RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Biodegradable polymer; Polymer depolymerization; Environmental functional materials
EDUCATION AND ACADEMIC CAREER:
Si-Chong Chen is a professor at the College of Chemistry, Sichuan University. He is the associate director of the Collaborative Innovation Center for Eco-Friendly and Fire-Safety Polymeric Materials (MoE). He received his Ph.D. in Polymer Chemistry and Physics (2006) from Sichuan University (2009). He continued his research at the College of Chemistry, Sichuan University as a Lecturer in 2006 and became a full professor since 2014.
HONORS AND AWARDS:
Science and Technology Progress Award of Sichuan Province, the first prize, 2012, ranked fourth.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:
In the past five years, around 20 first/corresponding-author papers have been published. 5 domestic patents were granted, and the core technology has undergone application development.
Representative papers in the past three years:
1、Yang, Dan-Dan; Wu, Cong; Wu, Gang; Chen, Si-Chong; Wang, Yu-Zhong, Toughening of Polylactide with High Tensile Strength via Constructing an Integrative Physical Crosslinking Network Based on Ionic Interactions. Macromolecules, 2021, 54(1), 291-301. DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.0c02181.
2、Shi, Yu; Wu, Gang; Chen, Si-Chong; Song, Fei; Wang, Yu-Zhong, Green Fabrication of High-Performance Chitin Nanowhiskers/PVA Composite Films with a "Brick-and-Mortar" Structure. Acs Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering 2020, 48 (8), 17807-17815, DOI: 10.1021/acssuschemeng.0c06736.
3、Zhang, Jie; Huang, Dan; Wu, Gang; Chen, Si-Chong; Wang, Yu-Zhong, Highly-efficient, Rapid and continuous separation of surfactant-stabilized Oil/Water emulsions by selective under-liquid adhering emulsified droplets. Journal of Hazardous Materials, 2020, 400, 123132. DOI: 10.1016/j.jhazmat.2020.123132
4、Huang, Dan; Zhang, Jie; Wu, Gang; Chen, Si-Chong; Wang, Yu-Zhong, "Hot-pressing welded" composite membrane for separating oil-in-water emulsion with high structural stability. Composites Part B-Engineering. 2020, 202, 108449. DOI: 10.1016/j.compositesb.2020.108449.
5、Jiang, Miao-Jie; Zhang, Yu; Wu, Gang; Chen, Si-Chong; Chen, Li; Wang, Yu-Zhong, NIR light manipulated "paper art" for customizing devices with sophisticated structure from DA-epoxy/graphene composites. Composites Part B-Engineering.2019, 177, 107369. DOI: 10.1016/j.compositesb.2019.107369.
6、Tian, Guo-Qiang; Liu, Wen; Chen, Li; Wu, Gang; Chen, Si-Chong; Wang, Yu-Zhong, Thiazolium as Single-Group Bifunctional Catalyst for Selectively Bulk Melt ROP of Cyclic Esters. CHEMCATCHEM, 2019, 11(15), 3388-3392. DOI: 10.1002/cctc.201900901.
7、Liu, Wen; Tian, Guo-Qiang; Yang, Dan-Dan; Wu, Gang; Chen, Si-Chong; Wang, Yu-Zhong, Heterogeneous catalysts based on built-in N-heterocyclic carbenes with high removability, recoverability and reusability for ring-opening polymerization of cyclic esters. Polymer Chemistry, 2019, 10(12), 1526-1536. DOI: 10.1039/c9py00111e.
8、Kang, Yan-Li; Zhang, Jie; Wu, Gang; Zhang, Ming-Xuan; Chen, Si-Chong; Wang, Yu-Zhong, Full-Biobased Nanofiber Membranes toward Decontamination of Wastewater Containing Multiple Pollutants. ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering, 2018, 6(9), 11783-11792. DOI: 10.1021/acssuschemeng.8b01996.
9、Yang, Dan-Dan; Liu, Wen; Zhu, Hong-Mei; Wu, Gang; Chen, Si-Chong; Wang, Xiu-Li; Wang, Yu-Zhong. Toward Super-Tough Poly(L-lactide) via Constructing Pseudo-Cross-link Network in Toughening Phase Anchored by Stereocomplex Crystallites at the Interface. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 2018, 10(31), 26594-26603. DOI: 10.1021/acsami.8b06343.
10、Wu, Jian-Xiang; Zhang, Jie; Kang, Yan-Li; Wu, Gang; Chen, Si-Chong; Wang, Yu-Zhong, Reusable and Recyclable Superhydrophilic Electrospun Nanofibrous Membranes with In Situ Co-cross-linked Polymer-Chitin Nanowhisker Network for Robust Oil-in-Water Emulsion Separation. ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering, 2018, 6(2), 1753-1762. DOI: 10.1021/acssuschemeng.7b03102
