Biography

Prof. Enquan Jin is from the State Key Laboratory of Inorganic Synthesis and Preparative Chemistry, and the International Center of Future Science, Jilin University.

He received his BS (2010) and MS (2013) from Beijing Normal University (BNU), Ph.D. (2017) from Institute for Molecular Science (IMS) & SOKENDAI (The Graduate University for Advanced Studies) in Japan, and worked as a postdoctoral fellow first at the Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST) in Japan during 2017–2018, then at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research (MPIP) in Germany during 2018–2021. He has been a full Professor in the department of chemistry, at Jilin University since 2022. He was awarded the Humboldt fellowship in 2019.

His main research interest is the design and synthesis of functionalized conjugated organic frameworks (COFs)/two-dimensional conjugated metal-organic frameworks (2D MOFs), the design and application of new nanographene and graphene nanoribbons, and the development of hierarchical porous composite catalytic materials. He has published more than 20 research papers in international academic journals including Science, J. Am. Chem. Soc., Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., Chem, Nat. Commun., Nat. Synth., Macromolecules, etc. Cited more than 2000 times.

Education

2017    Ph.D., Department of Structural Molecular Science, School of Physical Science, IMS & SOKENDAI (The Graduate University for Advanced Studies), Japan.

2013    M.S., Beijing Key Laboratory of Energy Conversion and Storage Materials, College of Chemistry, BNU, P. R. China.

2010    B.S., College of Chemistry, BNU, P. R. China.

Positions

2022-            Professor, Department of Chemistry, Jilin University

2018-2021    Postdoctoral (Humboldt) Fellow, MPIP, Germany

2017-2018    Postdoctoral Fellow, School of Materials Science, JAIST, Japan

Awards/Honors

2023    Outstanding Young Investigator Award from the National Natural Science Foundation of China

2019    Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellow.

Research Interest

Structure design, rational synthesis, and application of crystalline nanoporous materials

1.Design and synthesis of functionalized conjugated organic frameworks (COFs)/two-dimensional conjugated metal-organic frameworks (MOFs).

2.Design and application of novel nanographene and graphene nanoribbons.

3.Development of hierarchical porous composite catalytic materials.

Selected Publications

Coauthored over 21 papers in international journals, including Science, J. Am. Chem. Soc., Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., Nat. Commun., Chem, etc.

1.Jin, E. Q. #; Geng, K. Y. #; Fu, S. #; Addicoat, M. A.; Zheng, W. H.; Xie, S. L.; Hu, J. S.; Hou, X. D.; Wu, X.; Jiang, Q. H.; Xu, Q. H.; Wang, H. I. *; Jiang, D. L. *, Module-patterned polymerization towards crystalline 2D sp2-carbon covalent organic framework semiconductors. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2022, 61, e202115020. DOI: 10.1002/anie.202115020

2.Jin, E. Q.; Fu, S.; Hanayama, H. K.; Addicoat, M. A.; Wei, W. X.; Chen, Q.; Graf, R.; Landfester, K.; Bonn, M.; Zhang, K. A. I.*; Wang, H. I.*; Müllen, K.*; Narita, A. M.*, A nanographene-based two-dimensional covalent organic framework as a stable and efficient photocatalyst. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2022, 61, e202114059. DOI: 10.1002/anie.202114059

3.Jin, E. Q.#; Geng, K. Y.#; Fu, S.; Yang, S.; Kanlayakan, N.; Addicoat, M. A.; Kungwan, N.; Geurs, J.; Xu, H.; Bonn, M.; Wang, H. I.; Smet, J.; Kowalczyk, T.; Jiang, D. L.*, Exceptional electron conduction in two-dimensional covalent organic frameworks. Chem, 2021, 7, 3309–3324. DOI: 10.1016/j.chempr.2021.08.015

4.Jin, E. Q.#; Yang, Q. Q.#; Ju, C. W.; Chen, Q.; Landfester, K.; Bonn, M.*; Müllen, K.*; Liu, X. M.*; Narita, A. M.*, A highly luminescent nitrogen-doped nanographene as an acid and metal-sensitive fluorophore for optical imaging. J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2021, 143, 10403–10412. DOI: 10.1021/jacs.1c04880

5.Jin, E. Q.#; Geng, K. Y.#; Lee, K. H.; Jiang, W. M.; Li, J.; Jiang, Q. H.; Irle, S.; Jiang, D. L.*, Topology-templated synthesis of crystalline porous covalent organic frameworks. Angew. Chem. Int. ed., 2020, 59, 2–10. DOI: 10.1002/anie.202004728

6.Jin, E. Q.; Lan, Z. A.; Jiang, Q. H.; Geng, K. Y.; Li, G. S.; Wang, X. C.; Jiang, D. L.*, 2D sp2 carbon-conjugated covalent organic frameworks for photocatalytic hydrogen production from water. Chem, 2019, 5, 1632–1647. DOI: 10.1016/j.chempr.2019.04.015

7.Jin, E. Q.; Li, J.; Geng, K. Y.; Jiang, Q. H.; Xu, H.; Xu, Q.; Jiang, D. L.*, Designed synthesis of stable light-emitting two-dimensional sp2 carbon-conjugated covalent organic frameworks. Nat. Commun., 2018, 9, 4143. DOI: 10.1038/s41467-018-06719-8

8.Jin, E. Q.; Asada, M. E.; Xu, Q.; Dalapati, S.; Addicoat, M. A.; Xu, H.; Nakamura, T. K.; Heine, T.; Jiang, D. L.*, Two-dimensional sp2 carbon-conjugated covalent organic frameworks. Science, 2017, 6352, 673–676. DOI: 10.1126/science.aan0202

9.Jin, E. Q.; Du, C.; Wang, M.; Li, W. W.; Li, C. H.; Wei, H. D.; Bo, Z. S.*, Dibenzothiopene-based planar conjugated polymers for high efficiency polymer solar cells. Macromolecules, 2012, 45, 7843–7854. DOI: 10.1021/ma301622g

10.Jin, E. Q.; Xie, M. Y.; Gao, Y.; Wang, H. L.*, Effect of acid and pH value on the photografting initiated by aliphatic ketones in aqueous solutions. J. Appl. Polym. Sci., 2011, 120, 701–709. DOI: 10.1002/app.33232

11.Fu, S.#; Jin, E. Q.#; Hanayama, H. K.; Zheng, W. H.; Zhang, H.; Virgilio, L. D.; Addicoat, M. A.; Mezger, M.; Narita, A. M.; Bonn, M.*; Müllen, K.*; Wang, H. I*, Outstanding charge mobility by band transport in two-dimensional semiconducting covalent organic frameworks. J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2022, 144, 7489–7496. DOI: 10.1021/jacs.2c02408

12.Dalapati, S.; Jin, E. Q.; Addicoat, M. A.; Heine, T.; Jiang, D. L.*, Highly emissive covalent organic frameworks. J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2016, 138, 5797–5800. DOI: 10.1021/jacs.6b02700

# denotes "equally contributed to the paper", * denotes "corresponding author".

Projects

2023.01-2026.12 2D Organic Nanoporous Materials, The National Excellent Youth Science Fund of NSFC (overseas), 3 million (RMB)