Curriculum Vitae of
Wen-Chang Chen

International Activity

(I). Editorial Board of International Journals: 

     Editor and Editorial Board of International Journals and Books

    Editor- (1) Associate Editor of Polymer Journal (2011/7, SCI, Springer-Nature). (2) Guest Editor of   Special issue, “Functional Block Copolymers”, in Reactive and Functional Polymers (2008). (3)  Guest Editor of RSC book series, “Organic Electrical Memory Materials and Devices”, Royal Society of Chemistry (2014-2015). (4) Guest Editor, the special issue, “Current progress in advanced polymer materials for electronics/photonics functions”, Reactive and Functional Polymers (2016). (5) Guest Editor, the special issue: "Polymer Surfaces, Interfaces and Thin films", Polymer Journal, (2015-2016).

    Editorial Board: Reactive and Functional Polymers (2007, Elsevier, SCI), NPG-Asia Materials (2008/2~, Springer-Nature, SCI), and Journal of Polymer Research (2009~, Springer, SCI); Nanomaterials (MDPI).

      Referee for the following Journals: Nature Commun., Adv. Mater., Adv. Funct. Mater., Adv. Energy

Mater., Adv. Electron  Mater., Small, JACS, Acc. Chem. Res., ACS Nano, Chem. Mater., ACS Appl.Mater. Interface., Macromolecules, J. Phys. Chem., Langmuir, Energy & Environmental Sci., Chem. Sci., Chem. Commun., Nanoscale, J. Mater. Chem., Polym. Chem., Macromol. Rapid Commun., J. Polym. Sci. A: Polym. Chem., Polymer, etc.

 (II) Activity on International Conferences

  (a) Plenary/Invited Speaker in International Conferences:

   (i) Plenary Speaker: (1)International Symposium on Advanced Materials and Nano-materials with  Precisely Designed Architectures (Sapporo, Japan, Oct. 4-6, 2007). (2)2nd Japan-Korea Joint Seminar 2008 and International Symposium: Synthesis and Application of Advanced Functional Materials (JKIS 08, Tokyo, Nov. 4~6, 2008). (3) 2010 Japan-Taiwan Bilateral Polymer Symposium-Toward Novel Materials Based On Advanced Macromolecular Sciences (JTBPS’10, Sapporo, Japan, June 30-July 3, 2010). (4) International Symposium on Nano Structures (Pohang, Korea, Nov. 4-5, 2010). (5) 2011 Taiwan-Japan Bilateral Polymer Symposium (Hsinchu, Taiwan, Sept.14-16, 2011). (6) 2012 Taiwan-Japan Bilateral Polymer Symposium (Kitakyushu, Japan, September 6-8, 2012). (7) 2014 Cross-Strait Symposium on Liquid Crystalline Polymers and Supramolecular Ordered Structures( Chang Chun, Aug. 12-16, 2014). (8) The third International Conference on Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology (Hanoi, Vietnam, Oct. 2-5, 2016). (9) 2018 Taiwan-Japan Bilateral Polymer Symposium (Chia-Yi, Taiwan, Sept. 30-Oct. 2, 2018). (10) The 2nd International Conference on Nanomaterials and Advanced Composites (Taipei, Taiwan, August 9-11, 2019).

