刘健，博士，现任内蒙古大学化学化工学院教授、博士生导师，院长；入选教育部重大人才计划特聘教授 (2022年)、国家海外高层次人才引进计划(2017年)等。连续六年入选科睿唯安高被引学者（2018-2023年）。长期致力于纳米多孔材料的设计合成及在能源、催化相关领域的基础应用研究，在催化纳米功能材料的设计合成与应用、纳米反应器构筑等方面取得了一系列重要的原创性成果。迄今以第一作者及（共同）通讯作者在包括 Nature Mater. (1篇), Nature Commun. (3篇), Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. (14篇), Adv. Mater. (4篇), Natl. Sci. Rev. (2篇) 等刊物发表正式论文190余篇，所发表论文被SCI引用超过 24000余次，H因子为71。撰写英文书籍10章，发表专著一本，多次获邀在国内外学术会议上作邀请报告。主持或参与包括中组部、科技部重点研发项目、国家基金委重大仪器研制项目、国家基金委面上项目、中科院、辽宁省委组织部、内蒙古自治区组织部/人社厅/科技厅、澳大利亚基金会面上项目等多项科研项目。曾获得第14届国际催化大会青年科学家奖（2008），国际先进材料协会奖章（IAAM Medal, 2021），国际VEBLEO Fellow Award、中国化工学会基础研究奖二等奖（2021，排名第一）、辽宁省自然科学学术成果奖一等奖（2022）等奖项。现任Elsevier旗下杂志《Materials Today Sustainability》主编、《国家科学评论》等期刊编委。
Current and Past Projects
Liu, J.; National Natural Science Foundation of China - “Molecular-level Design of Nanoporous Phenolic Resins Micro/Nano-Particles for Sustainable Production of Hydrogen Peroxide” 2023-2026 NSFC22279139 RMB 540k (ca GBP 60k)
Li, X. X.; Liu, J.; Jiang, J. Z; et al. National Natural Science Foundation of China - Special Fund for Research on National Major Research Instruments “Research on Innovative in-situ TPD/TPR Technology and High-performance Analytical Instruments based on Ultrasensitive Resonant MEMS Chips” 2023-2027 NSFC62227815 RMB 10M (ca GBP 1.2M)
Deng, D. H.; Liu, H. Y.; Liu, Z. W.; Zhang, Q. H.; Liu, J.; et al. National Key Research and Development Program of China “Low-Temperature Efficient Catalytic Activation and Directed Conversion of Methane C-H” (No. 2022YFA1504500) 2023-2027, RMB 25M (ca GBP 3M)
Liu, J.; Grassland Talent of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, Young Leading Talent, 2022-2024 RMB 3M
Liu, J.; Innovation Project for Dalian Oversea Return Talent - “Design of Bifunctional Nanoreactors for Catalytic Hydrogenation of CO2 to Gasoline” 2021-2022 RMB 200k (ca GBP 22k)
Liu, J.; Outstanding Youth Science Foundation of Liaoning - “Design of Co Nanoreactors for Syngas Conversion to High Oxygenates” 2020-2022 RMB 500k (ca GBP 55k)
Liu, J.; "Talent Project of Revitalizing Liaoning"-Young Top-notch Talent “Design of Co Nanoreactors for Syngas Conversion” 2019-2021 RMB 500k (ca GBP 55k)
Liu, J.; Liaoning "BaiQianWan Talents Program" - Qian Talents Level “Design of Carbon Nanoreactors for the Production of High Value-added Chemicals” 2018-2019 RMB 20k (ca GBP 2.2k)
Liu, J.; Wang, G. H. Dalian National Laboratory for Clean Energy, CAS funding, “Design porous carbon-based micro/nanoreactors for electro-chemical reduction of CO2” 2018-2019 RMB 2M (ca GBP 222k)
Jiang, S. P.; Liu, J.; Veder, J.-P.; De Marco, R. Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Projects, ARC, “Single-atom catalysts for electrochemical carbon dioxide conversion” 2018-2020, DP180100568 AUD 564k (ca GBP 321k)
Liu, J.; Chinese Government 1000 Young Talent Plan “Design of Nanoreactors for Energy Applications” 2017-2020 RMB 10M (ca GBP 1.112M)
Liu, S. M.; Liu, J.; Tade, M. Australian Research Council (ARC) Linkage Projects, ARC, “Syngas Production Using Catalytic Carbon Dioxide Dry Reforming” 2015-2018, LP150101158 AUD 240k (ca GBP 137k)
Yu, C. Z. Lu, G. Q. M. Jiang, X. G. Liu, J. Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Projects, ARC, “Design nanocarriers for targeted hydrophobic anticancer drug delivery with enhanced bioavailability” 2011-2013, DP110101978 AUD 420k (ca GBP 239k)
Liu, J. UQ Foundation Research Excellence Awards. University of Queensland, “Design of Nanostructured Porous Carbon as Electrode Materials for Supercapacitor Devices” 2011 AUD 80k (ca GBP 46k)
Liu, J. Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Projects. “Nanostructured Degradable Polymer for Drug Delivery” 2010-2012, DP1094070 AUD 240k (ca GBP 137k)
Liu, J. Qiao, S. Z. Lu, G. Q. M. UQ Postdoctoral Research Fellowship. University of Queensland, “Silica-based Hollow Nanospheres for Biotechnological and Biomedical Applications” 2010 AUD 280k (ca GBP 159k)
Education and Qualifications
2005.9-2008.9 Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry
State Key Laboratory of Catalysis, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics,
Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian, China
2002.9-2005.3 M.E. in Applied Chemistry
Department of Chemical Engineering, Harbin Engineering University, Harbin, China and State Key Laboratory of Catalysis, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian, China
1998.9-2002.7 B.Eng. in Chemical Engineering
Department of Chemical Engineering, Inner Mongolia University of Technology, Huhhot, China
Employment History
• June 2022 – Head of School and Professor of Energy Materials, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Inner Mongolia University, China.
