Lin Research Group

Sep. 2026 - Wonderful News! An article, entitled "Efficient and Transferable Machine Learning Potentials for Zn-Coordinated Zeolitic Imidazolate Frameworks through Structural Diversity Sampling and Transfer Learning" was accepted in J. Chem. Theory Comput.

Aug. 2026 - Wonderful news! The PI, Prof. Lin, recently received several awards, including the SCEJ Award for Outstanding Asian Researcher and Engineer form The Society of Chemical Engineers, Japan and The Young Scholars’ Creativity Award from the Foundation for the Advancement of Outstanding Scholarship. He also received the Dissertation Supervisor Award from the College of Engineering at National Taiwan University. He has also been named again as the Yushan Young Scholar (2nd term) by the Ministry of Education in Taiwan.

Aug. 2026- Wonderful News! An article, entitled "Adsorption-Facilitated Alcohol/Water RO Separation  " was accepted for publication in Sep. Purif. Technol.!

July 2026- Wonderful News! An article, entitled "Viscosity and Pore Accessibility Control of Type I Porous Liquids by Modifying Surface Functionality of Metal-Organic Polyhedra" was accepted for publication in J. Am. Chem. Soc.!

July 2026 - Wonderful News! Prof. Lin received the "2025-2026 Outstanding Teaching Award" from the National Taiwan University!

July 2026- Wonderful News! An article, entitled "Critical Role of Interfacial Mass Transfer in MOF Membranes for Gas Separation" was accepted for publication in Energy & Fuels.

June 2026- Wonderful News! An article, entitled "Controlled Secondary Growth of CAU-1-NH₂ Membranes with Improved CO₂ Separation Performance " was accepted for publication in Langmuir.

April 2026- Wonderful News! An article, entitled "Water-Network-Triggered Breakdown: Multiscale Theoretical Insights into PET Hydrolysis under Working Conditions" was accepted for publication in J. Phys. Chem. B.

Mar. 2026- Wonderful News! An article, entitled "Hydrophilicity-Enhanced NH2-MIL-88B(Fe) Integrated Photocatalytic Membrane Reactor for Simultaneous Rejection and Degradation of Low-Density Polyethylene in Water Matrices" was accepted for publication in ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces.

Jan. 2026- Wonderful News! The PI, Li-Chiang Lin, received the "Young Chemist Award" from the Chemical Society of Taiwan (CST)

Jan. 2026- Wonderful News! An article, entitled "Mixed-Linker-Directed Seed-Free Growth of CO2-Selective MOF-303 Membranes" was accepted for publication in Adv. Mater. Technol.

Dec 2025 - Wonderful News! The PI, Li-Chiang Lin, received the "Outstanding Young Scholar Award" from the Materials Research Society - Taiwan (MRS-T)

Dec 2025- Wonderful News! An article, entitled "Integrating Macrostate Probability Distributions with Swing Adsorption Modeling for Binary/Ternary Gas Separation " was accepted in Ind. Eng. Chem. Res.!

Nov 2025- Wonderful News! An article, entitled "Queryable Gaseous Adsorption Properties of Pure Components and Mixtures in Metal-Organic Frameworks " was accepted in Langmuir!

Oct 2025- Wonderful News! An article, entitled "A Master Isotherm Model Approach to Quantify Defects in UiO-66 from Nitrogen Adsorption Isotherms" was accepted in Langmuir!

Aug. 2025 - Wonderful News! An article, entitled "Water Adsorption in Metal-Organic Frameworks: Characteristics, Mechanisms, and Structure-Property Relationships" was accepted for publication in J. Am. Chem. Soc.!

Aug. 2025 - Wonderful News! An article, entitled "Large-scale Investigations of Water Diffusion in Metal-Organic Frameworks with One-Dimensional Channels" was accepted for publication in ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces!

Aug. 2025 - Wonderful News! An article, entitled "Two-Dimensional Conjugated Microporous Polymer Unveiling Three-state Electrochromism and Faradaic Energy-Storage" was accepted for publication in Electrochimica Acta!

July 2025 - Wonderful News! Prof. Lin received the "2024-2025 Outstanding Teaching Award" from the National Taiwan University!

July 2025 - Wonderful News! An article, entitled "Surface Area Determination of Porous Materials: A Weighted-Average BET Approach" was accepted in J. Taiwan Inst. Chem. Eng!

May 2025 - Wonderful News! An article, entitled "Transport Properties of Alcohol/Water Mixtures: Evaluation of Molecular Potentials" was accepted in Journal of Molecular Liquids!

