Yunhao grew up in Qingdao, China. He received his bachelor's degree in applied chemistry from Chongqing University in 2022, under the supervision of Professor Cunpu Li and Professor Zidong Wei. He then moved to Chicago and joined the Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering at the University of Chicago and is now co-advised by Professor Stuart Rowan and Professor Shrayesh Patel.
Yunhao is currently working on synthesizing and characterizing composite polymer electrolytes based on cellulose nanocrystals.
Multipotent Elastomers via Tempering of Phase-Separated Dynamic Covalent Networks
Nicholas R Boynton, Camaryn M Bennett, Trevor D Hagan, Gabrielle R Solymosy, Charlie A Lindberg, Naomi A Schaller, Stephanie L Vivod, Shrayesh N Patel, Stuart J Rowan. ACS Macro Lett. (2025), 14, 11, 1728–1734. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsmacrolett.5c00653.
Spin Glass Behavior and Giant Magnetoresistance via Aliovalent Fe/Ni Alloying in Amorphous Tetrathiafulvalene-Tetrathiolate Coordination Polymers
Chen-Yu Lien, Jie-Hao Chen, Anna O Schouten, Grant R Wilkinson, Di Wang, Jan Hofmann, Maia E Czaikowski, Barbara Lavina, Alexander S Filatov, Karena W Chapman, Andrew P Higginbotham, Dmitri V Talapin, David A Mazziotti, Henry S La Pierre, Shrayesh N Patel, John S Anderson. J. Am. Chem. Soc. (2025), 147, 43, 39590–39598. https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.5c12985.
Pre-synthetic redox control of structure and properties in copper TTFtt coordination polymers
Ningxian Jiang, Saranya Velliyarat, Chen-Yu Lien, Ha L Nguyen, Jan Hofmann, Arun Ramanathan, Alexander S Filatov, Henry Storms La Pierre, Shrayesh Patel, Jie-Hao Chen, Karena Chapman, Jan-Niklas Boyn, John S Anderson. Chem. Sci., (2025), 16, 19304-19316. https://doi.org/10.1039/D5SC03070F.
The Role of Water Volume Fraction on Water Adsorption in Anion Exchange Membranes
Gervasio Zaldivar, Ruilin Dong, Joan M Montes de Oca, Ge Sun, Riccardo Alessandri, Christopher G Arges, Shrayesh N Patel, Paul F Nealey, Juan J de Pablo. Macromolecules 2025 58 (18), 9972-9982. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.macromol.5c01256.
Role of Crosslinking and Backbone Segmental Dynamics on Ion Transport in Hydrated Anion‐Conducting Polyelectrolytes
Zhongyang Wang, Kai Wang, Christopher Eom, Yuxi Chen, Ge Sun, Mincheol Kim, Joan M Montes de Oca, Dongyue Liang, Kushal Bagchi, Shrayesh N Patel, Juan J de Pablo, Paul F Nealey. Adv. Funct. Mater. (2025): e14589. https://doi.org/10.1002/adfm.202514589.
IEC-Independent Coupling between Water Uptake and Ionic Conductivity in Anion-Conducting Polymer Films
Joan M Montes de Oca, Ruilin Dong, Gervasio Zaldivar, Ge Sun, Zhongyang Wang, Shrayesh N Patel, Paul F Nealey, Juan J de Pablo. Macromolecules, 2025, 58 (12), 6134-6148. DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.5c00934.
Study of self-assembly behavior and ionic conductivity of conjugated liquid crystals with T-shaped facial-polyphilic structure
Ziwei Liu, Yangyang Sun, Ban Xuan Dong, Shrayesh N Patel, Paul F Nealey, Fernando A Escobedo, Christopher K Ober. Sci. Adv. 11, eadt8303 (2025). DOI:10.1126/sciadv.adt8303.
Should I stay or should I flow? An exploration of phase-separated metallosupramolecular liquid crystal polymers
Charlie A Lindberg, Alice E Roberson, Elina Ghimire, Jerald E Hertzog, Nicholas R Boynton, Guancen Liu, Deborah K Schneiderman, Shrayesh N Patel, Stuart J Rowan. Chem. Eur. J., 31: e202404672. https://doi.org/10.1002/chem.202404672.
Enhanced Ion Transport and Molecular Packing Stability in Asymmetric 2D Nanostructured π‐Conjugated Thieno [3, 2‐b] Thiophene‐Based Liquid Crystal
Chaoqiuyu Wang, Yangyang Sun, Zhongyang Wang, Wen Chen, Danya Liu, Joseph Strzalka, Shrayesh N Patel, Paul F Nealey, Christopher K Ober, Fernando A Escobedo. Adv. Funct. Mater. 2025, 35, 2423541. https://doi.org/10.1002/adfm.202423541.
Water-mediated ion transport in an anion exchange membrane
Zhongyang Wang, Ge Sun, Nicholas HC Lewis, Mrinmay Mandal, Abhishek Sharma, Mincheol Kim, Joan M Montes de Oca, Kai Wang, Aaron Taggart, Alex B Martinson, Paul A Kohl, Andrei Tokmakoff, Shrayesh N Patel, Paul F Nealey, Juan J de Pablo. Nat. Commun. 16, 1099 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-55621-z.