Synthesis and use of porphyrins for photovoltaic and molecular devices, the development of dye-sensitised solar cells, the development and application of functionalised polythiophenes for photovoltaic cells, batteries, actuators and sensors, the functionalisation of carbon nanotubes.

1. Grant, D. K.; Jolley, K. W.; Officer, D. L.; Gordon, K. C.; Clarke, T. M., Towards functionalized poly(terthiophenes): regioselective synthesis of oligoether-substituted bis(styryl)sexithiophenes. Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry 2005, 3, (10), 2008-2015.
2. Schmidt-Mende, L.; Campbell, W. M.; Wang, Q.; Jolley, K. W.; Officer, D. L.; Nazeeruddin, M. K.; Graetzel, M., Zn-porphyrin-sensitized nanocrystalline TiO2 heterojunction photovoltaic cells. ChemPhysChem 2005, 6, (7), 1253-1258.
3. Wallace, G. G.; Too, C. O.; Officer, D. L.; Dastoor, P. C., Photoelectrochemical Cells Based on Inherently Conducting Polymers. MRS Bulletin 2005, 30, (1), 46-49.
4. Wagner, P.; Ballantyne, A. M.; Jolley, K. W.; Officer, D. L., Synthesis and characterization of novel styryl-substituted oligothienylenevinylenes. Tetrahedron 2006, 62, 2190-2199.
5. Walsh, P. J.; Gordon, K. C.; Wagner, P.; Officer, D. L., Resonance Raman studies of b-substituted porphyrin systems with unusual electronic absorption properties. ChemPhysChem 2006, 7, (11), 2358-2365.
6. Chen, J.; Tsekouras, G.; Officer, D. L.; Wagner, P.; Wang, C. Y.; Too, C. O.; Wallace, G. G., Novel fullerene-functionalised poly(terthiophenes). Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry 2007, 599, (1), 79-84.

Professor David Officer is Professor of Organic Chemistry in the Intelligent Polymer Research
Institute and Professorial Fellow in the ARC Centre of Excellence in Electromaterials Science at
the University of Wollongong, Wollongong, Australia. He is also Principal Investigator in the
New Zealand Centre of Research Excellence, the MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials
and Nanotechnology. He obtained his PhD in Chemistry at Victoria University of Wellington,
Wellington, New Zealand in 1982, working with Professor Brian Halton. He joined the lecturing
staff at Massey University, New Zealand in 1986 after three years research work in organic
chemistry with Professor Ron Warrener at The Australian National University in Canberra,
Australia and as an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow with Professor Emanuel Vogel at the
University of Cologne in Germany.

During his 20 years at Massey University, he became founding Director of the Nanomaterials
Research Centre (NRC) (in 2001) and Professor in Chemistry in the Institute of Fundamental
Sciences at Massey University (MU), New Zealand. Over 6 years, the NRC developed
collaborative research programs in the synthesis and use of porphyrins for photovoltaic and
molecular devices, and the development and application of functionalised polythiophenes and
carbon nanotubes with researchers in New Zealand, Australia, the USA and Europe.

Officer has published more than a 100 papers in the areas of porphyrin and conducting polymer
chemistry, nanomaterials and solar cells. In 2004, he was awarded the New Zealand Institute of
Chemistry HortResearch Prize for Excellence in the Chemical Sciences. He is a Fellow of the
New Zealand Institute of Chemistry.

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