Gongping Liu

Professor

Address：College of Chemical Engineering

Email：gpliu@njtech.edu.cn

Education and Work Experience

2019/08-Professor

College of Chemical Engineering, Nanjing Tech University, China

2016/09-2019/07Associate Professor

College of Chemical Engineering, Nanjing Tech University, China

2015/03-2017/03Postdoctoral fellow

Dr. William Koros Research Group

School of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA

2013/11-2016/08Assistant Professor

College of Chemical Engineering, Nanjing Tech University, China

2008/09-2013/06Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering

Nanjing University of Technology (current Nanjing Tech University), China

Advisors: Prof. Wanqin Jin and Prof. Nanping Xu

2004/09-2008/06B.S. in Chemical Engineering

Nanjing University of Technology, China

Research Interests

His research area is membrane science and technology, with focusing on design and fabrication of novel membranes with subnano-sized pores for molecular separation.

Mixed-matrix membranes

2D-materials membranes

Gas separation

Pervaporation

Academic achievements

His work has led to 130 journal papers in Nature, Nature Materials, Nature Energy, Nature Communications, Angewandte Chemie, Chemical Society Reviews, AIChE Journal, Journal of Membrane Science et al., with over 10,000 citations and H-index 51, 10 ESI highly cited papers; 2 monograph and 5 book chapters; He is in the Early Career Editorial Board of Journal of Membrane Science and Advanced Membranes, an Associate Editor of Discover Chemical Engineering, recipient of the North American Membrane Society (NAMS) Young Membrane Scientist Award in 2018.

Selected Publications

[1]Yang Pan, Yanan Guo, Jiangying Liu, Haipeng Zhu, Guining Chen, Quan Liu, Gongping Liu*, Wanqin Jin, PDMS with Tunable Side Group Mobility and its Highly Permeable Membrane for Removal of Aromatic Compounds, Angewandte Chemie International Edition,2022, 61, e202111810 (Hot Paper, Back Cover).

[2]Gongping Liu, Wanqin Jin*, Pervaporation membrane materials: Recent trends and perspectives, Journal of Membrane Science,2021, 636, 119557.

[3]Mengchen Zhang, Yangyang Mao, Guozhen Liu, Gongping Liu*, Yiqun Fan and Wanqin Jin*, Molecular bridges stabilize graphene oxide membranes in water, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2020, 59,1689-1695.

[4]Mengchen Zhang, Kecheng Guan, Yufan Ji, Gongping Liu*, Wanqin Jin*, Nanping Xu, Controllable ion transport by surface-charged graphene oxide membrane, Nature Communications, 2019, 10, 1253.

[5]Ziye Dong, Haipeng Zhu, Yingting Hang, Gongping Liu*, Wanqin Jin, Polydimethylsiloxane(PDMS) composite membrane fabricated on inner surface of ceramic hollow fiber: from single-channel to multi-channels, Engineering, 2020, 6, 89-99.

[6]Guining Chen, Haipeng Zhu, Yingting Hang, Quan Liu, Gongping Liu*, Wanqin Jin, Simultaneously enhancing interfacial adhesion and pervaporation separation performance of PDMS/ceramic composite membrane via a facile substrate surface grafting approach, AIChE Journal, 2019, 65, e16773.

[7]Gongping Liu,Valeriya Chernikova, Yang Liu, Kuang Zhang, Youssef Belmabkhout, Osama Shekhah, Chen Zhang, Shouliang Yi, Mohamed Eddaoudi* and William J. Koros*, Mixed matrix formulations with MOF molecular sieving for key energy-intensive separations, Nature Materials, 2018, 17, 283–289.

[8]Gongping Liu*, Nanwen Li*, Stephen J. Miller, Danny Kim, Shouliang Yi, Ying Labreche, WilliamJ. Koros*, Molecularly Designed Nanoscale Stabilized Asymmetric Hollow Fiber Membranes for Aggressive Natural Gas Separation, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2016, 55, 13754-13758.

[9]Gongping Liu, Wanqin Jin*, Nanping Xu. Two-dimensional Material Membranes: A New Family of High-performance Separation Membranes, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2016, 55, 13384-13397.

[10]Gongping Liu, Wanqin Jin*, Nanping Xu. Graphene-based membranes, Chemical Society Reviews, 2015, 44, 5016-5030.