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Yanfeng Yue, PhD

yanfeng yue

Professor, Chemistry
yyue [at] desu.edu
302.857.6532

Education

  • Ph.D., Peking University, 2008
  • M.S., Qufu Normal University, 2004
  • B.S., Jining College, 1998

Research Interests

  • Semiconductor nanocrystals (Quantum dots) for chemcial sensing.
  • Potentiometric sensors for enviromental monitoring and remediation.
  • Nanoporous carbons for energy storage and conversion.

Google Scholar Link: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=2m0RyXgAAAAJ

Recent Courses Taught

Inorganic Chemistry, Structural Inorganic Chemistry, Physical Chemistry

Brief, Non-technical Description of Research (for layperson)

Semiconductor quantum dots (Dopped carbon, ZnO, and metal sulfide), ionophore synthesis, Functional nanomaterials and their applications in catalysis, energy storage and environmental remediation

Current Grant Supports:

  1. National Science Foundation (NSF) – Ocean Technology and Interdisciplinary Coordination, “Collaborative Research: The Synthesis of Polymer Ionophores and Fabrication of Potentiometric Sensors for Carbonate Ion Detection in the Ocean”.
  2. National Science Foundation (NSF) – “E-RISE RII: Water in the Complex Coastal Environment of Delaware - Saltwater Intrusion (WiCCED Salt).
  3. Department of Energy (DoE) - The Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), “Non-Equilibrium Energy Transfer for Efficient Reactions (NEETER)”.
  4. The Delaware Bioscience Center for Advanced Technology (CAT) – Ideas-High-return, Innovative, Transformative (iHIT), “Molecular Imprinting Polymer Adsorbents for Removing Antibiotics from Wastewater”.
  5. DoD Research and Education Program for Historically Black Colleges and Universities and Minority-Serving Institutions (HBCU/MI), “Nanoporous Polymer/Metal-Organic Framework Nonwoven Cloth: Electrospinning Fabrication and Application for Capture of Chemical Warfare Agents”.

Selected Recent Publications

 

