Zhibin Guan

Professor of Chemistry with expertise in polymers and sustainable plastics, University of California, Irvine

Research Expertise

materials chemistry

polymer

biomaterials

catalysis

sustainable materials

plastic recycling

Publications

Synthesis of Fluoropolymers in Supercritical Carbon Dioxide

Multiphase design of autonomic self-healing thermoplastic elastomers

Nature Chemistry

General Strategies for Nanoparticle Dispersion

Malleable and Self-Healing Covalent Polymer Networks through Tunable Dynamic Boronic Ester Bonds

Journal of the American Chemical Society

Chain Walking: A New Strategy to Control Polymer Topology

Making Insoluble Polymer Networks Malleable via Olefin Metathesis

Journal of the American Chemical Society

Olefin Metathesis for Effective Polymer Healing via Dynamic Exchange of Strong Carbon–Carbon Double Bonds

Journal of the American Chemical Society

Self-Healing Multiphase Polymers via Dynamic Metal–Ligand Interactions

Journal of the American Chemical Society

Control of hierarchical polymer mechanics with bioinspired metal-coordination dynamics

Nature Materials

Silyl Ether as a Robust and Thermally Stable Dynamic Covalent Motif for Malleable Polymer Design

Journal of the American Chemical Society

Enhancing Mechanical Performance of a Covalent Self-Healing Material by Sacrificial Noncovalent Bonds

Journal of the American Chemical Society

Self‐Healing Supramolecular Block Copolymers

Angewandte Chemie International Edition

Cyclophane‐Based Highly Active Late‐Transition‐Metal Catalysts for Ethylene Polymerization

Angewandte Chemie

Efficient and selective degradation of polyethylenes into liquid fuels and waxes under mild conditions

Science Advances

Recyclable, Strong, and Highly Malleable Thermosets Based on Boroxine Networks

Journal of the American Chemical Society

Homogeneous free radical polymerizations in supercritical carbon dioxide: 2. Thermal decomposition of 2,2'-azobis(isobutyronitrile)

A Biomimetic Modular Polymer with Tough and Adaptive Properties

Journal of the American Chemical Society

Designing late-transition metal catalysts for olefin insertion polymerization and copolymerization

Chemical Communications

Ligand Electronic Effects on Late Transition Metal Polymerization Catalysts

Organometallics

Direct Silyl Ether Metathesis for Vitrimers with Exceptional Thermal Stability

Journal of the American Chemical Society

Novel Branching Topology in Polyethylenes As Revealed by Light Scattering and ¹³C NMR

Modular Design in Natural and Biomimetic Soft Materials

Angewandte Chemie International Edition

XPS Studies of Fluorinated Acrylate Polymers and Block Copolymers with Polystyrene

Control of Polymer Topology by Chain-Walking Catalysts

Chemistry - A European Journal

A glucose-sensing polymer

Nature Biotechnology

Direct Synthesis of Polyamides via Catalytic Dehydrogenation of Diols and Diamines

Journal of the American Chemical Society

Fluorocarbon-Based Heterophase Polymeric Materials. 1. Block Copolymer Surfactants for Carbon Dioxide Applications

Synthesis of Functional Olefin Copolymers with Controllable Topologies Using a Chain-Walking Catalyst

Journal of the American Chemical Society

Efficient Incorporation of Polar Comonomers in Copolymerizations with Ethylene Using a Cyclophane-Based Pd(II) α-Diimine Catalyst

Journal of the American Chemical Society

Multivalent hydrogen bonding block copolymers self-assemble into strong and tough self-healing materials

Multifunctional Dendronized Peptide Polymer Platform for Safe and Effective siRNA Delivery

Journal of the American Chemical Society

Synthesis of New Phosphine Imine Ligands and Their Effects on the Thermal Stability of Late-Transition-Metal Olefin Polymerization Catalysts

Organometallics

Nickel(II) and Palladium(II) Polymerization Catalysts Bearing a Fluorinated Cyclophane Ligand: Stabilization of the Reactive Intermediate

Organometallics

Biomimetic Design of Reversibly Unfolding Cross-Linker to Enhance Mechanical Properties of 3D Network Polymers

Journal of the American Chemical Society

Modular Domain Structure: A Biomimetic Strategy for Advanced Polymeric Materials

Journal of the American Chemical Society

Tuning Dynamic Mechanical Response in Metallopolymer Networks through Simultaneous Control of Structural and Temporal Properties of the Networks

