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孫建文 Kien-Wen Sun
Professor
Tel | 03-5712121 #56581
Office | SBII R430B
Email | kwsun@nycu.edu.tw
Lab Tel | 03-5712121 #56581
Education
1989-1994 Electrical Engineering – Ph.D. – Princeton University, USA
1987-1989 Electrical Engineering – MA – Princeton University, USA
1981-1985 Electronics Engineering – BS – Tamkang University, Taiwan
Experiences
2021/Feb – current Professor, Department of Applied Chemistry, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan
2014/Aug – 2018 Jointed Appointment Professor, Department of Electronics Engineering and Institute of Electronics Engineering National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan
2014/Aug – 2018 Director, Center for Nano Science and Technology National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan
2012/Aug – 2014/July Professor & Chair, Department of Applied Chemistry National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan
2012/Feb – 2012/June Visiting Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
2006/Aug – 2014/July Associate Director, Center for Nano Science and Technology National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan
2005/Aug – 2021/Jan Professor, Department of Applied Chemistry National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan
2003/Aug – 2005/July Professor, Department of Physics, National Dong Hwa University, Hualien,Taiwan
2001/Aug – 2003/July Associate Professor, Department of Physics, National Dong Hwa University, Hualien, Taiwan
1995/Aug – 2001/July Associate Professor, Department of Electronic Engineering, Feng Chia University, Taichung, Taiwan
Honors
- Member, Phi Tau Phi Scholastic Honor Society,
- Member, America Physics Society, Optical Society of America
- Rudolph A. Marcus Award by Publishing Division of Cognizure and LOGNOR in 2017
- Fellow, Hong Kong Chemical, Biological & Environmental Engineering Society (HKCBEES)
- 2020 Taiwan Future Tech Award on “Violet emission from MAPbCl3 perovskite light emitting device/Large-area perovskite light emitting device with high color purity”, September 2020
- 2022 Best Paper Award, MDPI Chemosensors
Editorial Service
- 2024 Guest Editor of special issue “Metal-Organic Frameworks for Environmental Hazard Detection”, Talanta Open, Elsevier
- 2022-2023 Guest Editor of special issue “Chemosensors for Ion Detection”, Chemosensors, MDPI
- 2020-2021 Guest Editor of special issue “Organic-Inorganic Hybrid Chemo- and Bio-sensors”, Chemosensors, MDPI
- 2019-2020 Guest Editor of special issue “Nanomaterial Based Chemical Sensors”, Chemosensors, MDPI
- 2019-Topic Editor, Chemosensors, MDPI
- 2017-Editorial Board Member, Current Research in Nanotechnology & Nanoscience
- 2015-Senior Editor, Science Advances Today
- 2011 – 2015 Associated Editor, Journal of Nanoscience Letters
- 2010 – 2011 On Editorial Board, Journal of Spectroscopy and Dynamics
- 2010 – 2011 On Editorial Board, Journal of Nanoscience Letters
Top 2% Scientists
Publication
Publications
1. Muthaiah Shellaiah, Natesan Thirumalaivasan, Kien Wen Sun＊, and Shu-Pao Wu, “A pH cooperative strategy for enhanced colorimetric sensing of Cr(III) ions using biocompatible L-glutamic acid stabilized gold nanoparticles”, Microchemical Journal 160, 105754, 2021.
2. Yu-Hsun Huang, Zi-Xian Yang, Su-Ling Cheng, Chien-Hung Lin, Gray Lin, Kien Wen Sun, and Chien-Ping Lee, “Effect of Hole Shift on Threshold Characteristics of GaSb-Based Double-Hole Photonic-Crystal Surface-Emitting Lasers”, Micromachines 12, 468, 2021.
3. Reguram Arumugaperumal, Muthaiah Shellaiah, Yu-Kuang Lai, Parthiban Venkatesan, Putikam Raghunath, Shu-Pao Wu, Ming-Chang Lin, Kien Wen Sun, Wen-Sheng Chung, and Hong-Cheu Lin, “Acid-base controllable nanostructures and fluorescence detection of H2PO4- by molecular shuttling of tetraphenylethene-based [2]rotaxanes”, Journal of Materials Chemistry C 9, 3215-3228, 2021. DOI: 10.1039/d0tc05358a.
