Research Interests

• Synthesis, Structure and Application of Novel Ordered Mesoporous Materials Based on Interfacial Assembly and Engineering.

• Synthesis and Structure of Novel Nano Materials for Applications of Battery, Supercapacitor, and Photoconversion.

• Synthesis,Assembly, and Characterization of Ordered Nanoporous Materials.

• RationalSynthesis,Structure and Application of Novel Microporous Molecular Sieves.

• Applications of Novel Nanostructured Materials on Photocatalysis, Biomedicine, and Water Treatment.

Academic Appointments

• Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Materials Chemistry

• Editorial Board of Journal of The American Chemical Society, Chemistry-An Asian Journal, Chemistry of Materials, Advanced Energy Materials, Dalton Transactions, Nano, Nano Today, Nano Research, Porous materials.

Prizes and awards

• 2013  CNR Rao Award, Indian Chemical Research Society

• 2012  Earl L Muetterties Memorial Lecturer Award, UC Berkeley

• 2010  Membrane of TWAS (Third World Academy of Sciences)

• 2009  The Ho Leung Ho Lee Foundation Award for Scientific and Technological Progress

• 2008  TWAS Prize in Chemistry (The Third World Academy of Sciences)

• 2008  IMMS Award (International Mesostructured Materials Association)

• 2007  Academician, the Chinese of Academy of Science

• 2005  3th National Supreme Scientific and Technological Award, China Association for Science and Technology

• 2005  DuPond Young Professor Award

• 2004  Second Prize of National Natural Science Award

• 2004  8th Chinese Excellent Young Science and Technology Researchers

• 2002  Peony Award for Natural Science, Shanghai

• 2002  First Prize of Shanghai Science and Technology Promotion Award

• 2002  Top Five Young Scientists Award of Shanghai

• 2000  Chen Xiangmei Award for Outstanding National Teacher, Ministry of Education of China

Biography

• From 1987 to 1990: Ph. D., State Key Laboratory of Foundational Catalysis, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Science and Department of Chemistry, Jilin University, China.Supervised by Professor Guo Xiexian (Academician) and Professor Xu Ruren (Academician)

• From 1990 to 1991: Lecturer in Department of Chemical Engineering at Shenyang Institute of Chemical Technology, Shenyang, China

• From 1991 to 1993: Associate Professor in Department of Chemical Engineering at Shenyang Institute of Chemical Technology, Shenyang, China

• From 1993 to 1993: Department of Chemistry, University of Regina, Canada，Visiting Scholar, supervised by Prof. D. G. Lee

• From 1993 to 1995: Department of Chemical Physics, The Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel, Post-Doctoral Fellowship, supervised by Prof. Daniella Goldfarb

• From 1996 to 1997: Department of Chemistry, University of Houston, USA

• Post-Doctoral Fellow, supervised by Prof. Larry Kevan

• From 1997 to 1998: Materials Research Laboratory, Department of Chemistry and Department of Materials, University of California at Santa Barbara, USA
  Post-doctoral fellow and Research Associate, supervised by Prof. Galen D. Stucky

• From 1998 to Now:Professor of Chemistry and Materials, Department of Chemistry, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

Teaching

• General Chemistry  (Undergraduate Courses)

• Inorganic Materials (Undergraduate Courses)

• Modern Inorganic Chemistry (Postgraduate Course)

• Synthesis and Characterization of Inorganic Materials(Postgraduate Course)

Key Publications

1. “Two-Dimensional Mesoporous Carbon Nanosheets and Their Derived GrapheneNanosheets: Synthesis and Efficient Lithium Ion Storage”, Yin Fang, Yingying Lv, Renchao Che, Haoyu Wu, Xuehua Zhang, Dong Gu, Gengfeng Zheng, Dongyuan Zhao, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2013, 135, 1524-1530.

2. “A Solvent Evaporation Induced Aggregating Assembly Approach to Three-Dimensional Ordered Mesoporous Silica with Ultralarge Accessible Mesopores”, Jing Wei, Hai Wang, Yonghui Deng, Zhenkun Sun, Lin Shi, Bo Tu, Mohammad Luqman, and Dongyuan Zhao, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2011, 133, 20369-20377.

3. “A Low-Concentration Hydrothermal Synthesis of Biocompatible Ordered Mesoporous Carbon Nanospheres with Tunable and Uniform Size”, Yin Fang, Dong Gu, Ying Zou, Zhangxiong Wu, Fuyou Li, Renchao Che, Yonghui Deng, Bo Tu, Dongyuan Zhao, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2010, 49, 7987-7991.

4. “Synthesis of core/shell colloidal magnetic zeolite microspheres for the immobilization of trypsin”, Yonghui Deng, Chunhui Deng, Dawei Qi, Chong Liu, Jia Liu, Xiangmin Zhang, Dongyuan Zhao, Adv. Mater., 2009, 21, 1377-1382.

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

6. “Uniform nanostructured arrays of sodium rare-earth fluorides for highly efficient multicolor upconversion luminescence”, Fan Zhang, Ying Wan, Ting Yu, Fuqiang Zhang, Yifeng Shi, Songhai Xie, Yigang Li, Lei Xu, Bo Tu and Dongyuan Zhao, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2007, 46, 7976-7979.

7. “Synthesis of Highly Ordered Mesoporous Crystalline WS₂ and MoS₂ via a High-Temperature Reductive Sulfuration Route”, Yifeng Shi, Ying Wan, Ruili Liu, Bo Tu, and Dongyuan Zhao, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2007, 129, 9522-9531.

8. “On the Controllable Soft-Templating Approach to Mesoporous Silicates”, Ying Wan, Dongyuan Zhao, Chem. Rev., 2007, 107, 2821-2860.

9. “A Facile Aqueous Route to Synthesize Highly Ordered Mesoporous Polymers and Carbon Frameworks with Ia3d Bicontinuous Cubic Structure”, Fuqiang Zhang, Yan Meng, Dong Gu, Yan Yan, Cengzhong Yu, Bo Tu, DongYuan Zhao, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2005, 127, 13508-13509.

10. “Ordered Mesoporous Polymers and Homologous Carbon Frameworks: Amphiphilic Surfactant Templating and Direct Transformation”, Yan Meng, Dong Gu, Fuqiang Zhang, Yifeng Shi, Haifeng Yang, Zheng Li, Chengzhong Yu, Bo Tu, Dongyuan Zhao, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2005, 44, 7053-7059.