Pro. long-Li Lai | Porous Materials | Best Researcher Award
National Chi Nan University | Taiwan
Dr. Long-Li Lai obtained his Ph.D. degree from the Department of Chemistry at the University of the Witswatersrand, South Africa, under the supervision of D. H. Reid, and subsequently completed postdoctoral research at the Institute of Chemistry, Academia Sinica, before joining the Industrial Technology Research Institute as a researcher and later moving to the Department of Applied Chemistry, National Chi Nan University, where he rose from assistant professor to full professor. His research career has been distinguished by a sustained focus on the design, synthesis, and application of triazine-based macrocycles and dendrimers with porous or mesogenic properties, combining fundamental supramolecular chemistry with advanced material applications. He has authored impactful works including Reversible photoluminescence of an H-bonded organic framework based on macrocyclic triazine in solvation and de-solvation, Adsorbing volatile organic chemicals by soluble triazine-based dendrimers under ambient conditions with the adsorption capacity of pyridine up to 946.2 mg/g, Unconventional approaches to prepare triazine-based liquid crystal dendrimers, Converting non-mesogenic to mesogenic stacking of amino-s-triazine-based dendrons with p-CN phenyl unit by eliminating peripheral dipole, Dendrimers with tetraphenylmethane moiety as a central core: synthesis, a pore study and the adsorption of volatile organic compounds, Introduction of a spiro-linker in triazine-based polymers to enlarge void space and increase IPA adsorbing capacity to 164.7 mg/g at 1000 ppm, Columnar liquid-crystalline triazine-based dendrimer with carbon nanotube filler for efficient organic lithium-ion batteries, and Direct 129Xe-NMR spectroscopy evidence of a mesogenic dendrimer with free void space, among others. His contributions span supramolecular assembly, porous frameworks, volatile organic compound adsorption, dendrimer-based functional materials, and liquid crystalline systems with relevance to photophysics, adsorption science, and electrochemical energy storage. With nearly nine hundred citations across close to ninety scholarly outputs, his body of work highlights both academic depth and applied potential, situating him as a leading figure in the field of functional triazine-based molecular materials and their applications in porous, mesogenic, and electrochemical systems.
Featured Publications:
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[Authors]. (2024). Efficient synthesis of porous triazine-based macrocycles with 22-carbon and 6-nitrogen ring atoms and their adsorption/desorption of non-volatile organic compounds. Chemical Communications.
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[Authors]. (2023). Direct evidence of mesogenic dendrons with free void space by Brunauer–Emmett–Teller (BET) isotherms. Materials Advances.
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[Authors]. (2023). Direct 129Xe-NMR spectroscopy evidence of a mesogenic dendrimer with free void space. Journal of Materials Chemistry C.
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[Authors]. (2022). Columnar liquid-crystalline triazine-based dendrimer with carbon nanotube filler for efficient organic lithium-ion batteries. Electrochimica Acta.
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[Authors]. (2022). Introduction of a spiro-linker in triazine-based polymers to enlarge void space and increase IPA adsorbing capacity to 164.7 mg/g at 1000 ppm. Journal of the Taiwan Institute of Chemical Engineers
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[Authors]. (2022). Dendrimers with tetraphenylmethane moiety as a central core: Synthesis, a pore study and the adsorption of volatile organic compounds. International Journal of Molecular Sciences.
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[Authors]. (2022). Converting non-mesogenic to mesogenic stacking of amino-s-triazine-based dendrons with p-CN phenyl unit by eliminating peripheral dipole. Nanomaterials