  1. Guang Chen, Jing Yu, Luling Wu, Xinrui Ji, Jie Xu, Chao Wang, Siyue Ma, Qing Miao, Linlin Wang, Chen Wang, Simon Lewis, Yanfeng Yue, Zhe Sun, Yuxia Liu, Bo Tang, Tony James, “Fluorescent Small Molecule Donors”, Chem. Soc. Rev., 2024, ,53, 6345-6398.
  2. Pengzhong Shi, Kai Wang, Ziao Chen, Jiawei Wang, Kaifu Lin, Ngangnseh Leboh Solange, Yanfeng Yue, and Zhiyong Guo, “Symmetric Variation of Monomers for Constructing 1D/2D Imine-based Covalent Organic Frameworks”, CCS Chem., 2024, 6, 941.
  3. Guang Chen, Jie Xu, Siyue Ma, Xinrui Ji, Jared B. Carney, Chao Wang, Xiaoyong Gao, Pu Chen, Baolei Fan, Ji Chen, Yanfeng Yue and Tony D. James, “Visual Monitoring of Biocatalytic Processes Using Small Molecular Fluorescent Probes: Strategies-Mechanisms-Applications”, Chem. Commun., 2024, 60, 2716.
  4. Douglas Austin, Jared Carney, Dale K. Hensley, Jihua Chen, Brianna E. Altidor, Zhiyong Guo, Elizabeth Michaelis, Mariana K Kebaso, Yanfeng Yue, “Sulfur Functionalized Biocarbon Sorbents for Low-Concentration Mercury Isolation”, Dalton Trans., 2024, 53, 2098.
  5. Stefanny N. Toala, Zhentao Sun, Yanfeng Yue, S. Fisher Gonski, Wei-Jun Cai, “Recent Developments of Ionophores in Electrochemical Sensors for Carbonate Detection in the Ocean”, Sens. Diagn. 2024, 3, 599.
  6. Guiqiang Fei, Shaoqi Li, Yuxia Liu, Jared B. Carney, Tao Chen, Yulin Li, Xiaoyong Gao, Ji Chen, Pu Chen, Yanfeng Yue, Kai Bao, Bo Tang and Guang Chen “Structure–activity strategies for mechanically responsive fluorescent materials: a molecular perspective”, Chem. Comm., 2024, 60, 10.
  7. Jared B. Carney, Shannon M. Mahurin, Yuying Zhang, Yaping Wang, Gerald Poirier, Yong Zhao, Douglas Austin, Elizabeth Michaelis, Yanfeng Yue, “High Porous Biocarbon Monoliths for Methane Storage”, Microporous Mesoporous Mater., 2023, 370, 112921.
  8. Elizabeth G. Michaelis, Douglas Austin, Renfeng Nie and Yanfeng Yue, “High surface area biocarbon monoliths for methane storage”, Green Energy & Environment, 2023, 8, 1308.
  9. Haitao Hu, Yuexing Zhang, Kaitlin A. Robinson, Yanfeng Yue and Renfeng Nie, “B,F Co-doped Carbocatalysts with Dual-Active-Sites for Acceptorless Dehydrogenation of N-Heterocycles under Room Temperature”, Applied Catalysis B: Environmental., 2022, 316, 121595.
  10. Hui-ping Zhang, Le-le Gong, Meng-jia Yin, Xiao-hong Xiong, Qing-yun Zhang, Xue-feng Feng, Feng Luo, Jared B. Carney and Yanfeng Yue, “Efficient Organic Iodide Capture by a Mesoporous Bimetallic-Organic Framework”, Cell Rep. Phys. Sci., 2022, 3, 100830.
  11. Kaiwen Xue, Yechen Si, Shuya Xie, Jingxuan Yang, Yan Mo, Baojun Long, Wen Wei, Peiyu Cao, Huixian Wei, Hongyu Guan, Elizabeth G. Michaelis, George Guo, Yanfeng Yue and Changsheng Shan, “Free-Standing N-Doped Porous Carbon Fiber Membrane Derived from Zn–MOF-74: Synthesis and Application as Anode for Sodium-Ion Battery with an Excellent Performance”, Front. Chem., 2021, 9, 647545.
  12. Huizhen Li, Jiaxin Kang, Shujun Li, Ai-Ju Zhou, Dongxue Han, Hong-Yu Guan, Douglas Austin Jr and Yanfeng Yue, “Syntheses, Formation Mechanisms and Structures of a Series of Linear Diborazanes”, CrystEngComm, 2021, 23, 404.
  13. Huizhen Li, Mingyue Ju, Jiaxin Kang, Ai-Ju Zhou, Hong-Yu Guan, Douglas Austin Jr and Yanfeng Yue, “Facile Cyclization of Sodium Aminodiboranate to Construct Boron-Nitrogen-Hydrogen Ring”, Dalton Trans., 2020, 49, 16662.
