Biography
Dr. Liu Xiaogang has a multidisciplinary education, work, and research background. He studied in electrical and electronic engineering (2002β2006, B.Eng.), materials science and engineering (2008β2009, M.Sc./M.Eng.) and physical chemistry (2010β2014, PhD). He also worked in the industry as a product engineer (2006β2008, semiconductor), a research engineer (2010, optics), and a research associate (2013, solar cells). He began his independent research with a SMART Scholar Fellowship (2014β2016), and joined SUTD in 2017.
Dr. Liu Xiaogangβs current research is to study the fundamental structure-property relationships of organic fluorescent dyes and sensors, which can be used in a diverse range of applications, such as fluorescence imaging, medical diagnostics, solar cells, and dye lasers. Based on such knowledge, he is developing novel fluorophores and sensors with enhanced performance.
His long-term research vision is to set up a complete set of molecular design rules, such that one gains the ultimate ability to molecular engineer βdial-upβ properties to suit a given application. He hopes to shift the chemistry of fluorophores from trial-and-error to molecular engineering.
Dr. Liu Xiaogang and his co-workersβ research has been voted as the #4 of Top 10 Breakthroughs in Physics for 2010 by Physics World of Institute of Physics, highlighted by ACS Noteworthy Chemistry (2014), and featured in Chemical & Engineering News (C&EN) of American Chemical Society (2020).
Dr. Liu Xiaogang is a Council Member of Singapore National Institute of Chemistry, and a Member of the Royal Society of Chemistry. At SUTD, his service includes Co-Chair of Postgraduate Committee in the Science, Math and Technology Cluster, and Member of the Institutional Review Board. For community service, he served as the Vice-Chair of the Singapore Junior Chemistry Olympiad.
Education
- PhD, Cavendish Laboratory (Department of Physics), University of Cambridge (UK), 2014.
- MEng, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (USA), 2009.
- MSc, Singapore-MIT Alliance, National University of Singapore, 2009.
- BEng, School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University (Singapore), 2006.
Teaching
- Advanced Math I
- Advanced Math II
- ILP3 (Math/Physics)
Research Interests
- Organic dyes (fluorophores)
- Fluorescent sensors/probes
- Room temperature phosphorescence
- Physical Chemistry
- Analytical Chemistry
- Computational Chemistry
Selected Publications
- W. Chi#, J. Chen#, W. Liu#, C. Wang, Q. Qi, Q. Qiao, T. Tan, K. Xiong, X. Liu, K. Kang, Y. T. Chang*, Z. Xu*, X. Liu*, βA General Descriptor ΞE Enables the Quantitative Development of Luminescent Materials based on Photoinduced Electron Transferβ, Journal of American Chemical Society, 2020, 142, 6777-6785. (#These authors contributed equally to this work).
- C. Wang#, Q. Qiao#, W. Chi, J. Chen, W. Liu, D. Tan, S. McKechnie, D. Lyu, X. Jiang, W. Zhou, N. Xu, Q. Zhang, Z. Xu*, X. Liu*, βQuantitative Design of Bright Fluorophores and AIEgens via the Accurate Prediction of Twisted Intramolecular Charge Transfer (TICT)β, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2020,59, 10160-10172. (#These authors contributed equally to this work).
- Shi#, C. Yan#, Z. Guo*, W. Chi, J. Wei, W. Liu, X. Liu*, H. Tian, and W. Zhu*, βDe novo strategy with engineering anti-Kasha/Kasha fluorophores enables reliable ratiometric quantification of biomoleculesβ, Nature Communications, 2020, 11, 793. (#These authors contributed equally to this work).
- Chi#, Q. Qiao#, R. Lee, W. Liu, Y. S. Teo, D. Gu, M. J. Lang, Y. T. Chang*, Z. Xu*, X. Liu*, βA Photoexcitation-Induced Twisted Intramolecular Charge Shuttle (TICS)β,Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2019, 58, 7073-7077. (#These authors contributed equally to this work).
- Ye#, W. Yang*#, C. Wang#, Y. Zheng#, W. Chi, X. Liu*, Z. Huang, X. Li, Y. Xiao*, βQuaternary Piperazine-Substituted Rhodamines with Enhanced Brightness for Super-Resolution Imagingβ, Journal of American Chemical Society, 2019,141, 14491-14495 (#These authors contributed equally to this work).
- Qi, W. Chi, Y. Li, Q. Qiao, J. Chen, L. Miao, Y. Zhang, J. Li, W. Ji, T. Xu*, X. Liu*, J. Yoon*, Z. Xu*, βA H-Bond Strategy to Develop Acid-Resistant Photoswitchable Rhodamine Spirolactams for Super-Resolution Single-Molecule Localization Microscopyβ, Chemical Science, 2019, 10, 4914-4922.
Awards
- SMART Scholar Fellowship, Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology, 2014β2016
- Clean Energy Scholarship, National Research Foundation of Singapore, 2010β2014
- Singapore-MIT Alliance Graduate Fellowship, National University of Singapore, 2008β2009
- Singapore GLC Undergraduate Scholarship, Nanyang Technological University, 2002β2006