Liang Feng
Thomas Lord Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
Assistant Professor in the Thomas Lord Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
Research Themes
Biomechanics & Biomaterials, Energy Systems & Materials, Soft Matter & Nanoscale Materials
Education
- Ph.D. Texas A&M University, 2020
Positions
- Assistant Professor in the Thomas Lord Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
Awards, Honors, and Distinctions
- ACS Sustainability Star. American Chemical Society. 2024
- Scialog Collaborative Innovation Award. Sloan Foundation. 2024
- Duke Trailblazer. Pratt School of Engineering. 2024
- IUPAC Top Ten Emerging Technologies in Chemistry. International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry. 2024
- Agilent Early Career Professor Award Finalist . Agilent. 2024
- IGNIITE Early-Career Innovator. ARPA-E / US Department of Energy. 2024
- Scialog Fellow in Negative Emissions Science. Research Corporation for Science Advancement. 2023
- Forbes 30 Under 30. Forbes. 2022
- Innovators Under 35 of China. MIT Technology Review. 2022
- MRS Postdoctoral Award. Materials Research Society. 2022
- Award for Excellence in Publications by a Young Member. International Adsorption Society. 2022
- 12 Under 12 Young Alumni Spotlight. Association of Former Students, Texas A&M University. 2022
- Distinguished Student Award in Nanotechnology. Foresight Institute. 2020
- Distinguished Graduate Student Award for Excellence in Research. Association of Former Students, Texas A&M University. 2020
- Graduate Student Award . Materials Research Society. 2020
Courses Taught
- ME 555: Advanced Topics in Mechanical Engineering
- ME 491: Special Projects in Mechanical Engineering
- ME 490: Special Topics in Mechanical Engineering
Publications
- Zhang R, Daglar H, Tang C, Li P, Feng L, Han H, et al. Balancing volumetric and gravimetric capacity for hydrogen in supramolecular crystals. Nature chemistry. 2024 Sep;
- Chen AXY, Kesharwani T, Wu Y, Stern CL, Đorđević L, Wu H, et al. Site-selective C–H functionalization in a cyclodextrin metal-organic framework. Chem. 2024 Jan 11;10(1):234–49.
- Fan W, Wang KY, Welton C, Feng L, Wang X, Liu X, et al. Aluminum metal–organic frameworks: From structures to applications. Coordination Chemistry Reviews. 2023 Aug 15;489.
- He H-H, Yuan J-P, Cai P-Y, Wang K-Y, Feng L, Kirchon A, et al. Yolk-Shell and Hollow Zr/Ce-UiO-66 for Manipulating Selectivity in Tandem Reactions and Photoreactions. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 2023 Aug;145(31):17164–75.
- Li F, Wang KY, Liu Z, Han Z, Kuai D, Fan W, et al. Ortho Effects of Tricarboxylate Linkers in Regulating Topologies of Rare-Earth Metal-Organic Frameworks. JACS Au. 2023 May 22;3(5):1337–47.
- Han H, Seale JSW, Feng L, Qiu Y, Stoddart JF. Sequence-controlled synthesis of rotaxanes. Journal of Polymer Science. 2023 May 15;61(10):881–902.
- Li Y, Su J, Zhao Y, Feng L, Gao L, Xu X, et al. Dynamic Bond-Directed Synthesis of Stable Mesoporous Metal-Organic Frameworks under Room Temperature. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 2023 May;145(18):10227–35.
- Chen W, Wang Z, Wang Q, El-Yanboui K, Tan K, Barkholtz HM, et al. Monitoring the Activation of Open Metal Sites in [FexM3-x(μ3-O)] Cluster-Based Metal-Organic Frameworks by Single-Crystal X-ray Diffraction. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 2023 Mar;145(8):4736–45.
- Wang K-Y, Yang Z, Zhang J, Banerjee S, Joseph EA, Hsu Y-C, et al. Creating hierarchical pores in metal-organic frameworks via postsynthetic reactions. Nature protocols. 2023 Feb;18(2):604–25.
- Pandey H, Wang H, Feng L, Wang K-Y, Zhou H-C, Li J, et al. Revisiting Competitive Adsorption of Small Molecules in the Metal-Organic Framework Ni-MOF-74. Inorganic chemistry. 2023 Jan;62(2):950–6.
- Feng L, Astumian RD, Stoddart JF. Controlling dynamics in extended molecular frameworks. Nature reviews Chemistry. 2022 Oct;6(10):705–25.
- Seale JSW, Feng Y, Feng L, Astumian RD, Stoddart JF. Polyrotaxanes and the pump paradigm. Chemical Society reviews. 2022 Oct;51(20):8450–75.
- Zhu C, Yang K, Wang H, Fang Y, Feng L, Zhang J, et al. Enantioseparation in Hierarchically Porous Assemblies of Homochiral Cages. ACS Central Science. 2022 May 25;8(5):562–70.