• July 2017 – June 2022, Professor, State Key Laboratory of Catalysis, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian, China.
• June 2017 – March 2023, Reader (Adjunct Position), Department of Chemical and Process Engineering, University of Surrey, UK.
• December 2014 – June 2017, Senior Lecturer, Department of Chemical Engineering, Curtin University, Australia.
• April 2013 – December 2014, Lecturer, Department of Chemical Engineering, Curtin University, Australia.
• January 2011 – April 2013, Research Fellow/Australian Postdoctoral Fellowship (APD), Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (AIBN), University of Queensland, Australia.
• January 2010 – December 2010, UQ Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (AIBN), University of Queensland, Australia.
• February 2009 – December 2009, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (AIBN), University of Queensland, Australia.
• September 2008 – January 2009, Research Associate, State Key Laboratory of Catalysis, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian, China.
As a visiting fellow, I have worked in five premier research institutions in Université Lille1 Sciences et Technologies, Unite de Catalyse et Chimie du Solide UMR 8181 (UCCS, CNRS), France, National Institute of Materials Science (NIMS), Japan, University of Washington, University of California Riverside, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), USA.
Awards and Fellowships
2023 Highly Cited ResearchersTM from ClarivateTM in Cross-Field, in 2023
Cheung Kong Scholars Programme 2022, in 2022
2022 Highly Cited ResearchersTM from ClarivateTM in Cross-Field, in 2022
First Prize of Liaoning Natural Science Academic Achievement Award, “Construction of Hollow Photothermal Nanoreactors for Sustainable Catalytic Oxidation”, Liaoning Association for Science and Technology, in 2022
12th Project of Grassland Talent of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, Young Leading Personnel, in 2022
Steeds Talent Plan of Inner Mongolia University, in 2022
Ranked as one of the World top 2% scientists (76203 among of 195605 scientists included in career-long database, 298 among of 2594 scientists included in China with the area of materials science and energy technology), in 2022 (ranked by Stanford University; a team led by Dr. John PA Ioannidis)
Ranking as 17233 from Global Top 100k Scientists, 395 out of ~2666 researchers in domestic scholars, from http://www.globalauthorid.com, in 2022
"Excellent" in the final review of the CAS Hundred Talents Program in 2022 (June 12, 2022), in 2022
Nominee, Nominated for Eni Award 2022, Eni Award Scientific Secretariat, in 2021
2021 Highly Cited ResearchersTM from ClarivateTM in Cross-Field, in 2021
Ranking as 9499 from Global Top 100k Scientists, 2030 out of 16158 Scientists in Chemistry discipline, from http://www.globalauthorid.com, in 2021
IAAM Medal 2021, International Association of Advanced Materials (IAAM), in 2021
Vebleo Fellow Award, Vebleo, in 2021
Second Prize Fundamental Research of CIESC Science and Technology, The Chemical Industry and Engineering Society of China (CIESC), in 2021
2020 Highly Cited ResearchersTM from ClarivateTM in Cross-Field, in 2020
The Leading Innovative Talent in the Science and Technology of Suzhou High and New Technology Industrial Development Zone, in 2020
Outstanding Young Scholars Program of Liaoning, in 2020
2019 Highly Cited Researchers from the Web of Science Group in Cross-Field, in 2019
"Talent Project of Revitalizing Liaoning"-Young Top-notch Talent, in 2018
Liaoning "BaiQianWan Talents Program" - Qian Talents Level, in 2018
Distinguished Expert of Provincial Federation Returned Overseas Chinese of Liaoning, in 2018
2018 Highly Cited Researchers from Clarivate Analytics in Cross-Field, in 2018
Chinese Government 1000 Young Talent Plan, in 2017
2017 Emerging Investigator - Journal of Materials Chemistry A, Royal Chemistry Society (RSC), in 2017
Nominee, Nominated for Curtin University Teaching Excellence Award, 2016 Western Australian Regional Achievement and Community Awards, in 2016
France-Australia Science Innovation Collaboration (FASIC) program Early Career Fellowships, and 2014 Rod Rickards Fellowship Australian Academy of Science, in 2014
Pro Vice-Chancellor Awards for Research Excellence (Early Career Research Award), Curtin University, in 2013
JSPS Invitation Fellowships, Australian Academy of Science and the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, in 2013
The Australian Nanotechnology Network (ANN) Travel Awards for Asia Nano Camp 2012, in 2012