  14. Congying Xu, Junyu Lin, Dan Yan, Zhiyong Guo, Douglas J. Austin Jr, Hongbing Zhan, Atavia Kent and Yanfeng Yue, “Pd Nanoclusters Supported by Amine-Functionalized Covalent Organic Frameworks for Benzyl Alcohol Oxidation”, ACS Appl. Nano Mater., 2020, 3, 6416.
  15. Changsheng Shan, Xi Feng, JingxuanYang, Xu Yang, Hong-Yu Guan, Monica Argueta, Xing-Long Wu, Dao-Sheng Liu, Douglas J. Austin, Ping Nie and Yanfeng Yue, “Hierarchical Porous Carbon Pellicles: Electrospinning Synthesis and Applications as Anodes for Sodium-Ion Batteries with an Outstanding Performance”, Carbon, 2020, 157, 308.
  16. Ming Jin, Xuefeng Qian, Junkuo Gao, Jihua Chen, Dale K. Hensley, Hoi Chun Ho, Rebecca J. Percoco, Christopher M. Ritzi and Yanfeng Yue, “Solvent-Free Synthesis of CuO/HKUST-1 Composite and Its Photocatalytic Application”, Inorg. Chem., 2019, 58, 8332.
  17. Changsheng Shan, Yong Wang, Shuya Xie, Hong-Yu Guan, Monica Argueta and Yanfeng Yue, “Free-standing Nitrogen-doped Graphene-carbon Nanofiberic Composite Mats: Electrospinning Synthesis and Application as Anode Material for Lithium-Ion Battery”, J. Chem. Technol. Biotechnol., 2019, 94, 3793.
  18. Yanfeng Yue, Hadi Arman, Zachary J. Tonzetich and Banglin Chen, “Air-Free Synthesis of a Ferrous Metal-Organic Framework Featuring HKUST-1 Structure and its Mössbauer Spectrum”, Z. Anorg. Allg. Chem., 2019, 645, 797.
  19. Hong-Yu Guan, Robert J. LeBlanc, Shu-Ya Xie, and Yanfeng Yue, “Recent Progress in the Syntheses of Mesoporous Metal–Organic Framework Materials”, Coord. Chem. Rev., 2018, 369, 76.
  20. Eugene Mamontov, Yanfeng Yue, Jitendra Bahadur, Cristian I. Contescu, Nidia C. Gallego and Yuri B. Melnichenko, “Hydration Level Dependence of the Microscopic Dynamics of Water Adsorbed in Ultra-Microporous Carbon”, Carbon, 2017, 111, 705.
  21. Yanfeng Yue, Yunchao Li, Craig A. Bridges, Gernot Rother, Jinshui Zhang, Jihua Chen, Dale K. Hensley, Michelle K. Kidder, Bruce C. Richardson, Mariappan Parans Paranthaman and Sheng Dai, “Hierarchically Superstructured Metal Sulfides: Facile Perturbation-Assisted Nanofusion Synthesis and Visible Light Photocatalytic Characterizations”, ChemNanoMat, 2016, 2, 1104.
  22. Yanfeng Yue, Chenxi Zhang, Qing Tang, Richard T Mayes, Wei-Po Liao, Chen Liao, Costas Tsouris, Joseph Stankovich, Jihua Chen, Dale K. Hensley, Carter Abney, De-En Jiang, Suree Brown and Sheng Dai, “A Poly(acrylonitrile)-Functionalized Porous Aromatic Framework Synthesized by Atom-Transfer Radical Polymerization for Extraction of Uranium from Seawater”, Ind. Eng. Chem. Res., 2016, 55, 4125. Special issue in seawater uranium mining.
  23. Suree Brown, Yanfeng Yue, Li-Jung Kuo, Nada Mehio, Meijun Li, Gary Gill, Costas Tsouris, Richard T. Mayes, Tomonori Saito and Sheng Dai, “Uranium Adsorbent Fibers Prepared by Atom-Transfer Radical Polymerization (ATRP) from poly(vinyl chloride)-co-chlorinated poly(vinyl chloride) (PVC-co-CPVC) Fiber”, Ind. Eng. Chem. Res., 2016, 55, 4139. Special issue in seawater uranium mining.
  24. Suree Brown, Sabornie Chatterjee, Meijun Li, Yanfeng Yue, Costas Tsouris, Christopher J. Janke, Tomonori Saito and Sheng Dai, “Uranium Adsorbent Fibers Prepared by Atom-Transfer Radical Polymerization from Chlorinated Polypropylene and Polyethylene Trunk Fibers”, Ind. Eng. Chem. Res., 2016, 55, 4130. Special issue in seawater uranium mining.
  25. Yanfeng Yue, Li Zhang, Jihua Chen, Dale K. Hensley, Sheng Dai and Steven H. Overbury, “Mesoporous xEr2O3·CoTiO3 Composite Oxide Catalysts for Low Temperature Dehydrogenation of Ethylbenzene to Styrene by Using CO2 as a Soft Oxidant”, RSC Adv., 2016, 6, 32989.
