Education:
Ph.D., Sichuan University, Atomic and Molecular Physics (1999)
B.S., Fudan University, Physical Chemistry (1992)
Employment
Professor, Southwest Jiaotong University (2007.09- Present)
Visiting Professor, University of Georgia, US (2014.09-2015.09)
Visiting Scholar, University of Georgia, US (2004.10-2006.10)
Associate Professor, Sichuan University (2001.09-2007.08)
Assistant Professor，Sichuan University (1999.07-2001.08)
Selected Awards and Honors
New Century Excellent Talents Supporting Plan of Ministry of Education
Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars of Sichuan Province
Outstanding contribution expert of Sichuan Province
Academic and technical leaders of Sichuan Province
RESEARCH
1.Multi-scale computational simulation of the novel functional materials，including low-dimensional nanomaterials, photocatalytic materials, photoelectric conversion materials, etc.
2.Design and controllable preparation of 2D heterogeneous nanostructures
3.New materials design by high-throughput density functional computing combining machine learning.
Research Group
Nanomaterials and Computational Physics group
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
1. Tian Zhang, Yudong Xia,* Hao Zhu, Ruipeng Zhao, Bai Sun, Hongyan Wang,* Yong Zhang, Bowan Tao, Yong Zhao, Surface tuning of the photoelectrochemical properties of oblique angle co-sputtered ZnxFeyO films by Fe concentration, Ceramics International, 46(7), 8884-8890 (2020).
2. Min Xu, Hongyan Wang*, Songsong Sun, Hengtao Li, Xiumei Li, Yuanzheng Chen, Yuxiang Ni, Functionalization of Two-Dimensional C4N by atoms adsorption: A first-principles investigation, Physica E: Low-dimensional Systems and Nanostructures , 115, 113649 (2020).
3. Songsong Sun, Fanchen Meng, Yuanfeng Xu, Jian He, Yuxiang Ni*, Hongyan Wang*, Flexible, auxetic and strain-tunable two dimensional penta-X2C family for water splitting photocatalyst with high carrier mobility, J. Mater. Chem. A, 7(13): 7791–7799 (2019）.
4. Xibo Li*, Yuqi Chen, Pradip Basnet, Jiangshan Luo, Hongyan Wang*, Probing the properties of size dependence and correlation for tantalum clusters: geometry, stability, vibrational spectra, magnetism, and electronic structure, RSC advances, 9(2): 1015-1028 (2019)..
5. Ismail Harran, Yuanzheng Chen*, Hongyan Wang*, Hengtao Li, Yucai Li, Li Tao, High-pressure induced phase transition of FeS2: Electronic, mechanical and thermoelectric properties, J. Alloy. Compd. 2017, 710: 267-273 (2017).
6. Hongyan Wang,* Songong Sun, Hui Wang, R. Bruce King, Binuclear Cyclooctatetraene-Iron Carbonyl Complexes: Examples of Fluxionality and Valence Tautomerism, New J. Chem., 40, 1521-1528 (2016).
7. Hongyan Wang*, Hui Wang, R. Bruce King, Henry F. Schaefer III, Bis(azulene) , Submarine” Metal Dimer Sandwich Compounds (C10H8)2M2 (M = Ti, V, Cr, Mn, Fe, Co, Ni): Parallel and Opposed Orientations, J. comp. Chem. , 37:250-260 (2016).
8. Hongyan Wang*, Yudong Qiu, and Henry F. Schaefer III, Pathways for the OH + Br2 → HOBr + Br and HOBr + Br → HBr + BrO Reactions, J. Phys. Chem. A, 120(5), 805-816 (2016).
9. Hongyan Wang*, Yaoming Xie, R. Bruce King*, Henry F. Schaefer III, Remarkable aspects of unsaturation in trinuclear metal carbonyl clusters: The triiron species Fe3(CO)n (n=12, 11, 10, 9), J. Am. Chem. Soc. , 128 (35): 11376-11384 (2006).
10. Hongyan Wang, Yaoming Xie, R. Bruce King*, Henry F. Schaefer III, Binuclear cyclopentadienylcobalt carbonyls: Comparison with binuclear iron carbonyls, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 127 (33): 11646-11651 (2005).
Lecture:
Atomic physics (undergraduates)
Experiment in modern physics (undergraduates)
Computational Physics and application (Master and Ph. D.)
