General News
2018

Professor Jinwoo Lee from Pohang University of Science and Technology visited us and delivered an invited talk on point-of-care bioassay system based on enzyme-mimetic nanomaterials.
2018
Prof. Wei attended the 2018 Annual Meeting of Nanobiology Branch of Biophysical Society of China and Forum on Frontiers of Science & Technology. He gave an Oral Presentation on nanozymes.
2017
Anqi and Yihong joined our lab. Welcome!
2017
Prof. Wei was selected as a council member of Jiangsu Society of Biomedical Engineering. Congratulations!
2017

Dr. Yuling Wang from Macquarie University visited us. She has delivered an invited talk on nanostrategy for point-of-care diagnostics and personalized medicine.
2017
He and Sirong’s proposal was funded by
Interdisciplinary Innovation Fund of Nanjing University for Graduate Student. Well done!
2017
Xiaoyu was awarded the Dongliang scholarship. Congratulations!
2017
Faheem's proposal was funded by the Open Funds of the State Key Laboratory of Electroanalytical Chemistry. Congratulations!
2017
Prof. Wei visited Nanjing Agricultural University and delivered a talk on nanozymes. You can find more information "here".
2017
Prof. Wei attended the 15th Chinese Biophysics Congress and served as the co-chair of Biomimetic Nanocatalysis session. You can find more information "here".
2017

Professor Yun Chen from Nanjing Medical University visited us. She has delivered an invited talk on targeted proteomics for biomacromolecule research.
2017
Xiaoyu was awarded the Hainan Airlines Scholarship. Well done!
2017

Shichao attended the First Cross-Strait Workshop on Frontiers Interdisciplinary of Biomedicine and gave an Oral Presentation on nanozymes. Cool!
2017
Prof. Wei attended the 2nd Youth Scientists Forum on Nanoscience and Technology and gave an Invited Oral Presentation on nanozymes.
2017
Prof. Wei attended the 606th Xiangshan Science Conferences and gave an Invited Oral Presentation on nanozymes. You can find more information "here".
2017
Prof. Wei attended the 17th Beijing Conference and Exhibition on Instrumental Analysis (BCEIA2017)
and gave an Oral Presentation on nanozymes.
2017
Prof. Wei visited Jiangnan University and delivered a talk on nanozymes.
2017
Prof. Wei visited Nanjing Medical University and delivered a talk on nanozymes.
2017
Prof. Wei visited the Institute of Chemical Biology and Nanomedicine at Hunan University.
2017
Prof. Wei visited Tsinghua University and delivered a talk on nanozymes.
2017
Prof. Wei and Dr. Wu attended the 6th International Conference on DNA Nanotechnology.
2017
Prof. Wei’s proposal was funded by the National Natural Science Fund for Excellent Young Scholars. Many congratulations! You can find more information "here".
2017
Prof. Wei visited the Ohio State University.
2017

Prof. Wei attended the First Conference on Biomotors, Virus Assembly, and Nanobiotechnology Applications and gave an Invited Oral Presentation on nanozymes.
2017

Xiaoyu attended the Sixteenth International Symposium on Electroanalytical Chemistry (16th ISEAC) and gave a Poster Presentation on nanozymes for bioanalytical and biomedical applications.
2017

Min, Shichao, Yufeng, Jia, Sheng, Yuan, and Sirong attended the 2017 CASNN Annual Meeting. Shichao and Yufeng gave Poster Presentations on nanozymes.
2017

Professor Kam Leong visited us and delivered an invited talk on Bioengineering of Direct Cellular Reprogramming.
2017

Xiaoyu visited Professor Juewen Liu's lab at the University of Waterloo on collaborative research for one month. The visiting was financially supported by Nanjing University.
2017

Yunyao Zhu, Dan Yuan, Jiarui Liu, Yuting Huang and Yenchun Huang have passed their bachelor thesis defense. Congratulations!
2017
Prof. Wei attended the International Congress on Analytical Sciences 2017 (ICAS2017) and gave an Invited Oral Presentation on nanozymes.
2017
Prof. Wei attended the 12th Sino-US Symposium on Nanoscale Science and Technology and gave a Poster Presentation on nanozymes.
2017

Yihui has passed her PhD thesis defense. Wenjing and Leilei have passed their master thesis defense. Congratulations!
2017
Yihui Hu, Li Qin and Zhangping Lou attended The 5th Biomedical Magnetic Nanotechnology & The 6th Doctoral Forum of Biological and Medical Nanotechnology. Yihui won the Best Oral Presentation Award and Li Qin won the Best Poster Presentation Award. Well done! You can find more information "here".
2017
Prof. Wei attended the 13th National Conference on Electroanalytical Chemistry and gave an Invited & Oral Presentation on nanozymes.
2017
Prof. Wei visited Jiangxi Normal University.
2017
Prof. Wei visited Nanchang University.
2017
Prof. Wei visited Soochow University.
2017
Dan Zhao joined our lab for her undergraduate thesis research. Welcome!
2016

