Dr. Yanqing Tian

Yanqing Tian

The Biodesign Institute

Arizona State University, Tempe


Contact

Center for Biosignatures Discovery Automation

The Biodesign Institute

Arizona State University

Tempe, A
rizona
85287
-
6501

Phone: (
480
)
965
-
9601

Fax: (
480
) 7
27
-
6588

E
-
mail:
yanqing.tian@asu.edu


Honors and Accolades



2000
-

2002 JSPS
Fellowship, Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science



1998
-

2000 STA Fellowship, Science and Technology Agency Fellowship, Japan


Current R
esearch



Biosensors



Micelles for imaging probe and drug delivery



Synthesis of functional materials


Biography

Yanqing Tian received his BS and MS degrees from the Department of Organic Chemistry, Jilin
University (China) in 1989 and 1992. In 1995,
Dr. Tian

received his PhD degree in polymer chemistry
and physics from Jilin University. He had been a member of the Chemistry faculty at Jilin University
from 1992
to
1998. Since 1998, he had been working at
Sagami Chemical Research Center
, Tokyo
Metropolitan Uni
versity, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo University of Science, and University of

Washington. He is now working at the Center for Biosignatures Discovery Automation, Biodesign
Institute at Arizona State University as a
member of
research faculty. His
research interests include the
synthesis and application of functional materials
like

liquid crystals, nonlinear optical materials, light
-
emitting materials
,

and
two
-
photon absorbing materials. Currently, he is working on fluorescent sensors
and block copo
lymers for biosensing, bioimaging
,

and drug delivery.

Dr. Tian has been co
-
authored for
more than
100 peer reviewed papers.


Selected Publications

An FRET
-
Based Ratiometric

Chemosensor for
in Vitro

Cellular Fluorescence Analyses of pH


Xianfeng Zhou, Fengyu Su, Hongguang Lu, Patti Senechal
-
Willis, Yanqing Tian, Roger H. Johnson,
Deirdre R. Meldrum


Biomaterials
, 2012, 33, 171
-
180.


A New Highly Selective Fluorescent K
+

Sensor

Xianfeng Zhou, Fengyu Su, Yanqing Tian, Cody Youngbull, Roger H. Johnson, and Deirdre R. Meldrum

J. Am. Chem. Soc
. 2011, 133, 18530
–
18533.


Triazacryptand
-
Based Fluorescent Sensors for Extracellular and Intracellular K
+

Sensing

Xianfeng Zhou, Fengyu Su, Weimin Gao, Yanqing Tian, Cody Youngbull, Roger H. Johnson, D
eirdre R.
Meldrum


Biomaterials
, 2011, 32 (33), 8574
-
8583.


A series of naphthalimide derivatives as intra
-

and extra
-
cellular pH sensors

Yanqing Tian, Fengyu Su, Warner W
eber, Vivek Nandakumar, Bradley R. Shumway, Yuguang Jin,
Xianfeng Zhou, Mark Holl, Roger H. Johnson, and Deirdre R. Meldrum

Biomaterials
, 2010, 31, 7411
-
7422.


Enhancement of Aggregation
-
Induced Emission in Dye
-
encapsulated Polymeric Micelles for Bioimaging

Wen
-
Chung Wu
,
Ching
-
Yi Chen
,
Yanqing Tian
,
Sei
-
Hum Jang
,
Yuning Hong
,
Yang Liu
,
Rongrong Hu
,
Ben Zhong Tang
,
Chin
-
Ti Chen
,
Wen
-
Chang Chen
, and
Alex K.
-
Y. Jen

Advanced Functional Materials,
2010, 20 (9), 1413
-
1423
.
Cover picture.


A New Crosslinkable Oxygen Sensor Covalently Bonded into Poly(2
-
hydroxyethyl methacrylate)
-
co
-
Polyacrylamide

Thin Film for Dissolved Oxygen Sensing

Y
anqing
Tian, B
radley
R. Shumway, D
eirdre

R. Meldrum


Chemistry of
Materials
2010, 22 (6), 2069
–
2078.



Hydrophobic
Chromophores in Aqueous Micellar Solution Showing

Large Two
-
photon Absorption Cross
-
sections


Y
anqing Tian
, C
hing
-
Yi
Chen,
Y
enJu
Cheng,
A. C
ody

Young
,
N
eal

M. Tucker
,

A
lex

K.
-
Y. Jen


Advanced Functional Materials
2007,

17, 1691
-
1697.



Synthesis, Liquid
-
Crystalline Properties, and Supramolecular Nanostructures of Dendronized
Poly(isocyanide)s and Their Precursors

Y
anqing
Tian
, K
aori
Kamata, H
iroshisa
Yoshida
, T
omokazu
Iyoda


Chem. Eur. J
.
2006,
12(2), 584
-
591
.

A
very important paper (VIP)
.



Synthesis, Nanostructures, and Functionality of Amphiphilic Liquid Crystalline Block Copolymers

with
Azobenzene Moieties

Y
anqing
Tian
, K
aori
Watanabe, X
iangxing
Kong, J
iro

Abe, T
omokazu
Iyoda


Macromolecules
,
2002,
35, 3739
-
3747
.