1) Engineer / Postdoctoral Fellow for Microlithography
2) Postdoctoral Fellow for Organic Chemist
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Chan Bee Eng Mary (alias Mary B. Chan-Park)

Professor 

Acting Chair

Contact Details
Tel: (65) 6790 6064
Fax: (65) 6794 7553
Email: mbechan@ntu.edu.sg
Nanyang Technological University
School of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering
62 Nanyang Drive (NTU Block N1.2)
Singapore 637459
Singapore

Academic Background

B.Eng (Chem), First Class Honors - National University of Singapore (1986)

Ph.D (Polymers), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1993) 

Professional Experience

2011 to now 2004 to 2011	Professor, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, School of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering, NTU Associate Professor, School of Chemical & Biomedical Engineering, NTU
2001 to 2004	Associate Professor, School of Mechanical & Production Engineering, NTU
1999   - 2001	Senior Technical Manager, SiPix Imaging (Milpitas, CA, USA)
1998-1999	Manager (Adhesives and Composites) Triton Systems (Chelmsford, MA, USA)
1994-1997	Deputy Director, Singapore Productivity and Standards Board (SISIR),  Materials Application Center
1993	Post-doc, MIT and Dow Corning
1986 – 1988	Engineer, Polymer Technology Center, SISIR, Singapore

Research focus:

• Polymer applications in biotechnology and nanotechnology
• Antimicrobial polymers and hydrogels
• Carbon nanotubes and graphene dispersion and sorting
• Printed electronics – surface patterning and modification

Selected publications (partial list):

1. Peng Li, Yin Fun Poon, Weifeng Li, Hong-Yuan Zhu, Siew Hooi Yeap, Ye Cao, Xiaobao Qi, Chuncai Zhou, Mouad Lamrani, Roger W. Beuerman, En-Tang Kang, Yuguang Mu, Chang Ming Li, Matthew W. Chang, Susanna Su Jan Leong and Mary B. Chan-Park, A polycationic antimicrobial and biocompatible hydrogel with microbe membrane suctioning ability, Nature Materials 10, 2, 149-156 (2011)

2. Peng Li, Chuncai Zhou, Shahrzad Rayatpisheh, Yin Fun Poon, Paula T. Hammond, Mary B. Chan-Park, Cationic peptidopolysaccharides show excellent broad-spectrum antimicrobial activities and record high selectivity, Advanced Materials, 24, 30, 4130 (2012)

3. Zhou Chuncai, Peng Li, Qi Xiaobao, Mouad Lamrani, Matthew W Chang, Susanna Leong, Mary B. Chan-Park, A photopolymerized antimicrobial hydrogel coating derived from epsilon-poly-l-lysine, Biomaterials, 32(11) 2704-2712 (2011)

4. Chuncai Zhou, XB Qi, Peng Li, WN Chen, Qi, M. Lamrani, Matthew W. Chang, Susanna Leong, Mary B. Chan-Park, High potency and broad-spectrum antimicrobial peptides synthesized via ring-opening polymerization of alpha-aminoacid-N-carboxyanhydrides, Biomacromolecules, 11(1) 60-67 (2010)  

5. Yin-Fun Poon, Ya Bin Zhu, Jin Ye Shen, Siu Choon Ng, Mary B. Chan-Park, Cytocompatible Hydrogels based on Photocrosslinkable Methacrylated O-Carboxymethylchitosan with Tunable Charge: Synthesis and Characterization, Advanced Functional Materials 17 (13): 2139-2150 2007

6. Liang Yu Yan, Xiao Feng Fan, Wei Li, Yuan Chen, Jer-Lai Kuo, Lain-Jong Li, Yuguang Mu, M. B. Chan-Park, Enrichment of (8, 4) single-walled carbon nanotubes through co-extraction with Heparin, Small, 2009

7. Ashok K. Sundramoorthy, Sara Mesgari, Jing Wang, Raj Kumar, Mahasin Alam Sk., Siew Hooi Yeap, Qing Zhang, Siu Kwan Sze, Kok Hwa Lim, and Mary B. Chan-Park, Scalable and Effective Enrichment of Semiconducting Single-walled Carbon Nanotubes by a Dual Selective Naphthalene-based Azo Dispersant, J. Amer. Chem. Soc., 2013, in press

8. Wei Zhi Wang, Wei Feng Li, Xiao Yong Pan, Chang Ming Li, Lain-Jong Li, Yu Guang Mu, John A. Rogers, Mary B. Chan-Park, Degradable Conjugated Polymers: Synthesis and Applications in Enrichment of Semiconducting Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes, Adv. Functional Mat, 21, 9, 1643-1651, 2011

9. Che J and Mary B Chan-Park, Spun cyanate ester fibers reinforced with aligned functionalized single wall carbon nanotubes, Adv Functional Mat, 18, 6, 888-897, 2008

10. Sai Li, Yehai Yan, M. B. Chan-Park*, Qing Zhang, Efficient Large-Area Transfer of Aligned Carbon Nanotube Sub-micron Patterns onto Patterned Gold Electrodes, Small 3(4), 2007, 616-621

Awards/Honors

1. Elected Fellow, American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineers (2013 to now)

2. Fellow, Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (2011 to now)

3. Editorial Board, ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces (2011 to now)

4. Editorial Board, Journal of Biomedical Materials Research: Part A (2007 - now)

5. Symposium Chair, AsiaNano2008 (Nov 2008)

6. Co-Chair, International Conference of Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering (Dec 2007)

7. Committee Member of International Affiliates, Biomedical Engineering Society (USA)

8. 3^rd poster prize, IEEE Singapore-UK Bioelectronics Workshop (2006)

9. MIT Research Assistant scholarship (1989-1993)

10. MIT Fellow of the Program in Polymer Science and Technology (1988-1993)

11. SISIR Post-graduate scholarship (1988-1993)

12. Pesi B Davar Memorial Scholarship (1982)

13. NUS Scholarship (1984)

14. The Norman Newsome Scholarship of the Singapore Section of the Society of the Petroleum Engineers (1985)

15. Mobil Gold Medal (1985)

16. Tate and Lyle Sugar Refineries Book Prize (1984)

17. NUS Faculty of Engineering Annual Book Prize by Fraser & Neave (1983)

18. Esso Book Prize (1982)

19. Singapore Youth Science Fortnight - Third Prize in Chemistry Section (1981)

20. National Junior College - Extra Curricular Activities Prize (1982)

21. Raffles Girls’ Secondary School - Extra Curricular Merit Award (1979)