Xiaowen Wu

Xiaowen Wu is a postdoctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, affiliated with the Department of Sustainable and Bio-inspired Materials. His work focuses on leveraging natural biopolymers and their derivatives to design photonic materials with structural color properties.

• Education: PhD from ETH Zurich (2023), supervised by Prof. Laura Nyström.

Research interests center on natural block copolymers, their self-assembly, and applications in sustainable photonic materials. His expertise spans biopolymer characterization (polysaccharides, polypeptides), polymer interactions, and chiral light manipulation. Current projects aim to integrate synthetic block copolymer technology with natural substances for precise material design.

He has published in journals like Carbohydrate Polymers and ACS Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, though specific titles are not listed in the provided text. Xiaowen’s work emphasizes biocompatibility, biodegradability, and environmental sustainability.