Shixueliang

2007.08-2011.07: Soochow University，bachelor

2011.08-2015.08: National University of Singapore, Ph.D

2018.10--now, Professor, School of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, East China Normal University

2016.9--2018.10, Research Associate, Materials Science and Engineering, University of Washington

2015.9--2016.8, Research Assistant, Department of Chemistry, National University of Singapore

Xueliang Shi received his bachelor’s degree in applied chemistry from Soochow University in 2011. He then conducted his Ph.D. research in the National University of Singapore under the supervision of Prof. Chunyan Chi from 2011 to 2016. He conducted postdoc study in the University of Washington at Seattle from 2016 to 2018 with Prof. Alex K.-Y. Jen. He has been an independent research professor at the East China Normal University since 2018. Dr. Shi's research interests are focused on organic radicals, supramolecular radical chemistry, and organic radical-based smart materials.

Associate Editor of Journal of Coordination Chemistry (2025)

Yonth Editorial Board member of Chemical Synthesis (2024)

Youth Editorial Board member of Chinese Chemical Letters (2022)

Organic radicals

Supramolecular chemistry

Organic optoelectronic materials

Electron paramagnetic resonance spectroscopy

Publications at ECNU

39. Minghui Li, Bin Huang, Menghui Jia, Xueli Wang, Zhenchen Lou, Lianrui Hu, Yan-Fei Niu, Xiao-Li Zhao*, Jinquan Chen*, Hai-Bo Yang*, Xueliang Shi*. Photothermal-assisted full solar spectrum-driven CO₂ reduction by an azapentacene-based copper MOF. Chem. Synth.2025, accepted.

38. Qiong-Yan Hong, Bin Huang, Yan-Fei Niu, Cui-Hong Wang, Xiao-li Zhao, Hai-Bo Yang, Xueliang Shi*. A 4,4',4''-Nitrilotriphenoxyl Radical Derived from Yang's Biradical. Chem. Sci. 2025,  https://doi.org/10.1039/D5SC06789H.

37. Yue Wu, Wen Li, Shengzhong Li, Yan‐Fei Niu, Cuihong Wang, Hai‐Bo Yang, Xiao‐Li Zhao*, Xiaodong Li*, Junfeng Fang*, Xueliang Shi*. Supramolecular Macrocyclic Iodine Adsorbents Enable Photothermally Stable Perovskite Solar Cells. Adv. Sci. 2025, e16964

36. Bin Huang, Gaole Wang, Qiong-Yan Hong, Xiao-Li Zhao, Hai-Bo Yang, Xueliang Shi*. A Persistent Open-Shell m-QDM-Type Diindenoanthracene Diradicaloid with a Large Diradical Character. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2025,147, 42133-42142.

35. Shengzhong Li, Xiao-Li Zhao, Xueliang Shi*, Hai-Bo Yang*. Harnessing Radical-Based Dynamic Covalent Chemistry and Supramolecular Synthon for Directional Self-Assembly. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2025,147, 24498-34507.

34. Meng-Xiang Wu, Xin-Yi Wang, Lili Qiu, Yiming Yang, Bin Huang, Xiao-Li Zhao, Xueliang Shi*, Hai-Bo Yang*. A Stable Luminescent, Rapidly Crystallized and Acid Stimulus-Responsive Organic Radical. Chin. J. Chem. 2025, 43, 2715-2721.

33. Lijun Mao*, Manfei Zhou, Min Qi, Manfei Zhou, Lu Wang, Sanhanut Jongaksorn, Shengna Zhu, Ruyi Sun, Guangqiang Yin*, Da Ma*, Xueliang Shi*. Structurally Diverse Triphenylamine[n]arenes with Room-Temperature Phosphorescence. Org. Lett. 2025, 27, 6817-6822.

32. Yansong Wang, Xin Li, Meng-Xiang Wu, Jie Li, Xueyan Wang, Wenjie Dong, Ziyong Shen, Yang He*, Yajie Zhang*, Xueliang Shi*, Hai-Bo Yang, Shimin Hou, Kai Wu, Song Gao, Yongfeng Wang*. Spin Manipulation of Single Nitroxide Radical on Au(111) by Selective Coordination. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2025, 147, 20338-20346. 

