Recent Publications
- Yin, Z.; Zheng, F.; Wu, H.; Gong, X.; Wang, X.; Zeng, Y., Acid-stable, cysteine-tailored two-dimensional polyaramid for selective palladium recovery. Polymer Journal 2025. (An invited contribution to the Springer-Nature Rising Stars in Polymer Science series)
- Zheng, F.; Jiang, L.; Gong, X.; Yin, Z.; Wang, F.; Zeng, Y.*, Corona-shaped two-dimensional polyaramid derivatives for poly(ethylene oxide)-based all-solid-state lithium batteries. Polymer Chemistry 2025, 16 (20), 2421. (An invited contribution to the Royal Society of Chemistry Emerging Investigator in Polymer Chemistry series)
- Xi, X.; Lv, L.; Gong, X.; Zhang, Z.; Gao, Y.; Xia, Y.; Wan, S.; Wu, X.; Chen, H.; Yang, D.; Zeng, Y.*; Sheng, H.*; Li, T.*; Dong*, A., Emergence of Voronoi-Patterned Cellular Membranes via Confinement Transformation of Self-Assembled Metal–Organic Frameworks. Journal of the American Chemical Society 2025, 147 (8), 6983.
- Li, R.; Wang, Z.; Sun, W.; Zhang, H.; Zeng, Y.; Zhao, X.; Hu, W.; Deng, H.; Loh, K. P.; Fu, Q.*, Scalable production of critically thin polyethylene films via multistep stretching. Nature Chemical Engineering 2024, 1 (11), 702.
Selected Publications Prior to Fudan
- Zeng, P. Gordiichuk, T. Ichihara, G. Zhang, S.-R. Emil, E. D. Wetzel, J. Tresback, J. Yang, Z. Yang,D. Kozawa, M. Kuehne, P. Liu, A. T. Liu, J. Yang, H. J. Kulik, M. S. Strano*. Irreversible Synthesis of an Ultra-Strong Two-Dimensional Polymer. Nature 2022, 602, 91.
- G. Zhang, Y. Zeng, P. Gordiichuk, M. S. Strano*. Chemical Kinetic Mechanisms and Scaling of Two-Dimensional Polymers via Irreversible Solution-Phase Reactions. J. Chem. Phys. 2021, 154 (19), 194901.
- E. E. Kwan, Y. Zeng, H. A. Besser, E. N. Jacobsen*. Concerted Nucleophilic Aromatic Substitutions. Nature Chem. 2018, 10, 917.
- Y. Zeng, L. Zhang, Y. Zhao, C. Ni, J. Zhao, and J. Hu*. Silver-Mediated Trifluoromethylation-Iodination of Arynes. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2013, 135, 2955. (Most accessed paper in Feb 2013; highlighted by Synfacts 2013, 9, 544.)
- Y. Zeng, J. Hu*. Silver-Catalyzed Formal Insertion of Arynes into Rf-I bonds. Chem. Eur. J. 2014, 20, 6866.
- Y. Zeng, G. Li, J. Hu*. Diphenyliodonium-Catalyzed Nucleophilic Fluorination of Arynes: Synthesis of ortho-Fluoroiodoarenes. Angew. Chem., Int. Ed. 2015, 54, 10773.
- Y. Zeng, J. Hu*. Silver-Mediated Trifluoromethylthiolation-Iodination of Arynes. Org. Lett. 2016, 18, 856. (Highlighted by Synfacts 2016, 12, 514)
- Y. Zeng, C. Ni, J. Hu*. Recent Advances in the One-Step Synthesis of Distally Fluorinated Ketones. Chem. Eur. J. 2016, 22, 3210.
- Y. Zeng, J. Hu*. Bridging Fluorine and Aryne Chemistry: Vicinal Difunctionalization of Arynes Involving Nucleophilic Fluorination, Trifluoromethylation or Trifluoromethyl-thiolation. Synthesis 2016, 48, 2137. (highlighted on the cover)