Basic Information
Name: Hongqian Sang
Gender: Male
Academic Title: Associate Research Fellow / Associate Professor
Affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Precision Blasting / Intelligent Computing Center, Jianghan University
Email: sang@jhun.edu.cn
Education and Professional Experience
2004–2014 BSc, MSc, and PhD, School of Physics and Technology, Wuhan University
2017–2019 Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Physics, King’s College London, UK
2015–2024 Assistant / Associate Research Fellow, Institute for Interdisciplinary Research / School of Optoelectronic Materials and Technologies, Jianghan University
2024–Present Associate Research Fellow / Associate Professor, State Key Laboratory of Precision Blasting / Intelligent Computing Center, Jianghan University
Conducted collaborative research and software development as a visiting scholar at the University of Science and Technology of China, Southern University of Science and Technology, Osaka University in Japan, the National Supercomputing Center in Guangzhou, and EPCC, the UK’s National Supercomputing Centre, among other institutions.
Research
Research focuses on multiscale modeling and simulation and the development of related high-performance computing (HPC) and artificial intelligence (AI) applications.
Research interests include generative AI and embodied intelligence that integrate simulations of the physical world.
Principal investigator for three projects funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) and several provincial and ministerial research grants. Research findings have been published in leading journals, including Nature Chemistry, PNAS, JACS, and Angewandte Chemie. SCI-indexed publications have received more than 2,000 citations excluding self-citations, with an h-index of 20 and an i10-index of 29. Holds five granted invention patents.
Led the development of AI applications including Jianghan University’s interactive learning platform, the BlastGPT domain-specific large language model, and the Copilot research assistant. Also explores new educational paradigms and modes of human–AI collaboration in the AI era.
Recruiting graduate students in Electronic Information, with a focus on software and hardware development involving large language models (LLMs) and the Robot Operating System (ROS). Applicants seeking reassignment through China’s postgraduate admissions system are welcome. The Intelligent Computing Center provides advanced hardware and software infrastructure, with computing capacity among the highest at universities in Central China. Visits and inquiries are welcome.
Left to right: Multimodal Agents; Scientific Big Data; Embodied Intelligence.
Projects as Principal Investigator
First-Principles Study of Molecule-Functionalized Tips in Atomic Force Microscopy with Submolecular Resolution. Theoretical Physics Special Program, NSFC, 2016–2017.
A Theoretical Study of the Mechanisms of Directional Diffusion of Molecular Walkers on Metal Surfaces. Young Scientists Fund, NSFC, 2017–2019.
Theoretical Modeling and Functional Design of Molecular Walkers on Metal Surfaces. Government-Sponsored Postdoctoral Research Program, China Scholarship Council, 2017–2019.
Modeling and Simulation of Complex Surface and Interface Processes. Wuhan Municipal Funding for Outstanding PhD Graduates, 2017–2019.
Hydrolysis Mechanisms in Organic Perovskite Solar Cell Materials. Research Start-Up Grant for PhD Holders, Jianghan University, 2016–2019.
Structure–Property Relationships of Conducting Organic Polymers Using a Materials Genome Approach. Special Program for the Four New Disciplines, Jianghan University, 2022–2024.
Scientific Computing and Artificial Intelligence. Graduate Online Course Development Program, Jianghan University, 2023–2024.
A Cloud-Based Platform for Quantum Computing Simulation. Industry–Academia–Research Collaboration Program, Wuhan Municipal Education Bureau, 2023–2024.
A Study of a Blended Teaching Model Based on Cloud Computing and AI-Generated Content for New Engineering Education. Teaching Reform Program, Hubei Provincial Department of Education, 2024–2025.
A WebVR-Based Quantum Chemistry Simulation System. Virtual Simulation Experiment Program, Jianghan University, 2024–2025.
Interactive Science Workshop. Special Program, NSFC, 2024–2025.
Key Technologies and Systems for Digital Twins in Science Education. Industry–Education Integration Program, Wuhan Municipal Education Bureau, 2025–2027.
Integrated Applications of Digital Twins and Artificial Intelligence in New Engineering Education. Special Program for Digital and Intelligent Innovation and Talent Development, Ministry of Education, 2025–2027.
BlastGPT Educational AI Agent. Program for Developing Education-Specific Large Models for Generative Artificial Intelligence, Ministry of Education, 2025–2026.
