Asian Simposium Advanced Materials

EDUCATION

Rice University, Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering, 1989
National Taiwan Univ., M.S. in Chemical Engineering, 1984
National Taiwan Univ., B.S. in Chemical Engineering, 1980

EXPERIENCES

National Taiwan Univ., Dept. of Chemical Engineering, Professor, August 1995 to present
National Taiwan Univ., Dept. of Chemical Engineering, Associate Professor, August 1989 to July 1995
Rice University, Dept. of Chemical Engineering, Visiting Professor, September 2001 to December 2001
Stanford University, Dept. of Chemical Engineering, Visiting Scholar, February 1994 to January 1995
Military service at Chinese Army, Taiwan, July 1980 to May 1982

CURRENT RESEARCH INTERESTS

1. Develop novel processes to fabricate the liquid crystal alignment film.
2. Apply soft-lithography technique and sol-gel process to fabricate the superhydrophobic surface.
3. Apply micro-contact printing technique to fabricate self-assembled monolayers for further characterizing interfacial wetting behavior
4. Use an isothermal titration calorimeter to measure the heat of micellization for nonionic surfactants.
5. Apply density functional theory to model a mixture containing associating molecules for predicting both p hase and wetting behavior of the mixture.
6. Explore wetting behavior in mixtures containing surfactants.
7. Perform liquid-liquid equilibrium measurement for mixtures containing nonionic surfactants.

PUBLICATIONS

REFEREED PAPERS (after 2001)

