Juan Diwu, PhD
Professor, Nuclear Environmental Radiochemistry Center
School for Radiological and Interdisciplinary Sciences (RAD-X), and
School of Radiation Medicine and Protection, Medical School of Soochow University
Tel: 86-512-65882579
E-mail: diwujuan@suda.edu.cn
Education Background:
Ph. D in Geological Science and Environmental Chemistry, University of Notre Dame, United States, 2012, Advisor: Prof. Thomas E. Albrecht-Schmitt
BSc in Materials Chemistry, University of Science and Technology of China, China, 2008
Professional Experience:
2013---: Professor, Soochow University, China
2012---2013: Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley & Glenn T. Seaborg Center, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, United States, Advisor: Prof. Kenneth N. Raymond & Dr. David K. Shuh
Research Interests:
My research interests are in the areas of inorganic, materials, environmental and radiochemistry of the actinides.
Research Experience and Accomplishments:
Juan Diwu received a B. Sc. in Materials Chemistry in 2008 from the University of Science and Technology of China, and a Ph. D in Enviromental Radiochemistry in 2012 from University of Notre Dame under the direction of the Gregory R. Choppin Professor Thomas E. Albrecht-Schmitt, who is now in Florida State University. She then spent one year as a joint postdoctoral fellow of Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, Chemical Science Division, Glenn T. Seaborg Research Center, and University of California, Berkeley, Department of Chemistry with Professor Kenneth N. Raymond and Dr. David K. Shuh. She became a faculty member of the Center of Nuclear Environmental Chemistry, School for Radiological and Interdisciplinary Sciences of Soochow University as a professor in 2013. Prof. Juan Diwu has published more than 35 peer-reviewed journal articles on Angew. Chem. Int. Ed.、Adv. Funct. Mater.、Environ. Sci. Technol.、Chem. Mater.、Chem. Commun.、Inorg. Chem.、Eur. J. Inorg. Chem.、Comments on Inorg. Chem, and etc.
Recent Publications:
Book Chapter
J. Diwu and T. E. Albrecht-Schmitt, in Metal Phosphonates, chapter 19, Transuranium Phosphonates (Eds: Abraham Clearfield, and Konstantinos Demadis), RSC Publishing, London, 2011.
Journal Publications
(1)Y. Wang, Z. Liu, Y. Li, Z. Bai, W. Liu, Y. Wang, X. Xu, C. Xiao, D. Sheng, J. Diwu*, J. Su, Z. Chai, T. E. Albrecht-Schmitt, S. Wang, “Umbellate Distortions of the Uranyl Coordination Environment Result in a Stable and Porous Polycatenated Framework That Can Effectively Remove Cesium from Aqueous Solutions”, J. Am. Chem. Soc, 2015, ASAP;
(2)Y. Zhao, C. Wang, J. Su, Y. Wang, Y. Wang, S. Wang, J. Diwu*, Z. Liu, “Insights into the New Th (IV) Sulfate Fluoride Complex: Synthesis, Crystal Structures, and Temperature Dependent Spectroscopic Properties”, Spectrochimica Acta Part A: Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy, 2015, ASAP;
(3)T. Zheng, Q.-Y. Wu, Y. Gao, D. Gui, S. Qiu, L. Chen, D. Peng, J. Diwu*, W.-Q. Shi, Z. Chai, T. E. Albrecht-Schmitt, S. Wang, “Probing the Influence of Phosphonate Bonding Modes to Uranium(VI) on Structural Topology and Stability: A Complementary Experimental and Computational Investigation”, Inorg. Chem., 2015, 8, 3864-3874;
(4) J. Diwu, D. J. Grant, S. Wang, L. Gagliardi, T. E. Albrecht-Schmitt, “Periodic Trends in Lanthanide and Actinide Phosphonates: Discontinuity between Plutonium and Americium” Inorg. Chem., 2012, 51, 6906-6915;
(5) J. Diwu, Thomas E. Albrecht-Schmitt*, “Mixed-Valence Uranium (IV, VI) Diphosphonates: Synthesis, Structure and Spectroscopy” Inorg. Chem.2012, 51, 4432-4434;
(6) J. Diwu, Thomas E. Albrecht-Schmitt*, “Chiral uranium methylenediphosphonate framework structure with high porosity that is built from achiral units” Chem. Comm., 2012, 48, 3827-2829;
(7) J. Diwu, D. J. Grant, S. Wang, L. Gagliardi, T. E. Albrecht-Schmitt, “Periodic Trends in Lanthanide and Actinide Phosphonates: Discontinuity between Plutonium and Americium” Inorg. Chem., 2012, 51, 6906-6915;
(8) J. Diwu, S. Wang, J. Good, D. Victoria, T. E. Albrecht-Schmitt, “Deviation Between the Chemistry of Ce(IV) and Pu(IV) and Routes to Ordered and Disordered Heterobimetallic 4f/5f and 5f/5f Phosphonates” Inorg. Chem., 2011, 50, 4842-4850;
