Professor Bin Liu FRSC
Winner: 2021 Centenary Prize
National University of Singapore
For the innovative design and synthesis of organic molecules and nanomaterials to advance biomedical research and applications, and for excellence in communication.
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We face many complex scientific challenges today […] which require close collaborations among researchers from various disciplines in different countries to offer solutions.
Professor Liu’s primary research interest is to innovate chemistry and materials with a focus on the design, synthesis and application of organic molecules and nanomaterials with optimised performance for biomedical applications.
Her team has built a series of technology platforms (e.g. light-up molecular probes, multifunctional nanoparticle probes, and living materials) to advance biomedical research with practical applications in sensing, imaging and image-guided therapy, as well as bacterial detection and ablation. These have been achieved through precise molecular engineering and a thorough understanding of the photophysical properties of materials.
Recently, her research group discovered that impurities can significantly contribute to the optical properties of many carbazole derivatives and other organic compounds. This opens up new opportunities to develop high performance luminescent materials.
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