Hao Shen

Hao Shen is Assistant Professor in Chemistry & Biochemistry at Kent State University. Research utilizes single-molecule spectroscopy to investigate polymer properties for catalytic and bioseparation applications. Key focus areas include advanced microscopy development (nanometer-resolution imaging), spatially resolved polymerization kinetics (microenvironment effects on reaction anomalies), and synthetic polymer membranes for protein chromatography separations (protein-polymer interaction dynamics).

Publications span nanomaterials, catalysis, DNA engineering, and analytical methods, with recent work on coronazymes, plasmonic catalysis, and DNA chirality detection. Instrumentation innovations include super-temporal-resolved microscopy (STReM) for millisecond-resolution dynamic studies.