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Tianbiao Liu (Leo) 刘天骠(湖北恩施人)                                                           
Associate Professor                                                              

​Email: leo.liu@usu.edu 
Office: Maeser 361
Office Phone: 435-7972267
Fax: 435-7973390
0300 Old Main Hill, Logan, UT, 84322



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Professional Experience
  • 2021-present, Associate Professor, Utah State University
  • 2015-2021, Assistant Professor, Utah State University
  • 2013-2015, Staff Scientist, Division of Energy and Materials Process, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
  • 2009-2013, Postdoc Associate, Center for Molecule Electrocatalysis (DOE EFRC), Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (Dr. Daniel DuBois and Dr. R. Morris Bullock) 

Education
  • Ph.D., 2009, Texas A&M University (Professor Marcetta Y. Darensbourg, NAS member)
  • M.S., 2004, Dalian University of Technology, China (Professor Licheng Sun and Professor Mei Wang)
  • B.S., 2000, Hubei University of Technology, China​

Honors and Awards
  • 2021 Utah ACS Outstanding Graduate Educator Award
  • 2020-2021 Scialog Fellow on Negative Emission Sciences selected by Research Corporation on Science Advancement
  • 2019 National Science Foundation Career Award
  • 2019 Utah Innovation Award Finalist (runner-up) on Clean Energy
  • 2019 Scialog Innovative Award selected by Sloan Foundation and Research Corporation on Science Advancement
  • ​2019 USU Research Catalyst Award
  • 2019 USU Nominee on Physical Sciences for the 2019 Blavatnik National Awards.
  • 2018 Chemical Communications Emerging Investigator selected by the Royal Chemical Society
  • 2018 Innovative Challenge Award selected by 2018 Defense TechConnect Summit. 
  • 2017 Utah Energy Research Triangle Faculty Award
  • 2017-2019 Scialog Fellow on Advanced Energy Storage selected by Research Corporation on Science Advancement
  • USTAR UTAG Research Award, 2016-2017.
  • USTAR Research Award, 2015-2016.
  • Two PNNL Lab Technique Development Research Grants, 2014-2015.
  • Co-recipient of the 2015 ACS Catalysis Lectureship for the Advancement of Catalytic Science, awarded to the PNNL hydrogen catalysis team (link), selected by the American Chemical Society.
  • PNNL Lab Directed Research and Development (LDRD) research award, 2012 to 2014.
  • George Bush Presidential Library Research Award, TAMU, 2009. 
  • DIC (Division of Inorganic Chemistry) Student Travel Award, the American Chemical Society, 2009. 
  • Martin Corera Award, TAMU, 2008.
  • Robert A. Welch Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship, TAMU, 2005-2009.
  • Distinguished Research Graduate Award, Dalian University of Technology, 2004
  • Yufen Hou Award, the State Key Laboratory of Fine Chemicals, Dalian University of Technology, 2004.

​Professional Activities and Services
  • Invited reviewers for scientific journals: Science, Nature Materials, Nature Energy, Nature Catalysis, Nature Communications, J. Amer. Chem. Soc., ACS Energy Letters, ACS Central Science, ACS Catalysis, Energy Environ. Sci., Chem, Joule, etc. 
  • Board member of the Molecular Foundry Proposal Committee at Larence Berkely National Laboratory. 
  • Invited reviewers for DOE (BES and ARPA-E programs), NSF (panelist), and ACS PRF proposals
  • Co-initiated annual Utah Energy Symposium (UES) in Spring 2017 among Utah State University (USU), University of Utah (UU), and Brigham Young University
  • Session chair on redox flow batteries at the 1st International Coalition for Energy Storage and Innovation (ICESI)​
  • Chair for 2018 TSRC Workshop on “Molecular Chemistry in Energy Storage”
  • Session chair for 2018 Spring MRS Symposium on “Redox Flow Batteries”
  • Session chair for 2018 Spring TMS Symposium on “Electrochemical Energy Storage”
  • Chair for 2019 Spring MRS Symposium on “Organic Materials in Electrochemical Energy Storage”
  • ACS, ECS, and MRS membership

