Education
Ph.D. Polymer Chemistry and Physics Sept 2004-June 2007
Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.
Advisor: Prof. Zhigang Wang
Dissertation: “Crystallization and rheological behavior of carbon nanotubes/isotactic Polypropylene”
M.S. Polymer Chemistry and Physics Sept 2001-June 2004
Wuhan University, China
Advisor: Prof. Zhilong Gao
Thesis: “Synthesis of Gemini surfactants”
B.S. Polymer Science and Engineering Sept 1997-June 2001
Hubei University, China
Research experience
Jun 2011-present, Associate professor
State Key Laboratory of Polymer Physics and Chemistry,
Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences,
Changchun, China
Oct 2008-Apr 2011, Postdoctoral researcher in Stephen L. Craig group
Department of Chemistry and Center for Biologically Inspired Materials and Material Systems,Duke
University,USA
Nov 2007 -Jul 2008, Postdoctoral researcher in Ingo Alig group
Deutsches Kunststoff-Institut,Germany
Jul 2007- Nov 2007, Research assistant in Zhigang Wang group
InstituteofChemistry, ChineseAcademy of Sciences,China
Academic part-time
1. IUPAC Subcommittee (East Asia) Macromolecular Division Membership
2. From 2012 to now, project evaluation experts of the national natural science foundation of China (NSFC)
Main honor
1. 2016 Feng Xinde Polymer Prize：The best paper nomination for the paper published in Polymer during 2015 (Polymer 2015, 59, 252-259.)。
2.In January 2020, project "impact hardening material" won the first prize in the first innovation contest of Changchun Faway Tong Yang Automobile Plastic Component Co. Ltd.
Research Interest
Fundamental research: understanding the relationship between the structure and rheological properties of polymer materials;
Application: (1) Automotive polymer materials; (2) Impact-Protective Materials; (3) Polymer fire-extinguishing hydrogel.
Selected publication
1.Gang Huang, Huanhuan Zhang, Yulin Liu, Haijian Chang, Hongwei Zhang, Hongzan Song, Donghua Xu*, Tongfei Shi. * Strain Hardening Behavior of Poly(vinyl alcohol)/Borate Hydrogels. Macromolecules 2017, 50, 2124-2135.
2.Yichao Lin, Yanhui Wang, Jun Zheng, Kun Yao, Haiying Tan, Yaotao Wang, Tao Tang,* and Donghua Xu*. Nanostructure and Linear Rheological Response of Comb-like Copolymer PSVS?g?PE Melts: Influences of Branching Densities and Branching Chain Length. Macromolecules 2015, 48, 7640-7648.
3.Donghua Xu, Daisuke Asai, Ashutosh Chilkoti*, Stephen L. Craig*. Rheological Properties of Cysteine-Containing Elastin-Like Polypeptide Solutions and Hydrogels. Biomacromolecules 2012, 13, 2315-2321.
4.Donghua Xu*, Stephen L. Craig*. Strain Hardening and Strain Softening of Reversibly Cross-Linked Supramolecular Polymer Networks. Macromolecules 2011, 44, 7478-7488.
5.Donghua Xu, Stephen L. Craig*. Scaling Laws in Supramolecular Polymer Networks. Macromolecules
2011, 44, 5465-5472.
6.Donghua Xu, Chen-Yang Liu, Stephen L. Craig*. Divergent Shear Thinning and Shear Thickening of Supramolecular Polymer Networks in Semidilute Entangled Polymer Solutions. Macromolecules 2011, 44, 2343-2353.
7.Donghua Xu, Jennifer L. Hawk, David M. Loveless, Sung Lan Jeon, and Stephen L. Craig*. Mechanism of Shear Thickening in Reversibly Cross-Linked Supramolecular Polymer Networks. Macromolecules 2010, 43, 3556-3565.
8.Donghua Xu, Zhigang Wang*, Jack F. Douglas. Influence of Carbon Nanotube Aspect Ratio on Normal Stress Differences in Isotactic Polypropylene Nanocomposite Melts. Macromolecules 2008, 41, 815-825.
9.Donghua Xu, Zhigang Wang*, Jack F. Douglas. Crystallization-Induced Fluid Flow in Polymer Melts Undergoing Solidification. Macromolecules 2007, 40, 1799-1802.