Joachim Loos has received his Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Dortmund, Germany, in 1996 under supervision of Prof. Jürgen Petermann. Since 1997 he was appointed at the Department of Chemical Engineering and Chemistry of the Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), in the group of Prof. Piet Lemstra (later in the group of Prof Gijsbertus de With, too); first as Research Fellow of the Dutch Polymer Institute (DPI), later as Assistance and Associated Professor. He has initiated and established the Soft Matter Cryo-TEM Research Unit at TU/e and was its principal investigator. He is seriously involved in the research program of the DPI and other national and international institutions, e.g. as vice-chairperson of the European Cost Action P12 “Structuring of polymers”. Since 2010 he is appointed as Prof. in Solid State Physic at the Glasgow University, Scotland, UK.

 

His research focus comprises understanding and control of organisation or assembly of polymer nanostructures, i.e. semi-conducting polymers and polymer based conductive nanocomposites. Ultimately, the organisation of the polymer systems is tuned by applying physical principles - mixing/demixing, crystallisation and crystal phase transition, controlled nucleation, orientation by external forces, to name but a few - at various length scales from (sub-) nanometer (intra- and inter-molecular organisation) up to hundreds of nanometers (e.g. phase separation and crystal superstructures) towards advanced performance of functional devices. Moreover, he develops advanced microscopy methodologies, mainly based on transmission and scanning electron microscopy (TEM, SEM) and scanning probe microscopy (SPM), which are the tools offering the high nanometer scale resolution and broad analytical potential required to analyse the functional polymer nanostructures created.

 

Recent five most important publications

1. Stefan D. Oosterhout, Martijn M. Wienk, Svetlana S. van Bavel, Ralf Thiedmann, L. Jan Anton Koster, Jan Gilot, Joachim Loos, Volker Schmidt, René A. J. Janssen The role of three-dimensional morphology on the efficiency of hybrid polymer solar cells Nature Materials (2009), 8(10), 818-824.

2. Alexander Alekseev, Anton Efimov, Kangbo Lu, Joachim Loos* Three-Dimensional Electrical Property Mapping with Nanometer Resolution Advanced Materials 21 (2009), 4915-4919. 

3. J. Loos*, E. Sourty, K. Lu, B. Freitag, D. Tang, and D. Wall Electron Tomography on Micrometer-Thick Specimens with Nanometer Resolution Nano Letters 9 (2009), 1704-1708. 

4. Svetlana S. van Bavel, Erwan Sourty, Gijsbertus de With, Joachim Loos* 3D Nanoscale Organization of Bulk Heterojunction Polymer Solar Cells Nano Letters 9 (2009) 507-513.

5. Xiaoniu Yang and Joachim Loos* Towards High-Performance Polymer Solar Cells: The Importance of Morphology Control Macromolecules 40 (2007) 1353-1362.