Professor Dayang Wang
Contact Details
Tel: +61 8 8302 3596
Fax: +61 8 8302 3683
Email: dayang.wang@unisa.edu.au
Position
Research Professor
Qualifications
BEng PhD Jilin, China
Background
Dayang Wang studied chemistry at Jilin University, Changchun, China, where
he obtained a Bachelor of Engineering in Polymer Materials in 1993 and a PhD
in Polymer Chemistry and Physics in 1998. His PhD project was to synthesize
novel inorganic/polymer nanocomposites for better control of electron
transportation and energy transfer. In 1999 he worked as a Postdoctoral
Fellow in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Hong Kong University
of Science and Technology, Hong Kong where his research project was to
utilize semiconductor quantum dots as multi-photon initiators for rapid
prototyping. Later in 1999, he moved to the Max Planck Institute of Colloids
and Interfaces (MPIKG), Potsdam, Germany, and worked as a Postdoctoral
Fellow in the Department of Interfaces.
In 2000 Dayang was the recipient of an Alexander von Humboldt Research
Fellowship. Between 1999 and 2003, Dayang's research focused on colloidal
crystallization and macroporous materials. In 2004 he became a Group Leader
at the MPIKG where he supervised the research activities of 4 PhD students
and more than 10 postdoctoral research fellows. Dayang joined The Wark in
July 2010.
His mother tongue is Chinese (Mandarin). He speaks English and some German.
Outside science his main interests are watching movies, visiting galleries,
photography, Chinese calligraphy, and badminton.
Research Interests
Particle synthesis:
- Understanding and manipulation of nucleation and crystal growth at the nanoscale.
- Anisotropic particles.
- Stimuli-responsive particles.
Particle at interfaces:
- Stimuli-responsive particle adsorption at interfaces.
- Stimuli-responsive particle adhesion on surfaces.
- Stimuli-responsive particle translocation cross interfaces
- Particle-solvent interactions.
Particle self-assembly:
- Interfacial self-assembly.
- Directed, anisotropic, particle self-assembly.
- Supraparticle chemistry ' to translate molecular and supramolecular
chemistry language to spatially and temporally program particle
self-assembly.
- Colloidal lithography ' using colloidal particle assemblies as templates
or masks for surface patterning on planar substrates and on colloidal
particles.
Hydrogel:
- Using hydrogel for phase transfer.
- Using hydrogel for enzyme immobilization for bio-catalysis.
- Nanoparticle/hydrogel composites for stimuli-responsive macroscopic
mechanical collective properties.
Nanomedicine:
- Bio-inspired drug delivery
- Stimuli-responsive colloidal particles for diagnostics and therapeutics
cross biological barriers.
- Using biological organisms such as bacteria and cells as factories for
bio-compatibilization.
Supervisor - Available Postgraduate/Honours Projects
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Selected Publications
1. Bai, S., Nguyen, T.-L., Mulvaney, P., Wang, D. 'Using Hydrogels to
Accommodate Hydrophobic Nanoparticles in Aqueous Media via Solvent Exchange'
Adv. Mater. Early View 2010 (DOI: 10.1002/adma.201000336).
2. Xia, H; Bai, S.; Hartmann, J.; Wang, D. 'Synthesis of Monodisperse
Quasi-Spherical Gold Nanoparticles in Water via Silver (I) ' Assisted
Citrate Reduction' Langmuir 26(2010) 3585-3589.
3. Lee, B.; Kim, Y.; Lee, S.; Kim, Y. S.; Wang, D.; Cho, J. 'Layer-by-Layer
Growth of Polymer/Quantum Dot Composite Multilayers via Nucleophilic
Substitution in Organic Media' Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 49(2010), 359-363.
4. Yu, H.-K., Mao, Z., Wang, D. 'Genesis of Anisotropic Colloidal Particles
vie Protrusion of Polystyrene from Polyelectrolyte Multilayer Encapsulation'
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 131(2009), 6366-6367.
5. Chanana, M., Jahn, S., Georgieva, R., Lutz, J.-F., B'mler, H., Wang, D.
'Fabrication of Colloidal Stable, Thermosensitive, and Biocompatible
Magnetite Nanoparticles and Study of Their Reversible Agglomeration in
Aqueous Millieu' Chem. Mater. 21(2009), 1906-1914.
6. Mao, Z., Gao, J., Bai, S., Nguyen, T.-L., Xia, H., Huang, Y., Mulvaney,
P., Wang, D. 'Hydrogen Bonding Selective Phase Transfer of Nanoparticles
across Liquid/Gel Interfaces' Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 48(2009), 4953-4956.
7. Li, W., Yang, B.,Wang, D. 'Fabrication of Colloidal Crystals with Defined
and Complex Structures via Layer-by-Layer Transfer' Langmuir. 24 (2008),
13772-13775.
8. Zhang, H., Wang, D. 'Controlling Chain Growth of Charged Nanoparticles
Using Interparticle Electrostatic Repulsion'Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 47(2008)
3984-3987.
9. Edwards, E. W., Chanana, M., Wang, D., M'wald, H. 'Stimuli-Responsive
Reversible Transport of Nanoparticles across Water-Oil Interfaces' Angew.
Chem. Int. Ed. 47(2008) 320-323.
10. Zhang, H.; Wang, D.; Yang, B.;M'wald, H. 'Manipulation of Aqueous
Growth of CdTe Nanocrystals to Fabricate Colloidally Stable One-Dimensional
Nanostructures' J. Am. Soc. Chem. 128(2006, 10171-10180.
11. Wang, J., Wang, D., Sobal, N., Giersig, M., Jiang, M., M'wald, H.
'Stepwise Directing Nanocrystals to Self-Assemble at Water/Oil Interfaces' Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 45(2006), 7963-7966.
12. Duan, H., Wang, D., Sobal, N., Giersig, M., Kurth, D., M'wald, H.
'Magnetic Colloidosomes Derived from Nanoparticle Interfacial Self-Assembly' Nano Lett. 5 (2005), 949-952.
13. Zhang, G.; Wang, D.; M'wald, H. 'Decoration of Au Nanodots on
Microspheres ' Giving Colloidal Spheres Valences' Angew. Chem. Int. Ed.
44(2005), 7767-7770.
14. Duan, H. W., Wang, D., Kurth, D., M'wald, H. 'Directing Self-Assembly
of Nanoparticles at Water/Oil Interfaces' Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 43 (2004),
5639-5642.
15. Kuang, M., Wang, D., Bao, H., Gao, M., M'wald, H. Jiang, M.
'Fabrication of Multicolour Encoded Microspheres by Tagging Semiconductor Nanocrystals to Hydrogel Spheres'Adv. Mater. 17 (2005), 267-270.