Contact Information
3217 Bell Engineering Center
Fayetteville, AR 72701
Email: zhangbao8@126.com

Education

  • Visiting scholar Electrical Engineering: University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, January 2008
  • Ph.D. candidate, polymer chemistry and physics: Polymer Department, College of Chemistry, Jilin University, September 2004
  • B.E. Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Jilin Normal University, September 2000-July 2004

Current Research
The researches focus on the synthesis of different size silver and gold nanoparticles. The importance of gold and silver nanoparticles for areas ranging from electron microscopy (contrast agents), analysis (chemical and biological sensors), electronics (single-electron transistors, electrical connects), and materials (dyes, conductive coatings) is significant. These applications require nanoparticles in the 2-100-nm size range that need to be surface derivatizable with hydrophobic and hydrophilic surfactants. The development of synthetic procedures for uniform nanometer- sized particles is essential for many advanced applications because the monodispersity of metal nanoparticles induces their precise size and shape-dependent optical, electronic, magnetic, and catalytic properties. From this point of view, our current research interest has been focused on the synthesis and properties of silver and gold nanoparticles. In addition, we explored the new method to synthesize nanoparticle with different size. Atomic force microscope, X-ray s diffraction, TEM has been used to study material structure and properties of nanoparticles. We can synthesize the nanoparticles in water and in organic solvent, and water soluble nanoparticle have been its application in biology.

Goals
Our purpose in this work is to design a good method to synthesize gold and silver nanoparticles with different sizes, and study their properties in chemistry and biology.

Publications

  1. Bao Zhang, Jingyuan wang, et al. Chemoenzymatic Synthesis and characterization of H-shaped triblock copolymers, Polymer bulletin. 2008.
  2. Ke Sha, Dongshuang Li, Bao Zhang, Jingyuan Wang, et al. Chemoenzymatic Synthesis of an AB-Type Diblock Copolymer Combining Enzymatic Self-Condensation Polymerization and Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization. Journal of Polymer Science: Part A: Polymer Chemistry 2006, 44, 3393.
  3. Ke Sha, Dongshuang Li, Bao Zhang, Jingyuan Wang, et al. The Chemoenzymatic Synthesis of AB-type Diblock Copolymers from a Novel Bifunctional Initiator. Polymer 2006, 47, 4292.
  4. Kai Zhang, Jia Ma, Bao Zhang, et. al. Synthesis of thermoresponsive silica nanoparticle/PNIPAM hybrids by aqueous surface-initiated atom transfer radical polymerization Materials Letters 2007, 61, 949.
  5. Ke Sha, Dongshuang Li, Yapeng Li, Bao Zhang, Jingyuan Wang, The Chemoenzymatic Synthesis of a Novel CBABC-Type Pentablock Copolymer and Its Self-Assembled “Crew-Cut” Aggregation Macromolecules 2008, 41, 361.
  6. Xu YaXin, Li HongTu, Zhang Kai, Zhang Bao, Ai Peng, Wang JingYuan, Synthesis of thermoresponsive polystyrene-based comb-type grafted poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) Science in China Series B: Chemistry 2007, 50, 1862.