Associate Professor Chee O. Too

Qualifications:
BSc Chemistry (King’s College London)
MSc Analytical Chemistry (London University)
PhD and DIC Electrochemistry (Imperial College London).

Research interests:

Since obtaining his doctorate degree, Assoc. Prof. Too has 22 years of successful achievements in universities and industry on R&D projects that require the application of conducting polymers, hydrogels, controlled release, electrochemistry, analytical development chemistry, separations technology, energy conversion and storage technology, carbon nanotubes, computing and statistical analysis. He has made significant contributions to these areas as evidenced by his 66 reviewed publications, 6 patents and 61 conference presentations.

Not only has he published on the synthesis and processing of conducting polymers but also on the applications of conducting polymers including smart separations technologies (chromatography and membranes), sensors, controlled release, thermoresponsive conducting polymer composites, metal ions separation using conductive electroactive polymer colloids, catalytic hydrogen generation, photovoltaics and polymer batteries.

Assoc. Prof. Too has successfully cosupervised one Honours, one MSc and 6 PhD students to completion.

His work has involved collaboration with other organisations including CSIRO Molecular & Health Technologies, CRC Smartprint, CRC Polymers, Bionic Technologies Australia, Bluescope Steel and the US Army. He has also spent time working in the laboratories of Prof. Alan MacDiarmid (University of Pennsylvania (USA)) and Prof. Ray Baughman (University of Dallas at Texas (USA)).

Assoc. Prof. Too has refereed articles for international journals such as “Analytica Chimica Acta”, “Reactive and Functional Polymers”, “Journal of Membrane Science”, “Journal of Intelligent Material Systems and Structures”, “Journal of Materials Processing Technology” and "Synthetic Metals".

Memberships:
Associate of Chartered Management Institute (UK).

Key 5 publications:

1. Functionalised polythiophene coated textile: A new anode material for a flexible battery. Wallace, G.G., Wang, C.Y., Ballantyne, A.M., Hall, S.B., Too, C.O., Officer, D.L. and Wallace, G.G.; J. Power Sources 2006, 156 , 610-614.
   
   
2. A highly flexible polymer fibre battery. Wang, J., Too, C.O., Wallace, G.G.; J. Power Sources , 2005, 150C, 223-228.
   
   
3. Photoelectrochemical cells based on inherently conducting polymers. Wallace, G.G., Too, C.O., Officer, D.L., Dastoor, P.C.; MRS Bulletin, 2005, 30, 46-49.
   
   
4. A Readily-Prepared Electrocatalytic Coating that is More Active than Platinum for Hydrogen Generation in 1 M Strong Acid. Chen, J., Huang, J., Swiegers, G.F., Too, C.O., Wallace, G.G.; Chem. Commun., 2004, 3, 308-309.
   
   
5. Photovoltaic Devices based on Polythiophenes and Substituted Polythiophenes. Too, C.O., Wallace, G.G., Burrell, A.K., Collis, G.E., Officer, D.L., Boge, E.W., Brodie, S.G. and Evans, E.J.; Synthetic Metals, 2001, 123(1), 53-60.

e-mail: chee@uow.edu.au
phone: +61 (02) 4221 3504
fax: +61 (02) 4221 3114
office: 41A: 350