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. Since 2021 he is the Director of the Department of Synthetic Materials and Functional Devices at the Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics. Academic Employment
Research InterestsHis current scientific interests include synthetic methodology for new-type of polymers, organic and polymer synthesis, interfacial chemistry, supramolecular chemistry of π-conjugated system, bottom-up synthesis of carbon nanostructures and graphene nanoribbons, 2D polymers and supramolecular polymers, 2D carbon-rich conjugated polymers for opto-electronics and spintronics, electrochemical exfoliation of 2D crystals, graphene and 2D materials for energy storage and conversion, new energy devices and technologies. Scientific Achievements & RecognitionHe has published more than 649 research articles which have attracted more than 85,885 citations with H-index of 145 (Web of Science) (Google Scholar Citations: 102,759 citations, H-index ≥159).
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Administrative Staff
Sabine Strecker
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Secretary of Prof. Xinliang Feng 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 of Prof. Xinliang Feng
ContactPhone: +49 351 / 463-40417 Office: Hempel Building, Mommsenstraße 4, room HEM 217 a |
Project Manager
Zsolt Tóvári
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Project Manager (Max-Planck-Institut für Mikrostrukturphysik, Halle) ContactPhone: +49–351-463-40405 |
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 |
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
Dr. Florian Auras
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Research Group Leader
ContactPhone: +49–351-463-41233 |
Ahmad Bagheri
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PhD student
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Boris S. Borisov
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PhD student
ContactPhone: +49–351-463-32141 |
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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Postdoc
ContactPhone: +49–351-463-39087 |
Yunxu Chen
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Postdoc
ContactPhone: +49–351-463- |
Xingyuan Chu
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PhD student
ContactPhone: +49–351-463-xxxxx |
Prof. Dr. 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 |
Jie Du
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Joint PhD student
ContactPhone: +49–351-463-40400 |
Jingwei Du
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PhD student
ContactPhone: +49–351-463-40400 |
Shiyi Feng
PhD student
ContactPhone: +49–351-463-33858 |
Shuai Fu
Postdoc
ContactPhone: +49–351-463-40671 |
Yubin Fu
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Postdoc
ContactPhone: +49 – 351 / 463-43259 |
Víctor García López
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Postdoc
ContactPhone: +49–351-463-41236 |
Shaik Ghouse
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PhD student
ContactPhone: +49–351-463-33802 |
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 |
Quanquan Guo
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PhD student
ContactPhone: +49–351-463-40400 |
Chen Hu
Postdoc
ContactPhone: +49–351-463-xxxxx |
Chuanhui Huang
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Postdoc
ContactPhone: +49 – 351 / 463-33858 |
Qiang Huang
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Postdoc
ContactPhone: +49–351-463-43259 |
Xing Huang
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Postdoc
ContactPhone: +49 – 351 / 463-33858 |
Muhammad Imran
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Humboldt Postdoc
ContactPhone: +49–351-463-33858 |
Kamil Jastrzembski
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PhD student
ContactPhone: +49 – 351 / 463-32141 |
Saman Khosravi
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Postdoc
ContactPhone: +49–351-463-43255 |
Philomène Leonore Koko
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PhD student
ContactPhone: +49–351-463-33802 |
Tianshu Lan
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PhD student
ContactPhone: +49–351-463-xxxxx |
Paul-Alexander Laval-Schmidt
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PhD student
ContactPhone: +49–351-463-xxxxx |
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 |
Xiaodong Li
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Postdoc
ContactPhone: +49-351-463-42177 |
Guoqin Liu
PhD student
ContactPhone: +49-351-463-33802 |
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 |
Xiaohui Liu
PhD student
ContactPhone: +49–351-463-xxxxx |
Yamei Liu
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PhD student
ContactPhone: +49–351-463-33802 |
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 |
Alina Müller
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PhD student
ContactPhone: +49-351-463-xxxxx |
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 |
Wenhui Niu
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Postdoc ContactPhone: +49-351-463-43259 |
Sebastian Obermann
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PhD student ContactPhone: +49 - 351 -463-32141 |
Anupam Prasoon
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PhD student
ContactPhone: +49-351-463-39089 |
Zhenlin Qiu
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Postdoc
ContactPhone: +49-351-463-43259 |
Jamal Rahimi
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Visiting PhD student
ContactPhone: +49-351-463-33802 |
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 |
Lukas Sporrer
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PhD student
ContactPhone: +49 – 351 / 463-32141 |
Kevin Synnatschke
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Postdoc
ContactPhone: +49–351-463-40415 |
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 |
Albrecht Wäntig
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PhD student
ContactPhone: +49 – 351 / 463-33802 |
Chenchen Wang
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Postdoc
ContactPhone: +49–351-463-39403 |
Dongxu Wang
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PhD student
ContactPhone: +49–351-463-xxxxx |
Jing Wang
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PhD Student
ContactPhone: +49–351-463-xxxxx |
Mingchao Wang
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Research Group Leader
ContactPhone: +49–351-463-40401 |
Zhiyong Wang
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Research Group Leader
ContactPhone: +49–351-463-39089 |
Fupeng Wu
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Postdoc
ContactPhone: +49–351-463-39088 |
Xingaoyuan Xiong
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PhD student
ContactPhone: +49–351-463-33858 |
Hao Xu
PhD student
ContactPhone: +49–351-463-39532 |
Hyejung Yang
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PhD student
ContactPhone: +49–351-463-40415 |
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 |
Xusheng Yang
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PhD student
ContactPhone: +49–351-463-41236 |
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 |
Geping Zhang
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Postdoc
ContactPhone: +49–351-463-39089 |
Jianjun Zhang
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PhD student
ContactPhone: +49–351-463-39089 |
Jiaxu Zhang
PhD student
ContactPhone: +49–351-463-xxxxx |
Jin-Jiang Zhang
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Postdoc
ContactPhone: +49–351-463-43259 |
Peng Zhang
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PhD student
ContactPhone: +49 – 351 / 463-42423 |
Weidan Zhang
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PhD sudent
ContactPhone: +49–351-463-39088 |
Zhe Zhang
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PhD sudent
ContactPhone: +49 – 351 / 463-43708 |
Ruyan Zhao
Postdoc
ContactPhone: +49–351-463-43986 |
COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH CENTRE 1415 / SFB 1415
Doreen Beyer
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SFB/MGK Coordinator
ContactPhone: +49 – 351 / 463-35413 |
Sophie Neubert
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SFB Secretary
ContactPhone: +49–351-463-40363 |
GUEST ADVISORY PROFESSOR
Prof. Dr. Klaus Müllen
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VISITING PROFESSOR
Prof. Jong-Beom Baek (Mercator Fellow at TU Dresden)
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Department of Energy and Chemical Engineering/Center for Dimension-Controllable Organic Frameworks, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), South Korea
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VISITING SCIENTISTS
Dr. Li Wan
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Max-Planck-Institut für Mikrostrukturphysik, Halle
ContactEmail: (at) mailbox.tu-dresden.de |
Dr. Martin R. Lohe
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Industry Project Coordinator ContactE-Mail: martin.lohe (at) tu-dresden.de |