Molecular Systems Design & Engineering Blog

We are delighted to welcome Professor Yongye Liang (Southern University of Science and Technology, China) to the Molecular Systems Design & Engineering Editorial Board, and the new members of our Advisory Board.

Yongye is Associate Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the Southern University of Science and Technology, China. Following a BS in chemistry at Nanjing University, he received an MS and PhD in chemistry at the University of Chigago, then carried out postdoctoral research at Stanford University until joining Southern University of Science and Technology in 2012. Professor Liang was named by Thomson Reuters as a 2016 Highly Cited Researcher.

His primary research interest is molecular engineering, which combines chemical design and synthesis with device studies to develop advanced functional materials for organic electronics, electrocatalysis, and bioimaging. His current research focuses on:

• Improving the performance of polymer solar cells by developing new materials for active layer and interlayer
• Designing and synthesizing non-precious metal based electrocatalysts for electrochemical energy conversion
• Developing organic based electrode materials and conducting organic binders for sustainable electrical storage
• Making new fluorophores with emission in the NIR region, high brightness and good biocompatibility

We also warmly welcome new Advisory Board members to the Molecular Systems Design & Engineering team, joining the full Advisory Board as follows:

• Alfredo Alexander-Katz, MIT, USA
• Helena Azevedo, Queen Mary University of London, UK
• Andre Bardow, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
• Jeremy Baumberg, University of Cambridge, UK
• Neil Champness, University of Nottingham, UK
• Jennifer Cochran, Stanford University, USA
• Marc-Olivier Coppens, UCL, UK
• Graeme Day, University of Southampton, UK
• Pablo G. Debenedetti, Princeton University, USA
• Robert Falconer, University of Sheffield, UK
• Andrew Ferguson, University of Illinois, USA
• C. Daniel Frisbie, University of Minnesota, USA
• Arthi Jayaraman, University of Delaware, USA
• Takashi Kato, University of Tokyo, Japan
• Ludwik Liebler, ESPCI Paris, France
• Sang Ouk Kim, KAIST, Korea
• Heidi Mansour, University of Arizona, USA
• Bert Meijer, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands
• Axel Mueller, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany
• Ki Tae Nam, Seoul National University, South Korea
• Mark Olson, Tianjin University, China
• Ho Bum Park, Hanyang University, South Korea
• Jon Parquette, Ohio State University, USA
• Boaz Pokroy, Israel Institute of Technology, Israel
• Jeffrey Rimer, University of Houston, USA
• Shu Seki, Kyoto University, Japan
• Randy Snurr, Northwestern University, USA
• Doros Theodorou, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
• Matthew Tirrell, University of Chicago, USA
• Bernhardt L. Trout, MIT, USA
• Raymond W. Y. Wong, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
• Kim Woodrow, University of Washington, USA
• Jia Zhu, Nanjing University, China

The full Molecular Systems Design & Engineering team cam be found on our website.