Title: Structure and role of liquid water in molecular assembly

Speaker: Professor Wang Xiaosong, University of Waterloo, Canada

Reporting time: Thursday, August 17, 2023, 3:00 p.m

Report location: Conference Room 217, Science Experiment Center, South Campus, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology

Professor Wang Xiaosong is currently working in the Department of Chemistry and the Center for Nanotechnology at the University of Waterloo, Canada. In 1998, he entered the University of Sussex in the United Kingdom to engage in postdoctoral research, and successively worked as an associate researcher and lecturer at the University of Toronto and the University of Leeds, and joined the University of Waterloo in Canada in 2011 and has been working since then.

He has been engaged in polymer research for many years, involving organometallic polymer chemistry, supramolecular self-assembly and nanofunctional materials. He pioneered the field of active self-assembly polymerization, synthesized structure-controllable assembly materials and polymers with supramolecular double-stranded structures, synthesized a series of new metal-organic polymers by migration-insertion polymerization, and further studied their assembly behavior in water, which provided a theoretical basis for the development of protein simulation materials. Work in related fields was published in Science, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed.、Adv. Mater、J. Am. Chem. Soc and other internationally renowned academic journals have published more than 140 papers, with a total of 5300 citations and 660 single citations.