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Li Xu
Senior Principal Scientist II, Institute of Sustainability for Chemicals, Energy and Environment (ISCE2) - A*STAR
Dr. Li Xu is a Senior Principal Scientist II at Institute of Sustainability for Chemicals, Energy and Environment (ISCE2), A*STAR, where he leads Sustainable Packaging Group dedicated to studying polymer composite for sustainable food packaging. The main research focus of his team is 1) design and synthesis of high-performance polymer materials and functional fillers and 2) incorporation of functional filler into polymer material with controlled filler distribution and tuned interfacial bonding between filler and polymer matrix to produce high performance polymeric materials. As an Adjunct Associate Professor at the Department of Food Science and Technology, NUS, his study is on food preservation by using hybrid polymers.
He has successfully developed transparent hierarchical silicate polymer composite with excellent oxygen barrier, oxygen scavenging and antimicrobial performance. The composite also shows very good UV shielding property after further introducing ferric complexes onto silicate sheets. In order to explore these technologies for food packaging application, in 2012, he initiated the Industry Coating and Packaging (ICAP) consortium aiming to advance pre-competitive research in industrial coating and packaging to enable the adoption of these platform technologies through synergistic partnerships.
So far, he has contributed more than 140 peer-reviewed papers in scientific journals with H-index of 56. His oxygen barrier and oxygen scavenging technology has been successfully integrated with polyolefin to produce recyclable mono-polyolefin food packaging. He was awarded the Shimadzu-SNIC Industry Award in Applied and Translational Chemistry in 2023.
