Mingxian Liu, Professor

School of Chemical Science and Engineering, Tongji University

Office:

Chemistry Building 430

Siping Road 1239, Shanghai 200092, P. R. China

Tel:

+86-13817011612

Fax:

+86-21-65981097

E-mail:

liumx@tongji.edu.cn

Introduction

I Research Area

Design synthesis of porous carbon materials and their application in the fields of environment and energy storage/conversion.

II Honors & Awards

As reviewers forNature Commun., Adv. Mater., Small,Carbon,J. Mater. Chem. A/C., Electrochimica Acta,Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., Energy Fuels,etc.

III Academic Achievements

60 peer-reviewed papers were published in international journals such asJ. Mater. Chem. A ,Carbon,Chem. Commun.,J. Power Sources,Chem. Eng. J.,Electrochimi. Acta ,J. Phys. Chem. C,Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys,Langmuir, etc.9 papers wereESIHighly Cited Papers (Sep., 2016).The papers were cited nearly 1400 times byAngew. Chem. Int. Ed.,Adv. Mater., Adv. Energy Mater., Nature Commun., Nano Energy, etc.

Projects:

1. China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (2010-2011)

2. China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (2009-2011)

3. Shanghai Postdoctoral Scientific Program (2010-2011)

4. The Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (2011-2013)

5. The Science and Technology of Shanghai Municipality, China (12ZR1451100) (2012-2015)

6. National Natural Science Foundation of China (21207099) (2013-2015)

7. National Natural Science Foundation of China (21473122) (2015-2018)

8. The Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (2015-2016)

Publication:

[23]Mingxian Liu, Xin Wang, Dazhang Zhu*, Liangchun Li, Hui Duan, Zijie Xu, Zhiwei Wang, Lihua Gan*, Encapsulation of NiO nanoparticles in mesoporous carbon nanospheres for advanced energy storage,Chem. Eng. J., 2017, 308, 240–247.

[22] Wenjing Lu,Mingxian Liu*, Ling Miao, Dazhang Zhu, Xin Wang, Hui Duan, Zhiwei Wang, Liangchun Li, Zijie Xu, Lihua Gan*, Longwu Chen, Nitrogen-containing ultramicroporous carbon nanospheres for high performance supercapacitor electrodes,Electrochimi. Acta, 2016, 205, 132–141.

[21]Mingxian Liu, Jiasheng Qian, Yunhui Zhao, Dazhang Zhu, Lihua Gan*, Longwu Chen, Core-shell ultramicroporous@microporous carbon nanospheres as advanced supercapacitor electrodes,J. Mater. Chem. A, 2015, 3(21), 11517–11526. (ESI Highly Cited Paper)

[20] Dazhang Zhu, Yawei Wang, Lihua Gan,Mingxian Liu*, Ke Cheng, Yunhui Zhao, Xiangxiang Deng, Dongmei Sun*, Nitrogen-containing carbon microspheres for supercapacitor electrodes,Electrochimi. Acta, 2015, 158, 166–174. (ESI Highly Cited Paper)

[19] Yunhui Zhao,Mingxian Liu*, Xiangxiang Deng, Ling Miao, Pranav K. Tripathi, Xiaomei Ma, Dazhang Zhu, Zijie Xu, Zhixian Hao, Lihua Gan*. Nitrogen-functionalized microporous carbon nanoparticles for high performance supercapacitor electrode,Electrochimi. Acta, 2015, 153, 448–455. (ESI Highly Cited Paper)

[18]Mingxian Liu, Xiaomei Ma, Lihua Gan,* Zijie Xu, Dazhang Zhu and Longwu Chen. A facile synthesis of novel mesoporous Ge@C sphere anode with stable and high capacity for lithium ion batteries.J. Mater. Chem. A, 2014, 2(40): 17107–17114.

[17]Mingxian Liu, Lihua Gan*, Wei Xiong, Zijie Xu, Dazhang Zhu, Longwu Chen. Development of MnO₂/porous carbon microspheres with partially graphitic structure for high performance supercapacitor electrode.J. Mater. Chem. A, 2014, 2(8):2555–2562. (ESI Highly Cited Paper)

[16] Pranav K. Tripathi,Mingxian Liu,* Yunhui Zhao, Xiaomei Ma, Lihua Gan,* Owen Noonan, Chengzhong Yu. Enlargement of uniform micropores in hierarchically ordered micro-mesoporous carbon for high level decontamination of bisphenol A.J. Mater. Chem. A, 2014, 2(22): 8534–8544.

[15] Xiaomei Ma, Lihua Gan*,Mingxian Liu*, Pranav K. Tripathi, Yunhui Zhao, Zijie Xu, Dazhang Zhu, Longwu Chen. Mesoporous size controllable carbon microspheres and their electrochemical performances for supercapacitor electrodes.J. Mater. Chem. A, 2014, 2(22): 8407–8415. (ESI Highly Cited Paper)

[14] Xiaomei Ma,Mingxian Liu*, Lihua Gan*, Pranav K. Tripathi, Yunhui Zhao, Dazhang Zhu, Zijie Xu, Longwu Chen. Novel mesoporous Si@C microspheres as anode for lithium-ion batteries.Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2014, 16(9): 4135–4142.

