Ph.D. Polymer Eng. The University of Akron (USA), 1988 ~ 1992

M.S.  Chemical Eng. National Taiwan University, 1984 ~ 1986

B.S.  Chemical Eng. National Taiwan University, 1980 ~ 1984

• 2015 Distinguished Alumni Award, School of Polymer Science and Polymer Engineering, The University of Akron

• 2012/09 ~ 2013/02 Visiting Scholar, Department of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge

• 2007/08 ~ 2007/10 Visiting Scholar, Institut Charles Sadron (ICS), Centre national de la recherche scientifique, Strasbourg

• 2000 ~ present Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, National Cheng Kung University

• 1999 ~ 2000 Associate Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, National Cheng Kung University

• 1998 ~ 1999 Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, Yuan-Ze University

• 1993 ~ 1998 Associate Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, Yuan-Ze University

• 1992 ~ 1993 Postdoctoral Fellow, School of Polymer Science and Polymer Engineering, The University of Akron

• 2024 undergraduate course: Polymer Physics

• 2024 graduate course: Physical and Mechanical Properties of Polymers

A. Recent representative papers

1. Wang, C.*, Tsai, C. W., & Hashimoto, T.*, "Poly (vinyl alcohol) Fibrils with Highly Oriented Amorphous Chains Developed in Electrospun Nanofibers", Macromolecules 2024, 57, 2191−2204.

2. Chen, G. J., Lai, H. Y., Lu, P. H., Chang, Y. C. & Wang, C.*, "Light Scattering of Electrospinning Jet with Internal Structures by Flow-Induced Phase Separation", Macromolecular Rapid Communications  2023, 44, 2200273.

3. Wang, C.*& Hashimoto, T.*, "Spinodal Decomposition, Nucleation Growth, and Arrested Macrophase Separation of Physical Gels of Atactic Poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) in Water", Macromolecules 2023, 56, 6354−6374.

4. Wang, C.*, Hashimoto, T.*, Chuang, Y. C., Tanaka, K., Chang, Y. P., Yang, T. W. & Huang, M. T., "Physical Gelation of Aqueous Solutions of Atactic Poly(N-isopropylacrylamide)", Macromolecules 2022, 55, 9152−9167.

5. Wang, C.*, Hashimoto, T.*, Wang, Y., "Extension Rate and Bending Instability of Electrospinning Jets: The Role of the Electric Field", Macromolecules 2021, 54, 7193−7209.

6. Wang, C.* & Hashimoto, T.*, "A Scenario of a Fiber Formation Mechanism in Electrospinning: Jet Evolves Assemblies of Phase-Separated Strings That Eventually Split into As-spun Fibers Observed on the Grounded Collector", Macromolecules 2020, 53, 9584−9600.

7. Wang, C.*, Hashimoto, T.*, Wang, Y., Lai, H. Y., Kuo, C. H., "Formation of Dissipative Structures in the Straight Segment of Electrospinning Jets", Macromolecules 2020, 53, 7876−7886.

8. Kogo, T., Shundo, A.*, Wang, C.* & Tanaka, K.*, "Spatial Heterogeneity Accompanying Gel Formation of Poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) Aqueous Solution at a Temperature below Cloud Point", Macromolecules 2020, 53, 10964−10971.

9. Wang, Y., Wang, C.*, "Rheological Aspects and Extension-Induced Phase Separation in Electrospinning of Poly(N-isopropyl acrylamide) Solutions in Dimethylformamide", Macromolecular Materials and Engineering 2019, 304, 1900281.

10. Wang, C.* & Hashimoto, T.*, "Self-Organization in Electrospun Polymer Solutions: From Dissipative Structures to Ordered Fiber Structures through Fluctuations",  Macromolecules  2018, 51, 4502−4515.

11. Wang, C.*, Wang, Y. & Hashimoto, T.*, "Impact of Entanglement Density on Solution Electrospinning: A Phenomenological Model for Fiber Diameter", Macromolecules  2016, 49, 7985−7996.

B. Conference papes

1. Chi Wang; Chia-Hung Hsu; I-Hwe Hwang, "Effects of processing variables on the electrospinning of poly[(R)-3-hydroxybutyrate] solutions", Macro 2008 conference, Taipei, July 3.

2. Chi Wang; Huan-Sheng Chien; Wen-Ching Lee; Hsin-An Lu, "Nano-fiber formation by electrospinning: some critical issues on the process development", Annual Meeting of the Polymer Society, HsinChu, January 19.

3. Chi Wang, "Some interesting findings in the electrospinning of polymer solutions", Polymer Engineering's 25th Anniversary Celebration, Akron University, Ohio, August 7 (2008).

4. H. S. Chien; Chi Wang; K.-L. Hung; S.-J. Tsai, " Effects of carbon nanocapsules on electrospinning of poly(D, L-lactic acid) solutions and fiber morphologies", 236th ACS meeting, Philadelphia, USA, August 20 (2008).

5. Chi Wang; Chia-Hung Hsu, "Viscosity effect and internal structure of electrospun poly[(R)-3-hydroxybutyrate] fibers", 236th ACS meeting, Philadelphia, USA, August 20 (2008).

6. M. D. Raab; K. Rajagopal; M. Tewari; Chi Wang; D. E. Discher, "Polymer gels with solvent-erodable capillaries and caverns for controlling stem cells in 3-D", 236th ACS meeting, Philadelphia, USA, August 21 (2008).