Ge Liang
Professor
E-mail: geliang@ustc.edu.cn
https://membrane.ustc.edu.cn/2022/0117/c30196a544209/page.htm
Affiliation: Department of Applied Chemistry of the School of Chemistry and Materials Science of the University of Science and Technology of China
Personal Profile
Ge Liang is a recipient of the National Excellent Young Scientists Fund Project and a chief scientist of the National Key Research and Development Program of China. He obtained a bachelor's degree from Anhui University in 2008, a master's degree from Fuzhou University in 2011, and a Ph.D. from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) in 2014. After completing his postdoctoral research in 2017, he continued to work at USTC, where he is currently a professor in the Department of Applied Chemistry and a doctoral supervisor. His research focuses on ion-selective separation membranes. He has published over 90 SCI papers about his significant research findings in journals such as J Am Chem Soc, Adv Mater, Adv Funct Mater, J Membrane Sci, Chem Eng J, and Ind Eng Chem Res, with 3,800 SCI citations and an H-index of 36. He holds 15 authorized invention patents. He has undertaken more than 10 scientific research projects, including those from the National Key Research and Development Program of China, the Excellent Young Scientists Fund Project, General Project, and Youth Science Fund Project of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, and the Anhui Provincial Key Research and Development Program. He serves as an editorial board member for Membranes and a youth editor for Result in Engineering.
Educational Background:
2011.09-2014.06: Ph.D. from the Department of Chemistry of the University of Science and Technology of China
2008.09-2011.06: Master's Degree in Polymer Chemistry and Physics of Fuzhou University
2004.09-2008.06: Bachelor's Degree in Polymer Materials and Engineering of Anhui University
Research Experience:
January 2023 - Present: Special-term Professor of the University of Science and Technology of China
June 2017 - December 2022: Special-term Associate Research Fellow of the University of Science and Technology of China
June 2014 - May 2017: Postdoctoral Researcher of the University of Science and Technology of China
Awards and Honors:
In 2022: Excellent Young Scientists Fund Project of the National Natural Science Foundation of China
In 2020: Innovation Team Award of China Petroleum and Chemical Industry Federation (as a core member)
Research Directions:
Structural design and regulation of polymer-based ion-selective separation membranes
Precision construction of porous organic polymer separation membranes
Mass transfer behavior and separation mechanisms in (sub)nanometer-scale confined spaces
Application research on membrane processes, including:
(1) Ion-selective separation membranes
(2) Special separation membranes (isotope separation, rare earth element separation, uranium extraction from seawater, etc.)
(3) Confined mass transfer and separation mechanisms (computational simulation)
(4) Application research on membrane processes (across various fields)
Representative Works:
(1) Yanran Zhu, Qian Chen, Yue Zhou, Xinya Li*, Liang Ge*, Tongwen Xu*, Cation Exchange Membranes with Bi-Functional Sites Induced Synergistic Hydrophilic Networks for Selective Proton Transport. Adv. Funct. Mater., 2023, 2215109.
(2) Hongxin Yang#, Noor Ul Afsar#, Qian Chen, Xiaolin Ge, Xingya Li, Liang Ge*, Tongwen Xu*, Poly(alkyl-biphenyl pyridinium) anion exchange membranes with a hydrophobic side chain for mono-/divalent anion separation, Ind. Chem. Mater., 2023, 1, 129-139.
(3) Tingting Xu#, Bin Wu#, Linxiao Hou#, Yanran Zhu, Fangmeng Sheng, Zhang Zhao, Yun Dong, Jiandang Liu, Bangjiao Ye, Xingya Li*, Liang Ge*, Huanting Wang, Tongwen Xu*, Highly ion-permselective porous organic cage membranes with hierarchical channels. J. Am. Chem. Soc.,2022, 144, 23, 10220-10229.
(4) Zhang Zhao, Xingya Li, Hao Zhang, Fangmeng Sheng, Tingting Xu, Yanran Zhu, Huacheng Zhang, Liang Ge*, Tongwen Xu*, Polyamide-based electronanofiltration membranes for efficient anion separation, Ind. Eng. Chem. Res.,2022, 61, 27, 9869-9878.
(5) Fangmeng Sheng, Xingya Li*, Yuanyuan Li, Noor Ul Afsar, Zhang Zhao, Liang Ge*, Tongwen Xu*, Cationic covalent organic framework membranes for efficient dye/salt separation, J. Membrane Sci., 2022, 644, 120118.