Fang-Cheng LIANG

Dr. Fang-Cheng Liang joined the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the National University of Singapore (NUS) as a Lecturer in 2024. Before joining NUS, he was a Research Assistant Professor at the Research and Development Center for Smart Textile Technology at the National Taipei University of Technology, Taiwan. He earned dual Ph.D. degrees in Organic Chemistry and Polymer Science and Engineering from the University Grenoble Alpes and National Taipei University of Technology in 2019. He is also a member of the Materials Horizons Community Board. His research focuses on sustainable self-healing soft materials, reconfigurable liquid crystal elastomers, and metal particle applications for 3D-printed micro/nanostructures, soft robotics, and wearable electronics. He has authored over 20 peer-reviewed journal articles including Advanced Materials, Advanced Functional Materials, Advanced Science, and Chemical Engineering Journal.

Research Interests

Dr. Fang-Cheng Liang’s research group is an interdisciplinary team dedicated to exploring the synergistic effects between the physical and chemical principles of soft materials and their intrinsic self-healing functions. Our goal is to design and synthesize novel self-healing polymers specifically tailored for soft and wearable electronics.

Selected Publications

1. F.-C. Liang, B.C. K. Tee*, ”Functional Liquid Metal Polymeric Composites: Fundamentals and Applications in Soft Wearable Electronics” Advanced Functional Materials, 2400284 (2024)
2. J.-S. Benas, F.-C. Liang*, M. Venkatesan, Z.-L. Yan, W.-C. Chen, S.-T. Han, Y. Zhou, C.-C. Kuo*, ”Recent Development of Sustainable Self-Healable Electronic Skin Applications, a Review with Insight ”Chemical Engineering Journal, 466, 142945 (2023) (*Corresponding author)
3. F.-C. Liang, F.-C. Jhuang, Y.-H. Fang, J.-S. Benas, W.-C. Chen,Z.-L. Yan, W.-C. Lin, C.-J. Su, Y. Sato, T. Chiba*, J. Kido*, C.-C. Kuo*, ”Synergistic Effect of Cation Composition Engineering of Hybrid Cs_1−xFA_xPbBr₃ Nanocrystals For Self‐Healing Electronics Application” Advanced Materials, 35, 2207617 (2023) (Featured journal cover)
4. J.-S. Benas⁺, F.-C. Liang⁺, W.-C. Chen, C.-W. Hung, J.-Y. Chen, Y. Zhou, S.-T. Han*, R. Borsali*, C.-C. Kuo*,”Lewis Adduct Approach for Self-Assembled Block Copolymer Perovskite Quantum Dots Composite toward Optoelectronic Application: Challenges and Prospects“ Chemical Engineering Journal, 431, 133701 (2022) (⁺equal contribution)
5. C.-.L. He⁺, F.-C. Liang⁺*, L. Veeramuthu, C.-J. Cho, J.-S. Benas, Y.-R. Tzeng, Y.-L. Tseng, W.-C. Chen, ‪A. Rwei, C.-C. Kuo*, ”Super Tough and Spontaneous Water-Assisted Autonomous Self-Healing Elastomer for Underwater Wearable Electronics“ Advanced Science, 8, 2102275 (2021) (⁺equal contribution, *Corresponding author, Featured journal cover)
6. F.-C. Liang, C.-C. Kuo*, B.-Y. Chen, C.-J. Cho, C.-C. Hung, W.-C. Chen, R. Borsali “RGB-Switchable Porous Electrospun Nanofiber Chemosensor-filter Prepared from Multifunctional Copolymers and Their Versatile Sensing for pH and Heavy Metal” ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 9, 16381-16396 (2017)