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06/2013-08/2013
Summer student at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
Exploring transport phenomena in electrochemical system through multi-scale methods.
2008 – Present
Graduate student research assistant at Rice University.
Multi-scale modeling of synthese, structures, properties and applications of low-dimensional nano-materials. First-principles computations and molecular dynamics simulations are employed to investigate the underlying physics of materials.
2006-2008
Undergraduate student research assistant at University of Science and Technology of China (USTC).
Modeling and fabrication of biomimic superhydrophobic surfaces.
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Categorized by topics
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Synthesis/crystal growth
Y. Liu, E. S. Penev, and B. I. Yakobson, “Probing the Synthesis of Two-dimensional Boron by First-principles Computations”, Angew. Chem. Int. Edit. DOI: 10.1002/anie.201207972
Y. Liu, A. Dobrinsky, and B. I. Yakobson “Graphene Edge from Armchair to Zigzag: The Origins of Nanotube Chirality?” Phys. Rev. Lett. 2010 105 235502
V. I. Artyukhov, Y. Liu, and B. I. Yakobson “Equilibrium at the Edge and Atomistic Mechanisms of Graphene Growth” Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 2012 109 15136
H. Zhou, F. Yu, Y. Liu, X. Zou, C. Cong, C. Qiu, T. Yu, Z. Yan, X. Shen, L. Sun, B. I. Yakobson, and J. M. Tour, “Thickness-Dependent Patterning of MoS2 Sheets with Well Oriented Triangular Pits by Heating in Air”, submitted.
Z. Yan, Y. Liu, J. Lin, Z. Peng, E. Beitler, H. Zhou, C. Xiang, A. O Raji, E. L. Samuel, T. Yu, B. I. Yakobson and J. M. Tour, “Hexagonal Graphene Onions”, submitted.
Defects/interfaces
Y. Liu and B. I. Yakobson, “Cones, Pringles, and Grain Boundary Landscapes in Graphene Topology”, Nano Lett. 2010 10 2178
Y. Liu, S. Bhowmick, and B. I. Yakobson, “BN White Graphene with “Colorful” Edges: The Energies and Morphology”, Nano Lett. 2011 11 3113
Y. Liu, X. Zou, and B. I. Yakobson, “Dislocations and Grain Boundaries in Two-Dimensional Boron Nitride”, ACS Nano 2012 6 7053
X. Zou, Y. Liu, and B. I. Yakobson, “Predicting Dislocations and Grain Boundaries in Two-dimensional Metal-disulfides from the First Principles”, Nano Lett. 2013 13 253
Energy storage/battery
Y. Liu, Vasilii I. Artyukhov, Mingjie Liu, Avetik R. Harutyunyan, and Boris I. Yakobson; “Feasibility of Lithium Storage on Graphene and Its Derivatives”, J. Phys. Chem. Lett., 2013, 4, 1737
Mechanics/fracture
K. Kim, V. I. Artyukhov, W. Regan, Y. Liu, M. Crommie, B. I. Yakobson and A. Zettl, “Ripping Graphene: Preferred Directions”, Nano Lett. 2012 12 293
Thermo- & electric- transport
A code BallTran has been developed to calculate the ballistic transport properties of low-dimensional materials. See http://yuanyueliu.rice.edu/codes for details.
Catalysis/electrochemistry
Currently I am studying the Hydrodesulfurization (HDS) and Hydrogen Evolution Reaction (HER) of MoS2 nanoparticles.
Biomimetic/superhydrophobic materials
M. Gong, X. Xu, Z. Yang, Y. Liu, H. Lv, and L. Lv, “A Reticulate Superhydrophobic Self-assembly Structure Prepared by ZnO Nanowires”, Nanotechnology 2009 20 165602
M. Gong, Y. Liu and X. Xu, “A New Model for the Formation of Contact Angle and Contact Angle Hysteresis”, Chinese Physics B 2010 19 106801
M. Gong, X. Xu, Z. Cao, Y. Liu and H. Zhu, “Two-step Growth of Superhydrophobic ZnO Nanorod Array Films”, Acta Physica Sinica 2009 58 1885