Taotao Zhuang is a full professor and doctoral supervisor in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Science and Technology of China. He holds dual appointments as a Professor at the Hefei National Research Center for Physical Sciences at the Microscale and an Adjunct Professor at the First Affiliated Hospital of the University of Science and Technology of China.  He received his Ph.D. in Inorganic Chemistry from the University of Science and Technology of China in 2015, under the supervision of Academician Shu-Hong Yu. From 2016 to 2020, he pursued his postdoctoral research in the group of Prof. Edward H. Sargent (a distinguished Fellow of both the Royal Canadian Academy of Sciences and the Canadian Academy of Engineering) at the University of Toronto. In April 2020, he joined the University of Science and Technology of China as an independent principal investigator, where he established the “Chiral Structure and Function Lab” and has served as a Full Professor in the Department of Chemistry since January 2025. 

 Prof. Zhuang’s research aims to develop novel chiral functional micro/nanomaterials, investigate their structural and performance mechanisms, and utilize these materials for practical optical applications, including chiral polarization sensing, information interaction, 3D displays, and biodetection.  

In the optics-related fields, Prof. Zhuang has more than 50 refereed SCI publications, in which his being corresponding/first author on papers (with a total number over 30) in Nat. Nanotechnol. (1), Nat. Catal. (2), Sci. Adv. (3), Nat. Commun. (4), J. Am. Chem. Soc. (2), Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. (2), as well as other leading journals. So far, Prof. Zhuang achieved a personal H-index of 35 and his work has been cited by others for over 8000 times (i.e., over 160 citations per paper). 

2025 – present
Full Professor
Department of Chemistry / National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale
University of Science and Technology of China

2024 – present
Adjunct Professor
the First Affiliated Hospital, University of Science and Technology of China

2020 – 2025
Principal Investigator
Department of Chemistry
University of Science and Technology of China 

2016 – 2020
Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Toronto

2009 – 2015
Ph.D.
School of Chemistry and Materials Science
University of Science and Technology of China

 Mingjiang Zhang#, Shanshan Zhao#, Jintong Li#, Zeyi Li, Junjie Cai, Yajie Zhou, Qi Guo, Wenting Gao, Zhi Tong, Yaxin Wang, Guangen Li, Xueru Guo, Anqi Li, Jing Lin, Taotao Zhuang*; Chiral spin constrained assemblies for polarized optical mapping,  Science Advances  2025, 11, eady1001.

Qi Guo#; Zeyi Li#; Yajie Zhou; Shanshan Zhao; Yaxin Wang; Mingjiang Zhang; Guangen Li; Zhi Tong; Taotao Zhuang*; Shu-Hong Yu*; Self-positioning microdevices enable adaptable spatial displaying, Science Advances 2025, 11, eadv2721, Cover.

Xueru Guo; Zhi Tong; Anqi Li; Yajie Zhou; Zeyi Li; Jing Lin; Yaxin Wang; Mingjiang Zhang; Taotao Zhuang*; Mechanically Driven, Continuous Synthesis of Chiroplasmonic Assemblies, Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2024, 146, 32498.

Yajie Zhou; Yaxin Wang; Yonghui Song; Shanshan Zhao; Mingjiang Zhang; Guangen Li; Qi Guo; Zhi Tong; Zeyi Li; Shan Jin; Hong-Bin Yao; Manzhou Zhu; Taotao Zhuang*; Helical-caging enables single-emitted large asymmetric full-color circularly polarized luminescence. Nature Communications 2024, 15, 251. 

Mingjiang Zhang#; Qi Guo#; Zeyi Li; Yajie Zhou; Shanshan Zhao; Zhi Tong; Yaxin Wang; Guangen Li; Shan Jin; Manzhou Zhu; Taotao Zhuang*; Shu-Hong Yu*, Processable circularly polarized luminescence material enables flexible stereoscopic 3D imaging; Science Advances 2023, 9, eadi9944.

Qi Guo#; Mingjiang Zhang#; Zhi Tong; Shanshan Zhao; Yajie Zhou; Yaxin Wang; Shan Jin; Jie Zhang; Hong-Bin Yao; Manzhou Zhu; Taotao Zhuang*; Multimodal-Responsive Circularly Polarized Luminescence Security Materials; Journal of the American Chemical Society 2023, 145, 4246.