Faculty
CHEN Wei / 陈韦
  • Department:i-LAB
  • Position:Professor
  • Expertise:Carbon nanotube/graphene chemistry;Artificial photosynthesis;Bio-inspired sensor & actuator
  • Email:wchen2006@sinano.ac.cn
Research Interest

1. Sunlight-driven organic & inorganic semiconductor photocatalysis;

2. Stimuli-responsed polymer nanocomposite for sensor and actuator;

3. Carbon nanostructure based electrochemical energy storage and conversion;

Experience:

Employment

2006 -Present 

Professor 

i-LAB, SINANO, CAS 

2003-2006 

Postdoctoral Research Fellow  

The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

2001-2003 

Postdoctoral Research Fellow 

University of Science and Technology of China (USTC)

Education

Ph.D. 2001 

Condensed matter physics

CAS

M.S. 1996 

Photochemistry

USTC 

B.S. 1993 

Applied Chemistry

Anhui University

Selected Publication:
  1. Jinghai Liu,Wei Chen* et.al., Reduced Graphene Oxide as Capturer of Dyes and Electrons during photocatalysis: Surface Wrapping and Capture Promoted Efficiency, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2011, :10.1039/C1CP20504H.
  2. Luhua Lu, Wei Chen*, "Supramolecular Self Assembly of Biopolymer with Carbon Nanotubes for Bio-mimetic and Bio-inspired Sensing and Actuation", Nanoscale, 2011, DOI:10.1039/C1NR10113G (Feature Review)
  3. Ying Hu, and Wei Chen*, "Externally induced thermal actuation of polymer nanocomposites", Macromolecular Chemistry & Physics, 2011, DOI: 10.1002/macp.201100068. (Invited Trend Review)
  4. Luhua Lu, Wei Chen*, "Biocompatible Composite Actuator from Supramolecular Structure of Biopolymer Chitosan, Carbon nanotube and Ionic liquid", Advanced Materials, 2010, 22, 3745 (Highlighted by Nature Publication Group-Asia Materials).
  5. Ying Hu, Wei Chen*, et.al., "Electromechanical actuation with controllable motion based on single walled carbon nanotube and natural biopolymer composite", ACS Nano, 2010, 4, 3498 (Highlighted by Nanowerk).
  6. Luhua Lu, Wei Chen*, "Large-Scale Aligned Carbon Nanotubes from Their Purified, Highly Concentrated Suspension", ACS Nano, 2010, 4 (2), 1042.
  7. Luhua Lu, Ying Hu, Chunrui Chang, Wei Chen*, CNT engineering assisted by biopolymers,Carbon Nanotubes / Book 4, ISBN 978-953-307-498-6(Intech Publisher invited).
  8. Wei Chen, Tao Xiaoming, Yuyang Liu, “Carbon nanotube reinforced polyurethane composite fibers”, Composite Science and Technology, 2006, 66(15), 3029.
  9. Wei Chen, Xiaoming Tao, “Self-organizing alignment of SWNT in thermoplastic polyurethane”, Macromolecular Rapid Communications, 2005, 26, 1763.
  10. X. Y. Zhang, L.D. Zhang, W. Chen, M.J. Zheng, “Electrochemical Fabrication of Semiconductor and Metallic Nanowire Arrays”, Chemistry of Materials, 2001, 13/8, 2511.