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A Recent Award

2024 Awardees - OPEA Gala (opeawards.ca)

Selected Publications

· Lu Yin, Aleksander Cholewinski, Boxin Zhao, “Solvent-free Urethane-based Prepolymer as a Versatile Underwater Adhesive Material” Chemical Engineering Journal [IF=15.1], 481:148487, 2024

· Jian Sun, Lukas Bauman, Li Yu, Boxin Zhao, “Bioinspired untethered soft robots climbing on walls and ceilings” Cell Reports Physical Science [IF=7.832], 4, 101241 , 2023

· Lukas Bauman, Boxin Zhao*, “Multi-thermo Responsive Double Network Composite Hydrogel for 3D Printing Medical Hydrogel Mask", Journal of Colloids and Interfacial Science [IF=9.965], 638, 882-892, 2023

· A-Reum Kim, Sushanta K. Mitra^†, Boxin Zhao^†, “Capillary pressure mediated long-term dynamics of thin soft films”, Journal of Colloids and Interfacial Science [IF=9.965], 628,788-797, 2022

· Aleksander Cholewinski, Eugenia Dadzie, Cassandra Sherlock, William Anderson, Trevor C. Charles, Komal Habib, Steven Young, Boxin Zhao, “A critical review of microplastic degradation and material flow analysis towards a circular economy ”, Environmental Pollution [IF=9.988], 315:120334, 2022 

· Pengxiang Si*, Fan Jiang, Qingsha S. Cheng, Geoffrey Rivers**, Hongjie Xia, Aung Ko Ko Kyaw, and Boxin Zhao^†,  “Triple Non-Covalent Dynamic Bonds Enabled Tough and Rapid Room Temperature Self-Healing Elastomer for Next Generation Soft Antenna”,  Journal of Materials Chemistry A [IF= 11.301] 8, 25073-25084, 2020– Cover Image

Research Project : Polyurethane based mechano-responsive smart window

Education: PhD -  Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India 2019

Experience : Postdoc – University of Calgary, Canada 2019-2022