报告题目：Charged Metallopolymers: from Chemoselective Synthesis to Antimicrobials to Membranes
报告人：唐传兵教授（University of South Carolina, USA）
报告时间：2018年4月10日（周二）15:00
报告地点：25号楼346会议室
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                                                                   材料科学与工程学院
                                                                         2018年4月7日
报告摘要：
Metallopolymers possess simultaneous benefits of mechanical and processing properties of polymeric frameworks and electronic, catalytic, and magnetic properties of metal building blocks. Cationic metallocenes are a class of sandwich-type compounds with cationic metal centers, which are usually iron, cobalt, or rhodium. They are potential building blocks for fabricating a special class of functional polyelectrolytes that could have some of unprecedented properties. Research on synthetic chemistry of cationic metallocenes is emerging. In this presentation, I will talk about the latest efforts on chemoselective synthesis of derivatives of cationic cobaltocenium and rhodocenium as well as controlled polymerization toward multifunctional polyelectrolytes with a variety of macromolecular architectures and compositions. On the other hand, these novel polyelectrolytes have found many utilities that play an active role in promoting sustainability. I will discuss a sustainable approach to addressing bacteria resistance by conjugating cationic polyelectrolytes with conventional β-lactam antibiotics such as penicillin and amoxicillin. This new approach could provide a therapeutic platform in revitalizing old antibiotics to treat multidrug resistant superbugs. In addition, I will also talk about the potential of this class of polyelectrolytes as ultra-stable anion-exchange membranes for ion conduction in fuel cells.
报告人简介：
Dr. Chuanbing Tang received B.S. from Nanjing University, and Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University with Profs. Krzysztof Matyjaszewski and Tomasz Kowalewski. He was a postdoctoral scholar at the University of California Santa Barbara with Profs. Craig J. Hawker and Edward J. Kramer. He joined the University of South Carolina in 2009. Currently he is a Distinguished Professor at the College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry. His research interests focus on organic polymer synthesis, biobased polymers and biomaterials, metal-containing polymers, and polymers for advanced applications. He has been recognized with a few awards and honor, including Fellow of Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC), Fellow of Polymer Chemistry Division of American Chemical Society (POLY Fellow), Kavli Fellow of National Academy of Sciences, Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), South Carolina Governor's Young Scientist Award for Excellence in Scientific Research, NSF Career Award, ACS Local Section Outreach Volunteer of the Year Award, and USC Distinguished Undergraduate Research Mentor Award. He is an Associate Editor for Polymer Reviews and serves on a few editorial advisory boards of major polymer journals including Macromolecules, ACS Macro Letters, Macromolecular Rapid Communications, Macromolecular Chemistry and Physics, and Polymer. He has edited one book, published over 120 papers and 10 patents.