high temperature shape memory: Low crosslink density polyimides

    Hilmar Koerner;Robert J. Strong;Matthew L. Smith;David H. Wang

  • Degenerate nonlinear absorption and optical power limiting properties of asymmetrically substituted stilbenoid chromophores

    Tzu Chau Lin;Guang S. He;Paras N. Prasad;Loon Seng Tan

  • Enhancing electrical energy storage using polar polyimides with nitrile groups directly attached to the main chain

    Imre Treufeld;David H. Wang;Brian A. Kurish;Loon-Seng Tan

Frequent Co-Authors

Jong-Beom Baek
Jong-Beom Baek Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology
Long Y. Chiang
Long Y. Chiang University of Massachusetts Lowell
Richard A. Vaia
Richard A. Vaia United States Air Force Research Laboratory
Timothy J. White
Timothy J. White University of Colorado Boulder
Paras N. Prasad
Paras N. Prasad University at Buffalo, State University of New York
Guang S. He
Guang S. He University at Buffalo, State University of New York
Augustine M. Urbas
Augustine M. Urbas United States Air Force Research Laboratory
Hilmar Koerner
Hilmar Koerner United States Air Force Research Laboratory
In-Yup Jeon
In-Yup Jeon Wonkwang University
Wei Ji
Wei Ji Renmin University of China

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