Head of Chair
Prof. Xinliang Feng
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Work Biography:This is a professorship in the context of the cluster of excellence cfaed.Prof. Feng is the head of the Chair of Molecular Functional Materials at Technische Universität Dresden. He received his Bachelor’s degree in analytic chemistry in 2001 and Master’s degree in organic chemistry in 2004. Then he joined the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research for PhD thesis, where he obtained his PhD degree in April 2008. In December 2007, he was appointed as a group leader at the Max-Planck Institute for Polymer Research, and in 2012, he became a distinguished group leader.
Academic Employment
Research InterestsHis current scientific interests include organic synthetic methodology in aromatic coupling reactions; organic synthesis of pi-conjugated system; bottom-up synthesis and top-down fabrication of graphene nanoribbons in the solution and on the surface; 2D conjugated polymers and supramolecular polymers for optoelectronic applications; graphene-based 2D nanomaterials and low-dimensional nanostructured functional as well as hybrid materials for energy storage and conversion; mesoporous covalent-bonding organic frameworks and nanostructured functional carbon materials for energy storage and conversion; new energy devices and technologies. Scientific Achievements & RecognitionHe has published more than 602 research articles which have attracted more than 55,593 citations with H-index of 117 (Web of Science) (Google Scholar Citations: 68,139 citations, H-index ≥126).
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Administrative Staff
Sabine Strecker
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Secretary Sabine is a certified foreign language correspondent and joined the team of the Chair for Molecular Functional Materials in October 2014. She is working as secretary for Prof. Feng and assists the team in all administrative matters. ContactPhone: +49 351 / 463-43251 Office: Hempel Building, Mommsenstraße 4, room HEM 217 a |
Annett Müller
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Secretary
ContactPhone: +49 351 / 463-40417 Office: Hempel Building, Mommsenstraße 4, room HEM 217 a |
Birgit Faget
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Secretary of Dr. Renhao Dong
ContactPhone: +49 351 / 463-40364 Office: Hempel Building, Mommsenstraße 4, room HEM 215 |
Technical Staff
Janett Beyer
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Lab Technician Janett is working as laboratory technician, supporting Prof. Feng's group in all technical issues. She is part of the team of the chair for Molecular Functional Materials since February 2016. Her background is in chemical analytics in the semiconductor industry. ContactPhone: + 49 – 351 / 463-39090 |
Nicole Huste
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Technician ContactPhone: + 49 – 351 / 463-43254 |
Tobias Nickel
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Technician (NMR device) ContactPhone: + 49 – 351 / 463-38757 |
IT Administrator
Patrick Schaller
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IT-Admin Patrick joined the group in May 2016. ContactPhone: +49 – 351 / 463-36910 |
Scientific Staff
Mino Borrelli
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PhD student Mino received his master degree from the Universtiy of Bologna in September 2017. He joined Professor Feng's group in November 2017 as PhD student focussing on energy conversion. ContactPhone: +49 – 351 / 463-40400 |
Guangbo Chen
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PhD student Guangbo received his master degree in July 2016 from Northwest University, China. He joined Prof. Feng’s group as a PhD student from February 2017. His current research topic focuses on the synthesis of novel 2D nanomaterials and their applications in catalytic energy conversion. ContactPhone: +49 – 351 / 463-39087 |
Renhao Dong
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Research Group Leader Renhao received his PhD in Physical Chemistry from Shandong University in 2013. Since 01/2017, he is a research group leader at the Chair for Molecular Functional Materials in TUD. His current research interest focuses on synthesis of organic 2D crystals (2D polymers/COFs/MOFs) and their applications in electronics and energy technology. ContactPhone: +49 – 351 / 463-40364 |
Jingwei Du
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PhD student
ContactPhone: +49–351-463-40400 |
Steve Ehmke
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Industry PhD student Steve is a Diploma Engineer/Master of Engineering specialized in lightweight and plastic design and sensor integration in fiber-reinforced composites. He joined Dr. Lohe’s group in August 2019 for an industry PhD, focusing on the development and application of conductive inks for touch function integration into injection-molded plastic parts in cooperation with PlasticConcept GmbH. ContactPhone: +49 – 351 / 463-43255 |
Yubin Fu
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Postdoc
ContactPhone: +49 – 351 / 463-43259 |
Ronny Grünker
