International Joint Research Center of Soft Matter, Shaanxi Province, makes soft matter and functional nano-materials as the main research object, engaged in researches of molecular design and synthesis, self- assembly, functional nano-materials and device, facing the new energy, green environment and information science fields, make multi-disciplinary pioneering researches on the basic theory, synthesis, physical and chemical properties and device performance.

11/2012—now Materials Science and Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Professor.

10/2009—10/2012 Department of Materials Science and Engineering, The University of Sheffield, UK. Research Associate.

10/2004—6/2009 Department of Materials Science and Engineering, The University of Sheffield, UK. Ph.D. 

(45) Alaasar, M.*; Poppe, S.; Dong, Q.; Liu, F.*; Tschierske, C.*, Mirror symmetry breaking in cubic phases and isotropic liquids driven by hydrogen bonding. Chem. Commun. 2016, 52, 13869-13872.

http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlepdf/2016/cc/c6cc08226b

(44) Liu, S.; Zhang, J.; Dong, R.; Gordiichuk, P.; Zhang, T.; Zhuang, X.; Mai, Y.; Liu, F.; Herrmann, A.; Feng, X.*, Two-dimensional Mesoscale-ordered Conducting Polymers. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2016, 55, 12516-12521. 

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/anie.201606988/epdf

(43) Wang, J.; Liu, X.; Ren, X.; Zhang, B.; Yang, S.; Cao, Y.; Liu, F.*; Lotz, B.; Chen, E.* Helical polyacetylene-based switchable chiral columnar phases: frustrated chain packing and two-way shape actuator. Chem. Asian J. 2016, 11, 2387-2391.

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/wol1/doi/10.1002/asia.201600879/epdf

(42) Zeng, X.; Prehm, M.; Ungar, G.*; Tschierske, C.*; Liu, F.*, Formation of a double diamond cubic phase by thermotropic liquid crystalline self-assembly of bundled bolaamphiphiles. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2016, 55, 8324-8327.

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/anie.201602734/epdf

(41) Zhuang,X.; Zhao, W.; Zhang, F.*; Cao, Y.; Liu, F.*; Feng, X.*, A two-dimensional conjugated polymer framework with fully sp2-bonded carbon skeleton. Polym. Chem. 2016, 7, 4176-4181.

http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2016/py/c6py00561f

2015年

(40) Alaasar, M.; Prehm, M.; Cao, Y.; Liu, F.*; Tschierske, C.*, Spontaneous mirror-symmetry breaking in isotropic liquids of photoisomerizable achiral molecules. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2016, 55, 312-316.

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/anie.201508097/epdf

(39) Tan, X.; Zhang, R.; Guo, C.; Cheng, X.*; Gao, H.; Liu, F.*; Bruckner, J. R.; Giesselmann, F.*; Perhm, M.; Tschierske, C.*, Amphotropic azobenzene derivatives with oligiixyethylene and glycerol based polar groups. J. Mater. Chem. C 2015, 3, 11202-11211.

http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlepdf/2015/tc/c5tc02583d

(38) Cseh, L.; Mang, X.; Zeng, X.; Liu, F.; Mehl, G. H.*; Ungar, G.*; Siligardi, G., Helically Twisted Chiral Arrays of Gold Nanoparticles Coated with a Cholesterol Mesogen. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2015, 137, 12736-12739.

http://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/jacs.5b05059

2014年

(37) Ungar, G.; Liu, F.; Zeng, X. B., Thermotropic Cubic Liquid Crystal Phases, Other 3D Phases and Quasicrystals. In Handbook of Liquid Crystals, 2nd ed.; Goodby, J. W.; Collings, P. J.; Kato, T.; Tschierske, C.; Gleeson, H. F.; Raynes, P., Eds. VCH-Wiley: Weinheim, Germany, 2014; Vol. 5, pp 363-436.

(36) Dressel, C.; Liu, F.; Prehm, M.; Zeng, X.*; Ungar, G.*; Tschierske, C.*, Dynamic Mirror-Symmetry Breaking in Bicontinuous Cubic Phases. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2014, 53,  13115-13120.