31. Meng-Xiang Wu, Yingli Li, Jiefan Liu, Bin Huang, Qiong-Yan Hong, Wei-Ling Jiang, Yu Zhao, Gaole Dai*, Bingwen Hu*, Xueliang Shi*, Hai-Bo Yang*. Dihydrophenazine Derived Pd6L12 Cage: Self-Assembly, Polyradical Cations, and Lithium Battery Cathode Application. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2025, 64, e202503151.

30. Qiong-Yan Hong, Bin Huang, Meng-Xiang Wu, Jun-Yao Jiang, Hai-Bo Yang, Xiao-Li Zhao*, Guido H Clever*, Xueliang Shi*. Self-assembly, interlocking, interconversion and anion-binding catalysis in phenoxazine-based Pd₂L₄ and Pd₄L₈ coordination cages. Nat. Commun. 2025, 16, 2484.

29. Yiming Yang, Peipei Liu, Xiaoli Zhao*, Xueliang Shi*. 2, 4, 6-Trichlorophenyl-Substituted [3] Triangulene with Enhanced Stability. Chemistry 2025, 7, 39. (This article belongs to the Special Issue Open-Shell Systems—a Memorial Issue Dedicated to Professor Masayoshi Nakano)

28. Peipei Liu+, Yantong Li+, Mengxiang Wu, Hao Kang, Xiaoli Zhao, Lin Xu, Linlin Liu, Xiaodong Li, Junfeng Fang, Zhiwei Fang, Ya Cheng, Yang HB, Huakang Yu*, Xueliang Shi*. Double [5]carbohelicene: facile synthesis, chiroptical properties, isomerization study and lasing application. Sci. China Chem. 2025, 68, 233-240.

27. Peipei Liu, Meng-Xiang Wu, Meng-Ling Yu, Hao Kang, Bin Huang, Hai-Bo Yang, Xiao-Li Zhao*, Xueliang Shi*. Synthesis of Polycyclic Aromatic Compounds by Electrocyclization–Dehydrogenation of Diradicaloids. Org. Lett. 2024, 26, 7914-7919.

26. Lijun Mao*, Manfei Zhou, Tingting Wu, Da Ma*, Gaole Dai, Xueliang Shi*. Stable and Fully-Oxidized Methylene-Bridged Macrocyclic Phenothiazine Polyradical Cations. Org. Lett. 2024, 26, 7244-7248. 

25. Bin Huang, Manfei Zhou, Qiong-Yan Hong, Meng-Xiang Wu, Xiao-Li Zhao, Lin Xu, En-Qing Gao, Hai-Bo Yang, Xueliang Shi*. A Redox-active Phenothiazine-based Pd₂L₄-type Coordination Cage and Its Isolable Crystalline PolyradicalCations. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2024, 63, e202407279.

24. Qiong-Yan Hong, Bin Huang, Meng-Xiang Wu, Lin Xu, Xiao-Li Zhao*, Xueliang Shi*, Hai-Bo Yang*. Redox-Active Dihydrophenazine‐Based Macrocycle: Synthesis, Conformation‐Adaptive Behavior and Host‐Guest Complexation with Tetracyanoquinodimethane. Chin. J. Chem. 2024, 42, 1895-1900.

23. Meng-Xiang Wu, Qiong-Yan Hong, Minghui Li, Wei-Ling Jiang, Bin Huang, Shuai Lu, Heng Wang, Hai-Bo Yang, Xiao-Li Zhao*, Xueliang Shi*. Self-assembly of conformation-adaptive dihydrophenazine-based coordination cages. Chem. Commun. 2024, 60, 1184-1187.

22. Meng-Xiang Wu, Yantong Li, Peipei Liu, Xusheng Shi, Hao Kang, Xiao-Li Zhao, Lin Xu, Xiaodong Li, Junfeng Fang, Zhiwei Fang, Ya Cheng, Huakang Yu*, Xueliang Shi*, Hai-Bo Yang. Functionalization of pentacene: a facile and versatile approach to contorted polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2024, 62, e202309619.

21. Wei-Ling Jiang, Bin Huang, Xiao-Li Zhao, Xueliang Shi*, Hai-Bo Yang*. Strong halide anion binding within the cavity of a conformation-adaptive phenazine-based Pd₂L₄ cage. Chem 2023, 9, 2655.

