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2. Yanping Chen*, Jiatong Wei, Melis S. Duyar, Vitaly V. Ordomsky*, Andrei Y. Khodakov and Jian Liu* “Carbon-based catalysts for Fischer-Tropsch synthesis” Chemical Society Reviews, 2021, 50, 6013–6047.
3. Yash Boyjoo#, Haodong Shi#, Qiang Tian, Shaomin Liu, Ji Liang* Zhong-Shuai Wu* Mietek Jaroniec and Jian Liu*, “Engineering Nanoreactors for Metal-Chalcogen Batteries” Energy & Environmental Science, 2021, 14, 540–575.
4. Yi Cheng, Jinyang Zhang, Xing Wu, Chongjian Tang, Shi-ze Yang, Panpan Su, Lars Thomsen, Feiping Zhao, Shanfu Lu*, Jian Liu* and San Ping Jiang* “A Template-free Method to Synthesis High Density Iron Single Atoms Anchored on Carbon Nanotubes for High Temperature Polymer Electrolyte Membrane Fuel Cells” Nano Energy, 2021, 80, 105534.
5. Feilong Gong, Mengmeng Liu, Sheng Ye, * Lihua Gong, Guang Zeng, Lin Xu, Xiaoli Zhang, Yonghui Zhang, Liming Zhou, Shaoming Fang* and Jian Liu* “All-pH stable sandwich-structured MoO2/MoS2/C hollow nanoreactors for enhanced electrochemical hydrogen evolution” Advanced Functional Materials, 2021, 31, 2101715.
6. Hao Tian, Jinhui Zhao, Xinyao Wang, Lizhuo Wang, Hao Liu, Guoxiu Wang, Jun Huang*, Jian Liu* and G. Q. (Max) Lu, “Construction of Hollow Mesoporous Silica Nanoreactors for Enhanced Photo-oxidations over Au-Pt Catalysts” National Science Review, 2020, 7, 1647–1655.
7. Xiaowei Wang, Siyao Qiu, Jianmin Feng, Yueyu Tong, Fengling Zhou, Qinye Li, Li Song, Shuangming Chen, Kuang-Hsu Wu, Panpan Su, Sheng Ye, Feng Hou, Shi Xue Dou, Hua Kun Liu, Gao Qing (Max) Lu, Chenghua Sun*, Jian Liu* and Ji Liang* “Confined Fe-Cu Clusters as Subnanometer Reactors for Efficiently Regulating Electrochemical Nitrogen Reduction Reaction” Advanced Materials, 2020, 32, 2004382.
8. Chao Dong, Qun Yu, Run-Ping Ye, Panpan Su, Jian Liu* and Guang-Hui Wang* “Hollow Carbon Sphere Nanoreactors Loaded with PdCu Nanoparticles: Void-Confinement Effects in Liquid-Phase Hydrogenations” Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2020, 59, 18374–18379.
9. Yueyu Tong, Haipeng Guo, Daolan Liu, Xiao Yan, Panpan Su, Ji Liang*, Si Zhou*, Jian Liu*, Gao Qing (Max) Lu and Shi Xue Dou, “Vacancy Engineering of Fe-doped W18O49 Nanoreactors for Low-barrier Electrochemical Nitrogen Reduction” Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2020, 59, 7356–7361.
10. Hao Tian, Huajun Tian, Shijian Wang, Shuangming Chen, Fan Zhang, Li Song*, Hao Liu*, Jian Liu* and Guoxiu Wang* “High-power Lithium-selenium Batteries Enabled by Atomic Cobalt Electrocatalyst Incorporated in Hollow Carbon Cathode” Nature Communications, 2020, 11, 5025.
11. Yash Boyjoo, Haodong Shi, Emilia Olsson, Qiong Cai, Zhong-Shuai Wu*, Jian Liu* and Gao Qing (Max) Lu, “Molecular-Level Design of Pyrrhotite Electrocatalyst Decorated Hierarchical Porous Carbon Spheres as Nanoreactors for Lithium-Sulfur Batteries” Advanced Energy Materials, 2020, 10, 2000651.
12. Xiaomin Ren, Miao Guo, He Li, Chengbin Li, Liang Yu,* Jian Liu* and Qihua Yang*, “Microenvironment Engineering of Ru Nanoparticles Incorporated in Silica Nanoreactors for Enhanced Hydrogenations” Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2019, 58, 14483–14488.
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15. Tianyu Yang, Lijuan Wei, Lingyan Jing, Jifen Liang, Xiaoming Zhang, Min Tang, Michael J. Monteiro, Ying (Ian) Chen, Yong Wang, Sai Gu, Dongyuan Zhao, Hengquan Yang*, Jian Liu* and G. Q. Max Lu, “Dumbbell-shaped bi-component mesoporous Janus solid nanoparticles for biphasic interface catalysis” Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2017, 56, 8459–8463.
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18. Wei Zhang, Yanyi Zhao, Victor Malgras, Qingmin Ji, Dongmei Jiang, Ruijuan Qi, Katsuhiko Ariga, Yusuke Yamauchi, Jian Liu*, Ji-Sen Jiang* and Ming Hu*, “Monocrystalline Nanoframes of Prussian Blue Analogues through a Controllable Preferential-Etching Synthesis” Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2016, 55, 8228–8234.
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20. Jing Tang, Jian Liu*, Cuiling Li, Yunqi Li, Moses O. Tade, Sheng Dai* and Yusuke Yamauchi*, “Synthesis of Nitrogen-Doped Mesoporous Carbon Spheres with Extra-Large Pores through Assembly of Diblock Copolymer Micelles” Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2015, 54, 588–593.
21. Jian Liu*, Tianyu Yang, Da-Wei Wang, Gao Qing (Max) Lu, Dongyuan Zhao and Shi Zhang Qiao*, “A facile soft-template synthesis of mesoporous polymeric and carbonaceous nanospheres” Nature Communications, 2013, 4, 2798.
22. Jian Liu, Heng Quan Yang, Freddy Kleitz, Zhi Gang Chen, Tianyu Yang, Ekaterina Strounina, Gao Qing (Max) Lu* and Shi Zhang Qiao*, “Yolk-Shell Hybrid Materials with Periodic Mesoporous Organosilicas (PMO) Shell: Ideal Nanoreactors for Selective Alcohol Oxidation” Advanced Functional Materials, 2012, 22, 591–599.
23. Jian Liu, Shi Zhang Qiao*, Hao Liu, Jun Chen, Ajay Orpe, Dongyuan Zhao and Gao Qing (Max) Lu*, “Extension of St？ber Method for the Preparation of Monodisperse Resorcinol Formaldehyde Resin Polymer and Carbon Spheres” Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2011, 50, 5947–5951.
24. Jian Liu, Shi Zhang Qiao*, Sandy Budi Hartono and Gao Qing (Max) Lu*, “Monodisperse Yolk-Shell Nano-Particles with Hierarchical Porous Structure as Delivery Vehicles and Nanoreactors” Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2010, 49, 4981–4985.