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Zhigang Shuai received B.Sc. in 1983 from Sun Yat-sen University majoring in physics, M. Sc. from Jinan University in Guangzhou and PhD in theoretical physics in 1989 from Fudan University in Shanghai. Then, he went to Belgium as a postdoc in University of Mons. In 2000, he became a research professor with the support of “Hundred-Talent Program” in the Institute of Chemistry of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He was granted the Outstanding Young Investigator’s Fund from the National Natural Science Foundation of China in 2004. He moved to Tsinghua University in 2008. And since 2022, he joined the School of Science and Engineering, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen as X. Q. Deng Presidential Chair Professor. He served as Associate Dean (Research) since 2023.
Zhigang Shuai’s research field covers theoretical chemistry, condensed matter physics and computational materials science. He has developed the quantum chemistry density matrix renormalization group (DMRG) algorithm and its time-dependent formalism for the electronic structure and quantum dynamics. He has developed computational methods to modelling and understanding the light-emitting, carrier transport, and energy conversion processes for organic and polymeric materials. He is interested in quantum computing for molecular system. The computational package MOMAP developed by his research group has been successfully commercialized. He has authored/coauthored more than 560 scientific articles (H-factor 108) and five books, plus a dozen of book chapters.
He was the recipient of the Chinese Chemical Society – AkzoNobel Chemical Science Award (2012), the French Chemical Society Prix Franco-Chinois (2018), and the First-Class Award of Beijing Municipal Natural Science Prize (2020). He has been elected to the International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science in 2008 and served as vice president from 2018 to 2023. He was elected as Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry in 2009, foreign member of the Academia Europaea in 2011 and foreign member of the Royal Academy of Belgium in 2013, and the scientific board member of the World Association of Theoretical and Computational Chemists (WATOC) in 2017. He was elected to the Executive Board of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) in 2023. He has been elected as the Vice President of the Chinese Chemical Society consecutively in 2018 and in 2022. He has been awarded by Elsevier as the most cited Chinese Researchers since 2020 and the World’s Top 2% Scientists from Stanford University since 2020.
Selected Examples of Invited Review Articles (in recent five years)
Selected Examples of Recent Publications (in recent five years)
1. “Highly Efficient Circularly Polarized Near-Infrared Phosphorescence in both Solution and Aggregate” Nature Photon. 2024, 10.1038/s41566-024-01538-4.
2. “Efficient Organic Emitters Enabled by Ultrastrong Through-Space Conjugation” Nature Photon. 2024, 10.1038/s41566-024-01527-7.
3. “Is the Whole Equal to, or Greater than, the Sum of Its Parts? The Similarity and Difference between Molecules and Aggregates” Matter 2024, 7, 2551.
4. “Aggregative Luminescence from CsPbBr3 Perovskite Precursors” Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2024, 63, 10.1002/anie.202408586.
5. “Turning Nonemissive Schiff Bases into Aggregate Emitters” Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2024, 63, 10.1002/anie.202402175.
6. “Modulation of Heterotypic and Homotypic Interactions to Visualize the Evolution of Organic Aggregates in a Fluorescence Turn-on Manner” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2024, 146, 4851.
7. “Room Temperature Phosphorescent Nanofiber Membranes by Biofermentation” Adv. Sci. 2024, 10.1002/advs.202405327.
8. “Bright, Photostable and Long-Circulating NIR-II Nanoparticles for Whole-Process Monitoring and Evaluation of Renal Transplantation” Nat. Sci. Rev. 2024, 11, nwad286.
9. “AIEgen-Based Smart System for Fungal-Infected Wound Monitoring and On-demand Photodynamic Therapy” Matter 2023, 6, 3449.
10. “Aqueous Circularly Polarized Luminescence Induced by Homopolypeptide Self-assembly” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2023, 145, 27282.
11. “Multistimuli-Responsive and Cell Membrane Camouflaged Aggregation-Induced Emission Nanogels for Precise Chemophotothermal Synergistic Therapy of Tumors” ACS Nano 2023, 17, 25205.
12. “ASBase: The Universal Database for Aggregate Science” Aggregate 2023, 4, e263.
13. “Solution-processed AIEgen NIR OLEDs with EQE Approaching 15%” Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2022, 61, e202204279.
14. “One-Pot Synthesis of Customized Metal-Phenolic-Network-Coated AIE Dots for in-Vivo Bioimaging” Adv. Sci. 2022, 9, 2104997.
15. “Molecular Core–Shell Structure Design: Facilitating Delayed Fluorescence in Aggregates toward Highly Efficient Solution-Processed OLEDs” Aggregate 2022, 3, e164.
16. “Turning on Solid-State Luminescence by Phototriggered Subtle Molecular Conformation Variations” Adv. Mater. 2021, 33, 2006844.
17. “Molecular Motions in AIEgen Crystals: Turning on Photoluminescence by Force-Induced Filament Sliding” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2020, 142, 14608.
18. “Planar plus Twisted Molecular Structure Leads to High Brightness of Semiconducting Polymer Nanoparticles for NIR-IIa Fluorescence Imaging” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2020, 142, 15146.
