ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2049-1324
Education and academic experience：
Cheng Yang received his PhD in supramolecular chemistry from Nagasaki University in 2004, working with Prof. Kahee Fujita and Prof. Deqi Yuan. After postdoctoral work with Prof. Yoshihisa Inoue in the Entropy Control Project of JST, he became an Assistant Professor at Osaka University in 2007. He has been a PRESTO researcher during 2008–2012. Since September 2012, he has been a Professor of College of Chemistry, Sichuan University, China.
Honors and awards:
Tanglixin Scholarship (2017)
Young Hundred Talent Researcher of Sichuan Province (2012)
Young Thousand Talent Researcher (2012)
The APA prize for Young Scientists (2011)
PRESTO Researcher (JST) (2008-2012)
Japanese Government Monbusho (Ministry of Education) Scholarship for International Study (2000-2004)
Professional services:
Chair, Asian-Oceanian Cyclodextrin League
Member, Chinese Chemical Society
Member, American Chemical Society
Associate Editor，Frontiers in Chemistry
Editorial Board, Chinese Chemical Letters
Editorial Board, Green Synthesis and Catalysis
Editorial Board, Molecules
Research topics
Macrocyclic molecules and molecular recognition
Chiral molecular machines
Chiral photoreactions in supramolecular systems
Triplet-triplet annihilation in supramolecular systems
Supramolecular photophysics
Selected publications:
(1) Mi, Y.; Ma, J.; Liang, W.; Xiao, C.; Wu, W.; Zhou, D.; Yao, J.; Sun, W.; Sun, J.; Gao, G.; Chen, X.; Chruma, J.; Yang, C. Guest-Binding-Induced Interhetero HostsCharge Transfer Crystallization: Selective Coloration of Commonly Used Organic Solvents. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2021, 143 (3), 1553.
(2) Xiao, C.; Wu, W.; Liang, W.; Zhou, D.; Kanagaraj, K.; Cheng, G.; Su, D.; Zhong, Z.; Chruma, J. J.; Yang, C. Redox‐Triggered Chirality Switching and Guest‐Capture/Release with a Pillar [6] arene‐Based Molecular Universal Joint. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2020, 132 (21), 8171.
(3) Wei, X.; Liu, J.; Xia, G.-J.; Deng, J.; Sun, P.; Chruma, J. J.; Wu, W.; Yang, C.; Wang, Y.-G.; Huang, Z. Enantioselective photoinduced cyclodimerization of a prochiral anthracene derivative adsorbed on helical metal nanostructures. Nature Chemistry 2020, 12 (6), 551.
(4) Ji, J.; Wu, W.; Liang, W.; Cheng, G.; Matsushita, R.; Yan, Z.; Wei, X.; Rao, M.; Yuan, D.-Q.; Fukuhara, G.; Mori, T.; Inoue, Y. .; Yang, C.An ultimate stereocontrol in supramolecular photochirogenesis: photocyclodimerization of 2-anthracenecarboxylate mediated by sulfur-linked β-cyclodextrin dimers. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2019, 141 (23), 9225.
(5) Fan, C.; Wei, L.; Niu, T.; Rao, M.; Cheng, G.; Chruma, J. J.; Wu, W.; Yang, C. Efficient Triplet–Triplet Annihilation Upconversion with an Anti-Stokes Shift of 1.08 eV Achieved by Chemically Tuning Sensitizers. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2019, 141 (38), 15070.
(6) Yang, C.; Inoue, Y.; Nature, 2018, 546, 197.
(7) Wei, X.; Wu, W.; Matsushita, R.; Yan, Z.; Zhou, D.; Chruma, J. J.; Nishijima, M.; Fukuhara, G.; Mori, T.; Inoue, Y. .; Yang, C. Supramolecular photochirogenesis driven by higher-order complexation: enantiodifferentiating photocyclodimerization of 2-anthracenecarboxylate to slipped cyclodimers via a 2: 2 complex with β-cyclodextrin. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2018, 140 (11), 3959.
(8) Yao, J.; Wu, W.; Liang, W.; Feng, Y.; Zhou, D.; Chruma, J. J.; Fukuhara, G.; Mori, T.; Inoue, Y.; Yang, C. Temperature‐Driven Planar Chirality Switching of a Pillar [5] arene‐Based Molecular Universal Joint. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2017, 129 (24), 6973.
(9) Fan, C.; Wu, W.; Chruma, J. J.; Zhao, J.; Yang, C. Enhanced triplet–triplet energy transfer and upconversion fluorescence through host–guest complexation. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2016, 138 (47), 15405.
