Yutao Sang (桑玉涛) 青年研究员
Email: sangyt@fudan.edu.cn
Education and Research Experience
2023–today: Associate
Professor, Fudan University, Department of Macromolecular Science
2019–2023: Post-Doctoral Fellow, Weizmann
Institute of Science, Department of Chemical and Biological Physics
2016–2019: Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry,
Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences
2013–2016: M.Sc. in Material Science,
Qingdao University
2009–2013: B.Sc. in Applied Chemistry, Qingdao
University
Research interests
Spin filter materials/devices based on
chiral compounds
Precise construction and functionalization
of complex chiral functional materials
Representative Papers
After Fudan
1. Huibin He,
Xiaoxue Shen, Chongyang Yao, Jing Tao, Wenwen Chen, Zhihong Nie,* Yue Wu, Liwei
Dai, Yutao Sang*, Hierarchically Responsive Alternating Nano-Copolymers with
Tailored Interparticle Bonds. Angew. Chem.
Int. Ed. 2024, https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.202401828.
2. Dan-Yang
Zhang, Yutao Sang*, Tapan
Kumar Das, Zhao Guan, Ni Zhong, Chun-Gang Duan, Wei Wang*, Jonas Fransson*, Ron
Naaman*, and Hai-Bo Yang*. Highly Conductive Topologically Chiral Molecular
Knots as Efficient Spin Filters. J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2023, 145, 26791−26798.
3. Yue Wu,
Yanqiong Yang, Yan Zhang, Liwei Dai, Wenhao Dong, Huibin He, Hao Li, Zhihong
Nie,* Yutao Sang*.
Photo-Induced Self-assembly of Copolymer-Capped Nanoparticles into Colloidal
Molecules. Angew. Chem.
Int. Ed. 2023, 63, e202313406.
4. Zhiyuan Lin, Yutao Sang*, Zhihong Nie*. Stepwise
Self-assembly of Bottlebrush Random Copolymers into Uniform Cylindrical
Structures. Colloid. Polym. Sci., 2023, 301, 1021-1028.
Before Fudan
1. Yutao Sang, Qirong Zhu,
Xiaoqin Zhou, Yuqian Jiang, Li Zhang*, Minghua Liu*, Ultrasound directed
symmetry breaking and spin filtering of supramolecular assemblies from only
achiral building blocks. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2023,
62, e202215867.
2. Yutao Sang, Francesco
Tassinari, Kakali Santra, Wenyan Zhang, Claudio Fontanesi, Brian P. Bloom,
David H. Waldeck, Jonas Fransson, and Ron Naaman*. Chirality enhances oxygen
reduction. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A., 2022, 119,
e2202650119.
3. Yutao Sang, Minghua
Liu*, Hierarchical self-assembly into chiral nanostructures. Chem. Sci.,
2022, 13, 633–656.
4. Yutao Sang, Suryakant
Mishra, Francesco Tassinari, Senthil Kumar Karuppannan, Raanan Carmieli, Ruijie
D. Teo, Agostino Migliore, David N. Beratan, Harry B. Gray, Israel Pecht, Jonas
Fransson, David H. Waldeck, Ron Naaman*, Temperature Dependence of Charge and
Spin Transfer in Azurin. J. Phys. Chem. C, 2021, 125,
9875−9883.
5. Minghao Zhou,† Yutao
Sang,† Xue Jin, Sanxu Chen, Junchen Guo, Pengfei Duan*, Minghua Liu,
Steering Nanohelix and Upconverted Circularly Polarized Luminescence by Using
Completely Achiral Components. ACS nano, 2021, 15,
2753−2761.
6. Yutao Sang, Dong Yang,
Zhaocun Shen, Pengfei Duan, Minghua Liu*, Mechanically Controlled and
Consecutively Boosted Circularly Polarized Luminescence of Nanoassemblies from
Achiral Molecules. J. Phys. Chem. C, 2021, 124,
17274−17281.
