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X. Zoey Meng

Postdoctoral Researcher
UC Santa Barbara
Email:
xiangximeng@ucsb.edu
Office:
EII 3227
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@zoeymeng
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Areas of Expertise

Characterization and Properties
Synthesis and Formulation

Biography

Zoey is a postdoctoral researcher in Prof. Rachel A. Segalman's group. She focuses on developing bio-inspired polymers to make high-resolution photoresist materials for lithographic applications. Zoey is a Chemical Engineer by training, with a Ph.D. degree at UMass Amherst in 2020 and a B.S. degree at Drexel University in 2015.

Research

Zoey develops bio-inspired polymers for use in nanotechnologies and applied materials science. In her postdoctoral work, she develops sequence-defined polypeptoids as high-resolution photoresist materials for DUV/EUV lithographic printing. And she was the first person to electrospin a fully water-based, unentangled polyelectrolyte solution into nanofibers. Her work takes advantage of the power of bio-inspired polymers to make applied materials in nanotechnologies more user-defined and environmentally friendly.

Selected Publications

  1. X. Meng (Invited review), A Mini-review on Bio-inspired Polymer Self-assembly: Single-component and Interactive Polymer Systems, Royal Society of Biology and Biochemical Society (special issue on Emerging Topics in Life Sciences: Soft Matter Biophysics), 2022. Accepted.
  2. X.Z. Meng, F.H. Käfer, G.M. Wallraff, C.K. Ober, and R.A Segalman, Controlled sequence peptoids as photoresist platforms for high-resolution DUV/EUV photoresists, Proceedings SPIE - International Conference on Extreme Ultraviolet Lithography, 2022.
  3. F.H. Käfer, Z. Meng, R. Segalman and C.K. Ober, Controlled Sequence Photoresists from Polypeptoids, Proceedings of the 39th International Conference of Photopolymer Science and Technology, 2022.
  4. J. Deng, F.H. Käfer, S. Bailey, Y. Otsubo, Z. Meng, R.A. Segalman, C.K. Ober*, New Approaches to EUV Photoresists: Studies of Polyacetals and Polypeptoids to Expand the Photopolymer Toolbox, J. Photopolym. Sci. Technol., 2021, 34 (1), 71-74.
  5. H. Papananou, R. Katsumata, Z. Neary, R. Goh, X. Meng, R. Limary, and R.A. Segalman*, Dopamine-Mediated Polymer Coating Facilitates Area Selective Atomic Layer Deposition, ACS Appl. Polym. Mater., 2021, 3 (10), 4924–4931.
  6. X. Meng, Y. Du, Y. Liu, E.B. Coughlin, S.L. Perry*, and J.D. Schiffman*, Electrospinning Coacervates: No Chain Entanglements Needed, Macromolecules, 2021, 54 (11), 5033-5042.
  7. Z. Zhou, P. Lopez-Dominguez, M. Abdullah, D. Barber, X. Meng, I. Van Driessche, J.D. Schiffman, K. Kittilstved, A. Crosby, J. De Roo, and S.S. Nonnenmann*, Memristive Behavior of Mixed Oxide Nanocrystal Assemblies, ACS Appl. Polym. Mater., 2021, 13 (18), 21635-21644.
  8. J. Zhuang, B. Zhao, X. Meng, J.D. Schiffman, S.L. Perry, R. Vachet, and S.A. Thayumanavan*, A Programmable Chemical Switch based on Triggerable Michael Acceptors, Chem. Sci., 2020,11, 2103-2111.
  9. X. Meng, S.L. Perry*, and J.D. Schiffman*, Electrospinning Cargo-Containing Polyelectrolyte Complex Fibers: Correlating Molecular Interactions to Complex Coacervate Phase Behavior and Fiber Formation, Macromolecules, 2018, 51 (21), 8821–8832.
  10. X. Meng, S.L. Perry*, and J.D. Schiffman*, Complex Coacervation: Chemically Stable Fibers Electrospun from Aqueous Polyelectrolyte Solutions, ACS Macro Lett., 2017, 6, 505-511.