Research Interests:
1. Solvent Effects on Organic Functional Materials
2. Reaction Mechanism in Ground and Excited States
3. Intermolecular Interactions and Packing Structures
Selected Publications:
1.
Suci Meng, Wei Li, Xiulian Yin, Jimin Xie* “A Comprehensive Theoretical Study of the Hydrogen Bonding Interactions and Microscopic Solvation Structures of a Pyridyl-Urea-Based Hydrogelator in Aqueous Solution” Comput. Theor. Chem. 2013, 1006: 76-84.
2.
Suci Meng, Jing Ma* “Solvent Effects on Isomerization and Spectral Properties of Photochromic-switching Diarythene Derivatives in Polar and Apolar Solutions” J. Phys. Chem. A 2012, 116: 913-923.
3.
Suci Meng, Xiulian Yin, Jing Ma, Jimin Xie* “Theoretical Studies on Solvent Effects and Intermolecular Interactions of Organic π-Conjugated Ligand in Solutions” Chem. J. Chinese Universities 2012, 33(11): 2492-2500.
4.
Suci Meng “A triclinic polymorph of catena-poly-[[bis (N,N-dimethylformamide-κO)-cobalt(II)]-di-μ-1,5-dicyanamido-κ4 N1:N5]” Acta Cryst. 2012, E68, m1404.
5.
Suci Meng, Jie Jiang, Yujuan Wang, and Jing Ma* “Modulation of Electronic Structures of Thienylene Vinylene Oligomers by Substituents and Solvents: Ground and Excited States” J. Phys. Org. Chem. 2009, 22(7): 670-679.
6.
Suci Meng, Jing Ma* “Solvatochromic Shift of Donor-acceptor Substituted Bithiophene in Solvents of Different Polarity: Quantum Chemical and Molecular Dynamics Simulations” J. Phys. Chem. B 2008, 112(14): 4313-4322.
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Suci Meng, Jing Ma*, Yuansheng Jiang “Solvent Effects on Electronic Structures and Chain Conformations of α-Oligothiophenes in Polar and Apolar Solutions” J. Phys. Chem. B 2007, 111(16): 4128-4136.
8.
Suci Meng, Zonghao Huang*, Dong Xu, Yuhe Kan, and Qianlin Tang; “Influence of Conjugated CN and Non-conjugated CF3 Electron Withdrawing Substituents on the Molecular Structure and Photo-electricity Properties of PPV-like Derivatives” Acta Chim Sinica 2004, 62(11): 1065-1070.
9. Jinfang Zhang,
Suci Meng, Yinglin Song, Huajian Zhao, Jianghua Li, Gaoju Qu, Liang Sun, Mark G. Humphrey*, Chi Zhang* “Facile Syntheses and Tunable Non-Linear Optical Properties of Heterothiometallic Clusters with [MS4Ag2] Units (M=Mo, W)” Chem. Eur. J. 2010, 16(47): 13946-13950.
10. Jianghua Li,
Suci Meng, Jinfang Zhang, Yinling Song et al. “Solvent-induced syntheses of 2D/3D [AgSCN]n-based supramolecular isomers with unusual topologies: structural, theoretical and nonlinear optical studies” CrystEngComm 2012, 14, 2787-2796.
11. Jinfang Zhang,
Suci Meng, Yinglin Song, Yimeng Zhou, Yuan Cao, Mark G. Humphrey*, Chi Zhang* “Syntheses, Structural, Theoretical, and Nonlinear Optical Studies of Non-Interpenetrating Three-Dimensional Nest-Shaped-Cluster [MoOS3Cu3]-Based Coordination Polymers” Cryst. Growth Des. 2011, 11(1): 100-109.
12. Jinfang Zhang,
Suci Meng, Yinglin Song, Junyi Yang, Marie P. Cifuentes, Mark G. Humphrey*, Chi Zhang* “Syntheses and NLO properties of 1D Heterothiometallic Anionic W/S/Ag Clusters Possessing Solvento-ytterbium Cation-directed Isomeric Skeletonsw” New J. Chem. 2011, 35(2): 328-338.
13. Chi Zhang*, Tsuyoshi Matsumoto, Marek Samoc, Simon Petrie,
Suci Meng, T. Christopher Corkery, Robert Stranger, Jinfang Zhang, Mark G. Humphrey*, and Kazuyuki Tatsumi “Dodecanuclear-Ellipse and Decanuclear-Wheel Nickl(II)-Thiolato Clusters with Efficient Femtosecond Nonlinear Absorption” Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2010, 49: 1-5.
14. Jie Jiang,
Suci Meng, Jing Ma* “Electronic Structures of Di(thienylene vinylene) of Ground and Excited States: Vinylene- and Ring-Substitution Effects” Chem. J. Chinese Universities 2009, 30(2): 370-376.
15. Chi Zhang*, Yuan Cao, Jinfang Zhang,
Suci Meng, Tsuyoshi Matsumoto, Yinglin Song, Jing Ma. Zhaoxu Chen, Kazuyuki Tatsumi, Mark G. Humphrey* “Modulation of Third-Order Nonlinear Optical Properties by Backbone Modification of Polymeric Pillared-Layer Heterometallic Clusters” Adv. Mater. 2008, 20(10): 1870-1875.