Name: Wei-Qiang Liao

Gender: Male

Email Address: liaowq@ncu.edu.cn

Education and Work Experience ：

2018-present: Professor, Ordered Matter Science Research Center, Nanchang University, China.

2017-2018: Research Assistant, Ordered Matter Science Research Center, Southeast University, China.

2015-2017: Visiting Scholar, Department of Physics and Astronomy, The University of Toledo, USA.

2012-2017: Ph.D. in Materials Physics and Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Southeast University, China.

2008-2012: B.S. in Applied Chemistry, School of Chemistry and Biological Engineering, Yichun University, China.

Teaching：

College Chemistry, Lectures on Frontiers of Chemistry, Fundamentals of Molecular Ferroelectrics, and Ferroelectrochemistry

Research fields:

Molecular Ferroelectrics, Piezoelectrics, Structural Phase Transitions, Nonlinear Optical Materials, Perovskites, Organic–Inorganic Hybrids, Molecular Switches, Crystallography, and Ferroelectric Liquid Crystals.

Research projects：

1. Design, synthesis and properties of molecular ferroelectrics with photo-induced structural phase transitions, 2022.01-2025.12, National Natural Science Foundation of China, Principle Investigator, 22175082, RMB 620000

2. Precise synthesis, function, and application of chiral layered lead iodide perovskite ferroelectrics, 2019.01-2021.12, National Natural Science Foundation of China, Principle Investigator, 91856114, RMB 750000

3. Molecular ferroelectric semiconductors and their photovoltaic applications, 2018.01-2020.12, National Natural Science Foundation of China, Principle Investigator, 21703033, RMB 260000

Awards and Honors：

(2022) Received the First Prize in Natural Science of the Ministry of Education of China (Rank Third).

(2019) National Youth Talent Program of China

(2020) Young Jinggang Scholars in Jiangxi Province.

(2020) Clarivate Highly Cited Researchers.

Representative papers and patents：

Five Representative papers:

1. Wang, Z.-X.; Liao, W.-Q.* Giant electromechanical effects in polymers. Science 2022, 375, 1353-1354.

2. Liao, W.-Q.; Zhao, D.; Tang, Y.-Y.; Zhang, Y.; Li, P.-F.; Shi, P.-P.; Chen, X.-G.; You, Y.-M.; Xiong, R.-G.* A molecular perovskite solid solution with piezoelectricity stronger than lead zirconate titanate. Science 2019, 363, 1206-1210.

3. Deng, B.-B.; Xu, C.-C.; Cheng, T.-T.; Yang, Y.-T.; Hu, Y.-T.; Wang, P.; He, W.-H.; Yang, M.-J.; Liao, W.-Q.* Homochiral Nickel Nitrite ABX3 (X = NO2−) Perovskite Ferroelectric. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2020, 142, 6946-6950.

4. Liu, J.-C.; Ai, Y.; Liu, Q.; Zeng, Y.-P.; Chen, X.-G.; Lv, H.-P.; Xiong, R.-G.; Liao, W.-Q.* Solid-Liquid Crystal Biphasic Ferroelectrics with Tunable Biferroelectricity, Adv. Mater. 2023, 35, 2302436

5. Song, X.-J.; Chen, X.-G.; Liu, J.-C.; Liu, Q.; Zeng, Y.-P.; Tang, Y.-Y.; Li, P.-F.; Xiong, R.-G.*; Liao, W.-Q.* Biferroelectricity of a homochiral organic molecule in both solid crystal and liquid crystal phases. Nat. Commun. 2022, 13, 6150.