Group Members

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Principal Investigator

Dr. Ting Xu

Professor of the Department of Materials Science & Engineering and Department of Chemistry

Dr. Xu teaches Polymer Surfaces And Interfaces (MATSCI 251) for graduate students during the Fall semester, and Polymeric Materials (MATSCI 151) for upper-division undergraduate students during the Spring semester.

Office: 381 Hearst Memorial Mining Building

Phone: 510-642-1632

Email: tingxu[at]berkeley[dot]edu

Meet Our Team

All postdoctoral and student researchers are based in the 3rd Floor Student Bay of the Hearst Memorial Mining Building on UC Berkeley Campus, and can be contacted via personal email or through the lab phone number: 510-643-6804.

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Postdoctoral Scholar(2024)

Dr. Ivan Jayapurna

B.S. Chemical Engineering and B.A. Computer Science, University of California, Berkeley (2019)

Ph.D. Material Science and Engineering, University of California, Berkeley (2024)

Project: Rational design of bioactive plastics

Email: ivanfj[at]berkeley[dot]edu

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Postdoctoral Scholar (2023)

Dr. Daniel Loh

B.S. Yale University (2017)

Ph.D. Harvard University (2023)

Project: Heteropolymers as aqueous catalysts

Email: daniel[dot]loh[at]berkeley[dot]edu

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Postdoctoral Scholar (2022)

Dr. Xu Qiu

B.S. Pharmacy, Huazhong University of Science and Technology (2017)

Ph.D. Pharmaceutical chemistry, Peking University (2022)

Project: Protein-inspired random heteropolymers for systematic chemistry

Email: xu.qiu48[at]berkeley[dot]edu

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Postdoctoral Scholar (2021)

Dr. Hao Yu

B.S. Chemistry, Jilin University (2016)

Ph.D. Chemical Engineering, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (2021)

Project: Design of heteropolymers for catalytic activity and plastic recycling

Email: haoy3[at]berkeley[dot]edu

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Graduate Student (2019), Advanced to PhD Candidacy (2020)

Tiffany Chen

B.S. Chemistry, University of California, San Diego (2017)

Projects: Synthesis of polymer grafted nanoparticles; Synthesis and characterization of polymer grafted nanoparticles

Email: tiffanyklchen[at]berkeley[dot]edu

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Graduate Student (2021)

Haotian Chen

B.S. Agriculture, Jilin University (2018)

M.S. Neurobiology, Fudan University (2021)

Project: Cellular Properties of Random Heteropolymers as a Protein Mimetic: Toxicity, Uptake and Fate

Email: haotian_chen[at]berkeley[dot]edu

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Graduate Student (2022)

Alexandra Grigoropoulos

B.S. Materials Science and Engineering, University of California, Berkeley (2022)

Project: Random heteropolymer design for modulation of protein folding and stability

Email: alexandrag2022[at]berkeley[dot]edu

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Graduate Student (2022)

Baichuan (Patrick) Na

B.S. Chemistry, The Ohio State University (2022)

Project: Interaction between Random Heteropolymers and metal ions: Perspective from selective lanthanides separation

Email: baichuanna[at]berkeley[dot]edu

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Graduate Student (2022)

Seungyeop Kim

B.S. Material Science and Engineering, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (2022)

Project: Supramolecule nanocomposite self-assembly

Email: yeop_kim[at]berkeley[dot]edu

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Graduate Student (2023)

Hao Wei

B.S. Chemistry, University of California San Diego (2023)

Project: Polymer Nanocomposites for plastic waste upcycling and functionalization

Email: hao_wei[at]berkeley[dot]edu

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Graduate Student (2023)

Sherrie Qian

B.S. Materials Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2023)

Project: Synthesis and characterization of polymer grafted nanoparticles

Email: sxqian[at]berkeley[dot]edu

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Graduate Student (2023)

Boya Zhu

B.S. Materials Science and Engineering, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (2023)

Project: Random Heteropolymer design

Email: boyazhu[at]berkeley[dot]edu

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