  26. Yanfeng Yue, Zhiyong Zhang, Andrew J. Binder, Jihua Chen, Xianbo Jin, Steven H. Overbury and Sheng Dai, “Hierarchically Superstructured Prussian Blue Analogues: Spontaneous Assembly Synthesis and Applications as Pseudocapacitive Materials”, ChemSusChem, 2015, 8, 177.
  27. Yanfeng Yue, Yunchao Li, Zhonghe Bi, Gabriel M. Veith, Craig A. Bridges, Bingkun Guo, Jihua Chen, David R. Mullins, Sumedh P. Surwade, Shannon M. Mahurin, Hongjun Liu, M. Parans Paranthaman and Sheng Dai, “A POM–Organic Framework Anode for Li-Ion Battery”, J. Mater. Chem. A, 2015, 3, 22989.
  28. Yanfeng Yue, Nada Mehio, Andrew J. Binder and Sheng Dai, “Synthesis of Metal-Organic Framework Particles and Thin Films via Nanoscopic Metal Oxide Precursors”, CrystEngComm, 2015, 17, 1728. (invited Highlight paper).
  29. Yanfeng Yue, Pasquale F. Fulvio and Sheng Dai, “Hierarchical Metal-Organic Framework Hybrids: Perturbation-Assisted Nanofusion Synthesis”, Acc. Chem. Res., 2015, 48, 3044.
  30. Yanfeng Yue, Richard T. Mayes, Gary Gill, Li-Jung Kuo, Jordana Wood, Andrew Binder, Suree Brown and Sheng Dai, “Macroporous Monoliths for Trace Metal Extraction from Seawater”, RSC Adv., 2015, 5, 50005.
  31. Yanfeng Yue, Jeremy A. Rabone, Hongjun Liu, Shannon M. Mahurin, Man-Rong Li, Hailong Wang, Zhengliang Lu, Banglin Chen, Jihang Wang, Youxing Fang, and Sheng Dai, “A Flexible Metal-Organic Framework: Guest Molecules Controlled Dynamic Gas Adsorption”, J. Phys. Chem. C, 2015, 119, 9442.
  32. Yanfeng Yue, Bingkun Guo, Zhen-An Qiao, Pasquale F. Fulvio, Jihua Chen, Andrew J. Binder, Chengcheng Tian and Sheng Dai, “Multi-Wall Carbon Nanotube@Zeolite Imidazolate Framework Composite from Nanoscale Zinc Oxide Precursor”, Microporous Mesoporous Mater., 2014, 198, 139.
  33. Yanfeng Yue, Andrew J. Binder, Ruijing Song, Yuanjing Cui, Jihua Chen, Dale K. Hensley and Sheng Dai, “Encapsulation of Large Dye Molecules in Hierarchically Superstructured Metal–Organic Frameworks”, Dalton Trans., 2014, 43, 17893. Highlighted: “Hierarchical Functionality in MOF Structures” by Editor, Dalton Trans., 2014.
  34. Yanfeng Yue, Richard T. Mayes, Jungseung Kim, Pasquale F. Fulvio, Xiao-Guang Sun, Costas Tsouris, Jihua Chen, Suree Brown and Sheng Dai, “Seawater Uranium Sorbents: Preparation from Mesoporous Copolymer Initiator Based on Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization”, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2013, 52, 13458. Highlighted: “Coordination Chemistry in Ocean.” Yi Lu. Nature Chemistry, 2014, 6, 175.
  35. Yanfeng Yue, Andrew J. Binder, Bingkun Guo, Zhiyong Zhang, Zhen-An Qiao, Chengcheng Tian and Sheng Dai, “Mesoporous Prussian Blue Analogues: Template-Free Synthesis and Na-Ion Battery Applications”, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2014, 53, 3134.
  36. Yanfeng Yue, Zhen-An Qiao, Pasquale F. Fulvio, Andrew J. Binder, Chengcheng Tian, Jihua Chen, Kimberly M. Nelson, Xiang Zhu and Sheng Dai, “Template-Free Synthesis of Hierarchical Porous Metal–Organic Frameworks”, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2013, 135, 9572.
  37. Yanfeng Yue, Xiao-Guang Sun, Richard T. Mayes, Jungseung Kim, Pasquale F. Fulvio, Zhen-An Qiao, Suree Brown, Costas Tsouris, Yatsandra Oyola and Sheng Dai, “Polymer-Coated Nanoporous Carbons for Trace Seawater Uranium Adsorption”, Sci. China Chem., 2013, 56, 1510.
