Phosphorescent Materials

Shouquan Huo is a Professor in the Department of Chemistry at East Carolina University (ECU). He received his B.S. and M.S. from Zhengzhou University in 1988 and 1991, respectively, and his Ph. D. from Nanjing University (China) in 1994. Before joining the industry in 2002, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the  , a research scientist at the Institute for Molecular Sciences, the Center of Excellence (COE) Foreign Research Fellow at Hokkaido University in Japan, and a postdoctoral fellow at Purdue University. After one year with DSM Pharmaceuticals in Greenville, NC, four years with Eastman Kodak Company in Rochester, NY, he returned to academics and joined ECU as a faculty member in 2007. His research interest is in organometallic chemistry, focusing on phosphorescent materials and catalytic C-H functionalization.  

Yumin Li is a Professor in the Department of Chemistry at East Carolina University (ECU). She received her B.S. and M.S. from Zhengzhou University (China) in 1988 and 1991, respectively, and her Ph. D. from Nanjing University of Science and Technology (China) in 1994. Then she joined the State Key Laboratory for Drug Research at the Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Sciences, as a research scientist. In 1995, she joined the Institute for Molecular Science in Japan as a JSPS Postdoctoral Research Fellow. In 1997, she joined Purdue University as a postdoctoral research fellow. In 2004, she joined ECU as a faculty member. Her research interests focus on the computational study of chemically and biochemically important systems.