Exciting Moments
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 SRS 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 joins our team.
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 Nanoporous Materials opens in School of Chemistry and Materials Science, Rochester Institute of Technology.