20. Yiming Yang, Lili Qiu, Xueliang Shi*. Chalcogen Effect of Atom Substitution on the Properties of Tris (2, 4, 6-trichlorophenyl) methyl (TTM) Radical. Chem. Res. Chin. Univ. 2023, 39, 197-201.

19. Hong-Yu Lin, Yu-Te Wang, Xueliang Shi*, Hai-Bo Yang*, Lin Xu*. Switchable metallacycles and metallacages. Chem. Soc. Rev. 2023,52, 1129-1154.

18. Bin Huang, Hao Kang, Chang-Wei Zhang, Xiao-Li Zhao, Xueliang Shi*, Hai-Bo Yang. Design of an open-shell nitrogen-centered diradicaloid with tunable stimuli-responsive electronic properties. Commun. Chem. 2022, 5, 127.

17. Bin Huang, Hao Kang, Xiao-Li Zhao, Hai-Bo Yang, Xueliang Shi*. Redox Properties of N,N-Disubstituted Dihydrophenazine and Dihydrodibenzo[a,c]phenazine: The First Isolation of Their Crystalline Radical Cations and Dications. Cryst. Growth Des. 2022, 22, 3587.

16. Jun Zhou, Lijun Mao, Meng-Xiang Wu, Zhiyong Peng, Yiming Yang, Manfei Zhou, Xiao-li Zhao*, Xueliang Shi*, Hai-Bo Yang. Extended Phenothiazines: Synthesis, Photophysical and Redox Properties, and Efficient Photocatalytic Oxidative Coupling of Amines. Chem. Sci. 2022, 13, 5252.

15. Manfei Zhou, Lijun Mao, Yan-Fei Niu, Xiao-Li Zhao*, Xueliang Shi*, Hai-Bo Yang. Triphenylamines consisting of bulky 3,5-di‑tert‑butyl‑4-anisyl group: Synthesis, redox properties and their radical cation species. Chin. Chem. Lett. 2022, 33, 1870.

14. Xueliang Shi, Xuzhou Yan, Hai-Bo Yang. Aggregation-induced Emission (AIE) Active Metal–Organic Coordination Complexes. Handbook of Aggregation-Induced Emission: Volume 2 Typical AIEgens Design, First Edition. Edited by Youhong Tang and Ben Zhong Tang. 2022 John Wiley & Sons Ltd.

13. Bin Huang, Lijun Mao, Xueliang Shi*, Hai-Bo Yang*. Recent advances and perspectives on supramolecular radical cages. Chem. Sci. 2021, 12, 13648.

12. Lijun Mao, Manfei Zhou, Yan-Fei Niu, Xiao-Li Zhao, Xueliang Shi*. Aryl carbazole-based macrocycles: synthesis, their remarkably stable radical cations and host-guest complexation with fullerenes. Org. Chem. Front. 2021, 8, 4678.

11. Lijun Mao, Manfei Zhou, Xueliang Shi*, Hai-Bo Yang*.Triphenylamine (TPA) radical cations and related macrocycles. Chin. Chem. Lett. 2021, 32, 3331.

10. Qian Tu, Gui-Fei Huo, Xiao-Li Zhao, Haitao Sun, Xueliang Shi*, Hai-Bo Yang*, Facile construction of well-defined radical metallacycles through coordination-driven self-assembly. Mater. Chem. Front. 2021, 5, 1863.

9. Wei-Ling Jiang, Zhiyong Peng, Bin Huang, Xiao-Li Zhao, Di Sun, Xueliang Shi*, Hai-Bo Yang*, TEMPO Radical-Functionalized Supramolecular Coordination Complexes with Controllable Spin−Spin Interactions. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2021, 143, 433-441.

8. Lijun Mao, Yang Hu, Qian Tu, Wei-Ling Jiang, Xiao-Li Zhao, Wenjing Wang, Daqiang Yuan, Jin Wen, Xueliang Shi*, Highly efficient synthesis of non-planar macrocycles possessing intriguing self-assembling behaviors and ethene/ethyne capture properties. Nat. Commun. 2020, 11, 5806.

7. Gui-Yuan Wu, Xueliang Shi,* Hoa Phan, Hang Qu, Yi-Xiong Hu, Guang-Qiang Yin, Xiao-Li Zhao, Xiaopeng Li, Lin Xu, Qilin Yu, * Hai-Bo Yang*, Efficient self-assembly of heterometallic triangular necklace with strong antibacterial activity. Nat. Commun. 2020, 11, 3178.