Professor Wei attended the 2016 National Academic Conference on Analytical Chemistry for Life Science and gave an oral presentation.
2016
Professor Wei attended the 2016 World Life Science Conference (WLSC2016) and gave an oral presentation.
2016
Quan Wang joined us for his undergraduate thesis research. Welcome on board!
2016

Professor Wei attended the NANOBIO CHINA 2016 and gave an oral presentation.
2016
Yihui, Shichao, Xiaoyu, Leilei and Weijing attended the NANOBIO CHINA 2016. Yihui, Shichao and Xiaoyu gave an oral presentation. Leilei and Wenjing presented posters.
2016
Dan Yuan and Jiarui Liu won the first class prize in the third Extracurricular and Academic Contest of Nanjing University. Well done!
2016
Professor Wei and Xiaoyu Wang attended ACS Publications Symposium: Innovation in Molecular Science.
2016
Yihui won the National Scholarship. Xiaoyu and Shichao were awarded the College Scholarship and Talent Scholarship, respectively. Many congratulations!
2016
Sheng Zhao, Li Qin, Sirong Li, and Zhangping Lou joined us. Welcome on board!
2016
Congratulations to Dr. Ding for his faculty position at Nanjing Agricultural University. Please visit "here" for more information.
2016
Congratulations to Dr. Cheng for his PostD position at UCLA. Please visit "here" for more information.
2016
Jiexing’s proposal was funded by Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province. Well done!
2016
Dr. Cheng attended the 30th Chinese Chemical Society Congress at Dalian.
2016
Dr. Wei visited CIAC and give an invited Electroanalytical Chemistry Lecture Series talk on nanozymes.
2016
Dr. Wu attended the GRS and GRC on Noble Metal Nanoparticles. She has given an oral talk for the GRS and has presented a poster for the GRC. The travel was financially supported by Gordon F. Kirkbright Bursary Award.
2016
Professor Hengwei Lin from Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology & Engineering (NIMTE) visited us. He has delivered an invited talk on carbon based nanomaterials.
2016
Professor Juewen Liu from University of Waterloo visited us. He has delivered an invited talk on catalytic DNA and nanoparticles.
2016
Professor Wei attended the 11th Sino-US Nano Forum & TUS-Springer Nano Research Award and presented a poster.
2016
Professors Jian Liu, Yue Pan, and Jinlin He from Soochow University visited us.
2016

Li Qin has passed his bachelor thesis defense. Congratulations!
2016
Professor Wei attended 2016 International Symposium on Analytical Chemistry Frontiers & China-US Analytical Chemistry Workshop and presented a poster.
2016
Professor Wei visited University of Georgia and delivered a talk on nanozymes.
2016
Professor Wei attended ISBBN 2016 and gave an invited presentation on nanozymes.
2016

Professor Xiyun Yan from Institute of Biophysics visited our lab. She was one of the selected speakers for Heaven and Earth Engineering Forum and has delivered an invited talk on nanozymes. Please visit "here" for more information.
2016

We took a great trip to Yellow Mountain. Fabulous experience!
2016
Jiexing participated as a Speaker and a Poster Presenter at the Gordon Research Seminar (GRS) and Gordon Research Conference (GRC) on Noble Metal Nanoparticles held 06/18/2016 – 06/24/2016 at Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley MA United States. The travel was financially supported by Gordon F. Kirkbright Bursary Award.
2016
Jiangjiexing Wu's proposal was funded by China Postdoctoral Science Foundation. Congratulations!
2016

Dr. Pep Pàmies, chief editor of Nature Biomedical Engineering, visited us. Dr. Pàmies has delivered an invited talk on publishing in Nature journals.
2016
Prof. Wei attended Pittcon 2016 and gave a talk on nanozymes. He was also the facilitator for the Conferee Networking on "Nanozymes in Analytical Chemistry and Beyond".
2016
Dr. Wei visited Professor David Lynn at Emory University.
2016

Jiexing was awarded the prestigious 2016 Gordon F. Kirkbright Bursary Award by the ABS Trust Treasurer. Congratulations!
2016

Jiexing was funded by the Open Funds of the State Key Laboratory of Coordination Chemistry.
2016

