Professor of Chemistry &Materials Science and Engineering
email: tingxu@berkeley.edu
office: 381 HMMB
fax: 510.643.5792
lab: 160 HMMB
lab phone: 510.643.6804
EDUCATION AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
· B.S. Dalian University of Technology (1996)
· M.S Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences (1999)
· Ph.D University of Massachusetts, Amherst (2004)
· Postdoc University of Pennsylvania and Cold Neutron for Biology and Technology (CNBT) at NIST (2004-2007)
· Assistant Professor, University of California, Berkeley (2007)
· University of Massachusetts graduate school fellowship (2001)
AWARDS
· 2003 MRS graduate student silver award
· 2007 DuPont Science and Technology Grant recipient
· 2008 3M Nontenured Faculty Award recipient
· 2008 DuPont Young Professor Award recipient
· 2009 ONR-Young Investigator Award recipient;
· 2009 Named as one of “Brilliant 10” by Popular Science Magazine
· 2010 Li Ka Shing Woman Research Award recipient
· 2011 Camille-Dreyfus Scholar-Teacher Award recipient
· 2011 ACS Arthur K. Doolittle Award recipient.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
The key to future technology is the design and fabrication of functional materials having structures ordered own to the molecular level.
This goal can't be reached by conventional 'topdown' approaches and remains as the 'holy grail' using synthetic materials such as block copolymers. In addition, there have been limitations in the functionalization of these nanostructured materials. in de novo protein design and peptidomimetics, polymer science and nanoparticles synthesis and manipulation, and use designed peptides and proteins in concert with the self- assembly of block copolymers,<span style='font-family:' font size:16px;'=''>conjugated molecule and nanoparticles as platforms to generate nanostructured materials. Her group aims to generate hierarchical structures spanning multilength scales down to few nanometers with built in biological, electrical and magnetic functionalities.
Her research group focuses on a fundamental understanding of the physics of assemblage on multiple length scales leading to the design and assembly of functional thin films with tailored functionalities.
