Professor of Polymer Chemistry and Physics

Phone: +86-27-8754-0053

Email: tcwy@mail.hust.edu.cn

Academic Areas: Biodegradable polymers

WANG Yong is a Professor of School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology. His research interests include precise synthesis and green processing of biodegradable polymers, organocatalytic polymerization, block copolymers and polymers from biomass.

Academic Degrees

2010-2015

PhD in Polymer Chemistry and Physics, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry

2006-2010

BS in Applied Chemistry, Zhejiang University

Professional Experience

2021-now

Professor, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Huazhong University of Science & Technology

2020-2021

Post doctor, Department of Chemistry, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

2015-2019

Post doctor, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Huazhong University of Science & Technology

Courses Taught

Awards and Honors

Selected Projects Funded

1.National Science Foundation of China (21604027)

2.National Key R&D Plan (2016YFB0302400)

Selected Publications

[1] Yong Wang,* Yajun Zhao, Shuaishuai Zhu, Xingping Zhou,* Jing Xu, Xiaolin Xie, Rinaldo Poli.* “Switchable Polymerization Triggered by Fast and Quantitative Insertion of Carbon Monoxide into Cobalt-Oxygen Bonds”, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2020, 59, 5988 –5994.

[2] Yajun Zhao, Shuaishuai Zhu, Can Liao, Yong Wang,* Jacky W. Y. Lam, Xingping Zhou, Xianhong Wang, Xiaolin Xie, Ben Zhong Tang, Cobalt-Mediated Switchable Catalysis for One-Pot Synthesis of Cyclic Polymers, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2021, 60, 16974 –16979.

[3] Yajun Zhao, Shuaishuai Zhu, Xiaojing Li, Xiaoyu Zhao, Jing Xu, Bijin Xiong, Yong Wang,* Xingping Zhou,* Xiaolin Xie, Aluminum Porphyrin Complex Mediated Auto-Tandem Catalysis for One-Pot Synthesis of Block Copolymers, CCS Chem., 2021, 3, 572 –581.

[4] Yajun Zhao, Yong Wang,* Xingping Zhou, Zhigang Xue, Xianhong Wang, Xiaolin Xie, Rinaldo Poli, Oxygen Triggered Switchable Polymerization for One-Pot Synthesis of CO2-Based Block Copolymers from Monomer Mixtures, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2019, 58, 14311–14318.

[5] Yong Wang, Yajun Zhao, Yunsheng Ye, Haiyan Peng, Xingping Zhou, Xiaolin Xie,* Xianhong Wang,* Fosong Wang, A One-Step Route to CO2-based Block Copolymers by Simultaneous ROCOP of CO2/Epoxides and RAFT Polymerization of Vinyl Monomers, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2018, 57, 3593 –3597.