Organic Chemistry -- pai-conjugated materials

Inorganic Chemistry -- functional transitiona-metal complexes

Electrochemitry -- electro-active materials and electropolymerization

Ph.D. 2004, Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Bachelor 1999, Nankai University

2004-2006, Postdoc, the University of Tokyo with Prof. Eiichi Nakamura

2006-2006, Postdoc, Cornell University with Prof. Hector D. Abruna

2006 to present, Professor, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences

2009, receipent of the "100 talent" program of CAS

2015, receipent of the China Electrochemistry Youth Award

2016 to present, associate editor of RSC Advances

110. Jian-Hong Tang, Yan-Qin He, Jiang-Yang Shao, Zhong-Liang Gong, Yu-Wu Zhong*, Multistate Redox Switching and Near-Infrared Electrochromism Based on a Star-Shaped Triruthenium Complex with a Triarylamine Core, Sci. Rep. 2016, 6, 35253.

106. Lin Wang⁺, Zhong-Liang Gong⁺, Shu-Ying Li, Wenjing Hong*, Yu-Wu Zhong*, Dong Wang*, Li-Jun Wan, Molecular Conductance through a Quadruple-Hydrogen-Bond-Bridged Supramolecular Junction, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2016, 55(40), 12393-12397.

103. Jian-Hong Tang, Jiang-Yang Shao, Yan-Qin He, Si-Hai Wu, Jiannian Yao, Yu-Wu Zhong*, Transition from a Metal-Localized Mixed-Valence Compound to a Fully Delocalized and Bridge-Biased Electrophore in a Ruthenium-Amine-Ruthenium Tricenter System, Chem. Eur. J. 2016, 22(30), 10341-10345.

98. Jian-Hong Tang, Chang-Jiang Yao, Bin-Bin Cui andYu-Wu Zhong*, Ruthenium-Amine Conjugated Organometallic Materials for Multistate Near-IR Electrochromism and Information Storage, Chem. Rec. 2016, 16(2), 754-767.

96. Yu-Wu Zhong*, Zhong-Liang Gong, Jiang-Yang Shao, Jiannian Yao, Electronic coupling in cyclometalated ruthenium complexes, Coord. Chem. Rev. 2016, 312, 22-40.

95. Jun-Jian Shen, Jiang-Yang Shao, Xiaozhang Zhu*, and Yu-Wu Zhong*, Amine－Amine Electronic Coupling through a Dibenzo[a,e]pentalene Bridge, Org. Lett. 2016, 18(2), 256-259.

92. Jun-Jian Shen, Yu-Wu Zhong,* Long-Range Ruthenium-Amine Electronic Communication through the para-Oligophenylene Wire, Sci. Rep. 2015, 5, 13835.

88. Bin-Bin Cui, Jian-Hong Tang, Jiannian Yao, and Yu-Wu Zhong*, A Molecular Platform for Multistate Near-Infrared Electrochromism and Flip-Flop, Flip-Flap-Flop, and Ternary Memory, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2015, 54(32), 9192-9197.

83. Bin-Bin Cui, Yu-Wu Zhong*, Jiannian Yao, Three-State Near-Infrared Electrochromism at the Molecular Scale, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2015, 137 (12), 4058-4061.

81. Yan-Qin He and Yu-Wu Zhong,* The synthesis of 2- and 2,7-functionalized pyrene derivatives through Ru(II)-catalyzed C–H activation, Chem. Commun. 2015, 51,3411-3414.

80. Bin-Bin Cui, Zupan Mao, Yuxia Chen, Yu-Wu Zhong*, Gui Yu,* Chuanlang Zhan,* Jiannian Yao*, Tuning of Resistive Memory Switching in Electropolymerized Metallopolymeric films, Chem. Sci. 2015, 6, 1308-1315.

79. Zhong-Liang Gong, Yu-Wu Zhong,* and Jiannian Yao, Conformation-Determined Through-Bond versus Through-Space Electronic Communication in Mixed-Valence Systems with a Cross-Conjugated Urea Bridge, Chem. Eur. J. 2015, 21(4), 1554-1566.

