The Liu research group at Utah State University focuses on electrochemical energy storage, electrocatalysis, and homogenous catalysis employing earth abundant element based catalysts and materials. We strive to achieve sustainable, economic, and environment-benign energy and chemical transformations and simultaneously address global energy and environment challenges. Our multidisciplinary research embraces inorganic chemistry, organic chemistry, electrochemistry, materials science, and chemical engineering. Our integrated research/education program offers students rich opportunities to develop research skills and enlighten their scientific visions.
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Openings Available (please send applications to Tianbiao Liu, leo.liu@usu.edu)
The Liu group has openings for undergraduate assistants, graduate students, postdoc researchers, and visiting scholars. Motivated students and PhD chemists are welcome to join our research program. See our opening page for details.
The Liu group has openings for undergraduate assistants, graduate students, postdoc researchers, and visiting scholars. Motivated students and PhD chemists are welcome to join our research program. See our opening page for details.
Research Snapshots
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Group Daily
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221214 Wenda's manuscript entitled "A Highly Stable, Capacity Dense Carboxylate Viologen Anolyte towards Long-Duration Energy Storage" was accepted by Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. Congratulations to Wenda and co-authors! [Link]
220826 Maowei's manuscript entitled "Desymmetrization of Viologen Anolytes Empowering Energy Dense, Ultra Stable Flow Batteries Towards Long-Duration Energy Storage" was accepted by Advanced Energy Materials. Congratulations to all coauthors! [Link] 220520 Our recent ACIE entitled "An Energy Dense, Powerful, Robust Bipolar Zinc-Ferrocene Redox Flow Battery" [Link] was highlighted by ChemistryViews, "Robust Zinc‐Ferrocene Redox Flow Battery: Improved electrolyte for aqueous redox flow batteries". [Link] 220506 Our manuscript entitled "An Energy Dense, Powerful, Robust Bipolar Zinc-Ferrocene Redox Flow Battery" was accepted by Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. Congratulations to Jian and co-authors! [Link] 220420 Our manuscript entitled "Mitigating Ring-Opening to Develop Stable TEMPO Catholytes for pH-neutral All-organic Redox Flow Batteries" was accepted by Advanced Functional Materials. Congratulations to all co-authors! 220328 Maowei's manuscript entitled "Cycling Performance and Mechanistic Insights of Ferricyanide Electrolytes in Alkaline Redox Flow Batteries" was deposited into ChemRixv. [Link] Congratulations to Maowei! 220325 Qianshun's invited review entitled "Progress and Prospects of Electrolyte Chemistry of Calcium Batteries" was accepted by Chem. Sci. Congratulations to all co-authors! 220320 Our collaborative work with Lance group entitled "Tailoring Electron Transfer Pathway for Photocatalytic N2-to-NH3 Reduction in a CdS Quantum Dots-Nitrogenase System" was accepted by Solar Energy & Fuels! Congratulations to all co-authors! 220310 Jian's paper entitled "Mechanistic insights of cycling stability of ferrocene catholytes in aqueous redox flow batteries" was published by Energy & Environmental Sciences! [Link]. Congratulations! 220201 Jian's invited perspective entitled "Materials Challenges of Aqueous Redox Flow Batteries" was accepted by MRS Energy & Sustainability! [Link]. Congratulations! We thank for the kind invitation! 220101 Bo's work entitled "A Stable, Low Permeable TEMPO Catholyte for Aqueous Total Organic Redox Flow Batteries" was published in Advanced Energy Materials as our 1st publication in 2022! [Link]. Big congratulations! Look forward to a productive Tiger Year! |