Xinliang Feng

Prof. Feng is a director of the Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics and the head of the Chair of Molecular Functional Materials at Technische Universität Dresden. His current scientific interests include synthetic methodology for new-type of polymers, organic and polymer synthesis, interfacial chemistry, supramolecular chemistry of π-conjugated system, bottom-up synthesis of carbon nanostructures and graphene nanoribbons, organic 2D crystals including 2D (supramolecular) polymers, 2D conjugated polymers and 2D conjugated metal-organic frameworks for opto-electronics, spintronics, molecular quantum and computing devices, electrochemical exfoliation of 2D crystals, graphene and 2D materials for energy storage and conversion, new energy devices and technologies. He is an elected member of the European Academy of Sciences (2019), member of the Academia Europaea (2019), member of the German Academy of Science and Engineering (acatech, 2021), and member of the German Academy of Sciences (Leopoldina, 2024). He is an Advisory Board Member for Advanced Materials, Chemical Science, Journal of Materials Chemistry A, Energy Storage Materials, Chemistry -An Asian Journal, Trends in Chemistry, etc. He is the Head of Graphene Center Dresden, and spokesperson for the DFG Collaborative Research Center for the Chemistry of Synthetic 2D Materials (2020-).