Research Interests:design, synthesis, characterization and properties of polymers or supramolecules with hierarchical structures, especially on block copolymers, liquid crystalline polymers, conjugated polymers, polyesters and polymer elastomers.

Representative Publications

1. Controlling Blend Film Morphology by Varying Alkyl Side Chain in Highly Coplanar Donor-Acceptor Copolymers for Photovoltaic Application, Li, YW; Chen, YJ; Liu, X; Wang, Z; Yang, XM;Tu, YF*; Zhu, XLMacromolecules2011,44, 6370-6381.

2. "Clicking" graphite oxide sheets with well-defined polystyrenes: A new Strategy to control the layer thickness, Yang, XM; Ma, LJ; Wang, S; Li, YW;Tu, YF*; Zhu, XLPolymer2011,52, 3046-3052.

3. Hierarchical structure and polymorphism of a sphere-cubic shape amphiphile based on a polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxane-[60]fullerene conjugate, Sun, HJ;Tu, YF*; Wang, CL; Van Horn, RM; Tsai, CC; Graham, MJ; Sun, B; Lotz, B; Zhang, WB*; Cheng, SZD*J. Mater. Chem.2011,21, 14240-14247.

4. Controlled organization of self-assembled rod-coil block copolymer micelles Tu,YF;Graham, MJ; Van Horn, RM; Chen, EQ; Fan, XH; Chen, XF; Zhou, Q-F; Wan, XH; Harris, FW; Cheng, SZD*Polymer2009,50, 5170-5174.

5 . “Clicking” fullerene with polymers: Synthesis of [60]fullerene end-capped polystyrene, Zhang, WB;Tu,YF;Van Horn, RM; Leng, SW; Wang, J; Poice, MJ; Wesdemiotis, C; Quirk, RP; Newkome, GR; Cheng, SZD*Macromolecules2008,41, 515-517.

6. Temperature-induced reversible morphological changes of polystyrene-block- poly(ethylene oxide) micelles in solution, Bhargava, P;Tu,YF;Zheng, JX; Xiong, HM; Quirk, RP; Cheng, SZD*J. Am. Chem. Soc.2007,129, 1113-1121.

7 . Self-assembled nanostructures of rod-coil diblock copolymers with different rod length,Tu,YF;Wan, XH; Zhang, HL; Fan, XH; Chen, XF; Zhou, Q-F*; Chau, KCMacomolecules2003,36, 6565-6569.

8 . Formation of novel polymeric nanoparticles?, Zhang, GZ; Niu, AZ; Peng, SF; Jiang, M;Tu,YF;Li, M; Wu, C*Accounts Chem. Res.2001,34, 249-256.

9. Self-assembled nanostructure of a novel coil-rod diblock copolymer in dilute solution,Tu,YF;Wan, XH; Zhang, D; Zhou, Q-F; Wu, C*J. Am. Chem. Soc.2000,122, 10201-10205.