Wenjing Hong is a full professor and vice dean at the College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering of Xiamen University. He received his B.Sc. from Xiamen University in 2007, his M.Sc. degree from Tsinghua University in 2009, and his Ph.D. of Science (summa cum laude) from the University of Bern in 2013. After his postdoctoral stay at the University of Bern, he joined Xiamen University as a full professor and group leader in 2015. He is also a professor at the institute of artificial intelligence, Xiamen University.
His research is mainly focused on the characterization technique exploring single-molecule physical chemistry at the solid-liquid interface and the instrumental development combining artificial intelligence and laboratory automation for industrial chemistry. He has also developed the instruments for the electrical characterization of single-molecule physical chemistry, and his current interests include single-molecule charge transport, molecular assemblies and chemical reactions under electric fields.
Wenjing Hong has published papers as the (co-)corresponding author in peer-review journals such as Nat. Mater. (2), Nat. Chem.(1), Nat. Catal.(1), Nat. Commun. /Sci. Adv. (8), Chem /Matter (5), PNAS. , J. Am. Chem. Soc. (12), Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. (17), Acc. Chem. Res./Chem. Soc. Rev.(2), and invited reviews in Chem. Soc. Rev., Acc. Chem. Res., Angew. Chem., and Adv. Mater. All these papers have been cited more than 8000 times.
Link to my google citations and researchgate.
Selected publications
1. Bai, Jie#; Daaoub, Abdalghani#; Sangtarash, Sara#; Li, Xiaohui#; Tang, Yongxiang; Zou, Qi; Sadeghi, Hatef; Liu, Shuai; Huang, Xiaojuan; Tan, Zhibing; Liu, Junyang; Yang, Yang; Shi, Jia; Mészáros, Gábor; Chen, Wenbo*; Lambert, Colin*; Hong, Wenjing*; Anti-resonance features of destructive quantum interference in single-molecule thiophene junctions achieved by electrochemical gating, Nature Materials, 2019, 18, 364-369
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NEWS & VIEWS: The National Natural Science Foundation of China
2. Li, Jing#; Hou, Songjun#; Yao, Yang-Rong#; Zhang, Chengyang#; Wu, Qingqing; Wang, Hai-Chuan; Zhang, Hewei; Liu, Xinyuan; Tang, Chun; Wei, Mengxi; Xu, Wei; Wang, Yaping; Zheng, Jueting; Pan, Zhichao; Kang, Lixing; Liu, Junyang; Shi, Jia; Yang, Yang; Lambert, Colin J.*; Xie, Su-Yuan*; Hong, Wenjing*, Room-temperature logic-in-memory operations in single-metallofullerene devices. Nature Materials, 2022, 21, 917-923
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3. Feng, Anni#; Zhou, Yu#; Mohammed, A.Y. Al-Shebami; Chen, Lichuan; Pan, Zhichao; Xu, Wei; Zhao, Shiqiang; Zeng, Biaofeng; Xiao, Zongyuan; Yang, Yang*; Hong, Wenjing*, σ-σ stacked supramolecular junctions. Nature Chemistry, 2022, 14, 1158-1164
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NEWS & VIEWS: The National Natural Science Foundation of China
4. Zhang, Aihui#; Zhuang, Xiaoyan#; Liu, Jia#; Huang, Jiacheng#; Lin, Luchun; Tang, Yongxiang; Zhao, Shiqiang; Li, Ruihao; Wang, Binju*; Fang, Baishan*; Hong, Wenjing*, Catalytic cycle of formate dehydrogenase captured by single-molecule conductance. Nature Catalysis, DOI: 10.1038/s41929-023-00928-1
5. Tan, Zhibing#; Zhang, Dan#; Tian, Han-Rui#; Wu, Qingqing#; Hou, Songjun; Pi, Jiuchan; Sadeghi, Hatef; Tang, Zheng; Yang, Yang; Liu, Junyang; Tan, Yuan-Zhi; Chen, Zhao-Bin; Shi, Jia; Xiao, Zongyuan*; Lambert, Colin*; Xie, Su-Yuan*; Hong, Wenjing*; Atomically defined angstrom-scale all-carbon junctions, Nature Communications, 2019, 10, 1748
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NEWS & VIEWS:The National Natural Science Foundation of China, Digital Paper
6. Huang, Xiaoyan#; Tang, Chun#; Li, Jieqiong#; Chen, Li-Chuan#; Zheng, Jueting; Zhang, Pei; Le, Jiabo; Li, Ruihao; Li, Xiaohui; Liu, Junyang*; Yang, Yang; Shi, Jia; Chen, Zhaobin; Bai, Mindong; Zhang, Hao-Li; Xia, Haiping; Cheng, Jun*; Tian, Zhong-Qun; Hong, Wenjing*; Electric-field-induced selective catalysis of single-molecule reaction, Science Advances, 2019, 5, eaaw3072
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NEWS & VIEWS: CHEMISTRYWORLD, Digital Paper
7. Tang, Chun#; Tang, Yongxiang#; Ye, Yiling; Yan, Zhewei; Chen, Zhixin; Chen, Lijue; Zhang, Longyi; Liu, Junyang; Shi, Jia; Xia, Haiping*; Hong, Wenjing*, Identifying the conformational isomers of single-molecule cyclohexane at room temperature, Chem, 2020, 6, 2770-2781
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Highlighted by Nature Review Chemistry
8. Liu, Junyang; Huang, Xiaoyan; Wang, Fei; Hong, Wenjing*, Quantum interference effects in charge transport through single-molecule junctions: detection, manipulation and application, Accounts of Chemical Research, 2019, 52, 151-160
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9. Tang, Yongxiang#; Zhou, Yu#; Zhou, Dahai#; Chen, Yaorong; Xiao, Zongyuan; Shi, Jia; Liu, Junyang; Hong, Wenjing*, Electric Field-Induced Assembly in Single-Stacking Terphenyl Junctions, Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2020, 142, 19101-19109
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10. Xu, Xiaohui; Wang, Juejun; Blankevoort, Nickel; Daaoub, Abdalghani; Sangtarash, Sara; Shi, Jie; Fang, Chao; Yuan, Saisai; Chen, Lichuan; Liu, Junyang; Yang, Yang; Sadeghi, Hatef; Hong, Wenjing, Scaling of quantum interference from single molecules to molecular cages and their monolayers. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2022, 119, e2211786119
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Books
Single-molecule Electronics: From Measurement Techniques to Scientific Challenges, 2019.
Chapter
J. Bai, X. Li, Y. Yang, W. Hong, Book: Encyclopedia of Solid-Liquid Interfaces, 00034. Single-molecule measurement at the solid-liquid interfaces, Elsevier, 2023.
Research Experience
12.2015-
Full Professor, Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, Xiamen University, P. R. China
01.2014- 11.2015
Taking Lead of Molecular Electronics Group, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Bern, Switzerland (Prof. Thomas Wandlowski)
07.2013- 12.2013
Postdoc, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Bern, Switzerland (Prof. Thomas Wandlowski)
Education
PhD. of Science (summa cum laude) Molecular Electronics 10.2009-06.2013
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Bern, Switzerland (Prof. Thomas Wandlowski)
Master of Science Material Chemistry and Physics 09.2007-07.2009
Department of Chemistry, Tsinghua University, China (Prof. Gaoquan Shi)
Bachelor of Engineering (with honors) Chemical Process Control 09.2003-07.2007
Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, Xiamen University, China (Prof. Qingyin Jiang)
