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Jiangtao Xu is affiliated with the University of New South Wales in Australia. Their research primarily spans the fields of Materials Science and Engineering, reflecting a blend of fundamental and applied scientific inquiry.

The scientist's research contributions are concentrated in several subfields including Organic Chemistry, Materials Chemistry, Biomedical Engineering, Polymers and Plastics, and Electrical and Electronic Engineering.

The main topics of their work cover a range of advanced materials and polymer science areas, specifically:

  • Advanced Polymer Synthesis and Characterization
  • Conducting polymers and applications
  • Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials
  • Advanced Battery Materials and Technologies
  • Advanced Nanomaterials in Catalysis
  • Metal-Organic Frameworks: Synthesis and Applications
  • Advanced battery technologies research

Jiangtao Xu has co-authored frequently with Kang Liang, Karen Hakobyan, Cyrille Boyer, Kunkun Guo, and Shuhua Peng, indicating a collaborative network around materials and polymer research topics.

The scientist has published multiple papers in respected venues, with recurring publications in journals such as ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, SSRN Electronic Journal, ACS Applied Polymer Materials, Small, and Polymer Chemistry.

Among recent papers, several notable examples include:

  • Hierarchically Porous Biocatalytic MOF Microreactor as a Versatile Platform towards Enhanced Multienzyme and Cofactor-Dependent Biocatalysis, 2020, Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Covalent fixing of sulfur in metal-sulfur batteries, 2020, Energy & Environmental Science
  • Perovskite solar cells based on spiro-OMeTAD stabilized with an alkylthiol additive, 2022, Nature Photonics
  • Polymer Synthesis in Continuous Flow Reactors, 2020, Progress in Polymer Science
  • Biocompatible and Highly Stretchable PVA/AgNWs Hydrogel Strain Sensors for Human Motion Detection, 2020, Advanced Materials Technologies

These publications reflect a focus on functional materials with applications in catalysis, energy storage, solar cells, polymer synthesis, and wearable sensing technologies.

Best Publications

  • A Robust and Versatile Photoinduced Living Polymerization of Conjugated and Unconjugated Monomers and Its Oxygen Tolerance

    Jiangtao Xu;Kenward Jung;Amir Atme;Sivaprakash Shanmugam

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  • Photocatalysis in organic and polymer synthesis

    Nathaniel Corrigan;Sivaprakash Shanmugam;Jiangtao Xu;Cyrille Boyer

  • Seeing the Light: Advancing Materials Chemistry through Photopolymerization.

    Nathaniel Corrigan;Jonathan Yeow;Peter Judzewitsch;Jiangtao Xu

  • Exploiting Metalloporphyrins for Selective Living Radical Polymerization Tunable over Visible Wavelengths.

    Sivaprakash Shanmugam;Jiangtao Xu;Cyrille Boyer

  • Organo-photocatalysts for photoinduced electron transfer-reversible addition–fragmentation chain transfer (PET-RAFT) polymerization

    Jiangtao Xu;Sivaprakash Shanmugam;Hien T. Duong;Cyrille Boyer

  • Light-Regulated Polymerization under Near-Infrared/Far-Red Irradiation Catalyzed by Bacteriochlorophyll a.

    Sivaprakash Shanmugam;Jiangtao Xu;Cyrille Boyer

  • Oxygen Tolerance Study of Photoinduced Electron Transfer–Reversible Addition–Fragmentation Chain Transfer (PET-RAFT) Polymerization Mediated by Ru(bpy)3Cl2

    Jiangtao Xu;Kenward Jung;Cyrille Boyer

  • Photoinduced Electron Transfer–Reversible Addition–Fragmentation Chain Transfer (PET-RAFT) Polymerization of Vinyl Acetate and N-Vinylpyrrolidinone: Kinetic and Oxygen Tolerance Study

    Sivaprakash Shanmugam;Jiangtao Xu;Cyrille Boyer

  • Selective Photoactivation: From a Single Unit Monomer Insertion Reaction to Controlled Polymer Architectures

    Jiangtao Xu;Sivaprakash Shanmugam;Changkui Fu;Kondo-Francois Aguey-Zinsou

  • Beyond Traditional RAFT: Alternative Activation of Thiocarbonylthio Compounds for Controlled Polymerization.

    Thomas G McKenzie;Qiang Fu;Mineto Uchiyama;Kotaro Satoh

  • Polymerization-Induced Self-Assembly Using Visible Light Mediated Photoinduced Electron Transfer–Reversible Addition–Fragmentation Chain Transfer Polymerization

    Jonathan Yeow;Jiangtao Xu;Cyrille Boyer

  • Utilizing the electron transfer mechanism of chlorophyll a under light for controlled radical polymerization

    Sivaprakash Shanmugam;Jiangtao Xu;Cyrille Boyer

  • Oxygen Tolerance in Living Radical Polymerization: Investigation of Mechanism and Implementation in Continuous Flow Polymerization

    Nathaniel Corrigan;Dzulfadhli Rosli;Jesse Warren Jeffery Jones;Jiangtao Xu

  • PET-RAFT polymerisation: towards green and precision polymer manufacturing

    Jamie Phommalysack-Lovan;Yingying Chu;Cyrille Boyer;Jiangtao Xu

  • Aqueous photoinduced living/controlled polymerization: tailoring for bioconjugation

    Jiangtao Xu;Kenward Jung;Nathaniel Alan Corrigan;Cyrille Boyer

  • Synthesis of discrete oligomers by sequential PET-RAFT single-unit monomer insertion

    Jiangtao Xu;Changkui Fu;Sivaprakash Shanmugam;Sivaprakash Shanmugam;Craig J. Hawker

  • Aminolysis of Polymers with Thiocarbonylthio Termini Prepared by RAFT Polymerization: The Difference between Polystyrene and Polymethacrylates

    Jiangtao Xu;Junpo He;Deqin Fan;Xiaojun Wang

  • Photoacid-mediated ring opening polymerization driven by visible light

    Changkui Fu;Jiangtao Xu;Cyrille Boyer

  • Oxygen tolerant photopolymerization for ultralow volumes

    Jonathan Yeow;Robert Chapman;Jiangtao Xu;Cyrille Boyer

  • Combining Thio−Bromo “Click” Chemistry and RAFT Polymerization: A Powerful Tool for Preparing Functionalized Multiblock and Hyperbranched Polymers

    Jiangtao Xu;Lei Tao;Cyrille Boyer;Andrew B Lowe

Frequent Co-Authors

Cyrille Boyer
Cyrille Boyer University of New South Wales
Thomas P. Davis
Thomas P. Davis University of Queensland
Graeme Moad
Graeme Moad Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Lei Tao
Lei Tao Tsinghua University
Greg G. Qiao
Greg G. Qiao University of Melbourne
Yuliang Yang
Yuliang Yang Fudan University
Kang Liang
Kang Liang University of New South Wales
Craig J. Hawker
Craig J. Hawker University of California, Santa Barbara
Kotaro Satoh
Kotaro Satoh Tokyo Institute of Technology
Qiang Fu
Qiang Fu University of Technology Sydney

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