Polymer Science, 3D Printing and Nanomedicine
Liwen's research is focused on the development of 3D printing and Nanotechnology for biomedicine. He has some experience in developing advanced photocatalysts to fabricate polymeric materials by photopolymerization. He is also interested in designing smart probes for tumour imaging and therapy.
Liwen Zhang has completed his PhD in Cluster for Advanced Macromolecular Design and Australian Centre for NanoMedicine at The University of New South Wales in 2022 under the supervision of Professor Cyrille Boyer. His PhD was on developing metalloporphyrin-based photocatalysts for photopolymerization and stereolithography. In January 2022, Liwen joined the Davis/Qiao groups at the Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (AIBN), where he is a full-time researcher developing nanoparticles-based 3D printing technology for bone tissue regeneration and tumour treatment.
Key Publications
Liwen Zhang, Gervase Ng, Natasha Kapoor-Kaushik, Xiaobing Shi, Nathaniel Corrigan, Richard Webster, Kenward Jung, and Cyrille Boyer*. 2D Porphyrinic Metal-Organic Framework Nanosheets as Multidimensional Photocatalysts for Functional Materials. Angewandte Chemie. 2021, 60(42), 22664-22671.
Liwen Zhang, Xiaobing Shi, Zhiheng Zhang, Rhiannon P Kuchel, Rashin Namivandi-Zangeneh, Nathaniel Corrigan, Kenward Jung, Kang Liang* and Cyrille Boyer*. Porphyrinic Zirconium MOFs as Heterogeneous Photocatalysts for PET-RAFT Polymerization and Stereolithography. Angewandte Chemie. 2021, 133, 2-10.
Liwen Zhang, Chenyu Wu, Dr. Kenward Jung, Prof. Yun Hau Ng and Prof. Cyrille Boyer. An Oxygen Paradox: Catalytic Use of Oxygen in Radical Photopolymerization. Angewandte Chemie. 2019, 131(47), 16967-16970.
Liwen Zhang, Shi Gao, Fan Zhang, Kai Yang, Qingjie Ma, Lei Zhu*. Activatable Hyaluronic Acid Nanoparticle as a Theranostic Agent for Optical/Photoacoustic Image-Guided Photothermal Therapy. ACS Nano 2014, 8 (12), 12250-12258.
Liwen Zhang, Lisi Xie, Sihao Xu, Rhiannon P. Kuchel, Yunlu Dai, Kenward Jung, and Cyrille Boyer. "Dual Role of Doxorubicin for Photopolymerization and Therapy. Biomacromolecules 2020, 21 (9), 3887-3897.