Kecheng Jie
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“A key experience in my education was a visit to Prof. Andrew I. Cooper's group at the University of Liverpool as an exchange PhD student where I started to learn about porous materials and crystal engineering and then got obsessed… The biggest scientific advance of the last decade was artificial intelligence.” Find out more about Kecheng Jie in his Introducing… Profile.
Kecheng Jie
The author presented on this page has published his first article as a submitting corresponding author in Angewandte Chemie:
“Rational Design of Porous Ionic Liquids for Coupling Natural Gas Purification with Waste Gas Conversion”: H. Ning, M. Shi, Q. Yang, J. Huang, X. Xiaomin Zhang, Y. Wu, K. Jie, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2023, 62, e202310741.
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Position, Location:
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Associate Professor, Nanjing University (China)
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Education:
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2008–2012 B.S., Zhejiang University, Hangzhou (China)
2012–2017 PhD with Prof. Feihe Huang, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou (China)
2017–2019 Postdoc with Prof. Sheng Dai, Oak Ridge National Laboratory and University of Tennessee, Knoxville (USA)
2019–2021 Marie Curie Fellow with Prof. Jonathan R. Nitschke, University of Cambridge (UK)
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Research:
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Supramolecular chemistry, porous materials, mechanochemistry, crystal engineering
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Hobbies:
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Cycling, traveling, watching movies/football games, playing guitar, cooking
I chose chemistry as a career because I wanted to be a scientist since I was very young, but later found myself untalented in other subjects such as biology, math, and physics.
A key experience in my education was a visit to Prof. Andrew I. Cooper's group at the University of Liverpool as an exchange PhD student where I started to learn about porous materials and crystal engineering and then got obsessed.
The most exciting thing about my research is that I have the chance to know how subtle changes at the molecular/supramolecular level can produce unexpected properties in a material.
Chemistry / science is fun because there will always be something new coming out to broaden and deepen our cognition.
I am waiting for the day when someone will discover alien life.
The biggest scientific advance of the last decade was artificial intelligence.
Young professors / group leaders / principal investigators are not prepared for applying for sufficient funding to support the growing research group.
The biggest change in my scientific working environment in the past 10 years has been moving from the fume hood to an office.
I recharge my batteries by having a sound sleep on the weekend.
In a spare hour, I would like to watch a Stephen Chow movie or Leo Messi's video highlights.
My biggest motivation is curiosity about the unknown.
Guaranteed to make me laugh is watching an episode of Tom and Jerry.
My favorite time of day is the moment before falling asleep because I can think about some tough problems and hope to get an inspiration in a dream.
My favorite piece of research is always the next one. You will never know what will surprise you in the coming future.
My favorite saying is: “Where there is a will there is a way.”
Behind the Science
Our initial aim was to verify whether porous liquids are suitable adsorbents for ternary gas separation. The talented PhD student Hailong came up with the synthetic strategy of using porous liquids for H2S and CO2 removal from natural gas. We never expected that the H2S selectivity within our PL system could be so high. However, breakthrough experiments were difficult to perform due to the lack of such facilities in our lab. Thanks to Prof. Kuan Huang from Fuzhou University, we were able to achieve the adsorptive separation of a ternary gas mixture for the first time using porous liquids.
