Materials
LIU Wei
Title: Professor
Subject: Physical Chemistry
Phone: 0411-84379707
Email: weiliu@dicp.ac.cn
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Research Interests

Heterogenous catalysis, in situ microscopy methodology, microstructure reconstruction dynamics

 

1. Surface atomic structure evolution in solid-gas reaction via in situ electron microscopy;

2. Data analysis of in situ electron microscopy through deep learning and image recognition methodology;

3. Methodology and instrument development for operando electron microscopy on catalysisa

Biography
WORKING EXPERIENCE:
Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, CAS, Professor, 2020/07 - present
Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, CAS, Associate Professor, 2017/04 - 2020/06
UESTC, Chengdu, China, Associate Professor, 2013/11 - 2017/03
Sichuan University, Assistant Professor, 2012/07 - 2013/10

EDUCATION BACKGROUND
Beihang University, Ph.D, Condensed Matter Physics, 1. 2007/09 - 2012/06
Beihang University, B.S., Applied Physics, 2003/09 - 2007/07 
Honors and Awards
Member of the Youth Promotion Association by CAS, 2019
Talents in City Short Supply by Dalian, 2018
Excellent Doctoral Thesis by Beihang University, 2013
Publications

1. 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).

2. 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)

3. 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)

4. 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).

5. 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).

6. 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).

7. 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).

8. 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).

9. 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)

10. 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).