Zishuo Yao

Special researcher, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology, Ph. D. and postdoc, Kyushu University, Japan, mainly engaged in the research of multi-functional flexible molecule-based single crystal materials such as force, magnetism and electricity. As first author or corresponding author in Nat. Chem., Nat. Commun., Matter, J. Am. Chem. Soc., Angew. Chem., Int. Ed. He has published more than 30 academic papers in other high-level journals, and served as a member of the Young chemical Workers Committee of Chinese Chemical Society, and the young editorial board of Chinese chemical letters and smart molecules journals.
Personal Homepage: http://www.tao-lab.cn/

This research group is committed to obtaining molecular-based crystalline functional materials with novel physical properties through reasonable crystal molecular structure design. Through systematic property research and in-depth structural analysis, the relationship between material structure and property is deeply revealed, so as to obtain new substances, discover new phenomena and discuss new mechanisms.

April 2014 - October 2016 Kyushu University Academic Researcher Co-Supervisor: Prof. Osamu Sato
October 2010 - March 2014, Kyushu University, Japan, PhD Supervisor: Prof. Osamu Sato
October 2007 - July 2010 China University of Mining and Technology Master Tutor: Professor Wei Xianyong
October 2003 - July 2007 China University of Mining and Technology Undergraduate Tutor: Professor Wei Xianyong

October 2022 ~ present Beijing University of Technology Associate Professor/Doctoral Supervisor
April 2017 - September 2022 Beijing Institute of Technology Pre-appointed Associate Professor/Doctoral Supervisor

(1) Li, Y.-X.; Liu, Z.-K.; Cao, J.; Tao, J.; Yao, Z.-S. * Stress-Induced Inversion of Linear Dichroism by 4,4′-Bipyridine Rotation in a Superelastic Organic Single Crystal, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2023, 62, e202217977.
(2) Liu, C.; Zi, X.; Li, H.-M.; Gao, K.-G.; Hong, J.; Tao, J.; Yao, Z.-S. * Anisotropic deuteration effects on a molecular ferroelectric, Matter, 2023, doi.org/10.1016/j.matt.2023.03.017
(3) Deng, W.-F.; Li, Y.-X.; Zhao, Y.-X.; Hu, J.-S.; Yao, Z.-S.*; Tao, J*. Inversion of Molecular Chirality Associated with Ferroelectric Switching in a High-Temperature Two-Dimensional Perovskite Ferroelectric, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2023, 145, 5545-5552.
(4) Xue, J.-P.; Hu, Y.; Zhao, B.; Liu, Z.-K.; Xie, J.; Yao, Z.-S.*; Tao, J*. A spin-crossover framework endowed with pore-adjustable behavior by slow structural dynamics, Nat. Commun. 2022, 13, 3510.
(5) Li, Y.; Zhao, B.; Xue, J.-P.; Xie, J.; Yao, Z.-S.*; Tao, J*. Giant single-crystal-to-single-crystal transformations associated with chiral interconversion induced by elimination of chelating ligands, Nat. Commun. 2021, 12, 6908.
(6) Yao, Z.-S.*; Guan, H.; Shiota, Y.; He, C.-T.; Wang, X.-L.; Wu, S.-Q.; Zheng, X.; Su, S.-Q.; Yoshizawa, K.; Kong, X.; Sato, O.*; Tao, J.* Giant anisotropic thermal expansion actuated by thermodynamically assisted reorientation of imidazoliums in a single crystal, Nat. Commun. 2019, 10, 4805.
(7) Yao, Z.-S.; Mito, M.; Kamachi, T.; Shiota, Y.; Yoshizawa, K.; Azuma, N.; Miyazaki, Y.; Takahashi, K.; Zhang, K.; Nakanishi, T.; Kang, S.; Kanegawa, S.; Sato, O*. Molecular motor-driven abrupt anisotropic shape change in a single crystal of a Ni complex. Nat. Chem. 2014, 6, 1079-1083.
(8) Yao, Z.-S.; Wu, S.-Q.; Kitagawa, Y.; Su, S.-Q.; Huang, Y.-G.; Li, G.-L.; Ni, Z.-H.; Nojiri, H.; Shiota, Y.; Yoshizawa, K.; Kang, S.; Kanegawa, S.; Sato, O.* Anisotropic Change in the Magnetic Susceptibility of a Dynamic Single Crystal of a Cobalt(II) Complex. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2017, 56, 717-721.
(9) Yao, Z.-S.; Yamamoto, K.; Cai, H.-L.; Takahashi, K.; Sato, O*. Above Room Temperature Organic Ferroelectrics: Diprotonated 1,4-Diazabicyclo 2.2.2 octane Shifts between Two 2-Chlorobenzoates. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2016, 138, 12005-12008.
(10) Li, Y.; Wu, S.-Q.; Xue, J.-P.; Wang, X.-L.; Sato, O.; Yao, Z.-S.*; Tao, J. A molecular crystal shows multiple correlated magnetic and ferroelectric switchings, CCS Chem. 2021, 3, 2464-2472.