Name: HUANG Pengcheng 

Gender: Male

Job title: Professor

Email Address: pchuang@ncu.edu.cn

Education and Work Experience：

2022.12-Present    School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Nanchang University, Professor, Doctoral supervisor

2018.09-2019.09   Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Rutgers University, USA, Visiting Scholar (Co-Advisor: Prof. Jing Li)

2017.12-2022.12  School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Nanchang University, Associate Professor

2014.07-2017.12   College of Chemistry, Nanchang University, Lecturer

2009.09-2014.07  Institute of Chemistry (Beijing), Doctoral degree (Supervisor: Prof. Lanqun Mao)

2005.09-2009.07  School of Chemistry and Materials Science, Northwest University, BSc degree

Teaching：

(1) Undergraduate Course: Instrumental Analysis, Analytical Chemistry, General Chemistry, Experiments on Analytical Chemistry, Experiments on General Chemistry; Graduate Course: Modern Instrumental Analysis;

(2) Writing two textbooks for undergraduates: General Chemistry (2nd version), General Chemistry for Medicine;

(3) Speaker of Analytical Chemistry-High quality resource sharing undergraduate course of Jiangxi Province, and Modern Instrumental Analysis-Excellent graduate course of Jiangxi Province;

Speaker of General Chemistry-Excellent online developing course of Jiangxi Province, and General Chemistry-First-class online and offline undergraduate course of Jiangxi Province.

Research fields:

My research interests mainly focus on the development of simple and highly efficient opto/electroanalytical methods based on novel functional nanomaterials to tackle the bottlenecks of accurate measurement of key chemicals in complex biological systems. I have published 60+ research articles being cited 1900+ times, and hold 3 patents.

(1) Biosensing and bioimaging based on metal-organic frameworks;

(2) Design, synthesis, and analytical applications of metal-based nanozymes.

Research projects：

(1) In vivo analysis using coordination polymer-based ratiometric fluorescent probes, 21505067, the National Natural Science Foundation of China;

(2) Functionalization of metal-organic frameworks-based nanozymes for constructing highly selective biosensors, 21864018, the National Natural Science Foundation of China;

(3) Design and synthesis of metal-organic framework reaction-based fluorescent probes for detection and imaging of reactive sulfur species, 22164013, the National Natural Science Foundation of China;

(4) Construction of ESIPT-active metal-organic framework-based fluorescent probes for biosensing and bioimaging, 20212BAB203033, the Natural Science Foundation of Jiangxi Province, China;

(5) Noble metal nanoclusters-based nanozymes for bioanalysis, GJJ60203, Scientific Research Foundation of Education Commission of Jiangxi Province, China.

Awards and Honors：

(1)Guest editor of Molecules;

(2)Young editorial board member of Journal of Analysis and Testing.

Representative papers and patents：

(1) Representative papers

1.Jing Ye, Meihua Hu, Qingqing Chen, Pengcheng Huang,* Fang-Ying Wu,* Junjie Mao,* Microwave-Assisted Rapid Synthesis of Near-Infrared Light-Responsive Pd Single-Atom Nanozymes for Colorimetric Detection of Acetylcholinesterase Activity, Anal. Chem., 2025, 97(23), 12455–12464.

2.Mengxia Qin, Wenliang Ji, Pengcheng Huang*, Fang-Ying Wu*, Lanqun Mao, Confining Thiolysis of Dinitrophenyl Ether to a Luminescent Metal–Organic Framework with a Large Stokes Shift for Highly Efficient Detection of Hydrogen Sulfide in Rat Brain, Anal. Chem., 2024, 96(36), 14697–14705.

3.Nan Gao, Yunfang Zhang, Pengcheng Huang*, Zhehao Xiang, Fang-Ying Wu*, Lanqun Mao, Perturbing Tandem Energy Transfer in Luminescent Heterobinuclear Lanthanide Coordination Polymer Nanoparticles Enables Real-Time Monitoring of Release of the Anthrax Biomarker from Bacterial Spores, Anal. Chem., 2018, 90(11), 7004–7011.

4.Pengcheng Huang*, Fangying Wu*, Lanqun Mao, Target-triggered switching on and off the luminescence of lanthanide coordination polymer nanoparticles for selective and sensitive sensing of copper ions in rat brain, Anal. Chem., 2015, 87, 6834−6841.

5.Chunqi Cai, Qingqing Chen, Hongyan Su, Pengcheng Huang*, Junjie Mao*, Fang-Ying Wu, Single copper sites dispersed on metal−organic frameworks boost the degradation of nerve agent simulants, Sci. China Mater., 2023, 66(6), 2475–2482.

6.Min Zhou, Shan Huang, Pengcheng Huang*, Fang-Ying Wu*, Analyte-initiated disassembly of electrochromic metal-organic framework-based nanocomposite for smart colorimetric sensing, Chem. Commun., 2025, 61, 153-156.

7.Chunqi Cai, Chengyang Zhu, Lingling Lv, Pengcheng Huang*, Junjie Mao*, Fang-Ying Wu, Ke-Yu Deng, Distinct dual enzyme-like activities of Fe-N-C single-atom nanozymes enable discriminative detection of cellular glutathione, Chem. Commun., 2023, 59, 11252-11255.

8.Hongyan Su, Pengcheng Huang*, and Fang-Ying Wu, Visualizing the degradation of nerve agent simulants using functionalized Zr-based MOFs: from solution to hydrogels, Chem. Commun., 2021, 57, 11681-11684.

9.Min Zhou, Shan Huang, Pengcheng Huang,* Fang-Ying Wu, Electrochemical Gating of Host−Guest Charge-Transfer Interactions Enabled by Viologen-like Functionality Engineered Metal−Organic Frameworks, Inorg. Chem., 2025, 64(8), 4190–4201.

10.Shan Huang, Ying Liu, Pengcheng Huang*, Fang-Ying Wu*, Lanqun Mao, Exploring Zr-based Metal–Organic Frameworks as Smart Electrochromic Sensors by Coordination-Driven Surface Engineering, Chem. Eur. J., 2023, 29, e202300263.

11. Yang-Yang Wu#, Pengcheng Huang#, Fang-Ying Wu*, A label-free colorimetric aptasensor based on controllable aggregation of AuNPs for the detection of multiplex antibiotics, Food Chem., 2020, 304, 125377(ESI highly cited and hot paper).

(2) Patents

1. Pengcheng Huang, Nan Gao, Jiayu Feng, Jian Huang, Fang-Ying Wu*, An analytical method for ratiometric fluorescence detection of phosphate with a metal-organic frameworks-based nanocomposite, 2020.9.25, ZL201711445910.0;

2. Lanqun Mao, Lifen Yang, Pengcheng Huang, Preparation of one kind of nanomaterials with biosensing function, ZL2011201110001660.8;

3. Lanqun Mao, Lifen Yang, Pengcheng Huang, Preparation of one kind of water-soluble CdS quantum dots, 201210114801.1.