Professor Dayang Wang took up a professorship in Physical Chemistry in State Key Laboratory for Inorganic Synthesis and Preparative Chemistry at College of Chemistry, Jilin University in August 2016. Prior to the current post, he was a professor in Chemical Engineering at the School of Enginnering at RMIT University, Melbourne, in August 2015 - May 2017 and a research professor in Physical Chemistry at Ian Wark Research Instittute at University of South Australian , Adelaide, in August 2010 - June 2015. Before moving to Australia, he worked at Department of Interfaces at Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Potsdam, Germany, where he started a postdoc position in November 1999 - June 2003 and then held a group leader position for 7 years till June 2015. He also worked as a postdoc fellow at Department of Mechanical Engineering at Hongkong University of Science and Technology in January - November 1999. He studied chemistry at Jilin University, where he obtained B. Eng in 1993 and PhD in 1998, respectively.
Professor Wang's main research activities focus on study of the fundamental issues related to adsorption, partitioning and translocation of ions, molecules and particles at interfaces, especially those associated with surface wetting and phase separation and crystallization at nanoscale. He has recently develop a strong research interest in translation of the knolwedge advance in interface and colloid science into innovative technolgoies for environmental treament and remediation as well as sustainable recycle and reuse of wastes. Till now, he has more than 130 publciations in leading journals in general chemistry and materials science, more 30% in high impact journals (IF > 10) including 16 papers in Angewandte Chemie. According to ISI, the total citation of his publications is over 6300 and his H-index is 45. He successfully received more $ 3M research grants in the past years.
Selected recent publications：
1. Cheng, C.; Cai, Y.; Guan, G.; Yeo, L.; Wang, D.; Hydrophobic‐Force‐Driven Removal of Organic Compounds from Water by Reduced Graphene Oxides Generated in Agarose Hydrogels, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed.57(2018), 11177-11181.
2. Facal M., P.; Cheng, C.; Sedev, R.; Stocco, A.; Binks, B. P.; Wang, D.;V an der Waals Emulsions: Emulsions Stabilized by Surface-Inactive, Hydrophilic Particles via van der Waals Attraction, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed.57(2018), 9510-9514.
3. Huang, S.; Wang, D.: A Simple Nanocellulose Coating for Self-Cleaning upon Water Action: Molecular Design of Stable Surface Hydrophilicity, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 56 (2017), 9053-9057.
4. Cheng, C.; Wang, D.: Hydrogel-Assisted Transfer of Graphene Oxide into Nonpolar Organic Media for Oil Decontamination, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 55(2016), 6853-6857.
5. Liu, X.; Leng, C.; Yu, L.; He, K.: Brown, L. J.; Chen, Z.; Cho, J.; Wang, D.: Ion-Specific Oil Repellency of Polyelectrolyte Multilayers in Water: Molecular Insight into Charged Surface Hydrophilicity, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 54(2015), 4851-4856
[1]Name of Research Group:Smart Interface Research and Engineering (SIRE)
Description of Research Group:Our research group offers a friendly, supportive, thriving research environment. Our research effort is devoted to establishing the theoretical framework to articulate how the interaction events between ions, molecules and particles at microscopic level evolve into a diversity of macroscopic, physicochemical phenomena. This is aimed to unravelling the fundamental molecular-level mechanisms governing biological and environmental processes encountered in nature and, at the same time, offering new designs of smart interfacial materials and processes.
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