CHENG WANG

Present Position: Professor

Education: 2013 Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

                    2009 B.Sc., Peking University

Professional Chronology:

Since 7/2015 Professor, Department of Chemistry, Xiamen University, Minjiang Professorship, Awardee of National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars (2022)

1/2015-6/2015 Research Assistant, Xiamen University, Collaborative Innovative Center of Chemistry for Energy Materials

8/2013-1/2015 Postdoc Researcher, James Frank Institute, University of Chicago, Advisor: Professor Greg Engel

8/2009-8/2013 Graduate Research Assistant, Chemistry Department, UNC-Chapel Hill. Advisor: Professor Wenbin Lin

7/2006-7/2009 Undergraduate Researcher, Chemistry Department, Peking University, Advisor: Professor Jianhua Lin

Honors & Awards:

2020 Chinese Chemical Society Young Scientist Award

2019 Distinguished Youth Awards of Xiamen

2013 Young Investigator Awards from Division of Inorganic Chemistry, American  Chemical Society

Research Interests:

Prof. Cheng Wang has a keen interest in using data science approach to tackle challenging problems in chemical research. Specially, Prof. Cheng Wang is developing methods to facilitate data collection, data analysis, and material design for catalysis.

Publications:

Prof. Cheng Wang has published 110 papers with a total citation of over 10000 times.

Five Representative Publications in The Recent Five Years:

1) Yuming Su, Yiheng Dai, Yifan Zeng, Caiyun Wei, Yangtao Chen, Fuchun Ge, Peikun Zheng, Da Zhou*, Pavlo O. Dral*, Cheng Wang*. Interpretable Machining Learning of Two-Photon Absorption. Advanced Science, https://doi.org/10.1002/advs.202204902

2) Mingcan Xie, Yan Shen, Wenchao Ma, Diye Wei, Biao Zhang, Zihan Wang, Yihan Wang, Prof. Qinghong Zhang, Prof. Shunji Xie*, Prof. Cheng Wang*, Prof. Ye Wang*. Fast Screening for Copper-Based Bimetallic Electrocatalysts: Efficient Electrocatalytic Reduction of CO2 to C2+ Products on Magnesium-Modified Copper. Angewandte Chemie International Edition 2022, 61, 51, e202213423 https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.202213423

3) Ying Guo, Xinru He, Yuming Su, Yiheng Dai, Mingcan Xie, Shuangli Yang, Jiawei Chen, Kun Wang, Da Zhou*, and Cheng Wang*. Machine-Learning-Guided Discovery and Optimization of Additives in Preparing Cu Catalysts for CO2 Reduction J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2021, 143, 15, 5755–5762

4) Peican Chen, Zeyu Tang, Zhongming Zeng, Xuefu Hu, Liangping Xiao, Yi Liu, Xudong Qian, Chunyu Deng, Ruiyun Huang, Jingzheng Zhang, Yilong Bi, Rongkun Lin, Yang Zhou, Honggang Liao, Da Zhou*, Cheng Wang*, Wenbin Lin. Machine-Learning-Guided Morphology Engineering of Nanoscale Metal-Organic Frameworks . Matter 2020, 2(6), 1651-1666 DOI: 10.1016/j.matt.2020.04.021

5) Huihui Hu, Zhiye Wang, Lingyun Cao, Lingzhen Zeng, Cankun Zhang, Wenbin Lin, Cheng Wang*. Metal-organic frameworks embedded in a liposome facilitate overall photocatalytic water splitting. Nature Chemistry, 2021, 13, 358-366 DOI: 10.1038/s41557-020-00635-5

Five Representative Publications beyond The Recent Five-Year Period:

1) Huihui Hu, Jieyu Zhu, Lingyun Cao, Zhiye Wang, Yuan Gao, Liulin Yang, Wenbin Lin, Cheng Wang*. Light-driven proton transport across liposomal membranes enabled by Janus metal-organic layers CHEM 2022,8 450-464 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chempr.2021.10.020

2) Ying Guo, Yucheng Wang, Yan Shen, Zhuanyun Cai, Zhe Li, Jia Liu, Wenbin Lin, Cheng Wang*. Tunable Cobalt-Polypyridyl Catalysts Supported on Metal–Organic Layers for Electrochemical CO₂ Reduction at Low Overpotentials，J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2020, 142, 51, 21493-21501 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.0c10719

3) Lingzhen Zeng, Zhiye Wang, Yongke Wang, Jing Wang, Ying Guo, Huihui Hu, Xuefeng He, Cheng Wang*, Wenbin Lin. Photoactivation of Cu Centers in Metal–Organic Frameworks for Selective CO₂ Conversion to Ethanol. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2020, 142,1,75-79 DOI: doi.org/10.1021/jacs.9b11443

4) Ying Guo, Wenjie Shi, Huijuan Yang, Quanfeng He, Zhongming Zeng, Jin-yu Ye, Xinru He, Ruiyun Huang, Cheng Wang*, Wenbin Lin. Cooperative Stabilization of the [Pyridinium-CO₂-Co] Adduct on a Metal–Organic Layer Enhances Electrocatalytic CO₂ Reduction. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2019, 141, 44, 17875-17883 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.9b09227

5) Bing An, Zhe Li, Yang Song, Jingzheng Zhang, Lingzhen Zeng, Cheng Wang* & Wenbin Lin. Cooperative copper centres in a metal-organic framework for selective conversion of CO₂ to ethanol Nature Catalysis 2019, 2,7, 709-717 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41929-019-0308-5

Grant Records:

National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) General Program as PI, "Two-dimensional metal-organic monolayers as diffusion-constrained molecular-based inhomogeneous phase catalysts", CNY650,000, 2017/1/1 to 2020/12/1, Project No: 21671162.

National Key Technologies R & D Program of China (MOST) as co-PI leading sub-project 02, "Multi-timescale Spectroscopy of Photovoltaic Conversion Processes", CNY 7,992,700, 2016/7/1 to 2021/6/30, Project No: 2016YFA0200702.

National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) General Program as PI, "Metal-organic Monolayer/Vesicle Assemblies for the Construction of "Artificial Chloroplasts"", CNY630,000, 2021/1/1 to 2024/12/31, Project No. 22071207.

National Key Technologies R & D Program of China (MOST) Young Scientist Fund as PI, "Asymmetric Functionalization of sp3 C-H Bonds", CNY5,000,000, 2024/1/1 to 2026/12/31, Project No: 2021YFA1502500.

National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) National Distinguished Young Scientist Fund as PI, "Metal-Organic Monolayers", CNY 4,000,000, 2022/1/1 to 2026/12/31, Project No: 22125502.