Effect of Ligand Electronics on the Stability and Chain Transfer Rates of Substituted Pd(II) α-Diimine Catalysts

Living Polymerization of α-Olefins at Elevated Temperatures Catalyzed by a Highly Active and Robust Cyclophane-Based Nickel Catalyst

Axial Donating Ligands: A New Strategy for Late Transition Metal Olefin Polymerization Catalysis

Journal of the American Chemical Society

Systematic Investigation of Ligand Substitution Effects in Cyclophane-Based Nickel(II) and Palladium(II) Olefin Polymerization Catalysts

Organometallics

Mechanically Robust and Self‐Healable Superlattice Nanocomposites by Self‐Assembly of Single‐Component “Sticky” Polymer‐Grafted Nanoparticles

Advanced Materials

Direct correlation of single-molecule properties with bulk mechanical performance for the biomimetic design of polymers

Nature Materials

From Racemic Alcohols to Enantiopure Amines: Ru-Catalyzed Diastereoselective Amination

Journal of the American Chemical Society

Tandem Chain Walking Polymerization and Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization for Efficient Synthesis of Dendritic Nanoparticles for Bioconjugation

Journal of the American Chemical Society

Control of Polymer Topology through Transition-Metal Catalysis: Synthesis of Hyperbranched Polymers by Cobalt-Mediated Free Radical Polymerization

Journal of the American Chemical Society

A Remarkable Visible Light Effect on Atom-Transfer Radical Polymerization

Transition Metal-Catalyzed One-Pot Synthesis of Water-Soluble Dendritic Molecular Nanocarriers

Journal of the American Chemical Society

Cycloaddition‐Promoted Self‐Assembly of a Polymer into Well‐Defined β Sheets and Hierarchical Nanofibrils

Angewandte Chemie

Forced Unfolding of Single-Chain Polymeric Nanoparticles

Journal of the American Chemical Society

Recent Progress in Late Transition Metal α-Diimine Catalysts for Olefin Polymerization

Topics in Organometallic Chemistry

A Mechanistic Investigation on Copolymerization of Ethylene with Polar Monomers Using a Cyclophane-Based Pd(II) α-Diimine Catalyst

Journal of the American Chemical Society

A convergent synthesis of new β-turn mimics by click chemistry

Bioinspired Modular Synthesis of Elastin-Mimic Polymers To Probe the Mechanism of Elastin Elasticity

Journal of the American Chemical Society

A Novel Carbohydrate-Derived Side-Chain Polyether with Excellent Protein Resistance

Journal of the American Chemical Society

Control of polymer topology through late‐transition‐metal catalysis

Journal of Polymer Science Part A: Polymer Chemistry

Saccharide–Peptide Hybrid Copolymers as Biomaterials

Angewandte Chemie International Edition

Homogeneous free-radical polymerizations in carbon dioxide. 3. Telomerization of 1,1-difluoroethylene in supercritical carbon dioxide

Bioinspired Design of Nanostructured Elastomers with Cross-Linked Soft Matrix Grafting on the Oriented Rigid Nanofibers To Mimic Mechanical Properties of Human Skin

Late-Transition-Metal Complexes with Bisazaferrocene Ligands for Ethylene Oligomerization

Organometallics

Catalytic acceptorless dehydrogenations: Ru-Macho catalyzed construction of amides and imines

De Novo Design of Saccharide−Peptide Hydrogels as Synthetic Scaffolds for Tailored Cell Responses

Journal of the American Chemical Society

Recent Progress of Catalytic Polymerization for Controlling Polymer Topology

Chemistry – An Asian Journal

Synthesis and Single-Molecule Studies of a Well-Defined Biomimetic Modular Multidomain Polymer Using a Peptidomimetic β-Sheet Module

Journal of the American Chemical Society

Biodegradable and Biocompatible Synthetic Saccharide−Peptide Hydrogels for Three-Dimensional Stem Cell Culture

Biomacromolecules

Enhanced Glassy State Mechanical Properties of Polymer Nanocomposites via Supramolecular Interactions

Tandem Coordination, Ring-Opening, Hyperbranched Polymerization for the Synthesis of Water-Soluble Core–Shell Unimolecular Transporters

ACS Macro Letters

Computational and single-molecule force studies of a macro domain protein reveal a key molecular determinant for mechanical stability

