Name: LIAO Weiqiang

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. polarization and domain structure regulation of molecular ferroelectric catalysts, 2024.11-2029.12, National Key R&D Program of China, Principal Investigator, 2024YFA1509302, RMB 3198000

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

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

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

Awards and Honors：

(2023) Received the second prize of the State Natural Science Award (Rank Third).

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

(2024) Chinese Chemical Society Young Chemist Award.

(2020) Clarivate Highly Cited Researchers.

Representative papers and patents：

Ten Representative papers:

1.Chen, H.-H.; Peng, H.; Xu, Z.-K.; Song, X.-J.; Chen, X.-G.; Xiong, R.-G.; Liao, W.-Q.* Spatial Symmetry Operation Breaking Sulfur-Chiral Photoswitchable Ferroelectrics. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2025, 147, 10715-10723.

2.Peng, H.; Qin, Y.; Chen, X.-G.; Song, X.-J.; Xiong, R.-G.; Liao, W.-Q.* The First Kleinman-type Second-Harmonic Generation Circular Dichroism On/Off Switchable Ferroelectrics. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2025, 64, e202500285.

3.Song, X.-J.; Ai, Y.; Chen, X.-G.; Qin, Y.; Tang, Y.-Y.; Lv, H.-P.; Li, P.-F.; Peng, H.; Weng, Y.-R.; Chen, H.-H.; Xiong, R.-G.; Liao, W.-Q.* Enantiomeric Ferroelectric Chiral Domains. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2025, 147, 16568-16577.

4.Song, X.-J.; Qin, Y.; Ai, Y.; Chen, X.-G.; Weng, Y.-R.; Peng, H.; Lv, H.-P.; Xiong, R.-G.; Liao, W.-Q.* Mathematical Double-Matrix Switchable Homochiral Ferroelectric, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2025, 64, e202507554.

5.Chen, H.-H.; Chen, X.-G.; Xu, Z.-K.; Peng, H.; Qin, Y.; Lv, H.-P.; Song, X.-J.; Hu, S.-Q.; Ji, L.-Y.; Zhou, J.-S.; Xiong, R.-G.; Liao, W.-Q.* A 3D Hybrid Perovskite Ferroelastic with Triclinic-to-Cubic Phase Transition Boosts Temperature/Pressure Dual On/Off Switchable Birefringence. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2025, 64, e202503681.

6.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.

7.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.

8.Qi, J.-C.; Song, X.-J.; Peng, H.; Chen, X.-G.; Xiong, R.-G.; Liao, W.-Q.* The First Recyclable Molecular Ferroelectric Can Catalyze Difunctionalization of Olefin. Adv. Funct. Mater. 2025, 35, 2502822.

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

10.Liao, W.-Q.; Zhao, D. W.; 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.