Matthew John Fuchter is a British chemist who is a professor of chemistry at the University of Oxford.
11 Facts About Matthew Fuchter
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Matthew Fuchter's research focuses on the development and application of novel functional molecular systems to a broad range of areas; from materials to medicine.
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In 2007 Matthew Fuchter returned to the United Kingdom, where he began his independent academic career at the School of Pharmacy, University of London.
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Matthew Fuchter is interested in how considerations of chirality can be applied to the development of novel approaches in chiral optoelectronic materials and devices.
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Amongst these materials, Matthew Fuchter has extensively evaluated the use of chiral small molecule additives to induce chiroptical properties into light emitting polymers for the realisation of chiral OLEDs.
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Matthew Fuchter has investigated the application of such materials in circularly polarised photodetectors, which are devices that are capable of detecting circularly polarised light.
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The arylazopyrazole switches developed by Matthew Fuchter out perform the ubiquitous azobenzene switches, demonstrating complete photoswitching in both directions and thermal half-lives of the Z isomer of up to 46 years.
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Matthew Fuchter continues to apply these switches to a range of photoaddressable applications from photopharmacology to energy storage.
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In 2024 Matthew Fuchter joined the University of Oxford as a Professor of Chemistry and the Sydney Bailey Fellow in Chemistry at St Peter's College Oxford.
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Matthew Fuchter is an elected council member of the Royal Society of Chemistry organic division.
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Matthew Fuchter is co-director of the Imperial College London Centre for Drug Discovery Science.