- Feng L, Qiu Y, Guo Q-H, Chen Z, Seale JSW, He K, et al. Active mechanisorption driven by pumping cassettes. Science (New York, NY). 2021 Dec;374(6572):1215–21.
- Chen W, Cai P, Elumalai P, Zhang P, Feng L, Al-Rawashdeh M, et al. Site-Isolated Azobenzene-Containing Metal-Organic Framework for Cyclopalladated Catalyzed Suzuki-Miyuara Coupling in Flow. ACS applied materials & interfaces. 2021 Nov;13(44):51849–54.
- Chapman E, Ullah S, Wang H, Feng L, Wang K, Zhou H-C, et al. Tuning the Adsorption Properties of Metal-Organic Frameworks through Coadsorbed Ammonia. ACS applied materials & interfaces. 2021 Sep;13(36):43661–7.
- Wang KY, Feng L, Yan TH, Qin JS, Li CX, Zhou HC. Morphology Transcription in Hierarchical MOF-on-MOF Architectures. ACS Materials Letters. 2021 Jun 7;3(6):738–43.
- Habibollahzadeh M, Noh J, Feng L, Zhou HC, Abdel-Wahab A, Yu C. Enhancing water permeability with super-hydrophilic metal-organic frameworks and hydrophobic straight pores. Environmental Science: Water Research and Technology. 2021 Jun 1;7(6):1137–45.
- Chen F, Drake HF, Feng L, Powell JA, Wang KY, Yan TH, et al. Metal–organic frameworks as versatile platforms for organometallic chemistry. Inorganics. 2021 Apr 1;9(4).
- Lv X-L, Feng L, Xie L-H, He T, Wu W, Wang K-Y, et al. Linker Desymmetrization: Access to a Series of Rare-Earth Tetracarboxylate Frameworks with Eight-Connected Hexanuclear Nodes. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 2021 Feb;143(7):2784–91.
- Lv X-L, Feng L, Wang K-Y, Xie L-H, He T, Wu W, et al. A Series of Mesoporous Rare-Earth Metal-Organic Frameworks Constructed from Organic Secondary Building Units. Angewandte Chemie (International ed in English). 2021 Jan;60(4):2053–7.
- Feng L, Wang K-Y, Day GS, Ryder MR, Zhou H-C. Destruction of Metal-Organic Frameworks: Positive and Negative Aspects of Stability and Lability. Chemical reviews. 2020 Dec;120(23):13087–133.
- Feng L, Day GS, Wang KY, Yuan S, Zhou HC. Strategies for Pore Engineering in Zirconium Metal-Organic Frameworks. Chem. 2020 Nov 5;6(11):2902–23.
- Feng L, Pang J, She P, Li J-L, Qin J-S, Du D-Y, et al. Metal-Organic Frameworks Based on Group 3 and 4 Metals. Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla). 2020 Nov;32(44):e2004414.
- Feng L, Wang K-Y, Lv X-L, Yan T-H, Zhou H-C. Hierarchically porous metal-organic frameworks: synthetic strategies and applications. National science review. 2020 Nov;7(11):1743–58.
- Tan K, Jensen S, Wang H, Feng L, Wei K, Zhou H, et al. Thermally Activated Adsorption in Metal–Organic Frameworks with a Temperature‐Tunable Diffusion Barrier Layer. Angewandte Chemie. 2020 Oct 12;132(42):18626–30.
- Tan K, Jensen S, Wang H, Feng L, Wei K, Zhou H-C, et al. Thermally Activated Adsorption in Metal-Organic Frameworks with a Temperature-Tunable Diffusion Barrier Layer. Angewandte Chemie (International ed in English). 2020 Oct;59(42):18468–72.
- Jensen S, Tan K, Feng L, Li J, Zhou H-C, Thonhauser T. Porous Ti-MOF-74 Framework as a Strong-Binding Nitric Oxide Scavenger. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 2020 Sep;142(39):16562–8.
- Wang K, Feng L, Yan T, Wu S, Joseph EA, Zhou H. Rapid Generation of Hierarchically Porous Metal–Organic Frameworks through Laser Photolysis. Angewandte Chemie. 2020 Jul 6;132(28):11445–50.
- Wang K-Y, Feng L, Yan T-H, Wu S, Joseph EA, Zhou H-C. Rapid Generation of Hierarchically Porous Metal-Organic Frameworks through Laser Photolysis. Angewandte Chemie (International ed in English). 2020 Jul;59(28):11349–54.
- Feng L, Wang KY, Joseph E, Zhou HC. Catalytic Porphyrin Framework Compounds. Trends in Chemistry. 2020 Jun 1;2(6):555–68.
