Guillaume Schweicher

Université Libre de Bruxelles

Chimie des Polymères CP 206/01
Campus de la Plaine
1050 Bruxelles
Belgique

Office: 1C5 113
Phone: +32 2 650 53 95
Fax: +32 2 650 54 10
E-mail: guillaume.schweicher@ulb.ac.be

Curriculum Vitae

Guillaume Schweicher obtained his diploma (chemical engineering) from the Polytechnic School of the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) in 2008. The title of his thesis is: "Discotic liquid crystals thin films alignment: the role of the mesophase". Since October 2008, he is a PhD student (FNRS fellow) at the Laboratory of Polymer Chemistry at the ULB.

Distinctions

Guillaume is a laureate from the French-speaking Belgian Olympiad of Chemistry in 2002. In July 2008, he received J. Reisse Prize from the Polytechnic School of the ULB for his academic results.

Research project

Guillaume is working on novel approaches to the preparation of ordered thin films of organic semiconductors for applications in organic field effect transistors (OFETs). At the present time, more details cannot unfortunately be disclosed.

Publications

Guillaume Schweicher, Gabin Gbabode, Florence Quist, Olivier Debever, Nicolas Dumont, Sergey Sergeyev, and Yves H. Geerts, Homeotropic and Planar Alignment of Discotic Liquid Crystals: The Role of the Columnar Mesophase, Chem. Mater. 2009, 21, 5867–5874