Name: Yongfa Xie

Gender: Male

Job title: Associate Professor

Email Address: xieyf@ncu.edu.cn

Education and Work Experience ：

Nov., 2015 --- Present: School of Chemistry, Associate Professor

Oct., 2013 ~ Oct., 2015: Department of Chemistry, Nagoya University, Postdoctoral Researcher (WPI-ITbM Project) (Cooperative Supervisor: Shigehiro Yamaguchi)

Oct., 2010 ~ Sep., 2013: Department of Chemistry, Nagoya University, Ph.D (Supervisor: Kunio Awaga)

Apr., 2010 ~ Sep., 2010: Shanghai ChemPartner Co. Ltd.

Sep., 2007 ~ Mar., 2010：Department of Chemistry, Zhejiang University, Master's Degree (Supervisor: Hongwei Zhou)

Oct., 2003 ~ Jun., 2007: Department of Chemistry, Nanchang University, Bachelor's Degree

Teaching：

“Organic Chemistry”, “Organic Chemistry Experiments”, “Spectroscopy Analysis”, and “Green Chemistry” for Undergraduates. “Physical Organic Chemistry” for Graduates. “Organic Chemistry” for

Research fields: Molecular Ferroelectric Functional Materials/Opto-electronic Materials/Organic Synthesis

Research projects：

1. “Design Quasi-sphere Amines for Multiaxial Molecular Ferroelectrics” National Natural Science Foundation of China

2. “Organic-Inorganic Hybrid Radical Ferroelectric Materials” National Natural Science Foundation of China

3. “Organic-inorganic Hybrid Materials Based on Azabicyclic Alkanes for Molecular Ferroelectrics” Natural Science Foundation of China of Jiangxi

4. “Synthesis and Ferroelectric Properties of Pyridine Containing Phenazine Compound Co-crystals” Research Foundation of Department of Education in Jiangxi Province

Awards and Honors：

1. The 16th "Challenge Cup" National College Student Competition (2019), Provincial Grand Prize and National Second Prize, As an Instructor

2. The 7th College Students' Innovation and Entrepreneurship Training Program (2021), Provincial Gold Prize, As an Instructor

3. “Ganjiang Youth Scholar” of Nanchang University

Representative papers and patents：

1. Yongfa Xie, Yong Ai, Yu-ling Zeng, Wen-Hui He, Xue-Qin Huang, Da-Wei Fu*, Ji-Xing Gao, Xiao-Gang Chen, and Yuan-Yuan Tang*. "The Soft Molecular Polycrystalline Ferroelectric Realized by the Fluorination Effect" J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2020, 142, 12486-12492.

2. Chen-Kai Yang, Wang-Nan Chen, Yan-Ting Ding, Jing Wang, Yin Rao, Wei-Qiang Liao, Yongfa Xie*, Wennan Zou*, and Ren-Gen Xiong*. "Directional Intermolecular Interactions for Precise Molecular Design of a High-Tc Multiaxial Molecular Ferroelectric" J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2019, 141, 1781-1787.(X-Mol 科学知识平台对该成果的介绍)

3. Mingsheng Xu, Jiajun Chen, Xiaojie Zhou, Yongfa Xie,* Luqiu Chen, Jiao Wang, Chenxu Sheng, Bobo Tian, Hong Wang, Wenchong Wang, Chunxiao Cong, Zhi-Jun Qiu, Ran Liu,* Laigui Hu.* “Single-Crystalline Thin-Film Memory Arrays of Molecular Ferroelectrics with Ultralow Operation Voltages” ACS. Mater. Lett., 2022, 4: 758-763.

4. Yongfa Xie, Jingjing Zheng, Kuangqi Zheng, Qing Liu, Jie Duan, Wei Chen, Shuke Shao, Hu Cai.* “High-Temperature Switchable Nonlinear Optical and Dielectric Material Revealed by Molecular Modification” Chem. Mater., 2021, 33(9): 3081-3086.