Professor Xiaoyuan Chen visited us. Dr. Chen has delivered an invited talk on Cancer Theranostics.
2015
Dr. Wei has been admitted as the Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC). Congratulations!
2015
Dr. Jiangjiexing Wu joined us as a Research Associate Professor. Welcome!
2015

Work hard, play hard! We ran the Nanjing International Marathon 2015.
2015
"Pittcon 2016" Announces Topics for Conferee Networking Sessions. Dr. Wei will host the Nanozymes in Analytical Chemistry and Beyond Session as the Facilitator. Please visit "here" for more information.
2015
Faheem's proposal was funded by China Postdoctoral Science Foundation. Congratulations!
2015
Xiaoyu and Leilei were awarded the College Scholarship. Well done!
2015

Dr. Cheng attended BCEIA2015 and gave an oral presentation. Cool!
2015
Professor Wei attended the CBME'2015 and gave an oral presentation.
2015

Professor Wenlong Cheng visited our lab. Dr. Cheng has delivered an invited "Forssmann BME Forum" talk.
2015
Dr. Ding attended the Faraday Discussion on Supramolecular Photochemistry at Cambridge University. The travel was financially supported by Gordon F. Kirkbright Bursary Award.
2015
Dr. Wei visited Profs. David Cahen, Mordechai Sheves, Israel Pecht, David Margulies and Rafal Klajn at Weizmann Institute of Science.
2015
Wen Cao, Shichao Lin and Jia Yao joined our group as graduate students. Welcome on board!
2015
Faheem's proposal was funded by National Natural Science Foundation of China for International Young Scientists. Well done!
2015
Dr. Wei was invited to attend the 15th International Symposium on Electroanalytical Chemistry. He gave a talk on in situ monitoring vitamin C in living brains.
2015
Dr. Wei visited Xi'an Jiaotong University and Shaanxi Normal University.
2015
Prof. Wei visited Profs. Yi Lu, Jianmin Zuo, and Andrew Smith at University of Illinois, Prof. Yossi Weizmann at the University of Chicago, and Prof. Khalid Salaita at Emory University.
2015
Drs. Wei and Cheng attended the GRC-Cancer Nanotechnology 2015 and presented posters.
2015
Prof. Wei visited Prof. Wenbin Lin at the University of Chicago.
2015


Prof. Wei was invited to attend the Workshop on Forssmann Translational Medicine of The 11th International Stroke Summit. He gave a talk on ratiometric biosensor for probing living brains.
2015

Our college hosted the 2nd NJU-OSU Summer Camp. Sam, a junior from BME at OSU, joined us for the lab work. During the Summer Camp, Dr. Wei delivered a talk on "Nanozymes: the next generation of artificial enzymes". For more information about the Summer Camp, please visit: http://xiaozu.renren.com/xiaozu/620037166. For more information about nanoyzmes, you may read the review here: http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2013/cs/c3cs35486e
2015


Jia and Shichao have passed their bachelor thesis defense.
Congratulations!
2015
Dr. Wei was invited to attend the Nanozyme Workshop of ABA2015. He gave a talk on integrative nanozymes.
2015
Drs. Ding and Wei attended GRC-Self-assembly & Supramolecular Chemistry 2015 and presented posters.
2015
Undergraduates Dan Yuan, Jiarui Liu and Wenrui Wang won the National Undergraduate Innovation and Entrepreneurship Training Program to support their research
project. Congratulations!
2015

Professor Andrew G Ewing visited our lab.
2015
Hanjun was funded by the Open Funds of the State Key Laboratory of Analytical Chemistry for Life Science.
2015

Yubin was awarded the prestigious 2015 Gordon F. Kirkbright Bursary Award by the ABS Trust Treasurer. Many congratulations!
2015
Yubin was funded by the Open Funds of the State Key Laboratory for Chemo/Biosensing and Chemometrics.
2015
Dr. Wei was funded by the Open Funds of the State Key Laboratory of Electroanalytical Chemistry.
2015
Dr. Faheem Muhammad joined us as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow. Welcome on board!
2014


We took a great trip to Qixia Mountain. It was a really fabulous experience.
2014
Jiarui Liu, Wenrui Wang and Dan Yuan joined our lab for undergraduate research. Welcome!
2014
Min Zhou joined us as a Research Assistant. Welcome on board!
2014
Dr. Wei was awarded the Shuangchuang Program of Jiangsu Province.
2014
Dr. Wei was funded by the Six Talents Summit Program of Jiangsu Province.
2014
Wenjing Guo, Leilei Shi and Xiaoyu Wang joined our group as graduate students and Yihui Hu joined us as a PhD candidate. Welcome on board!
2014
Hanjun's and Hui's proposals were funded by National Natural Science Foundation of China. Well done!
2014

