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Linh Duy Thai

PhD Student

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Brief Curriculum Vitae
since 01/21 Ph.D. studies under the supervision of Prof. Christopher Barner-Kowollik and Prof. Dmitri Golberg at the Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Brisbane, Australia and Dr Hatice Mutlu at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe, Germany
02/20 – 08/20 Intern at the Institut Lavoisier de Versailles (ILV), Versailles, France under the supervision of Dr. Guillaume Dagousset. Research on the synthesis of organofluorine compounds using photoredox-catalysis
09/18 – 09/20    M.Sc. in Photochemistry and Nanoscience from the University of Paris-Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette, France and the University of Porto, Porto, Portugal
06/17 – 04/18 Intern at the Faculty of Materials Technology, Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology (HCMUT), Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Research on disulfide-based self-healing polymers
09/13 – 04/18 Bachelor of Chemical Engineering from the Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology (HCMUT), Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

Research Interests
  • Organic synthesis
  • Smart polymeric materials
    • Self-healing polymers
    • Light-responsive polymers

2023 Best Oral Presentation, Queensland Annual Chemistry Symposium (QACS), Brisbane, Australia
2018 Erasmus Mundus Scholarship, for the SERP+ Joint Master Program
[03] Access to main-chain photoswitching polymers via head-to-tail ADMET polymerization, The 50th World Polymer Congress, IUPAC MACRO, July 2024, Warwick, England. [Oral Presentation]
[02] Main-chain macromolecular hydrazone photoswitches, The 38th Australasian Polymer Symposium, February 2023, Auckland, New Zealand. [Oral Presentation]
[01] Molecular photoswitching of main-chain α-bisimines in solid-state polymers, Queensland Annual Chemistry Symposium (QACS), November 2023, Brisbane, Australia. [Oral Presentation]

2024
[768] Sequence-Defined Main-Chain Photoswitchable Macromolecules with Odd-Even Effect Controlled Properties

Thai, L. D.; Kammerer, J. A.; Golberg, D.; Mutlu, H.; Barner-Kowollik, C. Chem. 2024, in press.

[767] Access to Main-chain Photoswitching Polymers via Hydroxyl-yne Click Polymerization

Thai, L. D.; Kammerer, J. A.; Théato, P.; Mutlu, H.; Barner-Kowollik, C. ACS Macro Lett. 2024, 13, 681-687.

[754] Photo- and halochromism of spiropyran-based main-chain polymers

Thai, L. D.; Kammerer, J. A.; Mutlu, H.; Barner-Kowollik, C. Chem. Sci. 2024, 15, 3687-3697.

[750] Main-chain Macromolecular Hydrazone Photoswitches

Thai, L. D.; Fanelli, J.; Munaweera, R.; O´Mara, M. L.; Barner-Kowollik, C.; Mutlu, H. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2024, 63, e202315887. 

2023
[737] Molecular Photoswitching of Main-chain α-bisimines in Solid-State Polymers

Thai, L. D.; Guimarães, T. R.; Chambers, L. C.; Kammerer, J. A.; Golberg, D.; Mutlu, H.; Barner-Kowollik, C. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2023, 145, 14748-14755. 

2022
[719] Photoswitchable Block Copolymers Based on Main Chain α-Bisimines

Thai, L. D.; Guimarães, T. R.; Spann, S.; Goldmann, A. S.; Golberg, D.; Mutlu, H.; Barner-Kowollik, C. Polym. Chem. 2022, 13, 5625-5635.

2022
[02]

Remote Radical Trifluoromethylation: A Unified Approach to the Selective Synthesis of γ-Trifluoromethyl α, β-Unsaturated Carbonyl Compounds
Briand, M.; Thai, L.D.; Bordreux, F.; Vanthuyne, N.; Moreau, X.; Magnier, E.; Anselmi, E.; Dagousset, G. Org. Lett. 2022, 24, 9375-9380
2019
[01]

Synthesis of a Novel Fluorescent Cyanide Chemosensor Based on Photoswitching Poly(pyrene-1-ylmethyl-methacrylate-random-methyl methacrylate-random-methacrylate spirooxazine)
Tran, H. M.; Nguyen, T. H.; Nguyen, V. Q.; Tran, P. H.; Thai, L. D.; Truong, T. T.; Nguyen, L. T.; Nguyen, H. T. Macromol. Res. 2019, 27, 25-32

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