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/anie.201406907/pdf

(35) Tomasic, V.*; Mihelj, T.; Zhang, R.; Liu, F.; Ungar, G., Mesomorphism of a new series of catanionic 4-(1-pentylheptyl)benzenesulfonate. Soft Matter 2014, 10, 7887-7896.

http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlepdf/2014/sm/c4sm01356e

(34) Zhang, R. B.; Zeng, X. B.; Prehm, M. ; Liu, F. ; Grimm, S. ; Geuss, M.; Steinhart, M. ; Tschierske, C.*; Ungar, G.*, Honeycombs in Honeycombs: Complex Liquid Crystal Alumina Composite Mesostructures. ACS Nano 2014, 8, 4500-4509.

http://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/nn406368e

(33) Liu, F.*; Prehm, M.; Zeng, X.; Ungar, G.*; Tschierske, C.*,Skeletal Cubic, Lamellar, and Ribbon Phases of Bundled Thermotropic Bolapolyphiles. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2014, 136, 6846-6849.

http://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/ja502410e

(32) Mihelj, T.*; Tomašić, V.; Biliškov, N.; Liu, F., Temperature-dependent IR spectroscopic and structural study of 18-crown-6 chelating ligand in the complexation with sodium surfactant salts and potassium picrate. Spectroc. Acta. Pt. A-Molec. Biomolec. Spectr. 2014, 124, 12-20.

www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1386142513015230

2013年

(31) Dai, H.; Yang, X.; Tan, X.; Su, F.; Cheng, X.*; Liu, F.*; Tschierske, C.*, Liquid crystalline 2-thienyl-4,6-diamino-1,3,5-triazines exhibiting Im3m and Pm3n micellar cubic phases in an inverted sequence. Chem. Commun. 2013, 49, 10617-10619.

http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlepdf/2013/cc/c3cc45467c

(30) Tan, X.; Kong, L.; Dai, H.; Cheng, X.*; Liu, F.*; Tschierske, C.*, Triblock Polyphiles through Click Chemistry: Self-Assembled Thermotropic Cubic Phases Formed by Micellar and Monolayer Vesicular Aggregates. Chem. Eur. J. 2013, 19, 16303-16313.

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/chem.201301538/epdf

(29) He, Q.; Dai, H.; Tan, X.; Cheng, X.*; Liu, F.*; Tschierske, C., Synthesis and characterization of room temperature columnar mesogens of cyclotriphosphazene with Schiff base units. J. Mater. Chem. C 2013, 1, 7148-7154.

http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlepdf/2013/tc/c3tc31371a

(28) Dintinger, J.; Tang, B.-J.; Zeng, X.; Liu, F.; Kienzler, T.; Mehl, G. H.; Ungar, G.; Rockstuhl, C.; Scharf, T.*, A self-organized anisotropic liquid-crystal plasmonic metamaterial. Adv. Mater. 2013, 25, 1999-2004.

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/adma.201203965/full

2012年

(27) Liu, F.; Kieffer, R.; Zeng, X.; Pelz, K.; Prehm, M.; Ungar, G.*; Tschierske, C.*, Arrays of giant octagonal and square cylinders by liquid crystalline self-assembly of X-shaped polyphilic molecules. Nat. Commun. 2012, 3, 1104.

http://www.nature.com/ncomms/journal/v3/n10/pdf/ncomms2096.pdf

(26) Kim, H.-J.^†; Liu, F.^†; Ryu, J.-H.^†; Kang, S.-K.; Zeng, X.; Ungar, G.*; Lee, J.-K.; Zin, W.-C.; Lee, M.*, Self-Organization of Bent Rod Molecules into Hexagonally Ordered Vesicular Columns. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2012, 134, 13871-13880.

http://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/ja3060904

(25) Ichikawa, T.; Yoshio, M.; Hamasaki, A.; Taguchi, S.; Liu, F.; Zeng, X.-b.; Ungar, G.; Ohno, H.; Kato, T.*, Induction of thermotropic bicontinuous cubic phases in liquid-crystalline ammonium and phosphonium salts. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2012, 134, 2634-2643.

http://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/ja209010m

(24) Kanie, K.*; Matsubara, M.; Zeng, X.; Liu, F.; Ungar, G.*; Nakamura, H.; Muramatsu, A., Simple cubic packing of gold nanoparticles through rational design of their dendrimeric corona. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2012, 134, 808-811.

http://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/ja2095816

(23) Tschierske, C.*; Nürnberger, C.; Ebert, H.; Glettner, B.; Prehm, M.; Liu, F.; Zeng, X.-B.; Ungar, G., Complex tiling patterns in liquid crystals. Interface Focus 2012, 2, 669-680.

http://rsfs.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/2/5/669.full.pdf

