Yeru Liang-Dingcai Wu

? Design and synthesis of new nanoporous carbons from polymer for energy storage andenvironment treatment. Focus on preparation of hierarchically mesoporous carbon, carbon fiber, graphene and their applications in supercapacitor, fuel cell, lithium ion battery and organic vapor adsorption.

Honors & Awards

? 2009 Excellent Graduate of Guangdong Province
?2008 Outstanding Graduation Student of Sun Yat-sen University
?2012 National Scholarship for Postgraduate, China
?2007 National Scholarship for Undergraduate, China
2012 Best Poster Award, 10^th China-Japan-Korea Joint Symposium on “Carbon Materials to Save the Earth”
?2009 ExxonMobil Scholarship, 2011 Dupont Scholarship, 2010 NCM Hersbit Chemical Scholarship, Sun Yat-sen University

?2007 First prize, 2006 Third prize, 2005 Second prize Scholarships, Sun Yat-sen University
? 2009, 2010, 2011 Second prize of Fulan Student Scholarships, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering

Publications

1. Yeru Liang, Ruowen Fu, Dingcai Wu*. Reactive template-induced self-assembly to ordered mesoporous polymeric and carbonaceous materials. ACS Nano, 2013, 7: 1748-1754.

2. Yeru Liang, Lifeng Cai, Luyi Chen, Xidong Lin, Ruowen Fu*, Mingqiu Zhang, Dingcai Wu. Silica nanonetwork confined in nitrogen-doped ordered mesoporous carbon framework for high-performance lithium-ion battery anodes. Nanoscale, 2015, 7, 3971-3975.

3. Yeru Liang, Fengxue Liang, Hui Zhong, Zhenghui Li, Ruowen Fu, Dingcai Wu*. An advanced carbonaceous porous network for high-performance organic electrolyte supercapacitors. Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 2013, 1: 7000-7005.

4. Yeru Liang, Hao Liu, Zhenghui Li, Ruowen Fu, Dingcai Wu*. In situ polydopamine coating-directed synthesis of nitrogen-doped ordered nanoporous carbos with superior performance in supercapacitors. Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 2013, 1: 15207-15211.

5. Yeru Liang, Zhenghui Li, Ruowen Fu, Dingcai Wu*. Nanoporous carbons with a 3D nanonetwork-interconnected 2D ordered mesoporous structure for rapid mass transport. Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 2013, 1: 3768-3773.

6. Yeru Liang, Sihong Lu, Bin Sun, Fei Xu, Ruowen Fu, Dingcai Wu*. Polyethylene glycol-induced self-assembly to synthesize ordered mesoporous polymer with two-dimensional

hexagonal structure. Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 2013, 1: 3061-3067.

7. Yeru Liang, Bingming Wu, Dingcai Wu*, Fei Xu, Zhenghui Li, Jianwei Luo, Hui Zhong, Ruowen Fu*, Krzysztof Matyjaszewski*. Ultrahigh surface area hierarchical porous carbons based on natural well-defined macropores in sisal fibers. Journal of Materials Chemistry, 2011, 21: 14424-14427.

8. Yeru Liang, Dingcai Wu*, Ruowen Fu. Carbon microfibers with hierarchical porous structure from electrospun fiber-like natural biopolymer. Scientific Reports, 2013,

3, 1119.

9. Yeru Liang, Luyi Chen, Lifeng Cai, Hao Liu, Ruowen Fu, Mingqiu Zhang, Dingcai Wu*. Strong contribution of pore morphology to high-rate electrochemical performance of lithium-ion battery. Chemical Communications, 2016, 52: 803-806.

10. Yeru Liang, Weicong Mai, Junlong Huang, Zhike Huang, Ruowen Fu, Mingqiu Zhang, Dingcai Wu*, Krzysztof Matyjaszewski. Novel hollow and yolk-shell structured periodic mesoporous polymer nanoparticles. Chemical Communications, 2016, ASAP.

11. Yeru Liang, Zhenghui Li, Xiaoqing Yang, Ruowen Fu, Dingcai Wu*. Pore

morphology: a vital factor in determining electrochemical properties of electrical double layer capacitors. Chemical Communications, 2013, 49: 9998-10000.

12. Yeru Liang, Dingcai Wu*, Ruowen Fu*. Preparation and electrochemical performance of novel ordered mesoporous carbon with an interconnected channel structure. Langmuir,

2009, 25: 7783-7785.

13. Yeru Liang, Fengxue Liang, Zhenghui Li, Dingcai Wu*, Fangyu Yan, Siyu Li, Ruowen Fu*. The role of mass transport pathway in wormholelike mesoporous carbon for supercapacitor. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2010, 12: 10842-10845.

