Polymer Vesicles

Prof. Jianzhong Du received his PhD degree in chemistry in 2004 from Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He was appointed as an 'Eastern Scholar' professor at Tongji University in 2009 and a `Shanghai 1000 Plan' professor in 2011. Before he moved to Tongji, he worked with Prof. Steve Armes at the University of Sheffield (2004-2008), and Dr Rachel O'Reilly at University of Cambridge (2008-2010) as a postdoctoral research fellow. He was also an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow in 2006. He was awarded the Top 50 PhD Dissertations in CAS in 2005 and the Nominated National Top 100 PhD Dissertations in China in 2006, New Century Excellent Talents in Universities of Ministry of Education in 2010, "Best Supervisors in My Eyes" at Tongji University in 2013, and National Award for Contribution of Creative Talents of Returned Overseas Chinese in 2014. His research interests focus on the synthesis, self-assembly and applications of stimuli-responsive polymers with particular interests in polymer vesicles and other complex nanostructures. He also has wide interests in materials science, biomedicine, biocatalysis, water remediation, and antibacterial materials.