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
Lei Liu
PhD student, Polymer Science
Started in 2021
MS in Polymer Science, UAkron
BS, Zhengzhou University
Farhin Amin Raha
fr49@uakron.edu
PhD student, Chemistry
Started in 2022
BS in Pharmacy,
Daffodil International University
Shuzhen Liu
MS student, Polymer Science
Started in 2020
BS in Composite Materials,
QUST
Undergraduate Students
Elise Rezabeck
er65@uakron.edu
Biochemistry
UAkron
Ethan Rang
eor3@uakron.edu
Geology/Chemistry
UAkron
Alumni
Christina Yu 2022 REU student from UIUC
Kehao Ren 2019-2021 MS in Polymer Science, UAkron Currently at Kent State University
Wendong Ren 2019-2021 MS in Polymer Science, UAkron Currently at University of Ontario Institute of Technology
Harsh Patel 2019-2020 BS in Chemistry, UAkron Currently R&D Chemist at Quanex
Jian Bao 2019-2020 high school student, SVSM High School