Name: Zhong-Ning Chen

Gender: male

Job title: Professor

Email Address: chenzhongning@ncu.edu.cn

Education and Work Experience ：

2026.06-present: School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Nanchang University, Professor.

2001.03-2026.05: Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Professor.

1999.03-2001.02： Hokkaido University, Japan, JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow.

1998.02-1999.02： University of Feiburg, Germany, Humboldt Research Fellow.

1996.09-1998.01： School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Sun Yat-sen University, Associate Professor.

1994.09-1996.08：Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Postdoctoral Fellow.

1991.09-1994.07：School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Nanjing University, Doctor of Science.

1988.09-1991.07：Department of Chemistry, Lanzhou University, Master's Degree.

1985.08-1988.08：Dushi Middle School, Fengcheng County, Teacher.

1982.09-1985.07：Department of Chemistry, Yichun Normal College, Graduation.

Research fields: Engaged in research in coordination chemistry, organometallic chemistry, and structural chemistry, focusing on luminescent molecules based on metal clusters, luminescent materials and organic light-emitting diodes, metal coordination electrochromic materials and devices, molecular wires and molecular switches.

Research projects：Hosted 20 fund projects from the National Natural Science Foundation of China, Ministry of Science and Technology of China, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Fujian province.

Awards and Honors：Jiaxi Lu Excellent Tutor Award (2023), the 9th Overseas Chinese Contribution Award (2023), Fujian Provincial Natural Science Second Prize (2012, ranking first), Chinese Academy of Sciences Graduate School Excellent Teacher Title (2006), Guangdong Provincial Natural Science Second Prize (ranking second).

Representative papers and patents：

1.Jing-Hao Wei, Lin-Xi Shi, Xu-Yang Ding, Bo-Wen Dai, Jin-Yun Wang, Feng-Rong Dai, Han Cheng, Zhong-Ning Chen, Meng-Die Li, Li-Yi Zhang, Jin-Yun Wang, Jing-Yu Han, Xiang-Ying Qian, Xiao-Liang Ye, Feng-Rong Dai, and Zhong-Ning Chen, Metallopolymer Films of a Manganese(II) Chelate with Hexadentate Ligand for High-Performance Electrochromism. Angewandte Chemie International Edition 2026, 65, e25500.

2.Meng-Die Li, Li-Yi Zhang, Jin-Yun Wang, Jing-Yu Han, Xiang-Ying Qian, Xiao-Liang Ye, Feng-Rong Dai, and Zhong-Ning Chen, Metallopolymer Films of a Manganese(II) Chelate with Hexadentate Ligand for High-Performance Electrochromism. Angewandte Chemie International Edition 2026, 65, e25500.

3.Hong-Jie Zhang, Bo-Wen Dai, Jin-Yun Wang, Xue-Xia Lu, Cui-Mi Shi, Zhong-Ning Chen, Liang-Jin Xu, A Cooperative Structural Dimension and Clusters Chirality in Antimony Halide Hybrids for Efficient Circularly Polarized Electroluminescence. Angewandte Chemie International Edition 2026, 65, e8742316.

4.Xu-Yang Ding, Lin-Xi Shi, Jin-Yun Wang, Liang-Jin Xu, Li-Yi Zhang, and Zhong-Ning Chen, Doping Copper(I) in Ag₇ Cluster for Circularly Polarized OLEDs with External Quantum Efficiency of 26.7%. Angewandte Chemie International Edition 2025, 64, e202417934.

5.Cui-Mi Shi, Haolin Lu, Jin-Yun Wang, Guankui Long, Liang-Jin Xu, Zhong-Ning Chen, Stepwise amplification of circularly polarized luminescence in indium-based metal halides by regulating their structural dimension. Nature Communications 2025, 16,1505.

6.Jia-Yu Yao, Qing-Rong Ding, Hao Zeng, Jin-Yun Wang, Cui-Mi Shi, Liang-Jin Xu, and Zhong-Ning Chen, Hydrogen Bond Boosts Circularly Polarized Radioluminescence in Chiral Mn(II) Hybrids. Angewandte Chemie International Edition 2025, 64, e202502099.

7.Hao Zeng, Jin-Yun Wang, Liang-Jin Xu, and Zhong-Ning Chen, Chiral Copper(I) Iodide Cluster Hybrids Enabling Highly Efficient Circularly Polarized Electroluminescence. Advanced Functional Materials 2025, 35, 2424704.

8.Jian Luo, Jin-Yun Wang, Cui-Mi Shi, Liang-Jin Xu, and Zhong-Ning Chen, Organic Tellurium (IV) Halide Hybrid as an Efficient Phosphor for Hybrid Light-Emitting Diodes. Advanced Functional Materials 2025, 35, 2424313.

9.Xu-Yang Ding, Chengkai Zhang, Lin-Xi Shi, Jin-Yun Wang, Xin Yang, Li-Yi Zhang, Di Sun, Zhong-Ning Chen, Synergistic coordination of diphosphine with primary and tertiary phosphorus centers: Ultrastable icosidodecahedral Ag₃₀ nanoclusters with metallic aromaticity. Science Advances 2024, 10, eads0728.

10.Ya-Zi Huang, Raorao Yang, Liang Zhang, and Zhong-Ning Chen, Phosphorescent metallaknots of Au(I)-bis(acetylide) strands directed by Cu(I) π-coordination. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2024, 121, e2403721121.