Yuchong Yang was born in Beijing (China) in 1992. After obtaining his B.S. degree from Sichuan University in 2015, he became a Ph.D. student in Prof. Xi Zhang’s group at Tsinghua university. His doctoral research is mainly focused on cucurbituril-based functional supramolecular systems, including the construction of novel supramolecular polymers, the development of antibacterial supramolecular architectures and the fabrication of cucurbituril-based supramolecular radical system. After graduated from Tsinghua University, in November 2020, he began to work as a postdoctoral researcher in Prof. Jonathan Nitschke’s group at the University of Cambridge.

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Selected publication lists: 

1. Yuchong Yang, Ping He, Yunxia Wang, Haotian Bai, Shu Wang, Jiang-Fei Xu* and Xi Zhang*, Supramolecular Radical Anions Triggered by Bacteria in situ for Selective Photothermal Therapy, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2017, 56, 16239. (Highlighted by Nature 2017, 552, 295, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2017, Nr. 48)

2. Yuchong Yang, Hao Hu, Linghui Chen, Haotian Bai, Shu Wang, Jiang-Fei Xu* and Xi Zhang, Antibacterial Supramolecular Polymers Constructed via Self-Sorting: Promoting Antibacterial Performance and Controllable Degradation, Mater. Chem. Front., 2019, 3, 806. (2019 Materials Chemistry Frontiers HOT articles)

3. Yuchong Yang, Xin-Long Ni*, Jiang-Fei Xu* and Xi Zhang, Fabrication of nor-seco-Cucurbit[10]uril Based Supramolecular Polymers via Self-Sorting, Chem. Commun., 2019, 55, 13836.

4. Xingshu Li†, Haotian Bai†, Yuchong Yang†, Juyoung Yoon*, Shu Wang* and Xi Zhang*, Supramolecular Antibacterial Materials for Combatting Antibiotic Resistance, Adv. Mater., 2019, 31, 1805092. (Review, †co-first author)

5. Yuchong Yang†, Zhengguo Cai†, Zehuan Huang†, Xiaoyan Tang and Xi Zhang*, Antimicrobial Cationic Polymers: From Structural Design to Functional Control, Polym. J., 2018, 50, 33. (Review, †co-first author)

6. Yuchong Yang†, Hao Hu†, Yuanyuan Guo, Andong Xia, Jiang-Fei Xu* and Xi Zhang*, Supramolecular Polymer Radical: Highly Promoted Formation and Stabilization of Free Radicals, Macromol. Rapid Commun. 2020, 2000080, 1. (†co-first author)

7. Xiaoyan Tang†, Yuchong Yang†, Yuetong Kang, Han Wu, Jiang-Fei Xu* and Zhiqiang Wang. Efficient Fenton Degradation of Perylene Diimide Dye Promoted by Catalytic Amount of Cucurbit[8]uril, Langmuir, 2020, 36, 5954. (†co-first author)

8. Hua Wang†, Yuchong Yang†, Bin Yuan, Xin-Long Ni, Jiang-Fei Xu* and Xi Zhang, Cucurbit[10]uril-Encapsulated Cationic Porphyrins with Enhanced Fluorescence Emission and Photostability for Cell Imaging, ACS Appl. Mater. & Interfaces, 2021, 13, 2269. (†co-first author)