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Email: xhwan@pku.edu.cn
Tel: +86-10-62754187
Office: 1025 PKU Science & Technology Building
Research Group: https://www.chem.pku.edu.cn/wanxh/

​Xinhua Wan
​Professor of Polymer Chemistry

Biography

  • Professor, College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Peking University (1997-now)

  • Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, Peking University (1993-1997)

  • Postdoc, Department of Chemistry, Peking University (1991.9 - 1993.7)

  • Eng. D. in Chemical Fiber Engineering (1988.3 - 1991.8, China Textile University)

  • M. Eng. in Chemical Fiber Engineering (1985.9 - 1988.2, China Textile University)

  • B.Eng. in Polymer Chemical Engineering (1981.9 - 1985.7, Hefei University of Technology)

  • Visiting Scholar (1995.7 - 1996.9, The Hong Kong University of Science & Technology)

  • Senior Visiting Scholar (2001.5 - 2001.8, The University of Akron)

  • Senior Visiting Scholar (2004.3 - 2005.1, Harvard University)


Research Interests

  • Helical polymers, chiral resolution, circularly polarized luminescence, chiroptical switches;

  • Liquid crystal polymers,high performance polymers;

  • Synthesis and functionalization of polymers with controlled architecture and persistent shape;

  • Chirality transfer and amplification in polymerization and formation of hierarchical structures;

  • Living/controlled polymerization, helix-sense-selective polymerization;

  • Polymerization induced self-assembly, self assembly of helix-coil polymers, organic/inorganic hybrid assembly.


Teaching

Polymer Synthesis Chemistry


Awards

  • 1997, The National Award for Natural Science, Tier III, the Ministry of Science & Technology of China

  • 1999,Trans-Century Training Programme Foundation for the Talents by the Ministry of Education of China

  • 2000,The Teaching and Research Award for Outstanding Young Teacher in a Higher Education Institution, the Education Ministry of China

  • 2003,National Outstanding Young Investigator Found by Natural Science Foundation of China

  • 2010,Changjiang Professorship (MOE, China)

  • 2017,Polymer science innovation awardof Chinese Chemical Society


Selected Publications

  1. Directional crystal jumping controlled by chirality. Yifu Chen, Jiaxing Zhang, Jie Zhang, Xinhua Wan,J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2024, 146, 9679-9687.

  2. 2D hexagonal assemblies of amphiphilic double helical poly(phenylacetylene) homopolymers with enhanced circularly polarized luminescence and chiral self-sorting.Siliang Cai, Yihan Huang, Siyu Xie, Sheng Wang, Yan Guan, Xinhua Wan, Jie Zhang,Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2022, 61, e202214293.

  3. Self-reporting activated ester-amine reaction for enantioselective multi-channel visual detection of chiral amines.Sheng Wang, Siyu Xie, Hua Zeng, Hongxu Du, Jie Zhang, Xinhua Wan,Angew. Chem. Int. Ed.2022, 61, e202202268.

  4. Tuning organic crystal chirality by the molar masses of tailored polymeric additives.Xichong Ye, Bowen Li, Zhaoxu Wang, Jing Li, Jie Zhang, Xinhua Wan,Nat. Commun. 2021, 12, 6841.

  5. Brightening up circularly polarized luminescence of monosubstituted polyacetylene by conformation control: mechanism, switching, and sensing.Sheng wang, Deping hu, Xiaoyan Guan, Siliang Cai, Ge Shi, Zhigang Shuai, Jie Zhang, Qian Peng, Xinhua Wan,Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2021, 60, 21918-21926.

  6. Noncovalently functionalized commodity polymers as tailor-made additives for stereoselective crystallization.Xichong Ye, Zhaoxu Wang, Jie Zhang, Xinhua Wan,Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2021, 60, 20243-20248.

  7. Allostery-mimicking self-assembly of helical poly(phenyacetylene) block copolymers and the chirality transfer.Siliang Cai, Junxian Chen, Sheng Wang, Jie Zhang, Xinhua Wan,Angew. Chem. Int. Ed.2021, 133, 9686-9692.

  8. Rapid Near-Infrared Light Responsive shape memory polymer hybrids and novel chiral actuators based on photothermal W18O49 nanowires.Yue Zhou, Junyan Tan, Dandan Chong, Xinhua Wan, Jie Zhang,Adv. Funct. Mater.2019, 1901202.

  9. Induced circular dichroism of isotactic poly(2-vinylpyridine) with diverse and tunable “Sergeants-and-Soldiers” type chiral amplification.Zijia Yan, Siliang Cai, Junyan Tan, Jie Zhang, Chao Yan, Tieqi Xu, Xinhua Wan,ACS Macro Lett.2019, 8, 789-794.

  10. Enantiomer-selective magnetization of conglomerates for quantitative chiral separation.Xichong Ye, Jiaxi Cui, Bowen Li, Na Li, Rong Wang, Zijia Yan, Junyan Tan, Jie Zhang, Xinhua Wan,Nat. Commun.2019, 10, 1964.

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