Xuetao Zheng
Research Assistant
A Bit About Me
Graduated with a B.S. Degree in Chemistry at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) in 2021. He was an undergraduate researcher at Prof. Jianjun Cheng's Research Lab. Before UIUC he was a lab intern at Suzhou University of Science and Technology in 2016 and University of Soochow in 2018.
Publications
2019
2020
Present
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” Nature Communications, 2019, 10, 5470.
Wang, X., Song, Z., Tan, Z., Zhu, L., Xue, T., Lv, S., Fu, Z., Zheng, X., Ren, J., Cheng, J. “Facile Synthesis of Helical Multiblock Copolypeptides: Minimal Side Reactions with Accelerated Polymerization of N-Carboxyanhydrides” ACS Macro Lett., 2019, 8, 1517−1521.
Song, Z., Tan, Z., Zheng, X., Fu, Z., Ponnusamy, E., Cheng, J. “Manipulating the helix-coil transition profile of synthetic polypeptides through leveraging side-chain molecular interactions”, Polym. Chem., 2020, 11, 1445-1449.
Wang, X.; Song, Z.* ; Wei, S.; Zheng, X.; Cheng, J. “Polypeptide-based drug delivery systems for programmed release”, submitted to Biomaterials in Dec. 2020.,
Song, Z.# ; Zheng, X. # ; Tan, Z.; Cheng, J.* “Facile preparation of brush and star polypeptides in water /oil biphasic system”, Manuscript in preparation (# equal contribution)
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