5. Yongfa Xie,* Teng-Fei Li, Wei Chem, Lixin Liang, Hui-Peng Lv, Qing Liu, Yin-Shan Meng, Guangjin Hou,* Hu Cai.* “Bistable Opto-electronic Properties Originated from the Scissoring Motion of the TEMPO Skeleton in Supramolecular Radical Ferroelectrics” Inorg. Chem., 2023, 62, 5543-5552.

6. Chao-Ran Huang,# Yibao Li,*# Yongfa Xie,# Ye Du, Hang Peng, Yu-Ling Zeng, Jun-Chao Liu, Ren-Gen Xiong.* “The First High-Temperature Supramolecular Radical Ferroics” Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2021, 60(30): 16668-16673.

7. Mingsheng Xu, Chenxu Sheng, Qiuyi Zhang, Xiaojie Zhou, Bobo Tian, Luqiu Chen, Yichen Cai, Jianping Li, Jiao Wang, Yongfa Xie,* Xinxia Qiu, Wenchong Wang, Shisheng Xiong, Chunxiao Cong, Zhi-jun Qiu, Ran Liu, Laigui Hu.* “Large-Area Flexible Memory Arrays of Oriented Molecular Ferroelectric Single Crystals with Nearly Saturated Polarization” Small 2022, 45, 2203882.

8. Yuan-Yuan Tang,* Yongfa Xie, Yu-Ling Zeng, Jun-Chao Liu, Wen-Hui He, Xue-Qin Huang, and Ren-Gen Xiong* "Record Enhancement of Phase Transition Temperature Realized by H/F Substitution" Adv. Mater. 2020, 2003530.
9. Tang, Yuan-Yuan;* Xie, Yongfa; Ai, Yong; Liao, Wei-Qiang; Li, Peng-Fei; Nakamura, Takayoshi; Xiong, Ren-Gen.* “Organic Ferroelectric Vortex-Antivortex Domain Structure” J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2020, 142(52): 21932-21937.

10. Ruchun Yang, Shusheng Yue, Wei Tang, Yongfa Xie*, and Hu Cai*. "DMSO/t-BuONa/O2-Mediated Aerobic Dehydrogenation of Saturated N-Heterocycles" The Journal of Organic Chemistry 2020, 85, 7501-7509.
11. Yongfa Xie, Yoshiaki Shuku, Michio M. Matsushita*, Kunio Awaga*. “Thiadiazole Dioxide-Fused Picene: Acceptor Ability, Anion Radical Formation, and n-Type Charge Transport Characteristics”Chemical Communications, 2014, 50, 4178-4180.

12. Yongfa Xie, Takuya Fujimoto, Simon Dalgleish, Yoshiaki Shuku, Michio M. Matsushita*, Kunio Awaga*.“Synthesis, Optical Properties and Charge Transport Characteristics of a Series of Novel Thiophene-fused Phenazine Derivatives” Journal of Materials Chemistry C., 2013,1, 3467-3481.

13. Hongwei Zhou*, Yongfa Xie, Lianjun Ren and Rui Su. “Sulfur-Assisted Five-Cascade Sequential Reactions for the Convenient and Efficient Synthesis of Allyl Thiophen-2-yl Acetates, Propionates, and Ketones” Organic Letters, 2010,12, 356-359.

14. Hongwei Zhou*, Yongfa Xie, Lianjun Ren, Kai Wang. “Sulfur-Participated Nazarov-Type Cyclization: A Simple and Efficient Synthesis for 3-Thio-1H-indenes” Advanced Synthesis & Catalysis. 2009, 351, 1289-1292.

15. Hongwei Zhou*, Da Zhu, Yongfa Xie, Huafeng Huang, Kai Wang. “Ga(OTf)3-Promoted Sequential Reactions via Sulfur-assisted Propargyl-Allenyl Isomerizations and Intramolecular [4 + 2]cycloaddition for the Synthesis of 1,3-dihydrobenzo[c]thiophenes” The Journal of Organic Chemistry. 2010, 75, 2706-2709.