Personal Profile:
2018.10-now, Professor, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin, China
2017.2-2018.9, Senior Research Fellow, Artie McFerrin Department of Chemical Engineering, Texas A&M University, USA
2013.10-2017.1, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Advanced Materials and Liquid Crystal Institute (AMLCI),USA (Quan Li's Group) 2013.7-2013.9, Research Associate, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Peking University, China
2010.9-2013.7, Ph. D. in Materials Chemistry, University of Science and Technology Beijing, China (Huai Yang's Group)
2006.9-2010.7, B. S. in Materials Science and Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing, China
Research Field:
Smart Soft Materials
Photoactive Soft MaterialsPhase Change Material
Bioinspired Soft Robotics
Bioinspired Adaptive Camouflage
Additive Manufacturing Technologies
Undertake Projects:
National Key Research and Development Program of China. (Functional Liquid Crystal Material Genetic Engineering and Application Technology) (国家重点研发计划项目（功能液晶材料基因工程与应用技术）)
National Key Research and Development Program of China. (4D Printing Programmable Smart Materials) (国家重点研发计划项目课题（4D打印可编程智能材料）)
Tianjin Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars. (Functional Liquid Crystal Smart Materials) (天津市杰出青年基金项目（功能性液晶智能材料）)
National Natural Science Foundation of China General Program, Infrared-responsive liquid crystal material, radiative cooling liquid crystal dimming film (国家自然科学基金面上项目，红外响应液晶材料、辐射冷却液晶调光薄膜)
Joint Fund Project of the Ministry of Education (Color-Changing Stealth Liquid Crystal Smart Materials) (教育部联合基金面上项目（变色隐身液晶智能材料）)
National Science and Technology Innovation Pilot Zone Project (Light-Driven Micro Air Vehicle) (国家科技创新特区项目（光驱动微型飞行器）)
Landmark achievements:
Chair Professor at Tianjin University (天津大学讲席教授), 2024.
Chief Scientist of the National Key Research and Development Program Project (国家重点研发计划项目首席科学家), 2023.
Young Editorial Board Member of Responsive Materials Journal(Responsive Materials期刊青年编委), 2023.
Young Editorial Board Member of Smart Molecules Journal (Smart Molecules期刊青年编委), 2023.
Awardee of Tianjin Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars (天津市杰出青年基金获得者), 2022.
Distinguished Professor of PEIYANG Young Scholars, Tianjin University (天津大学“北洋青年学者计划”特聘教授), 2020.
Awardee of National Outstanding Young Talents (入选国家青年千人计划), 2019.
Awardee of Tianjin Outstanding Young Talents (入选天津市青年千人计划), 2018.
Currently, more than 110 SCI academic papers have been published in international top journals such as Nature, Chem. Soc. Rev., Prog. Mater. Sci., J. Am. Chem. Soc., Angew. Chem., Adv. Mater., Nat. Commun., Mater. Today, PNAS, Matter, etc. (*corresponding author)
Representative articles：
1. Yanzhao Yang, Xuan Zhang, Cristian Valenzuela, Ran Bi, Yuanhao Chen, Yuan Liu, Chen Zhang, Weibin Li,Ling Wang*,Wei Feng*.High-Throughput Printing of Customized Structural-Color Graphics with Circularly Polarized Reflection and Mechanochromic Response.Matter, 2024,7, in press.
2. Xuan Zhang, Lin Li, Yuanhao Chen, Cristian Valenzuela, Yuan Liu, Yanzhao Yang, Yufan Feng, Ling Wang*, Wei Feng*. Mechanically Tunable Circularly Polarized Luminescence of Liquid Crystal-Templated Chiral Perovskite Quantum Dots.Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2024,63, e202404202.
3. Jiazhe Ma, Yanzhao Yang, Xuan Zhang, Pan Xue, Cristian Valenzuela, Yuan Liu,Ling Wang*, Wei Feng*. Mechanochromic and Ionic Conductive Cholesteric Liquid Crystal Elastomers for Biomechanical Monitoring and Human-Machine Interaction.Mater. Horiz. 2024,11, 217-226.
4. Shaoshuai Ma, Pan Xue, Cristian Valenzuela, Xuan Zhang, Yuanhao Chen, Yuan Liu, Le Yang, Xinhua Xu*,Ling Wang*. Highly Stretchable and Conductive MXene-Encapsulated Liquid Metal Hydrogels for Bioinspired Self-Sensing Soft Actuators.Adv. Funct. Mater. 2024,34, 2309899.
5. Yuanhao Chen, Cristian Valenzuela, Xuan Zhang, Xiao Yang,Ling Wang*, Wei Feng*. Light-Driven Dandelion-Inspired Microfliers.Nat. Commun. 2023,14, 3036.
