Yanjun Liu

Yanjun Liu, Associate Professor


Contact

Email: liuyanjun@dhu.edu.cn

Address: State Key Laboratory of Advanced Fiber Materials, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Donghua University, Shanghai, 201620, China.


Brief Bio

Dr. Yanjun Liu received his Ph.D. from Fudan University in 2021. He then joined Donghua University as a postdoctoral researcher and has been an Associate Professor at the College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Donghua University, since April 2025. He has led research grants including the Special Fund (Pre-station) of the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation and the Young Scientists Fund of the National Natural Science Foundation of China. He has published over 20 SCI-indexed papers in journals such as Nature Communications and Advanced Materials, and holds 7 authorized national invention patents.


Grants

  1. National Natural Science Foundation of China (Young Scientists Fund), 2025–2027

  2. China Postdoctoral Science Foundation Special Grant (Pre-station), 2021–2024


Research Interests

Bioinspired smart gel fibers, Multidimensional spectroscopic characterization


Publications

  1. Jialin Zhang, Yanjun Liu, Peiyi Wu. An elastic piezoelectric nanomembrane with double noise reduction for high-quality bandpass acoustics. Nat. Commun.2024, 15, 8920.

  2. Yanjun Liu, Yuanzhu Song, Peiyi Wu*. Self-Evolving Hierarchical Hydrogel Fibers with Circadian Rhythms and Memory Functions. Adv. Mater.2024, 36, 2404506.

  3. Yanjun Liu, Jialin Zhang, Peiyi Wu*. Near-Frictionless Long-Distance Water Transport in Trees Enabled by Hierarchically Helical Molecular Pumps. CCS Chem.2025, 7, 484–492.

  4. Yanjun Liu, Jialin Zhang, Peiyi Wu*. Hierarchically Structured Bioinspired Fibers Shaped by Liquid Droplets. Adv. Funct. Mater.2024, 34, 2311704.

  5. Yanjun Liu, Peiyi Wu*. Chirally Reversed Graphene Oxide Liquid Crystals. Adv. Sci.2020, 7, 2001269.

  6. Yanjun Liu, Peiyi Wu*. Bioinspired Hierarchical Liquid-Metacrystal Fibers for Chiral Optics and Advanced Textiles. Adv. Funct. Mater. 2020, 30, 2002193.

  7. Yan-Jun Liu, Wen-Tao Cao, Ming-Guo Ma, Pengbo Wan. Ultrasensitive Wearable Soft Strain Sensors of Conductive, Self-healing, and Elastic Hydrogels with Synergistic "Soft and Hard" Hybrid Networks. ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces2017, 9, 25559–25570. (Highly cited paper)

  8. Yan-Jun Liu, Lian-Hua Fu, Shan Liu, Ling-Yan Meng, Ya-Yu Li, Ming-Guo Ma*. Synthetic Self-assembled Homogeneous Network Hydrogels with High Mechanical and Recoverable Properties for Tissue Replacement. J. Mater. Chem. B 2016, 4, 4847–4854.