Education

• 1995- : Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University, Evanston (Toward Ph.D.)
• 1993-1995: Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing (M.S.)
• 1992-1993: Department of Chemistry, Graduate School, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing
• 1988-1992: Department of Chemistry, Nanjing University, Nanjing (B.S.)

Research Experience

• 1995-: Surface Modification of High Temperature Superconductors (Prof. Chad A. Mirkin)
• 1993-1995: Interfacial Molecular Design of Polymer Composites (Prof. Yuchun Ou)
• 1992-1995: Theoretical Molecular Structure-Function Correlation Studies (Profs. Jimin Yan, Dayu Yan)
• 1992: Calibration Constant Problem of the Vapor Pressure Osmometry (Prof. Rongshi Cheng)

Honors

• 1995: Presidential Graduate Scholarship of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (Chinese Academy of Sciences)
• 1993: Scholarship for Outstanding Academic Excellence (Graduate School, Chinese Academy of Sciences)
• 1988-1992: People's Scholarship (Nanjing University)

Selected Publications

• "Studies on the Structural Unit and Suspending Terminal Groups in the Quasi-One-Dimensional Periodic System" (with Jimin Yan, Dayu Yan), Int. J. Quantum Chem. 1995, 56, 81
• "Interfacial Design of the Nonopolar Polyolefin Ternary Composite with High Strength, High Toughness, and High Modulus" (with Yuchun Ou, Yupeng Feng), J. Appl. Polym. Sci. 1996, 59, 287
• "The First Raman Spectrum of an Organic Monolayer on a High Temperature Superconductor: Direct Spectroscopic Evidence for a Chemical Interaction between an Amine Monolayer and YBa₂Cu₃O_7-d" (with Feng Xu, Susan J. Schofer, Chad A. Mirkin), J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1997, 119, 235
• "Controlling the Surface Properties of High Temperature Superconductors" (with Chad A. Mirkin, Feng Xu), Adv. Mater. 1997, 9, 167
• "Observation of Surface-Induced Broken Time-Reversal Symmetry in YBa₂Cu₃O₇ Tunnel Junctions" (with M. Covington, M. Aprili, E. Paraoanu, L. H. Greene, F. Xu, C. A. Mirkin), Phys. Rev. Lett. 1997, 79, 277
  
• "Direct Oxidation of Alkylamines by YBa₂Cu₃O₇: A Key Step in the Formation of Self-Assembles Monolayers on Cuprate Superconductors" (with Chad A. Mirkin, Robert M. Braun, Nicholas Winograd), J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1998, 120, 5126
  
• "Hybrid Nanoparticles with Block Copolymer Shell Structures" (with Keith J. Watson, SonBinh T. Nguyen, Chad. A. Mirkin), J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1998, Submitted
• "Dip Pen Nanolithography" (with Richard D. Piner, Feng Xu, Seunghun Hong, Chad A. Mirkin), Science 1998, Submitted

Membership

• The American Chemical Society

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