Research Experience

• Mar. 2021–Present  Associate Professor, Spin-X institute, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, South China University of Technology

• Feb. 2019–Jan. 2021  Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, School of Engineering, Peking University

Education Background

• May 2016–May 2018  Joint Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering, School of Engineering, Peking University   

• Sep. 2015–Dec. 2018  Ph.D. in Inorganic Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Lanzhou University

• Sep.2012–June 2015  M.S. in Inorganic Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Lanzhou University  

• Sep. 2008–July 2012  B.S. in Chemistry, College of Chemistry, Heilongjiang University

• Teaching Courses

  General Chemistry

  University Chemistry Experiment

• Research

  The lab's research concentrates on the chemical design of magnetic nanomaterials and their application in integrating tumor diagnosis and treatment. The lab members employed the unique magnetic properties of nanomaterials to break through the significant problems in diagnosing and treating malignant tumors, whose properties are efficient catalytic activity and good biocompatibility. Over the past several years, the lab has conducted three basic scientific research directions: (1) Intelligent drug delivery systems; (2) Novel magnetic nanoprobes; (3) Biological micro-nano devices, dedicating to providing new materials and methods for the integration of malignant tumor diagnosis and therapy. The representative achievements have been published beyond 30 SCI articles with no less than 910 citations, including some published as the first author in Nat. Commun., Sci. Adv., CCS Chem, ACS Nano, Adv. Funct. Mater., Chem. Commun., ACS Sustain. Chem. Eng., Aggregate, Nanoscale Horiz. Research, Nanoscale, and J. Mater. Chem. B. Beyond that, an application for Chinese invention patent was acquired in 2020.

• Research Interests

  Construction of low-dimensional magnetic nanomaterials with electromagnetic wave absorption properties
  Design of molecular imaging nanoprobes
  Development of intelligent drug delivery systems
  Design and application of magnetic nanorobots
  Synthesis and application of MRI contrast agents
  Optimization and scale-up preparation of bio-magnetic beads

Selected Publications

1. Zhiyi Wang, ShurenWang, Xiaoguang Zhang, Ziyuan Li, Zeeshan Ali, Donghai Yu, Hongtao Zhang, Fugeng Sheng, Song Gao & Yanglong Hou*, Temperature and Tumor Microenvironment Dual Responsive Mesoporous Magnetic Nanospheres for Magnetothermal Effect-Induced Cancer Theranostics. CCS Chemistry, 2022, 4, 1-18.

2. Shuren Wang#, Zhiyi Wang#, Ziyuan Li, Xiaoguang Zhang, Hongtao Zhang, Teng Zhang, Xiangxi Meng, Fugeng Sheng, Yanglong Hou*, Amelioration of systemic antitumor immune responses in cocktail therapy by immunomodulatory nanozymes. Science Advances,2022, accepted (Joint first authors).

3. Zhiyi Wang, Yanglong Hou*, et al. Visualization nanozyme based on tumor microenvironment “unlocking” for intensive combination therapy of breast cancer. Science Advances2020, 6, eabc8733.

4. Zhiyi Wang, Yanglong Hou*, et al. Near-Infrared Light and Tumor Microenvironment Dual Responsive Size-Switchable Nanocapsules for Multimodal Tumor Theran