Overview

Electrohydrodynamic Atomization Team has five members presently. The research interestsinclude electrohydrodynamic atomization (electrospinning, Electrospraying and e-jet printing), biomaterials, food chemistry, advanced drug delivery systems, and environmental friendly materials. The group has developed a series of new electrospinning processes for creating nanostructures from multiple working fluids.

Team leader

• Professor Deng-Guang Yu, Dean of Material Formation and Control Engineering Speciality

  Members

• Associate Professor Xiaoyan Li

• Lecture Ke Wang

• Lecture Yaoyao Yang

• Lecture Yanan Liu

  Research Fields

• Electrohydrodynamic atomization methods

• Nanomaterials

• Drug delivery

• Polymer engineering

• Environmental protection

• Polymernanocomposites

• Metal based-composites

• Biomaterials, electromagnetic interference shielding materials, thermal insulation materials, and water treatment materials.

• Functionalnanocomposites(nanofibers, nanoparticles, etc.) for nanomedicine, catalysis, and environmentalapplications.

  Important research and development projects

• Basic research center for nanonetwork based foldable electrode fabrication Organization supporting research fund: National research foundation of Korea

  Research fund NO. 2014R1A4A1008140, 2015-2017.

• Mass production technology of bi-component nanofibers by centrifugal-electrospinning system Organization supporting research fund: Commercialization promotion agency for R&D outcomes Research fund NO. 2016K000206, 2016-2017.Total research fund: 120,000,000 won

• Manipulation on individual steps in combustion of IFR/SEBS using functionalized montmorillonite and investigation on its mechanism, National Natural Science Foundation of China, 2015-2017

• Program of Shanghai Pujiang Program (2018-2020).

• Program for Professor of Special Appointment (Young Eastern Scholar) at Shanghai Institutions of Higher Learning (2019-2022).

• Study on the mechanism of triaxial electrospinning of fiber-particle composite structure and its key mechanism of drug release release, The National Science Foundation of China (No. 51803121) (2019.1 to 2021.12).

• Joint project of University of Shanghai for Science and Technology withCaritas Institute of Higher Education(Hongkong) (No.190326775, 2019.01-2022.12).

• Joint project of University of Shanghai for Science and Technology with Queen's University Belfast (UK) (2017.01-2018.12)

• The National Science Foundation of China (No. 51373101) (2014.1 to 2017.12).

• The China NSFC/UK Royal Society Cost Share International Exchanges Scheme (No. 51411130128/IE131748) (2014.4 to 2016.3).

• The Natural Science Foundation of Shanghai (No. 13ZR1428900).

• The Key Project of the Shanghai Municipal Education Commission (No. 13ZZ113).

• The relationship between the rheological characteristics of liquid binders and their printability in three-dimensional printing systems.ChinesePostdoctoral Science Foundation, NO. 20080440565.

• Improvement effects of electrospun drug-loaded nanofiber membranes on the potencies of poorly water soluble drugs. ChinesePostdoctoral Science Foundation, NO. 200902195.

• Improving pharmaco-technical properties of medicated fibers aimed for preparing transdermal drug delivery systems.Ministry of Education of P.R. China.No.B07024.

• Researches on preparation of medicated composite fibers and the drug controlled-release mechanisms. Shanghai Commission of Science and Technology.No: 08JC1400600.

• Research and development of medicated textiles, UK-CHINA Joint Laboratory for Therapeutic Textiles and Biomedical Textile Materials, London Metropolitan University -Donghua University.

• Development ofInsulin Buccal Spray from micro-emulsions.State Development Planning Commission of China.No:2003BA310A27.

  Important papers and publications

• Highly flexible, erosion resistant and nitrogen doped hollow SiC fibrous mats for high temperature thermal insulators. Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 2017, 5, 2664-2672.

• One-step synthesis of robust nitrogen-doped carbon dots: acid-evoked fluorescence enhancement and their application for Fe³⁺detection. Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 2015, 3, 17747-17754.

• Ultrafine fibrils formation of optical transparent Polyacrylonitrile/polyacrylic acid nanofibers by Electrospinning at high relative humidity. Composites Science and Technology, 2015, 117, 404-409.

• Fabrication and durable antibacterial properties of electrospun chitosan nanofibers with silver nanoparticles. International Journal of Biological Macromolecules, 2015, 79, 638-643.

• Composites of nanoporous gold and polymer. Advanced Materials, 25(2013), 1280-1284

• Local flow stresses in interpenetrating-phase composites based on nanoporous gold-in situ diffraction. Scripta Materialia, 127(2017), 151-155.

