2020.6-Present Professor, State Key Laboratory of Functional Organic Chemistry,
Lanzhou University, China
2008-2020.6 Assistant Researcher and then Associate Researcher,
Institute of Chemistry,Chinese Academy of Sciences
2003-2008 Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry, Institute of Chemistry,
Chinese Academy of Sciences
1999-2003 B.S. in Chemistry，Jilin University, China
· Honors and Rewards
2019 Outstanding member of youth innovation promotion association of Chinese
Academy of Sciences
2015 Member of youth innovation promotion association of Chinese Academy of
Sciences
2013,2014,2016,2018,2019 Outstanding young scientists award of Institute of
chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences
· Research Topics
Prof. Zitong Liu is interested in developing new organic functional materials for electronic and optoelectronic applications. He has published more than 90 research papers on peer-reviewed international journals with citation over 1900, his h index is 26.
Current research projects include:
1. Organic semiconductors and organic devices
2. Nanoscale and molecular electronics
· Publications
1. Pre-Endcapping of Hyperbranched Polymers toward Intrinsically Stretchable Semiconductors with Good Ductility and Carrier Mobility. Zhaoqiong Zhou#, Nan Luo#, Tianqiang Cui, Liang Luo, Mingrui Pu, Ying Wang, Feng He, Chunyang Jia, Xiangfeng Shao, Hao-Li Zhang, and Zitong Liu*, Adv. Mater., 2024, 36, 2313312.
2. Non-Symmetric Half-Fused B←N Coordinated Diketopyrrolopyrrole Building Block for N-Type Semiconducting Polymers. Jinqiu Meng, Jiawen Dou, Zhaoqiong Zhou, Pinyu Chen, Nan Luo, Yan Li, Liang Luo, Feng He, Hua Geng, Xiangfeng Shao, Hao-Li Zhang, and Zitong Liu*, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2023, 62, e202301863
3. Self-Doping Naphthalene Diimide Conjugated Polymers for Flexible Unipolar N-Type Otfts. Pinyu Chen, Dongyang Wang, Liang Luo, Jinqiu Meng, Zhaoqiong Zhou, Xiaojuan Dai, Ye Zou, Luxi Tan, Xiangfeng Shao, Chong-an Di, Chunyang Jia, Hao-Li Zhang, and Zitong Liu*, Adv. Mater. 2023, 35, 2300240.
4. Accurate Single-Molecule Kinetic Isotope Effects. Yilin Guo, Chen Yang, Huiping Li, Lei Zhang, Shuyao Zhou, Xin Zhu, Huanyan Fu, Zhizhou Li, Zhirong Liu, Chuancheng Jia, Zitong Liu*, Wenguang Zhu*, Fanyang Mo*, Deqing Zhang*, and Xuefeng Guo*, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2022, 144, 3146.
5. Recent Progress in Organic Field-Effect Transistor-based Chem/Bio-Sensors. Liang Luo, and Zitong Liu*, View 2022, 3, 20200115.
6. Side-Chain Engineering of Conjugated Polymers for High-Performance Organic Field-Effect Transistors. Nan Luo, Peng Ren, Yu Feng*, Xiangfeng Shao, Hao-Li Zhang, and Zitong Liu*, J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 2022, 13, 1131.
7. Keep Glowing and Going: Recent Progress in Diketopyrrolopyrrole Synthesis towards Organic Optoelectronic Materials. Nan Luo, Guanxin Zhang, and Zitong Liu*, Org. Chem. Front. 2021, 8, 4560-4581.
8. Electrostatic Gating of Single-Molecule Junctions Based on the STM-BJ Technique. Ping Zhou, Jueting Zheng, Tianyang Han, Lijue Chen, Wenqiang Cao, Yixuan Zhu, Dahai Zhou, Ruihao Li, Yingyu Tian, Zitong Liu, Junyang Liu*, and Wenjing Hong, Nanoscale 2021,13, 7600-7605.
