Wang Erkang, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and a leader in electroanalytical chemistry, was born in Zhenjiang in May 1933. Graduated from the Chemistry Department of Shanghai Hujiang University in 1952. After graduation, he was assigned to work in Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry. In 1955, he was selected to study at the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences and received an associate doctorate in 1959. After returning to China, he still worked at the Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry. He became a researcher and doctoral supervisor in 1982, and served as director from 1992 to 1996. He also served as director of the National Electrochemistry and Spectral Analysis Research Center. In 1991, he was elected as an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. In 1993, he was elected as an academician of the Third World Academy of Sciences. He has served as the editor-in-chief of "Analytical Chemistry", a member of the RJPAC Electroanalytical Chemistry Committee, a member of the Third World Academy of Sciences (Chemistry) Academician Review Committee and Awards Committee, the convener of the Chemistry Discipline Evaluation Group of the Academic Degrees Committee of the State Council, and a postdoctoral Chemistry Discipline Reviewer of the Ministry of Personnel. Group convener, vice chairman of the China Analytical Testing Association, leader of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Environmental) Analytical Chemistry Fund Review Team, member of the Expert Advisory Committee of the Ministry of Chemical Sciences, executive director of the Chinese Chemical Society, director of the Analytical Chemistry Committee, etc.
Wang Erkang has been engaged in analytical chemistry and electroanalytical chemistry research for 50 years and has had influence both at home and abroad. In the late 1950s, he discovered the general law that anions promote the electrooxidation of mercury to produce polarographic oxidation waves, and proposed the general law of cooperating with mercury and forming a mercury salt film. He was the first to discover the polarographic dynamic catalytic wave of the platinum group element ruthenium and the polarographic adsorption catalytic wave of ruthenium, and proposed the electrode process mechanism. He discovered the polarographic waves of the complexes formed by antimony (III) and various aminohydroxy complexes, and the binuclear complexes of manganese (II) and tartaric acid. He systematically studied the polarographic electrode process of the complexes and proposed the corresponding equations. He was the first to engage in liquid/liquid interface electrochemistry research in my country, proposing and establishing various electrochemical research methods such as the linear current scanning method; he discovered the ion transfer and interaction of various dyes, neutral carriers, ligands, etc. at the liquid/liquid interface. The driving process of some metal ions. He proposed the universal law of ion transfer and developed it into electrochemical research on biomimetic membranes. He carried out liquid chromatography/electrochemistry research early, and proposed and designed various microelectrodes, array microelectrodes, multi-indicator electrodes, various chemically modified electrodes, and water/solidified nitrobenzene thin-layer cell electrochemical detectors and In conjunction with liquid chromatography, a series of liquid chromatography/electrochemical determination methods have been developed that can sensitively select and analyze various types of test substances that are usually difficult to measure. In the past 10 years, Wang Erkang has carried out scanning probe and electrochemical scanning probe microscopy research early in China, and has achieved good results in single crystal interface electrochemical research.
His scientific research results include 31 monographs, monographs, and translations, 50 reports in Yinghua Journal and Changchun Yinghua Institute, and 12 patents. He has won many important awards at home and abroad.