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Surfactant-Free Synthesis of Biodegradable, Biocompatible, and Stimuli-Responsive Cationic Nanogel Particles

Biomacromolecules

Self-assembly of core–shell nanoparticles for self-healing materials

Polymer Chemistry

Structure-Based Design of Dendritic Peptide Bolaamphiphiles for siRNA Delivery

ACS Central Science

Structure–Property Studies on Carbohydrate-Derived Polymers for Use as Protein-Resistant Biomaterials

Biomacromolecules

Redox Chemical‐Fueled Dissipative Self‐Assembly of Active Materials

ChemSystemsChem

Synthesis and Structure ofm-Terphenyl-Based Cyclophanes with Nitrogen Intra-annular Functional Groups

Organic Letters

Living Ring-Opening Polymerization of a Carbohydrate-Derived Lactone for the Synthesis of Protein-Resistant Biomaterials

Biomacromolecules

Nickel(II) and Palladium(II) Complexes with an Alkane-Bridged Macrocyclic Ligand: Synthesis, Characterization, and Polymerization Tests

Organometallics

Synthesis and Investigation of Core−Shell Dendritic Nanoparticles with Tunable Thermosensitivity

Metal Catalysts in Olefin Polymerization

Topics in Organometallic Chemistry

Immunomodulation of the NLRP3 Inflammasome through Structure-Based Activator Design and Functional Regulation via Lysosomal Rupture

ACS Central Science

Supramolecular design in biopolymers and biomimetic polymers for advanced mechanical properties

Polymer International

Self-healing thermoplastic elastomer brush copolymers having a glassy polymethylmethacrylate backbone and rubbery polyacrylate-amide brushes

Maintaining functional islets through encapsulation in an injectable saccharide–peptide hydrogel

Large Continuous Mechanical Gradient Formation via Metal–Ligand Interactions

Angewandte Chemie International Edition

Fluorocarbon Modified Low-Molecular-Weight Polyethylenimine for siRNA Delivery

Bioconjugate Chemistry

Rheology of Polyethylenes with Novel Branching Topology Synthesized by a Chain-Walking Catalyst

Electrically Fueled Active Supramolecular Materials

Journal of the American Chemical Society

Helical polymers based on intramolecularly hydrogen-bonded aromatic polyamides

Chemical Communications

A Three‐Armed Polymer with Tunable Self‐Assembly and Self‐Healing Properties Based on Benzene‐1,3,5‐tricarboxamide and Metal–Ligand Interactions

Macromolecular Rapid Communications

Foldamers as Cross-Links for Tuning the Dynamic Mechanical Property of Methacrylate Copolymers

Phage Wrapping with Cationic Polymers Eliminates Nonspecific Binding between M13 Phage and High pI Target Proteins

Journal of the American Chemical Society

Cascade Chain-Walking Polymerization to Generate Large Dendritic Nanoparticles

Using steered molecular dynamics simulations and single-molecule force spectroscopy to guide the rational design of biomimetic modular polymeric materials

Fluoride‐Catalyzed Siloxane Exchange as a Robust Dynamic Chemistry for High‐Performance Vitrimers

Advanced Materials

QUALITY CONTROL OF PRODUCTS FROM POLYMERIC COMPOSITE MATERIALS BY ACOUSTIC METHODS

Kontrol'. Diagnostika

Modulation of chondrocyte behavior through tailoring functional synthetic saccharide–peptide hydrogels

“Clicked” fluoropolymer elastomers as robust materials for potential microfluidic device applications

J. Mater. Chem.

Synthesis and Properties of Multistimuli-Responsive Water-Soluble Hyperbranched Polymers Prepared Via Reversible AdditionFragmentation Chain Transfer Self-Condensing Vinyl Polymerization

Synthesis of “Necklace” Polymers by Chain-Walking Polymerization

ACS Macro Letters

Education

B.S., Chemistry / July, 1987

Beijing

M.S., Polymer Chemistry / July, 1990

Beijing

UNC-Chapel Hill

Ph.D., Organic/polymer chemistry / July, 1994

Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Experience

Caltech

Research Fellow / July, 1994 — June, 1995

Postdoctoral research with Prof. Frances Arnold (Nobel Laureate in Chemistry 2018)

DuPont

Senior Research Chemist / June, 1995 — June, 2000

UC Irvine

Assistant Professor / September, 2000 — June, 2004

Associate Professor (with tenure) / July, 2004 — June, 2006

Professor / July, 2006 — Present

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