研究方向为高分子化学，针对此领域内影响高分子材料和工业技术进步的一些重大科学难题，进行基础层面的方法学研究。在有机材料表面改性新反应/技术、可控/活性自由基聚合新方法、非均相聚合新技术等领域取得了系列原创性基础研究成果并进入工业应用。迄今发表SCI论文550多篇，出版著作6部，申请发明专利70多项(已授权40多项)。2000年获得国家自然基金杰出青年基金，2017年当选为中国科学院院士。

●  教育与工作经历

1978~1982     清华大学化学工程系高分子专业  本科

1982~1985     北京化工大学高分子系  硕士

1993~1996      瑞典皇家理工学院聚合物工艺系  博士

1985~1993      北京化工大学高分子系  讲师

1996~至今      北京化工大学材料学院  教授

2018~至今      清华大学化学工程系 教授

●  研究领域：

高分子化学

●  主要学术任职

2018年~至今      中国化学会高分子学科委员会 副主任

2020年~至今      中国生态环境学会 副理事长

●  代表性论文/专利/著作

1.Kai Zhang, Guangjun Shao, Bowei Yang, Changwen Zhao*, Yuhong Ma and Wantai Yang*，Facile fabrication of shell crosslinked microcapsule by visible light induced graft polymerization for enzyme encapsulation, Chemical Communications, 2020, 56, 6862-6865.

2.Dong Chen, Yuhong Ma, Changwen Zhao, Li Wang, Xianhong Zhang, Wantai Yang*, Self-stabilized precipitation polymerization: principle, method and application, Scientia Sinica Chimica (中国科学: 化学), 2020, 50(7), 732-742.

3.Haoyu Yu, Jianwei Shao, Dong Chen, Li Wang*, and Wantai Yang*, Aromatic thioketone-mediated radical polymerization of methacrylates and the preparation of amphiphilic quasi-block copolymers, Polymer Chemistry, 2020,11, 3251-3259.

4.Peng Cui, Changtong Song, Xianhong Zhang*, Dong Chen, Yuhong Ma, and Wantai Yang*, Controlled radical polymerization of vinyl chloride mediated by Xanthene-9-thione, Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, 2019, 58(47), 21864-21871.

5.Zhenjie Liu, Dong Chen, Jinfang Zhang, Haodong Liao, Yanzhao Chen, Yingfa Sun, Jianyuan Deng, and Wantai Yang*, Self-stabilized precipitation polymerization and its application, Research, 2018, Article ID 9370490.

6.Yindian Wang，Dong Chen, Guan Wang, Changwen Zhao*, Yuhong Ma, and WantaiYang*, Immobilization of cellulase on styrene/maleic anhydride copolymer nanoparticles with improved stability against pH changes, Chemical Engineering Journal, 2018, 336. 152-159.

7.Wenchao Ma, Xianhong Zhang, Yuhong Ma*, Dong Chen, Li Wang, Changwen Zhao and Wantai Yang*, Photoinduced controlled radical polymerization of methacrylates with benzaldehyde derivatives as organic catalysts, Polymer Chemistry, 2017, 8, 3574-3585.

8.Changwen Zhao, Zhifeng Lin, Huabing Yin, Yuhong Ma, Fujian Xu, and Wantai Yang*, PEG molecular net-cloth grafted on polymeric substrates and its bio-merits, Scientific Reports, 2014, 4, Article No. 4982.

9.Peng Yang*, Wantai Yang*, Hydroxylation of organic polymer surface: method and application, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 2014, 6, 3759-3770.

10.Peng Yang, Wantai Yang*，Surface chemoselective phototransformation of C-H bonds on organic polymeric materials and related high-tech applications, Chemical Reviews, 2013, 113(7), 5547-5594.

11.Wei Luo, Jianxin Liu, Yuhong Ma*, Bing Zhang, Wantai Yang*, Preparation of polymer nanoparticles from renewable biobased furfuryl alcohol and maleic anhydride by stabilizer-free dispersion polymerization, Journal of Polymer Science: Polymer Chemistry, 2012, 50, 3606–3617.

12.Xiaoyue Guo, Yuhong Ma, Wei Peng, Wantai Yang*, Preparation of random styrene–maleic anhydride copolymer by stabilizer-free dispersion polymerization, Journal of Macromolecular Science Part A, 2012, 49(12), 1061-1069.

13.Xuefeng Zheng, Miao Yue, Peng Yang, Qi Li and Wantai Yang*, Cycloketyl radical mediated living polymerization, Polymer Chemistry, 2012, 3, 1982-1986.

14.Yuhong Ma, Lianying Liu, Wantai Yang*, Photo-induced living/controlled surface radical grafting polymerization and its application in fabricating 3-D micro-architectures on the surface of flat/particulate organic substrates, Polymer, 2011, 52(19), 4159-4173.

15.Jianping Deng, Lifu Wang, Lianying Liu, Wantai Yang*，Developments and new applications of UV-induced surface graft polymerizations, Progress in Polymer Science, 2009, 34(2), 156-193.