Feng Research Group
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Liang Feng
Assistant Professor / Presidential Young Professor
Department of Materials Science Engineering
National University of Singapore
EA #03-09, 9 Engineering Drive 1, Singapore 117575
Citations: 12,085 H-index: 48
Selected Awards and Honors
Presidential Young Professorship | National University of Singapore
Outstanding Young Former Student | Texas A&M College of Arts & Sciences
DOE Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) Early-Career Award (IGNIITE 2024)
Scialog Fellow in Negative Emissions Science | Research Corporation for Science Advancement
American Chemical Society’s First Sustainability Star, featured by C&EN
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Scialog Collaborative Innovation Award
Bezos Earth Fund Greenhouse Gas Removal Ideation Prize
Duke Trailblazer by Duke University Pratt School of Engineering
Innovators Under 35 of China | MIT Technology Review
Early Career Network Representative | U.S. Department of Energy, Basic Energy Sciences
IAS Award for Excellence in Publications by a Young Member | International Adsorption Society
MRS Postdoctoral Award | Materials Research Society
MRS Graduate Student Award | Materials Research Society
World Laureates Forum Young Investigator | World Laureates Association
PMSE Future Faculty Scholar | ACS Division of Polymeric Materials: Science and Engineering
CAS Future Leader | ACS Division of Chemical Abstracts Service
Foresight Fellowship | Foresight Institute
Distinguished Student Award in Nanotechnology | Foresight Institute
Rising Star in Soft and Biological Matter | UChicago MRSEC
12 Under 12 Young Alumni Spotlight | Association of Former Students (AFS), Texas A&M University
Distinguished Graduate Student Award for Excellence in Research | AFS, Texas A&M University
About Liang
Liang Feng joined the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the National University of Singapore as an Assistant Professor / Presidential Young Professor in 2026. He received his Ph.D. in 2020 from Texas A&M University, where he studied hierarchical porous materials (metal–organic frameworks and porous polymers) for carbon capture, gas separation, and catalysis. From 2020–2023, he was a postdoctoral researcher and Foresight Fellow at Northwestern University with Prof. Fraser Stoddart (2016 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry), pioneering non-equilibrium materials for energy applications. During this period, he discovered the first fundamentally new adsorption mechanism since the 1930s, opening new directions for methane and hydrogen storage, carbon capture, and water remediation in active systems. He was an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science at Duke University from 2023–2025.
Feng has published 66 high-impact papers, including in Science, Nature, Nature Chemistry, Nature Protocols, Nature Reviews, and JACS, with an h-index of 41 and over 10,000 citations. His recent recognitions linked to his independent program include an ARPA-E/DOE Early-Career IGNIITE Award (2024), ACS’s first Sustainability Star (C&EN feature), a Sloan Foundation Scialog Collaborative Innovation Award, an ACS Green Chemistry Institute grant for greener peptide synthesis, and a Bezos Earth Fund Greenhouse Gas Removal Ideation Prize. He has also been honored as a Forbes 30 Under 30 honoree, MIT Technology Review Innovator Under 35 (China), International Adsorption Society Young Researcher Awardee, MRS postdoctoral and graduate Awardees, ACS PMSE Future Faculty Scholar, and ACS COLL Victor K. LaMer Award finalist. His leadership and community engagement are reflected in roles such as DOE Early Career Network Representative, CAS Future Leader, ACS Younger Chemist Leadership Development Awardee, and co-organizer of career initiatives in energy science.
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Email: liangfeng@nus.edu.sg