Ban received his bachelor's degree in organic and polymeric materials from the Tokyo Institute of Technology in 2012. He received his PhD in materials science and engineering in 2017 from the University of Michigan under the supervision of Professor Peter Green. His PhD work focused on studying microstructure and charge carrier transport in semiconducting conjugated polymers. He joined the Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering at the University of Chicago as a postdoctoral researcher and works under the supervision of Professor Nealey and Professor Patel.
Ban’s research focuses on understanding fundamental ionic, electronic, and thermal transport in functional polymers for various applications, including energy storage and thermoelectric devices.
Correlating conductivity and Seebeck coefficient to doping within crystalline and amorphous domains in poly (3‐(methoxyethoxyethoxy) thiophene)
Tengzhou Ma, Ban Xuan Dong, Jonathan W Onorato, Jens Niklas, Oleg Poluektov, Christine K Luscombe, Shrayesh N Patel. Journal of Polymer Science, 2021.
Ionic Dopant‐Induced Ordering Enhances the Thermoelectric Properties of a Polythiophene‐Based Block Copolymer
Ban Xuan Dong, Ziwei Liu, Jonathan W. Onorato, Tengzhou Ma, Joseph Strzalka, Peter Bennington, Christine K. Luscombe, Christopher K. Ober, Paul F. Nealey, Shrayesh N. Patel. 2021,2106991
Continuously graded doped semiconducting polymers enhance thermoelectric cooling
Ma, Tengzhou, William Kent, Ban Xuan Dong, Garrett L. Grocke, and Shrayesh N. Patel. Continuously graded doped semiconducting polymers enhance thermoelectric cooling. Applied Physics Letters, 2021, 119(1), 013902.
Complex Relationship between Side-Chain Polarity, Conductivity, and Thermal Stability in Molecularly Doped Conjugated Polymers
Ban Xuan Dong, Christian Nowak, Jonathan W Onorato, Tengzhou Ma, Jens Niklas, Oleg G Poluektov, Garrett Grocke, Mark F DiTusa, Fernando A Escobedo, Christine K Luscombe, Paul F Nealey, Shrayesh N Patel. Chem. Mater. 2021, 33, 2, 741–753
Elucidating the Influence of Side-Chain Circular Distribution on the Crack Onset Strain and Hole Mobility of Near-Amorphous Indacenodithiophene Copolymers
Parker JW Sommerville, Yilin Li, Ban Xuan Dong, Yongcao Zhang, Jonathan W Onorato, Wesley K Tatum, Alex H Balzer, Natalie Stingelin, Shrayesh N Patel, Paul F Nealey, Christine K Luscombe. Elucidating the Influence of Side-Chain Circular Distribution on the Crack Onset Strain and Hole Mobility of Near-Amorphous Indacenodithiophene Copolymers. Macromolecules. 2020, 53, 17, 7511–7518
Intrinsic Ion Transport Properties of Block Copolymer Electrolytes
Daniel Sharon, Peter Bennington, Moshe Dolejsi, Michael A Webb, Ban Xuan Dong, Juan J de Pablo, Paul F Nealey, Shrayesh N Patel. Intrinsic Ion Transport Properties of Block Copolymer Electrolytes. ACS Nano. 2020, 14, 7, 8902–8914
Leveraging Sequential Doping of Semiconducting Polymers to Enable Functionally Graded Materials for Organic Thermoelectrics
Tengzhou Ma, Ban Xuan Dong, Garrett L Grocke, Joseph Strzalka, Shrayesh N Patel. Leveraging Sequential Doping of Semiconducting Polymers to Enable Functionally Graded Materials for Organic Thermoelectrics. Macromolecules. 2020, 53, 8, 2882–2892
Thermal Stability of π-Conjugated n-Ethylene-Glycol-Terminated Quaterthiophene Oligomers: A Computational and Experimental Study
Mayank Misra, Ziwei Liu, Ban Xuan Dong, Shrayesh N Patel, Paul F Nealey, Christopher K Ober, Fernando A Escobedo. Thermal Stability of π-Conjugated n-Ethylene-Glycol-Terminated Quaterthiophene Oligomers: A Computational and Experimental Study. ACS Macro Letters. 2020, 9, 3, 295–300
Structure Control of a π-Conjugated Oligothiophene-Based Liquid Crystal for Enhanced Mixed Ion/Electron Transport Characteristics
Ban Xuan Dong, Ziwei Liu, Mayank Misra, Joseph Strzalka, Jens Niklas, Oleg G Poluektov, Fernando A Escobedo, Christopher K Ober, Paul F Nealey, Shrayesh N Patel. Structure Control of a π-Conjugated Oligothiophene-Based Liquid Crystal for Enhanced Mixed Ion/Electron Transport Characteristics. ACS nano. 2019, 13, 7, 7665–7675
Nanothin film conductivity measurements reveal interfacial influence on ion transport in polymer electrolytes
Dong, B. X., Bennington, P., Kambe, Y., Sharon, D., Dolejsi, M., Strzalka, J., … Patel, S. N. (2019). Nanothin film conductivity measurements reveal interfacial influence on ion transport in polymer electrolytes. Mol. Syst. Des. Eng., 4(3), 597–608. https://doi.org/10.1039/C9ME00011A