Andrew Holmes

Research project description:
Designed conjugated organic and polymeric materials will be prepared and evaluated as the active layer in optoelectronic devices, particularly light emitting displays (LEDs), field effect transistors (FETs) and solar cells. Improved materials with stable blue emission will be developed. Advanced organometallic conjugated polymers will harness the lost triplet energy as phosphorescence in LEDs and so raise potential device efficiency in the vicinity of 100%. Active layer materials in FETs will have improved supramolecular order and processibility to improve charge mobility, while the photovoltaic materials will be developed to show non-dispersive hole transport properties. The patterned deposition of materials for plastic electronics will be developed using a revolutionary deposition technique involving supercritical carbon dioxide.

• Named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2017
• Appointed a Member of the Order of Australia in 2004, and then a Companion of the Order in 2017
• Awarded a 2012 Royal Medal by the Royal Society
• University of Melbourne Laureate Professor of Chemistry
• CSIRO Fellow
• Returned to Melbourne in 2004
• Worked as a postdoctoral fellow on the final stages of the synthesis of vitamin B12 with Professor A. Eschenmoser  
• Completed his undergraduate education at the University of Melbourne and a PhD degree with Professor Franz Sondheimer at University College London
• Spent more than three decades working Cambridge