Hanjun attended GRC-Bioanalytical Sensors 2014 and presented a poster.
2014
Yubin's proposal was funded by Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province. Well done!
2014

Xie Chen, Wenjing Guo, Qiran Ouyang, Leilei Shi, Changyu Wang, and Shengqin Yang have passed their bachelor thesis defense. Congratulations!
2014
Professor Wei attended The Batsheva de Rothschild Seminar on Functional Peptide and Protein Nanostructures and gave an invited oral presentation.
2014


Work hard, play hard! We are a professional Counter-Strike team.
2014
Professor Yingwu Lin from University of South China visited our lab.
2014
Dr. Guangchen Xu, Editor of Advanced Functional Materials, Advanced Energy Materials, Small, and Particle, visited our lab.
2014
Professor Hongda Wang from Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences visited our lab.
2014
Professor Bingqian Xu from the University of Georgia visited our lab.
2014
Professor Yuanhua Shao from Peking University visited our lab.
2014
Dr. Dongxue Han from Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences visited our lab.
2014
Professor Li Niu from Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences visited our lab.
2014
Professor Lehui Lu from Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences visited our lab.
2014
Professor Di Li from Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences visited our lab.
2014
High school students, Chenyun Wang and Ping Wu, from Shanghai Caoyang Second Middle School visited our lab.
2014
Professor Quli Fan from Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications visited our lab.
2014
Xie Chen, Wenjing Guo, Qiran Ouyang, Leilei Shi, Changyu Wang, and Shengqin Yang joined our lab for undergraduate thesis research. Welcome!
2013
Professor Yi Lu from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign visited our lab.
2013
Our group website launched!
2013
Professor Renato Zenobi from Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich visited our lab.
2013
Shuyu joined us. Welcome!
2013
Dr. Cheng, Dr. Ding and Ms. Xing joined our group. Welcome!
Research Highlights
2018
Jiexing’s paper on rational design of Au@Pt multibranched nanostructures as bifunctional nanozymes was accepted by ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. Congratulations and thanks to our coworkers!
2018
Jiexing and Sirong’s Feature Article on integrated nanozymes for biomedical applications was accepted by Chemical Communications. Congratulations!
2018
Our book chapter in Biomedical Applications of Functionalized Nanomaterials was published by Elsevier. You can find more information "here".
2018
Our Chemical Science work on ROS scavenging Mn3O4 nanozymes was highlighted by Medical express and RSC publishing. You can find more information here: ""ROS-scavenging nanozymes for anti-inflammation therapeutics"", and ""ROS scavenging Mn₃O₄ nanozymes for in vivo anti-inflammation"".
2018
Our work on ROS scavenging Mn3O4 nanozymes was accepted by Chemical Science
2018
Our invited review for the nanozymes special issue was accepted by Progress in Biochemistry and Biophysics
2017
Leilei and Yufeng’s paper on an AIE probe for enzyme assays was accepted by Analyst. Congratulations and thanks to our coworkers!
2017
Our collaborated paper on nanoparticle enhanced photodynamic therapy was accepted by Theranostics. Congratulations and thanks to our coworkers!
2017
Hanjun and Yufeng’s paper on peroxidase-mimicking nanozymes for heparin monitoring was accepted by Analytical Chemistry. Congratulations and thanks to our coworkers! You can find more information "here".
2017
Our paper on a supercharged fluorescent protein based FRET sensing platform for detection of heparin contamination was published by Analytical Methods. It has been selected as "Recent HOT articles".
2017
Yihui's paper about the simultaneous peroxidase-mimicking and SERS activities of AuNPs@MIL-101-based nanozymes for facile SERS bioassays was accepted by ACS Nano. Nice work!
2017
Wenjing's paper on enzymatically activated reduction-caged SERS reporters for versatile bioassays was accepted by Analyst. Congratulations!
2017
Leilei's paper about an arylboronate locked fluorescent probe for hypochlorite detection was accepted by Analyst. Congratulations!
2017
Our paper on LaNiO3 perovskite nanozymes for biomedical assays was accepted by Theranostics. Congratulations!
2017

Our book chapter in Encyclopedia of Physical Organic Chemistry was published by John Wiley and Sons. You can find more information "here".
2016
Our work about modulation the oxidase mimicking nanoceria for bioassays was published by ACS Sensors. You can find more information "here".
2016

