As part of an on-going collaboration, seven joint research teams from Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU) and U-M have won funding for research projects that explore the potential of nanotechnology in energy and biomedical applications.
The energy projects will team up investigators who are working on promising new technologies for advanced batteries, solar cells, and LEDs.
The biomedical teams will focus on a novel drug delivery system for treating cancer, a new approach to treating certain breast cancers, and a system for identifying and collecting enzymes useful in pharmaceutical development.
This is the fourth annual round of funding for the SJTU/U-M Collaborative Research Programs for Energy and Biomedical Technology. The programs bring together teams with complementary perspectives and areas of expertise to address challenges in energy and health that transcend national borders.
The programs fund projects that have commercial potential and that are likely to attract follow-on research funding from the U.S. and Chinese governments, as well as from industry.
The biomedical projects are:
· Development of high-efficient NIR light-triggered spatiotemporal delivery mechanism of anticancer therapeutics with novel functionalized dendrimer-integrated upconversion nanoparticle
Principal investigators: Kang Sun, SJTU School of Materials Science and Engineering, and Seok Ki Choi, U-M Department of Internal Medicine and Michigan Nanotechnology Institute
· Fluorescence-activated Droplet Sorting System for Improving Enantioselectivity of CALB toward Profens
Principal investigators: Yan Feng, SJTU School of Life Sciences and Biotechnology and Katsuo Kurabayashi, U-M Department of Mechanical Engineering
· CCL5 as a Potential Target for Immunotherapy against Triple Negative Breast Cancer
Principal Investigators: Xiaojing Ma, SJTU School of Life Sciences and Biotechnology and Raoul Kopelman, Michigan Nanotechnology Institute for Medicine and Biological Sciences
The energy projects are:
· Synthesis, In Situ Characterization, and Full-Cell Testing of Nanoporous Electrodes for Next Generation High Power Lithium-Ion Batteries
Principal Investigators: Kaixue Wang, SJTU School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering and Bart M. Bartlett, U-M Department of Chemistry
· Application of Spontaneously Nano-wrinkled Surfaces to Increase Energy Efficiency of OPV and OLED Devices
Principal Investigators: Tian Yang, SJTU UM-SJTU Joint Institute and L. jay Guo, U-M Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
· Atomic Scale Structure and Dynamic Behavior of Extended Defects in Cu2Zn Sn(S,Se)4Based Thin Film Solar Cells
Principal Investigators: Xiangyang Kong, SJTU School of Materials Science and Engineering and Xiaoqing Pan, U-M Department of Materials Science and Engineering
· Nanostructured Multi-functional Li-Batteries
Principal Investigators: Jun Yang, SJTU Department of Chemical Engineering and Wei Lu, U-M Department of Mechanical Engineering
The research partnerships between SJTU and U-M are part of a broader relationship between the two schools. In 2001, U-M became the first non-Chinese academic institution approved to offer graduate engineering degrees in China, at SJTU. In 2005, SJTU and U-M formed a joint institute to manage and direct degree-granting programs offered by both universities to students of both nations.
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