Cheng Wang
College of Chemistry and Molecular Sciences,
Wuhan University
Contact
Professor of Inorganic Chemistry
College of Chemistry and Molecular Sciences
Wuhan University
Wuhan 430072
P R China
Tel: 86-27-6875-6679
Email: chengwang@whu.edu.cn
Current Research
 MOFs Organocatalysts

Organic Molecular Cage
 Dye-sensitive Solar Cell
 Drug Delivery Systems
Biography
Cheng Wang was born in 1981 in Hubei Province, The People's Republic of China. After graduating from Wuhan University in 2003, he attended Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences , working with Professor Deqing Zhang and Academician Professor Daoben Zhu , where he focuses on the tunable organogel and molecular switches. In 2008, he joined the
Stoddart group in Northwestern University as a postdoctoral research associate, he tackled research topics in many different areas ranging from studying mechanically interlocked molecules
(MIMs) in solution to mechanized mesoporous silica nanoparticles (MSNPs) for drug delivery and including the introducing of MIMs into metal-organic frameworks (MOFs). H started his new job on 1 st March 2012 as a professor at College of Chemistry and Molecular Sciences, Wuhan
University.
Selected Publications:
1.
Stimulated Release of Size-Selected Cargos in Succession from Mesoporous Silica
Nanoparticles
Cheng Wang, Zongxi Li, Dennis Cao, Yan-Li Zhao, Justin W. Gaines, O. Altan Bozdemir,
Michael W. Ambrogio, Marco Frasconi, Youssry Y. Botros, Jeffrey I. Zink*, J. Fraser
Stoddart*, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed.
2012 , 51 , 5460–5465.
2.
Isolation by crystallization of translational isomers of a bistable donor-acceptor [2]catenane
Cheng Wang, Mark A. Olson, Lei Fang, Diego Benítez, Ekaterina Tkatchouk, Subhadeep
Basu, Ashish N. Basuray, Deqing Zhang, Daoben Zhu, William A. Goddard, J. Fraser
Stoddart*, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 2010 , 107 , 13991–13996.
3.
Multistimuli Responsive Organogels Based on a New Gelator Featuring Tetrathiafulvalene and Azobenzene Groups: Reversible Tuning of the Gel-Sol Transition by Redox Reactions and Light Irradiation

Cheng Wang, Qun Chen, Fei Sun, Deqing Zhang*, Guanxin Zhang, Yanyan Huang, Rui Zhao,
Daoben Zhu, J. Am. Chem. Soc.
2010 , 132 , 3092–3096.
4.
Dual Stimulus Switching of a [2]catenane in Water
Lei Fang, Cheng Wang, Albert C. Fahrenbach, Ali Trabolsi, Youssry Y. Botros ， J. Fraser
Stoddart*, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed.
2011 , 50 , 1805–1809.
5.
A low-molecular-mass gelator with an electroactive tetrathiafulvalene group: Tuning the gel formation by charge-transfer interaction and oxidation
Cheng Wang, Deqing Zhang*, Daoben Zhu*, J. Am. Chem. Soc.
2005 , 127 , 16372–16373.