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

Kai Gu

kg97@uakron.edu

PhD student, Polymer Science

Started in 2019

BS in Chemistry,

Wuhan University

Wenqiao Zhou

wz37@uakron.edu

PhD student, Polymer Science

Started in 2021

MS in Polymer Science, UAkron

BS, Shenzhen University

Lei Liu

ll118@uakron.edu

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

sl237@uakron.edu

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