Professor Loh KP is the lead chemist in Graphene Research Centre and a founding member of the Graphene Research Centre in NUS. Notable achievements include pioneering the growth of large scale graphene and commercialization of its related processes. He is currently the Head of Chemistry Department, NUS. He is also working actively in two dimensional thin film and optoelectronics research in NUS.Recent research accomplishments of his include pioneering a controllable pathway to generate geometrically well-defined graphene quantum dots and strained graphene nanostructure which boost graphene’s promise as a next-generation semiconductor, invented an ultra-slim broadband polariser that uses graphene to convert light into polarised light, a breakthrough that can broaden the bandwidth of prevailing optical fibre-based telecommunication systems, and investigating the origin of catalytic reactivity in porous graphene. Professor Kian Ping Loh did his Bacherlor degree in Chemistry in the National University of Singapore, obtained his D.Phil from University of Oxford in 1996 and worked in National Institute for Materials Science, Tsukuba, Japan between 1997 and 1998.  He has an established track record on functional carbon materials research, focusing on the surface chemistry, biosensing, solar and optical applications of diamond and graphene. The expertise of his group ranges from surface science of carbon at the atomic domains, optical studies of advanced functional carbon materials, design and synthesis of organic dyes, molecular electronics to solar cells and surface science.  He also works on the Industrial scaling and applications of graphene composites. He has won the Faculty Young Scientist award in 2007, NRF Competitive Research Program award (10 million), University Young Researcher award in 2008, Oustanding Chemist award in 2009 and the Singapore Millenium Foundation-Research Horizon award in 2010 and the Dean’s Chair Professorship in 2010.  He has published more than 200 papers and these include papers in Nature Nanotechnology, Nature Chemistry, Nature Photonics, Journal of American Chemical Society, Angewandte Chemie, Nanoletters, Advanced Materials etc. He is currently the Associate Editor of ACS journal Chemistry of Materials, scientific editor of Materials Horizon and also Elservier Journal Diamond and Related Materials, and also on the international advisory board of Advanced Functional Materials. He won the American Chemical Society (ACS) NANO lectureship award in 2013 and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, NUS

1: Two dimensional crystals as platforms for optoelectronics (R-143-000-556-112)’ MOE Tier 1 grant, Singapore

2: Novel 2D materials with tailored properties beyond graphene(R-144-000-295-281) NRF-CRP project, Singapore

Kian Ping Loh et. al. “Face to Face Transfer of CVD Graphene Films On Silicon Wafer” NATURE 505, 190–194 (2014)

Chen Liang Su and Kian  Ping  Loh* et. al., “Probing the Catalytic Activity of Graphene Oxide and its origin”, Nature Communications 3, 1298 (2012)

Candy Lim, Kian Ping Loh et. al.*  “A hydrothermal Anvil made of Graphene nanobubbles on diamond” , Nature Communications 4,1556 (2013)

Manish Chhowalla, Goki Eda, Kian Ping Loh et. al.  “The chemistry of ultra-thin transition metal dichalcogenide nanosheets”, Nature Chemistry 5, 263-275 (2013)

Jiong Lu, Pei Shan Emmeline Yeo, Chee Kwan Gan, Ping Yu and Kian Ping Loh* “Transforming Fullerene Molecules into Graphene Quantum dots”, Nature Nanotechnology, 6, 247–252, (2011)

Q. Bao, H. Zhang, B. Wang, Z. Ni, Candy H.Y.X. Lim, Y. Wang, D. Y. Tang, Kian Ping Loh*, “Graphene as broadband polarizer”,Nature Photonics 5, 411–415 (2011)

Kian Ping Loh*, Bao QL, Eda G, Manish Chowalla, “Graphene oxide as a chemically tunable platform for optical applications”, Nature Chemistry 2, 12, 1015-1024 (2010)

Jiong Lu, A. H. Castro Neto and Kian Ping Loh* “Transforming Graphene Moire Blisters to Geometric Nanobubbles”, Nature Communications 8;3:823.(2012)

Jiong Lu, A. H. Antonio, Kian Ping Loh* , “Order-Disoder Transition in 2-D Boron Carbon Nitride”, Nature Communications 4, 2681 (2013)

Jian Zheng and Kian Ping Loh*, “High Yield Exfoliation of Two Dimensional Chalcogenides using Sodium Naphtalenide”,  Nature Communications 5:2995 (2014)