Ming Liu
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.
Principal Investigator
Dingyue Hu
Dingyue completed her bachelor (2015) and master degree (2017) in materials science and engineering at the Xi'an Jiaotong University. Following this, she joined Prof Matthew Rosseinsky ’s group in the Materials Innovation Factory in Liverpool to carry out research for her PhD, aiming towards exploring perovskite materials as solid oxide fuel cell cathodes and their application in fuel cell industry. Now Dingyue works with Ming as a postdoctoral research assistant in the ZJU-Hangzhou global scientific and technological innovation center, investigating the development of new cathode materials for proton conducting fuel cells and further understanding how to design these materials and exploit their electrochemical properties.
PhD Students
Bin Ling
Scientific Secretary
Wenjing Liu
Saisai Yu
Saisai completed her Master’s degree at the Hangzhou Normal University in June 2022. During her master's degree, her research focused on chromatography-mass spectrometry. In July 2022, she joined Ming’s group as a PhD candidate at Zhejiang University. Her current research interests are focused on the fabrication and application of membranes based on porous
organic molecules.
Yaoyi Su
Yaoyi Su received his B.Sc. degree in Applied Chemistry from Tongji University in 2021. In his graduation thesis, he studied the properties of polyimide materials through molecular simulations. After that, he joined Ming Liu's group in Zhejiang University as a phd student, where his research is focused on material discovery assisted by high throughput computational simulations and artificial intelligence.
Master Students
Qianqian Mao
Yuanhan Liu
Yutao Guan
Heng Ji
Heng Ji completed his M.S. degree at Xuzhou Medical University in June 2023. During his master's degree, he focused on the design and synthesis of small molecule photosensitizers and exploring their applications in antitumor. In July 2023, He joined Liu's group as a research assistant at ZJU-Hangzhou Global Scientific and Technological Innovation Center, aming at the synthesis of organic molecular cages and exploring their potential applications.
Jinjin Zhang
Jinjin Zhang completed her master degree at Hangzhou Normal University in 2022 under the supervision of Prof. Shouchun Yin, working on supramolecular self-assembly and biological function materials. In June 2022, Jinjin Zhang joined Prof. Liu’s group as research assistant in ZJU-Hangzhou Global Scientific and Technological Innovation Center, focusing on developing organic molecular materials and their applications in biology. Now, Jinjin continue her research as a Phd student.
Research Assistant
Postdoctoral Researcher
Alumni
Hongqing Li
Hongqing completed his Bachelor's degree at Shanghai University in 2014, and subsequently joined Yuanyuan Zhu's group at Hefei University of Technology to receive his Master's degree (2017). During his master's studies, his main research interest was to explore the construction of Spin Crossover (SCO) complexes and fluorescent coordination polymers based on pyridine bisoxazoline (Pybox) ligand module. Following this, he joined Xinyi Wang's group at Nanjing University to carry out research for his Ph.D., focused on the regulation of the structure and properties of lanthanide-based Single-molecule magnets (Ln-SMMs) during this period. In 2023, he joined Ming’s group as a postdoctoral research assistant at the ZJU-Hangzhou Global Scientific and Technological Innovation Center, focusing on crystal engineering and performance studies of organic molecular cages modified with metal ions.
Ju Yang
Ju Yang completed his master's degree at Yunnan Minzu University in June 2023. During his master's degree, he was mainly engaged in supramolecular chemistry research of pillar[n]arenes and cyclodextrins. In September 2023, he joined Ming's group at Zhejiang University as a PhD student, focusing on the synthesis and applications of novel organic molecular cages.
Donglin He
Xiaoru Cao
Zhe Jia
Zhe Jia completed her bachelor degree (2023) at Lanzhou University. Following this, she joined Ming's group as a PhD student in Zhejiang University, where her research is focused on materials synthesis and their biological applications.
Aiting Kai
Aiting Kai completed her bachelor’s degree at Yancheng Teachers University in 2012, and the master's degree at East China University of Science and Technology in 2015. She focused on construction of functional materials with amphiphilic molecules during the master course, and thereafter Aiting studied porous liquids in her PhD project under the supervision of Prof Andy Cooper at the University of Liverpool. In 2023, she joined Ming’s group as a postdoctoral research assistant at the ZJU-Hangzhou Global Scientific and Technological Innovation Center, focusing on construction of functional liquids with porous organic molecules and their potential applications.
Siyuan Yang
Siyuan received his Ph.D. in Computational Chemistry in 2020 from the Department of Chemistry at the University of Liverpool, UK, under the supervision of Prof. Lifeng Ding and Prof. Andrew I. Cooper. After his PhD, he joined Cooper's group (University of Liverpool, UK) and worked as a computational chemist on the Exxon Mobil project. Since 2024, Siyuan has been a member of Ming's group, where his main focus is on the development of macrocycle and cage databases, and the application of machine learning techniques and computational tools to facilitate the discovery of functional materials.
Miao Yang
Kewei Wang
Yujie Zhang
Ziye Song
Ziye completed his Master’s degree at the University of Science and Technology of China in June 2024. During his master's degree, his research focused on membrane fabrication and application of porous materials. In September 2024, he joined Ming’s group as a PhD student at Zhejiang University. Now, his current research is focused on the fabrication and application of membranes based on molecular weaving and porous organic molecules.
Wendi Zhang
