Research Associate

Dr. Zehuan Huang is a Marie Curie Fellow at the Melville Laboratory for Polymer Synthesis in University of Cambridge.

Zehuan entered Tsinghua University (China) in 2009 as an undergraduate student majoring in Chemistry. His research interests initially arose from two summer internships: one involved polyelectrolyte LbL self-assembly with Prof. Monika Schönhoff in the University of Münster (Germany, 2010), and the other focused on supramolecular liquid crystals with Prof. Takashi Kato in the University of Tokyo (Japan, 2012). Zehuan received his B.Sc. in Chemistry from Tsinghua University in 2013. After that, he joined Prof. Xi Zhang's group at the same univerisity as a PhD candidate. His PhD research was mainly centered on applying cucurbit[n]uril(CB[n])-based functional supramolecular systems to inter/multidisciplinary areas, involving supramolecular chemistry, polymer chemistry, physical chemistry, antimicrobial and anticancer therapy. In July 2018, he was awarded a PhD for his works on controllable association, assembly and function of cucurbiturils host-guest chemistry.

Dr. Zehuan Huang joined the Melville Laboratory in Aug 2018 as a postdoctoral research associate, devising new systems for supramolecular catalysis. Later, in April 2019 he was awarded 'Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship'. Currently, he works on exploiting host-enhanced polar-π interactions to design and fabricate glass-like supramolecular polymer networks and further exploring their potentials in biomedical and bioelectronic applications.

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

More information can be found on his Google Scholar, Research ID or Linkedin.

 

Publications

Supramolecularly Catalyzed Polymerization: From Consecutive Dimerization to Polymerization.
X Tang, Z Huang, H Chen, Y Kang, J-F Xu, X Zhang
Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English)
(2018)
57
Supramolecular Interfacial Polymerization of Miscible Monomers: Fabricating Supramolecular Polymers with Tailor-Made Structures
B Qin, S Zhang, Z Huang, J-F Xu, X Zhang
Macromolecules
(2018)
51
Supramolecular Chemotherapy: Carboxylated Pillar[6]arene for Decreasing Cytotoxicity of Oxaliplatin to Normal Cells and Improving Its Anticancer Bioactivity Against Colorectal Cancer.
Q Hao, Y Chen, Z Huang, J-F Xu, Z Sun, X Zhang
ACS Appl Mater Interfaces
(2018)
10
Supramolecular Polymerization Controlled through Kinetic Trapping
H Chen, Z Huang, H Wu, J-F Xu, X Zhang
Angew Chem Int Ed Engl
(2017)
56
Antimicrobial cationic polymers: from structural design to functional control
Y Yang, Z Cai, Z Huang, X Tang, X Zhang
Polymer Journal
(2017)
50
Supramolecular catalyst functions in catalytic amount: cucurbit[8]uril accelerates the photodimerization of Brooker's merocyanin
Y Kang, X Tang, H Yu, Z Cai, Z Huang, D Wang, J-F Xu, X Zhang
Chemical Science
(2017)
8
Buildup of Redox‐Responsive Hybrid from Polyoxometalate and Redox‐Active Conducting Oligomer: Its Self‐Assemblies with Controllable Morphologies
S She, Z Huang, P Yin, A Bayaguud, H Jia, Y Huang, Y Wei, Y Wei
Chemistry
(2017)
23
Supramolecular Germicide Switches through Host-Guest Interactions for Decelerating Emergence of Drug-Resistant Pathogens
H Bai, X Fu, Z Huang, F Lv, L Liu, X Zhang, S Wang
ChemistrySelect
(2017)
2
Supramolecular Polymerization from Controllable Fabrication to Living Polymerization
Z Huang, B Qin, L Chen, J-F Xu, CFJ Faul, X Zhang
Macromolecular rapid communications
(2017)
38
Supramolecular Interfacial Polymerization: A Controllable Method of Fabricating Supramolecular Polymeric Materials
B Qin, S Zhang, Q Song, Z Huang, J-F Xu, X Zhang
Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English)
(2017)
56

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