Group News
02/16/2019: Xiaozhou Yang performs on the stage of the 2019 Virginia Tech-Chinese Spring Festival Gala. Bravo!
02/15/2019: Dr. Tianyu Liu named an outstanding reviewer for Journal of Materials Chemistry A. Congratulations on the recognition and great service to the community!
02/08/2019: Dr. Tianyu Liu's paper entitled "Block copolymer derived uniform mesopores enable ultrafast electron and ion transport at high mass loadings" appears in the journal of Nature Communications! Check this out. https://rdcu.be/blOC9
Congratulations to Tianyu on the great job!
02/01/2019: Dr. Zhengping Zhou's paper entitled "Block Copolymer Based Hierarchical Porous Carbon Fibers" appears in the journal of Science Advances! Check this out. DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aau6852.
Congratulations to Zhengping on the great job! The paper now is featured by more than 20 news media.
02/09/2018: Prof. Guoliang (Greg) Liu's NSF CAREER award is featured in the VT news. Thanks to his team for the great work that contributed to this award. For more information, please check the website: https://vtnews.vt.edu/articles/2018/02/Science-guoliangliu_nsf_careeraward.html
01/22/2018: Dr. Tianyu Liu receives the CSC Government Award for Outstanding Self Finance Students Abroad. For more information, please check the website: http://www.csc.edu.cn/article/1173
Congratulations, Tianyu!
11/29/2017: Led by Dr. Randy Heflin, Greg Liu, and a total of six faculty members from the nanoscience program at Virginia Tech, Assad Khan and Dong Guo helped coordinate a field trip for the students in the VT Nanoscience program to the Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. For more details, check the featured news at:
https://vtnews.vt.edu/articles/2017/11/Science_nanoscience_oakridgelabtour.html
Assad Khan (left third), Dong Guo (right first), Guoliang (Greg) Liu (blue shirt in the middle)
11/25/2017: Joseph Krause receives the presentation award in the Materials Science and NanoEngineering session of the Gulf Coast Undergraduate Research Symposium (GCURS).
Congratulations, Joseph!
10/18/2017: Joseph Krause is featured in the VT nanoscience program. For more information, please check the website: https://www.ais.science.vt.edu/programs/Nanoscience/NanoscienceStudentSpotlights/SpotlightJosephKrause.html
Congratulations, Joseph!
08/19-24/2017: Assad Khan and Dr. Zhengping Zhou present their research at the ACS Fall meeting in Washington D.C.
07/01/2017: Mr. Assad Khan and Dr. Greg Liu named Virginia Tech Inventor of the Month.
04/20/2017: Liu is invited to present his research in the Materials Research Society (MRS) Symposium ED15: Molecular and Colloidal Plasmonics: Synthesis and Applications.
02/16/2017: Liu is invited to present his research in the Joint School of Nanoscience and Nanoengineering (JSNN), North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University (NC A&T) and The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG).
12/15-16/2016: Liu warmly welcomes Dr. Gabriel Zeltzer and Nir Kozlovsky, CFO, of Waves Audio, Ltd (Israel) to Virginia Tech for a collaboration kickoff meeting.
11/16-17/2016: Liu attends the U.S. Army Research Laboratory's third Open Campus Open House at ARL’s Adelphi, Maryland Campus, in celebration of ARL's 25th anniversary.
10/29/2016: Dr. Zhengping Zhou and Mr. Assad Khan present their research at the annual Virginia Soft Matter (VSM) Workshop at Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA.
10/25/2016: Liu is invited to speak at the South Eastern Regional Meeting American Chemical Society (SERMACS) 2016: New Chemistry Toward Functional Polymeric Materials, Columbia, SC.
10/11/2016: Greg and his group graciously thank the Air Force Office of Scientific Research for providing generous support through the 2017 Air Force's Young Investigator Research Program (YIP). For more information, check here.
10/05/2016: Greg warmly congratulates his mentor and collaborator, Sir Fraser Stoddart, Board of Trustees Professor of Chemistry in the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences at Northwestern University, for winning the 2016 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. For more information, check here.
08/23/2016: Liu is invited to speak at the 252nd American Chemical Society National Meeting & Exposition: Novel Nanomaterials for Energy and Fuels symposium.
08/09/2016: Assad Khan's first article has been accepted for publication in The Journal of Physical Chemistry Part C. Congratulations, Assad!
07/24/2016: Liu presents his research on polyacrylonitrile-containing block copolymers in the GRC-Polymer Physics, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA.
07/01/2016: The Liu research group extends the warmest welcome to our newest team member: Dong Guo!
06/19/2016: Liu presents his research on plasmonic nanoparticles in the GRC-Noble Metal Nanoparticles, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA.
06/02/2016: Liu presents his research on nanoparticles and block copolymers in the School of Materials Science and Engineering, Sun Yat-sen University, P. R. China.
04/18/2016: Liu and Khan present their research at the UT/VT Polymer Workshop. It is Assad's first conference poster presentation!
04/12/2016: Congratulations to Assad Khan for passing his preliminary exam! He is now an official PhD candidate in the Chemistry program at Virginia Tech.
02/22/2016: Liu presents his research on plasmonic nanoparticle sensitivity in the Adhesion Society Conference, San Antonio, TX.
11/14/2015: Liu is invited to present his research on plasmonic nanoparticle sensitivity in the 3rd Virginia Soft Matter (VSM) Workshop at University of Virginia.
11/01/2015: The Liu research group extends the warmest welcome to our newest team members: Xi Chen and Meng Cai!
10/08/2015: Liu is invited to present his research on plasmonic nanoparticle sensitivity in VT Center for Sustainable Nanotechnology (VTSuN).
09/01/2015: The Liu research group extends the warmest welcome to our newest members: Dr. Zhengping Zhou!
06/14/2015: Liu presents his research at Gordon Research Conference: Polymers, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA.
05/01/2015: Congratulations to Linda Chitayapuntagui for winning the third prize of Undergraduate Research Poster Award in Chemistry Department at Virginia Tech.
04/20/2015: Assad Khan is awarded the 2014-2015 Adhesive Manufactures Association (AMA) Adhesive and Sealant Science Student Scholarships. Congratulations!
04/20/2015: Liu presents his research at the MII Technical Conference and Review, Blacksburg, VA.
03/20/2015: Liu is invited to present his research at East Tennessee State University.
02/23/2015: Liu presents his research at Gordon Research Conference: Nanomaterials for Applications in Energy Technology, Ventura, CA.
11/18/2014: Congratulations to Assad for winning the 2014-2015 Adhesive Manufactures Association (AMA) Adhesive and Sealant Science Student Scholarships!
11/01/2014: The Liu research group extends the warmest welcome to our newest team members: Assad, Ke, and Clay!
09/29/2014: Liu is invited again to present his research in the Department of Physics at Virginia Tech.
09/08/2014: Liu is invited to present his research in the Department of Physics at Virginia Tech.