• 2015.10 - 2018.11 (2019.11 Degree Conferred): University of Cambridge (UK), Darwin College, Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy
PhD in Materials Science (Sensor Technologies and Applications)

• 2014.10 - 2015.09: University of Cambridge (UK), Darwin College, EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Sensor Technologies and Applications (EPSRC Sensor CDT)
MRes in Sensor Technologies and Applications

• 2011.10 - 2014.06: Imperial College London (UK), Department of Materials
1st Class BEng in Materials Science and Engineering

• Since 2020.01: Assistant Professor (Tenure Track), Full Time
School of Mechanical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China

• 2018.11 - 2019.12: Postdoctoral Research Associate, Full Time
School of Chemistry, The University of Sydney, Australia

*Research Internship Experience:
• 2014.07 - 2014.09: Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics (DICP), Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Nano and Interfacial Catalysis Group, State Key Laboratory of Catalysis

• 2013.07 - 2013.09: Max-Planck-Institut für Eisenforschung GmbH (MPIE), Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Germany
Department of Microstructure Physics & Alloy Design

Tiesheng Wang （王铁胜） is working on materials chemistry and nanomaterials. He is also interested in designing and developing responsive functional materials towards 'materials automation'. More details are given below:

1. Developing materials at nano- or sub-nanoscale, particularly about composites based on host-guest systems. Hosts include but not limit to nanoporous materials (e.g. metal-organic frameworks, MOFs). Tiesheng is exploring (i) the states and properties of nanoentities inside confined nanospace and (ii) host-guest interactions.
Link for this research: https://www.researchgate.net/project/Exploring-Host-Guest-Systems-and-Their-Derivatives-Based-on-Metal-Organic-Frameworks
Further readings:
ACS Materials Lett. 2021, 3(11), 1599–1604;
Nat. Commun., 2019, 10, 1340；
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2018, 140(19), 6130-6136;
Mater. Horiz., 2017, 4(1), 64–71

2. Designing and developing responsive functional materials to realize functions (sensing, actuation, energy storage, etc.) towards 'materials automation' (a.k.a. autonomous materials). A part of the research has a long-term collaboration with Prof. Stoyan Smoukov at QML, UK.
Further readings:
ACS Energy Lett., 2017, 2(9), 2014-2020;
Interface Focus, 2016, 6(4), 20160026

As a principal investigator:
• National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC); 52103224; 2022.01-2024.12;
• Shanghai Sailing Programme; Shanghai Municipal Science and Technology Commission (SMSTC); 20YF1420400; 2020.07-2023.06;
• The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, UK (EPSRC); 1566990 under EP/L015889/1; 2015.10-2018.11;

Previously involved in:
• Australian Research Council (ARC); DP180103874; 2018.11-2019.12;
• Australian Research Council (ARC); FT170100283; 2018.11-2019.12;
• European Research Council (ERC); EMATTER 280078 under FP7-IDEAS-ERC; 2015.10-2018.01;
• The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, UK (EPSRC); EP/L015889/1; 2014.10-2018.11;

*For all publications, please check my ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7587-7681.

Latest work:
• Jiale Feng, Zhulieta Valkova, E Emily Lin, Ehsan Nourafkan, Tiesheng Wang, Slavka Tcholakova*, Radomir I. Slavchov and Stoyan Smoukov*, Minimum Surfactant Concentration Required for Inducing Self-shaping of Oil Droplets and Competitive Adsorption Effects, Soft Matter, 2022, 18 (35), 6729-6738
URL：https://doi.org/10.1039/D1SM01326B

Key articles are given below:
• Tiesheng Wang, ... Deanna M. D'Alessandro* et al., Fluorescence Enhancement through Confined Oligomerization in Nanochannels: An Anthryl Oligomer in a Metal-Organic Framework, ACS Materials Letters, 2021, 3 (11), pp 1599–1604
URL：https://doi.org/10.1021/acsmaterialslett.1c00332

• Tiesheng Wang#, Lijun Gao#, ... Anthony K Cheetham, Xinhe Bao, Qiang Fu*, Stoyan K. Smoukov* et al., Rational Approach to Guest Confinement inside MOF Cavities for Low-Temperature Catalysis, Nature Communications, 2019, 10, 1340 (#Co-first Author)
URL：https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-08972-x
Press Release：https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-03/qmuo-ssc032519.php

