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Shangfeng YANG (杨上峰), Ph. D. (HKUST, 2003)

(中国科学院“引进国外杰出人才”; Alexander von Humboldt Fellow)

Professor of Chemistry
Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at Microscale,
Department of Materials Science and Engineering,
University of Science and Technology of China,
96 Jinzhai Road, Hefei 230026, China
Tel.: +86-551-3601750 (O); +86-551-3603479 (L)
Fax: +86-551-3601750
Email: sfyang@ustc.edu.cn
Homepage: http://staff.ustc.edu.cn/~sfyang

Research Interests

• Novel carbon nanostructures (endohedral fullerenes, fullerenes, carbon nanotubes, peapods)
• Physical and chemical properties of fullerenes
• Organic solar cell/photoelectrochemical application of fullerenes
• Fullerene-based molecular devices

Education and Research Experience

Dec. 2007-- present	Adjunct Professor Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at Microscale & Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), Hefei, China
Feb. 2004-- Dec. 2007	Guest Scientist/Alexander von Humboldt Fellow, Deputy Head Department of Electrochemistry and Conducting Polymer, Leibniz-Institute for Solid State and Materials Research (IFW) Dresden, Germany (Host: Prof. Dr. Lothar Dunsch)
Sept. 1999--Dec. 2003	Ph.D./Research Assistant Department of Chemistry, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), Hong Kong (Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Shihe Yang) Thesis title: Ultrathin Films of Metallofullerenes: Preparation, Characterization and Photoelectrochemical Applications
Sept. 1997--July 1999	M.Sc. Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter (FJIRSM), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Fuzhou, China
Sept. 1996--July 1997	Department of Chemistry, The Graduate School at Beijing, University of Science and Technology of China Academia Sinica (CAS), Beijing
Sept. 1992--July, 1996	B.Sc. Department of Chemistry, Xiamen University, Xiamen, China

Professional Membership
Chinese Chemical Society (CCS), The Electrochemical Society (ECS)

Honors/Awards

1997	“Hope” Scholarship, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)
1999	“Wei-Hua” Scholarship, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)
1999-2003	Full Postgraduate Scholorship, HKUST
2004-2005	Alexander von Humboldt (AvH) Fellowship, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
2008	“Hundreds of Talents Programme”, Chinese Academy of Sciences
2009	Equipment donation (valuing 20,000 Euros), Alexander von Humboldt Foundation

Representative Publications<Click for a full publication list>

54. Shangfeng Yang*,Chuanbao Chen, Alexey Popov, Wenfeng Zhang, Fupin Liu, Lothar Dunsch, “An Endohedal Titanium (III) in a      Clusterfullerene: Putting a Non-Group-III Metal Nitride into the C80-Ih Fullerene Cage”, Chem. Commun. 2009, 6391-6393.

53. Minghua Li, Xiaofang Li, Pan Xu, Shangfeng Yang*, “Fullerene Substitution of the Donor/Acceptor Branched Disubstituted            Polyacetylenes: Significantly Accelerated Polymerization by the C60 Pendant”, Macromol. Chem. Phys. 2009, 210, in press
     (DOI: 10.1002/macp.200900447).

52. Chuanbao Chen, Xiaofang Li, Shangfeng Yang*, “One-pot Synthesis of New Thio Derivatives of C60 with the Unexpected Formation
      of Thiazolidine Fulleropyrrolidine”, New. J. Chem. 2009, 33, accepted (DOI: 10.1039/NJ-ART-08-2009-000420).

51. Shangfeng Yang*, Alexey Popov, Chuanbao Chen, Lothar Dunsch*, “Mixed Metal Nitride Clusterfullerenes in Cage Isomers:
     LuxSc3-xN@C80 (x=1, 2) As Compared with MxSc3-xN@C80 (M= Er, Dy, Gd, Nd)”, J. Phys. Chem. C 2009, 113, 7616-7623.

50. Jan Tarabek, Shangfeng Yang, Lothar Dunsch*, “Redox Properties of Mixed Lutetium/Yttrium Nitride Clusterfullerenes: Endohedral      LuxY3-xN@C80 (I) (x= 0-3) Compounds”, ChemPhysChem 2009, 10, 1037- 1043.

49. Sergey I. Troyanov*, Nadezhda B. Tamm, Chuanbao Chen, Shangfeng Yang, Erhard Kemnitz, “Synthesis and Structure of a Highly      Chlorinated C78: C78@Cl30”, Z. Anorg. Allg. Chem. 2009, 635, 1783- 1786 (cover picture).

