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)
RESEARCH AREAS
(1) Organic and polymeric functional materials.
(2) Organic optoelectronic devices and applications.
(3) Low-dimensional nanocarbon materials.
HONORS AND AWARDS
2019 Thousand Young Talents Program
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
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)
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)
Xiao-Ye Wang, Akimitsu Narita*, Klaus Müllen*, “Precision Synthesis versus Bulk-Scale Fabrication of Graphenes”, Nat. Rev. Chem. 2017,2, 0100.
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)
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.
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.
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.
Xiao-Ye Wang, Jie-Yu Wang*, Jian Pei*, “BN Heterosuperbenzenes: Synthesis and Properties”,Chem. Eur. J. 2015, 21, 3528.