Hanshu Wu

Graduate Student, Chemistry

Education

06.2023 – Present      Ph.D. Student

Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

08.2021- 05.2023  M.S in Materials Science

Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

08.2017 – 06.2021    B.Eng in Macromolecular Materials and Engineering

Fudan University, Shanghai, China

Research

06.2021 – Present      Matyjaszewski Group

Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

08.2021 – 05.2023    Bockstaller Group

Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

• Self-healing of poly- (Methyl methacrylate -co- Butyl acrylate) materials
• Self-healable polymer-silica hybrid materials

08.2020 – 06.2021    Jiandong Group

State Key Laboratory of Molecular Engineering of Polymers, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

• Injectable hydrogel for drug delivery

Publications

1. Yin R, Chmielarz P, Zaborniak I, Zhao Y, Szczepaniak G, Wang Z, Liu T, Wang Y, Sun M, Wu H, Tarnsangpradit J. Miniemulsion SI-ATRP by Interfacial and Ion-Pair Catalysis for the Synthesis of Nanoparticle Brushes. Macromolecules. 2022 Jul 22;55(15):6332-40. 
2. Yin R, Zhao Y, Gorczyński A, Szczepaniak G, Sun M, Fu L, Kim K, Wu H, Bockstaller MR, Matyjaszewski K. Alternating Methyl Methacrylate/n-Butyl Acrylate Copolymer Prepared by Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization. ACS Macro Letters. 2022 Oct 4;11(10):1217-23.
3. Zhao Y, Wang Z, Yu C, Wu H, Olszewski M, Yin R, Zhai Y, Liu T, Coronado A, Matyjaszewski K, Bockstaller MR. Topologically Induced Heterogeneity in Gradient Copolymer Brush Particle Materials. Macromolecules. 2022 Jul 28;55(19):8846-56.
4. Zhao Y, Yin R, Wu H, Wang Z, Zhai Y, Kim K, Do C, Matyjaszewski K, Bockstaller MR. Sequence-Enhanced Self-Healing in “Lock-and-Key” Copolymers. ACS Macro Letters. 2023 Mar 27;12(4):475-80.
5. Zhao, Y., Wu, H., Yin, R., Yu, C., Matyjaszewski, K. and Bockstaller, M.R., 2023. Copolymer Brush Particle Hybrid Materials with “Recall-and-Repair” Capability. Chemistry of Materials, 35(17), pp.6990-6997.
6. Zhao, Y., Wu, H., Yin, R., Matyjaszewski, K. and Bockstaller, M.R., 2023. The Importance of Bulk Viscoelastic Properties in “Self-Healing” of Acrylate-Based Copolymer Materials. ACS Macro Letters, 13(1), pp.1-7.
7. Yin, R., Tarnsangpradit, J., Gul, A., Jeong, J., Hu, X., Zhao, Y., Wu, H., Li, Q., Fytas, G., Karim, A. and Bockstaller, M.R., 2024. Organic nanoparticles with tunable size and rigidity by hyperbranching and cross-linking using microemulsion ATRP. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 121(29), p.e2406337121.
8. Zhao, Y., Wang, Z., Hou, G., Wu, H., Fu, L., Bockstaller, M.R., Qin, X., Zhang, L. and Matyjaszewski, K., 2024. Synthesis of Mechanically Robust Very High Molecular Weight Polyisoprene Particle Brushes by Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization. ACS Macro Letters, 13(4), pp.415-422.
9. Zhao, Y., Wu, H., Matyjaszewski, K. and Bockstaller, M., 2024. Amplification of Self-Healing in Polymer Hybrid Materials Using Microstructure Engineering. Bulletin of the American Physical Society.