| Name | Tao Xinfeng | Date of birth | 1988/04 |
Title | Associate Professor | Address | Room 109, Experimental Building 1 | |
taoxinfeng@ecust.edu.cn | Phone | / | ||
Research Group | Materials Physics Teaching and Research Department | |||
Admission Major | Polymer Chemistry and Physics, Materials Science and Engineering, Materials and Chemical Engineering | |||
Research Interests •Functional Poly(amino acid)s •Photo-Responsive Azobenzene Polymers •Intelligent Polymer Nano-Assemblies | ||||
Education and Work Experiences Jan 2023 - Present: Associate Professor,School of Materials Science and Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology Sep 2018 - Dec 2022: Special Associate Researcher, School of Materials Science and Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology Sep 2017 - Sep 2018: Postdoctor, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Chimie ParisTech Oct 2015 - Sep 2017: Postdoctor, Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University Sep 2010 - Jun 2015 | Ph.D. in Polymer Chemistry and Physics | Zhejiang University Sep 2006 - Jun 2010 | B.S. in of Polymer Science and Engineering | Zhejiang University | ||||
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Academic Achievements 1. Publications [1] Yingdong Ding, Chen Feng, Sheng Jin, Yuxin Li, Xinfeng Tao*, Shaoliang Lin*, Facile synthesis of thioether-functionalized N-substituted glycine N-thiocarboxyanhydride toward well-defined thiopolypeptoids, Biomacromolecules, vol. 26, no. 9, pp. 5694–5704, 2025. [2] Miaochuan Li, Sheng Jin, Weisheng Feng, Xinfeng Tao*, Shaoliang Lin*, Synthesis and self-assembly of azobenzene-functionalized polypeptoids based on Ugi multicomponent polymerization, Acta Polymerica Sinica, vol. 56, no. 10, pp. 1716–1726, 2025. [3] Xinfeng Tao, Ciyin Shen, Qixia Hua, Sheng Jin, Yuan Yao*, Shaoliang Lin*, Poly(acetylene azobenzene oligoethylene glycol) with concurrently reversible photomechanical and photoelectric responsiveness upon ultraviolet irradiation, ACS Applied Polymer Materials, vol. 7, no. 8, pp. 5212–5220, 2025. [4] Caixia Jiang, Chonghao Zhao, Peng Xu, Qipeng Song, Xinfeng Tao*, Shaoliang Lin*, Effects of secondary structures and pH on the self-assembly of poly(ethylene glycol)-b-polytyrosine, Biomacromolecules, vol. 25, no. 8, pp. 5028–5038, 2024. [5] Yanli Zhao, Xinfeng Tao*, Binbin Xu, Wenbin Liu*, Shaoliang Lin*, Robust thiazole-linked covalent organic frameworks with post-modified azobenzene groups: photo-regulated dye adsorption and separation, Advanced Functional Materials, vol. 34, no. 34, pp. 2401895, 2024. [6] Siqi Wang, Tianlun Shen, Kai Hao, Xinfeng Tao*, Jihong Sun*, Jun Ling*, Self-limited hyperbranching polymerization of di-N-phenoxycarbonyl N-substituted diglycines, Macromolecular Chemistry and Physics, vol. 224, no. 15, pp. 2300084, 2023. [7] Yanli Zhao#, Xinfeng Tao#, Jiaping Lin, Saholiang Lin*, Azobenzene functionalized organic covalent frameworks: controlled morphologies and photo-regulated adsorption, Advanced Functional Materials, vol. 33, no. 38, pp. 2302225, 2023. [8] Jiale Qi, Yuan Yao, Xinfeng Tao*, Shaoliang Lin*, Synthesis and self-assembly of polypeptoids with aromatic side chains, Acta Polymerica Sinica, vol. 53, no. 12, pp. 1475–1483, 2022. [9] Shuting Yan, Yuan Yao, Xinfeng Tao*, Shaoliang Lin*, Synthesis and properties of polypeptoid hydrogels containing sulfonium groups, Chemical Journal of Chinese Universities, vol. 43, pp. 20220381, 2022. [10] Botuo Zheng, Tianwen Bai, Xinfeng Tao*, Jun Ling*, An inspection into multifarious ways to synthesize poly(amino acid)s, Macromolecular Rapid Communications, vol. 42, no. 22, pp. 2100453, 2021. [11] Zujia Hu, Shuting Yan, Jiale Qi, Xinfeng Tao*, Shaoliang Lin*, Synthesis and characterization of cyclic polypeptoids based on controlled polymerizations of NNTA, Acta Polymerica Sinica, vol. 52, no. 7, pp. 708–716, 2021. [12] Xinfeng Tao, Hui Chen, Sylvain Trépout, Jiayu Cen, Jun Ling, Min-Hui Li*, Polymersomes with aggregation-induced emission based on amphiphilic block copolypeptoids, Chemical Communications, vol. 55, no. 90, pp. 13530–13533, 2019. [13] Xinfeng Tao, Min-Hui Li, Jun Ling*, α-Amino acid N-thiocarboxyanhydrides: a novel synthetic approach toward poly(α-amino acid)s, European Polymer Journal, vol. 109, pp. 26–42, 2018. [14] Botuo Zheng, Tianwen Bai, Xinfeng Tao*, Helmut Schlaad, Jun Ling*, Identifying the hydrolysis of carbonyl sulfide as a side reaction impeding the polymerization of N-substituted glycine N-thiocarboxyanhydride, Biomacromolecules, vol. 19, no. 11, pp. 4263–4269, 2018. [15] Xinfeng Tao, Botuo Zheng, Tianwen Bai, Min-Hui Li, Jun Ling*, Polymerization of N-substituted glycine N-thiocarboxyanhydride through regioselective initiation of cysteamine: a direct way toward thiol-capped polypeptoids, Macromolecules, vol. 51, no. 12, pp. 4494–4501, 2018. [16] Xinfeng Tao, Botuo Zheng, Tainwen Bai, Baoku Zhu, Jun Ling*, Hydroxyl group tolerated polymerization of N-substituted glycine N-thiocarboxyanhydride mediated by aminoalcohols: a simple way to α-hydroxyl-ω-aminotelechelic polypeptoids, Macromolecules, vol. 50, no. 8, pp. 3066–3077, 2017. [17] Xinfeng Tao, Botuo Zheng, Hans R. Kricheldorf, Jun Ling*, Are N-substituted glycine N-thiocarboxyanhydride monomers really hard to polymerize? Journal of Polymer Science Part A: Polymer Chemistry, vol. 55, no. 3, pp. 404–410, 2017. 2. Research Projects [1] "Conformational regulation, self-assembly and photo-response of novel azobenzene-functionalized polypeptoids", 2026 – 2029, NSFC, Principal Investigator [2] "Synthesis and properties of functionalized polypeptoids based on N-thiocarboxyanhydrides", 2020 – 2022, NSFC, Principal Investigator [3] "Synthesis, assembly and application study of novel photo-responsive azobenzene-functionalized polypeptoids", 2024 – 2027, Shanghai Science and Technology Committee, Principal Investigator [4] "Study on a novel Initiating System for α-amino acid-N-thiocarboxyanhydride Polymerization ", 2019 – 2022, Shanghai Science and Technology Committee, Principal Investigator [5] "Synthesis and photo-regulated self-assembly of azobenzene-containing polypeptoids", 2019 – 2021, Shanghai Education Development Foundation and Shanghai Municipal Education Commission, Principal Investigator 3. Honors & Awards Chenguang Scholar, Shanghai Education Development Foundation, 2018 | ||||