Our book entitled “Nanozymes: Next Wave of Artificial Enzymes” was published by Springer. You can find more information "here".
2016
Yihui’s work on heparin sensing was published by Biosensors and Bioelectronics. Congratulations!
2016
Our Analytical Chemistry work on integrated nanozymes was highlighted in phys.org, and more: "Integrated nanozymes for brain chemistry".
2016
Our paper on integrated nanozymes for brain chemistry was accepted by Analytical Chemistry. Congratulations!
2016
Our Analytical Methods work on 2D nanomaterials for biosensing was highlighted in phys.org, and more: "Quenching mechanism of 2D MnO2 nanosheet towards Au nanocluster fluorescence clarified".
2016
Shichao’s paper on 2D nanomaterials for biosensing was accepted by Analytical Methods. Congratulations!
2016
Hanjun's paper on parallel monitoring of bioactive metal ions and small molecules was accepted by Analytical Chemistry. Congratulations!
2015
Xiaoyu and Yihui's paper was accepted by Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers. Congratulations! It has been included in 2015 Emerging Investigators by ICF.
2015


Yubin and Leilei's Chemical Science paper on heparin sensing was highlighted in Chemistry World, Scientific American, and more: "Simple probe for heparin quality control", "Simple Test Makes Blood-Clot-Busting Drug Safer", "Fluorescent Probe Makes Heparin Use Safer".
2015
Hanjun and Xiaoyu's paper on ratiometric ascorbic acid sensing in living brains was accepted by Analytical Chemistry. Nice work!
2015
Yubin and Leilei's paper on heparin sensing was published by Chemical Science. Congratulations!
2015
Yihui and Wenjing's paper was accepted by Israel Journal of Chemistry. It will be included in the Special Issue "Functional Peptide and Protein Nanostructures". Congratulations!
2014

Dr. Wei was invited to serve as an Editorial Board Member for Scientific Reports, a journal from Nature Publishing Group, the publishers of Nature. Congratulations! You may read it here: Link.
2014

Yubin and Leilei's paper was published by Journal of Materials Chemistry B as a Feature Article. It was also selected as a Cover Paper. Congratulations! You may read it here: PDF.
2014

Our co-authored book chapter in Nanomaterials: emerging characteristics and biomedical applications was published by Science Press. Congratulations! You can find a brief introduction here: Link.
2014
Hui's co-authored paper was published in Journal of Nanoparticle Research.
2014
Yubin and Leilei's paper was accepted by Journal of Materials Chemistry B. It will be highlighted as a Feature Article. Congratulations! You may read it here: PDF.
2014
Shuyu's paper was accepted by Molecules. Congratulations! It will be included in the Special Issue "Practical Applications of Metal Complexes".
2013
"Enhanced and tunable fluorescent quantum dots within a single crystal of protein" was featured as a cover in Nano Research.
2013
"Nanomaterials with enzyme-like characteristics (nanozymes): next-generation artificial enzymes" was featured as a cover in Chemical Society Reviews.
2013
"Catalysis of Gold Nanoparticles within Lysozyme Single Crystals" was featured as a cover in Chemistry-An Asian Journal.
2013
"Catalysis of Gold Nanoparticles within Lysozyme Single Crystals" was highlighted as Research of the Day by Asian Chemical Editorial Society.
2011
Our work was highlighted as the cover of Research Faculty Handbook of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology.
2011
"Electrochemiluminescence of tris(2,2′-bipyridyl)ruthenium and its applications in bioanalysis: a review" was featured as a cover in Luminescence.
2011
"Time-dependent, protein-directed growth of gold nanoparticles within a single crystal of lysozyme" was highlighted in Nature Nanotechnology: "Gold nanoparticles: Grown in a crystal".
2008
"SERS opens a new way in aptasensor for protein recognition with high sensitivity and selectivity" was selected for inclusion in Virtual Journal Chemical Biology.
2007
"Reusable, label-free electrochemical aptasensor for sensitive detection of small molecules" was highlighted in Nature China: "Sensors: A snappy detector".
2007
"Simple and sensitive aptamer-based colorimetric sensing of protein using unmodified gold nanoparticle probes" was the Top Ten most accessed articles from Virtual Journal Chemical Biology Research Articles in September 2007. (the 1st one)
2007
"Simple and sensitive aptamer-based colorimetric sensing of protein using unmodified gold nanoparticle probes" was highlighted in Chemical Technology: "Protein detection made simple".
2007
"Simple and sensitive aptamer-based colorimetric sensing of protein using unmodified gold nanoparticle probes" was selected for inclusion in Virtual Journal Chemical Biology.
2007
"Sensitive detection of protein by an aptamer-based label-free fluorescing molecular switch" was selected for inclusion in Virtual Journal Chemical Biology.