Student Supervision and Mentoring
Outstanding Graduate Thesis Supervisor, Jianghan University
Outstanding Master’s Supervisor, Jianghan University
Advisor for national undergraduate science and technology innovation competitions
Team Advisor, International Supercomputing Student Challenge
Faculty Advisor, Digital-Blasting Society
Educational Applications
Virtual Reality Molecular Classroom
https://webmolecule.dtsci.cn/Virtual Classroom for Structural Demolition and Engineering Blasting
https://edublast.blastai.cn/Interactive Online Learning System
https://class.dtsci.cn
Courses Taught
1. Scientific Computing and Artificial Intelligence — Graduate Course
2. Introduction to Generative Artificial Intelligence — Undergraduate Course
Public Engagement
Founder of DeepThought Science, a science outreach organization focused on introducing advanced computing technologies, including high-performance computing, artificial intelligence, and quantum computing, to K–12 students.
Invention Patents
Hongqian Sang et al. A Machine Learning-Based Method and Apparatus for Predicting Molecular Self-Assembly Structures. CN114242185B, 2024. Granted.
Hongqian Sang et al. A Method and Apparatus for Constructing Simulation Scenarios Using Intelligent Agents and a Physics Engine. CN119272535B, 2025. Granted.
Hongqian Sang et al. A Method and Apparatus for Generating Mathematics and Physics Explanation Videos through Multi-Agent Collaboration. CN119277169B, 2025. Granted.
Hongqian Sang et al. A Method and Apparatus for Enhancing Spatial Perception in Large Multimodal Models. CN120339399A, 2025. Granted.
Hongqian Sang et al. A Variable-Topology, Multi-Stiffness Spring Structure with Flexible Cable Constraints and an Adjustment Method. CN120926206B, 2025. Granted.
Recent Publications
Sofia Alonso Perez et al, From London to Morse via Binnig, Quate, and Gerber,arXiv: 2609.08425, 2026
X Liu, J Li, S Feng, Y Jia, M Hu, Y Yao, J Sun, Q Xie, H Sang, Pioneering Insights into the Reaction Kinetics of Metastable Intermolecular Composites Based on Metal Fluorides: Virtually non‐existent condensed Phase Combustion Products and Ultra‐Efficient Reactivity. Advanced Science, 2415073, 2025
Y Mu, C Xiong, M Cui, M Sun, X Chen, B Xiao, H Sang, Z Wang, H Liu, A recyclable dynamic semiconducting polymer consisting of Pauli-paramagnetic diradicaloids promoted and stabilized by catechol–boron coordination. Chemical Science 16 (3), 1364-1373, 2025
Y Ding, Z Yan, G Wang, H Sang, Z Xu, W Li, Regulating the Oxygen Vacancy and Electronic Structure of NiCo Layered Double Hydroxides by Molybdenum Doping for High‐Power Hybrid Supercapacitors Small 20 (8), 2306382, 2024
Y Ding, Z Yan, G Wang, H Sang, W Li, Z Xu, One-pot preparation of La-doped Ni-MOF nanospheres for efficient hybrid supercapacitor electrode material Materials Chemistry and Physics 309, 128340, 2023
S Zou, J Wei, Q Zhu, H Sang, Y Sugawara, YJ Li, Study of CO molecules on Pd/Al2O3/NiAl(110) surface by atomic force microscopy and Kelvin probe force microscopy Journal of Nanoparticle Research 25 (7), 138, 2023
B Li, X Zou, Q Li, H Sang, Y Mu, J Wang, J Pei, C Yang, L Li, X Wan, Alternating copolymers of thiophene-flanked thiazoloisoindigo and thiophene-flanked benzothiadiazole for high-performance ambipolar organic field-effect transistors Organic Electronics 113, 106708, 2023
Wei Zeng, An Gui, Xinyi He, Menglin Tang, Xiaoyu Zhang, Xinyu He, Yongan Hu, Kang Di, Yang Dong, Yi Xiong, Pengfei Fang, Hongqian Sang, Zhiliang Chen, Pengbin Gui, Van der Waals Black Phosphorus/Bi10O6S9 Heterojunction Harvesting Ambient Electric Field Energy for Enhanced Photoelectrochemical Sense The Journal of Physical Chemistry C 127 (2), 1229-1243, 2023
Bolei Chen, Yu Xia, Rongxiang He, Hongqian Sang, Wenchang Zhang, Juan Li, Lufeng Chen, Pu Wang, Shishang Guo, Yongguang Yin, Ligang Hu, Maoyong Song, Yong Liang, Yawei Wang, Guibin Jiang, Richard N Zare Water–solid contact electrification causes hydrogen peroxide production from hydroxyl radical recombination in sprayed microdroplets Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 119 (32), e2209056119, 2022
