Introduction
Established in 1996, professor Hong’s research group is one of the earliest groups that have been engaged in the research of inorganic functional materials. The group conducted the pioneer work to apply coordination chemistry in crystal engineering and successfully utilized the functional building units to synthesize the designed target crystalline materials. In the investigation of nanometer-scale cages and capsules, our group has extensively explored the properties of supramolecules in some scientifically interesting and commercially attractive reactions. Modification of the organic ligands through the adjustment of their electronic and steric properties to make them more effective for specific reactions is carried out. The syntheses, structural characterization, and functional studies of metal inorganic particles and nanometer-scale metallosupramolecules including nano-wire, nano-cages, nano-tube, macrocycles, and nano-clusters are involved.
Our current research interests mainly focus on crystal design and growth, functional materials and devices, nano-catalytic materials, as well as their industrialization in the fields of both crystal engineering and nano-materials.
Team Leader:
Prof. Maochun Hong
Address: 155, West Yangqiao Road, Fuzhou, Fujian 350002, P.R. China;
Telephone: +86-591-63173966(O);
FAX: +86-591-63173966;
E-mail: hmc@fjirsm.ac.cn
Prof. Maochun Hong graduated from Fuzhou University in 1978 and received his M.Sc. degree from Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter (FJIRSM), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), in 1981. He was a visiting scientist at the Department of Chemistry of the University of Newcastle in 1992-1993. He worked as a JSPS visiting professor from 1997 to 1999 at Nagoya University, where he received his Ph. D degree. He was elected a Member of Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2003 and elected a Fellow of the Academy of Science for the Developing World (TWAS) in 2005. He successively served as the director of FJIRSM from 2000 to 2013 and an associate editor of Crystal Growth & Design from 2006 to 2018. At the present, he is a professor and the academic director of FJIRSM.
Recent publications:
1. Shenghan Zou, Caiping Liu, Renfu Li, Feilong Jiang, Xueyuan Chen, Yongsheng Liu, and Maochun Hong, From Non-luminescent to Blue Emitting Cs4PbBr6 Nanocrystals: Tailoring the Insulator Band Gap of Zero-dimensional Perovskite through Sn Cation Doping, Adv. Mater., 2019, 31 (24), 201900606.
2. Lian Chen, Qihui Chen, Mingyan Wu, Feilong Jiang, Maochun Hong, Controllable Coordination-Driven Self-Assembly: From Discrete Metallocages to Infinite Cage-Based Frameworks, Acc. Chem. Res., 2015, 48, 201–210.
3. Jiandong Pang, Shuai Yuan, Junsheng Qin, Caiping Liu, Christina Lollar, Mingyan Wu, Da-Qiang Yuan, Hong-Cai Zhou, Maochun Hong, Control the Structure of Zr-Tetracarboxylate Frameworks through Steric Tuning, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2017, 139, 16939-16945.
4. Shenghan Zou, Caiping Liu, Rui Feng, Yongsheng Liu, Feilong Jiang, Yongxiang Li, Xueyuan Chen, and Maochun Hong, Stabilizing Cesium Lead Halide Perovskite Lattice through Mn(II) Substitution for Air-Stable Light-Emitting Diodes, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2017, 139, 11443-11450.
5. Linfeng Liang, Caiping Liu, Feilong Jiang, QihuiChen, Luyao Liu, HuiXue, Jinjie Qian, Daqiang Yuan, Hailong Jiang, Maochun Hong, Carbon dioxide capture and conversion by 
an acid-base resistant metal-organic framework, Nat. Comm., 2017, 8, 1233.
6. Jiandong Pang, Feilong Jiang, Mingyan Wu, Caiping Liu, Kongzhao Su, Weigang Lu, Daqiang Yuan, Maochun Hong, A Porous Metal-Organic Framework Holding the Record-High Acetylene Uptake Capacities under Ambient Conditions, Nat. Commun., 2015, 6, 7575 (DOI:10.1038/ncomms8575).
7. Jiandong Pang, Shuai Yuan, Dongying Du, Christina Lollar, Liangliang Zhang, Mingyan Wu, Daqiang Yuan, Hong-Cai Zhou, and Maochun Hong, Flexible Zr-MOFs as Bromine-Nanocontainers for Bromination Reactions under Ambient Conditions, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2017, 56, 14622-14626.
8. Falu Hu, Caiping Liu, Mingyan Wu, Jiandong Pang, Feilong Jiang, Daqiang Yuan, Maochun Hong, An Ultra-stable and Easily Regenerated Hydrogen-bonded Organic Molecular Framework with Permanent Porosity, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2017, 56, 2101-2104.
9. Jiandong Pang, Yougui Huang, Mingyan Wu, Feilong Jiang, Daqiang Yuan, Caiping Liu, Falu Hu, Kongzhao Su, Guoliang Liu, Maochun Hong, Visualizing the Dynamics of Temperature- and Solvent-Responsive Soft Crystals, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2016, 55, 7478-7482.
10.You-Gui Huang, Shu-Qi Wu, Wei-Hua Deng, Gang Xu, Fa-Lu Hu, Jonathan P. Hill, Wei Wei, Sheng-Qun Su, Lok Kumar Shrestha, Osamu Sato, Ming-Yan Wu, Maochun Hong, Katsuhiko Ariga, Selective CO2 Capture and High Proton Conductivity of a Functional Star-of-David Catenane Metal-Organic Framework, Adv. Mater. 2017, 29, DOI10.1002/adma.201703301