- Fan W, Yuan S, Wang W, Feng L, Liu X, Zhang X, et al. Optimizing Multivariate Metal-Organic Frameworks for Efficient C2H2/CO2 Separation. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 2020 May;142(19):8728–37.
- Feng L, Lo SH, Tan K, Li BH, Yuan S, Lin YF, et al. An Encapsulation-Rearrangement Strategy to Integrate Superhydrophobicity into Mesoporous Metal-Organic Frameworks. Matter. 2020 Apr 1;2(4):988–99.
- Feng L, Wang K-Y, Willman J, Zhou H-C. Hierarchy in Metal-Organic Frameworks. ACS central science. 2020 Mar;6(3):359–67.
- Yuan S, Huang L, Huang Z, Sun D, Qin J-S, Feng L, et al. Continuous Variation of Lattice Dimensions and Pore Sizes in Metal-Organic Frameworks. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 2020 Mar;142(10):4732–8.
- Feng L, Wang KY, Yan TH, Zhou HC. Porous Crystalline Spherulite Superstructures. Chem. 2020 Feb 13;6(2):460–71.
- Feng L, Wang K-Y, Lv X-L, Yan T-H, Li J-R, Zhou H-C. Modular Total Synthesis in Reticular Chemistry. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 2020 Feb;142(6):3069–76.
- Feng L, Wang K-Y, Yan T-H, Zhou H-C. Seed-mediated evolution of hierarchical metal-organic framework quaternary superstructures. Chemical science. 2020 Feb;11(6):1643–8.
- Lo S-H, Feng L, Tan K, Huang Z, Yuan S, Wang K-Y, et al. Publisher Correction: Rapid desolvation-triggered domino lattice rearrangement in a metal-organic framework. Nature chemistry. 2020 Jan;12(1):98.
- Lo S-H, Feng L, Tan K, Huang Z, Yuan S, Wang K-Y, et al. Rapid desolvation-triggered domino lattice rearrangement in a metal-organic framework. Nature chemistry. 2020 Jan;12(1):90–7.
- Huang Q, Liu J, Feng L, Wang Q, Guan W, Dong L-Z, et al. Multielectron transportation of polyoxometalate-grafted metalloporphyrin coordination frameworks for selective CO2-to-CH4 photoconversion. National science review. 2020 Jan;7(1):53–63.
- Wang Y, Feng L, Zhang K, Wang K-Y, Fan W, Wang X, et al. Uncovering Structural Opportunities for Zirconium Metal-Organic Frameworks via Linker Desymmetrization. Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany). 2019 Dec;6(23):1901855.
- Feng L, Wang Y, Zhang K, Wang K, Fan W, Wang X, et al. Molecular Pivot‐Hinge Installation to Evolve Topology in Rare‐Earth Metal–Organic Frameworks. Angewandte Chemie. 2019 Nov 11;131(46):16835–43.
- Feng L, Wang Y, Zhang K, Wang K-Y, Fan W, Wang X, et al. Molecular Pivot-Hinge Installation to Evolve Topology in Rare-Earth Metal-Organic Frameworks. Angewandte Chemie (International ed in English). 2019 Nov;58(46):16682–90.
- Feng L, Wang KY, Powell J, Zhou HC. Controllable Synthesis of Metal-Organic Frameworks and Their Hierarchical Assemblies. Matter. 2019 Oct 2;1(4):801–24.
- Feng L, Wang K-Y, Day GS, Zhou H-C. The chemistry of multi-component and hierarchical framework compounds. Chemical Society reviews. 2019 Sep;48(18):4823–53.
- Feng L, Wang K-Y, Lv X-L, Powell JA, Yan T-H, Willman J, et al. Imprinted Apportionment of Functional Groups in Multivariate Metal-Organic Frameworks. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 2019 Sep;141(37):14524–9.
- Feng L, Yuan S, Qin JS, Wang Y, Kirchon A, Qiu D, et al. Lattice Expansion and Contraction in Metal-Organic Frameworks by Sequential Linker Reinstallation. Matter. 2019 Jul 10;1(1):156–67.
- Feng L, Lv X-L, Yan T-H, Zhou H-C. Modular Programming of Hierarchy and Diversity in Multivariate Polymer/Metal-Organic Framework Hybrid Composites. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 2019 Jul;141(26):10342–9.
- Feng L, Wang Y, Yuan S, Wang KY, Li JL, Day GS, et al. Porphyrinic Metal-Organic Frameworks Installed with Brønsted Acid Sites for Efficient Tandem Semisynthesis of Artemisinin. ACS Catalysis. 2019 Jun 7;9(6):5111–8.
- Xu M, Feng L, Yan L-N, Meng S-S, Yuan S, He M-J, et al. Discovery of precise pH-controlled biomimetic catalysts: defective zirconium metal-organic frameworks as alkaline phosphatase mimics. Nanoscale. 2019 Jun;11(23):11270–8.
