Chao LANG

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Professor Chao Lang joined SCUT’s faculty in 2021. He earned his BS and PhD in chemistry from Jilin University. Before Joining SCUT, He was a postdoc scholar at the Pennsylvania State University, co-advised by Prof. Robert Hickey and Prof. Manish Kumar. He was awarded with ACS PMSE Future Faculty Scholar in 2020 and Distinguished Young Scholars of NSFC (Overseas) in 2022. His research interest is in biomimetic chemistry and self-assembly materials.

Prof. Chao Lang’s research focuses on developing biomimetic soft materials, with an emphasis on non-equilibrium structures inspired by living systems. By mimicking biological structures and functions across molecular, cellular, and tissue levels, the group aims to create functional materials with diverse applications. Their work includes synthetic ion channels for efficient ion transport in medicine, sensors, and neuron-machine interfaces, as well as responsive materials mimicking biological tissues for use in prosthetics, smart clothing, and robotics.

2023
“Xinghua” Elite Scholars, SCUT

2022
Distinguished Young Scholars of NSFC, Overseas

2020
ACS PMSE Future Faculty Scholar

Bei Wu, Yifan Yan, Yuting Zhu, Changxing Ji, Yangyang Lin, Chao Lang*, Ions in motion: From biological channels to engineered transport systems. Giant 2025, 22, 100352
Yangyang Lin, Bei Wu, Yi Zeng, Haoxuan Yuan, Changxing Ji, Ziqi Liu, Xian Kong*, Yan Sui, Tingting Yin, Yuting Zhu, Jie Chen, Chao Lang*, Artificial Channels Based on Bottlebrush Polymers: Enhanced Ion Transport Through Polymer Topology Control. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2024, 63, e202408558
Chao Lang, Elisabeth C. Lloyd, Kelly E. Matuszewski , Yifan Xu , Venkat Ganesan, Rui Huang, Manish Kumar, Robert J. Hickey*, Nanostructured block copolymer muscles, Nat. Nanotechnol. 2022, 17, 752
Chao Lang, Manish Kumar*, Robert J. Hickey*, Current status and future directions of self-assembled block copolymer membranes for molecular separations, Soft Matter 2021, 17, 10405
Chao Lang, Jacob A. LaNasa, Nyalaliska Utomo, Yifan Xu, Melissa J. Nelson, Woochul Song, Michael A. Hickner, Ralph H. Colby, Manish Kumar*, Robert J. Hickey*, Solvent-non-solvent rapid-injection for preparing nanostructured materials from micelles to hydrogels, Nat. Comm. 2019, 10:3855
Chao Lang, Dan Ye, Woochul Song, Chenhao Yao, Yu-ming Tu, Clara Capparelli, Jacob. A. LaNasa, Michael A. Hickner, Esther W. Gomez, Enrique D. Gomez, Robert J. Hickey*, Manish Kumar*, Biomimetic separation of transport and matrix functions in lamellar block copolymer channel-based membranes, ACS Nano 2019, 13, 8292

Undergraduate courses:

Biomedical Polymers

General Chemistry Laboratory

Graduate courses:

Soft Machines

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