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Prof. Miao graduated from the University of Science and Technology of China with a B.S. in 2000. He received his Ph.D. from Columbia University (United States) in 2005 under the direction of Prof. Colin Nuckolls and was a postdoctoral scholar with Prof. Fred Wudl at University of California, Los Angeles (United States). He joined the Chinese University of Hong Kong as an Assistant Professor in 2006, was promoted to Associate Professor in 2012, and became a Full Professor in 2016. His research interests include the design and synthesis of novel polycyclic aromatic molecules with interesting structures and useful applications, exploring novel molecular nanocarbons and developing high-performance organic semiconductor materials and devices using tools from organic synthesis, and supramolecular and surface chemistry.
Q1: Who helped you the most as you pursued your research career?
Prof. Miao: My mentors, including my doctoral supervisor, Prof. Colin Nuckolls and my postdoctoral supervisor, Prof. Fred Wudl, as well as my Ph.D. thesis committee members, Prof. Thomas Katz and Prof. Ronald Breslow, helped me the most as I pursued my research career. They strongly influenced the interests and style of my research. I am also very grateful to my senior colleagues in the Chinese University of Hong Kong for their advice and help at the early stage of my independent research.
Q2: What are some difficult challenges you have faced during your research career? How did you overcome them?
Prof. Miao: During the first few years of my independent research, I met difficulties in publishing our research in top journals. I persisted in doing research with our own characteristics and explored new opportunities. Eventually, I realized that it took time to persuade editors and reviewers of the significance and novelty of our research.
Q3: Who is(are) scientist(s) you most respect or admire? Why?
Prof. Miao: The scientist that I most admire is Prof. Robert B. Woodward, who is a genius chemist. He shaped the art of organic chemistry by making many key contributions to the structural determination and synthesis of complex natural products, proposing his theories that linked quantum mechanics and organic chemistry, and training many great organic chemists.
Q4: What do you see as the biggest obstacles and most promising applications in your research area?
Prof. Miao: In the field of novel aromatic molecules, the biggest obstacles include the limit of imagination and lack of synthetic tools for efficient and precise synthesis. In the field of organic electronics, the biggest challenge and opportunity are to really commercialize organic electronic devices beyond organic light emitting diodes (OLEDs).
Q5: What advice so you have for younger students and researchers beginning their careers in chemistry, and in particular those interested in your field?
Prof. Miao: Do research with your own characteristics.
Q6: Thank you for publishing your superb work in CCS Chemistry! Could you provide a brief summary of your article and research direction in a few sentences?
Prof. Miao: This article represents our research on precise synthesis of molecular nanocarbons. Nanocarbons that are represented by fullerenes, carbon nanotubes and graphene have physical properties that are closely dependent on the structures. However, precise synthesis of structurally uniform nanocarbons is a grand challenge in carbon nanoscience. We are particularly interested in negatively curved nanographenes and carbon nanobelts. Organic synthesis of negatively curved nanographenes is an important initial step toward the programmable synthesis of theoretical negatively curved carbon allotropes, which may become the next focus of research after positively curved fullerenes and graphene of zero curvature. Carbon nanobelts that consist of a loop of fully fused benzene rings are not only longstanding and challenging targets of organic synthesis, but also can serve as templates or precursors for chirality-specific synthesis of carbon nanotubes in a bottom-up approach.
Learn more: Han Chen, Shaojun Gui, Yiqun Zhang, Zhifeng Liu & Qian Miao*(缪谦). Synthesis of a Hydrogenated Zigzag Carbon Nanobelt. CCS Chemistry, 2020, 2, 613–619.
Link: https://doi.org/10.31635/ccschem.020.202000189
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