(22) Mang, X.; Zeng, X.*; Tang, B.; Liu, F.*; Ungar, G.; Zhang, R.; Cseh, L.; Mehl, G. H., Control of anisotropic self-assembly of gold nanoparticles coated with mesogens. J. Mater. Chem. 2012, 22, 11101-11106.

http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlepdf/2012/jm/c2jm16794h

(21) Pucci, A.; Willinger, M.-G.; Liu, F.; Zeng, X.; Rebuttini, V.; Clavel, G.; Bai, X.; Ungar, G.; Pinna, N.*, One-Step Synthesis and Self-Assembly of Metal Oxide Nanoparticles into 3D Superlattices. ACS Nano 2012, 6, 4382-4391.

http://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/nn3010735

2011年

(20) Zeng, X.; Kieffer, R.; Glettner, B.; Nürnberger, C.; Liu, F.; Pelz, K.; Prehm, M.; Baumeister, U.; Hahn, H.; Lang, H.; Gehring, G. A.; Weber, C. H. M.; Hobbs, J. K.; Tschierske, C.*; Ungar, G.*, Complex multicolor tilings and critical phenomena in tetraphilic liquid crystals. Science 2011, 331, 1302-1306.

http://www.sciencemag.org/content/331/6022/1302.full.pdf

(19) Ungar, G.*; Tschierske, C.*; Abetz, V.; Holyst, R.; Bates, M. A.; Liu, F.; Prehm, M.; Kieffer, R.; Zeng, X.; Walker, M.; Glettner, B.; Zywocinski, A., Self-Assembly at Different Length Scales: Polyphilic Star-Branched Liquid Crystals and Miktoarm Star Copolymers. Adv. Funct. Mater. 2011, 21, 1296-1323.

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/adfm.201002091/epdf

(18) Liu, F.; Prehm, M.; Zeng, X.; Ungar, G.*; Tschierske, C.*, Two- and three-dimensional liquid-crystal phases from axial bundles of rodlike polyphiles: segmented cylinders, crossed columns, and ribbons between sheets. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2011, 50, 10599-10602.

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/anie.201103303/full

(17) Yasuda, T.*; Shimizu, T.; Liu, F.; Ungar, G.; Kato, T.*, Electro-Functional Octupolar π-Conjugated Columnar Liquid Crystals. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2011, 133, 13437-13444.

http://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/ja2035255

(16) Cheng, X.*; Liu, F.; Zeng, X.; Ungar, G.*; Kain, J.; Diele, S.; Prehm, M.; Tschierske, C.*, Influence of Flexible Spacers on Liquid-Crystalline Self-Assembly of T-Shaped Bolaamphiphiles. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2011, 133, 7872-7881.

http://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/ja200822z

(15) Prehm, M.; Liu, F.; Zeng, X.; Ungar, G.*; Tschierske, C.*, Axial-bundle phases − new modes of 2D, 3D, and helical columnar self-assembly in liquid crystalline phases of bolaamphiphiles with swallow tail lateral chains. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2011, 133, 4906-4916.

http://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/ja110065r

2010年

(14) Weber, C. H. M.; Liu, F.; Zeng, X.-b.; Ungar, G.*; Mullin, N.; Hobbs, J. K.; Jahr, M.; Lehmann, M., Body-centered cubic phase in 3-arm star mesogens: a torsional tapping AFM and GISAXS study. Soft Matter 2010, 6, 5390-5396.

http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlepdf/2010/sm/c0sm00420k

(13) Ungar, G.*; Liu, F.; Zeng, X. B.; Glettner, B.; Prehm, M.; Kieffer, R.; Tschierske, C., GISAXS in the study of supramolecular and hybrid liquid crystals. J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 2010, 247, 012032.

http://iopscience.iop.org/1742-6596/247/1/012032/pdf

(12) Bramble, J. P.; Tate, D. J.; Revill, D. J.; Sheikh, K. H.; Henderson, J. R.; Liu, F.; Zeng, X.; Ungar, G.; Bushby, R. J.; Evans, S. D.*, Planar Alignment of Columnar Discotic Liquid Crystals by Isotropic Phase Dewetting on Chemically Patterned Surfaces. Adv. Funct. Mater. 2010, 20, 914-920.

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/adfm.200902140/epdf

(11) Vincekovic, M.*; Pustak, A.; Tusek-Bozic, L.; Liu, F.; Ungar, G.; Bujan, M.; Smit, I.; Filipovic-Vincekovic, N., Structural and thermal study of mesomorphic dodecylammonium carrageenates. J. Colloid Interface Sci. 2010, 341, 117-123.

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0021979709012041