General
Qing-Fu Sun, Professor, Group Leader.

Research Areas

Supramolecular Chemistry; Solution Coordination Chemistry; Structural Chemistry.

Education

PhD: The University of Tokyo, Advisor: Prof. Makoto Fujita, 09/2011


Experience

02/2012 –08/2013  Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory(LBNL)UC-Berkeley, USA

Chemist Postdoc Fellow

Advisor: Prof. Kenneth N. Raymond & Robert G. Bergman & F. Dean Toste

10/2011 – 01/2012 The University of Tokyo, Japan

Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS-PD)

Advisor: Prof. Makoto Fujita

04/2010 – 09/2011 The University of Tokyo, Japan

                                   Research Fellowship for Young Scientists (JSPS-DC2)

Advisor: Prof. Makoto Fujita

04/2009 – 03/2010 The University of Tokyo, Japan

                                   Research Assistantship, Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST)

Advisor: Prof. Makoto Fujita

12/2008 – 03/2009 The University of Tokyo, Japan

                                   Research Assistantship, Global Center of Excellence (G-COE)

Advisor: Prof. Makoto Fujita


Publications

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

ResearcherID: http://www.researcherid.com/rid/C-9406-2011

 

18Xiuyan Cheng,* Tomohiro Yokozeki, Lixin Wu, Haopeng Wang, JinMeng Zhang, Jun Koyanagi, Zixiang Weng, Qingfu Sun. Electrical conductivity and interlaminar shear strength enhancement of carbon fiber reinforced polymers through synergetic effect between graphene oxide and polyaniline”. Composites Part A: Applied Science and Manufacturing, 2016, 90, 243-249. [DOI:10.1016/j.compositesa.2016.07.015]

17Liang-Liang Yan, Chun-Hong Tan, Guang-Lu Zhang, Li-Peng Zhou, Jean-Claude Bünzli, Qing-Fu Sun*. “Stereocontrolled Self-Assembly and Self-Sorting of Luminescent Europium Tetrahedral Cages”. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2015, 135, 8550-8558. [DOI: 10.1021/jacs.5b03972]

16Guang-Lu Zhang, Li-Peng Zhou, Da-Qiang Yuan, Qing-Fu Sun*. “Bottom-Up Construction of Mesoporous Nanotubes from 78-Component Self-Assembled Nanobarrels”. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2015, 54, 9844-9848. [DOI:10.1002/anie.201503295]

15Zhou, Li-Peng; Sun, Qing-Fu*. “A self-assembled Pd2L4 cage that selectively encapsulates nitrate”. Chem. Comm. 2015, 16767-16770. (Back Inside Cover)        [DOI: 10.1039/c5cc07306e]

14Qing-Fu Sun, Sota Sato, and Makoto Fujita*. “An M-12(L-1)(12)(L-2)(12) Cantellated Tetrahedron: A Case Study on Mixed-Ligand Self-Assembly”. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2014, 53, 13510-13513. [DOI:10.1002/anie.201408652]

13Xuan-Feng Jiang, Franky Ka-Wah Hau, Qing-Fu Sun, Shu-Yan Yu*, Vivian Wing-Wah Yam*. “From {Au-I center dot center dot center dot Au-I}-Coupled Cages to the Cage-Built 2-D {Au-I center dot center dot center dot Au-I} Arrays: Au-I center dot center dot center dot Au-I Bonding Interaction Driven Self-Assembly and Their Ag-I Sensing and Photo-Switchable Behavior” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2014136, 10921-10929.[DOI:10.1021/ja502295c]

 

12Kate Harris, Qing-Fu Sun, Sota Sato, and Makoto Fujita*. “M12L24 spheres with endo and exo coordination sites: Scaffolds for non-covalent functionalization”. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2013135, 12497-12499.     [DOI:10.1021/ja4043609]

11) Qing-Fu Sun, Sota Sato, and Makoto Fujita*. “An M18L24 stellated cuboctahedron through post-stellation of an M12L24 core”. Nature Chemistry. 2012, 4, 330–333. [DOI:10.1038/nchem.1285]

