Faculty
ZHANG Zhijun / 张智军
  • Department:Division of Nanobiomedicine & Nanosafety
  • Position:Professor
  • Expertise:Chemistry of nanomaterials; Nanobiomedicine;
  • Email:zjzhang2007@sinano.ac.cn
Research Interest
1. Nanoscale drug/gene delivery systems;

2. Nanomaterials for biological imaging and detection;

3. Biological effects of nanomaterials;

Experience:

Prof. ZHANG Zhijun received his PhD degree in Physical Chemistry from Kwansei Gakuin University, Japan in 1998. He was a postdoctoral fellow in Peking University from 1998-1999, followed by working as a JSPS fellow in Nagoya University, Japan from 1999 to 2001. He then moved to Canada and worked as a NSERC postdoctoral fellow at Steacie Institute for Molecular Sciences, National Research Council of Canada, and then a research associate at McGill University and at Industrial Materials Institute, NRC, respectively. Dr. Zhang joined Suzhou Institute of Nano-tech and Nano-bionics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, as a professor in November 2007. He has coauthored over 40 publications including Nature Materials, Nano Letters, Chem. Commun., and Small. He holds one US patent. Dr. Zhang is referee of more than 10 international academic journals, including J. Am. Chem. Soc., Small, J. Mater. Chem., and Bioconjugate Chem.

Selected Publication:
  1. Chen, B.; Liu, M.; Zhang, L. M.; Huang, J.; Yao, J. L.;* Zhang, Z. J.* Polyethylenimine- Functionalized Graphene Oxide as an Efficient Gene Delivery Vector, J. Mater. Chem. 2011, 21, 7736 – 7741.
  2. Zhao, Q. H.; Chen, W. H.; Chen, Y. D.; Zhang, L. M.; Zhang, J. P.; Zhang, Z. J.*  Self-Assembled Virus-like Particles from Rotavirus Structural Protein VP6 for Targeted Drug Delivery, Bioconjugate Chem., 2011, 22, 346-352.
  3. Zhang, Y.; Chen, B.; Zhang, L. M.; Huang, J.; Chen, F. H.; Yang, Z. P.; Yao, J. L.; Zhang, Z. J.* Controlled assembly of Fe3O4 magnetic nanoparticles on graphene oxide, Nanoscale, 2011, 3, 1446-1450. (Top 10 most accessed articles in Nanoscale in February, 2011)
  4. Zhang, L. M.; Lu, Z. X.; Zhao, Q. H.; Huang, J.; Shen, H.; Zhang, Z. J.* Enhanced chemotherapy efficacy by sequential delivery of siRNA and anticancer drugs using PEI– grafted graphene oxide, Small, 2011, 7, 460-464. (Highlighted by Wiley-VCH Materials ViewsChina, March 6, 2011).  
  5. Chen, F. H.; Zhang, L. M.; Chen, Q. T.; Zhang, Y.; Zhang, Z. J.* Synthesis of a novel magnetic drug delivery system composed of doxorubicin-conjugated Fe3O4 nanoparticle cores and a PEG-functionalized porous silica shell, Chem Commun. 2010, 46, 8633-8635. (Top 10 most accessed articles in Chem Comm in October, 2010)
  6. Huang, J.; Zhang, L. M.; Chen, B.; Ji, N.; Chen, F. H.; Zhang, Y.; Zhang, Z. J.* Nanocomposites of size-controlled gold nanoparticles and graphene oxide: Formation and applications in SERS and catalysis, Nanoscale, 2010, 2, 2733-2738.
  7. Zhang, L. M.; Xia, J. G.; Zhao, Q. H.; Liu, L. W.; Zhang, Z. J.* Functional graphene oxide as nanocarriers for controlled loading and targeted delivery of mixed anticancer drugs, Small, 2010, 6, 537-544. (Top 10 most accessed articles in Small in January, 2010).