UQ Foundation Research Excellence Award, University of Queensland, in 2011
Australian Postdoctoral Fellowship (APD), Australian Research Council (ARC), in 2010
UQ Trans-Pacific Fellowship Award, University of Queensland, in 2010
Chinese Academy of Sciences Excellent PhD Thesis Nomination Award, Chinese Academy of Sciences, in 2010
UQ Early Career Researcher Award, University of Queensland, in 2009
UQ Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, University of Queensland, in 2009
Dean Award of Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2008
Excellent Graduate Student Award of Jiaxi LU in 2008
Young Scientists Award of the 14th International Congress on Catalysis, in 2008
Conference and Professional Society Memberships
I have given more than 100 keynote/invited talks/oral presentations at international conferences and meetings. I also have been invited to give around 100 talks in several universities and institutes, including Tsinghua University (China), and selected as Session Chairs for many conferences. I was member of the organising committee for the International Symposium on Functional Nanomaterials in Brisbane 2009. I am also an Organising Committee Member for IMMS2015 (International Mesostructure Materials Symposium 2015) in Brisbane in 2015, Organising Committee Member of Curtin-UQ Workshop on Nanostructured Electromaterials for Energy in Perth in 2016, and Organising Committee Member of 19th IZC (International Zeolite Congress) was held in Perth in 2019, Organising Committee Member of ChemiCat-2021 which will be held in Washington D.C., March 01-03, 2021 (Other Organising Committee Member are Prof. GABOR A SOMORJAI, Prof. ROBERT AUGUSTINE, Prof. SIBUDING KAWI and Prof. CAN LI). I am a member of the following professional societies:
• Fellow of IAAM, International Association of Advanced Materials (IAAM), Sweden (from 2021-)
• Vebleo Fellow, Vebleo (from 2021-)
• Member of International Zeolite Association (IZA) (from 2007-)
• Member of Australian Research Council Nanotechnology Network (from 2009-)
• Member of International Mesostructured Materials Association (IMMA) (from 2013-)
• International Mesostructured Materials Association (IMMA) Council Member (2021-2027)
• The Royal Australian Chemical Institute Incorporated Member (MRACI) (from 2014-)
• Certified Materials Professional (CMatPTM), Member of Materials Australia (from 2014-)
• Council Member of Inner Mongolia Chemical Society (IMCS) (2022-2027)
• Member of Royal Chemistry Society (MRSC) (from 2015-)
• Member of American Chemical Society (MACS) (from 2017-)
• Member of Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) | Alumni Association of Australia (from 2016-)
• Member of the “ESF College of Expert Reviewers”, European Science Foundation (ESF – www.esf.org) (from 2021-)
• Board Member of RACI Carbon Division (from 2015-)
• Editor in Chief of Materials Today Sustainability, ELSEVIER (from 2018-)
• Editor of Asia-Pacific Journal of Chemical Engineering, WILEY (from 2015-)
• Advisory Editor of Energy Materials (OAE Publishing Inc) (2021-2025)
• Associate Editor of RSC Advances, RSC (2015-2017)
• Associate Editor of Frontiers in Chemistry and Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology (2016-2019)
• Guest Editor of Science Bulletin (2016-2018)
• Editorial Board Member of Materials Today (from 2019-)
• Editorial Board Member of Applied Materials Today (from 2019-)
• Editorial Board Member of Materials Today Advances (from 2019-)
• Editorial Board Member of Materials Today Chemistry (from 2019-)
• Editorial Board Member of Materials Today Energy (from 2019-)
• Editorial Board Member of Materials Today Physics (from 2019-)
• Editorial Board Member of Materials Today Nano (from 2019-)
• Editorial Board Member of Chinese Chemical Letters (from 2021-2025)
• Editorial Board Member of Battery Energy (from 2021-2025)
• Editorial Board Member of Carbon Neutralization, WILEY (from 2022-)
• Editorial Board Member of Nanomaterials, MDPI (from 2022-)
• Editorial Advisory Board of Micro and Nanosystems (from 2017-)
• Editorial Board Young Member of Chinese Journal of Catalysis (2020-2024)
• Editorial Board Young Member of National Science Review (from 2021-2023)
• ECR Deputy for Faculty Research & Development Committee (FRDC) at Curtin (2014-2015)
• Post Graduate Coordinator in Department of Chemical Engineering, Curtin University (2015-2016)
• Western Australia Chinese Scientists Association (WACSA) Council Member (2015-2018)
SELECTED KEY PUBLICATIONS:
1. Jian Liu, Nilantha P. Wickramaratne, Shi Zhang Qiao and Mietek Jaroniec*, “Molecular-based Design and Emerging Applications of Nanoporous Carbon Spheres” Nature Materials, 2015, 14, 763–774. (ESI Highly Cited Paper)