  38. Yanfeng Yue, Zhen-An Qiao, Xufan Li, Andrew J. Binder, Eric Formo, Zhengwei Pan, Chengcheng Tian, Zhonghe Bi and Sheng Dai, “Nanostructured Zeolitic Imidazolate Frameworks Derived from Nanosized Zinc Oxide Precursors”, Cryst. Growth & Des., 2013, 13, 1002.
  39. Yuanjing Cui, Yanfeng Yue, Guodong Qian and Banglin Chen, “Luminesent Functional Metal-Organic Frameworks”, Chem. Rev., 2012, 112, 1126.
  40. Yun-Shan Xue, Yabing He, Shi-Bin Ren, Yanfeng Yue, Le Zhou, Jun Zhang, Yi-Zhi Li, Hong-Bin Du, Xiao-Zeng You and Banglin Chen, “A Robust Microporous Metal–Organic Framework Constructed from a Flexible Organic Linker for Acetylene Storage at Ambient Temperature”, J. Mater. Chem., 2012, 22, 10195.
  41. Yuanjing Cui, Hui Xu, Yanfeng Yue, Zhiyong Guo, Jiancan Yu, Zhenxia Chen, Junkuo Gao, Yu Yang, Guodong Qian, Banglin Chen, “A Luminescent Mixed-Lanthanide Metal-Organic Framework Thermometer”, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2012, 134, 3979.
  42. Madhab C. Das, Hui Xu, Zhiyu Wang, Gadipelli Srinivas, Wei Zhou, Yan-Feng Yue, Vladimir N. Nesterov, Guodong Qian and Banglin Chen, “A Zn4O-Containing Doubly Interpenetrated Porous Metal–Organic Framework for Photocatalytic Decomposition of Methyl Orange” Chem. Comm., 2011, 47, 11715.
  43. Ning Li, Guifeng Kang, Lin Gui, Ming Zhao, Wenjing Wang, Jianwei Zhang, Yan-Feng Yue, Shiqi Peng, “Novel Cu(II)-RGD-octapeptides: Synthesis, Coordination Mode, in vitro Anti-Platelet Aggregation/in vivo Anti-Thrombotic Evaluation and Correlation of Sequence with Nano-Structure”, Nanomedicine, 2011, 7, 403.
  44. J. Rabone, Yan-Feng Yue, S. Y. Chong, K. C. Stylianou, J. Bacsa, D. Bradshaw, G. R. Darling, N. G. Berry, Y. Z. Khimyak, A. Y. Ganin, P. Wiper, J. B. Claridge, M. J. Rosseinsky, “An Adaptable Peptide-Based Porous Material”, Science, 2010, 329, 1053.
  45. Xiao-Fei Fu, Yan-Feng Yue, Rui Guo, Le-Le Li, Wei Sun, Chen-Jie Fang, Chun-Hu Xu and Chun-Hua Yan, “An Enhanced Fluorescence in a Tunable Face-To-Face Stacking Assembly Directed by the H-Bonding”, CrystEngComm, 2009, 11, 2268.
  46. Yan-Feng Yue, Jue Liang, En-Qing Gao, Chen-Jie Fang, Zheng-Guang Yan and Chun-Hua Yan, “Supramolecular Engineering of 2D Kagomé Lattice: Synthesis, Structures and Magnetic Properties”, Inorg. Chem., 2008, 47, 6115.
  47. Yan-Feng Yue, Chen-Jie Fang, En-Qing Gao, Cheng He, Shi-Qiang Bai, Sheng Xu and Chun-Hua Yan, “Four Thiocyanato-Bridged Cadmium(II) Polymeric Complexes Based on Open Chain Diazine Ligands”, J. Mol. Struct., 2008, 875, 80.
  48. Yan-Feng Yue, En-Qing Gao, Chen-Jie Fang, Tao Zheng, Jue Liang and Chun-Hua Yan, “Three Azido-Bridged Mn(II) Complexes Based on Open-Chain Diazine Schiff-Base Ligands: Crystal Structures and Magnetic Properties”, Cryst. Growth & Des., 2008, 8, 3295.
  49. Yan-Feng Yue, Chen-Jie Fang, En-Qing Gao, Tao Zheng and Chun-Hua Yan, “The Crystal Structures of Four Azido-Bridged Zn(II) Complexes Based on Bis(bidentate) Diazine Ligands”, CrystEngComm, 2008, 10, 614.
  50. Yan-Feng Yue, Wei Sun, En-Qing Gao, Chen-Jie Fang, Sheng Xu and Chun-Hua Yan, “Syntheses and Crystal Structures of Three Mn(II) Complexes with 2-Hydroxynicotinate”, Inorg. Chim. Acta, 2007, 360, 1466.
  51. Ai-Ling Cheng, Na Liu, Yan-Feng Yue, Yong-Wen Jiang, En-Qing Gao, Chun-Hua Yan and Ming-Yuan He, “Unprecedented 3D Entanglement of 1D Zigzag Coordination Polymers Leading to a Robust Microporous Framework”, Chem. Comm., 2007, 407.
