Wen-Ming Wan (orcid.org/0000-0002-3692-4454, www.researcherid.com/rid/Q-7580-2017) received his BS degree in Polymer Material and Engineering from Harbin Institute of Technology in 2005. He did his doctoral research at University of Science and Technology of China with Prof. Cai-Yuan Pan and obtained his Ph.D. degree in Polymer Chemistry and Physics in 2010. He did his postdoctoral research at UT Southwestern Medical Center (Dallas) with Prof. Wen-Hong Li from 2010-2011, The University of Southern Mississippi with Prof. Charles L. McCormick from 2011-2013, and Rutgers University (Newark) with Prof. Frieder Jaekle from 2013-2014. He started his independent research career as an Assistant Professor at Centre for Bioengineering and Biotechnology at China University of Petroleum from 2014 to Nov. 2018 . He is a professor at Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, Chinese Academy of Sciences, since Nov. 2018.
Wen-Ming Wan focuses his
research on functional polymer (nano)materials. He developed the polymerization
induced self-assembly (PISA) method during his doctoral research period with Prof.
Cai-Yuan Pan (Chem. Commun. 2009, 39, 5883-5885; Macromolecules 2009, 42,
4950-4952; Macromol. Rapid Commun. 2010, 31, 399-404; Polym. Chem. 2010, 1,
1475-1484; Macromolecules 2010, 43, 2672-2675.), which has become a powerful
tool nowadays with easy preparation of a variety of highly concentrated (up to
500 mg/mL) morphologies, including spherical micelles, nanowires, vesicles,
large compound vesicles. Attributed to the advantage of PISA to other polymeric
nanomaterial preparation methods, PISA has been adopted by hundreds of groups
world widely and become a keyword for funding application of Natural Science
Foundation of China in 2017. During his postdoctoral research with Prof. Frieder
J?kle, he
developed the first borinic acid polymer with thermo-responsive behavior (Angew.
Chem. Int. Ed. 2014, 53, 8934-8938.). As an independent investigator, he has further
developed the utilization of PISA in polymer synthesis with ultra-high
molecular weight (Macromol. Rapid Commun. 2016, 37, 1735-1741.) and tubular structures
formation (ACS Macro Lett. 2016, 5, 1180-1184.). He also has proved borinic
acid polymer as a new type of “smart” polymer in the areas of upper critical solution temperature (UCST)-type
thermo-responsive (continuously tunable over a wide temperature range in DMSO,
DMF and THF with different amount of water), sensory (fluoride ion and
acetylthiocholine chloride detection), supramolecular materials (with polyLewis
base) and enzymatic biofuel cell application (Soft matter, 2015, 11, 7159-7164;
Polym. Chem. 2015, 6, 4650-4656; Rsc Adv. 2016, 6, 83393-83398; Macromol. Rapid
Commun. 2017, 10.1002/marc.201600687.).
Wen-Ming Wan has published more than 20 publications on Nature Communications, Angewandte Chemie International Edition，Macromolecules，Chemical Communications，Polymer Chemistry，Macromolecular Rapid Communications, etc.. His publications have been cited more than 900 times, of which 3 have been cited more than 100 times. He is currently as invited reviewer for journals like Advanced Functional Materials, Soft Matter, Chemical Communications, Journal of Polymer Science Part A： Polymer Chemistry, Polymer Chemistry, Macromolecular Chemistry and Physics, etc..