Introduction

Wenwu Qin received his MSc degree in Analytical Chemistry in 2000 and received his PhD degree in Inorganic chemistry in 2003 from School of Chemistry and chemical engineering, Lanzhou University. After that, he worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow at K.U.Leuven from 2003 to 2006. From 2007 to 2008, he worked as a  Postdoctoral Fellow at Van 't Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences ,University of Amsterdam. 2008 and became professor of chemistry at Lanzhou University He is currently a professor of Inorganic chemistry in the School of Chemistry and chemical engineering, Lanzhou University.  His research is focused on the use of functionalized inorganic fluorescent nanoparticles, fluorescent probes, photochemical and photophysical.

Representative Publications

1. YaliGuo, Lilan Zhang, Xiaoyu Liu, Bo Li, Dong Tang,Weisheng Liu and Wenwu Qin*.Synthesis of magnetic core–shell carbondot@MFe2O4 (M = Mn, Zn and Cu) hybrid materials and their catalytic properties. Journal of Materials Chemistry A.2016, 4, 4044–4055.(inside back cover)

2. Deyan Gong, Xiangtao Zhu,YuejunTian, Shi-Chong Han,Min Deng, AnamIqbal, Weisheng Liu, Wenwu Qin*, HuichenGuo*. A Phenylselenium-Substituted BODIPY Fluorescent Turn-off Probe for Fluorescence Imaging of Hydrogen Sulfide in Living Cells. Analytical Chemistry. 2017, 89, 1801–1807.

3. Gong, Deyan;  Han, Shi-Chong;  Iqbal, Anam; Qian, Jing ; Cao, Ting; Liu, Wei; Liu, Wei-Sheng; Qin, Wenwu Qin*, HuichenGuo*. Fast and Selective Two-Stage Ratiometric Fluorescent Probes for Imaging of Glutathione in Living Cells. Analytical Chemistry. 2017,89,13112-13119.

4. Xinran Li,Hong Ma, Min Deng,AnamIqbal, Xiaoyu Liu,  Bo Li,Weisheng Liu, Jiping Li, Wenwu Qin* . Europium functionalized ratiometric fluorescent transducer silicon nanoparticles based on FRET for the highly sensitive detection of tetracycline. Journal of Materials Chemistry C. 2017, 5, 2149–2152.

5. Bo Li, Xudong Wang, YaliGuo, AnamIqbal,Yaping Dong, Wu Li, Weisheng Liu, Wenwu Qin*, Shizhen Chen, Xin Zhou and Yunhuang Yang*. One-pot synthesis of polyamines with improvedmagnetism and fluorescence Fe3O4–carbon dots hybrid NPs for dual modal imaging.Dalton Transactions. 2016, 45, 5484–5491. (back cover)

6. YaliGuo, Xiaoyu Liu, Chengduan Yang, Xudong Wang, Dan Wang, AnamIqbal,Weisheng Liu, and Wenwu Qin*.Synthesis and Peroxidase-Like Activity of Cobalt@Carbon-Dots Hybrid Material.ChemCatChem. 2015, 7, 2467 – 2474.(inside cover)

7. Xudong Wang, Dan Wang, YaliGuo, Chengduan Yang, Xiaoyu Liu, AnamIqbal,Weisheng Liu, Wenwu Qin*. Fluorescent glutathione probe based on MnO2-phenol formaldehyde resin nanocomposite. Biosensors and Bioelectronics. 2016, 77, 299–305.

8. Deyan Gong,YuejunTian, Chengduan Yang, AnamIqbal, Zhiping Wang, Weisheng Liu,Wenwu Qin*, Xiangtao Zhu, HuichenGuo. A fluorescence enhancement probe based on BODIPY for the discrimination of cysteine from homocysteine and glutathione. Biosensors and Bioelectronics. 2016, 85, 178–183.

Representative Publications