77. Chang-Jiang Yao, Hai-Jing Nie, Wen-Wen Yang, Jiang-Yang Shao, Jiannian Yao, and Yu-Wu Zhong,* Strongly Coupled Cyclometalated Ruthenium–Triarylamine Hybrids: Tuning Electrochemical Properties, Intervalence Charge Transfer, and Spin Distribution by Substituent Effects, Chem. Eur. J. 2014, 20(52), 17466-17477.

76. Hai-Jing Nie, Chang-Jiang Yao, Jiang-Yang Shao, Jiannian Yao, and Yu-Wu Zhong,* Oligotriarylamines with a Pyrene Core: A Multicenter Strategy for Enhancing Radical Cation and Dication Stability and Tuning Spin Distribution, Chem. Eur. J. 2014, 20(52), 17454-17465.

71. Hai-Jing Nie, Jiang-Yang Shao, Chang-Jiang Yao, Yu-Wu Zhong,* Organic–inorganic mixed-valence systems with strongly-coupled triarylamine and cyclometalated osmium, Chem. Commun. 2014, 50(70), 10082-10085.

69. Jiang-Yang Shao, Yu-Wu Zhong,* Tuning the electronic coupling in cyclometalated diruthenium complexes through substituent effects: a correlation between the experimental and calculated results, Chem. Eur. J. 2014, 20(28), 8702-8713.

65. Bin-Bin Cui, Chang-Jiang Yao, Jiannian Yao, Yu-Wu Zhong,* Electropolymerized films as a molecular platform for volatile memory devices with two near-infrared outputs and long retention time, Chem. Sci. 2014, 5(3), 932-941.

60. Chang-Jiang Yao, Ren-Hui Zheng, Hai-Jing Nie, Bin-Bin Cui, Qiang Shi, Jiannian Yao, Yu-Wu Zhong,* A Combined Experimental and Computational Study of Linear Ruthenium(II) Coordination Oligomers with End-Capping Organic Redox Sites: Insight into the Light Absorption and Charge Delocalization, Chem. Eur. J. 2013, 19(37), 12376-12387.

50. Yu-Wu Zhong*，Chang-Jiang Yao，Hai-Jing Nie，Electropolymerized Films of Vinyl-substituted Polypyridine Complexes: Synthesis，Characterization，and Applications，Coord. Chem. Rev. 2013，257(7-8)，1357-1372.

45. Hai-Jing Nie，Xialing Chen，Chang-Jiang Yao，Yu-Wu Zhong*，Geoffrey R. Hutchison*，Jiannian Yao*，Electronic Coupling between Two Amine Redox Sites through the 5.5’-positions of Metal-Chelating 2.2’-Bipyridines，Chem. Eur. J. 2012，18(45)，14497-14509.

40. Chang-Jiang Yao，Ren-Hui Zheng，Qiang Shi，Yu-Wu Zhong*，Jiannian Yao，1.4-Benzene-Bridged Covalent Hybrid of Triarylamine and Cyclometalated Ruthenium: A New Type of Organic-Inorganic Mixed-Valent System，Chem. Commun. 2012，48(45)，5680-5682.

34. Chang-Jiang Yao，Yu-Wu Zhong*，Hai-Jing Nie，Hector D. Abruna，Jiannian Yao*，Near-IR Electrochromism in Electropolymerized Films of a Biscyclometalated Ruthenium Complex Bridged by 1.2.4.5-Tetra(2-pyridyl)benzene Ligand，J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2011，133(51)，20720-20723.

33. Chang-Jiang Yao，Yu-Wu Zhong*，Jiannian Yao*，Charge Delocalization in a Cyclometalated Bisruthenium Complex Bridged by a Noninnocent 1.2.4.5-Tetra(2-pyridyl)benzene Ligand，J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2011，133(39)，15697-15706.

Organic and Organometallic Optoelectronic Materials

Optoelectronic-Functional Transition-Metal Complexes

Molecular Electronics