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School of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology
Professor of School of Chemical and Molecular Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology (ECUST). Dr. Zhang obtained his doctoral degree from ECUST in 2012 under the supervision of Prof. He Tian (major of Applied Chemistry). From 2010-2011 and 2017-2018, he joined the group of Prof. Itamar Willner in Hebrew University of Israel as an exchange doctoral student and post-doc. Dr./Prof. Zhang has been awarded National Excellent Young Scientist Fund (2021), Shanghai Rising-Star Program (2019) and Second Prize of Shanghai Natural Science Award (2025). The research interests of Dr./Prof. Zhang are based on photo-responsive dyes, mainly photoswitches and photo-cages. Recently, he has reached out his research into photo-related bio-medical applications, as photopharmacology, photo-responsive fluorescent sensors, photo-responsive dynamic hydrogel biomaterials (for medical applications and cell mechanics regulation). He serves as the youth editorial Board member of Chinese Chemical Letters, Fine Chemicals and Chinese Journal of Chemistry. He has published over 70 papers, including Nature Communications, J. Am. Chem. Soc., Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., Chem, CCS Chem etc, with a total citation over 5600 and h-index of 36. He is also the author and editor of the book “Photochromic dyes, Photochromic Materials: Preparation, Properties, and Application” (Wiley-VCH). ORCID: https://orcid.org/my-orcid?orcid=0000-0003-2823-4637 Researchgate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Junji-Zhang?ev=hdr_xprf
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Molecular engineering oriented by organic functional dyes mainly focuses on basic and applied research in the following two aspects: 1) Photochromic functional dye creation: new strategies and parent creation of photochromic dyes with visible light and long wavelength ( λ> 600 nm); 2) Expansion of new applications of photoregulated biology: photochromic dyes are used in super-resolution imaging probes and photocontrolled hydrogels as biomedical materials.