Professor
Room 361 Science Centre
(852) 3943 8127
miaoqian@cuhk.edu.hk
Miao Research Group
Education
| 2005 | Ph.D. | Columbia University |
| 2004 | M.Ph. | Columbia University |
| 2000 | B.Sc. | University of Science and Technology of China |
Position
| Since 2019 | Outstanding Fellow of the Faculty of Science, The Chinese University of Hong Kong |
| Since 2016 | Professor, Department of Chemistry, The Chinese University of Hong Kong |
| 2012 to 2016 | Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, The Chinese University of Hong Kong |
| 2006 to 2012 | Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, The Chinese University of Hong Kong |
| 2005 to 2006 | Postdoctoral Scholar, Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, University of California, Los Angeles |
Honours and Awards
| 2018 | Croucher Senior Research Fellowship, Croucher Foundation |
| 2017 | Research Excellence Award, The Chinese University of Hong Kong |
| 2012 | Young Researcher Award 2011, The Chinese University of Hong Kong |
| 2008 | Science Faculty Exemplary Teaching Award 2007, The Chinese University of Hong Kong |
| 2005 | The Hammet Award, by the Department of Chemistry, Columbia University |
Research Interests
| Design and synthesis of novel polycyclic aromatic molecules with interesting structures and useful applications, and development of high-performance organic semiconductor materials and devices using tools from organic synthesis, supramolecular chemistry and surface chemistry. |
Representative Publications
| 1. | “Synthesis of Armchair and Chiral Carbon Nanobelts”, Cheung, K. Y.; Gui, S.; Deng, C.; Liang, H.; Xia, Z.; Liu, Z.; Chi, L.*; Miao, Q.* Chem, 2019, 5, 838–847. |
| 2. | “A Dipleiadiene-Embedded Aromatic Saddle Consisting of 86 Carbon Atoms”, Pun, S. H.; Chan, C. K.; Luo, J.; Liu, Z.; Miao, Q.* Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2018, 57, 1851–1856. |
| 3. | “Halogenated Tetraazapentacenes with Electron Mobility as High as 27.8 cm2 V−1 s−1 in Solution-Processed N-channel Organic Thin Film Transistors”, Chu, M.; Fan, J.-X.; Yang, S.; Liu, D.; Ng, C. F.; Dong, H.; Ren, A.-M.*; Miao, Q.* Advanced Materials, 2018 , 30, 1803467 |
| 4. | “A Twisted Nanographene Consisting of 96 Carbon Atoms”, Cheung, K. Y.; Chan, C. K.; Liu, Z.; Miao, Q.* Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2017, 56, 9003–9007 |
| 5. | “Electron Mobility Exceeding 10 cm2V−1s−1 and Band-like Charge Transport in Solution-processed N-channel Organic Thin Film Transistors”, Xu, X.; Yao, Y.; Shan, B.; Gu, X.; Liu, D.; Liu, J.; Xu, J.; Zhao, N.; Hu, W.; Miao, Q.*, Advanced Materials, 2016 , 28, 5276–5283. |
| 6. | “Aromatic Saddles Containing Two Heptagons”, Cheung, K. Y.; Xu, X.; Miao, Q.* Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2015, 137, 3910–3914. |
| 7. | “Self-Assembled Monolayers of Cyclohexyl-Terminated Phosphonic Acids as a General Dielectric Surface for High-Performance Organic Thin-Film Transistors”, Liu, D.; He, Z.; Su, Y.; Diao, Y.; Mannsfeld, S. C. B.; Bao, Z.; Xu, J. Miao, Q.* Advanced Materials, 2014, 26, 7190–7196. |
| 8. | “Heptagon-Embedded Pentacene: Synthesis, Structures and Thin Film Transistors of Dibenzo[d,d’]benzo[1,2-a:4,5-a’]dicycloheptenes”, Yang, X.; Liu, D.; Miao, Q.* ,Angewandte Chemie International Edition,, 2014, ,53,, 6786–6790. |
| 9. | “Curved Polycyclic Aromatic Molecules that Are π-Isoelectronic to Hexabenzocoronene” Luo, J.; Xu, X.; Mao, R. Miao, Q.* Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2012, 134, 13796–13803. |
| 10. | “Soluble and Stable N-Heteropentacenes with High Field Effect Mobility” Liang, Z.; Tang, Q.; Xu, J.; Miao, Q.* Advanced Materials, 2011, 23, 1535–1539. |