Nailiang Yang received his BS degree in Material Chemistry from Sun Yat-sen University, China, in 2007. He then obtained his Doctor degree from University of Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2013 under the supervision of Professor Dan Wang. Because of his effort in photoelectric conversion with semiconductor and graphene, he received the award of CAS Excellent Doctoral Dissertations. After graduation, he joined Professor Marie-Paule Pileni’s group as a postdoctoral fellow at Université Pierre et Marie Curie, France. His research fields extended to critical synthesis and assembly of metallic nanoparticles, and also the intrinsic properties related to nanocrystallinity. Since 2015, he has been working as a Research Fellow at the School of Materials Science and Engineering in Nanyang Technological University (Singapore) in Professor Hua Zhang’s group. His research interests include synthesis and assembly of 2D nanomaterials, and also the intrinsic properties related to crystal phase. Since 2018, he started working in the Institute of Process Engineering, CAS as a full professor. Until now, he has published more than 60 papers and 1 book, including Nat. Chem.，Nat. Rev. Chem., Nat. Commun., Natl. Sci. Rev., Chem, J. Am. Chem. Soc., Angew. Chem., Adv. Mater., ACS Nano, Chem, Adv. Funct. Mater.. The total citation is over 5000, with an h-index of 25.

1. N. Yang. The Preparation of Nano Composites and Their Applications in Solar Energy Conversion. [BOOK] Springer, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-662-53485-4

2. P. Hou#, D. Li#, N. Yang#, J. Wan, C. Zhang, X. Zhang, H. Jiang, Q. Zhang, L. Gu, D. Wang*. Delicate Control on the Shell Structure of Hollow Spheres Enables Tunable Mass Transport in Water Splitting. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2021, 10.1002/anie.202016285.

3. D. Zhao#, N. Yang#, Y. Wei#, Q. Jin, Y. Wang, H. He, Y. Yang, B. Han, S. Zhang*, D. Wang*. Sequential drug releasevia chemical diffusion and physical barriers enabled by hollow multishelledstructures. Nat. Commun., 2020, 11: 4450.

4. Y. Wei#, J. Wan#, N. Yang#, Y. Yang, Y. Ma, S. Wang, J. Wang, R. Yu, L. Gu, L. Wang, L. Wang, W. Huang*, D. Wang*. Efficient sequential harvesting of solar light by heterogeneoushollow shells with hierarchical pores, Natl. Sci. Rev., 2020, 7: 1638.

5. J. Wang#, J. Wan#, N. Yang#, Q. Li, D. Wang*. Hollow multishell structures exercise temporal-spatial ordering and dynamic smart behavior. Nat. Rev. Chem., 2020, 4: 159.

6. Y. Wei#, N. Yang#, K. Huang#, J. Wan, F. You, R. Yu, S. Feng*, D. Wang*. Steering hollow multishelled structures in photocatalysis: Optimizing surface and mass transport. Adv. Mater., 2020, 32: 2002556.

7. X. Chen#, Z. Wang#, Y. Wei, X. Zhang, Q. Zhang, L. Gu, L. Zhang, N. Yang*, R. Yu*. High Phase-Purity 1T-MoS2 UltrathinNanosheets by a Spatially Confined Template. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2019, 58: 17621.

8. Y. Zhao, J. Wan, H. Yao, L. Zhang, K. Lin, L. Wang, N. Yang*, D. Liu, L. Song, J. Zhu*, L. Gu, L. Liu, H. Zhao, Y. Li*, and D. Wang*. Few-Layer Graphdiyne Doped with sp-Hybridized Nitrogen Atoms at Acetylenic Sites for Oxygen Reduction Electrocatalysis. Nat. Chem., 2018, 10: 924.

9. N. Yang, H. Cheng, X. Liu, Q. Yun, Y. Chen, B. Li, B. Chen, Z. Zhang, X. Chen, Q. Lu, J. Huang, Y. Huang, Y. Zong, Y. Yang, L. Gu, H. Zhang*. Amorphous/Crystalline Hetero‐Phase Pd Nanosheets: One‐Pot Synthesis and Highly Selective Hydrogenation Reaction. Adv. Mater., 2018, 1803234.

10. N. Yang, Z. Zhang, B. Chen, Y. Huang, J. Chen, Z. Lai, Y. Chen, M. Sindoro, A.-L. Wang, H. Cheng, Z. Fan, X. Liu, B. Li, Y. Zong, L. Gu, H. Zhang*. Synthesis of Ultrathin PdCu Alloy Nanosheets Used as Highly Efficient Electrocatalyst for Formic Acid Oxidation. Adv. Mater., 2017, 29: 1700769.