May 2025 - Wonderful News! An article, entitled "Critical Role of Water Adsorption in the Design of Reverse Osmosis Membranes for Simultaneous Boron Removal and Salt Rejection: Insights from Molecular Simulations" was accepted in Separation and Purification Technology!!

April 2025 - Wonderful News! An article, entitled "Atomistic Insights into the Reactive Diffusion of CO2 in Guanidine-Based Facilitated Transport Membranes" was accepted in J. Phys. Chem. C!

Feb. 2025 - Wonderful News! An article, entitled "Exploring the Potential of Metal−Organic Frameworks as Reverse Osmosis Membranes for Water Desalination" was accepted in Chemistry - A Asian Journal!

Feb. 2025 - Wonderful News! An article, entitled "Design of Reverse Osmosis Membranes for Molecular Separation: Size-exclusion vs. Adsorption-facilitation Mechanisms" was accepted in Separation and Purification Technology!!

Jan. 2025 - Wonderful News! Am article, entitled "Evaluating the Activity of Heterogeneous Tertiary Amine Catalysts for Glucose Isomerization to Fructose by Tuning Catalyst, Support, and Reaction Conditions " was accepted in I&EC Research!

Jan. 2025 - Wonderful News! An article, entitled "Metal-Organic Frameworks for H2S Removal: Identification of Optimal Adsorbents and Influence of H2S Molecular Models" was accepted in J. Phys. Chem. C!

Jan. 2025 - Wonderful News! A review article, entitled "Machine Learning for Gas Adsorption in Metal-Organic Frameworks: A Review on Predictive Descriptors " was accepted in I&EC Research!

Jan. 2025 - Wonderful News! The study " Four-State Electrochromism in Tris(4-aminophenyl)amine-terephthalaldehyde-based Covalent Organic Framework" was highlighted as the "back cover" of the published issue.

Nov. 2024 - Wonderful News! An article, entitled "Molecular Dynamics Simulation of Zeolite-Assisted Pyrolysis of Polystyrene: Material Selection and Mechanistic Insights " was accepted in I&EC Research!

Sep. 2024 - Wonderful News! An article, entitled " Kinetic H2S/CO2 Selectivity in an Exceptionally Sterically Hindered Amine Membrane " was accepted in Journal of Materials Chemistry A!

Sep. 2024 - Wonderful News! An article, entitled " Four-State Electrochromism in Tris(4-aminophenyl)amine-terephthalaldehyde-based Covalent Organic Framework" was accepted in Angewandte Chemie!

Aug. 2024 - Wonderful News! Prof. Lin has been promoted to Full Professor, effectively on Aug. 1st 2024.

Aug. 2024 - Wonderful News! Prof. Lin has accepted an appointment as an Editor for Chemical Engineering Journal (Elsevier)

Aug. 2024 - Wonderful News! An article, entitled " Pervaporation Separation of Isopropanol/Water Using Zeolite Nanosheets: a Molecular Simulation Study" was accepted in J. Phys. Chem. B!

Aug. 2024 - Wonderful News! An article, entitled " : Module-based Machine Learning Models Using Sigma Profiles of Organic Linkers to Predict Gaseous Adsorption in Metal-Organic Frameworks" was accepted iin the Journal of the Taiwan Institute of Chemical Engineers

July 2024 - Wonderful News! Ms. Sung (Ph.D. student) and Ms. Shih (M.S. student) both won "Outstanding Poster Award" at the 2024 Metal–Organic Frameworks & Open Framework Materials Conference in Taiwan (MOF Taiwan - 2024)! Congrats!

July 2024 - Wonderful News! Prof. Lin received the "2023-2024 Outstanding Teaching Award" from the National Taiwan University!

July 2024 - Wonderful News! Prof. Lin received the "Outstanding Young Scholar Award" from the Taiwan Theoretical and Computational Molecular Sciences Association (T2CoMSA)!

June 2024 - Wonderful News! Another article, entitled " Tailoring Parameters for QM/MM Simulations: Accurate Modeling of Adsorption and Catalysis in Zirconium-Based Metal-Organic Frameworks" was just also accepted in Phys. Chem. Phys. Chem. !

June 2024 - Wonderful News! An article, entitled " Adsorption-driven Reverse Osmosis Separation of Ethanol/Water Using Zeolite Nanosheets" was accepted in Phys. Chem. Phys. Chem. !

March 2024 - Wonderful News! An article, entitled " Ultrastable ceramic-based metal–organic framework membranes with missing linkers for robust desalination was published in Nature Water!

