Dr. Yuanyuan Wang is a Professor and Doctoral Supervisor at Nanjing University. He received his Bachelor's and Master's degrees from the School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering at Nanjing University in 2006 and 2009, respectively (under the supervision of Professor Junjie Zhu). He obtained his Ph.D. from Washington University in St. Louis in 2014 (under the supervision of Professor William Buhro). From 2014 to 2019, he conducted postdoctoral research at the University of Chicago (under the supervision of Professor Dmitri Talapin). In 2019, he joined the School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering at Nanjing University as a Professor. His research group focuses on the assembly and integration of coordination-driven functional nanomaterials. He has made a series of important contributions in the areas of semiconductor cluster design, development of inorganic photoresists, and fabrication of nanocrystal-based optoelectronic devices. He has published over 60 papers in renowned international journals including Science, Nature, Nature Sustainability, and Journal of the American Chemical Society. He has been selected for the National High-Level Overseas Talent Youth Program, the Jiangsu Innovation and Entrepreneurship Talent Program, and was named an ACS Materials Au Rising Star. He currently serves as a member of the Professional Committee of Lithographic Materials and Technologies and as a working group member of National Science Review.

2019-              Nanjing University, School of Chemistry

                       Professor

2014–2019    University of Chicago

                      Postdoc., Nanopattern Technologies science lead

                     Advisor: Prof. Dmitri Talapin 

2009–2014    Washington University in St. Louis, Department of Chemistry

                      PhD, Inorganic Chemistry

                      Advisor: Prof. William E. Buhro 

2006–2009    Nanjing University, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering

                      MS, Analytical Chemistry

                     Advisor: Prof. Jun-jie Zhu

2002–2006    Nanjing University, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering

                      BS, Chemistry

Precision Manufacturing of Functional Nanomaterials is a core challenge in the development of nanoscience and nanotechnology, and serves as a critical material foundation for next-generation information technology, energy technology, and advanced manufacturing. By precisely tailoring the composition, structure, and interfaces of materials at the atomic and molecular scales, and further achieving the orderly construction of micro/nano architectures and device integration, materials can be endowed with rich and unique physicochemical properties. This drives their widespread applications in fields such as electronic information, optoelectronics, catalysis, biomedicine, and energy conversion and storage. However, achieving synergistic regulation across molecular, micro/nano, and device scales remains a major scientific challenge in the field of functional nanomaterials. Among these, ligand molecules, as key chemical units, play a decisive role in material synthesis, interface engineering, assembly manufacturing, and device fabrication.

Our research group is grounded in coordination chemistry as the theoretical foundation and takes ligand chemistry as the central theme, conducting systematic research along the roadmap of molecular-scale precision regulation, micro/nano-scale assembly and fabrication, device-scale integration and application. By elucidating the regulatory roles of ligands in material synthesis mechanisms, property modulation, and assembly behaviors across different scales, we aim to establish a cross-scale research framework for functional nanomaterials—from molecular design to device integration. Our goal is to develop new theories, methodologies, and technologies for the precision manufacturing of functional nanomaterials, thereby providing theoretical underpinnings and technical support for the advancement of next-generation optoelectronic devices and advanced manufacturing.

Our current research directions include:

1. Ligand-controlled precision synthesis of nanomaterials

2. Ligand-mediated ordered assembly and patterning fabrication

3. Ligand-driven integration and application of functional nanomaterials

1.   K Xiao*⁺, H Sun⁺, X Kong⁺, H Gao⁺, J Lou, X Chen, Z Hu, D Xu, R Lin, R Liu, S Xia, J Xie, Y Liu, X Luo, F Fan, C Ma, C Chang, Y Wang* and H Tan*, Nanocrystal-tailored recombination for all-perovskite tandem solar modules, Nature, 2026, 10.1038/s41586-026-10768-1      

2.   M Guo⁺, X Kong⁺, X Wang, W Cheng, H Li, H Xia, W Yang, Y Xiang, S Pi, R Ma, Y Lin, C Yang*, Y Wang* and X Gao*, Rewiring energy flow in biohybrids for enhanced solar-driven biosynthesis, Nat. Sustain., 2026, 9, 727

3.    J Guan⁺,J Ma⁺, L Zhou, Y Zou, L Ye, W Hou, P Zhang, X Dai, H Zhang, D V. Talapin*, Y Wang*, Direct Ambient Photopatterning of RGB Quantum Dots for Light-emitting Diodes with EQE Exceeding 20%, Nat. Commun., 2025, 16, 9689

4.    X Kong, Y Deng, Y Zou, J Ge, Y Wang*, Anion Exchange in Semiconductor Magic-Size Clusters, J. Am. Chem.   Soc., 2024, 146, 5445

5.    P Xiao, Z Zhang, J Ge, Y Deng, X Chen, J Zhang, Z Deng, K Yu, D V. Talapin*, Y Wang*, Surface passivation of intensely luminescent all-inorganic nanocrystals and their direct optical patterning, Nat. Commun., 2023, 14, 49