Education   

2009-2014    Ph.D. College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Peking University, Beijing, China (with Prof. Jian Pei)  

2005-2009    B.Sc. College of Chemistry, Nankai University, Tianjin, China  

Academic Career       

2019-            Professor (tenure-track), State Key Laboratory of Elemento-Organic Chemistry, College of Chemistry, Nankai University, Tianjin, China.

2014-2019    Postdoctoral Researcher, Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Mainz, Germany (with Prof. Klaus Müllen, Humboldt Fellow)

(1)     Organic conjugated materials.

(2)     Molecular nanocarbon materials.

(3)     Optoelectronic materials and devices.

Honors & Awards 

2016    Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship, Germany

2016    Beijing Science and Technology Award, Second Prize (4/6)

2015    Reaxys PhD Prize, Top10 Finalist

2014    Top10 Distinguished PhD Researcher (Peking University)

2013    Dow Sustainability Innovation Student Challenge Award

2013     BASF Excellent PhD Prize

Selected Publications

1. Wanhui Li^†, Cheng-Zhuo Du^†, Xing-Yu Chen, Lin Fu, Rong-Rong Gao, Ze-Fan Yao, Jie-Yu Wang, Wenping Hu, Jian Pei, Xiao-Ye Wang*, “BN-Anthracene for High-Mobility Organic Optoelectronic Materials through Periphery Engineering”, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2022, DOI: 10.1002/anie.202201464. (^†equal contribution)

2. Cheng Chen, Ming-Wei Wang, Xing-Yu Zhao, Shuang Yang, Xing-Yu Chen, Xiao-Ye Wang*, “Pushing the Length Limit of Dihydrodiboraacenes: Synthesis and Characterizations of Boron-Embedded Heptacene and Nonacene”, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2022, e202200779. (Selected as Hot Paper. Highlighted by ChemistryViews)

3. Ji-Kun Li, Xing-Yu Chen, Yun-Long Guo, Xin-Chang Wang, Andrew C.-H. Sue, Xiao-Yu Cao, Xiao-Ye Wang*, “B,N-Embedded Double Hetero[7]helicenes with Strong Chiroptical Response in the Visble Light Region”, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2021, 143, 17958. (Highlighted by Synfacts)

4. Pengcai Liu, Xingyu Chen, Jiawen Cao, Lukas Ruppenthal, J. Michael Gottfried, Klaus Müllen, Xiao-Ye Wang*, “Revisiting Acepleiadylene: Two-Step Synthesis and π-Extension toward Nonbenzenoid Nanographene”, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2021, 143, 5314.(Highlighted by Synfacts)

5. Zheng Zhou, Lin Fu, Yunbin Hu, Xiao-Ye Wang*, Zheng Wei, Akimutsu Narita, Klaus Müllen*, Marina A. Petrukhina*, “Compressing Double [7]Helicene by Successive Charging with Electrons”, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2020, 59, 15923.

6. Ru-Qiang Lu^†, Xiao-Yun Yan^†, Lei Zhu, Lin-Lin Yang, Hang Qu, Xin-Chang Wang, Ming Luo, Yu Wang, Rui Chen, Xiao-Ye Wang*, Yu Lan*, Jian Pei, Wengui Weng, Haiping Xia, Xiao-Yu Cao*, “Unveiling how intramolecular stacking modes of covalently linked dimers dictate photoswitching properties”, Nat. Commun. 2019, 10, 5480. (^†equal contribution)

7. Xiao-Ye Wang*, Xuelin Yao, Klaus Müllen*, “Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in the graphene era”, Sci. China Chem. 2019, 62, 1099.

8. Xiao-Ye Wang*, Xuelin Yao, Akimitsu Narita*, Klaus Müllen*, “Heteroatom-Doped Nanographenes with Structural Precision”, Acc. Chem. Res. 2019, 52, 2491.

9. Xiao-Ye Wang^†, José I. Urgel^†, Gabriela Borin Barin, Kristjan Eimre, Marco Di Giovannantonio, Alberto Milani, Matteo Tommasini, Carlo A. Pignedoli, Pascal Ruffieux, Xinliang Feng, Roman Fasel*, Klaus Müllen*, and Akimitsu Narita*, “Bottom-Up Synthesis of Heteroatom-Doped Chiral Graphene Nanoribbons”, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2018, 140, 9104. (^†equal contribution)

10. Xiao-Ye Wang^†, Marcus Richter^†, Yuanqin He^†, Jonas Björk^†, Alexander Riss^†, Raju Rajesh, Manuela Garnica, Felix Hennersdorf, Jan J. Weigand, Akimitsu Narita, Reinhard Berger, Xinliang Feng, Willi Auwärter*, Johannes V. Barth*, Carlos-Andres Palma*, Klaus Müllen*, “Exploration of Pyrazine-Embedded Antiaromatic Polycyclic Hydrocarbons Generated by Solution and On-Surface Azomethine Ylide Homocoupling”, Nat. Commun. 2017, 8, 1948. (^†equal contribution)

11. Xiao-Ye Wang, Akimitsu Narita*, Klaus Müllen*, “Precision Synthesis versus Bulk-Scale Fabrication of Graphenes”, Nat. Rev. Chem. 2017, 2, 0100.

12. Xiao-Ye Wang^†, Thomas Dienel^†, Marco Di Giovannantonio, Gabriela Borin Barin, Neerav Kharche, Okan Deniz, José I. Urgel, Roland Widmer, Samuel Stolz, Luis Henrique De Lima, Matthias Muntwiler, Matteo Tommasini, Vincent Meunier, Pascal Ruffieux, Xinliang Feng, Roman Fasel*, Klaus Müllen*, Akimitsu Narita*, “Heteroatom-Doped Perihexacene from a Double Helicene Precursor: On-Surface Synthesis and Properties”, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2017, 139, 4671. (^†equal contribution)

13.  Xiao-Ye Wang, Xin-Chang Wang, Akimitsu Narita*, Manfred Wagner, Xiao-Yu Cao*, Xinliang Feng, Klaus Müllen*, “Synthesis, Structure, and Chiroptical Properties of a Double [7]Heterohelicene”, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2016, 138, 12783.

14. Xiao-Ye Wang, Akimitsu Narita, Wen Zhang, Xinliang Feng*, Klaus Müllen*, “Synthesis of Stable Nanographenes with OBO-Doped Zigzag Edges Based on Tandem Demethylation-Electrophilic Borylation”, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2016, 138, 9021.

15. Xiao-Ye Wang, Akimitsu Narita, Xinliang Feng*, Klaus Müllen*, “B₂N₂-Dibenzo[a,e]pentalenes: Effect of the BN Orientation Pattern on Antiaromaticity and Optoelectronic Properties”, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2015, 137, 7668.

16. Xiao-Ye Wang, Fang-Dong Zhuang, Rui-Bo Wang, Xin-Chang Wang, Xiao-Yu Cao*, Jie-Yu Wang*, Jian Pei*, “A Straightforward Strategy toward Large BN-Embedded π-Systems: Synthesis, Structure, and Optoelectronic Properties of Extended BN Heterosuperbenzenes”, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2014, 136, 3764. (Highlighted by Synfacts)

17. Xiao-Ye Wang, Hao-Ran Lin, Ting Lei, Dong-Chu Yang, Fang-Dong Zhuang, Jie-Yu Wang*, Si-Chun Yuan*, Jian Pei*, “Azaborine Compounds for Organic Field-Effect Transistors: Efficient Synthesis, Remarkable Stability, and BN Dipole Interactions”, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2013, 52, 3117.