Personal Profile
Mingchao Wang is an Assistant Professor and Principal Investigator at the Peking University Shenzhen Graduate School. He received his bachelor's degree from Shandong University and his master's and doctoral degrees from Dresden University of Technology. Prior to joining Peking University, he was a research group leader at Dresden University of Technology and the Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics. His research focuses on the development of two-dimensional conjugated (covalent/coordination) polymers and porous framework materials, as well as their functional applications in electronics, sensing, and energy conversion and storage. He has published over 50 research articles, including nearly 20 as first or corresponding author in prestigious journals such as Nature Materials, Nature Reviews Materials, Journal of the American Chemical Society, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, and Chemical Society Reviews, which has attracted over 4,000 citations with an H-index of 31. He also serves as a member of the Youth Editorial Board of The Innovation Materials.
Education Background
2025-present Peking University, Shenzhen Graduate School, Assistant Professor (PI)
2022-2024 Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics, Research Group Leader
2021-2024 Dresden University of Technology, Research Associate and Research Group Leader
Work Experience
2025-present Peking University, Shenzhen Graduate School, Assistant Professor (PI)
2022-2024 Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics, Research Group Leader
2021-2024 Dresden University of Technology, Research Associate and Research Group Leader
Research Focus
Global challenges such as food security, public health, climate change, and environmental pollution are becoming increasingly urgent. Advanced sensing and detection technologies, along with clean energy conversion and storage, are key to tackling these issues—both of which fundamentally rely on high-performance semiconductor materials. To contribute to these solutions, his research integrates synthetic chemistry, polymer chemistry, materials science, and condensed matter physics, with a focus on the development of a class of square-shaped, crystalline two-dimensional (2D) conjugated polymers—covering both covalent and coordination types— as well as related porous framework materials such as 2D conjugated covalent organic frameworks (COFs) and metal-organic frameworks (MOFs). His work explores their charge transport mechanisms, enhances charge carrier mobility, tunes (opto)electronic and magnetic properties, aiming to advance their functional applications in electronics, sensing, and energy conversion and storage. In parallel, his research also involves automated synthesis and characterization of these materials.
Honors & Awards
・Chinese Talent Program (2024)
・ACS Rising Talents Prize (2023)
・World's Top 2% Scientists (2022)
・Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-financed Students Abroad (2020)
[1] R. Zhao, W. Wang, Y. Liu, P. Petkov, A. H. Khan, L. Gao, P. Zhang, E. Brunner, H. I. Wang, S. Singh, S. Huang, L. A. Panes-Ruiz, Y. Vaynzof, M. Bonn, G. Cuniberti*, M. Wang*, X. Feng*, A Donor-Acceptor-Type Two-Dimensional Poly(arylene vinylene) for Efficient Electron Transport and Sensitive Chemiresistors. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2025, 64, e202504302.
[2] X. Huang, M. Wang*, H. Zhong, X. Li, H. Wang, Y. Lu, G. Zhang, Y. Liu, P. Zhang, R. Zou, X. Feng*, R. Dong*, Metal-Phthalocyanine-Based Two-Dimensional Conjugated Metal-Organic Frameworks for Electrochemical Glycerol Oxidation Reaction. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2025, 64, e202416178.
[3] A. Waentig, X. Li, M. Zhao, S. Haldar, P. Koko, S. Paasch, A. Mueller, K. Alvarez, F. Auras, E. Brunner, A. Schneemann, J.-Q. Huang, S. Kaskel*, M. Wang*, X. Feng*, Electron-Deficient Two-Dimensional Poly(arylene vinylene) Covalent Organic Frameworks: Efficient Synthesis and Host-Guest Interaction. Chem. Sci. 2025, 16, 4152.
[4] Z. Wang#, M. Wang#, T. Heine, X. Feng*, Electronic and Quantum Properties of Organic Two-Dimensional Crystals. Nat. Rev. Mater. 2025, 10, 147-166.
[5] P. Zhang, M. Wang*, Y. Liu, Y. Fu, M. Gao, G. Wang, F. Wang, Z. Wang, G. Chen, S. Yang, Y. Liu, R. Dong, M. Yu*, X. Lu, X. Feng*, Largely Pseudocapacitive Two-Dimensional Conjugated Metal-Organic Framework Anodes with Lowest Unoccupied Molecular Orbital Localized in Nickel-bis(dithiolene) Linkages. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2023, 145, 6247.