2. Feilong Gong, Yuheng Liu, Yang Zhao, Wei Liu, Guang Zeng, Guoqing Wang, Yonghui Zhang*, Lihua Gong* and Jian Liu*, “Universal Sub-nanoreactor Strategy for Synthesis of Yolk–shell MoS2 Supported Single-atom Electrocatalysts toward Robust Hydrogen-evolution Reaction” Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2023, 62, e202308091. (Cover Paper, Corresponding author)
3. Yutong Pi, Linxia Cui, Wenhao Luo, Haitao Li, Yanfu Ma, Na Ta, Xinyao Wang, Rui Gao, Dan Wang,* Qihua Yang* and Jian Liu*, “Design of Hollow Nanoreactors for Size- and Shape-Selective Catalytic Semihydrogenation Driven by Molecular Recognition” Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2023, 62, e202307096. (Cover Paper, Corresponding author)
4. Xinyao Wang, Xiaowei Yang, Chen Zhao, Yutong Pi, Xiaobo Li, Zhongfan Jia, Si Zhou, Jijun Zhao, Limin Wu* and Jian Liu*, “Ambient Preparation of Benzoxazine-based Phenolic Resins Enables Long-term Sustainable Photosynthesis of Hydrogen Peroxide” Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2023, 62, e202302829. (Corresponding author)
5. Chen Zhao, Xinyao Wang, Yanfeng Yin, Wenming Tian, Guang Zeng, Haitao Li, Sheng Ye*, Limin Wu* and Jian Liu*, “Molecular Level Modulation of Anthraquinone-containing Resorcinol-formaldehyde Resin Photocatalysts for H2O2 Production with Exceeding 1.2% Efficiency” Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2023, 62, e202218318. (Hot Paper, Corresponding author)
6. Panpan Su, Wei Pei, Xiaowei Wang, Yanfu Ma, Qike Jiang, Ji Liang,* Si Zhou,* Jijun Zhao, Jian Liu* and Gao Qing (Max) Lu, “Exceptional Electrochemical HER Performance with Enhanced Electron Transfer between Ru nanoparticles and Single Atoms Dispersed on Carbon Substrate” Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2021, 60, 16044–16050. (Corresponding author)
7. Chao Dong†, Qun Yu†, Run-Ping Ye, Panpan Su, Jian Liu* and Guang-Hui Wang*, “Hollow Carbon Sphere Nanoreactors Loaded with PdCu Nanoparticles: Void-Confinement Effects in Liquid-Phase Hydrogenations” Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2020, 59, 18374–18379. (Cover Paper, Corresponding author)
8. Yueyu Tong, Haipeng Guo, Daolan Liu, Xiao Yan, Panpan Su, Ji Liang*, Si Zhou*, Jian Liu*, Gao Qing (Max) Lu and Shi Xue Dou, “Vacancy Engineering of Fe-doped W18O49 Nanoreactors for Low-barrier Electrochemical Nitrogen Reduction” Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2020, 59, 7356–7361. (Cover Paper, Corresponding author) (ESI Highly Cited Paper)
9. Xiaomin Ren, Miao Guo, He Li, Chengbin Li, Liang Yu,* Jian Liu* and Qihua Yang*, “Microenvironment Engineering of Ru Nanoparticles Incorporated in Silica Nanoreactors for Enhanced Hydrogenations” Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2019, 58, 14483–14488. (VIP Paper, Cover Paper, Corresponding author)
10. Tianyu Yang, Lijuan Wei, Lingyan Jing, Jifen Liang, Xiaoming Zhang, Min Tang, Michael J. Monteiro, Ying (Ian) Chen, Yong Wang, Sai Gu, Dongyuan Zhao, Hengquan Yang*, Jian Liu* and G. Q. Max Lu, “Dumbbell-shaped Bi-component Mesoporous Janus Solid Nanoparticles for Biphasic Interface Catalysis” Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2017, 56, 8459–8463. (Corresponding author)
11. Wei Zhang, Yanyi Zhao, Victor Malgras, Qingmin Ji, Dongmei Jiang, Ruijuan Qi, Katsuhiko Ariga, Yusuke Yamauchi, Jian Liu*, Ji-Sen Jiang* and Ming Hu*, “Monocrystalline Nanoframes of Prussian Blue Analogues through a Controllable Preferential-Etching Synthesis” Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2016, 55, 8228–8234. (Frontispiece, Corresponding author)
12. Jing Tang, Jian Liu*, Cuiling Li, Yunqi Li, Moses O. Tade, Sheng Dai* and Yusuke Yamauchi*, “Synthesis of Nitrogen-Doped Mesoporous Carbon Spheres with Extra-Large Pores through Assembly of Diblock Copolymer Micelles” Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2015, 54, 588–593. (Corresponding author, highlighted in Chemistry in Australia) (ESI Highly Cited Paper)
13. Yan Yang, Xiao Liu, Xiaobo Li, Jiao Zhao, Shiyang Bai, Jian Liu* and Qihua Yang*, “Yolk-Shell Nanoreactor with Basic Core and Acidic Shell for Cascade Reactions” Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2012, 51, 9164–9168. (Corresponding author, Hot Paper, Highlighted in Materials views China)