7. Debkumar Bhowmick,† Yutao Sang,† Kakali
Santra, Maximilian Halbauer, Eyal Capua, Yossi Paltiel, Ron Naaman, Francesco
Tassinari*, Simultaneous high-purity enantiomeric resolution of conglomerates using
magnetic substrates. Cryst. Growth Des., 2021,21,
2925−2931.
8. Yutao Sang, Jianlei
Han, Tonghan Zhao, Pengfei Duan*, and Minghua Liu*. Circularly Polarized
Luminescence in Nanoassemblies: Generation, Amplification, and
Application. Adv. Mater., 2019, 1900110.
9. Yutao Sang, Dong, Yang,
Pengfei Duan*, Minghua Liu*, Towards Homochiral Supramolecular Entities from
Achiral Molecules by Vortex Mixing-Accompanied Self-Assembly. Chem.
Sci., 2019, 10, 2718–2724.
10. Zhaocun Shen*,†, Yutao
Sang,† Tianyu Wang,† Jian Jiang, Yan Meng, Yuqian Jiang,
Kou Okuro*, Takuzo Aida*, Minghua Liu*. Asymmetric catalysis mediated by a
chiral symmetry-broken helical nanoribbon. Nat. Commun., 2019, 10,
3976.
11. Xue
Jin,† Yutao Sang,† Yonghong Shi, Yuangang Li, Xuefeng Zhu,
Pengfei Duan,* Minghua Liu. Optically Active Upconverting Nanoparticles with
Induced Circularly Polarized Luminescence and Enantioselectively Triggered
Photopolymerization, ACS Nano, 2019, 13,
2804–2811.
12. Yutao Sang, Dong Yang,
Pengfei Duan and Minghua Liu*, The chiral amine triggered self-assembly of
achiral emissive molecules into circularly polarized luminescent supramolecular
assemblies. Chem. Commun., 2019, 55,
11135–11138.
13. Lukang
Ji,† Yutao Sang,† Guanghui Ouyang*, Dong Yang, Pengfei Duan,
Yuqian Jiang, Minghua Liu*. Cooperative Chirality and Sequential Energy
Transfer in a Supramolecular Light-harvesting Nanotube. Angew. Chem.
Int. Ed., 2019, 58, 844–848.
14. Yutao Sang, Minghua Liu*. Nanoarchitectonics
through supramolecular gelation: formation and switching of diverse nanostructures, Mol.
Syst. Des. Eng., 2019,4,
11–28.
15. Yutao Sang,and Minghua Liu*. Symmetry breaking in self-assembled
nanoassemblies. Symmetry,
2019,11, 950.
16. Yutao Sang, Pengfei Duan, Minghua Liu*, Nanotrumpets and circularly polarized
luminescent nanotwists hierarchically self-assembled from an achiralC3-symmetric ester. Chem. Commun., 2018,54, 4025–4028.
17. Yutao Sang, Yuqian Cui, Zhen Li, Wanneng Ye*, Hongliang Li, X. S. Zhao, Peizhi
Guo*. Electrochemical reaction of nitrobenzene and its derivatives on glassy
carbon electrode modified with MnFe2O4colloid
nanocrystal assemblies, Sens.
Actuator B-Chem., 2016,234, 46–52.
18. Yutao Sang, Aiping Fu*, Hao Li, Jintao Zhang,
Zichao Li, Hongliang Li, X. S. Zhao, Peizhi Guo*. Experimental and theoretical
studies on the effect of functional groups on carbon nanotubes to its oxygen
reduction reaction activity. Colloid Surf. A-Physicochem. Eng. Asp.,
2016,506, 476–484.
19. Yutao Sang, Baoyan Wang, Qinchao Wang, George Zhao, Peizhi Guo*.
Insights into the electrocatalysis of nitrobenzene using chemically modified
carbon nanotube electrodes, Sci.
Rep., 2014,4,
6321.
