HU Yunxia
Professor, Dr., Principal Investigator
Vice Director
State Key Laboratory of Separation Membranes and Membrane Processes
Tianjin Polytechnic University,
399 Binshui Road, Xiqing District, Tianjin, 300389
Email: yunxiahu@tiangong.edu.cn, lucyyunxia@hotmail.com
Phone:86-22-83955129 (office), 86-15620508789 (cell)
RESEARCH INTERESTS
ProfessorYunxiaHu’sresearchinterests are centered around the fabrication of polymeric membranes and the investigation of their applications in water treatment and desalination.
EDUCATION
Ph.D. in Polymer Science and Engineering, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, 2010
M.E. in Polymer Material Science, Tianjin University, China, 2004
B.E. in Polymer Material Science and Engineering, Tianjin University, China, 2001
B.E. in Engineering Economics, Department of Management, Tianjin University, China, 2001
WORKING EXPERIENCE
Professor, PI, Vice Director, State Key Laboratory of Separation Membrane and Membrane Process, Tianjin Polytechnic University, Tianjin, China, 2017
Visiting professorat Department of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA, 2014-2015
Professor, PI, Yantai Institute of Coastal Zone Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Yantai, China, 2013-2016
Post-doctoral Research Associate, Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, Yale University,NewHaven,CT, USA, 2012-2013
Post-doctoral Research Associate,School of Pharmacy, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA, 2010-2012
HONORSANDAWARDS
Tianjin Distinguished Women, 2018
Shandong Young scholar 2015
Taishan scholar oversea expert in Shandong Province, China, 2012
Top 100 Talent Scientist in Yantai city, China, 2013
Graduate Student Fellowship at University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2005
Excellent Master Thesis at Tianjin University, 2004
Graduate Fellowship at Tianjin University, 2001-2004
Silver Prize in the Invention Competition of “Tiancai” Cup, Tianjin University, 1998
Silver Prize in Competition of “Advanced Mathematics”, Tianjin University, 1998
SELECTED PEERREVIEWEDPUBLICATIONS
1.Qi L., Hu Y.*, Liu Z., An, X., Edo B., “Improved Antibiofouling Performances of Thin Film Composite Forward Osmosis Membrane Containing Passive and Active Moieties”, Environmental Science & Technology 2018, 52 (17): 9684–9693.
2.Qi L.#, Liu Z.#, Hu Y.*, Wang N., “Facile and efficient in situ synthesis of silver nanoparticles on diverse filtration membrane surfaces for antimicrobial performance”, Applied Surface Science 2018, 456:95-103.
3. Zhou Z, Hu Y.*, Boo C, Liu Z., Li J., Deng L., An X., “High-Performance Thin-Film Composite Membrane with an Ultrathin Spray-Coated Carbon Nanotube Interlayer”, Environmental Science and Technology Letters, 2018, 5 (5):243–248.
4. Li J., Ni Z., Zhou Z., Hu Y., Xu X., Cheng L.*“Membrane fouling of forward osmosis in dewatering of soluble algal products: Comparison of TFC and CTA membranes”, Journal of Membrane Science, 2018, 552: 213-221.
5. An X., Liu Z.,Hu Y.*, “Amphiphobic Surface Modification of Electrospun Nanofibrous Membranes for Anti-Wetting Performance in Membrane Distillation”, Desalination, 2018,432, 23-31.
6. Liu Z., An X., Dong C., Zheng S., Mi B., Hu Y.*, “Modification of Thin Film Composite Polyamide Membranes with 3D Hyperbranched Polyglycerol for Simultaneous Improvement in Filtration Performance and Antifouling Properties”, Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 2017, 5, 23190-23197.
7. Liu Z., Qi L., An X., Liu C., Hu Y.*, “Surface Engineering of Thin Film Composite Polyamide Membranes with Silver Nanoparticles through Layer-by-Layer Interfacial Polymerization for Antibacterial Properties”, ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, 2017, 9 (46), 40987–40997.
8. Wang N., Wang T., Hu Y.* “Tailoring Membrane Surface Properties and Ultrafiltration Performances via the Self-Assembly of Polyethylene Glycol-block-Polysulfone-block-Polyethylene Glycol Block Copolymer upon Thermal and Solvent Annealing”, ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, 2017, 9, 31018−31030.
9. Wang N., Hu Y.*, Zhang Z. “Sustainable Catalytic Properties of Silver Nanoparticles Supported Montmorillonite for Highly Efficient Recyclable Reduction of Methylene Blue”, Applied Clay Science, 2017, 150,47-85.
10. Xu S., Lin P.*, An X.,Hu Y., Wang Z., Zhong L., Niu Q., High-Performance Forward Osmosis Membranes Used for Treating High-Salinity Oil-Bearing Wastewater, Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, 2017, 56, 12385−12394.
11. Feng S., Li D., Low Z., Liu Z., Zhong Z.*, Hu Y., Wang Y., Xing W., ALD-seeded hydrothermally-grown Ag/ZnO nanorod PTFE membrane as efficient indoor air filter, Journal of Membrane Science, 2017, 531,86–93.
12.Liu Z.,Hu Y.*, “Sustainable Antibiofouling Properties of Thin Film Composite Forward Osmosis Membrane with Rechargeable Silver Nanoparticles Loading”, ACS Applied Materials &Interface, 2016,8 (33), 21666–21673.
13.Liu Z.,Hu Y.*,Liu C., Zhou Z. “Surface-independent one-pot chelation of copper ions onto filtration membranes to provide antibacterial properties”, Chemical Communications, 2016,52, 12245-12248.