1. Bo-Jiun Lin and Li-Jen Chen, 2006, "Phase transitions in two-dimensional colloidal particles at oil/water interfaces," Journal of Chemical Physics, accepted.
2. Da-Ren Chiou, Li-Jen Chen, and Chein-Dhau Lee, 2006, "Liquid crystal alignment and pretilt angle of liquid crystals on micro-grooved polyimide surfaces fabricated by soft embossing method," Langmuir 22, 9403-9408.
3. Chih-Kang Wu and Li-Jen Chen, 2006, "The pressure- and temperature induced wetting transitions in the binary water + ethylene glycol monoisobutyl ether mixture," J. Phys. Chem. B 110, 11907-11911.
4. Bo-Jiun Lin and Li-Jen Chen, 2006, "Phase transitions in two-dimensional colloidal particle system observed in Langmuir trough," Colloids and Surfaces A, Vol 284-285C, pp 239-245.
5. Da-Ren Chiou, Kuan-Yu Yeh, and Li-Jen Chen, 2006, " Adjustable pretilt angle of nematic 4-n-pentyl-4'-cyanobiphenyl on self-assembled monolayers formed from organosilanes on square-wave grating silica surfaces," Applied Physics Letters 88, 133123.
6. Chia-Ming Chen, Ming-Chih Yeh, and Li-Jen Chen, 2006, "Bulk and Interfacial Wetting Behavior of Binary Mixtures Induced by Associating Between Unlike Pair Molecules," J. Phys. Chem. B 110, 3294-3301.
7. Chih-Kang Wu and Li-Jen Chen, 2005, "Observation of a sequence of wetting transitions in the binary water + ethylene glycol monobutyl ether mixture," J. Chem. Phys. 123(8), 084506.
8. Chih-Kang Wu and Li-Jen Chen, 2005, "Wetting Behavior of Water + CiEj Mixtures: an Experimental Study," Langmuir 21, 6883-6890.
9. Su, I.-F., L.-J. Chen and S.-Y. Suen, 2005, "Adsorption Separation of Terpene Lactones from Ginkgo Biloba L. Extract Using Glass Fiber Membranes Modified with Octadecyltrichlorosilane," Journal of Separation Science 28, 1211-1220.
10. Li-Jen Chen, Yih-Heh Sheu, and Pei-Juian Li, 2004, "Heat Capacity Changes Accompanying Micelle Formation upon Burial of Hydrophobic Tail of Non-ionic Surfactants," J. Phys. Chem. B, 108, 19096-19098.
11. Ming-Chih Yeh, Ping-Chang Lin, and Li-Jen Chen, 2004, "Effect of Molecular Structure on Wetting Behavior at the Air-Liquid Interface of Water + Alcohol Mixtures," J. Phys. Chem. B 108, 9955-9961.
12. Ming-Chih Yeh, Chia-Ming Chen, and Li-Jen Chen, 2004, "Effect of Hydrophobicity of Amphiphile on Wetting Behaviors of Ternary Water + Oil + Amphiphile Mixtures: A Density Functional Theory Approach," J. Phys. Chem. B 108, 7271-7279.
13. Da-Ren Chiou and Li-Jen Chen, 2004, "Liquid-liquid equilibria for the ternary system water + diethylene glycol monohexyl ether + 2-methyl-2-butanol," Fluid Phase Equilibria, 218, 229-234.
14. Bo-Jiun Lin and Li-Jen Chen, 2004, "Liquid-liquid equilibria for the ternary system water + tetradecane + 2-butyloxyethanol," Fluid Phase Equilibria 216, 13-20.
15. T. T. M. V?, L.-J. Chen, and M. Robert, 2003, "Short-range order in linear systems," J. Chem. Phys. 119, 5607-5613.
16. Ming-Chih Yeh and Li-Jen Chen, 2003, "Density functional approach on wetting behaviors of binary associating mixtures," J. Chem. Phys. 118, 8331-8339.
17. Yi-Lu Liu, Bo-Jiun Lin, and Li-Jen Chen, 2003, "Liquid-liquid equilibria for the ternary system water + decane + diethylene glycol monobutyl ether at 20 oC, 30 oC, and 40 oC," J. Chem. Eng. Data 48, 333-336.
18. Li-Jen Chen, Chun-Da Chiu, Fa-Shun Shau, Wen-Jia Cheng, and Jyh-Gang Wu, 2002, "Oil chain length effect on wetting transitions in ternary water + oil + surfactant mixtures," J. Phys. Chem. B 106, 12782-12786.
19. Y. T. Tao, C. Y. Huang, D.-R. Chiou, and Li-Jen Chen, 2002, "Infrared and AFM imaging study of the reorganization of self-assembled monolayers of carboxylic acids on silver surface," Langmuir 18, 8400-8406.
20. Li-Jen Chen, 2002, "Wetting behavior at liquid-liquid interfaces," in Encyclopedia of Surface and Colloid Science, edited by Arthur Hubbard, Marcel Dekker, New York, 5630-5639.
21. Bo-Jiun Lin and Li-Jen Chen, 2002, "Liquid-liquid equilibria for the ternary system water + dodecane + 2-butyloxyethanol in the temperature range from 25 oC to 65 oC," J. Chem. Eng. Data, 47, 992-996. (SCI, EI)
22. Yi-Lu Liu, Da-Ren Chiou, and Li-Jen Chen, 2002, "Liquid-Liquid Equilibria for the Ternary System Water + Octane + Diethylene Glycol Monobutyl Ether," J. Chem. Eng. Data, 47, 310-312. (SCI, EI)
23. Ming-Chih Yeh and Li-Jen Chen, 2001, "Wetting transitions at the air-liquid interface of water + tetradecane + C6E2 mixtures," J. Chem. Phys., 115, 8575-8582. (SCI, EI)
24. Li-Jen Chen, Yi-Hsing Tsai, Chuan-Sheng Liu, Dah-Renn Chiou and Ming-Chih Yeh, 2001, "Effect of water content in solvent on the critical temperature in the formation of self-assembled hexadecyltrichlorosilane monolayers on mica," Chemical Physics Letters, 346, 241-245. (SCI,EI)
25. Dah-Renn Chiou and Li-Jen Chen, 2001, "Liquid-Liquid Equilibria for the Ternary System Water + 2-Methyl-2-Butanol + Diethylene Glycol Monobutyl Ether," J. Chem. Eng. Data, 46, 1530-1532. (SCI, EI)
26. Ming-Chih Yeh, Li-Jen Chen, Shi-Yow Lin and Ching-Tien Hsu, 2001, "A Modified Calibration Technique for Pendant Drop/Bubble Tensiometry," J. Chin. Inst. Chem. Engrs. 32, 109-116. (SCI,EI)