14. Yeru Liang, Fengxue Liang, Dingcai Wu*, Zhenghui Li, Fei Xu, Ruowen Fu*.

Construction of a hierarchical architecture in a wormhole-like mesostructure for enhanced mass transport. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2011, 13: 8852-8856.

15. Xinren Kang, Yeru Liang*, Luyi Chen, Weicong Mai, Zhiyong Lin*, Ruowen

Fu, Dingcai Wu*. Synthesis and adsorption properties of highly monodisperse hollow microporous polystyrene nanospheres. RSC Advances, 2014, 4: 26166-26170.

16. Kairong Xiong, Yeru Liang*, Yi Ouyang, Ruowen Fu*, Dingcai Wu*.

Nanohybrids of silver nanoparticle in-situ grown on graphene oxide silver salt: facile synthesis and their enhanced bactericidal activity. New Carbon Materials, 2015, ASAP.

17. Dingcai Wu, Yeru Liang, Xiaoqing Yang, Chong Zou, Zhenghui Li, Guifen Lv, Xianhua Zeng, Ruowen Fu*. Preparation of activated ordered mesoporous carbons with channel structure. Langmuir, 2008, 24: 2967-2969.

18. Dingcai Wu, Yeru Liang, Xiaoqing Yang, Zhenghui Li, Chong Zou, Xianhua Zeng, Guifen Lv, Ruowen Fu*. Direct fabrication of bimodal mesoporous carbon by nanocasting. Microporous and Mesoporous Materials, 2008, 116: 91-94.

19. Juan Zheng, Yeru Liang, Shuqin Liu, Yajuan Ding, Yong Shen, Tiangang Luan, Fang Zhu, Ruifen Jiang, Dingcai Wu*, Gangfeng Ouyang*. Ordered mesoporous polymer in-situ coated on stainless steel wire for highly sensitive solid phase microextraction fibre. Nanoscale, 2015, 7: 11720-11726.

20. Juan Zheng, Yeru Liang, Shuqin Liu, Ruifen Jiang, Fang Zhu, Dingcai Wu*, Gangfeng Ouyang*. Simple fabrication of solid phase microextraction fiber employing nitrogen-doped

ordered mesoporous polymer by in situ polymerization. Journal of Chromatography A, 2015, ASAP.

21. Chaoxiong He, Yeru Liang, Ruowen Fu, Dingcai Wu*, Shuqin Song*, Rui Cai. Nanopores array of ordered mesoporous carbons determine Pt''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''s activity towards alcohol electrooxidation. Journal of

Materials Chemistry, 2011, 21: 16357-16364.

22. Siyu Li, Yeru Liang, Dingcai Wu*, Ruowen Fu*. Fabrication of bimodal mesoporous carbons from petroleum pitch by a one-step nanocasting method. Carbon, 2010, 48: 839-843.

23. Shuqin Song, Yeru Liang, Zhenghui Li, Yi Wang, Ruowen Fu, Dingcai Wu*, Panagiotis Tsiakaras*. Effect of pore morphology of mesoporous carbons on the electrocatalytic activity of Pt nanoparticles for fuel cell reactions. Applied Catalysis B: Environmental, 2010, 98: 132-137.

24. Zhenghui Li, Dingcai Wu*, Yeru Liang, Ruowen Fu, Krzysztof Matyjaszewski*. Synthesis of well-defined microporous carbons by molecular-scale templating with polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxane moieties. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2014, 136: 4805-4808.

25. Dingcai Wu, Zhenghui Li, Yeru Liang, Xiaoqing Yang, Xianhua Zeng, Ruowen Fu*. Pore size control of wormholelike mesoporous carbons. Carbon, 2009, 47: 916-918.

26. Hao Liu, Luyi Chen, Yeru Liang, Ruowen Fu, Dingcai Wu*. Multi-dimensional construction of novel active yolk@conductive shell nanofibers web as self-standing anode for high-performance lithium-ion batteries. Nanoscale, 2015, ASAP.

27. Hao Liu, Zhenghui Li, Yeru Liang, Ruowen Fu*, Dingcai Wu*. Facile synthesis of MnO

multi-core@nitrogen-doped carbon shell nanoparticles for high performance lithium-ion battery anodes. Carbon, 2014, 84: 419-425.

28. Ruowen Fu*, Zhenghui Li, Yeru Liang, Feng Li, Fei Xu, Dingcai Wu*. Hierarchical porous carbons: design, preparation, and performance in energy storage. New Carbon Materials, 2011, 26: 171-178.

29. Zhiwei Tang, Fei Xu, Yeru Liang, Dingcai Wu*, Ruowen Fu*. Preparation and electrochemical performance of a hierarchically porous activated carbon aerogel/sulfur composite cathode material for lithium-sulfur batteries. New Carbon Materials, 2015, 30: 319-326.