- Wang Y, Feng L, Pang J, Li J, Huang N, Day GS, et al. Photosensitizer-Anchored 2D MOF Nanosheets as Highly Stable and Accessible Catalysts toward Artemisinin Production. Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany). 2019 Jun;6(11):1802059.
- Feng L, Li JL, Day GS, Lv XL, Zhou HC. Temperature-Controlled Evolution of Nanoporous MOF Crystallites into Hierarchically Porous Superstructures. Chem. 2019 May 9;5(5):1265–74.
- Wang Y, Feng L, Fan W, Wang K-Y, Wang X, Zhang K, et al. Topology Exploration in Highly Connected Rare-Earth Metal-Organic Frameworks via Continuous Hindrance Control. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 2019 May;141(17):6967–75.
- Jiang Y, Park J, Tan P, Feng L, Liu X-Q, Sun L-B, et al. Maximizing Photoresponsive Efficiency by Isolating Metal-Organic Polyhedra into Confined Nanoscaled Spaces. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 2019 May;141(20):8221–7.
- Tan K, Jensen S, Feng L, Wang H, Yuan S, Ferreri M, et al. Reactivity of Atomic Layer Deposition Precursors with OH/H
2 O-Containing Metal Organic Framework Materials. Chemistry of Materials. 2019 Apr 9;31(7):2286–95. - Feng L, Chen W-M, Li J-L, Day G, Drake H, Joseph E, et al. Biological Antagonism Inspired Detoxification: Removal of Toxic Elements by Porous Polymer Networks. ACS applied materials & interfaces. 2019 Apr;11(15):14383–90.
- Cure J, Mattson E, Cocq K, Assi H, Jensen S, Tan K, et al. High stability of ultra-small and isolated gold nanoparticles in metal-organic framework materials. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 2019 Jan 1;7(29):17536–46.
- Kirchon A, Feng L, Drake HF, Joseph EA, Zhou H-C. From fundamentals to applications: a toolbox for robust and multifunctional MOF materials. Chemical Society reviews. 2018 Dec;47(23):8611–38.
- Chen Z, Feng L, Liu L, Bhatt PM, Adil K, Emwas A-H, et al. Enhanced Separation of Butane Isomers via Defect Control in a Fumarate/Zirconium-Based Metal Organic Framework. Langmuir : the ACS journal of surfaces and colloids. 2018 Dec;34(48):14546–51.
- Elumalai P, Mamlouk H, Yiming W, Feng L, Yuan S, Zhou H-C, et al. Recyclable and Reusable Heteroleptic Nickel Catalyst Immobilized on Metal-Organic Framework for Suzuki-Miyaura Coupling. ACS applied materials & interfaces. 2018 Dec;10(48):41431–8.
- Feng L, Yuan S, Li J-L, Wang K-Y, Day GS, Zhang P, et al. Uncovering Two Principles of Multivariate Hierarchical Metal-Organic Framework Synthesis via Retrosynthetic Design. ACS central science. 2018 Dec;4(12):1719–26.
- Yuan S, Feng L, Wang K, Pang J, Bosch M, Lollar C, et al. Stable Metal-Organic Frameworks: Design, Synthesis, and Applications. Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla). 2018 Sep;30(37):e1704303.
- Yuan S, Zhang P, Zhang L, Garcia-Esparza AT, Sokaras D, Qin J-S, et al. Exposed Equatorial Positions of Metal Centers via Sequential Ligand Elimination and Installation in MOFs. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 2018 Aug;140(34):10814–9.
- Zhang L, Yuan S, Feng L, Guo B, Qin J, Xu B, et al. Pore‐Environment Engineering with Multiple Metal Sites in Rare‐Earth Porphyrinic Metal–Organic Frameworks. Angewandte Chemie. 2018 Apr 23;130(18):5189–93.
- Zhang L, Yuan S, Feng L, Guo B, Qin J-S, Xu B, et al. Pore-Environment Engineering with Multiple Metal Sites in Rare-Earth Porphyrinic Metal-Organic Frameworks. Angewandte Chemie (International ed in English). 2018 Apr;57(18):5095–9.
- Feng L, Yuan S, Zhang L-L, Tan K, Li J-L, Kirchon A, et al. Creating Hierarchical Pores by Controlled Linker Thermolysis in Multivariate Metal-Organic Frameworks. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 2018 Feb;140(6):2363–72.
- Yuan S, Qin J-S, Li J, Huang L, Feng L, Fang Y, et al. Retrosynthesis of multi-component metal-organic frameworks. Nature communications. 2018 Feb;9(1):808.
- Yuan S, Zou L, Qin J-S, Li J, Huang L, Feng L, et al. Construction of hierarchically porous metal-organic frameworks through linker labilization. Nature communications. 2017 May;8:15356.