4. Muthaiah Shellaiah and Kien Wen Sun*, “Inorganic-diverse nanostructured materials for volatile organic compound sensing”, Invited Review Article, Sensors 21, 633, 2021. https://doi.org/10.3390/s21020633
5. Dagninet Yeshiwas Alene, Reguram Arumugaperumal, Muthaiah Shellaiah, Kien Wen Sun, and Wen-Sheng Chung*, “Stiff-Stilbene-Bridged Biscalix[4]arene as a Highly Light-Responsive Supramolecular Gelator”, Organic Letters 23, 2772-2776, 2021.
Muthaiah Shellaiah and Kien Wen Sun*, “Progress in metal-organic frameworks facilitated mercury detection and removal”, Chemosensors 9, 101, 2021.
6. Muthaiah Shellaiah, Yu-Ting Chen, Natesan Thirumalaivasan, Basheer Aazaad, Kamlesh Awasthi, Kien Wen Sun*, Shu-Pao Wu, Ming-Chang Lin, and Nobuhiro Ohta, “Pyrene-Based AIEE Active Nanoprobe for Zn2+ and Tyrosine Detection Demonstrated by DFT, Bioimaging, and Organic Thin Film Transistor”, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 13, 28610-28626, 2021, https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.1c04744.
7. Muthaiah Shellaiah and Kien Wen Sun*, “Diamond-based electrodes for detection of metal ions and anions”, Nanomaterials 12, 64, 2022.
8. Muthaiah Shellaiah, K. Awasthi, S. Chandran, B. Aazaad, K. W. Sun*, N. Ohta, S. -P. Wu, M. -C. Lin, “Methylammonium Tin Tribromide Quantum Dots for Heavy Metal Ion Detection and Cellular Imaging”, ACS Applied Nanomaterials 2022, 5, 2859−2874.
9. Reguram Arumugaperumal, Muthaiah Shellaiah, Venkatesan Srinivasadesikan, Dagninet Yeshiwas Alene, Kien Wen Sun, Ming-Chang Lin, and Wen-Sheng Chung*, “Construction of anisotropic nanostructures by self-assembly of aggregation-induced emission driven from tris-branched [2]rotaxane based molecular zipper”, Materials Today Chemistry 2022, 24, 100997.
10. Muthaiah Shellaiah and Kien Wen Sun*, “Pyrene-Based AIE Active Materials for Bioimaging and Theranostics Applications”, Biosensors 2022, 12, 550.
11. Muthaiah Shellaiah, Natesan Thirumalaivasan, Basheer Aazaad, Kamlesh Awasthi, Kien Wen Sun*, Shu-Pao Wu, Ming-Chang Lin, Nobuhiro Ohta, “An AIEE Active Anthracene-Based Nanoprobe for Zn2+ and Tyrosine Detection Validated by Bioimaging Studies ”, Chemosensors 10, 381, 2022.
12. Muthaiah Shellaiah and Kien Wen Sun*, “Conjugation of cysteamine functionalized nanodiamond to gold nanoparticles for pH enhanced colorimetric detection of Cr3+ ions demonstrated by real water sample analysis”, Spectrochimica Acta Part A 2023, 286, 121962.
13. Muthaiah Shellaiah and Kien Wen Sun*, “Review on Anti-aggregation Enabled Colorimetric Sensing Applications of Gold and Silver Nanoparticles”, Chemosensors 2022, 10, 536.
14. Muthaiah Shellaiah, Parthiban Venkatesan, Natesan Thirumalaivasan, Shu-Pao Wu, and Kien Wen Sun*, “Pyrene-based Fluorescent Probe for “Off-On-Off” Sequential Detection of Cu2+ and CN- with Hela Cells Imaging”, Chemosensors 2023, 11, 115.
Muthaiah Shellaiah and Kien Wen Sun*, “Review on Carbon Dot-Based Fluorescent Detection of Biothiols”, Biosensors 2023, 13, 335.
15. Kien Wen Sun＊, Muthaiah Shellaiah, “Deep-blue hybrid perovskite light emitting diode with high color purity based on CH3NH3PbCl3”, Organic Electronics 2023, 119, 106829.
16. Kien Wen Sun＊, “Centimeter-Scale Violet Light Emitting Diode with Two-Dimensional BA2PbBr4 Perovskite Emitter”, Journal of The Electrochemical Society 2023, 170, 065501.
18. Chun-Yu Li, Muthaiah Shellaiah, Kien Wen Sun＊, “Structure, photophysical, and transport properties of porous MAPbBr3 single nanowire and nanodevice for electrochemical sensing”, Journal of The Electrochemical Society 2023, 170, 077505.
