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Prof Qipeng Guo

Prof Qipeng Guo

position: Personal Chair
phone: +61 3 522 72802
fax:
email: qipeng.guo@deakin.edu.au
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Research interests:

Professor Guo holds a Personal Chair in polymer science and technology. He has extensive expertise in the area of polymeric materials; especially in polymer blends, block copolymers, thermoplastics and elastomers, thermosets and polymer composites, biodegradable polymers and natural polymers, thin polymer films and functional coatings, nanoporous polymers and nanostructured polymers. Professor Guo was elected a Fellow of The Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC) in the UK in 2008 for outstanding contribution to the advancement of chemical science.

Qualifications:

  • BSc, University of Science and Technology of China, 1984
  • MSc, University of Science and Technology of China, 1987
  • DEng, Kyushu University, Japan, 1999
  • DSc, Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium, 2000
  • Fellow of The Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC), UK, 2008

Relevant employment history:

2009 -present: Personal Chair, Centre for Material and Fibre Innovation, Deakin University, Australia
2006 -2008: Associate Professor, Centre for Material and Fibre Innovation, Deakin University, Australia
2005-2006: Associate Professor, Faculty of Life and Social Sciences, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
2002-2005: Queen Elizabeth II Fellow, Division of Chemical Engineering, The University of Queensland, Australia
2001-2002: Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Minnesota, USA
1999-2001: Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow, Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry, University of Freiburg, Germany
1998-1999: Senior Researcher, Department of Chemistry, Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium
1993-1998: Professor, Polymer Science and Engineering, University of Science and Technology of China
1987-1993: Junior Researcher, Assistant Professor and Professor, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences

A list of the ten most significant relevant publications for the last five years:

  1. Hameed, N., Liu, J. and Guo, Q., “Self-assembled complexes of poly(4-vinylphenol) and poly(ε-caprolactone)-block-poly(2-vinylpyridine) via competitive hydrogen bonding.” Macromolecules 2008, 41, 7596-7605.
  2. Hameed, N. and Guo, Q., “Nanostructure and hydrogen bonding in interpolyelectrolyte complexes of poly(-caprolactone)-block-poly(2-vinyl pyridine) and poly(acrylic acid),” Polymer 2008, 49, 5268-5275.
  3. Guo, Q., Liu, J., Chen, L. and Wang, K., “Nanostructures and nanoporosity in thermoset epoxy blends with an amphiphilic polyisoprene-block-poly(4-vinyl pyridine) reactive diblock copolymer,” Polymer 2008, 49, 1737-1742.
  4. Hameed, N. and Guo, Q., “Selective hydrogen bonding and hierarchical nanostructures in poly(hydroxyether of bisphenol A)/poly(-caprolactone)-block-Poly(2-vinyl pyridine) blends,” Polymer 2008, 49, 922-933.
  5. Zhang, J., Fox, B. and Guo, Q., “Consistent model predictions for isothermal cure kinetics investigation of high performance epoxy prepregs,” Journal of Applied Polymer Science 2008, 107, 2231-2237.
  6. Guo, Q., Thomann, R. and Gronski, W., “Synthesis and fractionated crystallization of organic-inorganic hybrid composite materials from an amphiphilic polyethylene-block-poly(ethylene oxide) diblock copolymer,” Polymer 2007, 48, 3925-3929.
  7. Liu, J., Zhang, Y., Zhang, J., Shen, D., Guo, Q., Takahashi, I. and Yan, S., “Stereocomplexation and monolayer morphologies of a stereoregular poly(methyl methacrylate) mixture formed at the air/water surface,” Journal of Physical Chemistry C 2007, 111, 6488-6494.
  8. Guo, Q., Arends, P., Thomann, R., Spontak, R. J. and Gronski, W., “Morphological development and rheological changes of phenoxy/SAN blends during in-situ polymerization,” Journal of Polymer Science Part B: Polymer Physics 2007, 45, 2614-2619.
  9. Guo, Q., Thomann, R., Gronski, W., Staneva, R., Ivanova, R. and Stühn, B., “Nanostructures, semicrystalline morphology, and nanoscale confinement effect on the crystallization kinetics in self-organized block copolymer/thermoset blends,” Macromolecules 2003, 36, 3635-3645.
  10. Guo, Q., Thomann, R., Gronski, W. and Thurn-Albrecht, T., “Phase behaviour, crystallization, and hierarchical nanostructures in self-organized thermoset blends of epoxy resin and amphiphilic poly(ethylene oxide)-block-poly(propylene oxide)-block-poly(ethylene oxide) triblock copolymers,” Macromolecules 2002, 35, 313

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Associated staff

Dr Tim Hilditch
AProf Akif Kaynak
Dr John Long
Dr Bernard Rolfe
Dr Richard Yang