Xuehui DONG

  • OFFICE

    C2-b418 (Guangzhou International Campus)

  • EMAIL

    xdong@scut.edu.cn

  • WEBSITE/LAB

    www.softmatters.cn

Biography

  • Xue-Hui Dong is currently a professor in School of Emergent Soft Matter, South China University of Technology. He graduated with a B.S. degree in polymer chemistry from University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) in 2008 and received his Ph.D. degree in polymer science from the University of Akron in 2013. Following three-year postdoctoral research in Department of Chemical Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), he joined South China Advanced Institute for Soft Matter Science and Technology (AISMST), South China University of Technology in early 2017. His research focuses on design and synthesis of precision macromolecules, block copolymer self-assembly, and their applications in advanced nanopatterning technologies.

Research Interests

  • Prof. Dong’s research focuses on design and synthesis of precision macromolecules, block copolymer self-assembly, and their applications in advanced nanopatterning technologies.

Awards & Honors

2022
Finalist, Feng XinDe Polymer Prize, Elsevier

2019
Guangzhou High-Caliber Talent

2017
Youth Thousand Talents Program

Selected Publications

  • Gan, Z.; Dong, X.-H.* Discrete Block Copolymers: Precision Engineering on Multiple Length Scales. Macromolecules 2025, 58 (5), 2192–2209.

  • Gan, Z.; Xu, Z.; Tian, K.; Zhou, D.; Li, L.; Ma, Z.; Tan, R.; Li, W.; Dong, X.-H.* Stabilizing Hexagonally Close-Packed Phase in Single-Component Block Copolymers Through Rational Symmetry Breaking. Nat. Commun.2024, 15 (1), 6581.

  • Gan, Z.†; Li, L.†; Zhou, D.†; Xu, Z.; Ma, Z.; He, J.; Li, W.*; Dong, X.-H.* Rationally Leveraging Polymer Chain Length Heterogeneity for Robust Structural Engineering. CCS Chem.2024, 6 (8), 1965-1977.

  • Gan, Z.; Zhou, D.; Ma, Z.; Xu, M.; Xu, Z.; He, J.; Zhou, J.; Dong, X.-H.* Local Chain Feature Mandated Self-Assembly of Block Copolymers. J Am Chem Soc 2023, 145, 487-497.

  • Zhou, D.; Xu, M.; Ma, Z.; Gan, Z.; Tan, R.; Wang, S.; Zhang, Z.; Dong, X.-H.* Precisely Encoding Geometric Features into Discrete Linear Polymer Chains for Robust Structural Engineering. J Am Chem Soc 2021, 143, 18744–18754.

  • Liu, Z.; Chen, X.; Yang, Z.; Wang, S.; Gan, Z.; Li, G.; Dong, X.-H.* Precise Amphiphilic Giant Polymeric Chain Based on Nanosized Monomers with Exact Regio-Configuration. ACS Nano 2021, 15, 12367–12374.

  • Liu, Z.; Yang, Z.; Chen, X.; Tan, R.; Li, G.; Gan, Z.; Shao, Y.; He, J.; Zhang, Z.; Li, W.; Zhang, W.-B.; Dong, X.-H.* Discrete Giant Polymeric Chains Based on Nanosized Monomers. JACS Au 2021, 1, 79–86.

  • Li, G.; Gan, Z.; Liu, Y.; Wang, S.; Guo, Q.-Y.; Liu, Z.; Tan, R.; Zhou, D.; Kong, D.; Wen, T.; Dong, X.-H.* Molecular Patchy Clusters with Controllable Symmetry Breaking for Structural Engineering. ACS Nano 2020, 14, 13816–13823.

  • Sun, Y.; Tan, R.; Ma, Z.; Gan, Z.; Li, G.; Zhou, D.; Shao, Y.; Zhang, W.-B.; Zhang, R.; Dong, X.-H.* Discrete Block Copolymers with Diverse Architectures: Resolving Complex Spherical Phases with One Monomer Resolution. ACS Cent.Sci.2020, 6, 1386–1393.

Teaching

Undergraduate courses:

Physical Chemistry I

Graduate courses:

Soft Matter Physics I

Advances in Polymer Science