Faculty Profiles

Jie Liu
Jie Liu
George Barth Geller Distinguished Professor of Chemistry
Office: 
2105 French Science Center, Durham, NC 27708
Phone: 
(919) 660-1549
Fax: 
(919) 660-1605
j.liu@duke.edu
Liu Research Group
Research Interests: 

Dr. Liu’s research interests are focusing on the chemistry and material science of nanoscale materials. Specific topics in his current research program include: Self-assembly of nanostructures; Preparation and chemical functionalization of single walled carbon nanotubes; Developing carbon nanotube based chemical and biological sensors; SPM based fabrication and modification of functional nanostructures.

Overview

Education:

Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department Of Chemistry, Rice University 1996 - 1999

Ph.D., Harvard University 1996

M.S., Shandong University (China) 1990

B.S., Shandong University (China) 1987

Research Areas:
Inorganic, Nanoscience and Materials

Titchenal, N., et al. “SWNT and MWNT reinforced carbon nanocomposite fibrils.” International Sampe Technical Conference, Dec. 2004, pp. 659–69.

Zheng, L. X., et al. “Ultralong single-wall carbon nanotubes.” Nature Materials, vol. 3, no. 10, Oct. 2004, pp. 673–76. Epmc, doi:10.1038/nmat1216. Full Text

An, Lei, et al. “A simple chemical route to selectively eliminate metallic carbon nanotubes in nanotube network devices.” Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 126, no. 34, Sept. 2004, pp. 10520–21. Epmc, doi:10.1021/ja046482m. Full Text

Eom, J. Y., et al. “Lithium insertion into purified and etched multi-walled carbon nanotubes synthesized on supported catalysts by thermal CVD.” Carbon, vol. 42, no. 12–13, Aug. 2004, pp. 2589–96. Scopus, doi:10.1016/j.carbon.2004.05.039. Full Text

Freitag, Marcus, et al. “Mobile ambipolar domain in carbon-nanotube infrared emitters.” Physical Review Letters, vol. 93, no. 7, Aug. 2004, p. 076803. Epmc, doi:10.1103/physrevlett.93.076803. Full Text

Huang, S., et al. “Growth mechanism of oriented long single walled carbon nanotubes using "fast-heating" chemical vapor deposition process.” Nano Letters, vol. 4, no. 6, June 2004, pp. 1025–28. Scopus, doi:10.1021/nl049691d. Full Text

Li, J., et al. “Controlled Growth of Long GaN Nanowires from Catalyst Patterns Fabricated by "Dip-Pen" Nanolithographic Techniques.” Chemistry of Materials, vol. 16, no. 9, May 2004, pp. 1633–36. Scopus, doi:10.1021/cm0344764. Full Text

Maynor, Benjamin W., et al. “Site-specific fabrication of nanoscale heterostructures: local chemical modification of GaN nanowires using electrochemical dip-pen nanolithography.” Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 126, no. 20, May 2004, pp. 6409–13. Epmc, doi:10.1021/ja0317832. Full Text

Fu, Qiang, et al. “Chemical vapor depositions of single-walled carbon nanotubes catalyzed by uniform fe(2)o(3) nanoclusters synthesized using diblock copolymer micelles.” The Journal of Physical Chemistry. B, vol. 108, no. 20, May 2004, pp. 6124–29. Epmc, doi:10.1021/jp049483+. Full Text

Stadermann, M., et al. “Nanoscale study of conduction through carbon nanotube networks.” Physical Review B  Condensed Matter and Materials Physics, vol. 69, no. 20, May 2004. Scopus, doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.69.201402. Full Text

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