刘明 - 浙江大学

个人简介

Ming Liu received his Ph.D degree in chemistry in 2009 from Department of Chemistry, Zhejiang University, China. Then he worked as a postdoctoral fellow in CNRS-East Paris Institute of Chemistry and Materials Science for one year, where he worked on synthesis of artificial polymeric ion channels. From June 2011, Ming joined Prof. Andy Cooper’s group in University of Liverpool as a research associate, working on porous organic cages. From 2014, he started focusing on the commercialization of organic cages, and in 2019, he co-founded start-up company CageCapture Ltd, and have taken the role as CTO since then. Ming has won many innovation/entrepreneurship prizes, including First Prize in 2016 Emerging Technologies Competition organized by Royal Society of Chemistry, and Spinoff Prize Finalist in 2020 from Nature Research.

研究领域

Molecular Organic Materials Molecular organic materials are assembled from discrete organic molecules, these discrete nanocavities or open frameworks formed by non-covalent interactions have emerged as a versatile functional-materials platform, facilitated by the solubility of the materials in common organic solvents. They have shown potential in a wide range of applications including gas uptake, molecular separations, as catalyst support, chemical sensors, and energy storage. Materials for Environmental Applications & Clean Energy Functional materials hold the promise to solve some of our world's most pressing challenges, such as environmental pollution and energy shortage. Our journey will not stop at designing and synthesis of the above-constructed materials but continue to push the applications of them with our industrial collaborators. For example: capture of toxic air pollutants, separate hydrogen isotope as fuels for nuclear fusion energy, proton exchange membranes for fuel cells and battery related technologies. Data Driven Materials Discovery Through the use of high-throughput automation and Computer Aided Materials Science we aim to develop new approaches to materials science, re-thinking potential applications and bringing it into the 21st Century. The potential that new, and at scale, aggregations of automation, control and cognitive computing can offer is limitless.