6. Xiao Yang, Cristian Valenzuela, Xuan Zhang, Yuanhao Chen, Yanzhao Yang,Ling Wang* and Wei Feng*. Robust Integration of Polymerizable Perovskite Quantum dots with Responsive Polymers Enables 4D-Printed Self-Deployable Information Display.Matter, 2023,6, 1278-1294.ESI高被引论文
7. Xiang Li, Yanzhao Yang, Cristian Valenzuela, Xuan Zhang, Pan Xue, Yuan Liu, Changjun Liu, andLing Wang*. Mechanochromic and Conductive Chiral Nematic Nanostructured Film for Bioinspired Ionic Skins.ACS Nano, 2023, 17, 12829-12841.
8. Jiazhe Ma, Yanzhao Yang, Cristian Valenzuela, Xuan Zhang,Ling Wang* and Wei Feng*. Mechanochromic, Shape-Programmable and Self-Healable Cholesteric Liquid Crystal Elastomers Enabled by Dynamic Covalent Boronic Ester Bonds.Angew. Chem. Int. Ed.2022,61, e202116219.ESI高被引论文
9. Xuan Zhang, Yanzhao Yang, Pan Xue, Cristian Valenzuela, Yuanhao Chen, Xiao Yang,Ling Wang* and Wei Feng*. Three-Dimensional Electrochromic Soft Photonic Crystals Based on MXene-Integrated Blue Phase Liquid Crystals for Bioinspired Visible and Infrared Camouflage.Angew. Chem. Int. Ed.2022,61, e202211030.ESI高被引论文
10. Mengyuan Yang, Yiyi Xu, Xuan Zhang, Hari Krishna Bisoyi, Pan Xue, Yanzhao Yang, Xiao Yang, Cristian Valenzuela, Yuanhao Chen,Ling Wang*, Wei Feng* and Quan Li*. Bioinspired Phototropic MXene-Reinforced Soft Tubular Actuators for Omnidirectional Light-Tracking and Adaptive Photovoltaics.Adv. Funct. Mater. 2022,32, 2201884. ESI高被引论文
11. Jiajia Yang, Xinfang Zhang, Xuan Zhang,Ling Wang*, Wei Feng*, and Quan Li*. Beyond the Visible: Bioinspired Infrared Adaptive Materials.Adv. Mater. 2021,33, 202004754.ESI高被引论文
12. Xuan Zhang, Yiyi Xu, Cristian Valenzuela, Xinfang Zhang,Ling Wang*, Wei Feng* and Quan Li*. Liquid Crystal-Templated Chiral Nanomaterials: From Chiral Plasmonics to Circularly Polarized Luminescence.Light: Science & Applications, 2022,11, 223.ESI高被引论文
13. Lin Tang,Ling Wang*, Xiao Yang, Yiyu Feng, Yu Li, Wei Feng*. Poly(N-isopropylacrylamide)-Based Smart Hydrogels: Design, Properties and Applications.Prog. Mater. Sci. 2021,115, 100702.ESI高被引论文
14. Pan Xue, Hari Krishna Bisoyi, Yuanhao Chen, Hao Zeng, Jiajia Yang, Xiao Yang, Pengfei Lv, Xinmu Zhang, Arri Priimagi,Ling Wang*, Xinhua Xu*, and Quan Li*. Near-Infrared Light-Driven Shape-Morphing of Programmable Anisotropic Hydrogels Enabled by MXene Nanosheets.Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2021,60, 3390-3396.ESI高被引论文
15. Pan Xue, Yuanhao Chen, Yiyi Xu, Cristian Valenzuela, Xuan Zhang, Hari Krishna Bisoyi, Xiao Yang,Ling Wang*, Xinhua Xu* and Quan Li*. Bioinspired MXene-Based Soft Actuators Exhibiting Angle-Independent Structural Color.Nano-Micro Lett. 2023,15, 1.
16. Pan Xue, Cristian Valenzuela, Shaoshuai Ma, Xuan Zhang, Jiazhe Ma, Yuanhao Chen, Xinhua Xu*,Ling Wang*. Highly Conductive MXene/PEDOT:PSS-Integrated Poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) Hydrogels for Bioinspired Somatosensory Soft Actuators.Adv. Funct. Mater. 2023, 2214867.
17. Xiao Yang, Yuanhao Chen, Xuan Zhang, Pan Xue, Pengfei Lv, Yanzhao Yang,Ling Wang* and Wei Feng*. Bioinspired Light-Fueled Water-Walking Soft Robots Based on Liquid Crystal Network Actuators with Polymerizable Miniaturized Gold Nanorods. Nano Today, 2022,43, 101419.ESI高被引论文
18. Zhecun Guan,Ling Wang* and Jinhye Bae*. Advances in 4D Printing of Liquid Crystalline Elastomers: Materials, Techniques, and Applications.Mater. Horiz. 2022,43, 101419.
