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 Sci.
Started in 2021
MS in Polymer Science
University of Akron
Farhin Amin Raha
fr49@uakron.edu
PhD student, ChemistryÂ
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
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