  (ii) Invited Speaker: (1) Asian Plastics Technical Conference (Taipei, Oct. 7-8, 1997). (2) 2000 POF       Conference (Cambridge, USA, September 5-8, 2000).  (3) Second International Symposium on Polyimides and Other High Temperature Polymers (Newark, USA, Dec. 3-6, 2001). (4) ACS National Meeting (April 7-11, 2002, Orlando, USA). (5) 19th International VLSI Multilevel Interconnection Conference (Singapore, Nov. 18-20, 2002). (6) Japan-Taiwan Symposium on Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Osaka, Japan, October 27-31, 2003. (7) IUPAC Macro 2006, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, July 15-20, 2006. (8) 2006Taiwan-China Cross-Strait Symposium, Dunhuang, August 27-30, 2006. (9) 2007 ACS Spring National Meeting (Chicago, USA, March 25-29, 2007). (10) Taiwan-China Bilateral Conference (Hsinchu, Taiwan, August 1, 2007). (11) Taiwan-France Bilateral Conference (Hsinchu, Taiwan, September 17-18, 2007). (12) Taiwan-Russia Joint Symposium on Soft Materials: Physics, Chemistry and Applications (Hsin-Chu, Taiwan, November 12-13, 2007). (13) New Trend in Asian Polymer Science and Technology (Jeju, S. Korea, Nov. 21-23, 2007). (14) IUPAC Macro 2008 (Taipei, Taiwan, June 29-July 4, 2008). (15) 13th Asian Chemical Congress (Shanghai, China, September 14-16, 2009). (16)2009 International Symposium on Nano Structures: Synthesis, Characterization, and Application (Gwangju, Korea, October 7-10). (17) Advanced Polymeric Materials and Technology Symposium (AMPT2010, Jeju, Korea, January 24-27, 2010). (18) International Conference on Nano Science and Nano Technology 2010 (ICNST 2010, Gwangju, Korea, Nov. 8-9, 2010). (19) China-Taiwan Bilateral Polymer Symposium (Suzhou, China, October 11-14, 2010). (20) Advances in Information Display Technology: Materials and Processing in The 107th Spring Meeting of the Korean Chemical Society (Jeju Island, Korea, April 28-29, 2011). (21) The 2nd FAPS Polymer Congress (Beijing, China, May 8-11, 2011). (22) GOPV 2011, (Hangzhou, China, October 10-12, 2011). (23) 2011 International Symposium on Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (Sapporo, Oct.30~Nov.1, 2011). (24) Pacific Polymer Conference-12 (Jeju Island, Korea, Nov.13-17, 2011). (25) 2012 Symposium of Frontier Polymer Science and Applications (Chungli, Taiwan, Jan. 16-17, 2012). (26) 61th Annual meeting , Society of Polymer Society, Japan (Yokohama, Japan, May 29-31, 2012). (27) International Symposium on Polymer Chemistry (PC-2012, ChangChun, China, June 2-6, 2012). (28) 2012 Global Organic Photovoltaic Conference(GOPV2012, Suzhou, China, September 9-12, 2012). (29) 2012 Korea Polymer Society Fall meeting (Busan, Korea, Ocotber 10-12, 2012). (30) 2012 Taiwan-China Bilateral Polymer Symposium ( Hua Lien, Taiwan, November 4-6, 2012). (31) 2013 Beijng-Taipei Symposium on Advanced Materials Science and Engineering(Beijing, July 2-6, 2013). (32) 6th East Asia Symposium on Functional Dyes and Advanced Materials (EAS6, Hsinchu, Taiwan, September 3-6, 2013). (33) IUPAC Macro 2014, (Chiang Mai, Thailand, July 7-11, 2014). (34) Organic Field-Effect Transistors XIII, SPIE meeting ( San Diego, USA, August 18-20, 2014). (35) 2014 International Symposium on Organic Photovoltaics (OPV-2014) (Hsinchu, Taiwan, Sept.1-2, 2014). (36) International Conference on Smart Systems Engineering (SmaSys 2014), Yonezawa, Yamagata, Japan, Oct.15-17, 2014. (37) Taiwan-China Bilateral Polymer Symposium (Qingdao, China, Oct.18-20, 2014). (38) Taiwan-Japan Bilateral Polymer Symposium (Tainan, Taiwan, Nov. 19-21, 2014). (39) 13th International Conference of Polymers for Advanced Technologies (PAT2015), Hangzhou China, June 25-28, 2015. (40) Japan-Taiwan Bilateral Polymer Symposium, Sapporo, Japan, September 2-6, 2015. (41) 2015 Polymer Society of Korea (PSK) Fall Meeting, Daegu, Korea, October 6~8, 2015. (42) Pacific Polymer Conference-14 (Kauai, Hawaii, Dec. 9-13, 2015). (43) The 12th Cross-Strait Workshop on Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (Taipei, Taiwan, March 22-25, 2016). (44) Taiwan-Japan Bilateral Polymer Symposium (Hsinchu, Taiwan, September 7-9, 2016). (45) 2016 Cross-Strait Polymer Symposium (Puli, Taiwan, Oct. 31-Nov.2, 2016). (46) 1st Japan-Taiwan International Engineering Forum ( Tokyo, Japan, March 9-10, 2017). (47) 13th International Symposium on Functional π-Electron Systems (Fpi-13), Hong Kong, on June 4-9, 2017. (48) 15th Pacific Polymer Conference (Xiamen, China, Dec.10-14,2017). (49) 34th International Conference of Polymer Processing Society (Taipei, Taiwan, May 21-25, 2018). (50) Synthesis, Processing & Device Engineering of Polymeric Electronic Materials, in 256th ACS National Meeting (Boston, MA, August 19-23, 2018). (51) 2018 Korea Polymer Society Fall National Meeting (Gyeongju, Korea, Oct.11-12, 2018). (52) Japan-Taiwan Bilateral Polymer Symposium ( July 23-27, Matsue, Japan). (53) Annual Meeting of Society of Polymer Society, Japan ( Sept. 25-28, Fukui, Japan). (54) 16th Pacific Polymer Conference (Singapore, Dec.8-12, 2019). (55) IUPAC-Macro 2020+ ( Jeju, Korea, May 16-20, 2021), (56) FAPS  ( Vladivostok – Moscow, June 14-16, 2021).

