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.
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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.
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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.
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4. Chenglin Yi; Yiqun Yang; Zhihong Nie*, Alternating Copolymerization of Inorganic Nanoparticles. Journal of the American Chemical Society 2019, 141 (19), 7917-7925.
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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.
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Book Chapter
1. Chenglin Yi, Zhihong Nie, Self-assembly of Polymer-grafted Inorganic Nanoparticles into Functional Hybrid Materials, Soft Nanomaterials 2019, 19, 87.