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 thirty peer reviewed articles, two invited reviews and four patents.
Current Group Members:
Postdoc fellows
Ph.D Students
 Yun-Yu Lai |
 Yueh-Ting Lai |
 Raymond Lopez-Hallman |
|
 Wei Xie |
 Shuyuan Zhang |
 Run Yang |
Visiting Ph.D Students
Master’s Students
 Yifang Ding |