(1) Polycyclic aromatic compounds.

(2) Organic and polymeric functional materials.

(3) Optoelectronic devices and applications.

2005/09 – 2009/07 College of Chemistry, Nankai University, Tianjin, China

Bachelor of Chemistry

2009/09 – 2014/07 College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering,

Peking University, Beijing, China

PhD of Organic Materials Chemistry

Supervisor: Prof. Jian Pei

2014/10 – 2019/04 Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Mainz, Germany

Postdoctoral Researcher, Humboldt Fellow

Supervisor: Prof. Klaus Müllen

2019/04 – present State Key Laboratory of Elemento-Organic Chemistry, College of Chemistry, Nankai University, Tianjin, China

Professor

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

1.Lin Fu#, Pengcai Liu#, Rui Xue, Xiao-Yu Tang, Jiawen Cao, Ze-Fan Yao, Yuchao Liu, Shouke Yan, 

Xiao-Ye Wang*, ''Unravelling the Superiority of Nonbenzenoid Acepleiadylene as a Building 

Block for Organic Semiconducting Materials'', Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2023, 62, e202306509. 

(#equal contribution)

2.Ji-Kun Li#, Ming-Yu Zhang#, Le Zeng, Ling Huang*, Xiao-Ye Wang*, ''NIR-Absorbing B,N-

Heteroarene as Photosensitizer for High-Performance NIR-to-Blue Triplet-Triplet Annihilation 

Upconversion'', Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2023, 62, e202303093. (#equal contribution)

3.Ji-Kun Li, Xing-Yu Chen, Wen-Long Zhao, Yun-Long Guo, Yi Zhang, Xin-Chang Wang, Andrew

 C.-H. Sue, Xiao-Yu Cao, Meng Li, Chuan-Feng Chen, Xiao-Ye Wang*, Synthesis of Highly 

Luminescent Chiral Nanographene'', Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2023, 62, e202215367.

4.Cheng Chen#, Jiayi Lu#, Yang Lv, Yuyi Yan, Qiang Sun*, Akimitsu Narita, Klaus Müllen*, 

Xiao-Ye Wang*, Heteroatom-Edged [4]Triangulene: Facile Synthesis and Two-Dimensional 

On-Surface Self-Assemblies, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2022, 61, e202212594. (#equal contribution)

5.Wanhui Li#, Cheng-Zhuo Du#, Xing-Yu Chen, Lin Fu, Rong-Rong Gao, Ze-Fan Yao, Jie-Yu

 Wang, Wenping Hu, Jian Pei, Xiao-Ye Wang*, BN-Anthracene for High-Mobility Organic 

Optoelectronic Materials through Periphery Engineering, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2022, 61,

 e202201464. (#equal contribution)

6.Cheng Chen, Ming-Wei Wang, Xing-Yu Zhao, Shuang Yang, Xing-Yu Chen, Xiao-Ye Wang*, 

Pushing the Length Limit of Dihydrodiboraacenes: Synthesis and Characterizations of 

Boron-Embedded Heptacene and Nonacene, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2022, 61, e202200779.

7.Ji-Kun Li, Xing-Yu Chen, Yun-Long Guo, Xin-Chang Wang, Andrew C.-H. Sue, Xiao-Yu Cao, 

Xiao-Ye Wang*, B,N-Embedded Double Hetero[7]helicenes with Strong Chiroptical Responses

 in the Visible Light Region, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2021, 143, 17958.

8.Pengcai Liu, Xing-Yu Chen, Jiawen Cao, Lukas Ruppenthal, J. Michael Gottfried, Klaus Müllen, 

Xiao-Ye Wang*, Revisiting Acepleiadylene: Two-Step Synthesis and π-Extension toward 

Nonbenzenoid Nanographene, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2021, 143, 5314.

9.Zheng Zhou, Lin Fu, Yunbin Hu, Xiao-Ye Wang*, Zheng Wei, Akimutsu Narita, Klaus Müllen*,

 Marina A. Petrukhina*, Compressing Double [7]Helicene by Successive Charging with Electrons, 

Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2020, 59, 15923.

10.Ru-Qiang Lu#, Xiao-Yun Yan#, Lei Zhu, Lin-Lin Yang, Hang Qu, Xin-Chang Wang, Ming Luo,

 Yu Wang, Rui Chen, Xiao-Ye Wang*, Yu Lan*, Jian Pei, Wengui Weng, Haiping Xia, Xiao-Yu Cao*, 

Unveiling how intramolecular stacking modes of covalently linked dimers dictate photoswitching

 properties, Nat. Commun. 2019, 10, 5480. (#equal contribution)

11.Xiao-Ye Wang*, Xuelin Yao, Akimitsu Narita*, Klaus Müllen*, Heteroatom-Doped 

Nanographenes with Structural Precision, Acc. Chem. Res. 2019, 52, 2491.