Yanqing Tian
The Biodesign Institute
Arizona State University, Tempe
Contact
Center for Biosignatures Discovery Automation
The Biodesign Institute
Arizona State University
Tempe, Arizona 85287-6501
Phone: (480)965-9601
Fax: (480) 727-6588
E-mail: yanqing.tian@asu.edu
Honors and Accolades
 2000 - 2002
JSPS Fellowship, Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science
 1998 - 2000
STA Fellowship, Science and Technology Agency Fellowship, Japan
Current Research
 Biosensors
 Micelles for imaging probe and drug delivery
 Synthesis of functional materials
Biography
Yanqing Tian received his BS and MS degrees from the Department of Organic Chemistry, Jilin
University (China) in 1989 and 1992. In 1995, Dr. Tian received his PhD degree in polymer chemistry
and physics from Jilin University. He had been a member of the Chemistry faculty at Jilin University
from 1992 to 1998. Since 1998, he had been working at Sagami Chemical Research Center, Tokyo
Metropolitan University, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo University of Science, and University of
Washington. He is now working at the Center for Biosignatures Discovery Automation, Biodesign
Institute at Arizona State University as a member of research faculty. His research interests include the
synthesis and application of functional materials like liquid crystals, nonlinear optical materials, lightemitting materials, and two-photon absorbing materials. Currently, he is working on fluorescent sensors
and block copolymers for biosensing, bioimaging, and drug delivery. Dr. Tian has been co-authored for
more than 100 peer reviewed papers.
Selected Publications
An FRET-Based Ratiometric Chemosensor for in Vitro Cellular Fluorescence Analyses of pH
Xianfeng Zhou, Fengyu Su, Hongguang Lu, Patti Senechal-Willis, Yanqing Tian, Roger H. Johnson,
Deirdre R. Meldrum
Biomaterials, 2012, 33, 171-180.
A New Highly Selective Fluorescent K+ Sensor
Xianfeng Zhou, Fengyu Su, Yanqing Tian, Cody Youngbull, Roger H. Johnson, and Deirdre R. Meldrum
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2011, 133, 18530–18533.
Triazacryptand-Based Fluorescent Sensors for Extracellular and Intracellular K+ Sensing
Xianfeng Zhou, Fengyu Su, Weimin Gao, Yanqing Tian, Cody Youngbull, Roger H. Johnson, Deirdre R.
Meldrum
Biomaterials, 2011, 32 (33), 8574-8583.
A series of naphthalimide derivatives as intra- and extra-cellular pH sensors
Yanqing Tian, Fengyu Su, Warner Weber, Vivek Nandakumar, Bradley R. Shumway, Yuguang Jin,
Xianfeng Zhou, Mark Holl, Roger H. Johnson, and Deirdre R. Meldrum
Biomaterials, 2010, 31, 7411-7422.
Enhancement of Aggregation-Induced Emission in Dye-encapsulated Polymeric Micelles for Bioimaging
Wen-Chung Wu, Ching-Yi Chen, Yanqing Tian, Sei-Hum Jang, Yuning Hong, Yang Liu, Rongrong Hu,
Ben Zhong Tang, Chin-Ti Chen, Wen-Chang Chen, and Alex K.-Y. Jen
Advanced Functional Materials,2010, 20 (9), 1413-1423. Cover picture.
A New Crosslinkable Oxygen Sensor Covalently Bonded into Poly(2-hydroxyethyl methacrylate)-coPolyacrylamide Thin Film for Dissolved Oxygen Sensing
Yanqing Tian, Bradley R. Shumway, Deirdre R. Meldrum
Chemistry of Materials 2010, 22 (6), 2069–2078.
Hydrophobic Chromophores in Aqueous Micellar Solution Showing Large Two-photon Absorption Crosssections
Yanqing Tian, Ching-Yi Chen, YenJu Cheng, A. Cody Young, Neal M. Tucker, Alex K.-Y. Jen
Advanced Functional Materials 2007, 17, 1691-1697.
Synthesis, Liquid-Crystalline Properties, and Supramolecular Nanostructures of Dendronized
Poly(isocyanide)s and Their Precursors
Yanqing Tian, Kaori Kamata, Hiroshisa Yoshida, Tomokazu Iyoda
Chem. Eur. J. 2006, 12(2), 584-591. A very important paper (VIP).
Synthesis, Nanostructures, and Functionality of Amphiphilic Liquid Crystalline Block Copolymers
with Azobenzene Moieties
Yanqing Tian, Kaori Watanabe, Xiangxing Kong, Jiro Abe, Tomokazu Iyoda
Macromolecules, 2002, 35, 3739-3747.