  52. Yan-Feng Yue, En-Qing Gao, Chen-Jie Fang, Sheng Xu and Chun-Hua Yan, “Structures and/or Mmagnetic Properties of Three 1D Ladder-Type Manganic and Cadmium Compounds with Bis(bidentate) Open Chain Diazine Schiff-base Ligands”, J. Mol. Struct., 2007, 841, 67.
  53. Zhan-Xian Li, Wei Sun, Yan-Feng Yue, Ming-Hua Zheng, Chun-Hu Xu, Jing-Yi Jin, Chen-Jie Fang and Chun-Hua Yan, “Synthesis of a Solvent-Sensitive Highly Fluorescent Derivative of Perfluorocyclopentene”, Tetra. Lett., 2007, 48, 7675.
  54. Yan-Feng Yue, Bing-Wu Wang, En-Qing Gao, Chen-Jie Fang, Cheng He and Chun-Hua Yan, “A Novel Three-Dimensional Heterometallic Compound: Templated Assembly of the Unprecedented Planar “NaÌ[Cu4]” Metalloporphyrin-Like Subunits”, Chem. Comm., 2007, 2034.
  55. Yan-Feng Yue, En-Qing Gao, Chen-Jie Fang, Zheng He, Shi-Qiang Bai and Chun-Hua Yan, “Crystal Structures and Magnetic Properties of Triple Helical Binuclear Complexes with Bis(bidentate) Diazine Ligands”, Polyhedron, 2006, 25, 2778.
  56. Shi-Qiang Bai, En-Qing Gao, Zheng He, Chen-Jie Fang, Yan-Feng Yue and Chun-Hua Yan, “Manganese-Azides Based on Flexible Tail Co-ligands: Diverse Structural and Magnetic Properties”, Eur. J. Inorg. Chem., 2006, 407.
  57. En-Qing Gao, Yan-Feng Yue, Shi-Qiang Bai, Zheng He and Chun-Hua Yan, “One-Dimensional Copper(II) Complexes Containing Only Single End-On Azido Bridges: Crystal Structures and Magnetic Properties”, Cryst. Growth & Des., 2005, 5, 1119.
  58. En-Qing Gao, Yan-Feng Yue, Shi-Qiang Bai, Zheng He, Shi-Wei Zhang and Chun-Hua Yan, “New Two-Dimensional Manganese(II)-Azido Polymers with Bidentate Co-ligands: Structure and Magnetic Properties”, Chem. Mater., 2004, 16, 1590.
  59. En-Qing Gao, Yan-Feng Yue, Shi-Qiang Bai, Zheng He and Chun-Hua Yan, “From Achiral Ligands to Chiral Coordination Polymers: Spontaneous Resolution, Weak Ferromagnetism, and Topological Ferrimagnetism”, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2004, 126, 1419.
  60. Yan-Feng Yue, En-Qing Gao, Shi-Qiang Bai, Zheng He and Chun-Hua Yan, “High-Dimensional Azido-Bridged Cadmium(II) Polymeric Complexes with Bis(bidentate) Diazine Ligands”, CrystEngComm, 2004, 6, 549.
  61. En-Qing Gao, Shi-Qiang Bai, Chuan-Feng Wang, Yan-Feng Yue and Chun-Hua Yan, “Structural and Magnetic Properties of Three One-Dimensional Azido-Bridged Copper(II) and Manganese(II) Coordination Polymers”, Inorg. Chem., 2003, 42, 8456.
  62. En-Qing Gao, Shi-Qiang Bai, Yan-Feng Yue, Zhe-Ming Wang and Chun-Hua Yan, “New One-Dimensional Azido-Bridged Manganese(II) Coordination Polymers Exhibiting Alternating Ferromagnetic-Antiferromagnetic Interactions: Structural and Magnetic Studies”, Inorg. Chem., 2003, 42, 3642.

Book Chapters

  1. “General Chemistry,” Chapter 13, Chemistry of Coordination Compounds, Ed., Ming Zhao, Higher Education Press, Beijing, 2012.
  2. “Coordination Chemistry¾Principles and Applications,” Chapter 5, Molecular Magnetism, Ed., Hui Zhang, Chemical Industrial Press, Beijing, 2009.

Honors and Awards

  1. Faculty Excellence Award – Advising, DSU  -  2024
  2. Faculty Excellence Award – Research and Creative Activities, DSU  -  2022
  3. Center for Teaching and Learning Teaching – Innovation and Enrichment, DSU  -  2020
  4. Zhongchenyulan Award, Peking University, China  -  2007

Professional Affiliations

  1. The American Ceramic Society
  2. American Chemical Society
  3. The American Carbon Society           
  4. Royal Society of Chemistry   .