Faculty
Associate Professor
Research Areas: Soft Materials Engineering, Bioinspired Design and Fabrication, Soft Materials Mechanics, 3D Printing, Biomaterials and Soft Electronics, etc
Dr. Ji Liu is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Energy Engineering at 麻豆传媒. Ji obtained his PhD degrees from the University of Bordeaux (France, Physiochemistry of Condensed Materials) University of Liege (Belgium, Chemistry) at 2013. Then he carried out post-doc researches in the University of Cambridge (UK, 2014-2018) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (US, 2018-2019), working on functional soft material design, fabrication, engineering, and applications in biointerfaces, dynamic adhesion and human-machine interfaces, etc. He is a recipient of Erasmus Mundus joint PhD fellowship (2010), Marie-Curie Research Fellow (2015), Young Investigator Award (Japan Polymer Research Group, 2017), Overseas High-Caliber Personnel in ShenZhen (Level C 2020), Guangdong Pearl River Talents Program Introduces High-Level Talents (2020), and MIT Technology Review Innovators Under 35 in China (2020), etc.
Work experiences:
◆ 01/2020 – till now Associate Professor, 麻豆传媒, Shenzhen, China
◆ 09/2019 – 12/2020 Assistant Professor, 麻豆传媒, Shenzhen, China
◆ 02/2018 – 08/2019 Postdoctoral Research Associate, MIT, Cambridge, USA
◆ 06/2014 – 01/2019 Marie-Curie Research Fellow, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
◆ 12/2013 – 05/2014 Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Liege, Liege, Belgium
Education background：
◆ 2013，University of Bordeaux (France), Ph.D in Physiochemistry of Condensed Materials
◆ 2013，University of Liege (Belgium), Ph.D in Chemistry
◆ 2010，Chinese Academy of Sciences, M.S. in Polymer Chemistry and Physics
◆ 2007，Zhejiang University of Technology, B.Eng. in Material Science and Engineering
Awards:
◆&苍产蝉辫;MIT Technology Review Innovators Under 35 in China (2020)
◆ Guangdong Pearl River Talents Program Introduces High-Level Talents (2020),
◆ Overseas High-Caliber Personnel in ShenZhen-Level C (2020)
◆ Japan Polymer Group, Young Investigator Award (2017)
◆&苍产蝉辫;Marie-Curie Research Fellow (2015)
◆&苍产蝉辫;PhD Thesis, Mention Tres Honorable (2013)
◆&苍产蝉辫;Erasmus-Mundus Joint Doctorate Scholarship (2010)
◆&苍产蝉辫;Outstanding Graduates of Zhejiang Provinces (20007)
Publication Highlights:
◆&苍产蝉辫;J. Liu,?(co-first author) S. Lin,? X. Liu,? Z. Qin,? Y. Yang, J. Zang, X. Zhao. Fatigue Resistant Adhesion of Hydrogels. Nat. Commun., 2020, 11, 1071.
◆ S. Lin,? J. Liu,? (co-first author) X. Liu, X. Zhao. Muscle-like fatigue-resistant hydrogels by mechanical training. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., 2019, 116, 10244-10249.
◆&苍产蝉辫;S. Lin,? X. Liu,? J. Liu,? (co-first author) H. Yuk, H. Loh, G. Parada, C. Settens, J. Song, A. Masic, G. McKinley, X. Zhao. Anti-fatigue-fracture Hydrogels. Sci. Adv., 2019, 5, eaau8528.
◆&苍产蝉辫;J. Liu, C. Tan, O. A. Scherman, Dynamic Interfacial Adhesion though Cucurbit[n]uril Molecular Recognition. Angew. Chem. Int. Eng., 2018, 57, 8854-8858.
◆&苍产蝉辫;J. Liu, O. A. Scherman, Cucurbit[n]uril Supramolecular Hydrogel Networks as Tough and Healable Adhesives, Adv. Funct. Mater., 2018, 28, 1800848.
◆&苍产蝉辫;J. Zhang,? J. Liu,?(co-first author) Z. Yu, O. A. Scherman, C. Abell, Patterned Arrays of Supramolecular Microcapsules. Adv. Funct. Mater., 2018, 28, 1800550.
◆&苍产蝉辫;C. Tan,? J. Liu,? (co-first author) A. Groombridge, S. Barrow, C. Dreiss, O. A. Scherman, Controlling Spatiotemporal Mechanics of Supramolecular Hydrogel Networks with Highly Branched Cucurbit[8]uril Polyrotaxanes. Adv. Funct. Mater., 2018, 28, 1702994.
◆&苍产蝉辫;J. Liu, C. Tan, Z. Y. Yu, N. Li, C. Abell, O. A. Scherman, Tough Supramolecular Polymer Networks with Extreme Stretchability and Fast Room-temperature Self-healing, Adv. Mater. 2017, 29, 1605325.
◆&苍产蝉辫;J. Liu, C. Tan, Z. Y. Yu, Y. Lan, C. Abell, O. A. Scherman, Biomimetic Supramolecular Polymer Networks Exhibiting both Toughness and Self-Recovery. Adv. Mater., 2017, 29, 1604951.
◆&苍产蝉辫;J. Liu, Y. Lan, Z. Y. Yu, C. Tan, R. Park, C. Abell, O. A. Scherman, Cucurbit[n]uril-Based Microcapsules Self- Assembled within Microfluidic Droplets: A Versatile Approach for Supramolecular Architectures and Materials, Acc. Chem. Res. 2017, 50, 208-217.
◆&苍产蝉辫;J. Liu, C. Detrembleur, M. C. De Pauw-Gillet, S. Mornet, C. Jerome, E. Duguet. Gold Nanorods Coated with Mesoporous Silica Shell as Drug Delivery System for Remote Near Infrared Light- Activated Release and Potential Phototherapy, Small 2015, 19, 2323-2332.