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

Foreman, J. V., et al. “Influence of temperature and photoexcitation density on the quantum efficiency of defect emission in ZnO powders.” Applied Physics Letters, vol. 91, no. 1, Nov. 2007. Scopus, doi:10.1063/1.2753540. Full Text

Tsang, J. C., et al. “Doping and phonon renormalization in carbon nanotubes.” Nature Nanotechnology, vol. 2, no. 11, Nov. 2007, pp. 725–30. Epmc, doi:10.1038/nnano.2007.321. Full Text

Makarovski, A., et al. “Four-probe measurements of carbon nanotubes with narrow metal contacts.” Physical Review B  Condensed Matter and Materials Physics, vol. 76, no. 16, Oct. 2007. Scopus, doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.76.161405. Full Text

Lu, J., et al. “Catalytically active nanostructures derived from self-assembled block copolymer templates for rationally synthesizing single-walled carbon nanotubes and understanding the growth mechanism.” 2007 Nsti Nanotechnology Conference and Trade Show  Nsti Nanotech 2007, Technical Proceedings, vol. 1, Aug. 2007, pp. 25–28.

Makarovski, A., et al. “Evolution of transport regimes in carbon nanotube quantum dots.” Physical Review Letters, vol. 99, no. 6, Aug. 2007, p. 066801. Epmc, doi:10.1103/physrevlett.99.066801. Full Text

Freitag, M., et al. “Scanning photovoltage microscopy of potential modulations in carbon nanotubes.” Applied Physics Letters, vol. 91, no. 3, Aug. 2007. Scopus, doi:10.1063/1.2757100. Full Text

Qi, Hang, et al. “Synthesis of uniform double-walled carbon nanotubes using iron disilicide as catalyst.” Nano Letters, vol. 7, no. 8, Aug. 2007, pp. 2417–21. Epmc, doi:10.1021/nl071089a. Full Text

Freitag, Marcus, et al. “Imaging of the Schottky barriers and charge depletion in carbon nanotube transistors.” Nano Letters, vol. 7, no. 7, July 2007, pp. 2037–42. Epmc, doi:10.1021/nl070900e. Full Text

Makarovski, A., et al. “SU(2) and SU(4) Kondo effects in carbon nanotube quantum dots.” Physical Review B  Condensed Matter and Materials Physics, vol. 75, no. 24, June 2007. Scopus, doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.75.241407. Full Text

Qi, H., et al. “Two-stage growth of single-walled carbon nanotubes.” Journal of Physical Chemistry C, vol. 111, no. 17, May 2007, pp. 6158–60. Scopus, doi:10.1021/jp071448q. Full Text

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