Dr.
De-Liang Long
Deputy Group Leader
Senior Group Member
Deliang Long is a Senior Research Fellow and the deputy leader of the Cronin group. He has over 30 years research experience in a number of top research institutions, i.e. Wuhan University, Nanjing University, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nottingham University and Glasgow University. His current role in Glasgow University is to provide scientific leadership, especially in the highly demanding and specialist structural, synthetic and analytical research, to the Cronin group team that allows the group to perform research across such a large number of areas at the cutting edge. He leads research projects ranging from inorganic synthesis to coordination chemistry, optical nonlinearity materials, chemical topology and chemical crystallography. His recent research includes molecular metal oxide (polyoxometalates) synthesis, mass spectrometry, application of chemical crystallography and electron transfer, in connection with which many fundamental new structure types of polyoxometalates have been discovered, for example, the families of {M18O54(XO3)2} and {M18O56(XO6)} (M = Mo or W) with redox active templates XO3 (X = SIV, SeIV and PIII) and XO6 (X = WVI, TeVI and IVII) etc. He organises and runs the x-ray crystallography work which takes great challenges in resolving molecular and supramolecular structures of protein-sized inorganic clusters such as Molybdeum Blue {Mo186} and polyoxotungstate {W200}. He has published over 230 papers which have been cited about 10,000 times (H index = 51) including papers on top journals Science, Nature and Nature group, Angew. Chem., and JACS. He has given over 40 invited lectures in international conferences, universities and research institutes, leads a number of international collaborations, and was a guest-editor on a special issue of Dalton in 2012.