WORKING EXPERIENCE:
2020/07-present: Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, CAS, Professor
2017/04-2020/06: Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, CAS, Associate Professor
2013/11-2017/03: UESTC, Chengdu, China, Associate Professor
2012/07-2013/10: Sichuan University, Assistant Professor
EDUCATION BACKGROUND:
2007/09-2012/06: Beihang University, Ph.D, Condensed Matter Physics
2003/09-2007/07: Beihang University, B.S., Applied Physics
“Excellent scholar of Zhang Dayu” by DICP, CAS, 2024
Outstanding Member of Youth Promotion Association by CAS, 2023
[1] Zhao, Q.,# Liu, S.,# Jia, Z., Zhang, G.,* Xu, C., Yu, Z., Zhang, F., Han, S., Guo, X.,* Liu, W.* Oscillating Dynamics of Migrating Cu-Pd Bimetallic Particles in the Catalytic Redox Reaction. Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters 16, 10938 (2025).
[2] Cheng, J., Hong, X., Zu, X.,* Liu, W.,* Deng, D.* Spin Catalysis: Concept, Characterizations, and Advances in 2D Catalytic Materials. Photon Science, 10.1021/photonsci.5c00018 (2025).
[3] Yu, Z., Jia, Z., Liu, W.,* Zhang, Z.,* Zhao, F., Fan, C.,* Zhang, H., Lv, Y., Liu, D. Facet-dependent Oxidative Fabrication of Diamond Determined by Operando Scanning Electron Microscopy. Nano Letters 25, 5391 (2025).
[4] Tu, W., Zeng, Z., Zhao, Y. J., Jia, Z. H., Meng, C. X., Liu, W.,* Sun, X. H.,* Huang, J. Y.* In Situ Multiscale Study of Iron Oxidation at High Temperatures. Nano Letters 25, 8089 (2025).
[5] Hong, X.,# Zhao, Q.,# Chen, Y.,# Yu, Z., Zhou, M., Chen, Y., Luo, W., Wang, C., Ta, N., Li, H., Ye, R., Zu, X.,* Liu, W.,* Liu, J.* Visualizing Phase Evolution of Co2C for Efficient Fischer–Tropsch to Olefins. Advanced Materials, 2404046 (2024).
[6] Yu, Z., Zhang, S., Zhang, L.,* Liu, X., Jia, Z., Li, L., Ta, N., Wang, A., Liu, W.,* Wang, A.,* Zhang, T. Suppressing Metal Leaching and Sintering in Hydroformylation Reaction by Modulating the Coordination of Rh Single Atoms with Reactants. Journal of the American Chemical Society 146, 11955 (2024).
[7] Xu, C. C.,# Zhao, Q.,# Han, S. B., Liu, S., Liu, W.,* Li, Y., Shen, W. J. In situ Tracking the Constrained Reconstruction of Cu3Pd@SiO2 Nanoparticles Driven by Redox Atmospheres. Chemcatchem, e202400085 (2024).
[8] Xu, C. C., Han, S. B., Zhao, Q., Liu, S., Liu, W.,* Li, Y.,* Shen, W. Structure evolution of Cu3Pd single-particles under CO2 hydrogenation. Chemical Engineering Journal 494, 153208 (2024).
[9] Chen, Y., Duyar, M. S., Han, R., He, F., Sun, X., Chen, Y., Liu, W.,* Liu, J.* Construction of complex metal nanoparticles via solid-phase ion diffusion for sustainable catalysis. Materials Today 75, 259 (2024).
[10] Zhang, X., Jin, C., Han, S., Guo, P., Zhou, Y.,* Liu, W.,* Shen, W.* Atomic Structure of the Fe3O4/Fe2O3 Interface During Phase Transition from Hematite to Magnetite. Inorganic Chemistry 62, 12111 (2023).
[11] Liu, S., Lin, R.,* Liu, W.,* Ding, Y.* Full Metal Species Quantification of Supported Catalysts: Beyond Metal Dispersion. Chempluschem 88, 202300111 (2023).