19. Muthaiah Shellaiah, Wei-Li Lin, Putikam Raghunath, Kien Wen Sun*, Ming-Chang Lin, “Investigation on broadband emission of two-dimensional melamine lead iodide perovskite (2D-CH3H8N6PbI4): An experimental and theoretical approach”, Spectrochimica Acta Part A 2023, 303, 123186.
20. Kien Wen Sun*, “Editorial Chemosensors for Ion Detection”, Chemosensors 11, 499, 2023.
21. Muthaiah Shellaiah, Hsuan-Chang Chen, Kamlesh Awasthi, Basheer Aazaad, Kien Wen Sun*, Nobuhiro Ohta, Ming-Chang Lin, “An AIE active anthracene-based Schiff base probe for “turn-on” detection of Cu2+ ions: Demonstrations with nanostructural investigations, DFT, cellular imaging, and real water analysis”, Journal of Molecular Structure, 1301, 137347, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.molstruc.2023.137347.
22. Muthaiah Shellaiah, Kien Wen Sun*, Natesan Thirumalaivasan, Mayank Bhushan, and Arumugam Murugan, “Sensing Utilities of Cesium Lead Halide Perovskites and Composites: A Comprehensive Review”, Sensors 24, 2504, 2024.
23. Muthaiah Shellaiaha, Chen-Jia Huang, Kien Wen Sun*, “Synthesis of porous formamidinium lead tribromide (FAPbBr3) nanowires for heavy metal ion detection”, Sensors and Actuators: A. Physical 379, 115960, 2024.
24. Muthaiah Shellaiaha, E. Manikandan, Kien Wen Sun*, and Vijayaraj Venkatachalam, “Luminescent Probes/Conjugates Derived from Quantum dots, Nanoparticles, and Nanoclusters for Cyanide (CN-) Detection”, Nano Express 5, 042001, 2024.
25. Muthaiah Shellaiah, Kien Wen Sun*, K. Anandan, Arumugam Murugan, Vijayaraj Venkatachalam, Mayank Bhushan, Mani Sivakumar, Elayaperumal Manikandan, Kumaravel Kaliaperumal, and Wen-Tai Li “Luminescent Pyrene-Derivatives for Hg2+ and Explosive Detection”, Chemosensors 13, 145, 2025.
26. Muthaiah Shellaiah, Lan-Hsu Chuang, Kamlesh Awasthi, Nobuhiro Ohta, and Kien Wen Sun*, “Phenethylammonium bromide for instantaneous PL “Turn-On” detection of Pb2+ ion via quasi-2D-perovskite intermediate formation: Demonstration by real water analysis”, Inorganic Chemistry Communications 137, 114806, 2025.
27. Heng Zhi Liu, Wei-Jie Chen, Jia Lun Syu, Seng-Wui Lim, Wei Lon Wei, Yu Tso Liao, Fang Yuh Lo, Yu-Chiang Chao, Muthaiah Shellaiah, and Kien Wen Sun*, “Proton orbital coupling induced magnetic anisotropy in perovskite single crystals: Demonstration with Faraday rotation effect in deuterated crystals”, The Journal of Chemical Physics 163, 024507, 2025.
28. Muthaiah Shellaiah, Kien Wen Sun, K. Anandan, Mayank Bhushan, Arumugam Murugan, and Wen-Tai Li, “Biocompatible rhodamine functionalized nanodiamond for heavy metal ions detection: Demonstration by paper strips, cellular Imaging, and real water investigations”, Diamond and Related materials 158, 112698, 2025.
29. Muthaiah Shellaiah, Kien Wen Sun, Basheer Aazaad, Kamlesh Awasthi, Ming-Chang Lin, Nobuhiro Ohta, and Wen-Tai Li, “A perylene derivative for multi-hazard detection in environmental monitoring: demonstration via DFT, cellular Imaging, and real time investigations”, Journal of Hazardous Materials Advances 19, 100863, 2025.
30. Muthaiah Shellaiah, Basheer Aazaadb, Ming-Chang Lin, Kien Wen Sun, Arumugam Murugand, K. Anandane, Mayank Bhushanf, Mani Sivakumarand and Wen-Tai Li, “Commercial trans-β-nitrostyrene analogues for colorimetric cyanide (CN-) detection via Michael addition-based chemodosimetric approach validated by comparative investigations, DFT, and strip method”, Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology A 472, 116786, 2026.
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