• A nanoporous gold-polypyrrole hybrid nanomaterial for actuation. Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical, 248(2017), 622-629.

• Electrospun hydrophilic Janus nanocomposites for the rapid onset of therapeutic action of helicid. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 10(2018), 2859-2867.

• Electrosprayed hydrophilic nanocomposites coated with shellac for colon-specific delayed drug delivery. Materials & Design, 143(2018), 248-255.

• Fluorinated Nanosilica Size Effect on Hierarchical Structure and Superhydrophobic Properties of the Epoxy Nanocomposite Film. ACS Appl Polym Mater, 2020, 2:418-426.

• Corrosion Resistance of Stretchable Electrospun SEBS/PANi Micro-Nano Fiber Membrane. Eur Polym J, 2020,123:1-9.

• Durable superamphiphobic nano-silica/epoxy composite coating via coaxial electrospraying method. Appl Surf Sci, 2018,436: 283–292.

• Tunable drug release from nanofibers coated with blank cellulose acetate layers fabricated using tri-axial electrospinning,Carbohydrate Polymers 203(2019) 228-237.

• Meletin sustained-release gliadin nanoparticles prepared via solvent surface modification on blending electrospraying,Applied Surface Science 434(2018) 1040-1047.

• Colon-specific pulsatile drug release provided by electrospun shellac nanocoating on hydrophilic amorphous composites,International Journal of Nanomedicine 13(2018) 2395-2404.

• Nanofibersfabricatedusingtriaxialelectrospinning aszeroorderdrugdeliverysystems. ACSAppliedMaterials &Interfaces, 2015,7(33):18891-18897. (Cited times: 155 ) DOI：10.1021/acsami.5b06007

• Electrospun pH-sensitive core-shell polymer nanocomposites fabricated using a tri-axial processes. Acta Biomaterialia, 2016, 35(15): 77-86. (Cited times: 117) DOI：10.1016/j.actbio.2016.02.029

• High-quality Janus nanofibers prepared using three-fluid electrospinning. Chemical Communications, 2017, 53 (33), 4542 - 4545. (Cited times: 98) DOI：10.1039/C7CC01661A

• Electrospun hypromellose-based hydrophilic composites for rapid dissolution of poorly water-soluble drug. Carbohydrate Polymers, 2017, 174: 617-625. (Cited times: 108) DOI：10.1016/j.carbpol.2017.06.075

• Electrospun hydrophilic Janus nanocomposites for the rapid onset of therapeutic action of helicid. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 2018, 10(3): 2859-2867. (Cited times: 60) DOI：10.1021/acsami.7b17663

• Electrospun amorphous solid dispersions of poorly water-soluble drugs: A review. Journal of Controlled Release, 2018, 292, 91-110. (Cited times: 80) DOI：10.1016/j.jconrel.2018.08.016

• Tunable drug release from nanofibers coated with blank cellulose acetate layers fabricated using tri-axial electrospinning. Carbohydrate Polymers, 2019, 203, 228-237. (Cited times: 52) DOI: 10.1016/j.carbpol.2018.09.061

  Important patents and proprietary rights

• Electrospun nanofibers with radial drug isolation and its preparation, China Patent, ZL201710010388.7, 2019

• Method of manufacturing nanofiber membranes with excellent transparency and flexibility. KR101524638B1, 2013.

• Method of manufacturing chitosan/poly(vinyl achol) hybrid nanofibers with insolubility by water. KR101362286B1, 2013.

• Method of manufacturing high transparent polyester nanofibers sheet. KR101816735B1, 2016.

• Method of manufacturing nitrogen-doped carbon dots. KR101663748B1, 2015.

• Method and device for preparing vertical aligned carbon nanotube/polyaniline composite film, China Patent, ZL 2014 1 0581837. X, 2017

• A capillary parallel spinning head, spinning device and spinning method with uniform distribution in the outer Garden, China Patent, ZLZL201611004751, 2018

• Microfluidic control nozzle, spinning device and spinning method of multi-stage eccentric casing, China Patent, ZL201611122984, 2018

• A microfluidic control nozzle, spinning device and spinning method with the same core and parallel sheath,China Patent, ZL201611122996, 2019

• A method of electrospun coating inorganic functional particles on nanofiber membrane, China Patent, ZL201611014806.1, 2019

• Electrospun nanofibers with radial drug isolation and its preparation, China Patent, ZL201710010388.7, 2019

  Activities in professional associations

• 2019-Now: Editor-in-chief of Materials Highlights

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