PUBLICATIONS
39. Sun, S.*; Liu, M.*; Thapa, J.; Hartono, N. T. P.; Zhao, Y.; He, D.; Wieghold, S.; Chua, M.; Wu, Y.; Bulović, V.; Ling, S.; Brabec, C. J.; Cooper, A. I.*; Buonassisi, T.* Cage Molecules Stabilize Lead Halide Perovskite Thin Films. Chem. Mater. 2022, 34, 21, 9384-9391. (Link)
Highlighted by Commun. Chem., 2022, 5, 160. Porous organic cages stabilize methylammonium lead iodide films
36. 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, 134, e20220240. DOI: 10.1002/anie.202202450 (Link)
38. Hu, D.; Zhang, J.; Liu, M.* Recent advances in the applications of porous organic cages. Chem. Commun., 2022, 58, 11333-113466 (Link)
35. 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)
34. 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)
32. 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)
31. 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)
30. 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)
33. 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)
29. 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)
27. 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. (Link)
Highlighted by C&EN, 2019, 97, 43. Cage compounds separate deutrium from hydrogen
Highlighted by Science, 2020, 367, 613. Porous crystals as membranes
28. 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)
25. 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)
21. 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)
24. 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)
23. 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)
22. 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)
26. 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)
18. 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)
19. 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)
20. 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)
17. 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)
16. Pulido, A.; Liu, M.; Reiss, P.; Slater, A. G.; Chong, S.; Little, M.; Hasell, T.; Briggs, M.; Cooper, A. I.;* Day, G.; Towards computer-guided tuning of the crystal packing of porous organic cages. Acta Crystallogr. Sect. A., 70(a1): C667-C667. (Link)
15. Culshaw, J. L.; Cheng, G.; Schmidtmann, M.; Hasell, T.; Liu, M.; Adams, D. J.; Cooper, A. I.* “Dodecaamide Cages: Organic 12-Arm Building Blocks for Supramolecular Chemistry”, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2013, 135, 10007–10010. (Link)
14. Liu, M.; Bertova, A.; Illy, N.; Brissault, B.; Penelle, J.; Ondrias, K.; Barbier, V.* “A polymeric membrane permeabilizer displaying densely packed arrays of Crown ether lateral substituents”, RSC Adv., 2012, 2, 8606-8609. (Link)
13. Jia, L.; Liu, M.; Di Cicco, A.; Albouy, P.; Brissault, B.; Penelle, J.; Boileau, S.; Barbier, V. *; Li, M-H. Langmuir. 2012, 28, 11215-11224. (Link)
12. Liu, M.; Yan, X.; Hu, M.; Chen, X.; Zhang, M.; Zheng, B.; Hu, X.; Shao, S.; Huang, F.* “Photoresponsive Host−Guest Systems Based on a New Azobenzene-Containing Crytpand”, Org. Lett., 2010, 12, 2558-2561. (Link)
11. Liu, M.; Li, S.; Hu, M.; Wang, F.; Huang, F.* “Selectivity Algorithm for the formation of two cryptand/paraquat catenanes”, Org. Lett., 2010, 12, 760-763. (Link)
10. Wang, F.; Zhang, J.; Ding, X.; Dong, S.; Liu, M.; Zheng, B.; Li, S.; Wu, L.; Yu, Y.; Gibson, H. W.; Huang, F.* “Metal-Coordination-Mediated Reversible Conversion between Linear and Crosslinked Supramolecular Polymers”, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2010, 49, 1090-1094. (Link)
