Topic: Dynamic Network Assembly and Multi-Level Structural Transformation

Prof. Ming-Hua Zeng obtained his Ph.D. from Sun Yat-Sen University in 2004. Then he started his independent research at Guangxi Normal University and was promoted to full professor in 2006. He was selected as a Distinguished Young Scholar by the National Natural Science Foundation of China in 2015 and a Leading Innovator of the "Ten Thousand Talents Program" in 2017. Additionally, he has been rated as one of the Highly Cited Chinese Researchers by Elsevier for two consecutive years (in 2020 and 2021) and won the first prize in Guangxi Natural Science Award in 2011 and 2017, respectively.

Prof. Zeng is engaged in the coordination-directed sequential domino reactions, including their process and mechanism, multi-level structure evolution, and effects on physicochemical properties. He has made significant academic achievements in:

1. Propose and realize a Chinese MOF glass preparation scheme based on dynamic chemistry and molecular-level domino remolding.

2. It proposes the concept of the correlation of solid-liquid structure information. It establishes a new method that comprehensively utilizes mass spectrometry, crystallography, and theoretical calculation to analyze the assembly process and mechanism of complex coordination molecular clusters and guide their molecular customization.

3. We propose the coordination-directed sequential domino organic reaction, systematically studying the site selectivity, reaction process, and mechanism of in situ autocatalytic domino reaction and revealing a new arrangement of confined heteroatoms and heterocycles.

Prof. Chen Wang obtained her Ph.D. in Chemistry from Tsinghua University. From 2017 to 2021, she did her postdoctoral research at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem Institute of Chemistry. She is currently a professor at the School of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering at East China Normal University (ECNU). Her research interests focus on supramolecular assembly and biomimetic dynamic network assembly, including molecular cage-noble metal nano-based controllable assembly and surface plasmon application research, construction and application of active functional groups coordinated by multiple weak interactions between molecules, structure, and application of multi-level bionic dynamic adaptive network.
Prof. Wang was selected as the National and Shanghai Overseas High-Level Talent and ECNU Zijiang Talent. She also held National Program for High-level Overseas Talents, National Natural Science Foundation for Youth, and ECNU Zijiang Talent Fund Program. Additionally, she worked as the Youth Board Member of Chemical Synthesis and the Guest Editor of Results in Chemistry.

Prof. Teng Ben obtained his bachelor and Ph.D. degree from Jilin University (China) in 1997 and 2002, respectively, and started teaching in Department of Chemistry, Jilin University. He then worked as a postdoc fellow (Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), 2005-2007; Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), 2007-2008) at Nagoya University. In 2010, he was promoted to full professor of College of Chemistry, Jilin University, and was appointed as Tang Au-Chin Distinguished Professor of Jilin University at 2020. Since 2021, he moved to Zhejiang Normal University as Distinguished Professor.
He has published more than 80 SCI papers in Chem. Rev., J. Am. Chem. Soc, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., Adv. Mater., Energy Environ. Sci., Chem. Sci., etc. (Cited more than 6000 times and h-index = 32). He has received First-Class Prize of Science and Technology Progress, Jilin Province in 2012 and First-Class Prize for Natural Sciences, Jilin Province in 2017. As the project leader, he has also taken the National 973 Program project, the National Key Research and Development Program, the National Natural Science Foundation of China, etc.