Xinfeng Tao
Associate Professor, Master’s Supervisor
School of Materials Science and Engineering
taoxinfeng@ecust.edu.cn
Room 109, Building 1, Experimental Complex, 130 Meilong Road, Shanghai
Personal Profile
  • 2006.09 - 2010.06: Zhejiang University, Bachelor’s degree
  • 2010.09 - 2015.06: Zhejiang University, PhD
  • 2015.10 - 2017.09: Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University, Postdoctoral Researcher
  • 2017.09 - 2018.09: French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), Chimie ParisTech, Assistant Researcher
  • 2018-09 - Present: School of Materials Science and Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology, Distinguished Associate Researcher, Associate Professor / Master’s Supervisor
Research Interests
  • Synthesis and characterisation of functionalised polyamino acids
  • Synthesis and photoresponsive behaviour of azobenzene polymers
  • Smart polymeric nanoassemblies
Research Achievements
  • 1. Facile synthesis of alternating azopolymers via Ugi multicomponent polymerisation towards photo- and pH-responsive polymersomes. Biomacromolecules, 2026
  • 2. Facile synthesis of thioether-functionalised N-substituted glycine N-thiocarboxyanhydride towards well-defined thiopolypeptoids. Biomacromolecules, 2025
  • 3. Synthesis and self-assembly of azobenzene-functionalised polypeptoids based on Ugi multicomponent polymerisation. Acta Polym. Sin, 2025
  • 4. Poly(acetylene azobenzene oligoethylene glycol) with concurrently reversible photomechanical and photoelectric responsiveness upon ultraviolet irradiation. ACS Appl. Polym. Mater, 2025
  • 5. Effects of secondary structures and pH on the self-assembly of poly(ethylene glycol)-b-polytyrosine. Biomacromolecules, 2024
Research Projects
  • 1.General Programme of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, 2026.01-2029.12
  • 2. Youth Programme of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, 2020.01-2022.12
  • 3. Shanghai Natural Science Foundation General Programme, 2024.10-2027.09
  • 4. Shanghai Natural Science Foundation General Programme, 2019.07-2022.06
  • 5. Shanghai Chenguang Programme, Principal Investigator, 2019.01-2021.12