My current research mainly focuses on the areas of using synthetic water-soluble polymers for anti-tumor drug delivery and conjugation and investigate the in vitro and in vivo efficacy of the polymer-prodrug.  In addition to drug delivery, my research interests also include using water-soluble polymers as imaging probes carriers for biomedical and molecular imaging application.

I have also worked on nanocrystal-hydrogel hybrid materials. The project includes several main aspects as follows: synthesis of the nanocrystals and stimuli-responsive hydrogel microspheres, preparation of nanocrystal-hydrogel hybrid materials, mineralization of CaCO3 within hydrogel spheres

Publications and Presentation

1.  Min Kuang, Dayang Wang, Helmuth Mohwald, "Fabrication of A u@CaCO3 Nanoparticles by in Situ Mineralization in Hydrogel Microspheres" Chem. Mater., 2006, 18, 1073.

2.  Min Kuang, Dayang Wang, Helmuth Mohwald, "Fabrication of thermoresponsive plasmonic microspheres with long term stability from hydrogel spheres", Adv. Funct. Mater., 2005, 15, 1611.

3.  Min Kuang, Dayang Wang, Haobo Bao, Mingyuan Gao, Helmuth Mohwald and Ming Jiang, "Fabrication of Multicolour Encoded Microspheres by Tagging Semiconductor Nanocrystals to Hydrogel Spheres" Adv. Mater., 2005, 17, 267.

4.  Min Kuang, Dayang Wang, Mingyuan Gao, Jürgen Hartmann and Helmuth Mohwald. "A Bio-inspired Route to Fabricate Submicron-Sized Particles with Unusual Shapes – Mineralization of Calcium Carbonate within Hydrogel Spheres" Chem. Mat., 2005, 17, 656.

5.  Min Kuang, Hongwei Duan, Jing Wang, Ming Jiang, "Structural Factors of Rigid- Coil Polymer Pairs Influencing Their Self-Assembly in Common Solvent" J. Phys. Chem. B, 2004, 108, 16023.

6.  Min Kuang, Hongwei Duan, Jing Wang, Daoyong Chen, Ming Jiang, "A Novel Approach to Polymeric Hollow Nanospheres with Stabilized Structures" Chem. Commun., 2003, 496.

7.  Hongwei Duan, Min Kuang, Dayang Wang, Dirk G. Kurth, Helmuth Mohwald, "Colloidally Stable and Amphibious Nanocrystals Derived from Poly[(2-dimethyl amino)ethyl methacrylate] Capping" Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2005, 44, 1717.

8.  Jing Wang, Min Kuang, Hongwei Duan, Daoyong Chen, Ming Jiang, "pH-Dependent Multiple Morphologies of Novel Aggregates of Carboxyl-Terminated Polyimide in Water" Eur. Phys. J. E, 2004, 15, 211.

9.  Hongwei Duan, Min Kuang, Jing Wang, Daoyong Chen, Ming Jiang, "Self- assembly of Rigid and Coil Polymers into Hollow Spheres in Their Common Solvent" J. Phys. Chem. B, 2004, 108, 550.

10.  Hongwei Duan, Min Kuang, Gang Zhang, Dayang Wang, Dirk G. Kurth, Helmuth Mohwald, "pH-Responsive Polyelectrolyte Nanocapsules by Templating Nanocrystals" Langmuir, 2005, 21, 11495.

11.  Min Kuang, Gang Zhang, Dayang Wang, Helmuth Mohwald, "Self-Assembly of Poly(N-isopropyl acrylamide)- based hydrogel spheres into two-Dimensional non-close-packing colloids arrays", Nanoscale Surface Self-assembly, a EuCheMS Conference, June 19-23, 2005, Stockholm, Sweden

12.  Min Kuang, Dayang Wang, Helmuth Mohwald, "Encapsulation of nanoparticles and mineralization of calcium carbonate within hydrogel spheres", Zsigmondy Colloquium, March 3-4, 2005, Bern, Switzerland

13.  Min Kuang, Dayang Wang, Helmuth Mohwald, "Fabrication single - or multicolor fluorescent microspheres by loading CdTe nanocrystals within hydrogel spheres", 13th Ostwald Colloquium, October 14-15, 2004, Ludwigshafen, Germany

14.  Min Kuang, Hongwei Duan, Daoyong Chen, Ming Jiang "Rod-assisted self-assembly of coil-like block copolymer in their common solvents", 39th International Symposium on Macromolecules-IUPAC World Polymer Congress, July 7-12, 2002, Beijing, China

15.  Min Kuang, Daoyong Chen, Ming Jiang "Hydrogen-bonding mediated self- assembly of rod-coil polymers pairs in their common solvents", National Conference of Macromolecular Science, September 9-14, 2003, Hangzhou, Chin

2003-2005     Max-Planck Society fellowship, Potsdam, Germany
2007             Member of American Chemical Society