• Tiesheng Wang, ... Mary P. Ryan, Fang Xie* et al., Tuneable fluorescence enhancement of nanostructured ZnO arrays with controlled morphology, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2018, 20 (21), pp 14828-14834
URL：https://doi.org/10.1039/C8CP01493K

• Tiesheng Wang, ... Anthony K. Cheetham, Stoyan K. Smoukov* et al., Bottom-up Formation of Carbon-Based Structures with Multilevel Hierarchy from MOF-Guest Polyhedra, Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2018, 140 (19), pp 6130-6136
URL：https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.8b02411
Press Release：https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-05/qmuo-sdh051418.php

• Kara D. Fong#, Tiesheng Wang#, ... R. Vasant Kumar, Stoyan K. Smoukov*, Semi-Interpenetrating Polymer Networks for Enhanced Supercapacitor Electrodes, ACS Energy Letters, 2017, 2 (9), pp 2014–2020 (#Co-first Author)
URL：https://doi.org/10.1021/acsenergylett.7b00466

• Tiesheng Wang, ... Anthony K. Cheetham, Stoyan K. Smoukov*, Functional Conductive Nanomaterials via Polymerisation in Nano-Channels: PEDOT in a MOF, Materials Horizons, 2017, 4 (1), pp 64–71
URL：https://doi.org/10.1039/C6MH00230G
Cover URL：https://doi.org/10.1039/C7MH90001E

• Tiesheng Wang, Meisam Farajollahi, ... John D. W. Madden, Stoyan K. Smoukov* et al., Electroactive Polymers for Sensing, Interface Focus, 2016, 6 (4), 20160026
URL：https://doi.org/10.1098/rsfs.2016.0026

• Tiesheng Wang, ... Mary P. Ryan, Fang Xie* et al., Broadband enhanced fluorescence using zinc-oxide nanoflower arrays, Journal of Materials Chemistry C, 2015, 3 (11), 2656-2663
URL：https://doi.org/10.1039/C4TC02751E

• NANOCOMPOSITE MATERIALS AND METHODS OF MANUFACTURE THEREOF；PCT Application No.：PCT/EP2019/071309；
PCT Publication No.：WO/2020/035386；
CN Publication No.: CN 112584927 A;
US Publication No.: US 2021/0275999 A1;
• WANG, Tiesheng; SMOUKOV, Stoyan K.; FU, Qiang; GAO, Lijun;
URL：https://patentscope.wipo.int/search/en/detail.jsf?docId=WO2020035386

• Porous carbonaceous materials and methods for their manufacture；UK Publication No.：GB 2570485 A；
UK Application No.：GB 1801331.8;
• Tiesheng Wang; Stoyan K. Smoukov; Hyun-Kyung Kim；
URL：https://www.ipo.gov.uk/p-ipsum/Case/ApplicationNumber/GB1801331.8

• POLYMER-BASED ENERGY STORAGE DEVICE; PCT Application No.: PCT/GB2018/052184；
PCT Publication No.：WO/2019/025785；
• FONG, Kara Danielle; WANG, Tiesheng; KIM, Hyun-Kyung; SMOUKOV, Stoyan Kostadinov; KUMAR, Ramachandran Vasant; TOMOV, Rumen; LIBRIZZI, Paulina R;
URL：https://patentscope.wipo.int/search/en/detail.jsf?docId=WO2019025785
Press Release：https://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/pressroom/newsreleases/2018/march/candy-cane-polymer-weave-could-power-future-functional-fabrics-and-devices.html

• Chineses Chemical Society (CCS), Member, since 2020
• The Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC), Member, since 2018
• American Chemical Society (ACS), Member, since 2017

• 2018 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) PhD Student Awards for Applied Research
• 2015-2018 China Scholarship Council (CSC) Full Scholarship for PhD (Recommended by the Education Section, Embassy of the People's Republic of China in the UK)
• 2013 DAAD-RISE (Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst - Research Internships in Science and Engineering) Award
• 2012 Rolls Royce/ Armourers and Brasiers' Company First Year Undergraduate Award
• 2011 43rd International Chemistry Olympiad UK Round One Gold Certification, Shortlisted (top 20) for British Chemistry Olympiad Camp, Organized by the Royal Society of Chemistry