Amino Acid-Derived Supramolecular Assembly and Soft Materials

Qingtao Liu is a professor at the National Local Joint Laboratory for Advanced Textile Processing and Clean Production, Wuhan Textile University. After graduating from the College of Chemistry at Jilin University (1998–2002), he studied for a master’s and doctoral degree at the State Key Laboratory of Supramolecular Structures and Materials at Jilin University and obtained a Ph.D. in Polymer Chemistry and Physics (2002–2007). He then joined Shenzhen Mindray Electronic Medical Co., Ltd. to engage in in vitro diagnostic reagent development (2008–2009). In 2010, he began to engage in research on targeted drug delivery, commercial liposome preparations, and biological instant detection devices at the Institute of Pharmacy at Monash University, Australia, until he joined Wuhan Textile University full-time in 2021. He has long been engaged in research on drug delivery, targeted cancer cell therapy, development of commercial anticancer drug preparations, development of commercial biosensors, novel biological detection methods, colloid chemistry, and supramolecular self-assembly of amphiphilic molecules. He has presided over and participated in the cooperative technology R&D and product development projects of many world-renowned companies, including Pfizer, Mindray, Nufarm (ASX: NUF), CSL (ASX: CSL), Universal Biosensors (ASX: UBI), Cancure, etc.

Wen Li is a professor at the School of Chemistry, Jilin University. He received his Ph.D. from Jilin University in 2006. The same year, he became a lecturer at the State Key Laboratory of Supramolecular Structures and Materials, Jilin University. He was promoted to associate professor in 2008 and conducted postdoctoral research at Seoul National University in South Korea from 2010 to 2011. He has been a professor at Jilin University since September 2013. His current research aims at peptidyl assembly, supramolecular soft materials, biomimetic underwater adhesives, antimicrobial agents, flexible electronics, and supercapacitors.