Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
WU Boning
Title: Professor
Subject: Physical Chemistry
Phone: 0411-84379805
Email: boning@dicp.ac.cn
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Research Interests
Ultrafast spectroscopy, chemical dynamics
 
1. Development of ultrafast spectroscopic methods.
2. Exploring the dynamics in solids and liquids using different ultrafast spectroscopy technologies.
Biography

Professor, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, CAS, 2022/01 - present

Associate Professor, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, CAS, 2020/11 - 2022/01

Postdoc, Chemistry, Stanford University, 2018/01 - 2020/09

Ph.D, Chemistry, Rutgers University, 2012/09 - 2017/12

B.S., Chemical Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, 2008/09 - 2012/07

Honors and Awards
Outstanding Doctoral Student Award, Rutgers University;

Reid Award, Rutgers Chemistry;

Van Dyke Award, Rutgers Chemistry.

Publications
1. Boning Wu, John P. Breen, Xiangyu Xing, and Michael D. Fayer*, “Controlling the Dynamics of Ionic Liquid Thin Films via Multilayer Surface Functionalization.”, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2020, 142, 9482–9492

2. Boning Wu, Mark Maroncelli* and Edward W. Castner, Jr.*, “Photoinduced Bimolecular Electron Transfer in Ionic Liquids.”, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2017, 139, 14568–14585

3. Boning Wu, John P. Breen, and Michael D. Fayer*, “Structural Dynamics in Ionic Liquid Thin Films: The Effect of Cation Chain Length.”, J. Phys. Chem. C., 2020, 124, 4179-4189

4. Boning Wu, Min Liang, Nicole Zmich, Jasmine Hatcher, Sharon I. Lall-Ramnarine, James F. Wishart, Mark Maroncelli* and Edward W. Castner, Jr.*, “Photo-Induced Bimolecular Electron Transfer in Ionic Liquids: Cationic Electron Donors.”, J. Phys. Chem. B, 2018, 122, 2379 – 2388

5. Boning Wu, Kosuke Kuroda, Kenji Takahashi*, and Edward W. Castner, Jr.*, “Structural Analysis of Zwitterionic Liquids vs. Homologous Ionic Liquids.”, J. Chem. Phys., 2018, 148, 193807

6. Boning Wu, Yuki Yamashita, Takatsugu Endo, Kenji Takahashi* and Edward W. Castner, Jr.*, “Structure and Dynamics of Ionic Liquids: Trimethylsilylpropyl-Substituted Cations and Bis(sulfonyl)amide Anions.”, J. Chem. Phys., 2016, 145, 244506

7. Boning Wu, Hideaki Shirota, Sharon Lall-Ramnarine and Edward W. Castner, Jr.*, “Structure of ionic liquids with cationic silicon-substitutions.”, J. Chem. Phys., 2016, 145, 114501

8. Boning Wu, Min Liang, Mark Maroncelli* and Edward W. Castner, Jr.*, “Photo-Induced Bimolecular Electron Transfer from Cyano-Anions in Ionic Liquids.”, J. Phys. Chem. B, 2015, 119, 14790–14799

9. Jun Nishida, John P. Breen, Boning Wu, and Michael D. Fayer*, “Extraordinary Slowing of Structural Dynamics in Thin Films of a Room Temperature Ionic Liquid.”, ACS Cent Sci, 2018, 4, 1065 – 1073