Guanglong (Aron) Huang
Introduction
Aron joined SusMatLab as a research student in October 2025 and entered the doctoral course in April 2026. His doctoral research focuses on the upcycling of waste textiles into functional composite materials for environmental remediation. In his first year he published a paper on hydrogel adsorbent sheets made from cotton–PET textile waste, and his presentation of this work received the Student Best Oral Presentation Award at the 50th anniversary conference of The Polymer Society of Korea. Before joining SusMatLab, he worked in computational and synthetic organic chemistry.
Education
Apr. 2026 – present: Doctoral course in Chemical Engineering, Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Nagoya University
Oct. 2025 – Mar. 2026: Research Student, Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Nagoya University
Sep. 2019 – Jun. 2022: M.Sc. in Chemistry, School of Science, Shantou University
Sep. 2015 – Jul. 2019: B.Sc. in Applied Chemistry, School of Chemical Engineering and New Energy, Zhuhai College of Jilin University
Career
Apr. 2026 – present: RESEARDENT, THERS Make New Standards Program for the Next Generation Researchers, Nagoya University
Jul. 2024 – Jul. 2025: Research Assistant, Chemical Engineering, Guangdong Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
Sep. 2022 – Aug. 2023: Research Assistant, State Key Laboratory of Fluorine and Nitrogen Chemistry and Advanced Materials, Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Dec. 2018 – Apr. 2019: Lab Intern, State Key Laboratory of Inorganic Synthesis and Preparation Chemistry, Jilin University
Prizes
2026.10 Student Best Oral Presentation Award, IUPAC-PSK50 International Conference on Next Horizons in Polymers Commemorating the 50th Anniversary of The Polymer Society of Korea.
Selected Publications
G. Huang and A. Zinchenko. Upcycling cotton–PET textiles into hydrogel adsorbent sheets for water pollutant removal. Journal of Cleaner Production 2026, 568, 148700.
K. Chan, F. Miksik, H. Wang, G. Huang, H. Hayashi, Y. Kawajiri, and A. Zinchenko. Direct synthesis of chromium MOF from waste PET bottles and amine modification: from sustainable upcycling to dynamic CO2 capture. Chemical Engineering Journal 2026, 538, 176457.
Y. Luo, G. Huang, K. Ding, X.-S. Xue, and X. Wang. Oxygen transposition of formamide to α-aminoketone moiety in a carbene-initiated domino reaction. Nature Chemistry 2025, 17, 1196.
G. Huang, Y. Fang, J. S. Wright, S.-F. Ni, M.-D. Li, and L. Dang. The essence in selectivity of copper-mediated intermolecular nucleophilic substitution of a meta C–H bond in 2-methyl-N-methoxyaniline: a theoretical study. Journal of Physical Chemistry A 2023, 127, 9473.
H.-H. Wang, H. Shao, G. Huang, J. Fan, W.-P. To, L. Dang, Y. Liu, and C.-M. Che. Chiral iron porphyrins catalyzed enantioselective intramolecular C(sp3)–H bond amination upon visible light irradiation. Angewandte Chemie International Edition 2023, 62, e202218577.
S.-F. Ni, G. Huang, Y. Chen, J. S. Wright, M. Li, and L. Dang. Recent advances in γ-C(sp3)–H bond activation of amides, aliphatic amines, sulfanilamides and amino acids. Coordination Chemistry Reviews 2022, 455, 214255.
Y. Zhang, J. Yuan, G. Huang, H. Yu, J. Liu, J. Chen, S. Meng, J.-J. Zhong, L. Dang, G.-A. Yu, and C.-M. Che. Direct visible-light-induced synthesis of P-stereogenic phosphine oxides under air conditions. Chemical Science 2022, 13, 6519.
Conferences
G. Huang and A. Zinchenko. Upcycling cotton–PET textiles into hydrogel adsorbent sheets for water pollutant removal. IUPAC-PSK50 International Conference on Next Horizons in Polymers Commemorating the 50th Anniversary of The Polymer Society of Korea (2026), oral presentation, Busan, South Korea.