Exciting Moments
06/21/2026. Congratulations to Paige Elias, Ellie Mitchel, and Kameron Kuszlyk for getting your Master's degrees. Happy Graduation!
09/01/2026. Liu group recently received a grant from NY THRIVE for 3D printing of nanoporous materials for PFAS removal and reduction. Congratulations!!!
08/21/2026. PI Jian Liu and Ph.D. student Lamisa Rahman attended 2026 ChemMatCARS User Workshop at Argonne National Lab and presented some recent research progress.
08/26/2026. Dr. Liu co-organized an ENFL symposium "photoinduced charge transfer in nanostructured materials for functional applications" and presented our recent research progress in ACS Fall 2026 at Chicago.
05/05/2026. Congratulations to Paige Elias, Ellie Mitchel, and Kameron Kuszlyk for getting your Master's degrees. Happy Graduation!
06/21/2026. Dr. Liu attended Catalysis GRC 2026 in New Hampshire and presented our recent research progress!
05/17/2026. Dr. Liu attended MOF 2026 in New Orleans and presented our recent research progress!
12/17/2025. Congratulations to Lamisa Rahman as a co-author on JACS paper!
08/15/2025. Lamisa Rahman presented her research progress at the Western New York Inorganic Symposium 2025 in UofR. Congratulations!
07/07/2025. Congratulations to Celine Cammarere and other co-authors on publishing on Frontiers in Chemistry - "Water-enhanced CO2 capture in metal–organic frameworks".
08/08/2025. Dr. Liu presented research progress funded by NSF at Nanoporous GRC 2025.
05/20/2025. Dr. Liu delivered an invited talk at the NYS Center of Excellence in Healthy Water Solutions, where he presented his previous work on NH3 capture using MOFs.
05/14/2025. Dr. Liu presented a poster on the outcomes of their 2024 Provosts' Learning Innovations Grant (PLIG) during the on-campus Summer Institute of Teaching and Learning event.
04/27/2025. Liu group gathered at East Izakaya in Victor, NY to celebrate the end of the academic year of 2024.
04/24/2025. Congratulations to David Lusignan on receiving the First Year Chemistry Achievement Award at the 2025 RIT COS SCMS Annual Awards Ceremony! He has received a RAS grant and an Emerson Summer Fellowship to support his research on exploring metal-organic frameworks for ammonia capture.
04/12/2025. Dr. Liu organized the 69th Annual ACS ROC Collegiate Research Symposium at the Susan R. Holliday Center in RIT. Prof. Phillip Milner from Cornell University as our keynote speaker. Thanks for the volunteers from Liu group!
02/01/2025. Dr. Liu attended the ACS Leadership Institute and completed the Collaborating Across Boundaries workshop in Washington D.C.
11/22/2024. Dr. Liu together with Dr. Suzanne O'Handley hosted the annual Research Slide Slam and poster session at RIT on Nov. 22.
08/26/2024. We welcome 6 new members joining our group: Mitra Keshavarz and Chitra HK from Microsystems Engineering Ph.D. program; Minhazur Shawon and Lamisa Rahman from Chemical Engineering Ph.D. program; and Celine Cammarere and Alex Dyer from Chemistry B.S./M.S. program!
05/21/2024. Our team gets our 1st external grant from NSF CBET Division in response to Engineering Research Initiation (ERI) solicitation!! We will explore liquid:liquid interfaces and interfacial reactions in hierarchically cross-connecting nanoporous materials. Stay tuned!
05/02/2024. We are awarded an internal FEAD grant from RIT COS to enhance declined external propsoals.
04/10/2024. We are awarded an internal grant from RIT VPR office to study CO2 capture in MOFs.
03/17/2024. Dr. Liu attends ACS Spring 2024 at New Orleans and delivers an oral presentation talking about our most recently published article in the Journal of the American Chemical Society (JACS): A Nanocavitation Approach to Understanding Water Capture, Water Release, and Framework Physical Stability in Hierarchically Porous MOFs.
01/15/2024. Alex Fatouros from B.S. Chemical Engineering joins our team. Welcome!
11/24/2023. After a 7-month waiting, 3Flex from Micromeritics and FTIR from ThermoScientific arrive at Brown Hall.
11/14/2023. Dr. Liu accepts an invitation to serve as one of the guest editors for a special issue of “Retroconstruction of Porous Crystalline Networks for a Sustainable Future” in Frontiers in Chemistry.
11/07/2023. Dr. Liu joins Chemical Engineering Department at RIT as an affiliated faculty.
05/22/2023. Dr. Liu attends the 2023 NSF/CHE Early Career Investigator Workshop held in person at the Embassy Suites Hotel in Alexandria, Virginia on May 22 and 23.
05/01/2023. Dr. Liu joins Ph.D. program in Microsystems Engineering Department at RIT as a program faculty.
04/01/2023. Dr. Liu starts serving on ACS Rochester Local Section Executive Committee as an Alternate Councilor for his 1st two-year term: https://rochesteracs.org/
02/14/2023. 1st research proposal from our lab is submitted to NSF MPS-LEAPS!
01/09/2023. Our Lab of Functional Nanoporous Materials opens in School of Chemistry and Materials Science, Rochester Institute of Technology.