Zhe Liu

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..

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..

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..

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

Ab initio prediction of phase stability of martensitic structures in binary NiTi under hydrostatic tension

S Bakhtiari, JZ Liu, BS Shariat, Y Liu, H Yang

Journal article  |  2020  |  Physica Scripta

Near-equiatomic NiTi is known to exhibit multiple martensitic allotropes, including B19′, B19″ and base-centred orthorhombic (BCO)..