19. Pengfei Lv, Xiaomin Liu,Ling Wang* and Wei Feng*. Nanocellulose-Based Functional Materials: From Chiral Photonics to Soft Actuator and Energy Storage.Adv. Funct. Mater. 2021, 31, 2104991.ESI高被引论文
20. Pengfei Lv, Xiao Yang, Hari Krishna Bisoyi, Hao Zeng, Xuan Zhang, Yuanhao Chen, Pan Xue, Shukuan Shi, Arri Priimagi,Ling Wang*, Wei Feng* and Quan Li*. Stimulus-Driven Liquid Metal and Liquid Crystal Network Actuators for Programmable Soft Robotics.Mater. Horiz. 2021,8, 2475.ESI高被引论文
21. Yuanhao Chen, Jiajia Yang, Xuan Zhang, Yiyu Feng, Hao Zeng,Ling Wang*, and Wei Feng*. Light-Driven Bimorph Soft Actuators: Design, Fabrication and Properties.Mater. Horiz. 2021,8, 728-757. ESI高被引论文
22. Minxiang Zeng*, Mingfeng Chen, Dali Huang, Shijun Lei, Xuan Zhang,Ling Wang* and Zhengdong Cheng*. Engineered Two-Dimensional Nanomaterials: An Emerging Paradigm for Water Purification and Monitoring.Materials Horizons, 2021,8, 758-802.
23. Ling Wang, Augustine M. Urbas,Quan Li*. Nature-inspired emerging chiral liquid crystal nanostructures: from molecular self-assembly to DNA mesophase and nanocolloids,Adv. Mater. 2020,32, 1801335.ESI高被引论文
24. Zeyu Li,Ling Wang*, Yu Li, Yiyu feng, Wei Feng*. Frontiers in carbon dots: design, properties and applications.Mater. Chem. Front. 2019,3, 2571-2601.
25. Ling Wang,Quan Li*, Photochromism into nanosystems: towards lighting up the future nanoworld,Chem. Soc. Rev. 2018, 47, 1044-1097.ESI高被引论文
26. Liqi Dong, Yiyu Feng,Ling Wang, Wei Feng*. Azobenzene-based solar thermal fuels: design, properties, and applications.Chem. Soc. Rev. 2018,47, 7339-7368.ESI高被引论文
27. Ling Wang,Hari K. Bisoyi,Zhigang Zheng, Karla G. Gutierrez-Cuevas,Gautam Singh,Satyendra Kumar,Timothy J. Bunning,and Quan Li*.Stimuli-directed self-organized chiral superstructures for adaptive windows enabled by mesogen-functionalized graphene.Materials Today,2017,20, 230-237.
28. Zhigang Zheng, Yannian Li, Hari Krishna Bisoyi, Ling Wang, Timothy J. Bunning, and Quan Li*, Three-dimensional control of the helical axis of a chiral nematic liquid crystal by light. Nature 2016,531, 352-356. ESI高被引论文
29. Ling Wang, Hao Dong, Yannian Li, Chenming Xue, Ling-Dong Sun, Chun-Hua Yan*, Quan Li*. Reversible near-infrared light directed reflection in a self-organized helical superstructure loaded with upconversion nanoparticles.J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2014,136, 4480-4483.ESI高被引论文
30. Ling Wang, Hao Dong, Yannian Li, Rui Liu, Ye-Fu Wang, Hari Krishna Bisoyi, Ling-Dong Sun, Chun-Hua Yan*, Quan Li*. Luminescence-driven reversible handedness inversion of self-organized helical superstructures enabled by a novel near-infrared light nanotransducer.Adv. Mater. 2015, 27, 2065-2069.ESI高被引论文
31. Ling Wang, Quan Li*.Stimuli-directing self-organized 3D liquid crystalline nanostructures: From materials design to photonic applications.Adv. Funct. Mater. 2016,26, 10-28.ESI高被引论文
32. Ling Wang, Dong Chen, Karla G. Gutierrez-Cuevas, Hari Krishna Bisoyi, Jing Fan, Rafael S. Zola, Guoqiang Li, Timothy J. Bunning, David A. Weitz*, and Quan Li*.Optically reconfigurable chiral microspheres of self-organized helical superstructures with handedness inversion.Mater. Horiz. 2017,4, 1190-1195.
33. Lingli Zhang#, Ling Wang#,Uma S. Hiremath, Hari Krishna Bisoyi, Geetha G. Nair, Channabasaveshwar V. Yelamaggad, Augustine M. Urbas, Timothy J. Bunning, andQuan Li*. Dynamic orthogonal switching of a thermoresponsive self-organized helical superstructure.Adv. Mater. 2017,29,1700676.(#共同第一作者)
34. Karla G. Gutierrez-Cuevas#,Ling Wang#, Zhigang Zheng, Hari K. Bisoyi, Guoqiang Li, Loon-Seng Tan, Richard A. Vaia, and Quan Li*. Frequency-driven self-organized helical superstructures loaded with mesogen-grafted silica nanoparticles.Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2016,55, 13090-13094.(#共同第一作者)
35. Ling Wang.Self-activating liquid crystal devices for smart laser protection.Liquid Crystals 2016,43, 2062-2078. (国际期刊液晶建刊30周年受邀综述)
