Welcome!
Welcome to Yi Liu’s organic energy materials group at the Molecular Foundry. Our research focuses on the development of nanostructured materials through the design, synthesis and manipulation of tailor-made molecular and polymeric constituents. Some specific interests are directed towards 1) organic-inorganic heteromaterial frameworks as next generation optoelectronic materials, 2) self-assembly of porous 2D and 3D framework materials with controlled structure and engineered function, and 3) design and synthesis of new organic semiconductors for organic electronics, and fundamental understanding of the associated electronic processes.
Recent News
Polysulfate dielectrics made its way to Nature Energy and is in the news (LBNL and Scripps) . Team science is the recipe, and user facility and national lab is the catalyst.
Xinle and his team's work on greener, faster synthesis of COFs is featured at LBNL news. User facility and national lab collaboration Shine."
Check Out the Winners of Foundry's NanoArt Contest. Liquid crystalline nanobutterflies made the 3rd place.
Zongliang and Zhiyuan level up PEI dielectrics with MOFs. See their recent work on Energy Env. Sci.
George Shiqi Lai was awarded a 2024 Summer Research Stipend in College of Chemistry. Many congratulations!
Best wishes to Henry He Li for starting his new position. Many congratulations!
Warm welcome Zongliang Xie as a GSRA and congratulations on the publication in Adv. Funct. Mater. about COF-enhanced capacitive energy storage.
Honored to be part of the teams for a cohort of exciting papers that just came out: Nature (on Ting Xu's nanocomposites), Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. (on Ron Smaldone's COF films), Mater. Horiz. (on Xuncheng Liu's AQM-based conjugated polymers)
Warm welcome Dr. Qingsong Zhang to the group! Best wishes to Dr. Miao Qi and Dr. Chongqing Yang in their new journey.
Welcome Shannon as an ASPIRES intern and George Lai as an undergraduate researcher.
Warm welcome Dr. Zhiyuang Huang and Zongliang Xie to the group!
Henry's work on polysulfate dielectrics is coming out on Joule. It has been an amazing collaboration with the Scripps team (Barry Sharpless group and Peng Wu group) and our friends from Berkeley and Xi'an (press release: LBNL, Scripps)
Congratulations to Songliang and Prof. Zhang on the nice Angew. Chem. paper on chiroptically active COF double helices.
June 2021 2021 Horizon Prize for Team Science on new dimension of Click Chemistry.
Farewell to Dr. Chris Anderson! Wish you the best in your new journey!
Yi's interview with Nature Research Journals in celebrating 15 years of COFs!
Porous graphitic frameworks win 2020 R&D 100 Award!
Recent Publications
Li, H. et al. “Machine learning-accelerated discovery of heat-resistant polysulfates for electrostatic energy storage”, Nat. Energy in press.
Xie, Z. et al. “Advancing High-Temperature Electrostatic Energy Storage via Linker Engineering of Metal–Organic Framework Fillers in Polymer Nanocomposites”, Energy Env. Sci. in press.
Li, H. et al. “Multilaminate Electrostatic Energy Storage Films from Entropy-Driven Self-Assembled Supramolecular Nanocomposites”, Adv. Mater. 2024, 36, 2401954.
Liu, C. et al. “A Three-in-One Hybrid Strategy for High Mobility Semiconducting Polymers Processed from Food Additive”, Adv. Sci. 2024, 11, 2401345.
Xie, Z. et al. “Interfacial Engineering Using Covalent Organic Frameworks in Polymer Composites for High-Temperature Electrostatic Energy Storage”, Adv. Funct. Mater. 2024, 34, 2314910.
Hu, J. et al. “Beyond solvothermal: alternative synthetic methods for covalent organic frameworks”, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2023, 62, e202306999.
Liu, X. et al. “para-Azaquinodimethane: A Versatile Quinoidal Moiety for Functional Materials Discovery”, Acc. Chem. Res. 2023, 56, 1669–1682.
Li, H. et al. “Flexible All-Organic Nanocomposite Films Interlayered with In Situ Synthesized Covalent Organic Frameworks for Electrostatic Energy Storage”, Nano Energy 2023, 113, 108544.
Anderson, C. et al. “An Exceptional Electron Donating Motif for NIR-I and NIR-II Absorbing Conjugated Polymers and Photothermal Therapy”, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2023, 145, 5474–5485. DOI: 10.1021/jacs.3c00036
Li, H. et al. "High Performing Polysulfate Dielectrics for Electrostatic Energy Storage Under Harsh Conditions”, Joule 2023, 7, 95-111.
Tang, X. et al. "Self-Assembly of Helical Nanofibrous Chiral Covalent Organic Frameworks”, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2023, 62, e202216310.
Liang, H. et al. “Orders-of-magnitude enhancement of charge transport by manipulating electron acceptors in quinoid-donor-acceptor polymers for high-performance transistors”, Adv. Funct. Mater. 2022, 2201903.
Yang, S. et al. “Covalent Organic Frameworks with Irreversible Linkages via Reductive Cyclization of Imines”, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2022, 144, 9827–9835.
Anderson, C. et al. “Solution-Processable and Functionalizable Ultra-high Molecular Weight Polymers via Topochemical Synthesis”, Nat. Commun. 2021, 12, 6818.
Xiao, L. et al. "Highly efficient ternary solar cells with efficient Förster resonance energy transfer for simultaneously enhanced photovoltaic parameters”, Adv. Funct. Mater. 2021, 31, 2105304
Novel electronic constitutents that offer both chemistry tools and material design rules for high performance electronic materials.
Technologically relevant Supramolecular Organic Frameworks (SOFs) and Covalent Organic Frameworks (COFs)
Functional nanocrystal-polymer composites with superior environmental stability and optoelectronic properties