48. Matthias Trier*, Pascal Ruffieux, Roman Fasel, Frithjof Nolting, Shangfeng Yang, Lothar Dunsch, Thomas Greber, “Looking inside
     an endohedral fullerene: Inter- and intramolecular ordering of Dy3N@C80 (Ih) on Cu(111) ”, Phys. Rev. B 2009, 80, 081403-1-4.

47. Shangfeng Yang*, Alexey Popov, Lothar Dunsch*, “Carbon Pyramidalization in Fullerene Cages Induced by the Endohedral Cluster:      Non-Scandium Mixed Metal Nitride Clusterfullerenes”, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2008, 47, 8196-8200; Angew. Chem. 2008, 120,
     8318-8322.

46. Shangfeng Yang*, Alexey Popov,Martin Kalbac, Lothar Dunsch*, “The Isomers of Gadolinium- Scandium Nitride Clusterfullerenes      GdxSc3-xN@C80 (x=1, 2) and Their Influence on the Cluster Structure”, Chem. Eur. J. 2008, 14, 2084-2092.

45. Shangfeng Yang*, Alexey Popov, Lothar Dunsch*, “Large mixed metal nitride clusters encapsulated in a small cage: The confinement
     of the C68-based clusterfullerenes”, Chem. Commun. 2008, 2885-2887.

44. Peter Rapta, Alexey Popov, Shangfeng Yang, Lothar Dunsch*, “Charged States of Sc3N@C68: An in situ Spetroelectrochemical Study      of the Radical Cation and Radical Anion of a Non-IPR Fullerene”, J. Phys.Chem. A 2008, 112, 5858-5865.

43. Shangfeng Yang*, Alexey Popov, Lothar Dunsch*, “Violating the Isolated Pentagon Rule (IPR): The Endohedral Non-IPR C70 Cage
     of Sc3N@C70”, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2007, 46, 1256-1259; Angew. Chem. 2007, 119, 1278-1281.

42. Shangfeng Yang*, Peter Rapta, Lothar Dunsch*, “The Spin State of a Charged Non-IPR Fullerene: The Stable Radical Cation of      Sc3N@C68”, Chem. Commun. 2007, 189-191.

41. Shangfeng Yang*, Alexey Popov, Lothar Dunsch*, “The Role of an Asymmetric Nitride Cluster on Fullerene Cage: the Non-IPR      Endohedral DySc2N@C76”, J. Phys. Chem. B 2007, 111, 13659-13663.

40. Lothar Dunsch*, Shangfeng Yang*,“Metal Nitride Cluster Fullerenes – The Recent State and Prospects”, Small 2007, 3, 1298-1320      (invited review).

39. Lothar Dunsch*, Shangfeng Yang*, “Endohedral Clusterfullerenes – Playing with Cluster and Cage Sizes”, Phys. Chem. Chem.
     Phys. 2007, 9, 3067-3081 (invited review).

38. Lothar Dunsch*, Shangfeng Yang*, “Die Welt der endohedralen Fullerene – eine bunte Facette der Nanostrukturen”,
     Wissenschaftliche Zeitschrift der Technischen Universitt Dresden (in German) 2007, 56, 39-46 (invited review).

37. Alexey A. Popov, Matthias Krause, Shangfeng Yang, Joanna Wong, Lothar Dunsch*, “ C78 Cage Isomerism Defined by Trimetallic      Nitride Cluster Size: A Computational and Vibrational Spectroscopic Study”, J. Phys. Chem. B 2007, 111, 3363-3369.

36. J. ech, M. Kalba, S. A. Curran, D. Zhang, U. Dettlaff-Weglikowska, L. Dunsch, S. Yang, S. Roth, “HRTEM and EELS investigation
      of functionalized carbon nanotubes”, Physica E 2007, 37, 109-114.

35. Martin Kalba, Ladislav Kavan, Marketa Zukalova, Shangfeng Yang, Jii ech, Siegmar Roth, Lothar Dunsch, “The change of the state
     of an endohedral fullerene by encapsulation into SWCNT: a Raman spectroelectrochemical study of Dy3N@C80 peapods”, Chem. Eur.      J. 2007, 13, 8811-8817.

34. Shangfeng Yang*, Lothar Dunsch*, “Di- and Tridysprosium Endohedral Metallofullerenes with Cages from C94 to C100”, Angew.      Chem. Int. Ed. 2006, 45, 1299-1302; Angew. Chem. 2006, 118, 1321-1324.

