LU Jun (Feb 2025)

LU Jun (Feb 2025)

Assistant Professor, NUS Presidential Young Professorship

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Research

ORCID: 0000-0001-7029-855X
ResearcherID: ADG-9339-2022
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=MjUt6LQAAAAJ 

 

Recognition and Achievements

• NUS Presidential Young Professorship, National University of Singapore, 2024
• Best Poster Award at Annual Conference of Chinese Chemical Society, 2016
• Second Prize in Challenger Cup Mathematical Modeling, 2009

 

Research Interests

• Asymmetrical nanocavities for quantum engineering in photocatalysis and bioimaging
• “Perfect” chiral light emitters with controlled photon frequency, spin, and orbital angular momentum
• Topological thermal engineering for enhanced thermal conduction, propagation, and transformation
• Machine learning-driven optical design optimization

 

Representative Publications

• Lu, J.; Jung, H.; Kim, J.-Y.; Kotov, N. K., Bright, circularly polarized black-body radiation from twisted nanocarbon filaments. Science 2024, 386, 1400–1404.
• Lu, J.; Wu, W.; Colombari, F.; Jawaid, A.; Seymour, B.; Whisnant, K.; Zhong, X.; Choi, W.; Chalmpes, N.; Lahann, J.; Moura, A. F.; Nepal, D.; Vaia, R.; Kotov, N. K., Nano-achiral complex composites for extreme polarization optics. Nature, 2024, 630, 860–865.
• Zhou, S.; Li, J.; Lu, J.; Liu, H.; Kim, J.-Y.; Kim, A.; Yao, L.; Liu, C.; Qian, C.; Hood, Z. D.; Chen, W.; Gage, T. E.; Arslan, I.; Travesset, A.; Sun, K.; Kotov, N. K.; Chen, Q., Chiral assemblies of pinwheel superlattices on substrates. Nature 2022, 612, 259–265,
• Ohnoutek, L.; Kim, J.-Y.; Lu, J.; Olohan, B. J.; Răsădean, D. M.; Pantoș, G. D.; Kotov, N. A.; Valev, V. K., Third harmonic Mie scattering from semiconductor nanohelices. Nat. Photonics 2022, 16, 126–133.
• Lu, J.; Xue, Y.; Bernardino, K.; Zhang, N.-N.; Gomes, W. R.; Ramesar, N. S.; Liu, S.; Hu, Z.; Sun, T.; Moura, A. F.; Kotov, N. A.; Liu, K., Enhanced optical asymmetry in supramolecular chiroplasmonic assemblies with long-range order. Science 2021, 371, 1368–1374.
• Lu, J.; Xue, Y.; Shi, R.; Kang, J.; Zhao, C. Y.; Wang, C. Y.; Lu, Z. Y.; Liu, K., A Non-sacrificial method for the quantification of poly(ethylene glycol) grafting density on gold nanoparticles for applications in nanomedicine. Chem. Sci. 2019, 10, 2067–2074.