Prof. Fengrong Dai 

Tel.：86-591-63179451           

Email：dfr@fjirsm.ac.cn

Research Interests: 

Directed assembly, functional regulation and host-guest chemistry of biomimetic supramolecular cage 

Publications： 

(1) N. Bhuvaneswari, F. R. Dai* and Z. N. Chen*, Sensitive and Specific Guest Recognition through Pyridinium-Modification in Spindle-Like Coordination Containers, Chem. Eur. J. 2018, 24, 6580-6585.  

(2) C. Z. Sun, L. Y. Zhang, J. Y. Wang, Z. N. Chen* and F. R. Dai*, Sensitive and selective urinary 1-hydroxypyrene detection by dinuclear terbium-sulfonylcalixarene complex, Dalton Trans. 2018, 47, 8301-8306.  

(3) N. Bhuvaneswari, K. P. Annamalai, F.-R. Dai* and Z.-N. Chen*, Pyridinium functionalized coordination containers as highly efficient electrocatalysts for sustainable oxygen evolution, J. Mater. Chem. A 2017, 5, 23559-23565.  

(4) F.-R. Dai, Y. Qiao and Z. Wang, Designing structurally tunable and functionally versatile synthetic supercontainers, Inorg. Chem. Front. 2016, 3, 243-249.   

(5) F.-R. Dai, D. C. Becht, Z. Wang*, Modulating guest binding in sulfonylcalixarene-based metal–organic supercontainers, Chem. Commun. 2014, 50, 5385-5387.  

(6) F.-R. Dai, U. Sambasivam, A. J. Hammerstrom, Z. Wang*, Synthetic Supercontainers Exhibit Distinct Solution versus Solid State Guest-Binding Behavior, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2014, 136, 7480–7491.  

(7) N. L. Netzer,？ F.-R. Dai,？ Z. Wang,* and C. Jiang*, pH-Modulated Molecular Assemblies and Surface Properties of Metal-Organic Supercontainers at Air-Water Interface, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2014, 53, 10965-10969.  

(8) F.-R. Dai, Z. Wang^*, Modular Assembly of Metal–Organic Supercontainers Incorporating Sulfonylcalixarenes, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2012, 134, 8002–8005.