Publications
Representative Publications for Prospective Students and Postdocs
Topic 1: 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 2: 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.]
Assad U. Khan, Zhengping Zhou, Joseph Krause,‡ Guoliang Liu,* “Poly(vinylpyrrolidone)-free Multi-step Synthesis of Silver Nanoplates with Plasmon Resonance in the Near Infrared Range”, Small, 2017, 1701715. [DOI: 10.1002/smll.201701715]
Topic 3: Polymers and Sustainability
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.
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.
Tianyu Liu, Guoliang Liu,* “Porous Organic Materials Offer Vast Future Opportunities”, Nature Communications, 2020, in print.
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]