RESEARCH DIRECTION: 
 Synthetic macromolecules chemistry, colloidal surface/interface chemistry, polymer and nanocomposite materials
 EDUCATION AND ACADEMIC CAREER:
 06/2021 ~ present  Tenure-Track Professor, College of Chemistry, Sichuan University, 
 08/2018 ~ 06/2021 Research scientist, Department of Macromolecular Science, Fudan University (with Professor Zhihong Nie)
 02/2014 ~ 07/2018 Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Chemistry, University of Maryland (with Professor Zhihong Nie)
 01/2013 ~ 10/2013 Visiting scholar, Department of Chemistry, University of Maryland (with Professor Zhihong Nie)
 09/2009 ~ 01/2014 Ph.D., Jiangnan University (with Professor Xiaoya Liu and Professor Ming Jiang)                                                        
 09/2007 ~ 06/2009 M.S., Jiangnan University (with Professor Xiaoya Liu)
 09/2003 ~ 06/2007 B.S., Jiangnan University 
 SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:
 1.   Yiqun Yang#; Chenglin Yi#; Xiaozheng Duan; Qi Wu; Yan Zhang; Jing Tao; Wenhao Dong; Zhihong Nie*, Block-Random Copolymer Micellization-Mediated Formation of Polymeric Patches on Gold Nanoparticles. Journal of the American Chemical Society 2021, 143 (13), 5060-5070.
 
 2.   Chenglin Yi; Hong Liu; Shaoyi Zhang; Yiqun Yang; Yan Zhang; Zhongyuan Lu; Eugenia Kumacheva*; Zhihong Nie*, Directional Nanoparticle Bonding Governed by Reaction Stoichiometry. Science 2020, 369 (6509), 1369-1374.
 
 3.   Chenglin Yi; Yiqun Yang; Ben Liu; Jie He*; Zhihong Nie*, Polymer-guided assembly of inorganic nanoparticles. Chemical Society Reviews 2020, 49 (2), 465-508.
 
 4.   Chenglin Yi; Yiqun Yang; Zhihong Nie*, Alternating Copolymerization of Inorganic Nanoparticles. Journal of the American Chemical Society 2019, 141 (19), 7917-7925.
 
 5.   Chenglin Yi; Shaoyi Zhang; Kyle Thomas Webb; Zhihong Nie*, Anisotropic Self-Assembly of Hairy Inorganic Nanoparticles. Accounts of Chemical Research 2017, 50 (1), 12-21.
 
 Book Chapter
 1.   Chenglin Yi, Zhihong Nie, Self-assembly of Polymer-grafted Inorganic Nanoparticles into Functional Hybrid Materials, Soft Nanomaterials 2019, 19, 87.