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

Supramolecular Chemotherapy: Cooperative Enhancement of Antitumor Activity by Combining Controlled Release of Oxaliplatin and Consuming of Spermine by Cucurbit[7]uril
Y Chen, Z Huang, H Zhao, J-F Xu, Z Sun, X Zhang
ACS Appl Mater Interfaces
(2017)
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Controllable Supramolecular Polymerization Promoted by Host Enhanced Photodimerization
Y Kang, Z Cai, Z Huang, X Tang, J-F Xu, X Zhang
ACS Macro Letters
(2016)
5
Supramolecular Chemistry of Cucurbiturils: Tuning Cooperativity with Multiple Noncovalent Interactions from Positive to Negative.
Z Huang, K Qin, G Deng, G Wu, Y Bai, J-F Xu, Z Wang, Z Yu, OA Scherman, X Zhang
Langmuir : the ACS journal of surfaces and colloids
(2016)
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Degradable Organically-Derivatized Polyoxometalate with Enhanced Activity against Glioblastoma Cell Line
S She, S Bian, R Huo, K Chen, Z Huang, J Zhang, J Hao, Y Wei
Scientific Reports
(2016)
6
Polypseudorotaxane Constructed from Cationic Polymer with Cucurbit[7]uril for Controlled Antibacterial Activity.
Z Huang, H Zhang, H Bai, Y Bai, S Wang, X Zhang
ACS macro letters
(2016)
5
Cytotoxicity Regulated by Host–Guest Interactions: A Supramolecular Strategy to Realize Controlled Disguise and Exposure
Y Chen, Z Huang, J-F Xu, Z Sun, X Zhang
ACS Appl Mater Interfaces
(2016)
8
Controllable supramolecular polymerization through self-sorting of aliphatic and aromatic motifs
L Chen, Z Huang, J-F Xu, Z Wang, X Zhang
Polymer Chemistry
(2016)
7
Supramolecular Polymerization Controlled by Reversible Conformational Modulation
J-F Xu, Z Huang, L Chen, B Qin, Q Song, Z Wang, X Zhang
ACS macro letters
(2015)
4
Amphiphilic diselenide-containing supramolecular polymers
X Tan, L Yang, Z Huang, Y Yu, Z Wang, X Zhang
Polymer Chemistry
(2015)
6
Controlling the Reactivity of the SeSe Bond by the Supramolecular Chemistry of Cucurbituril
H Ren, Z Huang, H Yang, H Xu, X Zhang
ChemPhysChem
(2014)
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Postdoctoral researcher

Telephone number

01223 334372 (shared)