Yu Haibo has received his PhD degree in 2013 under the supervision of Prof. Yi Xiao from Dalian University of Technology, State Key Laboratory of Fine Chemicals. He is currently a professor in the College of Environmental Sciences of Liaoning University.

Research interest:

1. Synthesis and application of Fluorescent functional materials in the field of toxicant detection.

2. Design of organelle-targetable fluorescent probes and application in biological fields.

3. Development of photochromic materials and application in Super-resolution Imaging.

Selected Publications:

1. Strategy to Lengthen the On-Time of Photochromic Rhodamine Spirolactam for Super-resolution Photoactivated Localization Microscopy, Zhiwei Ye, Haibo Yu,* Wei Yang, Ying Zheng, Ning Li, Hui Bian, Zechen Wang, Qiang Liu, Youtao Song, Mingyan Zhang, and Yi Xiao*, Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2019, 141, 6527-6536

2. A twist six-membered rhodamine-based fluorescent probe for hypochlorite detection in water and lysosomes of living cells, Zechen Wang, Qinghao Zhang, Junwen Liu, Ran Sui, Yahui Li, Yue Li, Xinfu Zhang, Haibo Yu*, Kui Jing*, Mingyan Zhang, Yi Xiao*, Analytica Chimica Acta, 2019, 1082, 116-125

3. pKa modulation of rhodamine alkylamides by hydrogen-bond and application in bio-imaging, Lei Min, Xintong Li, Weiliang Zhang, Xinfu Zhang, Ying Zhang, Haibo Yu*, Yi Xiao, Dyes and Pigments, 2021, 188, 109173

4. Always-on and water-soluble rhodamine amide designed by positive charge effect and application in mitochondrion-targetable imaging of living cells, Yang Song, Ying Zheng, Shuo Zhang, Yuxuan Song, Madou Niu, Yahui Li, Zhiwei Ye, Haibo Yu*, Mingyan Zhang*, Yi Xiao*, Sensors & Actuators: B. Chemical, 2019, 286, 32–38

5. A single rhodamine spirolactam probe for localization and pH monitoring of mitochondrion/lysosome in living cells, NewJ.Chem., 2018, 42, 11102--11108

6. A neutral pH probe of rhodamine derivatives inspired by effect of hydrogen bond on pKa and its organelle-targetable fluorescent imaging, Yu Haibo, Song Youtao, Xiao Yi, Dyes and Pigments, 2016, 133, 93-99

7. A Mitochondrial-Targetable and Turn-On Fluorescent Probe based on Nile Red and Monitoring for H2S in Living Cells, Acta Chim. Sinica 2015, 73, 450-456

8. Targetable Fluorescent Probe for Monitoring Exogenous and Endogenous NO in Mitochondria of Living Cells, Haibo Yu, Xinfu Zhang, Yi Xiao, Analytical Chemistry, 2013, 85, 7076−7084

9. A Lysosome-Targetable and Two-Photon Fluorescent Probe for Monitoring Endogenous and Exogenous Nitric Oxide in Living Cells, Yu Haibo, Xiao Yi, Jin Linji, Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2012, 134, 17486-17489