Yang-Rong Yao
Title: Professor
Contact Information
Address: No.199, Ren’ai Road, Suzhou Industrial Park, Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, 215123, China
E-mail: [email protected]
Educational Background
2015.09-2019.06 Xiamen University
Ph.D. Inorganic Chemistry
Supervisor Prof. Su-Yuan Xie
2012.09-2015.06 Fujian Normal University
M.S. Physical Chemistry
Supervisor Prof. Xu-Chun Song
2007.09-2011.06 Zhejiang Sci-Tech University
B.S. Applied Chemistry
Professional Positions
2024.11–present Soochow University, Professor
2022.01–2024.11 University of Science and Technology of China, Associate Research Fellow
2019.08–2021.08 University of Texas at El Paso, PostdocResearch Associate (Supervisor: Prof. Luis Echegoeyn)
RESEARCH INTEREST
Synthesis, properties, and application of endohedral metallofullerenes, including synthesis of novel structures, exploration of formation mechanisms, study of encapsulated metallic bonds, and applications based on endohedral metallofullerenes.
RECENT PUBLICATIONS
1.Yingjing Yan,† Laura Abella,† Rong Sun,† Yu-hui Fang, Yannick Roselló, Yi Shen, Meihe Jin, Antonio Rodríguez-Fortea, Coen de Graaf, Qingyu Meng, Yang-Rong Yao,* Luis Echegoyen, Bing-Wu Wang,* Song Gao, Josep M. Poblet,* Ning Chen,* Actinide-Lanthanide Single Electron Metal-Metal Bond Formed in Mixed-Valence Di-metallofullerenes, Nat. Commun. 2023, 14 (1), 6637.
2.Xiang Wenhao,† Ziqi Hu,†,* Jinpeng Xin, Huaimin Jin, Zhanxin Jiang, Xinyi Han, Muqing Chen, Yang-Rong Yao,* and Shangfeng Yang,* Steering Single-Electron Metal-Metal Bonds and Hyperfine Coupling between a Transition Metal-Lanthanide Heteronuclear Bimetal Confined in Carbon Cages, J. Am. Soc. Chem. 2023, 145 (41), 22599-22608.
3.Huaimin Jin, Jinpeng Xin, Wenhao Xiang, Zhanxin Jiang, Xinyi Han, Muqing Chen, Pingwu Du, Yang-Rong Yao,* and Shangfeng Yang,* Bandgap Engineering of Erbium-Metallofullerenes toward Switchable Photoluminescence, Adv. Mater.2023, 35, 2304121.
4.Yang-Rong Yao,† Jing Zhao,† Qingyu Meng,† Han-Shi Hu, Min Guo, Yingjing Yan, Jiaxin Zhuang, Shangfeng Yang, Skye Fortier, Luis Echegoyen, W. H. Eugen Schwarz, Jun Li,* Ning Chen,* Synthesis and Characterization of U≡C Triple Bonds in Fullerene Compounds, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2023, 145 (46), 25440-25449.
5.Yang-Rong Yao,† Zuo-Chang Chen,† Lingfang Chen,† Shan-Yu Zheng, Shangfeng Yang, Shun-Liu Deng,* Luis Echegoyen,* Yuan-Zhi Tan,* Su-Yuan Xie, Lan-Sun Zheng, Two Metastable Endohedral Metallofullerenes Sc2C2@C1(39656)-C82 and Sc2C2@C1(51383)-C84: Direct-C2-Insertion Products from Their Most Stable Precursors. J. Am. Chem. Soc.2023, 145 (30), 16778-16786.
6.Tiantian Cao,† Qingyu Meng,† Ze Fu,† Yi Shen, Yingjing Yan, Qin Wang, Bing Zhao, Wenxia Wang, Khaoula Merimi, Antonio Rodríguez-Fortea, Yang-Rong Yao,* and Ning Chen,* Th@C2(8)-C84 and Th@Cs(15)-C84: impact of actinide metal ions on the electronic structure of actinide endohedral metallofullerenes, Inorg. Chem. Front.2023, 10 (23), 6901-6908.
7.Jing Li,† Songjun Hou,†Yang-Rong Yao,† Chengyang Zhang,† Qingqing Wu, Hai-Chuan Wang, Hewei Zhang, Xinyuan Liu, Chun Tang, Mengxi Wei, Wei Xu, Yaping Wang, Jueting Zheng, Zhichao Pan, Lixing Kang, Junyang Liu, Jia Shi, Yang Yang, Colin J. Lambert,* Su-Yuan Xie,* Wenjing Hong,* Room-temperature logic-in-memory operations in single-metallofullerene devices. Nat. Mater.2022, 21 (8), 917-923.
8.Wenhao Xiang,† Xiaole Jiang,†Yang-Rong Yao,† Jinpeng Xin, Huaimin Jin, Runnan Guan, Qianyan Zhang, Muqing Chen, Su-Yuan Xie, Alexey A. Popov,* Shangfeng Yang,* Monometallic Endohedral Azafullerene. J. Am. Chem. Soc.2022, 144 (47), 21587-21595.
9.Yang-Rong Yao,† Yannick Roselló,† Lei Ma, Alain Rafael Puente Santiago, Alejandro Metta-Magaña, Ning Chen, Antonio Rodríguez-Fortea, Josep M. Poblet,* Luis Echegoyen,* Crystallographic Characterization of U@C2n (2n = 82-86): Insights about Metal-Cage Interactions for Mono-metallofullerenes. J. Am. Chem. Soc.2021, 143 (37), 15309-15318.
10.Yang-Rong Yao, Xiang-Mei Shi, Shan-Yu Zheng, Zuo-Chang Chen, Su-Yuan Xie,* Rong-Bin Huang, Lan-Sun Zheng, Atomically Precise Insights into Metal-Metal Bonds Using Comparable Endo-Units of Sc2 and Sc2C2. CCS Chem.2021, 3, 294-302.
BOOK CHAPTERS
1.Yang-Rong Yao, Jiawei Qiu, Lihao Zheng, Hongjie Jiang, Yunpeng Xia, Ning Chen,* Chapter 11 - Endohedral Fullerenes: Atomically Precise Doping Inside Nano Carbon Cages. In Atomically Precise Nanochemistry, Wiely: 2023; pp 331-371.
2.Yang-Rong Yao, Olivia Fernandez-Delgado, Luis Echegoyen,* Chapter 2 - Fullerenes and their applications. In Handbook of Carbon-Based Nanomaterials, Eds. Elsevier: 2021; pp 19-158.