Zhejiang University Top Ten Academic Progresses Introduction

Currently, polymer materials industry faces enormous pressure in environment and resources in the world. In China, polymer materials industry is developing under multiple pressures including environment, resources, technology and trade barriers. Intense domestic and international competition and hardships in development push the industry to increase investment in science and technology, accelerate the pace of innovation, improve product quality, develop green polymer material products and the producing technology, and achieve clean production and waste utilization. Combining supramolecular chemistry with traditional polymer science, the research group headed by Professor Huang Feihe produced a series of supramolecular polymer functional materials based on non-covalent bonds. Their studies made outstanding contributions to answer the question proposed by Science magazine in its special issue in 2005 “How far can we push chemical self-assembly?”

The research team developed a kind of supramolecular polymer gel with non-covalent bonding. Thanks to its elasticity the gel can be made into film. The study not only produced elastic film with small molecules for the first time, but also provided new solutions for “white pollution” caused by non-degradable plastic film.

Self-repair refers material’s property of recovering its shape and function after external damage. It’s one of the most advanced properties of materials and also the research frontier of materials science. The self-healing supramolecular polymer gel produced by Huang’s team will recover its elastic and viscous properties within one minute after being stretched to 100 times long. In addition, the process can be repeated for multiple times.

The progresses made by the research team have been widely recognized at home and abroad. The team had more than 45 publications in journals with impact factor greater than 5, including 6 papers in J. Am. Chem. Soc. (IF=9.91), 4 papers in Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. (IF=13.46), 2 papers in Adv. Mater. (IF=13.88), 1 paper in Acc. Chem. Res. (IF=21.64) and 3 papers in Chem. Soc. Rev. (IF=28.76). Professor Huang has been invited to visit world-renowned research institutions such as Oxford University and Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces. He received Outstanding Achievement Award from Li Foundation in USA and Alexander von Humboldt Prize. He is also the winner of National Outstanding Youth Science Foundation, fellow of British Royal Society of Chemistry, guest editor of Chem. Soc. Rev., and consulting editor of Chem. Soc. Rev and Chem. Commun. One Ph. D. candidate in the team won nomination of National Excellent Doctoral Dissertation Award.

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