Education:

Principal Research Interests:
Synthesis, isolation, and functionalization of non-classical fullerenes.

Selected Recent Publications:

1. (1) Xie, S. Y.; Gao, F.; Lu, X.; Huang, R. B.; Wang, C. R.; Zhang, X.; Liu, M. L.; Deng, S. L.; Zheng, L. S. Capturing the labile fullerene 50 as C50Cl10. Science 2004, 304 (5671), 699.

2. (2) Zheng, J.; Huang, L.; Cui, C.-H.; Chen, Z.-C.; Liu, X.-F.; Duan, X.; Cao, X.-Y.; Yang, T.-Z.; Zhu, H.; Shi, K.et al. Ambient-pressure synthesis of ethylene glycol catalyzed by C-60-buffered Cu/SiO2. Science 2022, 376 (6590), 288.

3. (3) Li, J.; Hou, S.; Yao, Y.-R.; Zhang, C.; Wu, Q.; Wang, H.-C.; Zhang, H.; Liu, X.; Tang, C.; Wei, M.et al. Room-temperature logic-in-memory operations in single-metallofullerene devices. Nature Materials 2022, 21 (8), 917.

4. (4) Wu, Y.-F.; Ying, S.-W.; Su, L.-Y.; Du, J.-J.; Zhang, L.; Chen, B.-W.; Tian, H.-R.; Xu, H.; Zhang, M.-L.; Yan, X.et al. Nitrogen-Embedded Quintuple 7 Helicene: A Helicene-Azacorannulene Hybrid with Strong Near-Infrared Fluorescence. Journal of the American Chemical Society 2022, 144 (24), 10736.

5. (5) Xing, Z.; An, M.-W.; Chen, Z.-C.; Hu, M.; Huang, X.; Deng, L.-L.; Zhang, Q.; Guo, X.; Xie, S.-Y.; Yang, S. Surface Re-Engineering of Perovskites with Buckybowls to Boost the Inverted-Type Photovoltaics. Journal of the American Chemical Society 2022, 144 (30), 13839.

6. (6) Wu, Y.-F.; Ying, S.-W.; Liao, S.-D.; Zhang, L.; Du, J.-J.; Chen, B.-W.; Tian, H.-R.; Xie, F.-F.; Xu, H.; Deng, S.-L.et al. Sulfur-Doped Quintuple 9 Helicene with Azacorannulene as Core. Angewandte Chemie-International Edition 2022, 61 (33).

7. (7) Guan, R. N.; Chen, M. Q.; Xin, J. P.; Xie, X. M.; Jin, F.; Zhang, Q. Y.; Xie, S. Y.; Yang, S. F. Capturing the Missing Carbon Cage Isomer of C-84 via Mutual Stabilization of a Triangular Monometallic Cyanide Cluster. Journal of the American Chemical Society 2021, 143 (21), 8078.

8. (8) Zhu, Z.-Z.; Chen, Z.-C.; Yao, Y.-R.; Cui, C.-H.; Li, S.-H.; Zhao, X.-J.; Zhang, Q.; Tian, H.-R.; Xu, P.-Y.; Xie, F.-F.et al. Rational synthesis of an atomically precise carboncone under mild conditions. Science Advances 2019, 5 (8).

9. (9) Tan, Z.; Zhang, D.; Tian, H.-R.; Wu, Q.; Hou, S.; Pi, J.; Sadeghi, H.; Tang, Z.; Yang, Y.; Liu, J.et al. Atomically defined angstrom-scale all-carbon junctions. Nature Communications 2019, 10.

10. (10) Xu, Y.-Y.; Tian, H.-R.; Li, S.-H.; Chen, Z.-C.; Yao, Y.-R.; Wang, S.-S.; Zhang, X.; Zhu, Z.-Z.; Deng, S.-L.; Zhang, Q.et al. Flexible decapyrrylcorannulene hosts. Nature Communications 2019, 10.

11. (11) Zhong, Y.-Y.; Chen, Z.-C.; Du, P.; Cui, C.-H.; Tian, H.-R.; Shi, X.-M.; Deng, S.-L.; Gao, F.; Zhang, Q.; Gao, C.-L.et al. Double Negatively Curved C-70 Growth through a Heptagon-Involving Pathway. Angewandte Chemie-International Edition 2019, 58 (40), 14095.

12. (12) Han, X.-B.; Tang, X.-Y.; Lin, Y.; Gracia-Espino, E.; Liu, S.-G.; Liang, H.-W.; Hu, G.-Z.; Zhao, X.-J.; Liao, H.-G.; Tan, Y.-Z.et al. Ultrasmall Abundant Metal-Based Clusters as Oxygen-Evolving Catalysts. Journal of the American Chemical Society 2019, 141 (1), 232.

13. (13) Tian, H.-R.; Chen, M.-M.; Wang, K.; Chen, Z.-C.; Fu, C.-Y.; Zhang, Q.; Li, S.-H.; Deng, S.-L.; Yao, Y.-R.; Xie, S.-Y.et al. An Unconventional Hydrofullerene C66H4 with Symmetric Heptagons Retrieved in Low-Pressure Combustion. Journal of the American Chemical Society 2019, 141 (16), 6651.