报告题目：Environment facilitated polymerization, cancer therapy and polymeric color changes
报告内容简介：This seminar will cover our latest research in the field of new RAFT polymerization, novel strategy for cancer therapy and designing polymeric material showing color changes upon external environmental interference with temperature for force. In the last few years, there have been new chemistries developed using alternative methods to activate the reversible addition-fragmentation chain transfer (RAFT) polymerization process (Figure 1). Our lab has been developing a number of such new methods, including photo-RAFT, Sono-RAFT, Fenton-RAFT and blood catalyzed RAFT. We have found some methods can eliminate the needs of initiator, degassing of oxygen or purification of monomer, other methods can produce polymers with better polydispersity, ultra-high molecular weights or new architecture. This talk will show how we can apply these new methods to make polymers with ultra-high molecular weight and how these new approaches can result in better polymers. The learning from RAFT work also inspired us to design novel therapeutic agents for cancer treatment without using the traditional cancer drugs; but applying cancer’s own conditions to facilitate the therapy. The third part of the talk will introduce our recent work on the thermochromic and mechanochromic polymers. Reversible color changes can be observed with these polymers when they are under either different temperature or force such as stretching.
报告人姓名：Greg G. Qiao
报告人简介：Professor Greg Qiao received his B.En in Donghua University in 1982 and Ph.D. at the University of Queensland in 1996. He joined the University of Melbourne in 1996 and became a full Professor in 2009. He was an Australian Research Council’s professorial Future Fellow (2012-2015). He is a Fellow of RACI and RSC. Prof Qiao was the Chair of Polymer Division of the RACI (2015-2016) and a member of ARC College of Experts (2016-2018). Prof Qiao received RACI Applied Research Award in 2017, ExxonMobil Award of Excellence for Chemical Engineering in 2015, RACI’s Polymer Division Citations in 2011 and 2019 as well as Freehills Award in 2010. He has published > 250 journal papers and > 20 patents. His key research interests are in novel macromolecular architectures, new activation methods for RAFT process, structurally nanoengineered, antibacterial peptide polymers (SNAPPs), Peptide eco polymers as alternative plastics, soft tissue engineering scaffolds, polymeric gas membranes, and chemical engineering products.
报告人单位：墨尔本大学
报告人单位：The University of Melbourne
报告时间：2019-12-06 16:00
报告地点：环化楼301
主办单位：上海大学材料学院
联系人：刘坤
联系方式：66138044