30. Zhenghui Li, Dingcai Wu*, Yeru Liang, Fei Xu, Ruowen Fu. Facile fabrication of novel highly microporous carbons with superior size-selective adsorption and supercapacitance properties. Nanoscale, 2013,5: 10824-10828.

31. Huanan Cui, Zhenhua Zhao, Yeru Liang, Jianying Shi*, Dingcai Wu*, Hong Liu, Ruowen Fu. The influence of pore structure on photodegradation methyl orange with CA/TiO2. Chinese Journal of Catalysis, 2011, 32: 321-324.

32. Lifeng Cai, Luyi Chen, Yeru Liang, Zhitao Lu, Fei Xu, Ruowen Fu, Dingcai

Wu*. Reactive-template induced in-situ hypercrosslinking procedure to hierarchical porous

polymer and carbon materials. Acta Chimica Sinica, 2015, 73: 600-604.

33. Dingcai Wu*, Alper Nese, Joanna Pietrasik, Yeru Liang, Hongkun He, Michal Kruk, Liang Huang, Tomasz Kowalewski, Krzysztof Matyjaszewski*. Preparation of polymeric nanoscale networks from cylindrical molecular bottlebrushes. ACS Nano, 2012, 6: 6208-6214.

34. Dingcai Wu*, Xin Chen, Sihong Lu, Yeru Liang, Fei Xu, Ruowen Fu*. Study on synergistic effect of ordered mesoporous carbon and carbon aerogel during electrochemical charge-discharge process. Microporous and Mesoporous Materials, 2010, 131: 261-264.

35. Yi Wang, Chaoxiong He, Angeliki Brouzgou, Yeru Liang, Ruowen Fu, Dingcai Wu*, Panagiotis Tsiakaras*, Shuqin Song*. A facile soft-template synthesis of ordered mesoporous carbon/tungsten carbide composites with high surface area for methanol electrooxidation. Journal of Power Sources, 2012, 200: 8-13.

36. Fei Xu, Gengdong Zheng, Dingcai Wu*, Yeru Liang, Zhenghui Li, Ruowen Fu*. Improving electrochemical performance of polyaniline by introducing carbon aerogel as filler. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2010, 12: 3270-3275.

37. Kun Wang, Yi Wang, Zhenxing Liang, Yeru Liang, Dingcai Wu, Shuqin Song*, Panagiotis Tsiakaras*. Ordered mesoporous tungsten carbide/carbon composites promoted Pt catalyst with high activity and stability for methanol electrooxidation. Applied Catalysis B:

Environmental, 2014, 147: 518-525.

38. Fei Xu, Zhiwei Tang, Siqi Huang, Luyi Chen, Yeru Liang, Weicong Mai, Hui Zhong, Ruowen Fu, Dingcai Wu*. Facile synthesis of ultrahigh-surface-area hollow carbon nanospheres for enhanced adsorption and energy storage. Nature Communications,

2015, 2015, 7, 7221.

39. Shuqin Song, Kun Wang, Yuhui Liu, Chaoxiong He, Yeru Liang, Ruowen Fu, Dingcai Wu, Yi Wang*. Highly ordered mesoporous carbons as the support for Pt catalysts towards alcohol electrooxidation: The combined effect of pore size and electrical conductivity. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 2013, 38: 1405-1412.

40. Weicong Mai, Bin Sun, Luyi Chen, Fei Xu, Hao Liu, Yeru Liang, Ruowen Fu, Dingcai Wu*

Krzysztof Matyjaszewski*. Water-dispersible, responsive and carbonizable hairy microporous polymeric nanospheres. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2015, 137, 13256-13259.

41. Zhenghui Li, Dingcai Wu*, Xin Huang, Junhao Ma, Hao Liu, Yeru Liang, Ruowen Fu, Krzysztof Matyjaszewski*. Fabrication of novel polymeric and carbonaceous nanoscale

networks by union of self-assembly and hypercrosslinking. Energy & Environmental Science, 2014, 7: 3006-3012.

42. Qingcong Zeng, Dingcai Wu*, Chong Zou, Fei Xu, Ruowen Fu*, Zhenghui Li, Yeru

Liang, Dangsheng Su. Template-free fabrication of hierarchical porous carbon based on intra-/inter-sphere crosslinking of monodisperse styrene-divinylbenzene copolymer nanospheres. Chemical Communications, 2010, 46: 5927-5929.

43. Fei Xu, Rongjun Cai, Qingcong Zeng, Chong Zou, Dingcai Wu*, Feng Li, Xiaoe Lu, Yeru Liang, Ruowen Fu*. Fast ion transport and high capacitance of polystyrene-based hierarchical porous carbon electrode material for supercapacitors. Journal of Materials

Chemistry, 2011, 21: 1970-1976.