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Group Leader Ronny has a background in chemistry where he collected diverse knowledge in the fields of organic (diploma), inorganic (PhD) and macromolecular chemistry (PostDoc). In October 2014, he joined the Chair of Molecular Functional Materials at cfaed. ContactPhone: +49 – 351 / 463-39090 |
Payam Hashemi
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Postdoc
ContactPhone: +49 – 351 / 463-43058 |
Chuanhui Huang
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Postdoc
ContactPhone: +49 – 351 / 463-33858 |
Xing Huang
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Postdoc
ContactPhone: +49 – 351 / 463-33858 |
Kamil Jastrzembski
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PhD student
ContactPhone: +49 – 351 / 463-32141 |
Paula Kalenczuk
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PhD student
ContactPhone: +49–351-463-39089 |
Rajendra Kumar Konidena
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Postdoc
ContactPhone: +49–351-463-39088 |
Ankit Kumar
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Postdoc
ContactPhone: +49–351-463-43259 |
Dongqi Li
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PhD student Dongqi Li received his Master Degree in June 2019 from Sun Yat-Sen University in Guangzhou, China. Afterwards he joined Prof. Feng's group as a Ph. D. student. Now, he focus on the design and synthesis of 2D single-/few-layer materials, and their application on energy storage". ContactPhone: + 49 - 351 / 463-40400 |
Wei Li
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Postdoc
ContactPhone: + 49 - 351 / 463-33858 |
Jinxin Liu
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Postdoc
ContactPhone: +49-351-463-39994 |
Kejun Liu
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Postdoc
ContactPhone: +49 – 351 / 463-40953 |
Kun Liu
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PhD student
ContactPhone: +49-463-43259 |
Renxiang Liu
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PhD student Renxiang Liu received his Master's Degree in June 2020 from Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He joined Prof. Feng's group as a PhD student from November 2020. His current research topic focus on the development of novel polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and nanographenes for organic electronics. ContactPhone: +49 – 351 / 463-39088 |
Yannan Liu
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Postdoc
ContactPhone: +49 – 351 / 463-40415 |
Martin R. Lohe
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Industry Project Coordinator Martin received his PhD in Inorganic Chemistry in 2014. He has profound experience in the field of process development and optimization as well as up-scaling and commercializing inorganic specialty materials. In January 2015 he joined our team with the focus on upscaling the electrochemical exfoliation of graphene. ContactPhone: +49 – 351 / 463-40405 |
Yang Lu
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Postdoc
ContactPhone: +49 – 351 / 463-33858 |
Ji Ma
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Research Group Leader Ji Ma received his Master's Degree in July 2015 from Fudan University, China. Since August 2015 he joined Prof. Feng's group as a PhD student and received his PhD Degree in November 2019. His current research topic focus on the organic synthesis and application of nanographene and graphene nanoribbons. ContactPhone: +49 - 351 - 463-42424 |
Ahiud Morag
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Postdoc Ahiud has completed his PhD studies in Chemistry at Ben-Gurion University in July 2019. In October 2019 he has joined Prof. Feng's Group as a postdoc. His current work focuses on energy storage. ContactPhone: +49 - 351 -463-40415 |
Ajayakumar Murugan Rathamony
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Postdoc M. R. Ajayakumar was awarded Ph.D. in Chemical Science from Jawaharlal Nehru University (India) in 2013. Afterwards, he carried out a postdoctoral research at Institut de Ciència de Materials de Barcelona (Spain). In October 2016, he joined the Chair for Molecular Functional Materials, cfaed as a visiting researcher where he is focusing on the synthesis of novel polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons. ContactPhone: +49 - 351 -463-43259 |
Chandrasekhar Naisa
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Postdoc Naisa Chandrasekhar, received PhD (Chemistry) from University of Hyderabad (UoH), India in 2014. He has been working as a post-doctoral researcher in Prof. Feng’s group since August, 2015. His current research interests are focus on “design and synthesis of 2D-fully-conjugated organic polymers for electronics, energy conversion and storage applications. ContactPhone: +49 – 351 / 463-40671 |
Ngan Nguyen
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Postdoc
ContactPhone: +49 – 351 / 463-39089 |
Wenhui Niu
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PhD student Wenhui received her Bachelor degree in 2016 at the College of Polymer Science and Engineering, Sichuan University, China. She joined Prof. Feng's group as a joint PhD student from September 2017. Her current research topic focuses on synthesis of ultra-long single graphene nanoribbons. ContactPhone: +49 - 351 -463-39088 |
Sebastian Obermann
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PhD student
