Zhe Liu

Ultrafast water evaporation through graphene membranes with subnanometer pores for desalination

Xiaofang Chen, Yin-Bo Zhu, Hao Yu, Jefferson Zhe Liu, Christopher D Easton, Zhouyou Wang, Yaoxin Hu, Zongli Xie, Heng-An Wu, Xiwang Zhang, Dan Li, Huanting Wang

Journal article  |  2021  |  Journal of Membrane Science

Universal Approach to Fabricating Graphene-Supported Single-Atom Catalysts from Doped ZnO Solid Solutions

J Meng, J Li, J Liu, X Zhang, G Jiang, L Ma, ZY Hu, S Xi, Y Zhao, M Yan, P Wang, X Liu, Q Li, JZ Liu, T Wu, L Mai

Journal article  |  2020  |  ACS Central Science

Single-atom catalysts (SACs) have attracted widespread interest for many catalytic applications because of their distinguishing pr..

The Role of Nanowrinkles in Mass Transport across Graphene-Based Membranes

Yuan Kang, Ruosang Qiu, Meipeng Jian, Peiyao Wang, Yun Xia, Benyamin Motevalli, Wang Zhao, Zhiming Tian, Jefferson Zhe Liu, Huanting Wang, Huiyuan Liu, Xiwang Zhang

Journal article  |  2020  |  Advanced Functional Materials

Laminar membranes stacked by 2D materials are an emerging selective unit in separating processes across disciplines for their cont..

Electrolyte gating in graphene-based supercapacitors and its use for probing nanoconfined charging dynamics

Jing Xiao, Hualin Zhan, Xiao Wang, Zai-Quan Xu, Zhiyuan Xiong, Ke Zhang, George P Simon, Jefferson Zhe Liu, Dan Li

Journal article  |  2020  |  Nature Nanotechnology

Graphene-based nanoporous materials have been extensively explored as high-capacity ion electrosorption electrodes for supercapaci..

Lead-free molecular ferroelectric [N,N-dimethylimidazole]3Bi2I9 with narrow bandgap

W Yang, KB Chu, L Zhang, X Ding, J Sun, JZ Liu, JL Song, C Zheng, J Deng

Journal article  |  2020  |  Materials and Design

Lead-based organic-inorganic hybrid perovskite materials are widely applied in solar cells due to their excellent optoelectronic p..

Efficient metal ion sieving in rectifying subnanochannels enabled by metal-organic frameworks

Jun Lu, Huacheng Zhang, Jue Hou, Xingya Li, Xiaoyi Hu, Yaoxin Hu, Christopher D Easton, Qinye Li, Chenghua Sun, Aaron W Thornton, Matthew R Hill, Xiwang Zhang, Gengping Jiang, Jefferson Zhe Liu, Anita J Hill, Benny D Freeman, Lei Jiang, Huanting Wang

Journal article  |  2020  |  Nature Materials

Biological ion channels have remarkable ion selectivity, permeability and rectification properties, but it is challenging to devel..

Charge doping induced reversible multistep structural phase transitions and electromechanical actuation in two-dimensional 1T'-MoS2.

Kaiyun Chen, Junkai Deng, Qian Shi, Xiangdong Ding, Jun Sun, Sen Yang, Jefferson Zhe Liu

Journal article  |  2020  |  Nanoscale

The 1T' phase of transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) is a low symmetry charge density wave (CDW) phase, which can be viewed as..

Thermodynamic, Structural, and Piezoelectric Properties of Adatom-Doped Phosphorene and Its Applications in Smart Surfaces

Lou Li, Huiying Cao, Bo Xu, Junkai Deng, Jingran Liu, Yilun Liu, Xiangdong Ding, Jun Sun, Jefferson Zhe Liu

Journal article  |  2020  |  Physical Review Applied

Engineering the surface morphology is an effective way to obtain specific functionalities in applications of smart surfaces. Devel..

Solvation-Involved Nanoionics: New Opportunities from 2D Nanomaterial Laminar Membranes.

Hualin Zhan, Zhiyuan Xiong, Chi Cheng, Qinghua Liang, Jefferson Zhe Liu, Dan Li

Journal article  |  2020  |  Advanced Materials

Nanoporous laminar membranes composed of multilayered 2D nanomaterials (2D-NLMs) are increasingly being exploited as a unique mate..

Separation of CO2 and CH4 by Pressure Swing Adsorption Using a Molecular Trapdoor Chabazite Adsorbent for Natural Gas Purification

Jin Shang, Aamir Hanif, Gang Li, Gongkui Xiao, Jefferson Zhe Liu, Penny Xiao, Paul A Webley

Journal article  |  2020  |  Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research