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Research Interests

Molecular assembling via Chemical Vapor Deposition
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Controlled growth of low-dimensional materials with desired properties and compatibility for industrialization
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Crystallographic tailoring using nanoparticles toward modern circuit integration.
Selected publications
Gao et al.,Nature,505,190,(2013).
Liu et al.,Small,10,944,(2014).

Selected publications
LIU et al.,Nat. Nanotechnol. 13, 828, (2018).
Liu et al.,Nano Let,17,1970,(2017).
Properties Tuning of 2D materials & Heterostructure
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Chemical functionalization and/or modification of 2D materials
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Interface engineering & defect engineering at atomic level
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Exploiting new physical phenomenon in 2D materials and their heterostructure.

2D materials with water
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probing and understanding interface and/or interaction between 2D materials and water (in various phases)
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Unique behavior of this systems under extreme conditions
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New mechanism of harvesting energy from 2D materials/water system.
Selected publications
Zhang et al.,Nat.Nanotechnol,,13,1109,(2018).
Xu et al.,Science,329,1188,(2011).

Selected publications
Liu et al.,Nano Lett,18,3377,(2018).
Stanford et al.,npj 2D Mater. Appl. 2, 20 (2018)).
Developing novel nano- and micro- devices
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In a device environment, controlling the electron flow under light, electrical bias, gating and magnetic fields
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Toward industrialization, rationally designing the device architecture and components, developing refresh devices including, efficient hydrovoltaic converters, opto-electronic device and etc.
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