10) Qing-Fu Sun, Takashi Murase, Sota Sato, and Makoto Fujita*. “A sphere-in-sphere complex by orthogonal self-assembly”. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2011, 5010318-10321. [DOI:10.1002/anie.201104670]

9)   Qing-Fu Sun, Sota. Sato, and Makoto Fujita*. “Self-assembled inverse dendrimer”. Chem. Lett. 2011, 40, 726-727. [DOI:10.1246/cl.2011.726]

8)   Qing-Fu Sun, Junji Iwasa, Dachi Ogawa, Yoshitaka Ishido, Sota Sato, Tomoji Ozeki, Yoshihisa Sei, Kentaro Yamaguchi, and Makoto Fujita*.“Emergent Self-assembly”. Synfacts 2010, 8, 887. [DOI: 10.1055/s-0030-1257835]

7)   Qing-Fu Sun, Junji Iwasa, Dachi Ogawa, Yoshitaka Ishido, Sota Sato, Tomoji Ozeki, Yoshihisa Sei, Kentaro Yamaguchi, and Makoto Fujita*. “Self-assembled M24L48 polyhedra and their sharp structural switch upon subtle ligand variation”. Science 2010, 328, 1144-1147. [DOI:10.1126/science.1188605]

(Highlighted by Science "Perspectives": A. R. Stefankiewicz, J. K. M. Sanders*. “Harmony of the Self-Assembled Spheres”, Science 2010, 328, 1115-1116; Also by NATURE CHEMISTRY|RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS. S. Cantrill. “Coordination chemistry: Bent into shape”, Nature Chemistry 2010, 2, 604-605.)

7)   Shu-Yan Yu*, Qing-Fu Sun, Terence Kwok-Ming Lee, Eddie Chung-Chin Cheng, Yi-Zhi Li*, and Vivian Wing-Wah Yam*. “Au36 crown: metal-metal bonding interaction directed macrocyclization”. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2008, 47, 4551-4554. (Front Cover and VIP paper) [DOI: 10.1002/anie.200801001].

(Highlighted in Chemical & Engineering News 2008, 86, 42-43).

5)   Qing-Fu Sun, Keith Man-Chung Wong, Li-Xia Liu, Hai-Ping Huang, Shu-Yan Yu*, Vivian Wing-Wah Yam*, Yi-Zhi Li, Yuan-Jiang Pan, and Kai-Chao Yu. “Self-assembly, structures, and photophysical properties of 4,4′-bipyrazolate-linked metallo-macrocycles with dimetal clips”. Inorg. Chem. 2008, 47, 2142-2154. [DOI:10.1021/ic701344p]

4)   Qing-Fu Sun, Terence Kwok-Ming Lee, Pei-Zhou Li, Liao-Yuan Yao, Jing-Jing Huang, Jing Huang, Shu-Yan Yu*, Yi-Zhi Li, Eddie Chung-Chin Cheng and Vivian Wing-Wah Yam*.  “Self-assembly of a neutral luminescent Au12 cluster with D2 symmetry”. Chem. Comm. 2008, 5514-5516. [DOI:10.1039/b808646j]

3)   Li-Xia Liu, Hai-Ping Huang, Xin Li, Qing-Fu Sun, Cui-Rong Sun, Yi-Zhi Li and Shu-Yan Yu*. “Coordination molecular hats binding acetonitrile via C–Hπ interactions”. Dalton Trans. 2008, 1544–1546. [DOI:10.1039/B719605A]

2)   Pei-Lin Yuan, Pei-Zhou Li, Qing-Fu Sun, Li-Xia Liu, Kun Gao, Wei-Sheng Liu, Xiao-Ming Lu, Shu-Yan Yu*. “Synthesis, structure and magnetic property of a one-dimensional Co(II)-formate helical coordination polymer”. J. Mol. Struct. 2008, 890(1-3), 112-115. [DOI:10.1016/j.molstruc.2008.05.022]

1)   Hai-Ping Huang, Qiong Wu, Li-Xia Liu, Qing-Fu Sun. “4-Benzyl-3,5-diphenyl-1H-pyrazole”. Acta Cryst. 2007, E63(3), o1473-o1474. [DOI:10.1107/S1600536807008434]

 

Book Chapter

 

1)     Kate Harris, Qing-Fu Sun, Makoto Fujita* “Coordination self-assembly: structure and function updated” Comprehensive Inorganic Chemistry II, Vol 8. Oxford: Elsevier; 2013. P.31-57.

