Wuyixian

Professor Wu Yixian received the degrees of BSc (1986), MSc (1991) and PhD (1998) from Beijing University of Chemical Technology. She was promoted to full Professor in 2001 and PhD supervisor status in 2002. She visited the University of Gent in Belgium and University of Evry in France from Dec. 2001 to May 2002. Her scientific research interests focus on: (1) Controlled/living polymerization of C₂~C₅ olefins, styrene and its derivatives; (2) Macromolecular engineering via controlled/living polymerization; (3) Advanced synthetic rubber for tire manufacture and (4) Advanced thermoplastic elastomer synthesis for biomedical and energy applications.

(1) Controlled/living cationic polymerization of isobutene, styrene and its derivatives, and cationic ring-opening polymerization of tetrahydrofuran and 2-alkyloxazoline; (2) Controlled coordination polymerization or copolymerization of ethylene, propylene and ɑ-olefin, norbornene and its derivatives, styrene, butadiene and isoprene; (3) Macromolecular engineering via controlled polymerization for the synthesis of high performance polyisobutylene and isobutylene-based copolymers, high cis-1,4 polybutadiene, high cis-1,4 polyisoprene, polyolefin elastomer, styrene-butadiene rubber with high cis-1,4 content, styrene-based thermoplastic elastomers; (4) Functional polymer materials for biomedical and energy application.

Undergraduate course:  Chemical Engineering in Polymer Production, 32 hours, about 30 students (Top 1% students) to participate in the course.

Undergraduate course: “Controllable Polymerization and Macromolecular Engineering”, 32 hours, 15 students each year from at least three different colleges and different majors to participate in the course.

Graduate course: “Cationic polymerization” (32 hours) and “Chemical engineering of polymer” (32 hours). Experts from industry were invited to teach for graduate students to improve the awareness and ability of industrialization of graduate students.