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D-Index
147
Citations
84745
World Ranking
150
National Ranking
23

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Chemistry in China Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Chemistry in United States Leader Award
  • 2010 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 2000 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Wenbin Lin is affiliated with the University of Chicago in the United States and has a research focus spanning several interconnected scientific domains. Their main fields of study include Materials Science, Chemistry, and Engineering, with notable contributions to subfields such as Materials Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry, Biomedical Engineering, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, and Immunology.

The primary topics of their work encompass:

  • Metal-Organic Frameworks: Synthesis and Applications
  • Nanoplatforms for cancer theranostics
  • Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques
  • Covalent Organic Framework Applications
  • Advanced Nanomaterials in Catalysis
  • Nanoparticle-Based Drug Delivery
  • Photodynamic Therapy Research Studies

Among recent publications, several papers stand out:

  • Intratumoral accumulation of gut microbiota facilitates CD47-based immunotherapy via STING signaling, published in 2020 in The Journal of Experimental Medicine
  • Metal-Organic Frameworks Significantly Enhance Photocatalytic Hydrogen Evolution and CO2 Reduction with Earth-Abundant Copper Photosensitizers, published in 2020 in Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Metal-organic frameworks embedded in a liposome facilitate overall photocatalytic water splitting, published in 2021 in Nature Chemistry
  • Nanoscale Metal-Organic Frameworks Stabilize Bacteriochlorins for Type I and Type II Photodynamic Therapy, published in 2020 in Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Nanoscale Metal-Organic Frameworks for Cancer Immunotherapy, published in 2020 in Accounts of Chemical Research

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Wenbin Lin include Xiaomin Jiang, Taokun Luo, Yingjie Fan, Ralph R. Weichselbaum, and Ziwan Xu, reflecting a pattern of sustained collaborative research across multiple projects.

Their work is regularly published in several venues, with a particular concentration in:

  • Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • UNC Libraries
  • Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Angewandte Chemie
  • International Journal of Research and Review

Wenbin Lin has been recognized through awards including the Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2010 and Fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in 2000.

Best Publications

  • Enantioselective catalysis with homochiral metal–organic frameworks

    Liqing Ma;Carter Abney;Wenbin Lin

  • Crystal engineering of NLO materials based on metal-organic coordination networks

    Owen R Evans;Wenbin Lin

  • Metal–organic frameworks for artificial photosynthesis and photocatalysis

    Teng Zhang;Wenbin Lin

  • Nanoscale Metal–Organic Frameworks for Biomedical Imaging and Drug Delivery

    Joseph Della Rocca;Demin Liu;Wenbin Lin

  • A Homochiral Porous Metal−Organic Framework for Highly Enantioselective Heterogeneous Asymmetric Catalysis

    Chuan-De Wu;Aiguo Hu;Lin Zhang;Wenbin Lin

  • Postsynthetic Modifications of Iron-Carboxylate Nanoscale Metal−Organic Frameworks for Imaging and Drug Delivery

    Kathryn M. L. Taylor-Pashow;Joseph Della Rocca;Zhigang Xie;Sylvie Tran

  • Doping Metal–Organic Frameworks for Water Oxidation, Carbon Dioxide Reduction, and Organic Photocatalysis

    Cheng Wang;Zhigang Xie;Kathryn E. deKrafft;Wenbin Lin

  • Rational synthesis of noncentrosymmetric metal-organic frameworks for second-order nonlinear optics.

    Cheng Wang;Teng Zhang;Wenbin Lin

  • Nanomedicine Applications of Hybrid Nanomaterials Built from Metal-Ligand Coordination Bonds: Nanoscale Metal-Organic Frameworks and Nanoscale Coordination Polymers.

    Chunbai He;Demin Liu;Wenbin Lin

  • Chiral porous coordination networks: rational design and applications in enantioselective processes

    Banu Kesanli;Wenbin Lin

  • Metal-organic frameworks as a tunable platform for designing functional molecular materials.

    Cheng Wang;Demin Liu;Wenbin Lin

  • Nanoscale metal-organic frameworks as potential multimodal contrast enhancing agents.

    William J. Rieter;Kathryn M. L. Taylor;Hongyu An;Weili Lin

  • Nanoparticle-Mediated Immunogenic Cell Death Enables and Potentiates Cancer Immunotherapy.

    Xiaopin Duan;Christina Chan;Wenbin Lin

  • Metal-organic frameworks as potential drug carriers.

    Rachel C Huxford;Joseph Della Rocca;Wenbin Lin

  • A series of isoreticular chiral metal-organic frameworks as a tunable platform for asymmetric catalysis.

    Liqing Ma;Joseph M. Falkowski;Carter Abney;Wenbin Lin

  • Nanoscale metal-organic frameworks for the co-delivery of cisplatin and pooled siRNAs to enhance therapeutic efficacy in drug-resistant ovarian cancer cells.

    Chunbai He;Kuangda Lu;Demin Liu;Wenbin Lin

  • Nanoscale coordination polymers for platinum-based anticancer drug delivery.

    William J. Rieter;Kimberly M. Pott;Kathryn M. L. Taylor;Wenbin Lin

  • Metal–Organic Frameworks for Light Harvesting and Photocatalysis

    Jin-Liang Wang;Cheng Wang;Wenbin Lin

  • Supramolecular Engineering of Chiral and Acentric 2D Networks. Synthesis, Structures, and Second-Order Nonlinear Optical Properties of Bis(nicotinato)zinc and Bis{3-[2-(4-pyridyl)ethenyl]benzoato}cadmium

    Wenbin Lin;Owen R. Evans;Ren-Gen Xiong;Zhiyong Wang

  • Highly interpenetrated metal-organic frameworks for hydrogen storage.

    Banu Kesanli;Yong Cui;Milton R. Smith;Edward W. Bittner

  • Core-shell nanoscale coordination polymers combine chemotherapy and photodynamic therapy to potentiate checkpoint blockade cancer immunotherapy

    Chunbai He;Xiaopin Duan;Nining Guo;Christina Chan

Frequent Co-Authors

George K. Wong
George K. Wong Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Tobin J. Marks
Tobin J. Marks Northwestern University
Gregory S. Girolami
Gregory S. Girolami University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Zhigang Xie
Zhigang Xie Chinese Academy of Sciences
Zhiyong Wang
Zhiyong Wang University of Science and Technology of China
Zhiming Zhang
Zhiming Zhang Northeast Normal University
Ralph R. Weichselbaum
Ralph R. Weichselbaum University of Chicago
La-Sheng Long
La-Sheng Long Xiamen University
Leon M. Keer
Leon M. Keer Northwestern University
Arthur J Freeman
Arthur J Freeman Northwestern University

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