ContactPhone: +49 - 351 -463-32141 |
Dominik Pastötter
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PhD student Dominik received his Master’s degree in the field of conjugated polymers from the University of Heidelberg (Prof. Bunz) in May 2017. After an internship at Wacker Chemie AG in Munich he joined Prof. Feng’s group as PhD student in November 2017. His current research interest focuses on the synthesis of novel 2D polymers and applications thereof. ContactPhone: +49 - 351 -463-43325 |
Madhurima Poddar
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Postdoc
ContactPhone: +49-351-463-33802 |
Anupam Prasoon
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PhD student
ContactPhone: +49-351-463-39089 |
Haoyuan Qi
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Postdoc Haoyuan received his PhD from the group of Transmission Electron Microscopy of Materials Science in Ulm University (07/2017). He joined Feng`s group in May 2019. With a high level of proficiency in aberration-corrected transmission electron microscopy, he focuses on the structural elucidation of beam-sensitive organic 2D crystals at the molecular as well as atomic scale. ContactE-Mail: haoyuan.qi (at) tu-dresden.de |
Marcus Richter
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Research Group Leader Marcus started his studies in chemistry at the TU Dresden in 2009. He received his Bachelor’s degree at the Chair of Macromolecular Chemistry in 2012. In 2014 he finished his Master thesis about polymer hydrogels. Since December 2014 he was a PhD student at the Chair of Molecular Functional Materials at cfaed and received his PhD Degree in December 2019. ContactPhone: +49 – 351 / 463-35283 |
Davood Sabaghi
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PhD student Davood received his Master's Degree in September 2014 from Sharif university of Technology. He worked as Research assistant in Ferdowsi university and IFW institute Dresden. He joined Prof. Feng's group as a PhD student from June, 2019. His current research topic focuses on Synthesis and application of novel 2D materials for energy storage. ContactPhone: +49 – 351 / 463-43255 |
Ali Shaygan Nia
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Research Group Leader Ali received his PhD in June 2016 from “macromolecular chemistry department of Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg”. He joined Prof. Feng’s group in July 2016 and his current research interest is on upscaling and modifying the electrochemical exfoliation of graphene. ContactPhone: +49 – 351 / 463-40413 |
Huanhuan Shi
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PhD student Huanhuan received her Master's Degree in Chemical Engineering from Xiamen University in July 2017. Starting from October 2017 she shifted to Prof. Feng's group at TU Dresden. Her main research interest is the exfoliation of 2D materials from solutions and the applications in electronics. ContactPhone: +49 – 351 / 463-43255 |
Lukas Sporrer
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PhD student
ContactPhone: +49 – 351 / 463-32141 |
Hanjun Sun
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Postdoc Hanjun received his PhD degree from the Changchun institute of applied chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences in January 2017, then he joined Professor Feng's group as a post-doctor since February 2017. His current research interest focuses on low-dimensional carbon-based materials for energy conversion and storage applications. ContactPhone: +49 – 351 / 463-40400 or -42177 |
Valeriya Tkachova
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Analytical Coordinator Valeriya obtained her PhD degree in Organic Chemistry in Ukraine. She joined Professor Feng's group as scientific researcher specialist in December 2014. Since January 2018 she is working as an analytical coordinator. ContactPhone: +49 – 351 / 463-34847 |
Adrián Romaní Vázquez
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PhD student Adrián received his Master's Degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Santiago de Compostela in 2016. He joined Professor Feng's group in January 2017 as a PhD student, focusing on upscaling the production of electrochemically exfoliated graphene. ContactPhone: +49 – 351 / 463-43255 |
Albrecht Wäntig
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PhD student
ContactPhone: +49 – 351 / 463-33802 |
Faxing Wang
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Postdoc
ContactPhone: +49 – 351 / 463-42421 |
Gang Wang
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Postdoc Gang received his PhD degree in physical chemistry from University of Chinese Academy of Sciences in July 2016. Since then he joined Prof. Feng's group as a postdoc. His current research interest focuses on low-dimensional carbon-based novel devices for energy storage applications. ContactPhone: +49 – 351 / 463-40400 |
Lihuan Wang
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Postdoc Lihuan Wang joined in Prof. Feng's group with the focus on synthesis of 2D polymers and their applications in electronics and energy technology since 04/2016. ContactPhone: +49 - 351 / 463-40400 |
Mingchao Wang
