EDUCATION AND RESEARCH EXPERIENCE i-ChEM fellow, Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Energy Materials (i-ChEM), Xiamen University, Xiamen, China (2014-2015) Topic: The Application of Au/Ag Nanoclusters in Solar Cell Collaborators: Prof. Nanfeng Zheng (Xiamen University), Prof. Dongyuan Zhao (Fudan University), Prof. Zhongsheng Wang Ph.D., Inorganic Chemistry, Xiamen University, Xiamen, China (2008-2014) Thesis: Thiolate-protected coin nanoclusters: synthesis, structures, and properties. Advisor: Prof. Nanfeng Zheng B.S., Pharmaceutical Engineering, Taiyuan University of Technology, Taiyuan, China (2002-2006)
RESEARCH INTERESTS Synthesis, structure and properties of 1. Giant metal/alloy nanoclusters of 3 nm which act as the model of nanoparticles 2. thiolate-protected Ag nanoclusters (2013-2015) 3. thiolate-protected Au nanoclusters (2011-2015) 4. giant polyoxoniobate clusters (2011) 5. germanate zeolites (2010) 6. microporous chalcogenide zeolite analogs (2009) 7. ligand-stabilized Ag chalcogenide clusters (2008-2014)
ACADEMIC SERVICES 2014 Outstanding Graduate Award of Xiamen University Achievement Awards of Scientific Research, Xiamen University 2013 Tang Aoqing Chemical Scholarship, Jiling University Wu Simin scholarship, Xiamen University
REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS 1. Yang, H. Y.§; Wang, Y.§; Chen, X.; Zhao, X. J.; Gu, L.; Huang, H. Q.; Yan, J. Z.; Li, G.; Wu, J. C.; Birger Dittrich; Alison J. Edwards; Tang, Z. C.; Wang, D. D.; Lauri Lehtovaara; Hannu Häkkinen; Zheng, N. F.; Plasmonic Twinned Silver Nanoparticles with Atomic Precision. Nature Commun., 2015. (under review) 2. Yang, H. Y.§; Wang, Y.§; Yan, J. Z; Chen, X; Zhang, X; Hannu Hakinen; Zheng, N. F.* Structural Evolution of Atomically Precise Thiolated Bimetallic [Au12+nCu32(SR)30+n]4- (n=0, 2, 4, 6) Nanoclusters. J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2014, 136, 7197-7200. (§equal contribution) Full text. 3. Yang, H. Y.§; Wang, Y.§; Yan, J. Z; Zheng, N. F.* High-yield synthesis and crystal structure of a green gold cluster Au30S(StBu)18 co-capped by thiolate and sulfide. Chem. Commun. 2014, 50, 14325-14327. (§equal contribution) Full text. 4. Yang, H. Y.; Wang, Y.; Huang, H. Q.; Lars Gell; Lauri Lehtovaara; Sami Malola; Hannu Hakkinen*; Zheng, N. F.* All-Thiol-Stabilized Ag44 and Au12Ag32 Nanoparticles with Single-Crystal Structures. Nature Commun. 2013, 4, 2422. Full text. 5. Yang, H. Y., Wang, Y.; Lei, J.; Shi, L.; Wu, X. H.; Ville Mäkinen; Lin, S. H.; Tang, Z. C.; He, J.; Hannu Häkkinen; Zheng, L. S.; Zheng, N. F.* Ligand-Stabilized Au13Cux (x = 2, 4, 8) Bimetallic Nanoclusters: Ligand Engineering to Control the Exposure of Metal Sites. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2013, 135, 9568−9571. Full text. 6. Yang, H. Y.; Lei, J.; Wu, B. H.; Wang, Y.; Zhou, M.; Xia, A. D.; Zheng, L. S.; Zheng, N. F.* Crystal structure of a luminescent thiolated Ag nanocluster with an octahedral Ag64+ core. Chem. Commun. 