 (b) Committee Member of International Meeting:

(1) Organizer of “Polymer Chemistry International Symposium”, Taipei, Taiwan, Jan. 19-20, 2007. (2) Scientific Committee of “International Symposium on Advanced Materials and Nano-materials with Precisely Designed Architectures” (Japan, Oct. 4-6, 2007). (3) International Advisory Board of “Advances in Polymer Science and Technology” (New Delhi, Jan. 28-31, 2008). (4) Organizing Committee of IUPAC Macro 2008 (Taipei, June 29-July 4, 2008). (5) Organizer of “2009 Taiwan-Japan bilateral Polymer Symposium” (Taipei, April 23-24, 2009). (6) Organizing Committee Member of “2009 International Symposium on Nano Structures: Synthesis, Characterization and Application”, (Gwangju, Korea, Oct.7-9, 2009). (7) Co-Organizer of “Special symposium of Advanced Functional Polymers”, Kaoshiung, Taiwan, Jan.22-23, 2010. (8) Advisory Committee Member of “The 7th Asian-Australasian Conference on Composite Materials (ACCM-7)” (Taipei, Nov. 15-18, 2010). (9) Technical Committee Member of “13th Asia Pacific Confederation of Chemical Engineering Congress (13 APCCHE)”, (Taipei, October 5-8, 2010). (10) Co-Organizer, 2010 Japan-Taiwan Bilateral Polymer Symposium-Toward Novel Materials Based On Advanced Macromolecular Sciences (JTBPS’10), Sapporo, Japan, June 30-July 3, 2010. (11) Organizer of “Special symposium of Advanced Functional Polymers”, Taichung, Taiwan, Jan.21-22, 2011. (12) Organizer of “2011 Taiwan-China Advanced Polymer Technology and Application Conference”, Taipei, Taiwan, March 4-5, 2011. (13) Co-organizer of 2011 Taiwan-Japan Bilateral Polymer Symposium, Hsinchu, Taiwan, September 14-16, 2011.  (14) Co-organizer, 2012 Japan-Taiwan Bilateral Polymer Symposium, Kyushu, Japan, September 6-8, 2012. (15) International Advisory Board, 2012 Asia-Pacific Polyimides and High Performance Polymers Symposium, November 20-24, 2012, Taipei, Taiwan. (16) Advisory Committee Member , International Conference on Nano Science and Nano Technology 2013 (ICNST 2013), Gwangju, Korea, Nov. 7 to 8, 2013. (17) Chairman of the Scientific Program, Pacific Polymer Conference 2013 (PPC13), Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Nov. 17-22, 2013. (18) International Advisory Board Member, IUPAC World Polymer Congress-Macro 2014, Chiang Mei, Thailand, July 6-11, 2014. (19) International Committee members, Ambitious Leader" Educational Program for the Development at the Frontiers of Materials Science, Supported by Japan government, Hokkaido University. (20) Co-organizer, “Fudan-NTU Bilateral Polymer Symposium”, Shanghai, China, May 8-9, 2014. (21) Committee Member, the 12th International Conference on Nano Science and Nano Technology 2014 (ICNST 2014), Mokpo(Muan), Korea, Nov. 6-7, 2014. (22) Committee Member, “ Taiwan-China Bilateral Polymer Symposium” ( Qingdao, China, Oct.18-20, 2014). (23) Committee Member, “Taiwan-Japan Bilateral Polymer Symposium” (Tainan, Taiwan, Nov. 19-21, 2014). (24) Committee Member, “Printed Memory and Circuits”, SPIE meeting (San Diego, USA, August 9-13, 2015). (25) “Co-Organizer, Japan-Taiwan bilateral polymer Symposium”, Sapporo, Japan, September 2-6, 2015. (26) International Advisory Board, Symposium K "Non-volatile Memory Devices: materials, emerging concepts and applications" of 5th International Conference Smart and Multifunctional Materials, Devices, Structures (Perugia, Italy, June 5-10, 2016). (27) Program Committee Member, ”Printed Memory and Circuits”, SPIE meeting ( San Diego, USA, August 28-Sept.1, 2016). (28) International Advisory Board Member, “The third International Conference on Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology” (Hanoi, Vietnam, October 2-5, 2016). (29) Co-organizer, “2017 Taiwan-Japan Bilateral Polymer Symposium” (Yonezawa, Sept. 5-8, 2017). (30) International Advisory Board member, the 3rd International Conference "Emerging Materials, Technologies and Applications for Non-volatile Memory Devices" in the 8th Forum on New Materials” (Salsomaggiore Terme, Italy, June 10-14, 2017).  (31) Co-organizer, “Advanced Polymeric Materials” in 18th International Union of Materials Research Societies-International Conference in Asia(IUMRS-ICA) (Taipei, Taiwan, Nov.5-9, 2017). (32) Committee Member, “Hybrid Memory Devices and Printed Circuits III”, SPIE meeting (San Diego, USA, August 6-10, 2017). (33) Committee member,  ”Hybrid Memory Devices and Printed Circuits”, SPIE meeting (San Diego, USA, August 19-23, 2018). (34) Committee member, “Taiwan-China Bilateral Polymer Symposium” (Chengdu, China, Oct.17-20, 2018). (35) Chair, “Asia Deans’ Forum”, (Taipei, Taiwan, May 29-31, 2019). (36) Chair, “2019 Federation of Asia Polymer Society Conference”, (Taipei, Taiwan, October 27-30, 2019). (37) Co-Organizer with Prof. Takashi Kato, Japan-Taiwan Young Scientist Polymer Symposium (online meeting, Sept. 18, 2020).