14. Jian Liu, Shi Zhang Qiao*, Hao Liu, Jun Chen, Ajay Orpe, Dongyuan Zhao and Gao Qing (Max) Lu*, “Extension of Stöber Method for the Preparation of Monodisperse Resorcinol Formaldehyde Resin Polymer and Carbon Spheres” Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2011, 50, 5947–5951. (VIP Paper, Cover Paper, highlighted in Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2011, 50, 9023–9025; and Chemistry in Australia, 2011, 78(7), 10.) (ESI Highly Cited Paper)
15. Jian Liu, Shi Zhang Qiao*, Sandy Budi Hartono and Gao Qing (Max) Lu*, “Monodisperse Yolk-Shell Nano-Particles with Hierarchical Porous Structure as Delivery Vehicles and Nanoreactors” Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2010, 49, 4981–4985. (Cover Paper, highlighted in Chemistry World, 2010, 7(7) 30; Nature Materials, 2010, 9, 534; and Chemistry in Australia, 2010, 77(9), 9, one of 25 the most frequently cited papers among those published in 2010 or 2011, the 25 papers including the papers published from Prof. Michael Gratzel, Prof. Klaus Mullen, Prof. Jurgen Caro, Prof. Shuit-Tong Lee, Prof. C. N. R. Rao) (ESI Highly Cited Paper)
16. Tianyi Liu, Lei Xie, Cameron-Alexander Hurd Price, Jian Liu,* Qiang He* and Biao Kong* “Controlled Propulsion of Micro/Nanomotors: Operational Mechanisms, Motion Manipulation and Potential Biomedical Applications” Chemical Society Reviews, 2022, 51, 10083–10119. (Corresponding author) (Review) (ESI Highly Cited Paper)
17. Yanping Chen*, Jiatong Wei, Melis S. Duyar, Vitaly V. Ordomsky*, Andrei Y. Khodakov and Jian Liu*, “Carbon-based catalysts for Fischer-Tropsch synthesis” Chemical Society Reviews, 2021, 50, 2337–2366. (Cover Paper, Corresponding author) (Review) (ESI Highly Cited Paper)
18. Yash Boyjoo, Meiwen Wang, Vishnu K. Pareek, Jian Liu* and Mietek Jaroniec*, “Synthesis and Applications of Porous Non-silica Metal Oxide Submicrospheres” Chemical Society Reviews, 2016, 45, 6013–6047. (Corresponding author) (Review)
19. Yanfu Ma#, Liwei Wang#, Wantong Zhao#, Tianyi Liu, Haitao Li, Wenhao Luo, Qike Jiang, Wei Liu, Qihua Yang, Jun Huang, Riguang Zhang, Jian Liu*, G. Q. Max Lu and Can Li* “Reactant Enrichment in Hollow Void of Pt NPs@MnOx Nanoreactors for Boosting Hydrogenation Performance” National Science Review, 2023, 10, nwad201. (Corresponding author, highlights from NSR)
20. Hao Tian, Jinhui Zhao, Xinyao Wang, Lizhuo Wang, Hao Liu, Guoxiu Wang, Jun Huang*, Jian Liu* and G. Q. (Max) Lu, “Construction of Hollow Mesoporous Silica Nanoreactors for Enhanced Photo-oxidations over Au-Pt Catalysts” National Science Review, 2020, 7, 1647–1655. (Corresponding author, highlights from NSR)
21. Xiangyu Meng#, Yuzhao Liu#, Yanfu Ma#, Yash Boyjoo, Jian Liu,* Jieshan Qiu and Zhiyu Wang*, “Diagnosing and correcting the failure of solid-state polymer electrolyte for enhancing solid-state lithium-sulfur battery” Advanced Materials, 2023, 35, 2212039. (Corresponding author)
22. Yutong Pi, Yanfu Ma, Xinyao Wang, Cameron-Alexander Hurd Price, Haitao Li, Qinglong Liu, Liwei Wang, Hongyu Chen, Guangjin Hou, Bao-Lian Su* and Jian Liu*, “Multilevel Hollow Phenolic Resin Nanoreactors with Precise Metal Nanoparticles Spatial Location towards Promising Heterogeneous Hydrogenations” Advanced Materials, 2022, 34, 2205153. (Cover Paper, Corresponding author)
23. Xiaowei Wang, Siyao Qiu, Jianmin Feng, Yueyu Tong, Fengling Zhou, Qinye Li, Li Song, Shuangming Chen, Kuang-Hsu Wu, Panpan Su, Sheng Ye, Feng Hou, Shi Xue Dou, Hua Kun Liu, Gao Qing (Max) Lu, Chenghua Sun*, Jian Liu* and Ji Liang*, “Confined Fe-Cu Clusters as Subnanometer Reactors for Efficiently Regulating Electrochemical Nitrogen Reduction Reaction” Advanced Materials, 2020, 32, 2004382. (Cover Paper, Corresponding author)
24. Hao Tian, Ji Liang and Jian Liu*, "Nanoengineering Carbon Spheres as Nanoreactors for Sustainable Energy Applications" Advanced Materials, 2019, 31, 1903886. (Corresponding author) (ESI Highly Cited Paper)
25. Yanping Chen#, Yu Yao#, Wantong Zhao, Lifeng Wang, Haitao Li, Jiangwei Zhang, Baojun Wang, Yi Jia, Riguang Zhang*, Yan Yu* and Jian Liu*, “Precision solid synthesis of CoFe@FeOx nanoparticles for regulating Li/Na–S batteries” Nature Communications, 2023, 14, 5025 | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-18820-y. (Corresponding author)
26. Hao Tian, Huajun Tian, Shijian Wang, Shuangming Chen, Fan Zhang, Li Song*, Hao Liu*, Jian Liu* and Guoxiu Wang*, “High-power Lithium-selenium Batteries Enabled by Atomic Cobalt Electrocatalyst Incorporated in Hollow Carbon Cathode” Nature Communications, 2020, 11, 5025 | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-18820-y. (Corresponding author)
