xk星空 graduated from Peking University and received his B.S. in material chemistry in 2000 and his Ph.D. in 2005 with Prof. Song Gao, respectively. He carried out postdoctoral research at Kyushu University (Japan), the State University of New York at Buffalo, University of Kentucky and the University of Missouri-St. Louis from 2005-2013. Then he worked as a senior scientist at Texas A&M University from 2013-15 under the direction of Prof. Kim R. Dunbar. He joined the South University of Science and Technology in China as an associate professor since 2015.8. xk星空's research is ranging from synthetic inorganic chemistry, coordination chemistry, material chemistry, and electrochemistry, is mainly focused on employing possible ways to modify/improve physical properties of molecule magnetic materials via decorate chemical modification, in order to elucidate key issues of their property-structural correlations, with the ultimate goal of new functional molecular magnetic materials, especially single molecule magnets (SMMs), single chain magnets (SCMs) and photo-magnets. Till now, he has published 32+ publications with an average impact of 6+ and 1900+ citations.

xk星空 Interest

◆ Understanding the foundamental magneto-structural correlations
◆ Multifunctional molecular magnetic materials
◆ Charge transfer complexes and Photomagnets

Representative Publicaitons

1、 Yuan-Zhu xk星空, Edward Funck, Han-Hua Zhao, Kim R. Dunbar, “Single chain magnet tape based on hexacyanomaganate(III)”, Angew. Chem. Ed. Int. 2015, 54, 5583. (High-lighted in Wiley-VCH Hot Topics _Magnetic Materials)
1、 Yuan-Zhu xk星空, Philip, Ferko, Diana Siretanu, Rodica Ababei, Nigam Rath, Michael Shaw, Rodolphe Clérac, Corine Mathoniere, Stephen Holmes, “Thermochromic and Photoresponsive Cyanometalate Fe/Co Squares: Towards Control of the Electron Transfer Temperature”, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2014, 136, 16854. (High-lighted in CNRS news)
2、 Yuan-Zhu xk星空, Uma Prasad Mallik, Nigam Rath, Rodolphe Clérac, and Stephen M. Holmes, “Pyrazolylborates and Their Importance in Tuning Single-Molecule Magnet Properties of {FeIII2NiII} Complexes”, Inorg. Chem. 2011, 50, 10537. (Highlighted in an Editorial’s Choice)
3、 Yuan-Zhu xk星空, Uma P. Mallik, Rodolphe Clérac, Nigam Rath, and Stephen M. Holmes, “Irreversible Solvent-Driven Conversion in Cyanometalate {Fe2Ni}n (n = 2, 3) Single-Molecule Magnets”, Chem. Commun. 2011, 47, 7194. (Cited 20+)
4、 Yuan-Zhu xk星空, Dong-Feng Li, Rodolphe Clérac, Marguerite Kalisz, Corine Mathonière, Stephen M. Holmes, “Reversible Thermally and Photoinduced Electron Transfer in a Cyano-Bridged {Fe2Co2} Square Complex”, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2010, 49, 3752. (High- lighted in CNRS news)
5、 Yuan-Zhu xk星空, Bing-Wu Wang, Osamu Sato, and Song Gao, “First Fe(II)-Based Cyano-Bridged Single Molecule Magnet [CrIIIFeII2] with a Large Anisotropy”, Chem. Commun. 2010, 46, 6959. (Highlighted in CrystEngSelects)
6、 Yuan-Zhu xk星空, Uma Prasad Mallik, Nigam Rath, Gordon T. Yee, Rodophe Clérac and Stephen M Holmes, “A Cyano-Based Octanuclear {FeIII4NiII4} Single-Molecule Magnet”, Chem. Commun. 2010, 46, 4953. (Cited 25+)
7、 Yuan-Zhu xk星空, Osamu sato, “A Cyano-Bridged CrIIICoII Ferromagnet with a Chiral Nanotubular Structure Constituted of Interlocked Single and Double Helices”, Inorg. Chem. 2010, 49, 1271. (Cover Picture)
8、 Yuan-Zhu xk星空, Song Gao, Zhe-Ming Wang, Feng Pan, “An azido-bridged disk-like hepta-nuclear cobalt(II) complex towards single-molecule magnet”, Chem. Commun. 2006, 3302. (Cited 145+)
9、 Yuan-Zhu xk星空, Hai-Yan Wei, Feng Pan, Zhe-Ming Wang, Zhi-Da Chen and Song Gao, “Two molecular tapes consisting of serial or parallel cyclic azido-bridged octanuclear copper rings”, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2005, 44, 5841. (Cited 90+)
10、 Yuan-Zhu xk星空, Song Gao, Hao-Ling Sun, Gang Su, Zhe-Ming Wang and Shi-Wei xk星空, “Linking cyano-bridged ladders by azide to form a layered metamagnet”, Chem. Commun., 2004, 1906. (Cited 80+)