Members
Principle Investigator
Chunming Liu is a physical and analytical chemist with his primary research interest in studying polymer chemistry and physics at single-molecule level. Before joining the University of Akron, Dr. Liu worked as a research associate with Prof. Peng Chen at Cornell University, where he achieved the first real-time visualization of single polymer chain growth and built expertise on magnetic tweezers and single-molecule fluorescence microscopy. Dr. Liu obtained his PhD in analytical chemistry with Prof. Paul S. Cremer at Texas A&M University, specialized on the development of membrane protein separation method and label-free biosensors based on supported lipid bilayers.
Ph.D., Chemistry, Texas A&M University, 2012
B.S., Chemistry, Nanjing University, 2007
Graduate Students
Wenqiao Zhou
PhD student, Polymer Science
Started in 2021
MS in Polymer Science, UAkron
BS, Shenzhen University
Farhin Amin Raha
fr49@uakron.edu
PhD student, Chemistry
Started in 2022
BS in Pharmacy,
Daffodil International University
Undergraduate Students
Ethan Rang
eor3@uakron.edu
Geology/Chemistry
UAkron
Alumni
Name Year Degree/Program Next Position
Elise Rezabeck 2022-2023 BS in Biochemistry, UAkron Sherwin-Williams
Lei Liu 2021-2023 PhD student, Polymer Engineering, UAkron
Shuzhen Liu 2020-2023 MS in Polymer Science, UAkron PhD student, Chemical Engineering, UAkron
Christina Yu 2022 REU student from UIUC PhD student, Cornell University
Kehao Ren 2019-2021 MS in Polymer Science, UAkron PhD student, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Wendong Ren 2019-2021 MS in Polymer Science, UAkron MS student, University of Ontario Institute of Technology
Harsh Patel 2019-2020 BS in Chemistry, UAkron R&D Chemist at Quanex
Jian Bao 2019-2020 SVSM high school research program