China Vitae

Biography

Feng Xinde, male, Han nationality, is a native of Wujiang, Jiangsu Province. He graduated from Tsinghua University in 1937 and received his Ph.D. from the University of Notre Dame in the United States in 1948.

Feng Xinde is one of the initiators, and founders, of high polymer chemistry in China. He has long been devoted to teaching and the basic research of high polymer chemistry. His research interest includes radical, photo-induced charge-transfer polymerization, and grafting and block co-polymerization of vinyl monomers. His research on biomedical high polymer chemistry is focused on anticoagulant materials, drug controlled release system, and initiation mechanism of polymer aging and bio-aging processes.

Feng is in charge of Alkenes Polymerization, a major "Seventh Five-Year" project of the China Science Foundation, and Alkenes Polymerization & Refinement of Reaction Product, a major "Eighth Five-Year" project of China Science Foundation. Feng is the Editor-in-chief of "Acta Pymerica Sinica" and the "Chinese Journal of Polymer Science" (an English language journal) for many years. Feng is also the former technical advisor of SINOPEC.

Feng is an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.