9. Wu, L.; Liu, M.; Chen, X.; Li, S.; Huang, F.* “Negatively Charged Crown Ethers for Binding Paraquat in Water”, Sci. China Ser. B-Chem. 2010, 53, 1074-1080. (Link)
8. Liu, M.; Li S.; Zhang, M.; Zhou, Q.; Wang, F.; Hu, M.; Fronczek, F. R.; Li, N.; Huang F.* “Three-dimensional bis(m-phenylene)-32-crown-10-based cryptand/paraquat catenanes”, Org. Biomol. Chem., 2009, 7, 1288-1291. (Link)
2. Zhang, C.; Zhu, K.; Li, S.; Zhang, J.; Wang, F.; Liu, M.; Li, N.; Huang, F.* “Binding of secondary dialkylammonium salts by pyrido-21-crown-7”, Tetrahedron Letters., 2008, 49, 6917-6920. (Link)
3. Li, S.; Liu, M.; Zhang, J.; Zheng, B.; Zhang, C.; Wen, X.; Li, N.; Huang, F. * “Preparation of Bis(m-phenylene)-32-crown-10-Based Cryptand/Bisparaquat [3]Rotaxanes with High Efficiency”, Eur. J. Org. Chem., 2008, 36, 6128-6133. (Link)
6. Zhu, K.; He, J.; Li, S.; Liu, M.; Wang, F.; Zhang, M.; Abliz, Z.; Yang, H.; Li, N.; Huang, F.* “Synthesis of Bis(m-phenylene)-32-crown-10-Based Discrete Rhomboids Driven by Metal-Coordination and Complexation with Paraquat”, J. Org. Chem., 2009, 74, 3905-3912. (Link)
5. Wang, F.; Zhou, Q.; Zhu, K.; Li, S.; Wang, C.; Liu, M.; Li, N.; Fronczek, F. R.; Huang, F.* “Efficient Syntheses of Bis(m-phenylene)-26-crown-8-Based Cryptand/Paraquat [2]Rotaxanes by Immediate Solvent Evaporation Method”, Tetrahedron., 2009, 65, 1488-1494. (Link)
4. Li, S.; Liu, M.; Zhang. J.; Zheng. B.; Zhang, C.; Wen, X.; Li, N.; Huang, F.* “High-yield preparation of [2]rotaxanes based on the bis(m-phenylene)-32-crown-10-based cryptand/paraquat derivative recognition motif”, Org. Biomol. Chem., 2008, 6, 2103-2107. (Link)
7. Li, S.; Liu, M.; Zheng. B.; Zhu, K.; Wang, F.; Li, N.; Zhao, X-L.; Huang, F.* “Taco Complex Templated Syntheses of a Cryptand/Paraquat [2]Rotaxane and a [2]Catenane by Olefin Metathesis”, Org. Lett., 2009, 11. 3350-3353. (Link)
1. Zhang, X. ; Zhai, C.; Li, N.; Liu, M.; Li, S.; Zhu, K.; Zhang, J.; Huang, F.* Gibson, H. W. “Host size effect in the complexation of two bis(m-phenylene)-32-crown-10-based cryptands with a diazapyrenium salt”, Tetrahedron Letters. 2007, 48, 7537-7541. (Link)
40. Yu, S.; Yang, M.; Liu, Y.; Liu, M.* Recent advances in separation membranes based on porous organic molecular materials. Mater. Chem. Front. 2023, 7, 3560-3575 DOI: 10.1039/D3QM00217A (Link)
37. Li, J.; Qi, J.; Jin, F.; Zhang, F.; Zheng, L.; Tang, L.; Huang, R.; Xu, J.; Chen, H.; Liu, M.; Qiu, Y.; Cooper, A. I.*; Shen, Y.*; Chen, L.* Room temperature all-solid-state lithium batteries based on a soluble organic cage ionic conductor. Nat Commun., 2022, 13, 2031 (Link)
41. Zhang, R.; Hu, D.; Fu, Y.;Feng, Q.; Mu, C.; Gao, K.; Ma, He.; Liu, M.* ; Zhang, M., Triazine-based multicomponent metallacages with tunable structures for SO2 selective capture and conversion. Aggregate 2023, 00, e408. DOI: 10.1002/agt2.408 (Link)
42. Mao, Q.; Zhang, J.; Liu, M.* , Snythesis and Derivatization of Porous Organic Cages. Sci Sin Chem 2023, DOI: 10.1360/SSC-2023-0190 (Link)
43. Wang, K.*; Wu, Z.; Tang, L.; Ji, N.; Zhang, C.*; Jia, Z.; Liu, M. , Snythesis of extended π-conjugatted hypercrosslinked polymers via a Friedel-Crafts reaction and an intramolecular Scholl coupling reaction. J Polym Sci 2023, DOI: 10.1002/pol.20230759 (Link)
