Yu Zhao                                

        Assistant Researcher,

        Office：Room 213, Material Building F

        Email：zy0805@sjtu.edu.cn

        For Master's program applicants, please send e-mail directly.

Introduction

My research interests focus on AI-driven studies of chiral supramolecular polymers, integrating methods such as XGBoost, Bayesian optimization, and GNNs with molecular simulations, quantum chemistry, and high-throughput experiments to enable intelligent design strategies for supramolecular polymer research.

Education and Appointments

2025.02-Present, Postdoctoral Researcher, Institute for Complex Molecular Systems, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands

2022.04-Present, Assistant Researcher, School of Material Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University

2019.12-2020.12, Joint-Supervision Ph.D, Department of Chemistry, University of Waterloo, Canada

2016.09-2021.12, Ph.D, School of Material Science and Engineering, Zhengzhou University

2012/09-2016/06, B.S., School of Mathematics and Statistics, Zhengzhou University

Research Interests

Research Direction 1: Data-driven studies of chiral supramolecular polymerization and optical mechanisms

Research Direction 2: Neural-network-assisted prediction of supramolecular polymer properties

Research Direction 3: Closed-loop active-learning-driven design of supramolecular materials

Selected Publications

1. Zandieh, M., Luo, X., Zhao, Y.*, Feng, C., & Liu, J.* (2024). Selection of Plastic‐Binding DNA Aptamers for Microplastics Detection. Angewandte Chemie International Edition, e202421438.
2. Xia, J., Huang, J., Zhao, Y. *, & Feng, C. * (2023). Molecular Polarizability Regulated Piezoelectricity of Organic Materials from Single-Molecular Level. ACS nano, 2023, 17(11): 10280-10290.
3. Zhao, Y.#, Huang, W., Ma, D., Zhao, Q., Qiu, X., Liu, J., Feng, C., & Guan, S. (2024). A strategy for introducing biopotency-enhanced chirality coating on bio-magnesium. Materials & Design, 247, 113372.
4. Li, S., Zhao, Y. #, Chen, J., Wu, B., Wu, N., Sun, H., ... & Fu, Y. (2025). Chirality Regulates Stem Cell Fate and Promotes Corneal Epithelial Regeneration via Manipulating Notch Pathway. Advanced Science, e04732.
5. Liu, B., Zhao, Y., Jia, Y., & Liu, J. * (2020). Heating drives DNA to hydrophobic regions while freezing drives DNA to hydrophilic regions of graphene oxide for highly robust biosensors. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 142(34), 14702-14709.
6. Zhao, Y., Qiao, C., Fang, Z., Wang, H., Zhu, S., Wang, J., Ren, J., Guan, S.* & Jia, Y.* (2019). Inverted Hydration Layers on Bio-Magnesium Surfaces in the Initial Degradation Stage and their Influence on Adsorption of Amino Acid Analogues: The Metadynamics Simulations. Langmuir, 35(52), 17009-17015.
7. Liu, J. #, Zhao, Y. #, Zhao, C., Dou, X., Ma, X., Guan, S., Jia, Y. * & Feng, C. * (2022). Hydrogen-bonding regulated supramolecular chirality with controllable biostability. Nano Research, 15(3), 2226-2234.
8. Lu, H. #, Zhao, Y. #, Qin, S., Zhang Y., Liu, J. *, Zhang, J., Feng, C. *, Zhao, W., * (2023). Fluorine Substitution Tunes the Nanofibers Chirality of Supramolecular hydrogel for Promoting Cell Adhesion and Proliferation. Advanced Fiber Materials. Advanced Fiber Materials, 5(1), 377-387.
9. Lopez, A. #, Zhao, Y. #, Huang, Z., Guo, Y., Guan, S. *, Jia, Y., & Liu, J. * (2021). Poly‐Cytosine Deoxyribonucleic Acid Strongly Anchoring on Graphene Oxide Due to Flexible Backbone Phosphate Interactions. Advanced Materials Interfaces, 8(3), 2001798.