[6] Y. Liu, H. Zhang, H. Yu, Z. Liao, S. Paasch, S. Xu*, R. Zhao, E. Brunner, M. Bonn, H. I. Wang*, T. Heine, M. Wang*, Y. Mai*, X. Feng*, A Thiophene Backbone Enables Two-Dimensional Poly(arylene vinylene)s with High Charge Carrier Mobility. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2023, 62, e202305978.
[7] M. Wang#, S. Fu#, P. S. Petkov, Y. Fu, Z. Zhang, Y. Liu, J. Ma, G. Chen, S. M. Gali, L. Gao, Y. Lu, S. Paasch, H. Zhong, H.-P. Steinrück, E. Cánovas, E. Brunner, D. Beljonne, M. Bonn, H. I. Wang*, R. Dong*, X. Feng*, Exceptionally High Charge Mobility in Phthalocyanine-Based Poly(benzimidazobenzophenanthroline)-Ladder-Type Two-Dimensional Conjugated Polymers. Nat. Mater. 2023, 22, 880–887.
[8] M. Wang#, G. Wang#*, C. Naisa#, Y. Fu, S. M. Gali, S. Paasch, M. Wang, H. Wittkaemper, C. Papp, E. Brunner, S. Zhou, D. Beljonne, H.-P. Steinrück, Dong*, X. Feng*, Poly(benzimidazobenzophenanthro line)-Ladder-Type Two-Dimensional Conjugated Covalent Organic Framework for Fast Proton Storage. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2023, 62, e202310937.
[9] M. Wang, R. Dong*, X. Feng*, Two-Dimensional Conjugated Metal–Organic Frameworks (2D c-MOFs): Chemistry and Function for MOFtronics. Chem. Soc. Rev. 2021, 50, 2764.
[10] M. Wang#, Z. Zhang#, H. Zhong, X. Huang, W. Li, M. Hambsch, P. Zhang, Z. Wang, P. St. Petkov, T. Heine, S. C. B. Mannsfeld*, X. Feng*, R. Dong*, Surface-Modified Phthalocyanine-Based Two-Dimensional Conjugated Metal–Organic Framework Films for Polarity-Selective Chemiresistive Sensing. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2021, 60, 18666.
[11] P. Zhang#, M. Wang#, Y. Liu, S. Yang, F. Wang, Y. Li, G. Chen, Z. Li, G. Wang, M. Zhu, R. Dong*, M. Yu*, O. G. Schmidt, X. Feng*, Dual-Redox-Sites Enable Two-Dimensional Conjugated Metal–Organic Frameworks with Large Pseudocapacitance and Wide Potential Window. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2021, 143, 10168.
[12] H. Zhong#, M. Wang#, M. Ghorbani-Asl, J. Zhang, K. H. Ly, Z. Liao, G. Chen, Y. Wei, B. P. Biswal, E. Zschech, I. M. Weidinger, A. V. Krasheninnikov, R. Dong*, X. Feng*, Boosting the Electrocatalytic Conversion of Nitrogen to Ammonia on Metal-Phthalocyanine-Based Two-Dimensional Conjugated Covalent Organic Frameworks. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2021, 143, 19992.
[13] M. Wang#, M. Wang#, H.-H. Lin#, M. Ballabio, H. Zhong, M. Bonn, S. Zhou, T. Heine, E. Cánovas*, R. Dong*, X. Feng*, High-Mobility Semiconducting Two-Dimensional Conjugated Covalent Organic Frameworks with p-Type Doping. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2020, 142, 21622.
[14] M. Wang#, H. Shi#, P. Zhang#, Z. Liao, M. Wang, H. Zhong, F. Schwotzer, A. S. Nia, E. Zschech, S. Zhou, S. Kaskel, R. Dong*, X. Feng*, Phthalocyanine-Based 2D Conjugated Metal-Organic Framework Nanosheets for High-Performance Micro-Supercapacitors. Adv. Funct. Mater. 2020, 30, 2002664.
[15] M. Wang, M. Ballabio, M. Wang, H.-H. Lin, B. P. Biswal, X. Han, S. Paasch, E. Brunner, P. Liu, M. Chen, M. Bonn, T. Heine, S. Zhou, E. Cánovas*, R. Dong*, X. Feng*, Unveiling Electronic Properties in Metal–Phthalocyanine-Based Pyrazine-Linked Conjugated Two-Dimensional Covalent Organic Frameworks. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2019, 141, 16810.
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