Feb 2024 - Wonderful News! An article, entitled "A Memory-Rich Conjugated Microporous Polymer-Based Electrochromic Framework Through Two-in-One Metal Catalyst Free Route " was just accepted in Chemical Engineering Journal!!

Dec 2023 - Wonderful News! An article, entitled "In Silico Screening of Metal-organic Frameworks for Water Harvesting" was just formally accepted in J. Phys. Chem. C!

Nov 2023 - Wonderful News! We have quite a few great news to share!

1. An article, entitled "Rational design of reverse osmosis membranes for boron removal: A counter-intuitive relationship between boron rejection and pore size", has just been accepted for publication in Separation and Purification Technology

2. Prof. Lin is again included in the World's Top 2% Scientist List (2023). This is his fourth consecutive year to be included in the list.

Oct 2023 - Wonderful News! We have quite a few great news to share!

1. Five new articles were accepted in ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., Langmuir *2, and J. Phys. Chem. C.
2. Prof. Lin received the Ta-You Wu Memorial Award (吳大猷先生紀念獎) from the National Science and Technology Council.
3. Prof. Lin received the Academic Advancement Award (學術勵進獎) from the Taiwan Institute of Chemical Engineers

August 2023 - Wonderful News! Two more articles were accepted in J. Phys. Chem. C and J. Phys. Chem. A.

June 2023 - Wonderful News! An article, entitled "In Silico Study of Metal-Organic Frameworks for CO2/CO Separation: Molecular Simulations and Machine Learning" was just accepted in J. Phys. Chem. C!

May 2023 - Wonderful News! Prof. Li-Chiang Lin received the PCCP Emerging Investigator Lectureship Award!

Please find the news here:

https://www.rsc.org/journals-books-databases/about-journals/pccp/emerging-investigator-lectureship-award/

https://blogs.rsc.org/cp/2023/04/12/pccp-emi-lectureship-2023/?doing_wp_cron=1683283975.9747231006622314453125

April 2023 - Wonderful News! Three articles (in Angew. Chemie. Int. Ed., Sep. Purif. Technol., and J. Membr. Sci.) with one book chapter (by Wiley for AI in Materials Discovery) were recently published!

December 2022 - Wonderful News! Prof. Li-Chiang Lin recently received two awards:

LCY Education Foundation - Outstanding Young Scholar Award
Taiwan Membrane Society - Young Scholar Award

December 2022 - Wonderful News! FOUR members in our group won awards at the 69th TwIChE Annual meeting for their English Oral Presentation!

I-Ting Sung (Ph.D. student) - Winner
Ting-Yuan Wang (M.S. student) - Winner
Billy (Mao Yuan) Huang (M.S. student) - Honorable Mention
Yi-Ming Wang (M.S. student) - Honorable Mention

Big congratulations to their achievements! Excellent work!

December 2022 - Wonderful News! four more articles have been recently accepted! There will be (are) published in Journal of Membrane Science, Journal of Catalysis, Langmuir, and CrystEngComm!

August 2022 - Wonderful News! A study, entitled "Highly Selective MOF-303 Membrane for Alcohol Dehydration", was accepted in the Journal of Membrane Science and will be published soon!

June 2022 - Wonderful News! A study, entitled "A New Measurement of Amine Steric Hindrance - N Exposure ", was just accepted in Separation and Purification Technology and will be published soon!

June 2022 - Wonderful News! A peer-reviewed Feature Article, entitled "X-Ray Diffraction and Molecular Simulations in the Study of Metal-Organic Frameworks f

May 2022 - Wonderful News! Professor Lin was invited last year by Langmuir to write a "Feature Article" on his study on alkane cracking. The peer-reviewed Feature Article, entitled "Computational Study of Alkane Adsorption in Brønsted-acid Zeolites for More Efficient Alkane Cracking", was just recently accepted and will be published soon!

May 2022 - Great News! A study, entitled "Deep Learning Neural Network Potential for Simulating Gaseous Adsorption in Metal-Organic Frameworks" was accepted for publication in "Materials Advances"! This work demonstrates the use of neutral networks to describe complex adsorbent-adsorbate interactions.

April 2022 - Great News! A collaborative study, entitled "Superhydrophobic Carbon Nanotube Network Membranes for Membrane Distillation: High-throughput Performance and Transport Mechanism" was accepted for publication in "Environmental Science & Technology"!

