Research Interests

• Synthesis of core-shell functional microspheres for catalysis and chemical sensing

• Fabrication of novel nanostructures based on functional colloids for catalysis and sensing

• Design of block copolymers and their directed functional porous materials for sensing

Academic Appointments

• 2014.09- Present   Young editorial board member of Chinese Chemical Letters (SCI indexed）

• 2012.01-Present    Associate editor of Advanced Porous Materials (American Scientific Publisher).

Prizes and awards

• 2014 Shanghai Science and Technology Young Talent Award

• 2014 the National Science Fund for Excellent Young Scholars

• 2013“Shuguang Scholar” (Shanghai Municipal Education Committee)

• 2012 Dow Chemical Scientific Research and Innovation Award

• 2012 Shanghai Municipal Excellent Invention (Silver)

• 2012“Talents Program for the new century” (Ministry of Education)

• 2011“Zhuoxue Plan” (Fudan University Talent Plan)

• 2011“Rising Star” Tracking Program for Young Talents in Science and Technology (Science and technology commission of Shanghai)

• 2009 Fully Sponsored Visiting Scholar Program (China Scholarship Council )

• 2008 Award for Life Science (Meiji Dairies)

• 2008 Youth S&T “Rising Star” Program (Science and Technology Commission of Shanghai)

• 2007 R&D Fund Award (Unilever of Shanghai)

• 2007 Distinguished Postdoctor Award of Fudan University

• 2005 Excellent Graduate (Shanghai)

• 2004 Merit Student (Fudan University)

Biography

• 2011, 09-                  Department of Chemistry，Fudan University , Full professor

• 2009,12-2011,12       University of California, Berkeley,   Visiting Scholar

• 2007, 09-2011, 08     Department of Chemistry，Fudan University，Associate professor

• 2005, 10-2007,09      Fudan University，Postdoctoral researcher

• 2005, 07-2005,09      Ciba Specialty Chemicals Corp(shanghai), R&D Chemist

• 2000, 09 - 2005, 07    Ph.D. in Chemistry and Physics of Polymers at Fudan University

• 1996, 09 - 2000, 07    B.S. in Inorganic Chemistry at Nanchang University

Teaching

• Monodisperse polymeric latex Based on Soap-free emulsion polymerization

• Titania-based photocatalyst

Key Publications

1. Yuhui Li, Wei Luo, Nan Qin, Junping Dong, Jing Wei, Wei Li, Shanshan Feng, Junchen Chen, Jiaqiang Xu, Ahmed A. Elzatahry, Mahir H. Es-Saheb, Yonghui Deng* and Dongyuan Zhao. Highly Ordered Mesoporous Tungsten Oxides with Large Pore Size and Crystalline Framework for H₂S Sensing. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2014, 53(34), 9035-9040.

2. Minghong Wang, Zhenkun Sun, Qin Yue, Jie Yang, Xiqing Wang, Yonghui Deng*, Chengzhong Yu, Dongyuan Zhao. An Interface-Directed Co-assembly Approach to Synthesize Uniform Large-Pore Mesoporous Silica Spheres. J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2014, 136, 1884-1892.

3. Yonghui Deng, Jing Wei, Zhenkun Sun and Dongyuan Zhao*. Large-pore ordered mesoporous materials templated from non-Pluronic amphiphilic block copolymers. Chem. Soc. Rev., 2013, 42(9), 4054-4070.

4. Zhenkun Sun, Bo Sun, Minghua Qiao, Jing Wei, Qin Yue, Chun Wang, Yonghui Deng*, Serge Kaliaguine, and Dongyuan Zhao*. J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2012, 134 (42), 17653-17660.

5. Qin Yue, Minghong Wang, Jing Wei, Yonghui Deng*, Tianyi Liu, Renchao Che, Bo Tu, and Dongyuan Zhao*. A Template Carbonization Strategy to Synthesize Ordered Mesoporous Silica Microspheres with Trapped Sulfonated Carbon Nanoparticles for Efficient Catalysis. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2012, 51(41),10368-10372.

6. Jing Wei, Qin Yue, Zhenkun Sun, Yonghui Deng*, Dongyuan Zhao*. Synthesis of Dual-Mesoporous Silica Using Non-Ionic Diblock Copolymer and Cationic Surfactant as Co-Templates. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2012, 51(25), 6149-6153 (Hot paper).

7. J. Wei, Yonghui Deng*, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2011, 133 (50), 20369-20377.

8. Yonghui Deng, Yue Cai, Zhenkun Sun, Jia Liu, Chong Liu, Jing Wei, Wei Li, Chang Liu, Yao Wang and Dongyuan Zhao*. Multifunctional Mesoporous Composite Microspheres with Well-Designed Nanostructure: A Highly Integrated Catalyst System. J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2010, 132 (24), 8466-8473. 

9. Yonghui Deng, Dawei Qi, Chunhui Deng, Xiangmin Zhang, Dongyuan Zhao Superparamagnetic High-Magnetization Microspheres with an Fe₃O₄@SiO₂ Core and Perpendicularly Aligned Mesoporous SiO₂ Shell for Removal of Microcystins. J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2008, 130, 28-29.

10. Yonghui Deng, Ting Yu, Ying Wan, Yifeng Shi, Yan Meng, Dong Gu, Lijuan Zhang, Yan Huang, Chong Liu, Xiaojing Wu, and Dongyuan Zhao*. Ordered Mesoporous Silicas and Carbons with Large Accessible Pores Templated from Amphiphilic Diblock Copolymer Poly (ethylene oxide)-b-polystyrene. J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2007, 129 (6), 1690-1697.