Michael Chabinyc

About

Michael Chabinyc is a professor in the Materials Department at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His research group focuses on the study of functional thin film materials, particularly semiconductors used in electronic devices such as transistors, solar cells, and thermoelectrics. His work involves both organic and inorganic semiconducting materials, utilizing a combination of physical characterization methods to elucidate their electronic and structural properties. Additional research interests include functional polymers for sensing and actuation. Dr. Chabinyc holds a Ph.D. in Chemistry from Stanford University and a B.S. in Chemistry from the University of Dayton. He is recognized as a Fellow of the Materials Research Society, the American Physical Society, the Royal Society of Chemistry, and the National Academy of Inventors. His contributions to the field are centered on advancing the understanding and development of thin film materials for electronic applications.

Research topics

• Computer Science
• Materials science
• Engineering
• Artificial Intelligence
• Nanotechnology
• Chemical engineering
• Crystallography
• Chemistry
• Physical chemistry
• Physics

Selected publications

• The 2021 flexible and printed electronics roadmap

  Flexible and Printed Electronics · 2021 · 204 citations

  Abstract This roadmap includes the perspectives and visions of leading researchers in the key areas of flexible and printable electronics. The covered topics are broadly organized by the device technologies (sections 1–9), fabrication techniques (sections 10–12), and design and modeling approaches (sections 13 and 14) essential to the future development of new applications leveraging flexible electronics (FE). The interdisciplinary nature of this field involves everything from fundamental scient…

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• Room temperature 3D printing of super-soft and solvent-free elastomers

  Science Advances · 2020 · 131 citations

  Super-soft elastomers derived from bottlebrush polymers show promise as advanced materials for biomimetic tissue and device applications, but current processing strategies are restricted to simple molding. Here, we introduce a design concept that enables the three-dimensional (3D) printing of super-soft and solvent-free bottlebrush elastomers at room temperature. The key advance is a class of inks comprising statistical bottlebrush polymers that self-assemble into well-ordered body-centered cubi…

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• Understanding Instability in Formamidinium Lead Halide Perovskites: Kinetics of Transformative Reactions at Grain and Subgrain Boundaries

  ACS Energy Letters · 2022 · 95 citations

  Transformative and reconstructive reactions impart significant structural changes at particle boundaries of hybrid perovskites, which influence environmental stability and optoelectronic properties of these materials. Here, we investigate the moisture-induced transformative reactions in formamidinium(FA)-based perovskites FAPbX3 (X = I, Br) and show that the ambient stability of these materials can be adjusted from a few hours to several months. For FAPbI3, roles of water vapor, particle size, a…

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• Sustainability considerations for organic electronic products

  Nature Materials · 2023-06-19 · 91 citations

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  The development of organic electronic applications has reached a critical point. While markets, including the Internet of Things, transparent solar and flexible displays, gain momentum, organic light-emitting diode displays lead the way, with a current market size of over $25 billion, helping to create the infrastructure and ecosystem for other applications to follow. It is imperative to design built-in sustainability into the materials selection, processing and device architectures of all of th…

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• Chemical Botany: Bottlebrush Polymers in Materials Science

  Annual Review of Materials Research · 2024-08-05 · 21 citations

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  Molecular architectures known as bottlebrush polymers provide unique opportunities to tune the structure and properties of soft materials with applications ranging from rubbers to thin films and composites. This review addresses recent developments and future opportunities in the field with an emphasis on materials science enabled by contemporary bottlebrush chemistry.

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Recent grants

• Collaborative Research: Charge Transport Pathways in Semiconducting Polymer Films

  NSF · $192k · 2012–2016

• International Collaboration in Chemistry: Novel Approaches to Molecular Assembly in Polymers for Solar Energy Conversion

  NSF · $315k · 2010–2014

• DMREF/Collaborative Research: Controlling Hierarchical Nanostructures in Conjugated Polymers

  NSF · $1.1M · 2014–2020

Frequent coauthors

• Craig J. Hawker

  University of California, Santa Barbara

  104 shared

• Rachel A. Segalman

  University of California, Santa Barbara

  84 shared

• Michael F. Toney

  66 shared

• Iain McCulloch

  University of Oxford

  65 shared

• Neil D. Treat

  Google (United States)

  61 shared

• Martin Heeney

  59 shared

• Ram Seshadri

  University of California, Santa Barbara

  58 shared

• John G. Labram

  Oregon State University

  48 shared

Labs

• Chabinyc Research GroupPI

  Not provided

Awards & honors

• Fellow of the Materials Research Society
• Fellow of the American Physical Society
• Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry
• Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors

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