Qingpeng Guo, Jiayi Zheng, Yuhao Zhu, Haolong Jiang, Huize Jiang, Hui Wang, Weiwei Sun, Hongqian Sang, Yu Han, Chunman Zheng, Kai Xie, Design of a fast ion-transport interlayer on cathode-electrolyte interface for solid-state lithium metal batteries Energy Storage Materials 48, 205-211, 2022
Quanzhen Zhang, Ján Brndiar, Yuuki Adachi, Martin Konopka, Huan Fei Wen, Masato Miyazaki, Yasuhiro Sugawara, Rui Xu, Zhi Hai Cheng, Hongqian Sang, Yan Jun Li, Lev Kantorovich, Ivan Stich, Voltage-and redox state-triggered oxygen Adatom conductance switch The Journal of Physical Chemistry C 125 (48), 26801-26807, 2021
S Wang, H Sang, Y Jiang, Y Wang, Y Xiong, Y Yu, R He, B Chen, X Zhao, Tailoring the energy band structure and interfacial morphology of the ETL via controllable nanocluster size achieves high-performance planar perovskite solar cells ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 13 (41), 48555-48568, 2021
SP Jarvis, H Sang, F Junqueira, O Gordon, JEA Hodgkinson, A Saywell, Chemical shielding of H2O and HF encapsulated inside a C60 cage Communications Chemistry 4 (1), 135, 2021
Y Adachi, J Brndiar, HF Wen, Q Zhang, M Miyazaki, S Thakur, Electron dynamics of tip-tunable oxygen species on TiO2 surface Communications Materials 2 (1), 71, 2021
Y Adachi, H Sang, Y Sugawara, YJ Li Single hydrogen atom manipulation for reversible deprotonation of water on a rutile TiO2 (110) surface Communications Chemistry 4 (1), 5, 2021
D Abbasi-Pérez, H Sang, FLQ Junqueira, A Sweetman, JM Recio, P Moriarty, Cyclic Single Atom Vertical Manipulation on a Nonmetallic Surface Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters 12 (46), 2021
B Chen, X Zhang, Y Xia, G Liu, H Sang, Y Liu, J Yuan, J Liu, C Ma, Harnessing synchronous photothermal and photocatalytic effects of cryptomelane-type MnO 2 nanowires towards clean water production Journal of Materials Chemistry A 9 (4), 2414-2420, 2021
L Huang, X Zhou, R Xue, P Xu, S Wang, C Xu, W Zeng, Y Xiong, H Sang, Low-Temperature Growing Anatase TiO2/SnO2 Multi-dimensional Heterojunctions at MXene Conductive Network for High-Efficient Perovskite Solar Cells Nano-micro letters 12, 1-19, 2020
Y Wang, HQ Sang, W Zhang, Y Qi, RX He, B Chen, W Sun, XZ Zhao, D Fu, Electrophoretic deposited black phosphorus on 3D porous current collectors to regulate Li nucleation for dendrite-free lithium metal anodes ACS applied materials & interfaces 12 (46), 51563-51572, 2020
M Yu, C Chen, Q Liu, C Mattioli, H Sang, G Shi, W Huang, K Shen, Z Li, Long-range ordered and atomic-scale control of graphene hybridization by photocycloaddition. Nature Chemistry 12 (11), 1035-1041, 2020
HF Wen, H Sang, Y Sugawara, YJ Li, Dynamic behavior of OH and its atomic contrast with O adatom on the Ti site of TiO2 (110) at 78 K by atomic force microscopy imaging Applied Physics Letters 117 (5), 2020
S Kawai, H Sang, L Kantorovich, K Takahashi, K Nozaki, S Ito, An endergonic synthesis of single Sondheimer–Wong diyne by local probe chemistry Angewandte Chemie 132 (27), 10934-10939, 2020
HF Wen, H Sang, Y Sugawara, YJ Li, Imaging oxygen molecular adsorption and dissociation on the Ti site of rutile TiO 2 (110) surface with real configuration at 78 K by atomic force microscopy Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 22 (35), 19795-19801, 2020
Y Cheng, H Sang, Q Jiang, H Wang, H Zhang, X Li, Going Nano with Confined Effects to Construct Pomegranate-like Cathode for High-Energy and High-Power Lithium-Ion Batteries ACS applied materials & interfaces 11 (32), 28934-28942, 2019
Y Adachi, HF Wen, Q Zhang, M Miyazaki, Y Sugawara, H Sang, J Brndiar, Tip-Induced Control of Charge and Molecular Bonding of Oxygen Atoms on the Rutile TiO2 (110) Surface with Atomic Force Microscopy ACS nano 13 (6), 6917-6924, 2019
D Abbasi-Pérez, H Sang, L Pérez-García, A Floris, DB Amabilino, R Raval, Controlling the preferential motion of chiral molecular walkers on a surface Chemical science 10 (23), 5864-5874, 2019
H Sang, D Abbasi-Pérez, JM Recio, L Kantorovich Externally driven molecular ratchets on a periodic potential surface: a rate equations approach Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 21 (42), 23310-23319, 2019
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