Jia Chuancheng
Ph.D., Professor
Chuancheng Jia, Ph.D., Professor, College of Electronic Information and Optical Engineering, Peking University.
Special Talent：National “Four Young Talents” Project Recipient
Address：College of Electronic Information and Optical Engineering, Nankai University, No. 38 Tongyan Road, Haihe Education Park, Tianjin 300350, China.
Telephone：15210625344
Email： jiacc@nankai.edu.cn
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Research Interest：Single-molecule electronic devices; chip manufacturing; quantum technologies; reaction dynamics
History：
2005–2009, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shandong University, B.S.
2009–2014, College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Peking University (with Prof. Xuefeng Guo), Ph.D.
2014–2016, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences (coworker:Academician Daoben Zhu), Postdoctoral Researcher.
2016–2020, University of California, Los Angeles (coworker: Prof. Xiangfeng Duan), Postdoctoral Researcher.
2020–present, College of Electronic Information and Optical Engineering, Nankai University, Professor.
Honors and Awards
2016, Top Ten Scientific and Technological Advances of Chinese Universities.
2016, Top Ten Scientific Advances in China.
2017, First Prize of the Ministry of Education Natural Science Award (2nd contributor).
2024, The First-class Award of Natural Science Prize by Beijing (2nd contributor).
Scientific Achievements & Selected Publications
Prof. Jia has long been engaged in research on single-molecule functional devices and related device physics, with representative advances in single-molecule switches and field-effect device platforms. He has published more than 120 peer-reviewed papers, including more than 90 as (co-)first or (co-)corresponding author and more than 70 in the past five years, in journals such as Science, Science Advances, Nature Communications, Journal of the American Chemical Society, and Chemical Reviews. As of January 2026, his publications have been cited more than 8,700 times and his h-index is 41.
Selected Publications:
1. Chuancheng Jia; Agostino Migliore; Na Xin; Shaoyun Huang; Jinying Wang; Qi Yang; Shuopei Wang; Hongliang Chen; Duoming Wang; Boyong Feng; Zhirong Liu; Guangyu Zhang; Da−Hui Qu; He Tian; Mark A. Ratner; H. Q. Xu*; Abraham Nitzan*; Xuefeng Guo*; Covalently−bonded single molecule junctions with stable and reversible photoswitched conductivity, Science, 2016, 352, 1443−1445.
2. Chuancheng Jia; Zhaoyang Lin; Yu Huang*; Xiangfeng Duan*; Nanowire electronics: from nanoscale to macroscale, Chemical Reviews, 2019, 119, 9074−9135.
3. Peihui Li; Songjun Hou; Bader Alharbi; Qingqing Wu; Yijian Chen; Li Zhou; Tengyang Gao; Ruihao Li; Lan Yang; Xinyue Chang; Gang Dong; Xunshan Liu; Silvio Decurtins; Shi-Xia Liu*; Wenjing Hong*; Colin J. Lambert*; Chuancheng Jia*; Xuefeng Guo*; Quantum interference-controlled conductance enhancement in stacked graphene-like dimers, Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2022, 144, 15689−15697.
4. Peihui Li; Songjun Hou; Qingqing Wu; Yijian Chen; Boyu Wang; Haiyang Ren; Jinying Wang; Zhaoyi Zhai; Zhongbo Yu*; Colin J. Lambert*; Chuancheng Jia*; Xuefeng Guo*; The role of halogens in Au-S bond cleavage for energy-differentiated catalysis at the single-bond limit, Nature Communications, 2023, 14, 7695.
5. Chunyan Gao; Qinghua Gao; Cong Zhao; Yani Huo; Zhizhuo Zhang; Jinlong Yang*; Chuancheng Jia*; Xuefeng Guo*; Technologies for investigating single-molecule chemical reactions, National Science Review, 2024, 11, nwae236.
6. Li Cheng; Heyilang Cai; Qian Zhan; Yu Jiang; Mingliang Li*; Chuancheng Jia*; Xuefeng Guo*; Decoding information stored in DNAs through single-molecule electrical detection platforms; The Innovation, 2025, 6, 101000.
7. Mingyao Li; Bing Yin; Boyu Wang; Weilin Hu; Jie Cheng; Chunyan Gao; Zezhou Li; Yang Xu; Chen Yang; Xinmiao Xie; Jie Guo; Cong Zhao; Jinying Wang; Xike Gao; Yanfeng Zhang; Jihan Zhou; Zhiheng Yang; Agostino Migliore*; Chuancheng Jia*; Xuefeng Guo*; Nature Communications, 2025,16, 7657.
8. Xin Zhu; Hongliang Chen; Jinying Wang; Agostino Migliore; Xingxing Li; Yanwei Li; Boyu Wang; Chen Yang; Yang Jiao; Jiawen Cao; Caiyao Yang; Chunyan Gao; Suhang He; Kendall N. Houk*; Jinlong Yang*; J. Fraser Stoddart*; Chuancheng Jia*; Xuefeng Guo*; Single-electron catalysis of reversible cycloadditions under nanoconfinement, Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2025, 147, 6203−6213.
9. Mingyao Li; Weilin Hu; Boyu Wang; Yusen Li; Wenyuan Jian; Jie Hao; Long Chen*; Chuancheng Jia*; Xuefeng Guo*; Mechanism of hydrogen generation catalyzed by a single atom and its spin regulation, Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2025, 147, 6193−6202.
10. Zezhou Yang; Boyu Wang; Xinmiao Xie; Hanqiu Nie; Jianning Zhang; Panfeng Chuai; Jie Hao; Wenlong Cai; Zhiheng Yang; Chunyan Gao; Fanyang Mo*; Zujin Shi*; Jinying Wang*; Chuancheng Jia*; Xuefeng Guo*; Orbital-resolved stepwise single-electron capture dynamics in a single fullerene, Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2025, 147, 31791−31799.
Professional Cultivation
Undergraduate teaching: Fundamentals of Optoelectronic Materials; Optoelectronic Information Experiments.
Current supervision: 10 Ph.D. students and 8 M.S. students.
