(Chan Bee Eng Mary, alias Mary B.
CHAN-PARK)
Dr
Mary Chan is presently a professor at the School of Chemical and Biomedical
Engineering at the Nanyang Technological University
Singapore (NTU Singapore).
Dr Chan-Park’s main research interests are in polymers in nanoscience and biotechnology. She has published extensively, with more than 180 papers in top-tier journals such as Nature Materials, Advanced Materials, Advanced Functional Materials, JACS, Small, Biomaterials, etc.
In the area of biomedical polymers, her group has recently developed a novel class of highly effective broad spectrum antimicrobial coatings which are non-toxic and biocompatible. The findings have recently been published in Nature Materials (2011) and Advanced Materials (2012) and her patents have been used/licensed to companies.
Her work in carbon nanotubes focuses mainly on metallicity-based selection of single-walled carbon nanotubes, solution-based alignment of SWNTs and nanotube-based composites. Her group has designed highly effective polymeric dispersing agents and metallicity-based sorting agents (Journal of the American Chem. Soc. 2013, Adv. Funct. Mat. 2008, Chem. Mat. 2009 and 2011).
She has been the PI and co-PI of several major projects. From 2008-2013, she was the lead PI of a multi-PI Competitive Research Program on Manufacturability of Carbon-Nanotube Printed Electronics ($10M). This research develops a highly novel method of sorting single-walled carbon nanotubes that is scalable and produces high purity and yield. Professor Mary Chan contributes actively to the industry and sits on a number of committees and boards.
She has recently been elected to being a Fellow of the America Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering. She is also a member of several editorial boards of journals, incl. the American Chemical Society Applied Materials and Interfaces Journal.
Professor Mary Chan was the Acting Chair of the School of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering at NTU from 2011-2013. She was also a pioneer of the Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering degree program and the founding Associate Chair (Research & Graduate Studies) and Associate Chair (Research and External Relations) of the new School from 2005-2010 and 2010-2011 respectively. Prior to joining NTU in 2001, she worked in the chemical industry in Singapore and USA. She was formerly a senior technical manager in Sipix Imaging (CA, USA, now part of E-ink) working on e-paper before joining NTU.
She obtained her BEng (Chem) and PhD (polymers) from the National University of Singapore and MIT in 1986 and 1993 respectively.