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Associate Professor Zhongqiang Yang Ph.D.

Curriculum Vitae

Education:

2003 - 2007         Ph.D. in Polymer Chemistry
University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
Supervisor: Prof. Wilhelm T. S. Huck
2000 - 2003         M.S. in Polymer Chemistry
Jilin University, Changchun, China
Supervisor: Prof. Fengqi Liu
1996 - 2000         B.E. in Applied Chemistry
Heilongjiang University, Harbin, China

Research Experience:

2010 - present      Associate Professor
Department of Chemistry, Tsinghua University
2007 - 2010         Postdoc Research Associate
Prof. Nicholas L. Abbott’s Lab
Chemical & Biological Engineering Department
University of Wisconsin-Madison, US

Research Interests:

DNA-related functional materials and their applications in biosensing, tissue engineering, cell culture; liquid crystal/aqueous interface for biosensing; smart-responsive materials; colloids and interface.

Conferences:

  1. Warwick 2012, Warwick, England, July 2012, invited talk.
  2. 5th International Symposium on Polymer Chemistry, Changchun, June 2012, invited talk.
  3. 14th International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) Conference on Polymers and Organic Chemistry, Doha, Qatar, January 2012, invited talk

Awards:

Gates Scholarship, University of Cambridge, UK (2003-2007) Financial award from Bill Gates, given to 4 Chinese students studying at University of Cambridge in 2003

代表性论文:

  1. Yuhe Yang, Yawei Sun, Yang Yang, Yongzheng Xing, Tao Zhang, Zeming Wang, Zhongqiang Yang,* Dongsheng Liu*
    The Influence of Tetra(ethylene glycol) (EG4) Substitution at the Loop Region on Intramolecular DNA i-motif.
    Macromolecules     2012, 45, 2643-2647.
  2. Yang Yang, Chao Zhou, Tao Zhang, Enjun Cheng, Zhongqiang Yang*, Dongsheng Liu*
    DNA Pillar Constructed from i-motif Stem and Duplex Branches.
    Small 2012, 8, 552-556. (Special Issue: Multilevel Molecular Assemblies: Structure, Dynamics and Function.)
  3. Tao Zhang, Yuanchen Dong, Yawei Sun, Ping Chen, Yang Yang, Chao Zhou, Lijin Xu,* Zhongqiang Yang,* Dongsheng Liu*
    DNA Bi-Modified Gold Nanoparticles.
    Langmuir 2012,28, 1966-1970. (Special Issue: Bioinspired Assemblies and Interfaces.)
  4. Dongsheng Liu, Enjun Cheng, Zhongqiang Yang
    DNA-based Switchable Devices and Materials. (Invited review)
    NPG Asia Mater. 2011, 3,109-114.
  5. Tao Zhang, Zhongqiang Yang, Dongsheng Liu
    DNA Discrete Modified Gold Nanoparticles. (Invited review)
    Nanoscale 2011, 3, 4015-4021.
  6. Liying Wang, Yu Feng, Yawei Sun, Zhibo Li, Zhongqiang Yang, Yan-Mei He, Qing-Hua Fan, Dongsheng Liu
    Amphiphilic DNA-Dendron Hybrid: A New Building Block for Functional Assemblies.
    Soft Matter 2011, 7, 7187-7190.
  7. Yongzheng Xing, Enjun Cheng, Yang Yang, Ping Chen, Tao Zhang, Yawei Sun, Zhongqiang Yang, Dongsheng Liu
    Self-Assembled DNA Hydrogels with Designable Thermal and Enzymatic Responsiveness.
    Adv. Mater. 2011, 23, 1117-1121.
  8. Zhongqiang Yang, Jugal K. Gupta, Kenji Kishimoto, Yoshiko Shoji, Takashi Kato, Nicholas L. Abbott
    Design of Biomolecular Interfaces using Liquid Crystals containing Oligomeric Ethylene Glycol.
    Adv. Funct. Mater. 2010, 20, 2098-2106.
  9. Zhongqiang Yang, George. A. Herd, Stuart M. Clarke, Ali R. Tajbakhsh, Eugene M. Terentjev, Wilhelm T. S. Huck
    Thermal and UV Shape Shifting of Surface Topography.
    J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2006, 128, 1074-1075.
  10. Zhongqiang Yang, Wilhelm T. S. Huck, Stuart M. Clarke, Ali R. Tajbakhsh, Eugene M. Terentjev
    Shape-Memory Nanoparticles from Inherently Non-spherical Polymer Colloids.
    Nature Materials 2005, 4, 486-490.