Chih-Min Wang

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR

Department of Bioscience and Biotechnology

National Taiwan Ocean University

Room110 , General House II

TEL:+886-2-2462-2192 Extension: #5569

Email: cmwang@ntou.edu.tw

for Inorganic-Organic Hybrid Materials and Their Applications

Researches in the lab of Chih-Min are engaged in the design and synthesis of new crystalline materials for their rich structural chemistry and potential applications, includuing luminescence, environmental and energy-related fields.

Crystalline Materials with a good number of structures lead the studies of their physical-chemical properties and potential applications very attractive research fields. Therefore, we devoted our best efforts to the synthesis and design of solid-state materials with new architectures and nanostructured frameworks by matching appropriate metal cations, inorganic groups, and organic molecules (as templates or ligands) under hydrothermal and/or solvothermal conditions. Also, we are engaged in interdisciplinary research by means of our expertise and experience for seeking interesting physicochemical properties and applications of these organic-inorganic hybrid materials. Three publications had been highlighted in journal frontispieces and covers. An example illustrating the motivation of our studies (Chem. Eur.-J. 2019, accepted for publication).

#1 One unprecedented interpenetrating material (denoted as NTOU-5) presented the removal ability for organic dyes from aqueous solutions. This ability is important for the environmental remediation because large numbers of organic dyes from industrial wastes have caused serious environmental damage (about 140-7000 t of the organic compounds is discharged into the aquatic system).

#2 For the structural feature, NTOU-5 is the first report of a crystalline material formed by the consolidation of different frameworks with individual metal-ligand connections into one single crystal solid. The zinc cations under the same synthesis condition are respectively bonded to oxygen-donor ligands and to nitrogen-donor linkers to form the anionic [Zn2(OX)3]2- and cationic [Zn(TIMB)]2+ frameworks which are polycatenated each other in the construction of an organic-inorganic hybrid material.

#3 Research in combination with the issues of new material and environmental cares is going on.

#4 Further research on the synthesis and development of crystalline materials with new structural features for functional applications is in progress.

Selected Publications

  1. Wang, C.-L.; Hsieh, J.; Lee, L.W.; Hsiao, P.Y.; Chu, J.-H.; Wang, C.-M.＊ “An Unprecedented Interpenetrating Structure Built from Two Differently-bonded Frameworks: Synthesis, Characteristics, and Efficient Removal of Anionic Dyes from Aqueous Solutions” Chem. Eur.-J. 2019, accepted for publication. (as a cover feature).
  2. Wang, C.-M.＊; Lin, Y.-J.; Pan, M.-F.; Su, C.-K.; Lin, T.-Y. “A Highly Stable Framework of Crystalline Zinc Phosphite with Selective Removal, Recovery, and Turn-On Sensing Abilities for Mercury Cations in Aqueous Solutions” Chem. Eur.-J. 2018, 24, 9729-9734 (as a frontispiece for this journal).
  3. Wang, C.-M.＊; Pan, M.-F.; Lin, Y.-J.; Chung, M.-Y.; Wen, Y.-S.; Chang, Y.; Lin, H.-M.; Hsu, T. “A Series of Organic-Inorganic Hybrid Zinc Phosphites Containing Extra-Large Channels” Inorg. Chem. 2018, 57, 2390-239
  4. Wang, C.-M.＊; Pan, M.-F.; Chen, Y.-C.; Lin, H.-M.; Chung, M.-Y.; Wen, Y.-S.; Lii, K.-H. “Two Polymorphs of an Organic−Zincophosphate Incorporating a Terephthalate Bridging Ligand in an Unusual Bonding Mode” Inorg. Chem. 2017, 56, 7602-7605.
  5. Wang, C.-M.＊; Lee, L.-W.; Chang, T.-Y.; Fan, B.-L.; Wang, C.-L.; Lin, H.-M.; Lu, K.-L. “New 3D Tubular Porous Structure of an Organic–Zincophosphite Framework with Interesting Gas Adsorption and Luminescence Properties” Chem. Eur.-J. 2016, 22, 16099-16102 (as a cover paper).
  6. Chang, T.-Y.; Yan, Z.-N.; Wang, C.-C.; Li, H.-C.; Lin, H.-M.; Wang, C.-M.＊ “New Hybrid Organic-Zincophosphate Frameworks: Single-Crystal-to-Single- Crystal Structural Transformation and Remarkable Thermal and Chemical Stabilities” Dalton Trans. 2016, 45, 7231-7234.