Representative Publications for Prospective Students and Postdocs
Topic 1: Polymers and Sustainability
Nuwayo Eric Munyaneza, Ruiyang Ji, Adrian DiMarco, Joel Miscall, Lisa Stanley, Rui Qiao,* Guoliang Liu,* “Chain-length-controllable upcycling of polyolefins to sulfate detergents”, Nature Sustainability, 2024, 7, 1681–1690. DOI: 10.1038/s41893-024-01464-x. Free download link: https://rdcu.be/d0z7d
Zhen Xu, Nuwayo Eric Munyaneza, Qikun Zhang, Mengqi Sun, Carlos Posada, Paul Venturo, Nicholas A. Rorrer, Joel Miscall, Bobby Sumpter*, Guoliang Liu*, “Chemical upcycling of polyethylene, polypropylene, and mixtures to high-value surfactants”, Science, 2023, 381, 666–671. DOI: DOI: 10.1126/science.adh0993. Download
Zhen Xu, Fuping Pan, Mengqi Sun, Jianjun Xu, Nuwayo Eric Munyaneza, Zacary L. Croft, Gangshu (George) Cai, and Guoliang Liu*, “Cascade Degradation and Upcycling of Polystyrene Waste to High-Value Chemicals”, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences U.S.A., 2022, 119, 34, e2203346119. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2203346119.
Connor S Thompson, Carlos Posada, Guoliang Liu,* Hyper Cross-linked Poly (ether imide) via Friedel–Crafts Acylation and Dehydrochlorination, Macromolecules, 2025, 58, 13, 6440–6451. DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.5c00532
Zhen Xu, Gehui Liu, Ke Cao, Dong Guo, Joel Serrano, Alan Esker*, Guoliang Liu*, “Solvent-resistant Self-crosslinked Poly(ether imide)”, Macromolecules, 2021, 54, 7, 3405–3412. DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.0c02860.
Ke Cao, Yichen Guo, Mingxuan Zhang,U Clay B. Arrington, Timothy E. Long, Roy R. Olde, Guoliang Liu,* “Mechanically Strong, Thermally Stable, and Flame Retardant Poly(ether imide) Terminated with Phosphonium Bromide”, Macromolecules, 2019, 52(19), 7361-7368. DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.9b01465.
Ke Cao, Guoliang Liu,* “Low-molecular-weight, high-mechanical-strength, and solution-processable telechelic polyetherimide end-capped with ureido-pyrimidinone", Macromolecules, 2017, 50 (5), 2016–2023. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.7b00156]
Topic 2: Porous Carbon Fibers
Tianyu Liu, Joel Marcos Serrano, Xiaozhou Yang, William Cathcart,U Zixuan Wang, Zhen He, Guoliang Liu,* “Exceptional Capacitive Deionization Rate and Capacity by Block Copolymer-based Porous Carbon Fibers”, Science Advances, 2020,6(4), eaaz0906. [DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aaz0906].
Zhengping Zhou, Tianyu Liu, Assad U. Khan, Guoliang Liu,* “Block Copolymer Based Hierarchical Porous Carbon Fibers”, Science Advances, 2019, 5(2), eaau6852. [DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aau6852.]
Tianyu Liu, Zhengping Zhou, Yichen Guo, Dong Guo, Guoliang Liu,* “Block copolymer derived uniform mesopores enable ultrafast electron and ion transport at high mass loadings”, Nature Communications, 2019, 10, 675. [DOI: 10.1038/s41467-019-08644-w.]
Topic 3: Polymer Nanocomposites
Assad U. Khan, Gabriel Zeltzer,* Gavriel Speyer, Zacary L. Croft, Yichen Guo, Yehiel Nagar, Vlada Artel, Adi Levi, Chen Stern, Doron Naveh,* Guoliang Liu,* “Mutually Reinforced Polymer-Graphene Bilayer Membranes for Energy-Efficient Acoustic Transduction”, Advanced Materials, 2021, 2004053. DOI: 10.1002/adma.202004053.
Assad Khan, Yichen Guo, Xi Chen, Guoliang Liu,* “Spectral-selective plasmonic polymer nanocomposites across the visible and near-infrared”, ACS Nano, 2019, 13 (4), 4255–4266. [DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.8b09386.]
Invited Perspectives, Reviews, and Views
Guoliang Liu,* Catalytic Conversion of Polystyrene Waste into Toluene, Nature Nanotechnology, 2025, DOI:
Guoliang Liu,* Deep Cracking of Polyethylene to Light Olefins, Nature Chemical Engineering, 2025, 2, 621–622. DOI: 10.1038/s44286-025-00285-9. Free download link: https://rdcu.be/eKV8t
Tianyu Liu, Guoliang Liu,* “Porous Organic Materials Offer Vast Future Opportunities”, Nature Communications, 2020, 11, 4984. DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-15911-8