Dr. Wenhui Niu
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Research Associate
NameMs Dr. Wenhui Niu
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WORK BIOGRAPHY
Wenhui Niu studied polymer engineering at Sichuan University and obtained her Bachelor’s degree in 2016. From 2016, she started her PhD in chemistry from Shanghai Jiao Tong University under the supervision of Prof. Yiyong Mai. Between 2017 and 2020, she joined Prof. Xinliang Feng’s group as an exchanged PhD student. During her PhD, she worked with the bandgap engineering of graphene nanoribbons. In 2021, she received her PhD degree and joined the group of Prof. Xinliang Feng and continued her academic research as a postdoctoral fellow at Technische Universität Dresden for one year. In 2022, she joined the Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics as a research group leader, where she focuses on the exploitation of novel carbon nanostructures and the chirality-relevant spintronics.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Our research interests lie in the construction of chiral nanocarbons with high-strained structures and high-order helicenes. We are particularly interested in developing the novel strategies to achieve chiral nanographenes with good selectivity and efficiency. With well equipped lab condition, we are able to realize the chirality separation and chiroptical characterizations in our own group, allowing us to further build up the relationship between the structure and property. Taking advantage of such chiral molecules, we are fascinated to discovery their potential in chiral induced spin selectivity effect, chirality-relevant spintronics, and spin-controlled chemistry.
SCIENTIFIC ACHIEVEMENTS & RECOGNITION
1. Niu, W.; Sopp, S.; Lodi, A.; Gee, A.; Kong, F.; Pei, T.; Nägele J.; Lau, C. S.; Ma. J.; Liu, J.; Narita, A.; Mol, J.; Burghard, M.; Müllen, K.; Mai, Y.; Feng, X.; Bogani, L. Exceptionally Clean Single-Electron-Transistors from Pleio-soluble Molecular Graphene Nanoribbons. Nature Materials 2023, 22, 180-185.
2. Niu, W.; Fu, Y.; Serra, G.; Liu, K.; Droste, J.; Lee, Y.; Ling, Z.; Xu, F.; Cojal González, J. D.; Lucotti, A.; Rabe, J. P.; Ryan Hansen, M.; Pisula, W.; Blom, P. W. M.; Palma, C.-A.; Tommasini, M.; Mai, Y.; Ma, J.; Feng, X. Bottom-up Solution Synthesis of Graphene Nanoribbons with Precisely Engineered Nanopores. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2023, 62, e202305737.
3. Niu, W.; Ma, J.; Soltani, P.; Zheng, W.; Liu, F.; Popov, A. A.; Weigand, J. J.; Komber, H.; Poliani, E.; Casiraghi, C.; Droste, J.; Hansen, M. R.; Osella, S.; Beljonne, D.; Bonn, M.; Wang, H. I.; Feng, X.; Liu, J.; Mai, Y. A Curved Graphene Nanoribbon with Multi-Edge Structure and High Intrinsic Charge Carrier Mobility. Journal of the American Chemical Society 2020, 142, 18293-18298.
4. Niu, W.; Ma, J.; Feng, X. Precise Structural Regulation and Band-Gap Engineering of Curved Graphene Nanoribbons. Accounts of Chemical Research 2022, 55, 3322-3333.
5. Niu, W.; Fu, Y.; Komber, H.; Ma, J.; Feng, X.; Mai, Y.; Liu, J. Sulfur-Doped Nanographenes Containing Multiple Subhelicenes. Organic Letters 2021, 23, 2069-2073.
6. Niu, W.; Liu, J.; Mai, Y.; Müllen, K.; Feng, X. Synthetic Engineering of Graphene Nanoribbons with Excellent Liquid-Phase Processability. Trends in Chemistry 2019, 1, 549-558.