Yanqing Tian

The Biodesign Institute

Arizona State University, Tempe

Contact

Center for Biosignatures Discovery Automation

The Biodesign Institute

Arizona State University

Tempe, Arizona 85287-6501

Phone: (480)965-9601

Fax: (480) 727-6588

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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 Research

  • 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 University, 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 copolymers for biosensing, bioimaging, and drug delivery. Dr. Tian has been co-authored for more than 100 peer reviewed papers.

Selected Publications

An FRET-Based RatiometricChemosensor 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, Deirdre 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 Weber, 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, RongrongHu, 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

Yanqing Tian, Bradley R. Shumway, Deirdre R. Meldrum

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

Hydrophobic Chromophores in Aqueous Micellar Solution ShowingLarge Two-photon Absorption Cross-sections

Yanqing Tian, Ching-Yi Chen, YenJuCheng, A. CodyYoung, NealM. Tucker, AlexK.-Y. Jen

Advanced Functional Materials 2007,17, 1691-1697.

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

Yanqing Tian, Kaori Kamata, HiroshisaYoshida, TomokazuIyoda

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

Yanqing Tian, Kaori Watanabe, XiangxingKong, Jiro Abe, TomokazuIyoda

Macromolecules, 2002, 35, 3739-3747.