(1)  Organic functional nanostructures: fabrication and characterization

(2)  Design, preparation and application of inorganic/organic photochromic materials

(3)  Inorganic functional nanostructures: Fabrication and applications

(4)  Biomimetic supramolecular chemistry and optoelectronic functional materials

   

2008.1-present, Vice President, the National Natural Science Foundation of China;
2000.4-2008.3, Vice President, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences; 
1999.9-present, Professor, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences; 
1995.8-1999.4, Professor, Institute of Photographic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences.

2004, as the first contributor, the project "Fundamental Study and Applied Exploration of Some Novel Photo-functional Materials" was awarded "Second-class prize from the National Awards for Natural Science" in China

   

1.       J. N. Yao, K. Hashimoto and A. Fujishima, Photochromism induced in an electrolytically pretreated MoO₃ thin film by visible light. Nature, 1992, 355 (6361), 624-626.

2.       Hongbing Fu, Jiannian Yao, Size Effects on the Optical Properties of Organic Nanoparticlesm J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2001, 123，1434-1439.

3.       Hongbing Fu, Boon H. Loo, Debao Xiao, Ruimin Xie, Xuehai Ji, Jiannian Yao, Baowen Zhang and Lianqi Zhang, Multiple Emissions from 1,3-Diphenyl-5-pyrenyl-2-pyrazoline Nanoparticles: Evolution from Molecular to Nanoscale to Bulk materials, Angew Chem. Int. Ed., 2002, 41(6), 962-965.

4.       Hongbing Fu, Debao Xiao, Jiannian Yao, Guoqiang Yang, naofibers of 1,3-Diphenyl-2-pyrazoline Induced by Cetyltrimethylammonium Bromide Micelles, Angew Chem. Int. Ed., 2003, 42, 2883-2886.

5.       Debao Xiao, Lu Xi, Wensheng Yang, Hongbing Fu, Zhigang Shuai, Yan Fang, and Jiannian Yao, Size-tunable emission from 1,3-Diphenyl-5-(2-anthryl)-2-pyrazoline Nanoparticles, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2003, 125, 6740-6745.

6.       Zhiyuan Tian, Yu Chen, Wensheng Yang, Jiannian Yao, Lingyun Zhu, Zhigang Shuai , Low-Dimensional Aggregates from Stilbazolium-Like Dyes, Angew Chem. Int. Ed., 2004, 43 (31), 4060-4063.

7.       Debao Xiao, Wensheng Yang, Jiannian Yao, Lu Xi, Xia Yang, Zhigang Shuai, Size-Dependent Exciton Chirality in (R)-(+)-1,1’-Bi-2-naphthol dimethyl ether Nanoparticles, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2004, 126, 15439-15444.

8.       Ai-Dong Peng, De-Bao Xiao, Ying Ma, Wen-Sheng Yang and Jian-Nian Yao, Tunable emission From Doped 1, 3, 5-Triphenyl-2-pyrazoline Organic Nano- particles, Adv. Mater., 2005, 17, 2070-2073.

9.       Tao He and Jiannian Yao, Photochromism in composite and hybrid materials based on transition-metal oxides and polyoxometalates, Prog. Mater. Sci., 2006, 51, 810-879.

10.    Longtian Kang,  Zhechen Wang,  Zongwei Cao, Ying Ma, Hongbing Fu, and Jiannian Yao, A Colloid Chemical Reaction Route to the Preparation of Nearly Monodispersed Perylene Nanoparticles: Size-Tunable Synthesis and Three Dimensional Self-Organization, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2007, 129(23), 7305-7312.

11.    Yongsheng Zhao, Hongbing Fu, Fengqin Hu, Aidong Peng, Jiannian Yao, Multicolor Emission from Ordered Assemblies of Organic 1D Nanomaterials, Adv. Mater., 2007, 19, 3554-3558.

12.    Yong Sheng Zhao, Hongbing Fu, Fengqin Hu, Aidong Peng, Wensheng Yang, Jiannian Yao, Tunable Emission from Binary Organic One-Dimensional Nanomaterials: an Alternative Approach to White-Light Emission, Adv. Mater., 2008, 20 (1), 79-83.