People

Principal Investigator:

Dr. Yu Zhu
Office: GDYR 817
E-mail: yzhu@uakron.edu
Phone: (330) 972-5945
Fax: (330) 972-5290
Department of Polymer Science
The University of Akron
Akron, Ohio 44325-3909

Dr. Yu Zhu is a synthetic chemist specialized on nanomaterials and organic electronic materials. He received his PhD from the University of Cologne in Germany in 2007, where he worked on diketopyrrolopyrrole and other pigment core based conjugated polymer synthesis. From 2008 to 2012, Dr. Zhu joined Professor James M. Tour’s group at Rice University as a postdoctoral research associate, where his research included synthesis and application of graphene, carbon nanotube and other low-dimensional nanomaterials. He became an assistant professor at the University of Akron from August 2012, and was promoted to associate professor in 2018 and full professor in 2021. Dr. Zhu has published over ninety peer reviewed articles.

Current Group Members:

Postdoc fellows

Ph.D Students

Matthew Sziget ms725@uakron.edu	Udayn Jayant Dabke ujd2@uakron.edu	Ruoying Shi rs430@uakron.edu
Wei Xie wx11@uakron.edu	Shuyuan Zhang sz62@uakron.edu	Yijie Wu yw81@uakron.edu