27. Jian Liu*, Tianyu Yang, Da-Wei Wang, Gao Qing (Max) Lu, Dongyuan Zhao and Shi Zhang Qiao*, “A Facile Soft-template Synthesis of Mesoporous Polymeric and Carbonaceous Nanospheres” Nature Communications, 2013, 4, 2798; doi: 10.1038/ncomms3798, Published 17 Dec 2013 (Corresponding author, Nature Communications is ranked #3 in the multidisciplinary sciences category behind Nature and Science, highlighted in Chemistry in Australia, 2014, March, 12; Chemical Engineering in Australia, 2014, 39, 1; Energising WA, 2014, March, 8) (ESI Highly Cited Paper)
28. Yash Boyjoo, Haodong Shi, Qiang Tian, Shaomin Liu, Ji Liang*, Zhong-Shuai Wu*, Mietek Jaroniec and Jian Liu*, “Engineering Nanoreactors for Metal-Chalcogen Batteries” Energy & Environmental Science, 2021, 14, 540–575. (Cover Paper, Corresponding author)
29. Yao Zheng, Jian Liu, Ji Liang, Mietek Jaroniec and Shi Zhang Qiao*, “Graphitic Carbon Nitride Materials: Controllable Synthesis and Applications in Fuel Cells and Photocatalysis” Energy & Environmental Science, 2012, 5, 6717–6731. (Yao Zheng and Jian Liu are contributed equally to this work) (Invited Perspective) (ESI Highly Cited Paper)
30. Chuangwei Liu, Derek Hao, Jin Ye, Sheng Ye, Fengling Zhou, Hongbo Xie, Gaowu Qin, Jiating Xu,* Jian Liu,* Song Li* and Chenghua Sun* “Knowledge-Driven Design and Lab-based Evaluation of B-doped TiO2 Photocatalysts for Ammonia Synthesis” Advanced Energy Materials, 2023, 13, 2204126. (Corresponding author)
31. Yash Boyjoo, Haodong Shi, Emilia Olsson, Qiong Cai, Zhong-Shuai Wu*, Jian Liu* and Gao Qing (Max) Lu, “Molecular-Level Design of Pyrrhotite Electrocatalyst Decorated Hierarchical Porous Carbon Spheres as Nanoreactors for Lithium-Sulfur Batteries” Advanced Energy Materials, 2020, 10, 2000651. (Corresponding author) (ESI Highly Cited Paper)
32. Zhengbin Tian, Chao Dong, Qun Yu, Run-Ping Ye, Melis S. Duyar, Jian Liu*, Heqing Jiang* and Guang-Hui Wang*, “A Universal Nanoreactor Strategy for Scalable Supported Ultrafine Bimetallic Nanoparticles Synthesis” Materials Today, 2020, 40, 72–81. (Cover Paper, Corresponding author)
33. Lin Huang, Deepanjali D. Gurav, Shu Wu, Wei Xu, Vadanasundari Vedarethinam, Jing Yang, Haiyang Su, Xinze Wan, Yuan Fang, Baiyong Shen, Cameron-Alexander Hurd Price, Eirini Velliou, Jian Liu* and Kun Qian*, “A Multifunctional Platinum Nanoreactor for Point-of-care Metabolic Analysis” Matter, 2019, 1, 1669–1680. (Corresponding author)
34. Haiyang Su, Qiang Tian, Cameron-Alexander Hurd Price, Lin Xu, Kun Qian* and Jian Liu*, “Nanoporous Core@Shell Particles: Design, Preparation, Applications in Bioadsorption and Biocatalysis” Nano Today, 2020, 31, 100834. (Corresponding author)
35. Jing Tang, Jian Liu*, Nagy L. Torad, Tatsuo Kimura* and Yusuke Yamauchi*, “Tailored design of functional nanoporous carbon materials toward fuel cell applications” Nano Today, 2014, 9, 305–323. (Corresponding author, Invited Review) (ESI Highly Cited Paper)
36. Yiyan Wang, Zongge Li, Peng Zhang, Yuan Pan, Ying Zhang, Qiong Cai, Ravi Silva, Jian Liu*, Guoxin Zhang* Xiaoming Sun and Zifeng Yan*, “Flexible Carbon Nanofiber Film with Diatomic Fe-Co Sites for Efficient Oxygen Reduction and Evolution Reactions in Wearable Zinc-Air Batteries” Nano Energy, 2021, 87, 106147. (Corresponding author)
37. Yi Cheng, Jinyang Zhang, Xing Wu, Chongjian Tang, Shi-ze Yang, Panpan Su, Lars Thomsen, Feiping Zhao, Shanfu Lu*, Jian Liu* and San Ping Jiang*, “A Template-free Method to Synthesis High Density Iron Single Atoms Anchored on Carbon Nanotubes for High Temperature Polymer Electrolyte Membrane Fuel Cells” Nano Energy, 2021, 80, 105534. (Corresponding author)
38. Feilong Gong, Sheng Ye, Mengmeng Liu, Jiangwei Zhang, Lihua Gong, Guang Zeng, Erchao Meng, Panpan Su, Kefeng Xie, Yonghui Zhang* and Jian Liu*, “Boosting electrochemical oxygen evolution over yolk-shell structured O-MoS2 nanoreactors with sulfur vacancy and decorated Pt nanoparticles” Nano Energy, 2020, 78, 105284. (Corresponding author)
39. Chunjing Shi, Sheng Ye, Xuewen Wang, Fanning Meng, Junxue Liu, Ting Yang, Wei Zhang, Jiatong Wei, Na Ta, Gao Qing (Max) Lu, Ming Hu* and Jian Liu*, “Modular Construction of Prussian Blue Analogue and TiO2 Dual-Compartment Janus Nanoreactor for Efficient Photocatalytic Water Splitting” Advanced Science, 2021, 8, 2001987. (Cover Paper, Corresponding author)
40. Hao Tian, Xiaoyan Liu, Liubing Dong, Xiaomin Ren, Hao Liu, Cameron Alexander Hurd Price, Ying Li, Guoxiu Wang, Qihua Yang and Jian Liu*, “Enhanced Hydrogenation Performance over Hollow Structured Co-CoOx@N-C Capsules” Advanced Science, 2019, 6, 1900807. (Cover Paper, Corresponding author)
