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.

Graduate Students

Wenqiao Zhou

wz37@uakron.edu

PhD student, Polymer Sci.

Started in 2021

MS in Polymer Science

University of Akron

Farhin Amin Raha

fr49@uakron.edu

PhD student, Chemistry 

Started in 2022

BS in Pharmacy

Daffodil International University

Deepali Prajapati

dp215@uakron.edu

PhD student, Polymer Engr.

Started in 2024

MS in Polymer Sci. & Tech.

IIT, Delhi

Undergraduate Students

Ethan Rang

eor3@uakron.edu

Geology/Chemistry

University of Akron

Frank Schultz

fbs6@uakron.edu

Chemistry

University of Akron

Alumni

Name Year Degree/Program Next Position

Jaron Dilber 2024 REU summer research

Amy Getz 2023-2024 BS Chemistry/Biochemistry Summit Environmental Technologies

Kai Gu 2019-2024 PhD Polymer Science & Postdoc Scientist, Zschimmer & Schwarz Interpolymer

Elise Rezabeck 2022-2023 BS Biochemistry Chemist, Sherwin-Williams

Lei Liu 2021-2023 PhD student, Polymer Engineering, UAkron

Shuzhen Liu 2020-2023 MS Polymer Science PhD student, Chemical Engineering, UAkron

Christina Yu 2022 REU summer research PhD student, Cornell University

Kehao Ren 2019-2021 MS Polymer Science PhD student, University of Tennessee Knoxville

Wendong Ren 2019-2021 MS Polymer Science MS student, University of Ontario Institute of Technology

Harsh Patel 2019-2020 BS Chemistry R&D Chemist at Quanex

Jian Bao 2019-2020 SVSM high school research program