2013, 49, 300-302. Full text. 7. Yang, H. Y.; Wang, Y.; Zheng, N. F.* Stabilizing subnanometer Ag(0) nanoclusters by thiolate and diphosphine ligands and their crystal structures. Nanoscale. 2013, 5, 2674-2677. Full text. 8. Zhang, H. §; Yang, H. Y. §; Zhao, X. J.; Wang, Y.; Zheng N. F.*; "The Effects of Surface Ligands and Counter Cations on the Stability of Anionic Thiolated M12Ag32 (M=Au,Ag) Nanoclusters" Chinese Chem. Lett. 2014, 25, 839-843. (§equal contribution) Full text. 9. Liu, X. M.; Yang, H. Y.; Zheng, N. F.*; Zheng, L. S. Bromide-Induced Formation of a Highly Symmetric Silver Thiolate Cluster Containing 36 Silver Atoms from an Infinite Poly¬meric Silver Thiolate. Eur. J. Inorg. Chem. 2010, 2010, 2084-2087. Full text. 10. Wu, B. H.; Yang, H. Y.; Zheng, N. F.* Carbon Monoxide-Assisted Shape Control of Pd and Pt Nanocrystals (invited review, Chinese version). Scientia Sinica Chimica. 2012, 42, 1525-1539. Full text. 11. Wu, B. H.; Yang, H. Y.; Huang, H. Q.; Chen, G. X.; Zheng, N. F.* Solvent Effect on the Synthesis of Monodisperse Amine-Capped Au Nanoparticles. Chin. Chem. Lett. 2013. 24, 457-462. Full text. 12. Chen, G. X.; Yang, H. Y.; Wu, B. H.; Zheng, Y. P.; Zheng, N. F.* Supported monodis-perse Pt nanoparticles from [Pt3(CO)3(μ2-CO)3]52- clusters for investigating support-Pt inter¬face effect in catalysis. Dalton Trans., 2013. 42, 12699-12705. Full text. 13. Li, H.; Chen, G. X.; Yang, H. Y.; Wang, X. L.; Liang, J. H.; Liu, P. X.; Chen, M.; Zheng, N. F.* Shape-Controlled Synthesis of Surface-Clean Ultrathin Palladium Nanosheets by Simply Mixing a Dinuclear Pd(I) Carbonyl Chloride Complex with H2O. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2013, 52, 8368-8372. (hot paper) Full text. 14. Hu, C. Y.; Lin, K. Q.; Wang, X. L.; Liu, S. J.; Yi, J.; Tian, Y.; Wu, B. H.; Chen, G. X.; Yang, H. Y.; Dai, Y.; Li, H.; Zheng, N. F,* "Electrostatic Self-Assembly Formation of Pd Superlattice Nanowires from Surfactant-Free Ultrathin Pd Nanosheets" J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2014, 136, 12856–12859. Full text 15. Yan, J. Z.; Su, H. F.; Yang, H. Y.; Malola, Sami; Lin, S. H.; Häkkinen, Hannu; Zheng, N. F.* “Total Structure and Electronic Structure Analysis of Doped Thiolated Silver [MAg24(SR)18]2- (M = Pd, Pt) Clusters”. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2015, 137, 11880–11883. 16. Li, H.*; Chen, G. X.; Paul N. Duchesne; Zhang, P; Dai, Y; Yang, H. Y.; Jyh-Fu Lee, Cheng, S.; Wu, B.; Liu, S. J.; Xu, C. F.; Zheng, N. F.*. "A nanoparticulate polyacetylene-supported Pd(II) catalyst combining the advantages of homogeneous and heterogeneous catalysts" Chinese Journal of Catalysis, 2015, accepted. 17. Guangxu Chen, Chaofa Xu, Xiaoqing Huang, Jinyu Ye, Lin Gu, Gang Li, Zichao Tang, Binghui Wu, Huayan Yang, Zipeng Zhao, Zhiyou Zhou, Gang Fu,* Nanfeng Zheng* "Interfacial Electronic Effects Control the Reaction Selectivity of Platinum Catalysts" Nature Mater. 2016, 16, DOI:10.1038/nmat4555.
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