6. Wei-Ling Jiang, Ji-Chuang Shen, Zhiyong Peng, Gui-Yuan Wu, Guang-Qiang Yin, Xueliang Shi,* Hai-Bo Yang, Controllable synthesis of ultrasmall Pd nanocatalysts templated by supramolecular coordination cages for highly efficient reductive dehalogenation. J. Mater. Chem. A 2020, 8, 12097-12105.

5. Gui-Fei Huo, Qian Tu, Xiao-Li Zhao, Xueliang Shi,* Hai-Bo Yang*, Synthesis and characterization of an unexpected mechanochromicbistricyclic aromatic ene. Chin. Chem. Lett. 2020, 31, 1847-1850.

4. Xunfan Liao, Yongjie Cui, Xueliang Shi,* Zhaoyang Yao, Heng Zhao, Yongkang An, Peipei Zhu, Yaxiao Guo, Xiang Fei, Lijian Zuo, Ke Gao, Francis Lin, Qian Xie, Lie Chen, Wei Ma,* Yiwang Chen*, Alex K.-Y. Jen*, The role of dipole moment in two fused-ring electron acceptor and one polymer donor based ternary organic solar cells. Mater. Chem. Front. 2020, 4, 1507-1518

3. Xunfan Liao,+Xueliang Shi,+ Ming Zhang, Ke Gao, Lijian Zuo, Feng Liu, Yiwang Chen, Alex K.-Y. Jen, Fused selenophene-thieno[3,2-b]thiophene-selenophene (ST)-based narrow-bandgap electron acceptor for efficient organic solar cells with small voltage loss. Chem. Commun. 2019, 55, 8258-8261.

2. Gui-Fei Huo, Xueliang Shi,* Qian Tu, Yi-Xiong Hu, Gui-Yuan Wu, Guang-Qiang Yin, Xiaopeng Li, Lin Xu, Hong-Ming Ding,* Hai-Bo Yang*, Radical-Induced Hierarchical Self-Assembly Involving Supramolecular Coordination Complexes in Both Solution and Solid States. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2019, 141, 16014-16023

1. Bo Jiang, Chang-Wei Zhang, Xue-Liang Shi,* Hai-Bo Yang*, AIE-active Metal-organic Coordination Complexes Based on Tetraphenylethylene Unit and Their Applications. Chinese. J. Polym. Sci. 2019, 37, 372-382.

Publications before ECNU (as the First Author)

16. Ke Gao,+ SaeByeok Jo,+Xueliang Shi,+ Li Nian, Ming Zhang, Yuanyuan Kan, Francis Lin, Bin Kan, Bo Xu, Qikun Rong, Lingling Shui, Feng Liu, Xiaobin Peng, Guofu Zhou, Yong Cao and Alex K-Y Jen, Over 12% Efficiency Nonfullerene All-Small-Molecule Organic Solar Cells with Sequentially Evolved Multilength Scale Morphologies. Adv. Mater. 2019, 31, 1807842.

15. Xueliang Shi,+ Jingde Chen,+ Ke Gao,+ LijianZuo, Zhaoyang Yao, Feng Liu, Jianxin Tang, Alex K-Y. Jen, Terthieno[3,2-b]thiophene (6T) based low band-gap fused-ring electron acceptor for high efficiency solar cell with a high short-circuit current density and low open-circuit voltage loss. Adv. Energy Mater. 2018, 8, 1702831.

14. Xueliang Shi,+ Xunfan Liao,+ Ke Gao,+ LijianZuo, Jingbo Zhao, Feng Liu, Yiwang Chen, Alex K-Y. Jen, An Electron Acceptor with Broad Visible-NIR Absorption and Unique Solid State Packing for As-cast High Performance Binary Organic Solar Cells. Adv. Funct. Mater. 2018, 28, 1802324.

13. LijianZuo,+ Xueliang Shi,+ SaeByeok Jo, Yun Liu, Fracis Lin, Alex K-Y Jen, Tackling Energy Loss for High Efficiency Organic Solar Cells with Integrated Multiple Strategies. Adv. Mater. 2018, 30, 1706816.

