Photoactive Functional Soft Materials

Quan Li is Director of the Organic Synthesis and Advanced Materials Laboratory at Liquid Crystal Institute (LCI), Kent State University, where he is also Adjunct Professor in the Chemical Physics Interdisciplinary Program. He received his Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry from the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) in Shanghai, where he was promoted to the youngest Full Professor of Organic Chemistry and Medicinal Chemistry in February of 1998. In 1999, he was elected as a One-Hundred Talent Scientists in CAS. He has directed numerous cutting-edge research projects and has won the Kent State University Outstanding Research and Scholarship award. He has also been honored as Guest Professor and Chair Professor by several Universities.

Functional Soft Materials for Photopharmacology
Photoactive Soft Materials in Biochemistry
Light-driven Molecular and Macromolecular Hydrogels for Biomedical Applications
Photoswitchable Dynamic Supramolecular Systems and Their Applications
Light-driven Self-organized Liquid Crystalline Nanostructures Enabled by Chiral Molecular Switches or Motors: From 1D to 3D Photonic Crystals
Photomechanical Actuation in Polymer Nanocomposites and Their Applications
Photomechanical Liquid Crystalline Polymer Networks and Elastomers
Photoactive Shape Memory Polymers
Photodynamic Surface Topographies Based on Polymer (Liquid Crystal) Network Films for Controlling Wetting, Adhesion and Friction
Photoresponsive Colloidal Particles Based on Polymers and Block Copolymers: Design, Fabrication and Applications
Photopatterning and Photoswitching of Molecular and Polymeric Functional Soft Materials
Photochemical Phase Transitions and Chiral Inductions in Liquid Crystals
Tailoring and Reconfiguration of Soft Superstructures by Photolithography based on Photoalignment Technique and Their Applications
Light-driven Topological Soft Colloids: Preparation and Dynamic Behavior
Light-controlled Soft Microfluidics and Their Applications