[13] Pranav K. Tripathi,Mingxian Liu*, Lihua Gan*. Tuned surface area and mesopore diameter of ordered mesoporous carbon: ultrahigh decontamination of di(2-ethylhexyl)phthalate.RSC Adv., 2014, 4 (45): 23853–23860.

[12] Yunhui Zhao,Mingxian Liu*, Lihua Gan*, Xiaomei Ma, Dazhang Zhu, Zijie Xu, Longwu Chen. Ultramicroporous carbon nanoparticles for high performance electrical double-Layer capacitor electrode.Energy Fuels, 2014, 28(2):1561–1568. (ESI Highly Cited Paper)

[11] Mingxian Liu, Lihua Gan,* Wei Xiong, Fengqi Zhao, Xuezhong Fan, Dazhang Zhu, Zijie Xu, Zhixian Hao, Longwu Chen. Nickel-doped activated mesoporous carbon microspheres with partially graphitic structure for supercapacitors. Energy Fuels, 2013, 27(2), 1168–1173. (ESI Highly Cited Paper)

[10] Jiasheng Qian, Mingxian Liu(co-first author), Lihua Gan,* Pranav K. Tripathi, Dazhang Zhu, Zijie Xu, Zhixian Hao, Longwu Chen, Dominic S. Wright. A seeded synthetic strategy for uniform polymer and carbon nanospheres with tunable sizes for high performance electrochemical energy storage. Chem. Commun., 2013, 49(29), 3043–3045.Top 25 most-read ChemComm articles in 2013

[9] Xiaomei Ma,·Mingxian Liu,* Lihua Gan,* Yunhui Zhao, Longwu Chen. Synthesis of micro- and mesoporous carbon spheres for supercapacitor electrode.J. Solid State Electrochem., 2013, 17(8): 2293–2301.

[8] Mingxian Liu, Lihua Gan,* Liuhua Chen, Zijie Xu, Dazhang Zhu, Zhixian Hao, Longwu Chen. Supramolecular core−shell nanosilica@liposome nanocapsules for drug delivery. Langmuir, 2012, 28(29): 10725–10732.

[7] Mingxian Liu, Lihua Gan,* Liuhua Chen, Dazhang Zhu, Zijie Xu, Zhixian Hao, Longwu Chen. A novel liposome-encapsulated hemoglobin/silica nanoparticle as an oxygen carrier. Int. J. Pharm., 2012, 427(2): 352–355.

[6] Yaokang Lv, Lihua Gan,* Mingxian Liu, Wei Xiong, Zijie Xu, Dazhang Zhu, Dominic S. Wright. A self-template synthesis of hierarchical porous carbon foams based on banana peel for supercapacitor electrodes.J. Power Sources, 2012, 209: 152–157. (ESI Highly Cited Paper)

[5] Wei Xiong, Mingxian Liu, Lihua Gan,* Yaokang Lv, Yang Li, Liang Yang, Zijie Xu, Zhixian Hao, Honglai Liu, Longwu Chen. A Novel synthesis of mesoporous carbon microspheres for supercapacitor electrodes. J. Power Sources, 2011, 196(23): 10461– 10464. (ESI Highly Cited Paper)

[4] Mingxian Liu, Lihua Gan,* Yaling Zeng, Zijie Xu, Zhixian Hao, Longwu Chen. Self-assembly of CdTe nanocrystals into two-dimensional nanoarchitectures at the air-liquid interface induced by gemini surfactant of 1, 3-bis (hexadecyldimethyl- ammonium) propane dibromide. J. Phys. Chem. C, 2008, 112(17): 6689–6694.

[3] Mingxian Liu, Lihua Gan,* Fengqi Zhao, Xuezhong Fan, Huixiang Xu, Fangrui Wu, Zijie Xu, Zhixian Hao, Longwu Chen. Carbon foams with high compressive strength derived from polyarylacetylene resin.Carbon, 2007, 45(15): 3055–3057.

[2] Mingxian Liu, Lihua Gan,* Ci Tian, Jianchun Zhu, Zijie Xu, Zhixian Hao, Longwu Chen. Mesoporous carbon foams through surfactant templating. Carbon, 2007, 45(15): 3045–3046.

[1] Mingxian Liu, Lihua Gan,* Fengqi Zhao, Huixiang Xu, Xuezhong Fan, Ci Tian, Xi Wang, Zijie Xu, Zhixian Hao, Longwu Chen. Carbon foams prepared by an oil-in-water emulsion method. Carbon, 2007, 45(13): 2710–2712.