Photoactive Functional Soft Materials

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

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.