[12] Han, J. Y.,# Yang, J. Y.,# Zhang, Z. X.,# Jiang, X. Z., Liu, W.,* Qiao, B. T.,* Mu, J. J.,* Wang, F. Strong Metal-Support Interaction Facilitated Multicomponent Alloy Formation on Metal Oxide Support. Journal of the American Chemical Society 145, 22671 (2023).
[13] Zhang, W.,# Zhang, X.,# Wang, J., Ghosh, A., Zhu, J., LiBretto, J. N., Zhang, G.,* Datye, K. A., Liu, W.,* Miller, T. J.* Bismuth-Modulated Surface Structural Evolution of Pd3Bi Intermetallic Alloy Catalysts for Selective Propane Dehydrogenation and Acetylene Semihydrogenation. Acs Catalysis 12, 10531 (2022).
[14] Lv, Y. Q., Wang, P., Liu, D. D., Zhang, F., Senftle, P. T.,* Zhang, G. H., Zhang Z. Y.,* Wang, J. M., Liu W.* Tracing the Active Phase and Dynamics for Carbon Nanofiber Growth on Nickel Catalyst Using Environmental Transmission Electron Microscopy. Small Methods 6, 2270036 (2022).
[15] Zhang, F., Pen, M., Spruit, R., Garza, P. H., Liu, W.* & Zhou, D.* Data Synchronization in Operando Gas and Heating TEM. Ultramicroscopy 238, 113549 (2022)
[16] Zhang, F., Zhang, X. B., Jia, Z. H. and Liu, W. Precise Drift Tracking for In Situ Transmission Electron Microscopy via a Thon-Ring Based Sample Position Measurement. Microscopy and Microanalysis 10.1017/S1431927622000691(2022)
[17] Yang, J.,# Qi, H.,# Li, A.,# Liu, X., Yang, X.,* Zhang, S., Zhao, Q., Jiang, Q., Su, Y., Zhang, L., Li, J.-F.,* Tian, Z.-Q., Liu, W.,* Wang, A.* & Zhang, T. Potential-Driven Restructuring of Cu Single Atoms to Nanoparticles for Boosting the Electrochemical Reduction of Nitrate to Ammonia. Journal of the American Chemical Society DOI:10.1021/jacs.1022c02262 (2022).
[18] Liu, S. H.,# Xu, H.,# Liu, D. D., Yu, H., Zhang, F., Zhang, P., Zhang, R. L., Liu, W.* Identify the Activity Origin of Pt Single-Atom Catalyst via Atom-by-Atom Counting. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 143, 15243-15249 (2021).
[19] Liu, S., Xu, C., Zhang, Z., Zhao, Q., Yao, L., Liu, W.* Precisely identify the geometry of catalyst particles from S/TEM images via a boundary attention deep learning network. Material Today Communications 28 102728 (2021).
[20] Wang, L. H., Liu, D. D., Zhang, F., Zhang, Z. Y.,* Cui, J. F., Jia, Z. H., Yu, Z. B., Lv, Y. Q., Liu, W.* Dynamics of the charging-induced imaging instability in transmission electron microscopy. Nanoscale Adv. 3, 3035-3040 (2021).
[21] Zhang, X.#, Han, S.#, Zhu, B. #, Zhang, G. #, Li, X., Gao, Y.*, Wu, Z., Yang, B.*, Liu, Y., Baaziz, W., Ersen, O., Gu, M.*, Miller, J. T.& Liu, W.* Reversible loss of core–shell structure for Ni–Au bimetallic nanoparticles during CO2 hydrogenation. Nature Catalysis 3, 411-417 (2020).
[22] Piao, Y.,# Jiang, Q.,# Li, H., Matsumoto, H., Liang, J., Liu, W.,* Pham-Huu, C., Liu, Y.,* Wang, F.,* ACS Catalysis 10, 7894-7906 (2020) (Cover artwork)
[23] Liu, W.#, Wang, N. #, Wang, R. M.*, Kumar, S., Duesberg, S. G., Zhang, H. Z.*& Sun, K. Atom-Resolved Evidence of Anisotropic Growth in ZnS Nanotetrapods. Nano Letters 11, 2983-2989 (2011).