Dr. Ziyuan Song received his B.S. degree in Materials Chemistry in 2011 from Peking University, and his Ph.D. degree in Materials Science and Engineering in 2017 from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) under the supervision of Prof. Jianjun Cheng. He then worked as a Postdoc Research Associate at UIUC from 2017 to 2020. In 2021, he joined FUNSOM at Soochow University as a full professor.
Email: zysong@suda.edu.cn
Tel: 0512-65880206
Research Accomplishment:
Dr. Ziyuan Song is working on polymer chemistry and polymeric materials. His research focuses on the synthetic polypeptide materials, including the synthetic methodology, mechanism studies, the control over secondary structure, and the biomedical applications. Dr. Song has published 78 peer-reviewed papers (27 papers as first or corresponding authors), with a total citation over 4,900 and an H-index of 37. He holds 2 Chinese patents and 2 WIPO patents.
Selected Publications (*corresponding author, #co-first author):
Ji, G.; Zheng, X.; Hou, X.; Sun, X.; Wang, S.; Li, X.; Cheng, J.; Song, Z.* Modulation of polymerization rate of N-carboxyanhydrides in a biphasic system. Chin. Chem. Lett., 2024, 35 (1), 108872.
Li, Q.; Lan, Y.; Wang, W.; Ji, G.; Li, X.*; Song, Z.* Polymerization of N-carboxyanhydride in cosolvents: the balance between the polymerization rate and molecular weight control. Macromolecules, 2023, 56 (17), 7023-7031.
Wang, W.; Fu, H.; Lin, Y.*; Cheng, J.*; Song, Z.* Cooperative Covalent Polymerization of N-carboxyanhydrides: from Kinetic Studies to Efficient Synthesis of Polypeptide Materials. Acc. Mater. Res., 2023, 4 (7), 604-615.
Song, Z.; Fu, H.; Wang, J.; Hui, J.; Xue, T.; Pacheco, L. A.; Yan, H.; Baumgartner, R.; Wang, Z.; Xia, Y.; Wang, X.; Yin, L.; Chen, C.; Rodríguez-López, J.; Ferguson, A. L.; Lin, Y.*; Cheng, J.* Synthesis of polypeptides via bioinspired polymerization of in situ purified N-carboxyanhydrides, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 2019, 116, 10658-10663.
Song, Z.#; Fu, H.#; Baumgartner, R.#; Zhu, L.; Shih, K.-C.; Xia, Y.; Zheng, X.; Yin, L.; Chipot, C.*; Lin, Y.*; Cheng, J.* Enzyme-mimetic self-catalyzed polymerization of polypeptide helices, Nat. Commun., 2019, 10, 5470.
Song, Z.; Mansbach, R. A.; He, H.; Shi, K.-C.; Baumgartner, R.; Zheng, N.; Ba, X.; Huang, Y.; Mani, D.; Liu, Y.; Lin, Y.; Nieh, M.-P.; Ferguson, A. L.*; Yin, L.*; Cheng, J.* Modulation of polypeptide conformation through donor–acceptor transformation of side-chain hydrogen bonding ligands, Nat. Commun., 2017, 8, 92.
Song, Z.#; Fu, H.#; Wang, R.; Pacheco, L. A.; Wang, X.; Lin, Y.*; Cheng, J.* Secondary structure in synthetic polypeptides from N-carboxyanhydrides: design, modulation, association, and material applications, Chem. Soc. Rev., 2018, 47, 7401-7425.
Song, Z.*; Han, Z.; Lv, S.; Chen, C.; Chen, L.; Yin, L.; Cheng, J.* Synthetic polypeptides: from polymer design to supramolecular assembly and biomedical application, Chem. Soc. Rev., 2017, 46, 6570-6599.
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