12. Xunfan Liao,+ Zhaoyang Yao,+ Ke Gao,+ Xueliang Shi,+ LijianZuo, Zonglong Zhu, Lie Chen, Feng Liu, Yiwang Chen, Alex K-Y Jen, Mapping Nonfullerene Acceptors with a Novel Wide Bandgap Polymer for High Performance Polymer Solar Cells. Adv. Energy Mater. 2018, 8, 1801214.

11. Xueliang Shi,+ LijianZuo,+ SaeByeok Jo,+ Ke Gao, Francis Lin, Feng Liu, Alex K-Y Jen, Design of a highly crystalline low-band gap fused-ring electron acceptor for high-efficiency solar cells with low energy loss. Chem. Mater. 2017, 29, 8369-8376.

10. LijianZuo,+ Jiangsheng Yu,+ Xueliang Shi,+  Francis Lin, Weihua Tang, Alex K-Y Jen, High-Efficiency Nonfullerene Organic Solar Cells with a Parallel Tandem Configuration. Adv. Mater. 2017, 29, 1702547.

9. Xueliang Shi, Tullimilli Y Gopalakrishna, Qing Wang, Chunyan Chi, Non-classical S-Heteroacenes with o-Quinoidal Conjugation and Open‐Shell Diradical Character. Chem. Eur. J. 2017, 23, 8525-8531.

8. Xueliang Shi, Chunyan Chi, Heterocyclic Quinodimethanes. Top. Curr. Chem. 2017, 375, 68.

7. Xueliang Shi, Estefanía Quintero, Sangsu Lee, Linzhi Jing, Tun Seng Herng, Bin Zheng, Kuo-Wei Huang, Juan T López Navarrete, Jun Ding, Dongho Kim, Juan Casado, Chunyan Chi, Benzo-thia-fused [n]thienoacenequinodimethanes with small to moderate diradical characters: the role of pro-aromaticity versus anti-aromaticity. Chem. Sci. 2016, 7, 3036-3046.

6. Xuejin Yang,+ Xueliang Shi,+  Naoki Aratani, Théo P Gonçalves, Kuo-Wei Huang, Hiroko Yamada, Chunyan Chi, Qian Miao,Benzo[4, 5]cyclohepta[1, 2-b]fluorene: an isomeric motif for pentacene containing linearly fused five-, six-and seven-membered rings. Chem. Sci. 2016, 7, 6176-6181.

5. Xueliang Shi, Chunyan Chi, Different Strategies for the Stabilization of Acenes and Acene Analogues. Chem. Rec. 2016, 16, 1690-1700.

4. Xueliang Shi, Weixiang Kueh, Donnadieu Bruno, Kuo-Wei Huang, Chunyan Chi, Dipolar Quinoidal Acene Analogues as Stable Isoelectronic Structures of Pentacene and Nonacene. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2015, 54, 14412-14416.

3. Xueliang Shi, Sangsu Lee, Minjung Son, Bin Zheng, Jingjing Chang, Linzhi Jing, Kuo-Wei Huang, Dongho Kim, Chunyan Chi, Pro-aromatic bisphenaleno-thieno[3,2-b]thiophene versus anti-aromatic bisindeno-thieno[3,2-b]thiophene: different ground-state properties and applications in field-effect transistors. Chem. Commun. 2015, 51, 13178-13180.

2. Xueliang Shi, Paula Mayorga Burrezo, Sangsu Lee, Wenhua Zhang, Bin Zheng, Gaole Dai, Jingjing Chang, Juan T. López Navarrete, Kuo-Wei Huang, Dongho Kim, Juan Casado, Chunyan Chi, Antiaromatic bisindeno-[n]thienoacenes with small singlet biradical characters: syntheses, structures and chain length dependent physical properties. Chem. Sci. 2014, 5, 4490-4503.

1. XueliangShi, Jingjing Chang, Chunyan Chi, Solution-processable n-type and ambipolar semiconductors based on a fused cyclopentadithiophenebis (dicyanovinylene) core. Chem. Commun. 2013, 49, 7135-7137.

NHU-CJC Innovation Award (2024)

Emerging Investigator in Crystal Growth & Design (2022)

Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-financed Students Abroad (2016)

NUS Research Scholarship (2011-2015)