Dr Sheng Dai

Senior Lecturer

BSc (Zhejiang University), ME (NTU), PhD (NTU).

Location: Room N210 Engineering North (Academic Office)
Email: s.dai@adelaide.edu.au
Phone: + 61 8 8313 1015
FAX: +61 8 8303 4373

Interests

• Early cancer detection
• Drug controlled delivery
• Polymer materials, biomaterials, composites
• Nanostructured materials fabrication and applications
• Colloid and interface science
• Emulsion polymerization and living polymerization
• Stimuli-responsive polymers and hydrogels
• Thermodynamics
• Surface enhanced Raman scattering
• Rheology, Light scattering, Fluorescence

Recent Publications

• Cui, Y.; Pelton, R. H.; Cosgrove, T.; Richardson, R.; Dai, S.; Prescott, S.; Grillo, I.; Ketelson, H.; Meadows, D. "Not All Anionic Polyelectrolytes Complex with DTAB", Langmuir, 2009, in press.
• Zhu, A.; Pan, Y.; Dai, S.; Li, F. Preparation of N-Maleoylchitosan Nanocapsules for Loading and Sustained Release of Felodipine, Biomacromoluceles, 2009, 10, 1997-2002.
• Zhu, A.; Luo, X.; Dai, S. "Chitosan-Poly(acrylic acid) Surface Modified Paramagnetic Fe3O4 Nanoparticles for Camptothecin Loading and Release", Journal of Materials Research, 2009, 24, 2307-2315.
• Pan, Y.; Luo, X.; Zhu, A.; Dai, S. "Synthesis and Physicochemical Properties of Biocompatible N-Carboxyethylchitosan", Journal of Biomaterials Science Polymer Edition, 2009, 20, 981-992.
• Dai, S.; Ravi, P.; Tam, K. C. "Thermal and Photon Responsive Polymeric Systems: From Properties to Applications", Soft Matter, 2009, 5, 2513-2533.
• Zhu, A.; Yuan, L.; Dai, S. "Polysaccharide Modified Fe3O4 Nanoparticles for Camptothecin Loading and Delivery", Acta Biomateriaila, 2009, 5, 1489-1498.
• Dai, S.; Liao, D.; Tam, K. C. "Influence of Anionic Surfactant on the Rheological Properties of Cyclodextrin and Hydrophobically Modified Polyethylene-oxide Mixed Solutions", Journal of Rheology, 2009, 53, 293-308.
• Zhu, A.; Yuan, L.; Dai, S. "Preparation of Well-dispersed Superparamagnetic Nanoparticles Associated with Biocompatible N-Succinyl-O-carboxymethylchitosan", Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 2008, 112, 5432-5438.
• Dai, S.; Ravi, P.; Tam, K. C. "pH-Responsive Polymers: Synthesis, Properties and Applications", Soft Matter, 2008, 4, 435-449.
• Quek, R. Y. L.; Ravi, P.; Dai, S.; Tam, K. C. "Nano-fractals from Inorganic Salts Induced by Fullerene Polymer Systems", International Journal of Nanotechnolgy, 2007, 4, 377-388.
• Liao, D.; Dai, S.; Tam, K. C. "Interaction between Fluorocarbon Modified Polyethylene-oxide and Cyclodextrins", Macromolecules, 2007, 40, 2936 - 2945.
• Ravi, P.; Dai, S.; Wang, C.; Tam, K. C. "Fullerene Containing Polymers: Synthesis and Their Supermolecular Behavior in Solution", Journal of Nanoscience and Nonotechnology, 2007, 7, 1176-1196.
• Liao, D.; Dai, S.; Tam, K. C. "Rheological Properties of Telechelic Associative Polymer in the Presence of a-and methylated b-Cyclodextrins", The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 2007, 111, 371-378.
• Dai, S.; Tam, K. C. "Effect of Solvent Polarity on the Binding Interaction between Poly(ethylene oxide) and Sodium Dodecyl Sulfate", The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 2006, 110, 20794-20800.
• Ravi, P.; Wang, C.; Dai, S.; Tam, K. C. "[60]Fullerene Induced Morphological Change in the Self-assembly of Well-defined Mono- and Dual- C60 End-capped Polyacrylic Acids", Langmuir, 2006, 22, 7167-7174.
• Dai, S.; Tam, K. C. "Interaction between Polyethylene Glycol and Sodium Dodecyl Sulfate: Effects of Polymer Architecture and Polydispersity", Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects, 2006, 289, 200-206.
• Zhu, A.; Dai, S., Li, L. "Salt Effects on the Aggregation of O-carboxylmethylchitosan in Aqueous Solution", Colloids and Surfaces B: Biointerfaces, 2006, 47, 20-28.