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. Yidong Zou, Zhenkun Sun, Qiyue Wang, Yanmin Ju, Nianrong Sun, Qin Yue, Yu Deng, Shanbiao Liu, Shengfei Yang, Zhiyi Wang, Fangyuan Li, Yanglong Hou*, Chunhui Deng*, Daishun Ling*, Yonghui Deng*, Core-Shell Magnetic Particles: Tailored Synthesis and Applications, Chem. Rev. 2025, 125(2), 972–1048

2. Fengluan Jiang, Yu Deng, Keyu Chen, Jichun Li, Xin-Yu Huang, Yidong Zou*, Limin Wu*, Wenhe Xie*, Yonghui Deng*, A Straightforward Solvent-Pair-Enabled Multicomponent Coassembly Approach toward Noble-Metal-Nanoparticle-Decorated Mesoporous Tungsten Oxide for Trace Ammonia Sensing, Adv Mater. 2024, 36(36), 2313547

3. Wenhe Xie, Xinyu Huang, Chengcheng Zhu, Fengluan Jiang, Yu Deng, Bingjie Yu, Limin Wu*, Qin Yue*, Yonghui Deng*, A Versatile Synthesis Platform Based on Polymer Cubosomes for a Library of Highly Ordered Nanoporous Metal Oxides Particles, Adv Mater. 2024, 36(27), 2313920

4. Wenhe Xie, Yuan Ren, Fengluan Jiang, Xin-Yu Huang, Bingjie Yu, Jianhong Liu, Jichun Li, Keyu Chen, Yidong Zou, Bingwen Hu, Yonghui Deng*,Solvent-pair surfactants enabled assembly of clusters and copolymers towards programmed mesoporous metal oxides, Nat. Commun. 2023, 14(1), 8493.

5. Xuanyu Yang, Yatong Shi, Kefeng Xie, Shaoming Fang, Yong-Hui Zhang*, Yonghui Deng*, Cocrystallization Enabled Spatial Self-Confinement Gives Crystalline Porous Metal Oxide Nanosheets for Gas Sensing, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2022,134 (37), e202207816

6. Jing Wang#, Yuan Ren#, Hui Liu, Ziliang Li, Xinya Liu, Yonghui Deng*, Xiaosheng Fang*, Ultrathin 2D NbWO6 Perovskite Semiconductor based Gas Sensors with Ultrahigh Selectivity under Low Working Temperature, Adv. Mater. 2022, 34(2), 2104958

7. Yuan Ren#, Yidong Zou#, Yang Liu, Xinran Zhou, Junhao Ma, Dongyuan Zhao, Guangfeng Wei, Yuejie Ai, Shibo Xi, Yonghui Deng*, Synthesis of orthogonally assembled 3D cross-stacked metal oxide semiconducting nanowires, Nat Mater. 2020, 19 (2), 203–211.

8. Qin Yue, Jianguo Sun, Yijin Kang, Yonghui Deng*, Advances in the Interfacial Assembly of Mesoporous Silica on Magnetite Particles, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2020, 59(37),15804 –15817

9. Liangliang Liu, Xuanyu Yang, Yujie Xie, Huan Liu, Xinran Zhou, Xingyu Xiao, Yuan Ren, Zhen Ma, Xiaowei Cheng, Yonghui Deng*, Dongyuan Zhao, A universal lab-on-salt-particle approach to 2D single-layer ordered mesoporous materials, Adv. Mater. 2020, 32 (10), 1906653.

10. Yidong Zou, Xinran Zhou, Junhao Ma, Xuanyu Yang, Yonghui Deng*, Recent advances in amphiphilic block copolymer templated mesoporous metal-based materials: assembly engineering and applications, Chem. Soc. Rev. 2020, 49(4), 1173–1208.