41. Liqiu Zhang, Kun Qian, Xupeng Wang, Fan Zhang, Xin Shi,* Yijiao Jiang, Shaomin Liu, Mietek Jaroniec and Jian Liu*, “Yolk-Shell Structured Aluminum Phenylphosphonate Microspheres with Anionic Core and Cationic Shell” Advanced Science, 2016, 3, 1500363; DOI: 10.1002/advs.201500363; published online 25th February 2016. (Cover Paper, Highlighted in MaterialsViewsChina, Corresponding author)
42. Qiang Tian#, Xiang-Kang Zeng#, Chen Zhao#, Ling-Yan Jing, Xi-Wang Zhang* and Jian Liu* “Exceptional Photocatalytic Hydrogen Peroxide Production from Sandwich-structured Graphene Interlayered Phenolic Resins Nanosheets with Mesoporous Channels” Advanced Functional Materials, 2023, 33, 2213173. (Corresponding author)
43. Feilong Gong, Mengmeng Liu, Lihua Gong, Sheng Ye*, Qike Jiang, Guang Zeng, Xiaoli Zhang, Zhikun Peng, Yonghui Zhang, Shaoming Fang* and Jian Liu* “Modulation of Mo-Fe-C Sites over Mesoscale Diffusion-enhanced Hollow Sub-micro Reactors toward Boosted Electrochemical Water Oxidation” Advanced Functional Materials, 2022, 32, 2202141. (Cover Paper, Corresponding author)
44. Yueyu Tong, Jiaxin Liu, Liqun Wang, Bing-Jian Su, Kuang-Hsu Wu, Jenh-Yih Juang, Feng Hou*, Lichang Yin*, Shi Xue Dou, Jian Liu* and Ji Liang* “Carbon-shielded Single-atom Alloy Material Family for Multi-functional Electrocatalysis” Advanced Functional Materials, 2022, 32, 2205654. (Corresponding author)
45. Xiaowei Wang, Yanyan Zhao, Liqun Wang, Wei Peng, Jianmin Feng*, Dejun Li, Bing-Jian Su, Jenh-Yih Juang, Yanfu Ma, Yanping Chen, Feng Hou, Si Zhou*, Hua Kun Liu, Shi Xue Dou, Jian Liu* and Ji Liang* “Regulating the Electronic Configuration of Supported Iron Nanoparticles for Electrochemical Catalytic Nitrogen Fixation” Advanced Functional Materials, 2022, 32, 2111733. (Corresponding author)
46. Feilong Gong, Mengmeng Liu, Sheng Ye,* Lihua Gong, Guang Zeng, Lin Xu, Xiaoli Zhang, Yonghui Zhang, Liming Zhou, Shaoming Fang* and Jian Liu*, “All-pH stable sandwich-structured MoO2/MoS2/C hollow nanoreactors for enhanced electrochemical hydrogen evolution” Advanced Functional Materials, 2021, 31, 2101715. (Corresponding author)
47. Hao Tian#, Huajun Tian#, Wu Yang, Fan Zhang, Wang Yang, Qiaobao Zhang*, Yong Wang, Jian Liu*, S. Ravi P. Silva, Hao Liu* and Guoxiu Wang*, “Stable Hollow-structured Silicon Suboxide-based Anodes toward High-performance Lithium-ion Batteries” Advanced Functional Materials, 2021, 31, 2101796. (Cover Paper, Corresponding author)
48. Hao Tian, Fei Huang, Yihan Zhu, Shaomin Liu, Yu Han, Mietek Jaroniec, Qihua Yang, Hongyang Liu*, G. Q. Max Lu and Jian Liu*, “The Development of Yolk-shell Structured Pd&ZnO@carbon Submicroreactors with High Selectivity and Stability” Advanced Functional Materials, 2018, 28, 1801737. (Cover Paper, Corresponding author)
49. Jian Liu, Heng Quan Yang, Freddy Kleitz, Zhi Gang Chen, Tianyu Yang, Ekaterina Strounina, Gao Qing (Max) Lu* and Shi Zhang Qiao*, “Yolk-Shell Hybrid Materials with Periodic Mesoporous Organosilicas (PMO) Shell: Ideal Nanoreactors for Selective Alcohol Oxidation” Advanced Functional Materials, 2012, 22, 591–599. (Cover Paper) (ESI Highly Cited Paper)
50. Jian Liu, Qihua Yang*, Lei Zhang, Dongmei Jiang, Xin Shi, Jie Yang, Hua Zhong and Can Li*, “Thioether-bridged Mesoporous Organosilicas: Mesophase Transformation Induced by the Bridged Organosilane Precursor” Advanced Functional Materials, 2007, 17, 569–576.
51. Jian Liu, Jie Yang, Qihua Yang*, Gang Wang and Ying Li, “Hydrothermal stable Thioether-Bridged Mesoporous Materials with Voids in the Pore Wall” Advanced Functional Materials, 2005, 15, 1297–1302.
52. Tianyi Liu, Miao Yan, Shan Zhou, Qirui Liang, Yanjun He, Xin Zhang, Hui Zeng, Jian Liu* and Biao Kong*, “Site-selective Superassembly of Multi-Level Asymmetric Nanomotor with Wavelength-Modulated Propulsion Mechanism” ACS Nano, 2023, 17, 14871–14882. (Corresponding author)
53. Xia Yin,# Jing Yang,# Mengji Zhang,# Xinyao Wang,# Wei Xu, Cameron Alexander Hurd Price, Lin Huang, Wanshan Liu, Haiyang Su, Wenjing Wang, Hongyu Chen, Guangjin Hou, Mark Walker, Ying Zhou, Zhen Shen, Jian Liu,* Kun Qian* and Wen Di*, "Serum metabolic fingerprints on bowl-shaped submicroreactor chip for chemotherapy monitoring" ACS Nano, 2022, 16, 2852–2865. (Corresponding author)
54. Peiyuan Wang, Shumin Sun, Yu Jiang, Qiong Cai, Yong-Hui Zhang, Liming Zhou, Shaoming Fang,* Jian Liu* and Yan Yu*, “Hierarchical Microtubes Constructed by MoS2 Nanosheets with Enhanced Sodium Storage Performance” ACS Nano, 2020, 14, 15577–15586. (Corresponding author)
55. Xuefei Wang, Tianyi Liu, Haitao Li, Chao Han, Panpan Su, Na Ta, San Ping Jiang, Biao Kong, Jian Liu* and Zhenguo Huang* “Balancing mass transfer and active sites to improve electrocatalytic oxygen reduction by B,N co-doped C nanoreactors” Nano Letters, 2023, 23, 4699–4707. (Cover Paper, Corresponding author)
