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Professional Experience

April 2019 –  present,  President's Chair Professor in Materials Science and Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Jan 2019 – present, Director, Max Planck - NTU Joint Lab for Artificial Senses, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Jan 2017 – present, Director, Innovative Centre for Flexible Devices (iFLEX), Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Sept 2016 – Dec 2018, Associate Chair (Faculty), School of Materials Science and Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Sept 2016 –  present,  Professor, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Sept 2013 –  Aug 2016, Associate Professor, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

July 2009 –  June 2014, Singapore NRF Fellow, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

May 2009 – Aug 2013, Nanyang Assistant Professor, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Feb 2009 – May 2009, Visiting scientist, Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University, USA.

Jan 2009 – April 2009, Assistant Professor, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Nov 2006 – Dec 2008, Postdoctoral fellow, Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University, USA.

Research interest: exploring programmed and adaptive materials with emergency

Currently, Prof. Chen's group research focuses on two directions:

Programmed nano-bio interface: to develop integrated nanostructure-biomaterial hybrid systems for monitoring, manipulating, and mimicking biological processes at the nanoscale.

Bio-inspired materials for energy conversion: to explore bio-inspired nanoscale modules for light harvesting, charge separation, solar energy conversion, and storage.

Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, 2019

Mitsui Chemicals-SNIC Industry Award in Materials and Nano-chemistry, Singapore National Institute of Chemistry, 2018

Advanced Materials Hall of Fame, 2018.

Nanyang Research Award, NTU, 2017

NRF Investigatorship, National Research Foundation of Singapore, 2016

 NML Researcher Award, Nano-Micro Letters, 2016

Teacher of the Year Award, NTU-MSE, 2016, 2017

Fellow of Royal Society of Chemistry, 2016

Small Young Innovator Award, 2015

Lubrizol Young Materials Science Investigator Award, 2015

Editorial Advisory Board Member of ACS Nano, 2020 –

Associate Editor of ACS Materials Letter, 2019 –

Editorial Advisory Board Member of Nanoscale, 2019 –

Editorial Advisory Board Member of Nanoscale Adavnces, 2019 –

Editorial Advisory Board Member of Nanoscale Horizons, 2019 –

Editorial Advisory Board Member of Small, 2019 –

Editorial Advisory Board Member of ACS Applied Bio Materials, 2018 –

Editorial Advisory Board Member of Batteries & Supercaps (Wiley), 2018 –

Zhang, W.; Sun, Y.; Deng, H.; Ma, J.; Zeng, Y.; Zhu, Z.; Lv, Z.; Xia, H.; Ge, X.; Cao, S.; Xiao, Y.; Xi, S.; Du, Y.; Cao, A.*; Chen, X.* “Dielectric Polarization in Inverse Spinel-Structured Mg2TiO4 Coating to Suppress Oxygen Evolution of Li-Rich Cathode Materials” Adv. Mater. 2020, 32, 2000496.

Pan, L.; Wang, F.; Cheng, Y.; Leow, W. R.; Zhang, Y.-W.; Wang, M.; Cai, P.; Ji, B.; Li, D.;* Chen, X.* “A supertough electro-tendon based on spider silk composites” Nat. Commun. 2020, 11, 10.1038/s41467-020-14988-5.

Ke, L.; Cai, P.; Wu, Y-L.*; Chen, X.* “Polymeric Non-Viral Gene Delivery Systems for Cancer Immunotherapy” Advanced Therapeutics 2020, 3, 1900213.

Hu, B.; Berkey, C.; Feliciano, T.; Chen, X.; Li, Z.; Chen, C.; Amini, S.; Nai, M. H.; Lei, Q.-L.; Ni, R.; Wang, J.; Leow, W. R.; Pan, S.; Li, Y.-Q.; Cai, P.; Miserez, A.; Li, S.; Lim, C. T.*; Wu, Y.-L.*; Odom, T. W.*; Dauskardt, R. H.*; Chen, X.* “Thermal‐Disrupting Interface Mitigates Intercellular Cohesion Loss for Accurate Topical Antibacterial Therapy” Adv. Mater. 2020, 32, 1907030.

Low, Z. W. K.; Luo, Y.; Zhang, K.; Lin, Q.; Owh, C.; Chen, X.; Loh, X. J. “Tough hydrogel module towards an implantable remote and controlled release device” Biomaterials Science 2020, 8, C9BM01882D.