April 2022 - Great News! We have a book chapter, entitled "Machine-learning-aided Discovery of Nanoporous Materials for Energy- and Environmental-related Applications", was just accepted for publication. It will be published in a book by Wiley. More details will be made available soon.

Feb 2022 - Welcome our first doctoral student, I-Ting, to join the Lin group!

Feb 2022 - Great News! A collaborative study, entitled "Scalable Robust Nano-porous Zr-based MOF adsorbent with High-Capacity for Sustainable Water Purification" was accepted for publication in "Separation and Purification Technology"!

Jan 2022 - Great News! Our study, entitled "Computational Prediction of Water Sorption in Facilitated Transport Membranes " was accepted for publication in "Journal of Physical Chemistry C"!

Jan 2022 - Great News! Our study, entitled "Chemistry-encoded Convolutional Neural Networks for Predicting Gaseous Adsorption in Porous Materials" was accepted for publication in "Journal of Physical Chemistry C"! This is a collaborative work with Dr. Kang and his group at NTU.

Dec 2021 - Great News! Our study, entitled "Robust Ultrathin Nanoporous MOF Membrane with Intra-crystalline Defects for Fast Water Transport" was accepted for publication in Nature Communications!

Dec 2021 - Great News! Our study, entitled "New Sterically Hindered Polyvinylamine-containing Membranes for CO2 Capture from Flue Gas" was accepted for publication in the Journal Membrane Science.

Dec 2021 - Excellent News! Dr. Lin is among the list - Worlds' Top 2% of Scientists by Elsevier.

Dec 2021 - Wonderful News! Andrew Deng (Ohio State University) has successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation. Congrats Dr. Deng!

Nov 2021 - Welcome three 0th year Master students (Yen-Yung, Ming-Yen, and You-Wei) to the Lin group! They join the group now as UG researchers and will proceed for their M.S. degree from AU22.

Nov 2021 - Welcome Min-Hsien to join the Lin group as a post-master full-time researcher assistant!

Sep 2021 - Wonderful News! Our article exploring zeolites for highly selective adsorption of central C-C bonds toward more effective alkane cracking for publication in Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research!

Sep 2021 - Wonderful News! Our article discussing the best simulation practice for water adsorption in porous materials has been accepted for publication in the AIChE Journal! This article will be included in the 2021 AIChE's Futures Issue!

Aug 2021 - Wonderful News! Prof. Lin is named "Yushan Young Scholar" by the Ministry of Education in Taiwan.

Aug 2021 - Wonderful News! Four more articles have been accepted in two days (in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, J. of Membrane Science, and ACS Sustain. Chem. Eng., and J. Phys. Chem. C.).

Aug 2021 - Great News! A collaborative study, entitled "Coulombic effect on permeation of CO2 in metal-organic framework membranes  ", with Prof. Kang (NTU) has been accepted for publication in Journal of Membrane Science!

Aug 2021 - Great News! A collaborative study, entitled "Facile Defect Engineering of Zeolitic Imidazolate Frameworks Towards Enhanced C3H6/C3H8 Separation Performance", with Prof. Lee (Sogang Univ.) and Prof. Kang (NTU) has been accepted for publication in Advanced Functional Materials!

Aug 2021 - Great News! A collaborative study, entitled "Pillared-bilayer metal-organic framework membranes for dehydration of isopropanol", with Prof. Kang (NTU) and Dr. Chen (ITRI) has been accepted for publication in Mesoporous and Microporous Materials!

Aug 2021 - Welcome three 1st year Master students (逸銘,鼎元, and 楙元) to the Lin group!

May 2021 - Prof. Lin was awarded the highest teaching honor at the Ohio State University - "Alumni Award for Distinguished Teaching".

May 2021 - Prof. Lin will start his position as an Associate Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at NTU on Aug. 1st. 2021. Meanwhile, Prof. Lin will be appointed as an Adjunct Associate Professor in the William G. Lowrie Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the Ohio State University.

June 2025- Wonderful News! Prof. Lin received the "2024-2025 Excellence in Teaching Award" from the National Taiwan University!

June 2025 - Wonderful News! An article, entitled "Understanding PET Hydrolysis via Reactive Molecular Dynamics Simulation and Experimental Investigation" was accepted in J. Phys. Chem. B!

June 2025- Wonderful News! Prof. Lin received the "2024-2025 Excellence in Teaching Award" from the National Taiwan University!

June 2025 - Wonderful News! An article, entitled "Understanding PET Hydrolysis via Reactive Molecular Dynamics Simulation and Experimental Investigation" was accepted in J. Phys. Chem. B!