报告人和单位

 Prof. Haifeng Gao

Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, University of Notre Dame, Indiana

报告题目

Synthesis and Application of Functional Polymers with Highly Branched Nanostructures

报告时间

2016年6月13日 (星期一) 下午14:30

报告地点

环境资源楼939会议室

报告内容

This presentation discusses our recent progress on developing new strategies to synthesize functional polymers with controlled nanostructures and exploring their intriguing properties. One-pot polymerization methods were developed for facile synthesis of hyperbranched polymers with tunable molecular weights, low polydispersity and high degree of branching. These strategies include 1) the polymerization of inimers in confined space and 2) chain-growth polymerization of AB2 monomers in solution. The produced hyperbranched polymers can be easily functionalized with various reactive groups in different layers and show promising properties as unimolecular containers in siRNA delivery.

报告人简介

Haifeng Gao is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, University of Notre Dame. He obtained his Ph.D. degree in 2008 from Krzysztof Matyjaszewski group at Carnegie Mellon University before joining Jean M. J. Frechet group at UC Berkeley as a postdoctoral researcher. In 2011, Haifeng started his independent career at the University of Notre Dame and his current research focuses on the design and synthesis of functional polymers with controlled nanostructures by determining their fundamental structure-property relationships. Haifeng has co-authored more than 60 peer-reviewed papers and 6 book chapters. His publications so far have been cited for more than 3800 times with H-index is 31. Haifeng the recent recipient of 2010 AkzoNobel Award for Outstanding Graduate Research in Polymer Chemistry from ACS, 2014 Army Young Investigator Program (YIP) award, 2016 NSF CAREER award.

主办单位

中科院软物质化学重点实验室/化学与材料科学学院