Professor (Polymer Chemistry and Physics) M.Sc. Dalian University of Technology (1994)
Ph.D. Suzhou University (2003)
Postdoc. National University of Singapore (2004-2005)
Postdoc. University of Waterloo (2008-2009) Research Interests: “Living”/Controlled Radical Polymerization; Organic/Inorganic Hybrid Nano Materials; Functional Polymer Materials. Representative Publications: Liang Cheng, Weiwei He, Hua Gong, Chao Wang, Qian Chen, Zhenping Cheng* and Zhuang Liu*, PEGylated Micelle Nanoparticles Encapsulating a Non-Fluorescent Near-Infrared Organic Dye as a Safe and Highly-Effective Photothermal Agent for In Vivo Cancer Therapy. Adv. Funct. Mater.2013, DOI: 10.1002/adfm.201301045. Jun Cao, Lifen Zhang*, Xiaowu Jiang, Chun Tian, Xiaoning Zhao, Qi Ke, Xiangqiang Pan, Zhenping Cheng* and Xiulin Zhu*, Facile Iron-Mediated Dispersant-Free Suspension Polymerization of Methyl Methacrylate via Reverse ATRP in Water. Macromol. Rapid Commun.2013, DOI: 10.1002/marc.201300513.
Weiwei He, Liang Cheng, Lifen Zhang, Zhuang Liu*, Zhenping Cheng* and Xiulin Zhu*, A Versatile Fe3O4 Based Platform via Iron-Catalyzed AGET ATRP: Towards Various Multifunctional Nanomaterials. Polym. Chem, 2014, DOI: 10.1039/C3PY00920C. Jinlong Pan, Jie Miao, Lifen Zhang, Zhangyong Si, Changwen Zhang, Zhenping Cheng* and Xiulin Zhu*, Iron-Mediated (Dual) Concurrent ATRP–RAFT Polymerization of Water-Soluble Poly(ethylene glycol) Monomethyl Ether Methacrylate. Polym. Chem.2013, DOI: 10.1039/C3PY00671A. Liangjiu Bai, Lifen Zhang, Jinlong Pan, Jian Zhu, Zhenping Cheng* and Xiulin Zhu*, Developing a Synthetic Approach with Thermoregulated Phase-Transfer Catalysis: Facile Access to Metal-Mediated Living Radical Polymerization of Methyl Methacrylate in Aqueous/Organic Biphasic System. Macromolecules2013, 46, 2060−2066. Weiwei He, Liang Cheng, Lifen Zhang, Zhuang Liu*, Zhenping Cheng* and Xiulin Zhu*, Facile Fabrication of Biocompatible and Tunable Multifunctional Nanomaterials via Iron-Mediated Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization with Activators Generated by Electron Transfer. ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces2013, 5, 9663–9669. Ting Guo, Lifen Zhang, Xiangqiang Pan, Xiaohong Li, Zhenping Cheng* and Xiulin Zhu*, A Highly Active Homogeneous ICAR ATRP of Methyl Methacrylate Using ppm Levels of Organocopper Catalyst. Polym. Chem.2013, 4, 3725–3734. Jinlong Pan, Lifen Zhang, Liangjiu Bai, Zhengbiao Zhang, Hong Chen, Zhenping Cheng* and Xiulin Zhu*, Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization of Methyl Methacrylate with a Thermo-Responsive Ligand: Construction of Thermoregulated Phase-Transfer Catalysis in an Aqueous–Organic Biphasic System. Polym. Chem.2013, 4, 2876–2883. Weiwei He, Hongjuan Jiang, Lifen Zhang, Zhenping Cheng* and Xiulin Zhu*, Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization of Hydrophilic Monomers and its Applications. Polym. Chem.2013, 4, 2919–2938. Liangjiu Bai, Lifen Zhang, Yuan Liu, Xiangqiang Pan, Zhenping Cheng* and Xiulin Zhu*, Triphenylphosphine as Phosphorus Catalyst for Reversible Chain-Transfer Catalyzed Polymerization (RTCP). Polym. Chem.2013, 4, 3069–3076. Gaohua Zhu, Lifen Zhang,* Xiangqiang Pan, Wei Zhang, Zhenping Cheng* and Xiulin Zhu*, Facile Soap-Free Miniemulsion Polymerization of Methyl Methacrylate via Reverse Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization. Macromol. Rapid Commun.2012, 33, 2121−2126. Jian Qin, Lifen Zhang,* Hongjuan Jiang, Jian Zhu, Zhengbiao Zhang, Wei Zhang, Nianchen Zhou, Zhenping Cheng* and Xiulin Zhu*, Controlled Bimodal Molecular-Weight-Distribution Polymers: Facile Synthesis by RAFT Polymerization. Chem. Eur. J.2012, 18, 6015 – 6021. Weiwei He, Lifen Zhang, Jie Miao, Zhenping Cheng* and Xiulin Zhu*, Facile Iron-Mediated AGET ATRP for Water-Soluble Poly(ethylene glycol) Monomethyl Ether Methacrylate in Water. Macromol. Rapid Commun.2012, 33, 1067−1073. Liangjiu Bai, Lifen Zhang, Zhenping Cheng* and Xiulin Zhu*, Activators Generated by Electron Transfer for Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization: Recent Advances in Catalyst and Polymer Chemistry. Polym. Chem.2012, 3, 2685-2697. Ting Guo, Lifen Zhang, Hongjuan Jiang, Zhengbiao Zhang, Jian Zhu, Zhenping Cheng*, Xiulin Zhu*, Catalytic Amounts of Sodium Hydroxide as Additives for Iron–Mediated AGET ATRP of MMA. Polym. Chem. 2011, 2, 2385–2390. Jiliang Liu, Weiwei He, Lifen Zhang, Zhengbiao Zhang, Jian Zhu, Lin Yuan, Hong Chen, Zhenping Cheng*, Xiulin Zhu*, Bifunctional Nanoparticles with Fluorescence and Magnetism via Surface–Initiated AGET ATRP Mediated by an Iron Catalyst. Langmuir2011, 27, 12684–12692. Qiang Li, Lifen Zhang, Liangjiu Bai, Zhengbiao Zhang, Jian Zhu, Nianchen Zhou, Zhenping Cheng* and Xiulin Zhu*, Multistimuli–Responsive Hybrid Nanoparticles with Magnetic Core and Thermoresponsive Fluorescence–labeled Shell via Surface–initiated RAFT Polymerization. Soft Matter 2011, 7, 6958–6966. Gaohua Zhu, Lifen Zhang, Zhengbiao Zhang, Jian Zhu, Yingfeng Tu, Zhenping Cheng* and Xiulin Zhu*, Iron–Mediated ICAR ATRP of Methyl Methacrylate. Macromolecules2011, 44, 3233–3239. Jiliang Liu, Lifen Zhang, Suping Shi, Shuai Chen, Nianchen Zhou, Zhengbiao Zhang, Zhenping Cheng* and Xiulin Zhu*, A Novel and Universal Route to SiO2–Supported Organic/Inorganic Hybrid Noble Metal Nanomaterials via Surface RAFT Polymerization. Langmuir2010, 26, 14806–14813. Liangjiu Bai, Lifen Zhang, Zhengbiao Zhang, Yingfeng Tu, Nianchen Zhou, Zhenping Cheng* and Xiulin Zhu*, Iron–Mediated AGET ATRP of Styrene in the Presence of Catalytic Amounts of Base. Macromolecules2010, 43, 9283–9290.
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