(9) J. Diwu, J. J. Good; V. H. Di Stefano; T. E. Albrecht-Schmitt, “Self-Assembly of Hexanuclear Clusters of 4f and 5f Elements with Cation Specificity” Eur. J. Inorg. Chem., 2011, 9, 1374-1377;
(10) J. Diwu, S. Wang, Z. Liao, P. C. Burns, T. E. Albrecht-Schmitt, “Cerium(IV), Neptunium(IV), and Plutonium(IV) 1,2-Phenylenediphosphonates: Correlations and Differences between Early Transuranium Elements and Their Proposed Surrogates” Inorg. Chem., 2010, 49, 10074-10080;
(11) J. Diwu, A. Nelson, S. Wang, T. E. Albrecht-Schmitt, “Comparisons of Pu(IV) and Ce(IV) Diphosphonates” Inorg. Chem., 2010, 49, 3337-3342;
(12) J. Diwu, A-G. D. Nelson, T. E. Albrecht-Schmitt*, “Using phosphonates to probe structural differences between transuranium elements and their proposed surrogates” Comments on Inorganic Chemistry., 2010, 31(1 & 2), 46-62;
(13) J. Lin, J. N. Cross, J. Diwu, M. J. Polinski, N. A. Meredith, T. E. Albrecht-Schmitt, “Comparisons of Plutonium(IV), Thorium(IV), and Cerium(III) Tellurite Sulfates” submitted;
(14) S. Wang, T. G. Parker, D. J. Grant, J. Diwu, E. V. Alekseev, E. Depmeier, L. Gagliardi, T. E. Albrecht-Schmitt, “Elucidation of Tetraboric Acid with a New Borate Fundamental Building Block in a Chiral Uranyl Fluoroborate” Inorg. Chem., 2012, ASAP;
(15) J. Lin, J. N. Cross, J. Diwu, M. J. Polinski, E. M. Villa, T. E. Albrecht-Schmitt, “Unusual Coordination for Plutonium(IV), Cerium(IV), and Zirconium(IV) in the Cationic Layered Materials [M2Te4O11]X2 (M = Pu, Ce, Zr; X = Cl, Br)” Inorg. Chem., 2012, ASAP;
(16) J. Lin, J. Diwu, J. N. Cross, E. Villa, T. E. Albrecht-Schmitt, “Cerium(IV) Tellurite Halides [Ce2Te7O17]X2 (X = Cl- or Br-): The First Cerium-Containing Cationic Frameworks” Inorg. Chem., 2012, ASAP;
(17) J. N. Cross, E. M. Villa, S. Wang, J. Diwu, M. J. Polinski, T. E. Albrecht-Schmitt, “Syntheses, Structures, and Spectroscopic Properties of Plutonium and Americium Phosphites and the Redetermination of the Ionic Radii of Pu(III) and Am(III)” Inorg. Chem., 2012, 51, 8419-8424;
(18) S. Wang, J. Diwu, E. V. Alekseev, L. Jouffret, W. Depmeier, T. E. Albrecht-Schmitt, “Cation-Cation Interactions Between Neptunyl(VI) Units” Inorg. Chem., 2012, 51, 7016-7018;
(19) S. Wang, P. Yu, B. A. Purse, M. J. Orta, J. Diwu, W. H. Casey, B. L. Phillips, E. V. Alekseev, W. Depmeier, D. T. Hobbs, T. E. Albrecht-Schmitt, “Selectivity, Kinetics, and Efficiency of Reversible Anion Exchange with TcO4? in a Supertetrahedral Cationic Framework” Adv. Funct. Mater., 2012, 22, 2241–2250;
(20) N. A. Meredith, S. Wang, J. Diwu, T. E. Albrecht-Schmitt, “Two convenient Low-Temperature Routes to Single Crystals of Plutonium Dioxide” Radiochica. Acta. Submitted.
(21) S. Wu, S. Wang, J. Diwu, W. Depmeier, T. Malcherek, E. V. Alekseev, T. E. Albrecht-Schmitt, “Complex Clover Cross-Sectioned Nanotubules Exist in the Structure of First Uranium Borate Phosphate” Chem. Commun., 2012, 48, 3479-3481;
(22) S. Wang, J. Diwu, A. Simonetti, C. H. Booth, T. E. Albrecht-Schmitt, “Interstitial Incorporation of Plutonium into a Low Dimensional Potassium Borate” Environ. Sci. Technol., 2011, 45, 9457-9463;
(23) S. Wang, E. V. Alekseev, J. Diwu, H. M. Miller, A. Oliver, G. Liu, W. Depmeier, T. E. Albrecht-Schmitt, “Functionalization of Borate Networks by the Incorporation of Fluoride: Syntheses, Crystal Structures, and Nonlinear Optical Properties of Novel Actinide Fluoroborates” Chem. Mater., 2011, 23, 2931-2939;
(24) S. Wang, E. M. Villa, J. Diwu, E. V. Alekseev, W. Depmeier, T. E. Albrecht-Schmitt, “Role of Anions and Reaction Conditions in the Preparation of Uranium(VI), Neptunium(VI), and Plutonium(VI) Borates” Inorg. Chem., 2011, 50, 2527-2533;
(25) S. Wang, E. V. Alekseev, J. Diwu, W. Casey, B. Phillips, W. Depmeier, T. E. Albrecht-Schmitt, “NDTB-1: A Supertetrahedral Cationic Framework that Removes TcO4- from Solution” Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2010, 49, 1057-1060;
Honors and Awards:
Bayer Predoctoral Research Fellowship for the 2011/2012 academic year from Center for Environmental Science and Technology, University of Notre Dame. 2011
The Outstanding Young Scientists of the Science and Technology Association of Jiangsu Province, 2014
Contact Information：
Tel: 86-512-65882579
E-mail: diwujuan@suda.edu.cn
Address: 199 Renai Road, Suzhou Industrial Park, Suzhou, Jiangsu 215123, China