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-present, 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)     Organic optoelectronic devices.

HONORS & AWARDS 

2024 Chinese Chemical Society Award for Young Chemists

2023 Zhu Daoben Organic Solids Youth Innovation Award of Chinese Chemical Society

2023 Emerging Investigator of Sci. China Chem.

2023 Emerging Investigator of J. Mater. Chem. C

2016 Humboldt Scholarship

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

1. Rong-Rong Gao, Cheng Chen, Yan-Bo Huang, Xiao-Ye Wang*, ''Multi-Resonance 1,4-BN-Heteroarene for Filterless Narrowband Photodetector'', Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2025, 64, e202500006.

2. Cheng Chen, Yongkang Guo, Zhidong Chang, Klaus Müllen, Xiao-Ye Wang*, ''Synthesis of quadruply boron-doped acenes with stimuli-responsive multicolor emission'', Nat. Commun. 2024, 15, 8555.

3. Cheng Chen, Zhi-Dong Chang, Yong-Kang Guo, Yan-Bo Huang, Xiao-Ye Wang*, ''BN-Isosteres of Nonacene with Antiaromatic B2C4 and N2C4 Heterocycles: Synthesis and Strong Luminescence'', Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2024, 63, e202316596. (Selected as the Very Important Paper)

4. Pengcai Liu†, Xiao-Yu Tang†, Cheng-Zhuo Du, Rui Xue, Xing-Yu Chen, Jiawen Cao, Xiao-Ye Wang*, ''Lighting up Nonbenzenoid Acepleiadylene with Ultra-Narrowband Emission through Aromaticity Modulation'', Sci. China Chem. 2023, 66, 3506. (†equal contribution)

5. Lin Fu†, Pengcai Liu†, Rui Xue, Xiao-Yu Tang, Jiawen Cao, Ze-Fan Yao, Yuchao Liu, Shouke Yan, Xiao-Ye Wang*, ''Unravelling the Superiority of Nonbenzenoid Acepleiadylene as a Building Block for Organic Semiconducting Materials'', Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2023, 62, e202306509. (†equal contribution) (Selected as the Very Important Paper VIP)

6. Ji-Kun Li†, Ming-Yu Zhang†, Le Zeng, Ling Huang*, Xiao-Ye Wang*, ''NIR-Absorbing B,N-Heteroarene as Photosensitizer  for High-Performance NIR-to-Blue Triplet-Triplet Annihilation Upconversion'', Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2023, 62, e202303093. (†equal contribution)

7. Ji-Kun Li, Xing-Yu Chen, Wen-Long Zhao, Yun-Long Guo, Yi Zhang, Xin-Chang Wang, Andrew C.-H. Sue, Xiao-Yu Cao, Meng Li, Chuan-Feng Chen, Xiao-Ye Wang*, "Synthesis of Highly Luminescent Chiral Nanographene'', Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2023, 62, e202215367.

8. Cheng Chen†, Jiayi Lu†, Yang Lv, Yuyi Yan, Qiang Sun*, Akimitsu Narita, Klaus Müllen*, Xiao-Ye Wang*, "Heteroatom-Edged [4]Triangulene: Facile Synthesis and Two-Dimensional On-Surface Self-Assemblies", Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2022, 61, e202212594. (Selected as Hot Paper) (†equal contribution)

9. 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, 61, e202201464. (†equal contribution)

10. 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)

11. 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)

12. 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)