Shu-Ji Ye
shujiye@ustc.edu.cn
Education
2000-2004 Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry, Tokyo University
1997-2000 Master's Degree in Polymer Physics and Chemistry, Guangzhou Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences
1992-1997 Bachelor's Degree in Chemical Physics, University of Science and Technology of China
Experience
2021-Present Senior Researcher, Hefei National Laboratory
2016-Present Professor, University of Science and Technology of China
2009-2016 Associate Professor, University of Science and Technology of China
2006-2009 Postdoctoral fellow, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor
2004-2006 Postdoctoral fellow, State University of New York (SUNY) at Buffalo
Overview of Academic Research
Prof. Shuji Ye’s research interest is the systematic study on interfacial physics and chemistry of complex molecular systems by employing and developing highly sensitive, label-free, fast identification, and surface-interface selective ultrafast sum frequency generation vibrational spectroscopy (SFG-VS), combined with other ultrafast spectroscopies.
His major achievements include:
* Establishment of new fingerprint spectral features for distinguishing the secondary structure of interfacial protein; revealing the mechanism of vibrational energy relaxation of interfacial proteins.
*Revealing the novel structure and characteristics of interfacial water; observation 他the presence of two-dimensional "hydrophobic water layer" on the surface of macroscopic hydrophobic Teflon.
*Extension of SFG-VS to two-dimensional (2D) material systems; establishment of spectrum-structure-dynamics-property relationship of 2D materials and revealing the structural origination of the high performance of such materials.
*Development of nanocavity-plasmon enhanced SFG-VS technique, realizing the single-molecule level measurement of the ultrafast vibrational energy transfer in the interfacial molecules composed of only a few dozen molecules for the first time.
Research Directions/Fields:
1. Molecular structure and ultrafast dynamics of biomolecules and polymers at interfaces
2. Ultrafast dynamics of low-dimensional materials and their structure-property relationships
3. The origin of chiral structure and its excited states
4. Development and application of multi-domain resolution ultrafast spectroscopy
Major Honors and Awards
2017 Zhang Cunhao Chemical Dynamics Award for Young Ccientists
2014 China Association for Instrumental Analysis Award (2nd class)
Representative Publications
1. Zheng, X.X.; Tan, J.J.; Pei, Q.B.; Luo, Y.; Ye, S. J. Single-Molecule-Level Detection of Interfacial Molecular Structures and Ultrafast Dynamics. Chem. Sci. 16, 5275-5282(2025).
2. Xiao, L.Q.; Zheng, X.X.; Bai, J.; Tan, J.J.; Meng, S.J.; Zhang, Z.; Liu, H.Y.; Gong, L.L.; Luo, S.J.; Ye, S.J.; Jiang,Z.Y.; Shan, L.L.; Zhang, S.J. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 147, 3507−3516(2025).
3. Zhang, J.H.; Pei, R.Q; Tan, J.J.; Ni, Z.J.; Ye, S.J.; Luo, Y. Visualizing Water Monomers and Chiral OH-(H2O) Complexes Infiltrated in a Macroscopic Hydrophobic Teflon Matrix. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 145, 26925–26931(2023).
4. Li, C.Z.; Zhu, R.L.; Yang, Z.; Lai, J.; Tan, J.J.; Luo, Y.; Ye, S.J. Boosting Charge Transport in a 2D/3D Perovskite Heterostructure by Selecting an Ordered 2D Perovskite as the Passivator. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 62, e202214208 (2023).
5. Zhang, J.H.; Tan, J.J.; Pei, R.Q.; Ye, S.J.; Luo, Y. Ordered Water Layer on the Macroscopically Hydrophobic Fluorinated Polymer Surface and Its Ultrafast Vibrational Dynamics. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 143, 13074-13081(2021).
6. Li, C.Z.; Yang, J.; Su, F.H.; Tan, J.J.; Luo, Y.; Ye, S.J. Conformational Disorder of Organic Cations Tunes the Charge Carrier Mobility in Two-Dimensional Organic-Inorganic Perovskites. Nat. Commun. 11, 5481 (2020).