Selected Publications
  • Faculty at USU
15. Hu, B.; Liu, T. L.* "Tanking Up Energy Through Atypical Charging", Science. 2021, 6544, 788-789.​ [Link]
14. Luo, L.; Hu, B.; Wu, W.; Hu, M.; Liu, T. L.* "Ni-Catalyzed Electrochemical C(sp2)−C(sp3) Cross-Coupling Reactions of Benzyl Trifluoroborate and Organic Halide", Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2021, 60, 2-12. [Link]
​13. Hu, Bo., Hu. M., Seefeldt L.; Liu, T. L.*; "Electrochemical Nitrogen Reduction to Ammonia by Mo2N: Catalysis or Decomposition?" ACS Energy Letters, 2019, 4, 1053-1054. [Link]
12. Luo, J. (co-1st author); Bi, Y. (co-1st author); Zhang, L.; Zhang, X.; Liu, T. L.* "A Stable, Non-corrosive Perfluorinated Pinacolatoborate Mg Electrolyte for Rechargeable Mg Batteries", Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2019, 58, 6967-6971. [Link]
11. Luo, J. (co-1st author); Hu, B. (co-1st author); DeBruler C.  Zhao, Y., Yuan B. Hu, M. Wu, W. Liu, T. L.* "Unprecedented Capacity and Stability of Ammonium Ferrocyanide Catholyte in pH Neutral Aqueous Redox Flow Batteries", Joule, 2019, 4, 1-15. ​ [Link]
10. DeBruler C.; Hu, B.; Moss, J.; Liu, X. Luo, J.; Sun, Y; Liu, T. L.* "Designer Two Electron Storage Viologen Anolyte Materials for Aqueous Organic Redox Flow Batteries", Chem, 2017, 3, 961-978. [Link]
9. Luo, J.; Sam, A.; Hu, B.; DeBruler C. Liu, T. L.* "Unraveling pH Dependent Cycling Stability of Ferricyanide   / Ferrocyanide in Redox Flow Batteries", Nano Enegry, 2017, 42, 215-221. [Link]
8. Luo, J; .He, S.; Liu, T. L.* "Ternary Mg/MgCl2/AlCl3 Inorganic Mg2+ Electrolytes with Unprecedented Electrochemical Performance for Reversible Mg Deposition", ACS Energy Letters 2017, 2, 1197-1202.  ​[Link]
7. Hu, B.; DeBruler C., Rhodes, Z.; Liu, T. L.* "A Long Cycling Aqueous Organic Redox Flow Battiery (AORFB) for Sustainable and Safe Energy Storage", J. Amer. Chem. Soc., 2017, 139, 1207. [Link]

  • Scientist at PNNL
6. Liu, T.*; Wang, X.; Hoffmann, C.; DuBois, D. L.; Bullock, R. M. “Heterolytic Cleavage of Hydrogen by an Iron Hydrogenase Model: An Fe-H···H-N Dihydrogen Bond Characterized by Neutron Diffraction”, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2014, 53, 5300-5304.(Scientist at PNNL) [Link]
5. Liu, T.*; Shao, Y.; Li, G.; Gu, M.; Hu, J.; Xu, S.; Nie, Z.; Chen, X.; Wang, C.; Liu, J. “A facile approach using MgCl2 to formulate high performance Mg2+ electrolytes for rechargeable Mg batteries”, J. Mater. Chem. A 2014, 2, 3430-3438. [Link]

  • Postdoc at PNNL
4. Liu, T.; DuBois D. L. and Bullock, R. M. “An iron complex with pendant amines as a molecular electrocatalyst for oxidation of hydrogen”, Nature Chemistry, 2013, 5, 228-233. [Link]
3. Liu, T.; Chen, S.; O'Hagan, M. J.; DuBois, M. R.; Bullock, R. M.; and DuBois D. L. “Synthesis, Characterization and Reactivities of Half-sandwich Fe Complexes Containing Cyclic Diazadiphosphine Ligands: The Role of the Pendant Base in Heterolytic Cleavage of H2”, J. Amer. Chem. Soc. 2012, 134, 6257-6272. 
(Postdoc at PNNL) [Link] 

  • PhD at TAMU
2. Liu, T.; Li, B.; M. Singleton, M.; Hall, M. B.; Darensbourg, M. Y., “Sulfur Oxygenation of [FeFe] Hydrogenase Biomimetics: Possible Connection to Air Sensitivity of the Enzyme” J. Amer. Chem. Soc., 2009, 131, 8296-8307. [Link]
1. Liu, T.; Darensbourg, M. Y., “A Mixed Valent, Fe(II)Fe(I), Diiron Complex Reproduces the Unique Rotated State of the [FeFe]Hydrogenase Active Site”, J. Amer. Chem. Soc. 2007, 129, 7008-7009. [Link]
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Utah State University
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