56. Hao Tian, Songcan Wang, Chi Zhang, Jean-Pierre Veder, Jian Pan, Mietek Jaroniec, Lianzhou Wang and Jian Liu*, “Design and Synthesis of Porous ZnTiO3/TiO2 Nanocages with Heterojunctions for Enhanced Photocatalytic H2 Production” Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 2017, 5, 11615–11622. (Cover Paper, Corresponding author)
57. Yanping Chen, Lixuan Ma, Riguang Zhang, Runping Ye, Wei Liu, Jiatong Wei, Vitaly V. Ordomsky* and Jian Liu*, “Carbon-supported Fe catalysts with well-defined active sites for highly selective alcohol production from Fischer-Tropsch synthesis” Applied Catalysis B: Environmental, 2022, 312, 121393. (Corresponding author)
58. Wei Zhang, Xiangfen Jiang, Yanyi Zhao, Arnau Carné Sánchez, Victor Malgras, Jeonghun Kim, Jung Ho Kim, Shaobin Wang, Jian Liu,* Ji-Sen Jiang, Yusuke Yamauchi* and Ming Hu*, “Hollow Carbon Nanobubbles: Monocrystalline MOF Nanobubbles and Their Pyrolysis” Chemical Science, 2017, 8, 3538–3546. (Corresponding author) (ESI Highly Cited Paper)
59. Tianyu Yang, Huajuan Ling, Jean-François Lamonier, Mietek Jaroniec, Jun Huang,* Michael J. Monteiro* and Jian Liu*, “A Synthetic Strategy for Carbon Nanospheres Impregnated with Highly Monodispersed Metal Nanoparticles” NPG Asia Materials, 2016, 8, e240; doi:10.1038/am.2015.145; published online 5th February 2016. (Corresponding author)
60. Lingyan Jing#, Cheng Tang#, Qiang Tian, Tianyi Liu, Sheng Ye, Panpan Su, Yao Zheng, Jian Liu*, “Meso-scale Diffusion Enhancement of Carbon Bowl-shaped Nanoreactor toward High Performance Electrochemical H2O2 Production” ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 2021, 13, 39763–39771. (Corresponding author)
61. Lixuan Ma, Runping Ye,* Yuanyuan Huang, Tomas Ramirez Reina, Xinyao Wang, Congming Li, Xiao Li Zhang, Maohong Fan, Riguang Zhang* and Jian Liu* “Enhanced Low-temperature CO2 Methanation Performance of Ni/ZrO2 Catalysts via a Phase Engineering Strategy” Chemical Engineering Journal, 2022, 446, 137031. (Corresponding author)
62. Mengmeng Liu,# Jing Zhu,# Yuheng Liu, Feilong Gong,* Rui Li, Hong Chen, Meng Zhao, Jian Liu* and Sheng Ye* “Modulating the Electronic Structures of Layer-expanded MoS2 Nanoreactor via Cobalt Doping and Carbon Intercalation for Enhanced Electrocatalytic Hydrogen Evolution” Chemical Engineering Journal, 2022, 446, 137080. (Corresponding author)
63. Xiaoyan Liu, Guojun Lan, Yash Boyjoo, Lihua Qian, Sai Gu, Cameron Alexander Hurd Price, Liang Wang, Ying Li* and Jian Liu*, “N-doped carbon spheres impregnated with highly monodispersed ruthenium nanoparticles as a hydrogenation catalyst” Chemical Engineering Journal, 2019, 374, 895–903. (Corresponding author)
64. Qiang Tian, Lingyan Jing, Sheng Ye, Junxue Liu, Ruotian Chen, Cameron-Alexander Hurd Price, Fengtao Fan and Jian Liu* “Nanospatial Charge Modulation of Monodispersed Polymeric Microsphere Photocatalysts for Exceptional Hydrogen Peroxide Production” Small, 2021, 17, 2103224. (Corresponding author)
65. Jiatong Wei#, Yanping Chen#, Yanfu Ma, Xin Shi*, Xiaoli Zhang, Chunjing Shi, Ming Hu and Jian Liu*, “Precisely Engineering Architectures of Co/C Submicroreactors for Selective Syngas Conversion” Small, 2021, 17, 2100082. (Corresponding author)
66. Xiaoyan Liu, Sheng Ye, Guojun Lan, Panpan Su, Xiaoli Zhang, Cameron Alexander Hurd Price, Ying Li* and Jian Liu*, “Atomic Pyridinic Nitrogen Sites Promoting Levulinic Acid Hydrogenations over Double-Shelled Hollow Ru/C Nanoreactors” Small, 2021, 17, 2101271. (Corresponding author)
67. Run-Ping Ye, Xinyao Wang, Cameron-Alexander Hurd Price, Xiaoyan Liu, Qihua Yang, Mietek Jaroniec, and Jian Liu*, “Engineering of Yolk/Core–Shell Structured Nanoreactors for Thermal Hydrogenations” Small, 2021, 17, 1906250. (Invited Review, Corresponding author)
68. Jian Liu, Shi Zhang Qiao*, Qiu Hong Hu and Gao Qing (Max) Lu*, “Magnetic Nanocomposites with Mesoporous Structures: Synthesis and Applications” Small, 2011, 7, 425–443. (Cover Paper, invited review) (ESI Highly Cited Paper)
69. Jian Liu, Shi Zhang Qiao*, Jun Song Chen, Xiong Wen (David) Lou*, Xianran Xing and Gao Qing (Max) Lu*, “Yolk/shell Nanoparticles: New Platforms for Nanoreactors, Drug Delivery and Lithium-ion Batteries” Chemical Communications, 2011, 47, 12578–12591. (Invited Feature Article, Top 25 most-read ChemComm articles in 2013) (ESI Highly Cited Paper)
70. Jian Liu, Qihua Yang*, Lei Zhang, Hengquan Yang, Jinsuo Gao and Can Li*, “Organic-inorganic Hybrid Hollow Nanospheres with Microwindows on the Shell” Chemistry of Materials, 2008, 20, 4268–4275.
