Yutao Sang (桑玉涛) 青年研究员，博士生导师
Email: sangyt(at)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
Awards and Recognition
2024 Distinguished Young Scholars
(Overseas), National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC)
2023 Outstanding Academic Leaders Plan, Shanghai
2023 Pujiang Program, Shanghai
2023 Excellent Talent Program, Fudan
University
2020 Outstanding Post-Doctoral Researchers
from China, Planning & Budgeting Committee (PBC) of the Council, Israel
2019 Young Scientist Excellence Award,
Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences
2017 Merit Student, Chinese Academy of
Sciences
2016 Outstanding Graduate, Shandong
Province
2016 Excellent Science and Technology
Innovation Achievement Award, Shandong Province
2015 National Encouragement scholarship
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, 63, e202401828.
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.
5. Xiaoxue Shen,
Huibin He, Di Zheng, Wei Cao, Yutao Sang*,
Zhihong Nie*. Engineering the Electrostatic Interactions between Oppositely Charged
Polymer-Grafted Nanoparticles for Constructing Colloid Molecules on Substrates. ACS Nano, 2024, 18, 20999−21008.
6. Haiyan
Yang, Qian Zhang, Liwei Dai, Yazi Wang, Guangrong Zheng, Xinyue Zhang, Di Zheng,
Xiaojuan Ji*, Yutao Sang*, Zhihong Nie*.
Docetaxel-Encapsulated Catalytic Pt/Au Nanotubes for Synergistic Chemo-Photothermal
Therapy of Triple-Negative Breast Cancer. Adv.
Healthcare Mater., 2024, 13, 2400662.
7. Wenwen
Chen, Hao Li, Xinyue Zhang, Yutao Sang*,
Zhihong Nie*. Microfluidic preparation of monodisperse PLGAPEG/PLGA microspheres
with controllable morphology for drug release. Lab Chip, 2024, 24, 4623–4631.
8. Zhongqi
Liu, Yan Zhang, Yutao Sang*, Zhihong
Nie*. Scalable synthesis of ultrasmall hybrid silica colloidal particles through
balanced solvophobic interaction and electrostatic repulsion. Colloid Polym Sci., 2024, 302, 1209–1217.
9. Shuyue
Wei, Yan Zhang, Xinyue Zhang, Yutao Sang*,
Zhihong Nie*. Copolymer-tethered nanoparticles as compatibilizers of immiscible
PS/PMMA blends. Colloid. Polym. Sci.,
2024, 302, 1857–1865.
10. Jing
Tao, Chenglin Yi, Wenhao Dong, Yan Zhang, Huibin He, Yiqun Yang, Shunsheng Ye, Qi
Wu, Xiaoxue Shen, Fan Yang, Yutao Sang*,
Zhihong Nie*. Competitive hydrogen bonding and electrostatic interactionsmediated
alternating nanoparticles copolymerization. Nano Res., 2025, 18, 94907086.
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., 2020, 32, 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.