9. A Conjugated Polymer Containing Arylazopyrazole Units in the Side Chains for Field‐Effect Transistors Optically Tunable by Near Infra‐Red Light. Jianwu Tian, Zitong Liu, (equal contributor) Wenlin Jiang, Dandan Shi, Liangliang Chen, Xisha Zhang, Guanxin Zhang, Chong-an Di, and Deqing Zhang*. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2020,59, 13844-13851.
10. Structure-Independent Conductance of Thiophene-Based Single Stacking Junctions. Xiaohui Li+, Qingqing Wu+, Jie Bai+, Songjun Hou, Wenlin Jiang, Chun Tang, Hang Song, Xiaojuan Huang, Jueting Zheng, Yang Yang, Junyang Liu, Yong Hu, Jia Shi, Zitong Liu*, Colin Lambert*, Deqing Zhang*, and Wenjing Hong*. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2020, 132, 3306-3312.
11. Half-Fused Diketopyrrolopyrrole-Based Conjugated Donor-Acceptor Polymer for Ambipolar Field-Effect Transistors, Dandan Shi, Zitong Liu*, Jing Ma, Zhiyuan Zhao, Luxi Tan, Gaobo Lin, Jianwu Tian, Xisha Zhang, Guanxin Zhang, and Deqing Zhang*. Adv. Funct. Mater. 2020, 30, 1910235.
12. Selenium-substituted DPP Polymer for High Performance p‐Type Organic Thermoelectric Materials. Jiamin Ding+, Zitong Liu+, (equal contributor), Wenrui Zhao, Wenling Jin, Lanyi Xiang, Zhijie Wang, Yan Zeng, Ye Zou, Fengjiao Zhang, Yuanping Yi, Ying Diao, Christopher R. McNeill, Chong-an Di*, Deqing Zhang*, and Daoben Zhu. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2019, 58, 18994-18999.
13. Light-driven Reversible Intermolecular Proton Transfer in Single-Molecule Junction. Shuning Cai†, Wenting Deng†, Feifei Huang, Lijue Chen, Chun Tang, Wenxiang He, Shichuan Long, Ruihao Li, Zhibin Tan, Junyang Liu, Jia Shi, Zitong Liu*, Zongyuan Xiao*, Deqing Zhang*, and Wenjing Hong*. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2019, 58, 3829-3833.
14. The effects of side chains on the charge mobilities and functionalities of semiconducting conjugated polymers beyond solubilities. Yizhou Yang, Zitong Liu*, Guanxin Zhang, Xisha Zhang, Deqing Zhang*. Adv. Mater. 2019, 31, 1903104.
15. Modification of Side Chains of Conjugated Molecules and Polymers for Charge Mobility Enhancement and Sensing Functionality. Zitong Liu, Guanxin Zhang, and Deqing Zhang*. Acc. Chem. Res. 2018, 51, 1422-1432.
16. Remarkable enhancement of charge carrier mobility of conjugated polymer field-effect transistors upon incorporating an ionic additive. Hewei Luo+, Chenmin Yu+, Zitong Liu*, Guanxin Zhang, Hua Geng, Yuanping Yi, Katharina Broch, Yuanyuan Hu, Aditya Sadhanala, Lang Jiang, Penglin Qi, Zhengxu Cai, Henning Sirringhaus*, and Deqing Zhang*. Sci. Adv. 2016, 2, e1600076.
17. Significant Improvement of Semiconducting Performance of the Diketopyrrolopyrrole–Quaterthiophene Conjugated Polymer through Side-Chain Engineering via Hydrogen-Bonding. Jingjing Yao, Chenmin Yu, Zitong Liu*, Hewei Luo, Yang Yang, Guanxin Zhang, and Deqing Zhang*. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2016, 138, 173-185.
18. New Organic Semiconductors with Imide/Amide-Containing Molecular Systems. Zitong Liu, Guanxin Zhang*, Zhengxu Cai, Xin Chen, Hewei Luo, Yonghai Li, Jianguo Wang, and Deqing Zhang. Adv. Mater. 2014, 26, 6965-6977.
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