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Nan Jiang

Department Affiliate

Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry

Contact

Building & Room:

4344 SES

Office Phone:

(312) 355-3741

Email:

njiang@uic.edu

About

Nan Jiang is an Associate Professor in the Department of Chemistry and a Department Affiliate in the Department of Physics at the University of Illinois Chicago. Dr. Jiang’s research focuses on applying scanning probe-based nanotechnology in nanomaterials design and properties investigation. His group has developed a hybrid analytical technique, which combines nanoimaging and nanospectroscopy, to harvest the Ångström resolution topographic information and chemical information with unprecedented spatial and spectroscopic resolution (< 1 nm and < 10 cm-1). Currently, Dr. Jiang’s group is interested in fundamental science and applications at the atomic level, including charge transfer, electron localization and generation, photoabsorption, and photoemission. The goal is to provide the capability to dynamically study physical and chemical systems at a single chemical bond level and visualize electronic and vibrational effects with sub-molecular resolution.

 

Dr. Jiang’s scientific achievements have been recognized by a number of awards, include National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award, American Vacuum Society Prairie Chapter Early Career Researcher Award, American Chemical Society Richard P. Van Duyne Award in Experimental Physical Chemistry. In 2023, Dr. Jiang was named a Fellow of American Vacuum Society.

 

 

See Dr. Jiang’s research on Youtube.

 

Selected Publications

  1. L. Li, S. Mahapatra, J.F. Schultz, X. Zhang, N. Jiang, "Single-Molecule Spectroscopic Probing of N-heterocyclic Carbenes on a Two-Dimensional Metal", Chem, 11, 102290 (1-9), 2025, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chempr.2024.08.013.                                                                                   [UIC Today report: https://today.uic.edu/studying-new-2d-materials-one-molecule-at-a-time]
  2. L. Li, S. Mahapatra, J. F. Schultz, X. Zhang, N. Jiang, "Chemically Interrogating N-Heterocyclic Carbenes on a Metal Surface Using Single-Molecule Vibrational Spectroscopy", ACS Nano, 18, 32118–32125, 2024,  https://doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.4c10942 [Cover]
  3. L. Li, J.F. Schultz, S. Mahapatra, X. Liu, X. Zhang, M. Hersam, N. Jiang, "Atomic-Scale Insights into the Interlayer Characteristics and Oxygen Reactivity of Bilayer Borophene", Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 62, e2023065 (1-7), 2023, https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.202306590.
  4. L. Li, J.F. Schultz, S. Mahapatra, Z. Lu, X. Zhang, N. Jiang, "Chemically identifying single adatoms with single-bond sensitivity during oxidation reactions of borophene", Nature Communications, 13, 1796 (1-9), 2022, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-29445-8.
  5. S. Mahapatra, J.F. Schultz, L. Li, X. Zhang, N. Jiang, "Controlling Localized Plasmons via an Atomistic Approach: Attainment of Site-Selective Activation inside a Single Molecule", Journal of the American Chemical Society, 144, 5, 2051-2055, 2022, https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.1c11547. [Cover] [C&EN News Article]
  6. H.-T. Zhang, T.J. Park, A.N.M.N. Islam, D.S.J. Tran, S. Manna, Q. Wang, S. Mondal, H. Yu, S. Banik, S. Cheng, H. Zhou, S. Gamage, S. Mahapatra, Y. Zhu, Y. Abate, N. Jiang, S.K.R.S. Sankaranarayanan, A. Sengupta, C. Teuscher, and S. Ramanathan, "Reconfigurable perovskite nickelate electronics for artificial intelligence", Science, 375, 6580, 533-539, 2022, https://doi.org/10.1126/science.abj7943.
  7. L. Li, J.F. Schultz, S. Mahapatra, C. Shaw, X. Liu, X. Zhang, M. Hersam, N. Jiang, "Probing interfacial interactions in an organic/borophene heterostructure with angstrom resolution", Journal of the American Chemical Society, 143, 38, 15624-15634, 2021, https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.1c04380. [Cover]
  1. Mahapatra, Y. Ning, J.F. Schultz, L. Li, J.-L. Zhang, N. Jiang, "Angstrom Scale Chemical Analysis of Metal Supported Trans- and Cis-Regioisomers by Ultrahigh Vacuum Tip-Enhanced Raman Mapping", Nano Letters, 19, 3267-3272, 2019, https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.nanolett.9b00826.

 

 

 

Education

BS, University of Science and Technology of China, 2004
PhD, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2010
Joint PhD student, Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, 2008-2009
Postdoctoral Fellow, Northwestern University, 2010-2015.