05-19-2025: Welcome Angus Rhoton from Hillsborough Community College
to join us group as a REU student

05-07-2025: Congratulations to Alexander Mariscal for his paper published in Chem. Eur. J. 

03-23-2025: Our group received a New Researcher Grant!

03-13-2025: Congratulations to our undergraduate Quy Tran for being nominated for the Outstanding Biomedical Science award

1-09-2025: Congratulations to Dr. Canjia Zhai and Alexander Mariscal for their review paper published in Trends in Chemistry and selected as front cover

12-03-2025: Dr. Liu has been selected as an awardee for CAS-ORS Conference Presenter Support Program.

11-11-2024: Congratulations to Dr. Canjia Zhai for her glucose binding work accepted in Chemical Science

09-12-2024: Congratulations to Chengkai Xu for his anion binding work in Chemical Science

07-10-2024: Our group received the first federal funding from the NSF Early Career Award! This funding supports our research on molecular recognition in water via hydrogen bonds. Grateful for NSF's support. Exciting discoveries in supramolecular chemistry await over the next five years—stay tuned!

05-22-2023: Congratulations to Chengkai Xu and Quy Tran. Our lithium receptor paper is accepted in J. Mater. Chem. A.

03-13-2023: Congratulations to Dr. Canjia Zhai. The first paper from our group is accepted in Chem. Eur. J.

04-08-2022: Our group received a New Researcher Grant!

08-09-2021: Dr. Liu officially joined the department of chemistry at the University of South Florida