Awards
Pre-Doctoral Travel Award, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Connecticut (2023)
Society of Plastic Engineers Scholarship (2022)
The Samuel J. Huang Graduate Student Research Award, University of Connecticut (2022)
Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship, University of Connecticut (2022)
Conference Participation Award, University of Connecticut (2021)
Best Poster Award for Annual Meeting of the Polymer Society in Taiwan, National Taiwan University (2014)
Distinguished Achievement Award for Calculus Contest, National Cheng Kung University (2009)
Education
Ph.D., Polymer Science, University of Connecticut (2018-2023)
M.S., Institute of Polymer Science and Engineering, National Taiwan University (2012-2015)
B.S., Chemistry, National Cheng Kung University (2008-2012)
Other Publications
Liu, C.-H., Krueger, S., Nieh, M.-P.; “Synthesis of Polymer Nanoweb via a Lipid Template” ACS Macro Letters 2023, 12, 993-998
Xian, W.K., Liu, C.-H., Kangarlou, B., Chang, S.-Y., Chao, W., Yang, C., Sun, L, Ma, A., Nieh, M.-P., Maiti, A., Saab, A., Li, Y., “Effect of Diphenyl Content on Viscoelasticity of Poly(dimethyl-co-diphenyl) siloxane Melt and Network” ACS Applied Polymer Materials 2023, 5, 1915-1925
Wei, Z., Liu, C.-H., Luo, Q., Thanneeru, S., Angeles-Boza, A., Nieh, M.-P., He, J., “Hydrophobic pockets built in polymer micelles to enhance reactivity of Cu2+ ions” Materials Chemistry Frontiers 2023, 7, 2038-2048
Liu, C.-H., Cheu, C., Baker, J., Yang, L., Nieh, M.-P.; “Facile Polymerization of Controllable Well-Defined Nano-Rings” Journal of Colloid and Interface 2023, 630, 629-637
Masese, F.K., Ndaya, D., Liu, C.-H., Eddy, N., Morales-Acosta, M.D., Nieh, M.-P., Kasi, R.M., “Self-Assembled Materials from Cellulose Nanocrystals Conjugated with a Thermotropic Liquid Crystalline Moiety” Soft Matter 2022, 18, 8165-8174
Zheng, W., Liu, C.-H., Nieh, M.-P., Cornelius, C.; “Morphological Anisotropy of Solvent-Cast Midblock-Sulfonated Pentablock Copolymer Membranes and Its Impact on Swelling and Transport” Macromolecules 2022, 55, 9269-9281
Wei, Z., Liu, C.-H., Duan, H., Luo, Q., Huang, M., Thanneeru S., Nieh, M.-P., He, J.; “Self-Assembly of Gold Nanoparticles Grafted with Amphiphilic Supramolecular Block Copolymers” Giant 2022, 10, 100102
Duan, H., Malesky, T., Wang, J., Liu, C.-H., Tan, H., Nieh, M.-P., Lin, Y., He, J.; “Patchy Metal Nanoparticles with Polymers: Controllable Growth and Two-Way Self-Assembly” Nanoscale 2022, 19, 7364-7371
Malik, S., Kumar, V., Liu, C.-H., Shih, K.-C., Krueger, S., Nieh, M.-P., Bahal, R.; “Head on Comparison of Self‐and Nano‐Assemblies of Gamma Peptide Nucleic Acid Amphiphiles” Adv. Funct. Mater. 2022, 32, 2109552
Lei, J., Liu, C.-H., Cintron, D., Luo, Q., Nieh, M.-P., He, J.; “Structural Engineering in the Self-Assembly of Amphiphilic Block Copolymers with Reactive Additives: Micelles, Vesicles, and Beyond” Langmuir 2021, 32, 9865-9872
Liu, C.-H., Wang, H., Yang, L., Liu, Y., Li, X., Nieh, M.-P.; “Nanocomplex made up of antimicrobial metallo-supramolecules and model biomembranes–characterization and enhanced fluorescence” Nanoscale 2021, 35, 14973-14979
Yin, G., Kandapal, S., Liu, C.-H., Wang, H., Huang, J., Jiang, S.-T., Ji, T., Yan, Y., Khalife, S., Zhou, R., Ye, L., Xu, B., Yang, H.-B., Nieh, M.-P., Li, X.; “Metallo‐Helicoid with Double Rims: Polymerization Followed by Folding via Intramolecular Coordination” Angew.Chem. Int.Ed. 2021, 60,1281–1289
Li, M., Heller, W., Liu, C.-H., Gao, C., Cai, Y., Hou, Y., Nieh, M.-P.; “Effects of Fluidity and Charge Density on the Morphology of a Bicellar Mixture – A SANS Study” Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA)-Biomembranes 2020, 1862, 9, 183315
Wang, H.*, Liu, C.-H.*, Wang, K., Wang, M., Yu, H., Kandapal, S., Brzozowski, R., Xu, B., Wang, M., Lu, S., Hao, X.-Q., Eswara, P., Nieh, M.-P., Cai, J., Li, X.; Assembling Pentatopic Terpyridine Ligands with Three Types of Coordination Moieties into a Giant Supramolecular Hexagonal Prism: Synthesis, Self-Assembly, Characterization, and Antimicrobial Study” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2019, 141, 40, 16108-16116 (co-first author)
Liu, C.-H., Tseng, W.-H., Cheng, C.-Y., Wu, C.-I., Chou, P.-T., Tung, S.-H.; “Effects of Amorphous Poly(3-hexylthiophene) on Active-Layer Structure and Solar Cells Performance” Journal of Polymer Science Part B: Polymer Physics 2016, 54, 975-985
Chen, H.-C., Chen, Y.-H., Liu, C.-H., Hsu, Y.-C., Chien, Y.-C., Chuang, W.-T., Cheng, C.-Y., Liu, C.-L., Chou, S.-W., Tung, S.-H., Chou, P.-T.; “Fluorinated thienyl-quinoxaline-based D-π-A-type copolymer toward efficient polymer solar cells: synthesis, characterization, and photovoltaic properties” Polymer Chemistry 2013, 4, 3411-3418