11/2/2017 - Mingxia presented her recent results from kinetic modeling at the 2017 AIChE National in Minneapolis MN .
11/1/2017 - Professor Liu gave an oral presentation at the 2017 AIChE National in Minneapolis MN on NH3 production based on doped-manganese nitride.
10/29/2017 - Song presented his hBN research at the 2017 AIChE National in Minneapolis MN.
10/19-20/2017 - Professor Liu and Jason Xu both presented at the 2017 ACS Midwest Regional Meeting in Lawrence KS.
08/17/2017 - Professor Liu gave an invited presentation at the 2017 ARPA-E REFUEL Kickoff Meeting on August 17 in Denver CO.
03/23/2017 - Song Liu, Mingxia Zhou, and Nannan Shan each published a paper in ACS Nano, Nature Communications, and Molecular Simulations, respectively in March! Congratulations! More details to follow.
11/13-14/2016 - Song Liu and Nannan Shan both presented their latest research progress at the 2016 AIChE National Meeting in San Francisco, CA.
06/15/2016 - Professor Liu was the discussion leader of the 'Non-traditional Catalyst Support' session at the 2016 Gordon Research Conference Catalysis.
06/09/2016 - Professor Liu participated the GROW summer workshop for the second time. Thanks Mary K and Nannan for your help this time!
03/16/2016 - Professor Liu gave an invited talk titled ' Computational Catalyst Design for Selective Methane Oxidation Using First-Principles Methods' in the Computational Catalysis symposium at the ACS Spring meeting in San Diego.
03/15/2016 - Mingxia Zhou presented a talk titled ' Understanding the Structure and Size Dependence of Hydrogen Selectivity on Ni Nanocatalysts from First-Principles-Based Kinetic Modeling ', at the ACS Spring meeting in San Diego.
06/17/2015 - Professor Liu gave a talk on Mingxia's work related to alkali metal promoter effects on WGSR at NAM24.
06/15/2015 - Professor Liu co-chaired the Acid & Base Catalysis session at NAM24.
06/12/2015 - Mingxia's paper on alkali metal (K) promoter effects on WGSR selectivity has been accepted by ChemCatChem!
06/04/2015 - Professor Liu participated and met middle school and high school students in the GROW/EXCITE summer workshop designed for girls aged 12-16. It was a fun experience for everyone. Thanks Mingxia and Nannan for your help!
03/30/2015 - Professor Manos Mavrikakis of University of Wisconsin Madison visit Kansas State as the L.T. Fan Lecturer. The title of his lecture is 'Heterogeneous Catalysis: From the Nature of the Active Site to Catalyst Design'. Thank you Dr. Mavrikakis for the great lecture!
03/26/2015 - Dr. Bin Liu presented at the ACS National Meeting in Denver, the title is 'Mechanistic Insights on Glycerol Decomposition on PtMo Bimetallic Catalysts from First-principles Methods '.
02/24/2015 - The Hero nodes, a new purchase from Liu's group are up and running. More computational power!
02/23/2015 - Mingxia Zhou received a William H. & Virginia Honstead Fellowship Scholarship. Congrats!
12/10/2014 - Jiayi (Jason) Xu's poster titled " Thermodynamics and Kinetics of 2,3-Butanediol Dehydration on γ-Al2O3 from Molecular Modeling" won the 3rd prize at the Engineering Undergraduate Research Poster Forum. Congratulations!
11/29/2014 - Dr. Jia-Jun Tang joined the group. Welcome!
11/19/2014 - Dr. Bin Liu gave a talk at the 2014 AIChE National in Atlanta Georgia.
10/18/2014 - Mingxia Zhou and Song Liu both gave a poster presentation at the Kansas Physical Chemistry Symposium in Manhattan
KS on their research.
10/07/2014 - Dr. Bin Liu give a talk at the Graduate Seminar of the Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering of University of Kansas.
09/23/2014 - Nannan Shan, who is pursuing her PhD, joined the group. Welcome!
08/11/2014 - Dr. Bin Liu's new publication "SurfKin - An ab initio code for modeling surface reactions" has been chosen as the back cover of Journal of Computational Chemistry.
7/30/2014 - Elizabeth completed her REU program by giving a poster titled "Structures and Energies of Oxygen Adsorption on Ag(111) Surfaces from Density Functional Theory Calculations". Congratulations Elizabeth!
07/10/2014 - Song Liu took and passed his PhD oral qualifier test. Congratulations!
06/24/2014 - Mingxia Zhou took and passed his PhD oral qualifier test. Congratulations!
06/15/2014 - Dr. Liu presented a poster at the 2014 Midwest Theoretical Chemistry Conference in Evanston IL.
06/01/2014 - postdoc opening available in my group.
05/27/2014 - Elizabeth Jennings (senior undergrad) joined Liu's group and started her 10-week long NSF REU program. Michael Carlson (senior undergrad) joined the group and started developing python-based script.
5/22/2014 - Liu's group has been awarded the Kansas EPSCoR First Award!
03/21/2014 - Dr. Bin Liu received the KSU faculty mentoring award.
01/21/2014 - Jiayi(Jason) Xu (senior undergrad) joined the group. Welcome!
10/14/2013 - Song Liu, who is pursuing his PhD and co-advised by Dr. Jim Edgar, joined our group. Welcome!
09/30/2013 - Mingxia Zhou, who is pursuing her PhD, joined the group. Welcome!
08/01/2013 - The Molecular Catalysis Modeling group led by Dr. Bin Liu is established!