EDUCATION
1986-1991, Department of Chemistry, Himeji Institute of Technology, Japan.Received Ph.D. degree in Feberary, 1991 (with Prof. Hakushi Tadao).
1974-1977, Department of Polyer Science, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China. Received B. Sc. Degree in December, 1977. (with Prof. De Zhu Ma).
ACADEMIC CAREER
1993-, Professor, College of Chemistry, Nankai University, Tianjin, CHINA.
1991-1992, Postdoctoral associate, Lanzhou Institute of Chemical Physics,Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou, China.
1977-1986, Research assistant, Lanzhou Institute of Chemical Physics,Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou, China.
RESEARCH AREAS
(1) Organic supramolecular chemistry
(2) Physical organic chemistry
(3) Host-guest chemistry
HONORS AND AWARDS
2015 Tianjin Natural Science Award (First Class)
2010 National Natural Science Award (Second Class)
2009 Tianjin Natural Science Award (Second Class)
2005 Tianjin Natural Science Award (First Class)
2000 Tianjin Natural Science Award (First Class)
2000 Cheung Kong Scholar (Ministry of Education of China)
1996 Award for National Outstanding Young Scientist (the National Natural Science Foundation of China)
EDITORAL BOARDS
2025- Member, Editorial Advisory Board of Chinese Journal of OrganicChemistry.
2024- Member, Editorial Advisory Board of Acta Chimica Sinica
2012- Academic Committee Chai of Chinese Chemical Letters
2020- Member, Editorial Advisory Board of Aggregate
2012- Member, Editorial Advisory Board of Asain Journal of Organic Chemistry
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Xiaolu Zhou, Xue Bai, Fangjian Shang, Hengyi Zhang, Lihua Wang, Xiufang Xu and Yu Liu*, Supramolecular Assembly Activated Single-Molecule Phosphorescence Resonance Energy Transfer for Near-Infrared Targeted Cell Imaging, Nature Communications, 2024, 15, 4787.
2Xian-Yin Dai, Man Huo and Yu Liu*, Phosphorescence Resonance Energy Transfer from Purely Organic Supramolecular Assembly, Nature Reviews Chemistry, 2023, 7, 854-874.
3Yonghui Sun, Lijuan Liu, Linnan Jiang, Yong Chen, Hengyue Zhang, Xiufang Xu, and Yu Liu*. Unimolecular Chiral Stepping Inversion Machine. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2023, 145, 30, 16711-16717.
4Zhixue Liu, Wenjing Lin, and Yu Liu*. Macrocyclic Supramolecular Assemblies Based on Hyaluronic Acid and Their Biological Applications. Acc. Chem. Res. 2022, 55, 3417.
5Xin-Kun Ma, and Yu Liu*. Supramolecular Purely Organic Room-Temperature Phosphorescence. Acc. Chem. Res. 2021, 54, 3403.
