Publications After joining Soochow Univeristy (Feb. 2025)

20.               Jinyu Sheng,†,* Jacopo Perego†, Silvia Bracco,  Piotr Cieciórski, Wojciech Danowski,* Angiolina Comotti* and Ben L. Feringa*, PNAS, 2025, In Revision.

19.              Jinyu Sheng,† Alexander Ryabchun,† Guiying Long,  Ben L. Feringa*, Quadruple Helix Inversions of Liquid Crystals Orchestratedby Direct Chirality Transmission of an Intrinsically Chiral Light-Driven Molecular Machine. Adv. Mater. 2025, e13156.

18.         Jinyu Sheng,†,* Youxin Fu,† Kefan Wu,† Thomas Freese, Hong Zhang,* and Ben L. Feringa,*  Highly Efficient Near-Infrared Light-Driven Molecular Motor Rotation Enabled by Upconversion Nanoparticles as Nanoscale Light Sources. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2025, 147, 26797.

17.          Jinyu Sheng, Carlijn L. F. van Beek, Charlotte N. Stindt, Wojciech Danowski,* Stefano Crespi, Daisy R. S. Pooler, Michiel F. Hilbers, Wybren Jan Buma, Ben L. Feringa*, General Strategy for Boosting the Performance of Speed-tunable Rotary Molecular Motors with Visible Light. Sci. Adv. 2025, 11, eadr9326.

Publications Before joining Soochow Univeristy 

1.         Jinyu Sheng, Wojciech Danowski, Andy S. Sardjan, Jiaxin Hou, Stefano Crespi, Alexander Ryabchun, Maximilian Paradiz Domínguez, Wybren Jan Buma, Wesley R. Browne, Ben L. Feringa*, Boosting the Performance of Light-Driven Rotary Molecular Motors. Nat. Chem. 2024, 16, 1330-1338.

2.     Sven van Vliet†, Jinyu Sheng†, Charlotte N. Stindt, Ben L. Feringa*, All-visible-light-driven salicylidene schiff-base-functionalized artificial molecular motors. Nat Commun.2024, 15, 6461.

3.         Jinyu Sheng, Jacopo Perego, Silvia Bracco,  Wojciech Danowski*,  Angiolina Comotti*, Ben L. Feringa*, Orthogonal Photoswitching in a Porous Organic Framework. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2024, 63, e202404878.

4.        Fan Xu†, Jinyu Sheng†, Charlotte N. Stindt; Stefano Crespi; Wojciech Danowski; Michiel F. Hilbers, Wybren Jan Buma; Ben L. Feringa, All-Visible-Light-Driven Stiff-stilbene Photoswitches. Chem Sci., 2024, 15, 6763-6769.

5.    Jinyu Sheng†, Jacopo Perego†, Włodzimierz Czepa, Wojciech Danowski*, Silvia Bracco,  Simon Krause, Piero Sozzani, Artur Ciesielski, Angiolina Comotti*, Ben L. Feringa*, Construction of Multi-Stimuli Responsive Highly Porous Switchable Frameworks by In-Situ Solid-State Generation of Spiropyran Switches. Adv. Mater. 2024, 36, 2305783.

6.   Jinyu Sheng†, Jacopo Perego†, Wojciech Danowski*, Silvia Bracco*,  Shaoyu Chen, Xiaotian Zhu,  Charl X. Bezuidenhout, Simon Krause, Wesley R. Browne, Piero Sozzani,  Angiolina Comotti*, Ben L. Feringa*, Construction of a three-state responsive framework from a bistable photoswitch. Chem. 2023, 9, 2701–2716.

7.      Jinyu Sheng, Wojciech Danowski*, Stefano Crespi, Ainoa Guinart, Xiaobing Chen, Cosima Stähler, Ben. L. Feringa*, Designing P-type bi-stable overcrowded alkene-based chiroptical photoswitches. Chem. Sci. 2023, 14, 4328-4336.

8.     Jinyu Sheng, Daisy Pooler, Ben L. Feringa*, Enlightening dynamic functions in molecular systems by intrinsically chiral light-driven molecular motors. Chem. Soc. Rev., 2023, 52, 5875-5891.

9.   Jinyu Sheng, Stefano Crespi, Ben L. Feringa*, Sander J. Wezenberg*, Supramolecular control of unidirectional rotary motion in a sterically overcrowded photoswitchable receptor. Org. Chem. Front., 2020, 7, 3874–3879.

10.   Jinyu Sheng†, Yong Wang†, Xiang Su, Ru He and Chao Chen*, Cu-catalyzed [2+2+2] Modular Synthesis of Multiply Substituted Pyridines with Three Components via the Key Alkenylation of Nitriles with Vinyliodonium Salts. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2017, 56, 4824-4828.

11.   Jinyu Sheng†, Ru He†, Jie Xue, Chao Wu, Juan Qiao, and Chao Chen*, Cu-Catalyzed π‑Core Evolution of Benzoxadiazoles with Diaryliodonium Salts for Regioselective Synthesis of Phenazine Scaffolds.Org. Lett. 2018, 20, 15, 4458-4461.

12.    Jinyu Sheng, Xiang Su, Chengyao Cao and Chao Chen*, Synthesis of benzo[1,3]oxazines via copper(I)-catalyzed cascade annulation of nitriles, aldehydes and diaryliodonium salts. Org. Chem. Front., 2016, 3, 501-504. 

13.    Yahan Shan, Jinyu Sheng, Qi Zhang, Marc C. A. Stuart, Da-Hui Qua, and Ben L. Feringa*, Multi-state Photoluminescent Properties of Overcrowded Alkene-based Molecular Motors in Aggregates. Aggregate. 2024, 5, e584

14.  Chris van Ewijk, Fan Xu, Sourav Maity, Jinyu Sheng, Marc. C. A. Stuart, Ben L. Feringa*, Wouter H. Roos* Light-Triggered Disassembly of Molecular Motor-based Supramolecular Polymers Revealed by High Speed-AFM. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2024. e202319387.

15.  Yahan Shan, Qi Zhang, Jinyu Sheng, Marc Stuart, Dahui Qu*, Ben L Feringa*. Motorized Photomodulator: Making A Non-photoresponsive Supramolecular Gel Switchable by Light. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2023. 62, e202310582.

16.     Chengyao Kimmy Cao, Jinyu Sheng, Chao Chen*, Cu-Catalyzed Cascade Annulation of Diaryliodonium Salts and Nitriles: Synthesis of Nitrogen-Containing Heterocycles. Synthesis. 2017, 49, A–L.