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He, D.; Zhang, L.*; Liu, T.; Clowes, R.; Little, M. A. *; Liu, M.*; Hirscher, M.; Cooper, A. I.* Hydrogen Isotope Separation Using a Metal–Organic Cage Built from Macrocycles. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2022, DOI: 10.1002/anie.202202450 (Link) Borne, I.; Donglin He, D.; Stephen J.A. DeWitt, S. J. A.; Liu, M.*, Andrew I Cooper, A. I.; Jones, C. W.; Lively. R. P. * Polymeric Fiber Sorbents Embedded with Porous Organic Cages. ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces., 2021, 13, 47118-47126. (Link) Martínez-Ahumada, E.†; He, D.†; Berryman, V.; López-Olvera, A.; Hernandez, M.; Jancik, V.; Martis, V.; Vera, M. A.; Lima, E.; Parker, D. J.; Cooper, A. I. *; Ibarra, I. A.*; Liu, M.* SO2 Capture using Porous Organic Cage. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2021, 60, 17556-17563. (Link) (Hot paper, Back Cover) Rivera, M. P.; Liu, M.; He, D.; Lively, R. P.* Tuning material properties of porous organic cage CC3 with post-synthetic dynamic covalent chemistry. Eur. J. Org. Chem., 2021, e202101507 (Link) He, D.; Clowes, Rob.; Little, M. A.*; Liu, M.*; Cooper, A. I.* Creating porosity in a trianglimine macrocycle by heterochiral pairing. Chem. Commun., 2021, 57, 6141-6144. (Link) He, D.†; Zhao, C.†; Chen, L.; Little, M. A.; Chong, S. Y.; Clowes, R.; McKie, K.; Roper, M. G.; Day, G. M.*; Liu, M. *; Cooper, A. I. * Inherent Ethyl Acetate Selectivity in a Trianglimine Molecular Solid. Chem. Eur. J., 2021, 27, 10589-10594. (Link) (Featured cover) Wei, P.*; He, X.; Zheng, Z.; He, D.; Li, Q.; Gong, J.; Zhang, J.; Sung, H. Y.; Williams, I. D.; Lam, J. Y.; Liu, M. *; Tang, B. Z.* Robust Supramolecular Nano-Tunnels Built from Molecular Bricks. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2021, 60, 7148-7154. (Link) Hughes, A. R.; Liu, M.; Paul, S.; Cooper, A. I.; Blanc, F.* Dynamics in Flexible Pillar[n]arenes Probed by Solid-State NMR. J. Phys. Chem. C., 2021, 125, 24, 13370-13381. (Link) Li E.; Jie, K.*; Liu, M.*; Sheng, X.; Zhu, W.; Huang, F.* Vapochromic crystals: understanding vapochromism from the perspective of crystal engineering. Chem. Soc. Rev., 2020, 49, 1517-1544. (Link) Liu, M.; Zhang, L.; Little, M. A.; Kapil, V.; Ceriotti, M.; Yang, S.; Ding, L.; Holden, D. L.; Balderas-Xicohténcatl, R.; He, D.; Clowes, Rob.; Chong, S. Y.; Schütz, G.; Chen, L.; Hirscher, M.*; Cooper, A. I.* Barely porous organic cages for hydrogen isotope separation. Science, 2019, 366, 613-620. Jie, K.†; Liu, M.†; Zhou, Y.; Little, M. A.; Pulido, A.; Chong, S. Y.; Stephenson, A.; Hughes, A. R.; Sakakibara, F.; Ogoshi, T.; Blanc, F.; Day, G. M. *; Huang, F. *; Cooper. A. I. * Near-ideal xylene selectivity in adaptive molecular crystals of perethylated pillar[n]arenes. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2018, 140, 6921-6930. (Link) Jie, K.; Zhou, Y.; Li, E.; Zhao, R.; Liu, M.; Huang, F.* Linear positional isomer sorting in nonporous adaptive crystals of a pillar[5]arene. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2018, 140, 3190-3193. (Link) Dong, S.; Leng, J.; Feng, Y.; Liu, M., Stackhouse, C. J.; Schönhals, A.; Chiappisi, L.; Gao, L.; Chen, W.; Shang, J.; Jin, L.; Qi, Z.; Schalley, C. A. Structural water as an essential comonomer in supramolecular polymerization. Sci. Adv. 2017, 11, eaao0900. (Link) Tothadi, S.; Little, M. A.; Hasell, T.; Briggs, M. E.; Chong, S. Y.; Liu, M.; Cooper, A. I. * Modular assembly of porous organic cage crystals: isoreticular quasiracemates and ternary co-crystal. CrystEngComm, 2017, 19, 4933-4941. (Link) Li, C.; Li, P.; Chen, L.; Briggs, M. E.; Liu, M.; Chen, K.; Shi, X.; Han, D.; Ren, S. * Pyrene-cored covalent organic polymers by thiophene-based isomers, their gas adsorption, and photophysical properties. J. Polym. Sci., Part A: Polym. Chem., 2017, 14, 2383-2389. (Link) Jie, K.†; Liu, M. †; Zhou, Y.; Little, M. A.; Bonakala, S.; Chong, S. Y.; Stephenson, A.; Chen, L.; Huang, F.; Cooper, A. I.* Styrene purification by guest-induced restructuring of pillar[6]arene. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2017, 139, 2908-2911. (Link) Liu, M.; Chen, L.; Lewis, S.; Chong, S. Y.; Little, M. A.; Hasell, T.; Aldous, I. A.; Brown, C. M.; Smith, M. W.; Morrison, C. A.; Hardwick, L.; Cooper, A. I.* Three-dimensional protonic conductivity in porous organic cage solids. Nat. Commun., 2016, 7:12750 DOI: 10.1038/ncomms12750. (Link) Song, Q.; Jiang, S.; Hasell, T.; Liu, M.; Sun, S.; Cheetham, A. K.; Sivaniah, E.; Cooper, A. I.* Porous organic cage thin films and molecular sieving membranes. Adv. Mater., 2016, 28, 2629-2637. (Link) Liu, M.; Peyrat, S.; Illy, N.; Wintgens, V.; Brissault, B.; Penelle, J.; Barbier, V. * Synthesis, characterization, and ion-complexing properties of polymers displaying densely packed arrays of crown-ethers as lateral substituents. J. Polym. Sci., Part A: Polym. Chem., 2014, 52, 2337-2345. (Link) Liu, M.; Little, M. A.; Jelfs, K. E.; Jones, J.; Schmidtmann. M.; Chong, S. Y.; Hasell, T.; Cooper, A. I. * Acid- and Base-Stable Porous Organic Cages: Shape Persistence and pH Stability via Post-synthetic “Tying” of a Flexible Amine Cage. J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2014, 136, 7583–7586. (Link)