Professional Appointments

Feb. 2014 – Present Associate Professor, Soochow University

April 2014 – Mar. 2016 Visiting Scientist, Institute of Materials Research and Engineering, A*STAR

May 2011 – Feb. 2014 Scientist I, Institute of Materials Research and Engineering, A*STAR

Mar. 2012 – Sept. 2013 Technology for Enterprise Capability Upgrading (T-Up) with Asia Polyurethane (APU)

July 2008 – May 2011 Research Fellow, Department of Chemistry, National University of Singapore (Advisers: T. S. Andy Hor and David J. Young)

Education

June 2008 Ph.D. in Inorganic Chemistry, Soochow University

Supervisor: Prof. Jian-Ping Lang

Thesis Title: Supramolecular Design and Construction based on the Structural Orientations of Preformed Mo/Cu/S clusters.

June 2003 Undergraduate in Chemistry, Soochow University

Selected Publications

(http://www.researcherid.com/rid/B-1898-2010 for full list of publications)

1. Zi-Xuan Zhang, Ni-Ni Ding,Wen-Hua Zhang*, Jin-Xiang Chen*, David J. Young*, T. S. Andy Hor*,Stitching 2D Polymeric Layers into Flexible Interpenetrated Metal-Organic Frameworks within Single Crystals,Angew. Chem. Int. Ed.,2014,53, 4628−4632.

2. Wen-Hua Zhang* , David J. Young*, Naturally efficient emitters: luminescent organometallic complexes derived from natural products,J. Mol. Eng. Mater.,2013,1, 1330003.1−1330003.14.

3. Shao-Xiong Luo, Lu Wei, Xin-Hai Zhang, Min Hwee Lim, K. X. Vivian Lin, M. H. Valerie Yeo,Wen-Hua Zhang*, Zhi-Pan Liu*, David J. Young*, T. S. Andy Hor*, Enhanced emission and analyte sensing by cinchonine Iridium(III) cyclometallated complexes bearing bent diphosphinechelators,Organometallics,2013,32, 2908−2917.

4. Wen-Hua Zhang , Xin-Hai Zhang, Ai -Ling Tan, M. Anna Yong, David J. Young*, T. S. Andy Hor*, Soluble phosphorescent Iridium(III) complexes from Cinchonine derived ligands,Organometallics,2012,31, 553−559.

5. Wen-Hua Zhang , Sheau Wei Chien, Tzi-Sum Andy Hor*, Recent advances in hybrid ligand supported metal catalysts,Coord. Chem. Rev.,2011,255, 1991−2024.

6. Wen-Hua Zhang , Jian-Jin Hu, David J. Young, Tzi-Sum Andy Hor*, Phosphorescent emitters from natural products: Cinchonine derived Iridium(III) complexes,Organometallics,2011,30, 2137−2143.

7. Wen-Hua Zhang , NorlelaBinteSulaiman, Pei Xiong Shaun Tio, Tzi-Sum Andy Hor*, Nuclearity Growth Towards Ni(II) Cubane in Self-Assembly with 2-Hydroxymethyl Pyridine (hmpH) and 5-Ethoxycarbonyl-2-hydroxymethyl Pyridine (5-ehmpH),CrystEngComm.,2011,13, 2915–2922.

8. Wen-Hua Zhang , Tzi-Sum Andy Hor*, Complexation of 1,1’-bis(diphenylphosphino)ferrocene dioxide (dppfO₂) with 3d metals and revisit of its coordination to Pd(II),Dalton Trans.,2011,40, 10725−10730.

9. Wen-Hua Zhang , Dong Liu, Hong-Xi Li, Zhi-Gang Ren, Yong Zhang, Jian-Ping Lang*, How does a non-C₃-symmetry guest molecule fit into a C₃-symmetry host cavity?,Cryst. Growth Des.,2010,10, 3–6.

10. Jian-Ping Lang*,Wen-Hua Zhang, Hong-Xi Li, Zhi-Gang Ren,Cluster-based supramolecular compounds from Mo(W)/Cu/S cluster precursors, In Design and construction of coordination polymer; Mao-Chun Hong, Ling Chen Ed.; Wiley & Sons,2009, P267–P306.

11.Wen-Hua Zhang, Ying-Lin Song, Yong Zhang, Jian-Ping Lang*, From a binuclear cluster to cluster-supported supramolecular compounds: design, assembly and enhanced third-order NLO performances of {[Et₄N]₂[MoOS₃Cu₂(μ-CN)]₂∙2aniline}∞ and {[Et₄N]₄[MoOS₃Cu₃CN (μ'-CN)]₂(μ-CN)₂}_∞,Cryst. Growth Des.,2008,8, 253–258.

12.Wen-Hua Zhang, Jian-Ping Lang*, Yong Zhang, Brendan F. Abrahams, Stepwise guest exchange in a cluster-supported three dimensional host,Cryst. Growth Des.,2008,8, 399–401.

13.Wen-Hua Zhang, Ying-Lin Song, Zhen-Hong Wei, Ling-Ling Li, Yu-Jian Huang, Yong Zhang, and Jian-Ping Lang*, Assembly of [(η⁵-C₅Me₅)MoS₃Cu₃]-supported one-dimensional chains with single, double, triple and quadruple strands,Inorg. Chem.,2008, 47, 5332–5346.

14.Wen-Hua Zhang, Ying-Lin Song, Zhi-Gang Ren, Hong-Xi Li, Ling-Ling Li, Yong Zhang, Jian-Ping Lang*, Construction of [(h5-C₅Me₅)MoS₃Cu₃]-based supramolecular assemblies from the [(η⁵-C₅Me₅)MoS₃(CuNCS)₃]- cluster anion and multitopic ligands with different symmetries,Inorg. Chem.,2007,46, 6647–6660.

Oral Presentations

41^stInternational Conference on Coordination Chemistry, July 21−25, 2014, Singapore.

4^thMolecular Materials Meeting (M3), Singapore, January 14, 2014.

3^rdIMRE-LAM Bilateral Workshop on Advanced Materials, Fudan University, China, Oct 2013.

Soochow University, Suzhou, China, October 12, 2013.

Universiti Brunei Darussalam, Brunei, September 21, 2013.

15^thAsian Chemical Congress (15^thACC), Singapore, August 22, 2013.

IMRE-NTU Joint Workshop on ‘New Chemistry & Materials’, Singapore, May 10, 2013.

3^rdMolecular Materials Meeting (3^rdM3), Singapore, January 15, 2013.

6^thNational Symposium on Structural Chemistry (6^thNSSC), Suzhou, China, October 25, 2012.

China–Singapore Young Chemist Forum, Chendu, China, April 14, 2012.