Research Experience
2020-present Assistant Professor (PI), College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Peking University
2018-2019 Research Scientist II., Department of Chemistry, Colorado State University
2015-2018 Postdoc Fellow, Department of Chemistry, Colorado State University
2009-2015 Ph.D., Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences
2005-2009 B.S., College of Chemistry and Molecular Science, Wuhan University
Research Interests
Design and synthesis of metal catalysts to prepare recyclable and/or biodegradable polymers with desirable properties via precise control of polymer microstructures; synthesis of novel polymeric materials with complex topology and their applications; investigation of novel polymerization methodology to prepare recyclable and/or biodegradable polymers.
Selected Publications
- Tang, X.; Westlie, A. H.; Caporaso, L.; Cavallo, L.; Falivene, L.*; Chen, E. Y.-X.* “Biodegradable polyhydroxyalkanoates by stereoselective copolymerization of racemic diolides: Stereocontrol and polyolefin-Like properties”, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2020, 59, 7881-7890.
- Tang, X.; Westlie, A. H.; Watson, E. M.; Chen, E. Y.-X.* “Stereosequenced crystalline polyhydroxyalkanoates from diastereomeric monomer mixtures”, Science 2019, 366, 754-758.
- Tang, X.; Chen, E. Y.-X.* “Toward infinitely recyclable plastics derived from renewable cyclic esters”, Chem 2019, 5, 284-312.
- Tang, X.; Chen, E. Y.-X.* “Chemical synthesis of perfectly isotactic and high melting bacterial poly(3-hydroxybutyrate) from bio-sourced racemic cyclic diolide”, Nat. Commun. 2018, 9, 2345.
- Tang, X.; Hong, M.; Falivene, L.; Caporaso, L.; Cavallo, L.*; Chen, E. Y.-X.* “The quest for converting biorenewable bifunctional α-methylene-γ-butyrolactone into degradable and recyclable polyester: Controlling vinyl-addition/ring-opening/cross-linking pathways”, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2016, 138, 14326-14337.
