Faculty A-Z
Zehuan Huang
Principal Investigator
Email address: zehuan@pku.edu.cn
Office: Room 313, Yiyuan Building, Peking University, Haidian District, Beijing 100871, P. R. China
Group Website:http://www.zehuangroup.com
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Research within the Zehuan Group aims to create next-generation supramolecular biomaterials, establish their structure-property relationships and further apply them in biomedical engineering and clinical therapy. We design non-covalent interactions with tunable dynamics and reversibility to construct supramolecular gels/elastomers/plastics with desired structure and property for biomedical applications,e.g., reparative and replacement treatment of cartilage/tendon/ligament. Current research orientations include supramolecular biomaterials, soft tissue engineering, osteological therapeutics, flexible bioelectronics, and high-performance polymers.
APPOINTMENTS & EDUCATION
Peking University
2023-present | Principal Investigator, Assistant Professor of Materials Science and Engineering
University of Cambridge
2018-2022 | Marie-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow, Advisor: Prof. Oren Scherman
Tsinghua University
2009-2018 | BSc & PhD in Polymer Chemistry & Physics, Supervisor: Prof. Xi Zhang
HORNORS & AWARDS
2022 | Natural Science Fund for Excellent Young Scholars, NSFC
2021 | European Fellow, the 70th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting, Germany
2019 | Marie Sklodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship, European Commission
2019 | Best Poster Award, the 16th Pacific Polymer Conference, Singapore
2018 | HOPE Fellow, the 10th HOPE Meeting with Nobel Laureates, Japan
2019 | Best Poster Award, the 15th Pacific Polymer Conference, China
2016 | National Scholarship for Graduates in Colloidal and Interfacial Chemistry, China
2014 | National Scholarships for Graduates, the Ministry of Education, China
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
1. S. J. K. O'Neill#, Z. Huang#, M. H. Ahmed, A. J. Boys, S. Velasco-Bosom, J. Li, R. M. Owens, J. A. McCune, G. G. Malliaras, O. A. Scherman*. Tissue-mimetic supramolecular polymer networks for bioelectronics. Adv. Mater., 35, 2207634 (2023)
2. Z. Huang, X. Chen, S. J. K. O'Neill, G. Wu, D. J. Whitaker, J. Li, J. A. McCune, O. A. Scherman*. Highly compressible glass-like supramolecular polymer networks. Nat. Mater., 21, 103-109 (2022)
3. X. Chen#, Z. Huang#, R. L. Sala, A. M. McLean, G. Wu, K. Sokołowski, K. King, J. A. McCune, O. A. Scherman*. On-resin recognition of aromatic oligopeptides and proteins through host-enhanced heterodimerization. J. Am. Chem. Soc., 144, 8474-8479 (2022)
4. Z. Huang, X. Chen, G. Wu, P. Metrangolo, D. J. Whitaker, J. A. McCune, O. A. Scherman*. Host-enhanced phenyl-perfluorophenyl polar−π interactions. J. Am. Chem. Soc., 142, 7356-7361 (2020)
5. Z. Huang, K. Qin, G. Deng, G. Wu, Y. Bai, J.-F. Xu, Z. Wang, Z. Yu, O. A. Scherman, X. Zhang*. Supramolecular chemistry of cucurbiturils: tuning cooperativity with multiple noncovalent interactions from positive to negative. Langmuir, 32, 12352–12360 (2016)
6. Z. Huang#, L. Yang#, Y. Liu, Z. Wang, O. A. Scherman, X. Zhang*. Supramolecular polymerization promoted and controlled through self-sorting. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 53, 5351-5355 (2014)