14.Lin S., Nejati S., Boo C., Hu Y., OsujiC., and ElimelechM*, Omniphobic Membrane for Robust Membrane Distillation, Environmental Science and Technology Letter, 2014, 1 (11), 443–447.
15.Liu Y., Hu Y., Huang L.*, “Influence of polyethylene glycol density and surface lipid on pharmacokinetics and biodistribution of lipid-calcium-phosphate nanoparticles”, Biomaterials, 2014, 35(9), 3027-3034.
16.Hu Y.*, Haynes MT., Wang Y., Liu F., Huang L.*, “A Highly Efficient Synthetic Vector: Nonhydrodynamic Delivery of DNA to Hepatocyte Nuclei in Vivo”, ACS Nano, 2013, 7(6), 5376-84.
17.Yang Y., Hu Y., Wang, Y., Liu F.; Huang L.*, “Nanoparticle Delivery of Pooled siRNAs for Effective Treatment of Non-small Cell Lung Caner”, Molecular Pharmaceutics, 2012, 9 (8), 2280–2289.
18.Wang Y., Su H., Yang Y., Hu Y., Zhang L., Blancarfort P.*, Huang L.*, “Systemic Delivery of Modified mRNA Encoding Herpes Simplex Virus 1 Thymidine Kinase for Targeted Cancer Gene Therapy” Molecular Therapy, 2012, 21(2), 358–367.
19.Hu Y., Chen D., Park S., Emrick T*., Russell T.*, “Guided Assemblies of Bionanoparticles: Highly Ordered Arrays of Monodisperse Nanoscopic Elements”, Advanced Materials, 2010, 22(23), 2583-2587.
20.Hu Y., Samanta D., Hong S., Emrick T.*, Russell T.*, “Ferritin-polymer Conjugates: Grafting Chemistry and Integration into Nanoscale Assemblies”, Advanced Functional Materials, 2010, 20(20), 3603-3612.
21.Zhao W., Chen D., Hu Y., Grason G.*, Russell T.*, “ABC Triblock Copolymer Vesicles with Mesh-like Morphology”, ACS Nano, 2010, 5 (1), 486–492.
22.Tangirala R., Hu Y., Joralemon M., Zhang Q., He J., Russell T.,* Emrick T.*, “Connecting Quantum Dots and Bionanoparticles in Hybrid Nanoscale Ultra-thin Films”, Soft Matter, 2009, 5 (5), 1048-1054.
23.Samanta D., McRae S., Cooper B., Hu Y., Emrick T.*, Pratt J., Charles S., “End-Functionalized Phosphorylcholine Methacrylates and their Use in Protein Conjugation”, Biomacromolecules, 2008, 9 (10), 2891 -2897.
FUNDED PROJECTS (SELECTED)
1.HuY.,“Fabrication and application of Aquporin biomimetic membrane” (18JCZDJC37100), 200,000 RMBfundedfrom 2018.4-2021.03, Tianjin Key Project of Natural Science Foundation, Tianjin, China.
2.HuY.,“Fabrication and application of high-performance antifouling forward osmosis biomimetic membrane” (17PTSYJC00060), 2,000,000 RMBfundedfrom 2017.10-2018.09, Tianjin Key Project of Science and Technology, Tianjin, China.
3.HuY.,“Fabrication and application of high-performance novel forward osmosis membrane” (21476249), 810,000 RMBfundedfrom 2015.01-2018.12, China Natural Science Foundation, China.
4.HuY.,“Fabrication of antifouling membranes for desalination in membrane distillation”, 500,000 RMBfundedfrom 2016.01-2018.12, Yantai Key Project of Natural Science Foundation, China.
5.HuY.,“DevelopmentofAntifoulingFiltrationMembranesandTheirApplicationinSalinityPowerExtraction”,1,200,000 RMBfundedfrom 2013.1-2015.12,YantaiInstituteofCoastalZoneResearch,ChineseAcademyofSciences,China.
LICENCED PATENTS
1.HuY.,XuW.,“Amethodofsurfacefunctionalizationincorporatingnanoparticles”, ChinesePatent201310314971.9.
2.HuY.,XuW.,“In-situgrowthofnanoparticlesonfiltrationmembranesurface”,ChinesePatent201310286749.2.
3.HuY.,XuW.,“Anovelhybridfiltrationmembraneanditspreparationmethod”,ChinesePatent,201310314739.5.
4.HuY.,XuW.,“Anovelantifoulinghydrophilicfiltrationmembraneanditspreparationmethod”,ChinesePatent, 201310401281.7
5.HuY.,YouS.,XuW.,“Aultrathinfiltrationmembraneforsaltrejectionanditspreparationmethod”,ChinesePatent,20131040188137.
PROFESSIONALAFFILIATIONSANDSERVICES
MemberoftheFollowingOrganizations
NorthAmericanMembraneSociety(NAMS)
International Congress on Membranes and Membrane Processes (ICOM)
AmericanInstituteofChemicalEngineers(AIChE)
International Water Association (IWA)
AmericanChemicalSociety(ACS)
AmericanPhysicalSociety(ACS)
MaterialResearchSociety(MRS)
SocietyofBiomaterials
ReviewerforScholarlyJournals:
AdvancedFunctionalMaterial
ACSAppliedMaterials&Interfaces
ACS Applied Nano Materials
Journal of Membrane Science
Environmental Science & Technology
Environmental Science and Technology Letters