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PhD student Mingchao received his master’s degree in October 2016 from Technical University of Dresden. Since November 2016 he joined the Chair of Molecular Functional Materials as a PhD student. ContactPhone: +49 – 351 / 463-40401 |
Xia Wang
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PhD student Xia Wang received her Master's Degree in July 2017 from Tsinghua University, China. Since October 2017 she joined Prof. Feng's group as a PhD student. Her current research topic focuses on the synthesis of novel 2D nanomaterials and their applications in energy storage. ContactPhone: +49 – 351 / 463-40400 |
Zhiyong Wang
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PhD student Zhiyong received his Master degree in July 2017 from Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications. He joined Prof. Feng’s group as a PhD student from September 2017. His current research interests focus on synthesis of 2D polymers and their application in electronics and energy technology. ContactPhone: +49 – 351 / 463-39089 |
Fupeng Wu
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PhD student Fupeng received his Master degree in June 2018 from Soochow University. He joined Prof. Feng’s group as a PhD student in October 2018. His current research interest focuses on development of novel polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons or graphene nanoribbons for organic electronics. ContactPhone: +49 – 351 / 463-39088 |
Shunqi Xu
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Postdoc Shunqi received his Master degree in July 2016 from Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He joined Prof. Feng’s group as a PhD student from September 2016. His current research interests focus on organic synthesis of new two-dimensional materials and their applications in electronics. ContactPhone: +49 – 351 / 463-43325 |
Lin Yang
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PhD student Lin received his master degree in June 2019 from Xi’an Jiaotong University, China. He joined into Prof. Feng’s group as a PhD student from Oct. 2019. His current research topic focuses on the “Bottom-up synthesis and characterization of graphene and 2D conjugated polymers”. ContactPhone: +49 – 351 / 463-32141 |
Ye Yang
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PhD student
ContactPhone: +49 – 351 / 463-39089 |
Minghao Yu
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Research Group Leader Minghao Yu received his Ph.D. degree in Material Physics and Chemistry from Sun Yat-sen University (China) in June 2017. He joined in Prof. Feng’s group as a Postdoc from December 2017. His research focuses on the development of nanostructured materials for application in energy storage and conversion. ContactPhone: +49 – 351 / 463-40410 |
Xiuling Yu
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Postdoc
ContactPhone: +49– 351-463-33991 |
Jianjun Zhang
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PhD student
ContactPhone: +49–351-463-39089 |
Jin-Jiang Zhang
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PhD student Jinjiang received his master’s degree in June 2018 from Xi’an Jiaotong University. Since August 2018, he joined into Feng’s group as a PhD student on the topic of “bottom-up synthesis of graphene nanostructures”. ContactPhone: +49 – 351 / 463-43259 |
Panpan Zhang
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Postdoc Panpan received his Bachelor’s Degree in 2012 and Master’s Degree in 2015 from Beijing University of Chemical Technology, China. His current research interest is the controlled synthesis of novel 2D layered materials for electronic and energy applications. He joined Prof. Feng's group as a PhD student from July 2015 and received his PhD Degree from TU Dresden in September 2019. ContactPhone: +49 – 351 / 463-40415 |
Peng Zhang
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PhD student
ContactPhone: +49 – 351 / 463-42423 |
Zhe Zhang
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PhD sudent
ContactPhone: +49 – 351 / 463-43708 |
Zhen Zhang
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Postdoc Zhen received his Ph.D. degree in Physical Chemistry from Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences (ICCAS) in June 2018. He joined in Prof. Feng’s group as a Postdoc from August 2018. His research focuses on 2D nanomaterials for energy conversion devices. ContactPhone: +49 – 351 / 463-40400 |
Haixia Zhong
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Postdoc Haixia received her Ph.D Degree in inorganic chemistry from Changchun institute of applied chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences in January 2017. She joined Professor Feng's group in July 2017 as postdoc. Her current research interest focuses on 2D metal organic frameworks based materials for energy conversion and storage. ContactPhone: +49-351 / 463-40401 |
COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH CENTRE 1415 / SFB 1415
Doreen Beyer
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SFB/MGK Coordinator
ContactPhone: +49 – 351 / 463-35413 |
Barbara Wallner
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SFB/MGK Secretary
ContactPhone: +49 – 351 / 463-40363 |
EXCHANGE STUDENTS & GUEST RESEARCHER
Students
Tonghai Cui (Master student)