Conferences

Conference Proceedings

 

9)      L.-L. Yan, Q.-F. Sun*. “Stereocontrolled Self-Assembly of Luminescent Lanthanide Tetrahedral Cages and Their High-Fidelity Self-Sorting Behavior”. ACCC-5, HongKong, China,12-16  July2015. (Poster)

8)      Q.-F. Sun, S. Sato, T. Murase, M. Fujita*. “Biomimetic self-assembly of molecular spheres”. 61st Japan Symposium on Coordination Chemistry (JSCC-61), Okayama, Japan, Sept. 2011. (Poster)

7)      Q.-F. Sun, T. Murase, S. Sato, M. Fujita*. “Virus-inspired multicomponent self-assembly of molecular spheres”. 6th International Symposium on Macrocyclic and Supramolecular Chemistry (ISMSC-6), Brighton, UK, Jun. 2011. (Poster)

6)      Q.-F. Sun, T. Murase, S. Sato, M. Fujita*. “Virus-inspired multicomponent self-assembly of molecular spheres”. The 2011 International Symposium on Molecular Systems, Fukuoka, Japan, May. 2011. (Oral)

5)      Q.-F. Sun, T. Murase, S. Sato, M. Fujita*. “Virus-inspired self-assembly of giant multi-component spherical complexes”. 2nd Open Symposium on Emergency in Chemistry, Tokyo, Japan, Feb. 2011. (Poster)

4)      Q.-F. Sun, J. Iwasa, S. Sato, T. Ozeki, Y. Sei, K. Yamaguchi, M. Fujita*. “Emergent self-assembly of a giant hollow M24L48 spherical complex”. 5th International Symposium on Macrocyclic and Supramolecular Chemistry (ISMSC), Nara, Japan, Jun. 2010. (Poster)

3)      Q.-F. Sun, I. Junji, S. Sota, M. Fujita*. “Self-assembled M24L48 polyhedra and their sharp structural switch upon subtle ligand variation”. International Symposium on Nano-Bio Molecular Assembly, Seoul, Korea, Jun. 2010. (Oral)

2)      Q.-F. Sun, S. Sato, T. Ozeki, Y. Sei, K. Yamaguchi, M. Fujita *. “Self-assembly of a giant hollow spherical M24L48 complex”. The Chemical Society of Japan, The 90th Annual Meeting, Osaka, Japan, Mar. 2010(Oral)

1)      S.-Y. Yu*Q.-F. Sun. “Metallo-supramolecular self-assembly by molecular design”. The 5th National Conference on Structural Chemistry, Fuzhou, China, Oct. 2007. (Poster)



Students

已指导学生

张广录  博士研究生  070301-无机化学  

李小贞  博士研究生  070301-无机化学  

朱强雨  博士研究生  070303-有机化学  

吴世愚  硕士研究生  070301-无机化学  

王卓  博士研究生  070303-有机化学  

郭小青  博士研究生  070301-无机化学  

成凯  硕士研究生  070303-有机化学  

现指导学生

胡绍军  博士研究生  070301-无机化学  

江陈  硕士研究生  085204-材料工程  

严丹妮  博士研究生  070303-有机化学  

张鑫源  硕士研究生  085600-材料与化工  

李晨晨  硕士研究生  070301-无机化学  

朱正钟  博士研究生  070301-无机化学  

甘信燃  硕士研究生  080501-材料物理与化学  

段小芳  博士研究生  070301-无机化学  

Honors & Distinctions


4)  The Recruitment Program of Global Youth Experts,2014

3)  Chemical Science Poster Prize, the 6th International Symposium on Macrocyclic and Supramolecular Chemistry (ISMSC-6th), Brighton, UK, July 2011.

2)  Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-Financed Students Abroad, 2010.

1)  Excellent Master Thesis of Renmin University of China, Jun. 2008.