33. Shangfeng Yang*, Sergey I. Troyanov*, Alexey Popov,Matthias Krause, Lothar Dunsch*, “Deviation from the Planarity — a Large      Dy3N Cluster Encapsulated in an Ih-C80 Cage: An X-ray Crystallographic and Vibrational Spectroscopic Study”, J. Am. Chem. Soc.
   2006, 128, 16733-16739.

32. Shangfeng Yang*, Lothar Dunsch*, “Expanding the Number of Stable Isomeric Structures of the C80 Cage: A New Fullerene      Dy3N@C80”, Chem. Eur. J. 2006, 12, 413-419.

31. Shangfeng Yang, Michal Zalibera, Peter Rapta, Lothar Dunsch*, “Charge-induced Reversible Rearrangement of Endohedral Fullerenes:      Electrochemistry of Tridysprosium Nitride Clusterfullerenes Dy3N@C2n (2n = 78, 80)”, Chem. Eur. J. 2006, 12, 7848-7855.

30. Shangfeng Yang, Martin Kalbac, Alexey Popov, Lothar Dunsch*, “A Facile Route to the non-IPR Fullerene Sc3N@C68: Synthesis,      Spectroscopic Characterizations and DFT Computations”, Chem. Eur. J. 2006, 12, 7856-7863.

29. Shangfeng Yang*, Martin Kalbac, Alexey Popov, Lothar Dunsch*, “Gadolinium-based Mixed-Metal Nitride Clusterfullerenes
     GdxSc3-xN@C80 (x=1, 2)”, ChemPhysChem 2006, 7, 1990-1995.

28. Lothar Dunsch, Shangfeng Yang, “The Recent State of Endohedral Fullerene Research”, Electrochem. Soc. Interface 2006, 15(2),
     34-39 (invited review).

Invited Talks

8. “Mixed Metal Nitride Clusterfullerenes: Synthesis, Structures and Properties”, 2008 Internatioanl Symmposium on Fullerene Related      Research and Applications”, Hohhot, China, August 1 - 6, 2008.
7. “Novel Carbon Nanostructures: Synthesis, Biomedical and Solar Cell Applications”, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia,      August 23, 2007.
6. “Novel Carbon Nanostructures: Synthesis, Biomedical and Solar Cell Applications”, University of Sussex, Brighton, United Kingdom,
     June 7, 2007.
5. “Synthesis and Applications of Novel Endohedral Fullerene Nanomaterials”, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei,
     China, May 9, 2007.
4. “The Non-IPR endohedral fullerenes: an unconventional and growing family”, IFW Dresden, Dresden, Germany, April 16, 2007.
3. “Biomedical and Solar Cell Applications of Novel Carbon Nanomaterials”, Suzhou Institute of Nano-tech and Nano-bionics, Chinese      Academy of Sciences, Suzhou, China, March 8, 2007.
2. “Biomedical and Solar Cell Applications of Novel Carbon Nanomaterials”, Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering,      Chinese Academy of Sciences, Ningbo, China, March 7, 2007.
1. “Fullerenes: the all-carbon nanomaterials”, Huazhong Normal University, Wuhan, China, March 1, 2007.

Book Chapters

2. Shangfeng Yang*, Lothar Dunsch*, “Endohedral Fullerenes”, in book “Encyclopedia of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology”
    (edited by H. S. Nalwa), American Scientific Publishers, Valencia, 2009, in press.

1. Shangfeng Yang*, Lothar Dunsch*, “Endohedral Fullerenes”, in book “Nanomaterials: Inorganic and Bioinorganic Perspectives”
    (edited by Charles M. Lukehart and Robert A. Scott), John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., Chichester, United Kingdom, 2008, pp189-214.

Highlights

2. Shangfeng Yang, Alexey Popov, Lothar Dunsch, “Breaking the isolated pentagon rule by chemical bonding: Sc3N@C70”, pp. 29-32,
IFW Annual Report 2006 (URL: http://www.ifw-dresden.de/publications/annual-reports-1/annual-report-2006/2_highlights.pdf).

1. Shangfeng Yang, Lothar Dunsch, “The new dimension in fullerenes: endohedral C100 structure”, pp. 22-25, IFW Annual Report 2005 (URL: http://www.ifw-dresden.de/publications/annual-reports-1/annual-reports/jb2005.pdf).