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Yao Fu
Physical Chemistry
Associate Professor
yao_fu@fudan.edu.cn
Room A5005, Chemistry Building, Jiangwan Campus, Fudan University
Research Interests
Solid-state NMR studies of functional materials (porous materials, energy materials, semiconductor materials)
Development of low-temperature and room-temperature hyperpolarization NMR techniques
Development of in situ NMR techniques (photoinduction, electrochemical bias, thermal induction)
Biography
2025.07- Ph.D. Supervisor, Department of Chemistry, Fudan University
2022.10-2025.07 Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Cambridge
(with Prof. Clare Grey, FRS and Prof. Henning Sirringhaus, FRS)2020.10-2022.10 Postdoctoral Researcher, CEA Grenoble (with Dr. Gaël De Paëpe)
2014.09-2019.06 Ph.D. in Chemistry, Zhejiang University (Advisor: Prof. Xueqian Kong)
2017.10-2019.01 Joint Ph.D. Training Program, University of California, Berkeley
(Advisors: Prof. Jeff Reimer and Prof. Jeff Long)2010.09-2014.06 B.Eng., Beijing Forestry University
Prizes and awards
2025: Shimon Vega Award, 21st EUROMAR (European Magnetic Resonance)
2024: Excellent Young Scientists Fund (Overseas), National Natural Science Foundation of China
2024: Shanghai Overseas Leading Young Talent Program
2022: Best Oral Presentation Award, 15th International Conference on Magnetic Resonance in Porous Media (MRPM15)
2020: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship Seal of Excellence
Academic Appointments
Member, Early Career Editorial Board, Micro-Nano Science
Member, Board of Directors, Beijing Society for Spectroscopy
Teaching activity
Solid-State Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Techniques
Photochemistry
Introduction to Advanced Chemistry
Topics in Frontiers of Chemistry
Key Publications
†: Co-first author *: Corresponding authorY. Fu, Y. Yao; S. Paul, K. Mochizuki*, G. De Paëpe*, Water-generated dangling linkers in a metal-organic framework, Nat. Commun. 2026, 17, 3805.
Y. Fu, Y. Yao, A. Forse, J. Li, K. Mochizuki, J. Long, J. Reimer, G. De Paëpe, X. Kong*， Solvent-derived Defects Suppress Adsorption in MOF-74，Nat. Commun. 2023, 14, 2386.
Y. Fu, A. Forse, Z. Kang, M. Cliffe, W. Cao, J. Yin, L. Gao, Z. Pang, T. He, Q. Chen, Q. Wang, J. Long, J. Reimer, X. Kong*, One-dimensional alignment of defects in a flexible metal-organic framework, Sci. Adv. 2023, 9, eade6975
Y. Fu†, Z. Kang†*, W. Cao, J. Yin, Y. Tu, J. Li, H. Guan, Y, Wang, Q. Wang*, X. Kong*, Defect‐assisted Loading and Docking Conformations of Pharmaceuticals in Metal‐organic Frameworks, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2021, 133, 7719-7727
Y. Fu, H. Guan, J. Yin, X. Kong*, Probing Molecular Motions in Metal-organic Frameworks with Solid-state NMR, Coordin. Chem. Rev. 2021, 427, 213563
Y. Fu, X. Kong*, Magnetic Resonance for Challenging Quadrupolar Halide Spins in Perovskites, ACS Cent. Sci. 2020, 6, 1037-1039
Y. Fu†, Z. Kang†, J. Yin, W. Cao, Y. Tu, Q. Wang*, X. Kong* Duet of Acetate and Water at the Defects of Metal-organic Frameworks, Nano Lett. 2019, 19, 1618-1624
C. Yu†, R. Chowdhury†, Y. Fu†, P. Ghosh, W. Zeng, T. Mustafa, J. Grüne, L. Walker, D. Congrave, X. Chua, P. Murto*, A.Rao, H. Sirringhaus, F. Plasser, C. Grey, R. Friend*, Hugo Bronstein*, Near-infrared luminescent open-shell π-conjugated systems with a bright lowest-energy zwitterionic singlet excited state, Sci. Adv. 2024, 10, eado3476.
Z. Wang†, Y. Fu†, Z. Kang†, X. Liu†, N. Chen*, Q. Wang, Y. Tu, L. Wang, S. Song, D. Ling, H. Song, X. Kong*, C. Fan*, Organelle-Specific Triggered Release of Immunostimulatory Oligonucleotides from Intrinsically Coordinated DNA-Metal-organic Frameworks with Soluble Exoskeleton, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2017, 139, 15784-15791
Y. Pang†, Y. Fu†, C. Li†, Z. Wu, W. Cao, X. Hu, X. Sun, W. He, X. Cao, D. Ling, Q. Li, C. Fan, C. Ying*, X. Kong*, A. Qin*, Metal-Organic Framework Nanoparticles for Ameliorating Breast Cancer-Associated Osteolysis, Nano Lett. 2020, 20, 829-840
P. Zeng†, Y. Fu† Y. Pang†, T. He, Y. Wu, R. Tang, A. Qin*, X. Kong*, Solid-State Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Identifies Abnormal Calcium Phosphate Formation in Diseased Bones, ACS Biomater-sci. Eng. 2021, 7, 1159-1168
Y. Wang†, J. Lin†, W. Cao, Y. Fu*, X. Kong*, The Instability of a Stable Metal-organic Framework in Amino Acid Solutions，Nano Res. 2022, 15, 6607-6612
