Miancheng Zou

Miancheng Zou is affiliated with the Institute of Technical and Macromolecular Chemistry at RWTH Aachen University and the Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials at the University of Groningen. His research focuses on polymer science and mechanochemistry, particularly in developing microgel-based drug delivery systems for sonopharmacology, which uses ultrasound to trigger drug activation via bond cleavage.

His work involves synthesizing mechanoresponsive polymer architectures, characterizing microgel properties via 1H-NMR, DLS, and TEM, and evaluating antimicrobial efficacy through MIC tests. Key findings include the microgel system's ability to reduce sonication time for drug release compared to linear polymers and its effectiveness in shielding antibiotics until ultrasound activation.