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Hongtao Liu is affiliated with Central South University in China and has produced extensive research primarily in the fields of engineering and materials science. Their scholarly contribution spans over 300 publications, with significant work in electrical and electronic engineering, materials chemistry, renewable energy and environmental sustainability, mechanical engineering, and electronic, optical, and magnetic materials.

Their research topics focus on advanced battery technologies, electrocatalysts for energy conversion, battery materials and technologies, supercapacitor materials, zeolite catalysis, and fuel cells. These areas reflect a broad engagement with energy storage and conversion technologies as well as material synthesis and characterization.

Hongtao Liu has published frequently in several scientific journals and venues, including:

  • Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research
  • Chemical Engineering Journal
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Electrochimica Acta
  • ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Hongtao Liu include:

  • Insight into the Mechanism of Axial Ligands Regulating the Catalytic Activity of Fe-N4 Sites for Oxygen Reduction Reaction, 2022, Advanced Energy Materials
  • 2D fin field-effect transistors integrated with epitaxial high-k gate oxide, 2023, Nature
  • Theory-Guided Regulation of FeN4 Spin State by Neighboring Cu Atoms for Enhanced Oxygen Reduction Electrocatalysis in Flexible Metal-Air Batteries, 2022, Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • A single-crystalline native dielectric for two-dimensional semiconductors with an equivalent oxide thickness below 0.5 nm, 2022, Nature Electronics
  • Single-crystalline van der Waals layered dielectric with high dielectric constant, 2023, Nature Materials

Frequent collaborators include Tieqi Huang, Weiying Wu, Shangbin Sang, Cuijuan Zhang, and Jiaxing Liu, demonstrating ongoing partnerships in various research projects.

In addition to articles, Hongtao Liu has contributed to book publications, including a work published by Frontiers Media titled Celebrating 1 year of Frontiers in Electronic Materials in 2024.

Best Publications

  • Highly π-extended copolymers with diketopyrrolopyrrole moieties for high-performance field-effect transistors.

    Huajie Chen;Yunlong Guo;Gui Yu;Yan Zhao

  • Scalable Production of a Few-Layer MoS2/WS2 Vertical Heterojunction Array and Its Application for Photodetectors

    Yunzhou Xue;Yunzhou Xue;Yupeng Zhang;Yan Liu;Hongtao Liu

  • Ionic liquids in surface electrochemistry

    Hongtao Liu;Yang Liu;Jinghong Li

  • A Ferroelectric/Electrochemical Modulated Organic Synapse for Ultraflexible, Artificial Visual-Perception System

    Hanlin Wang;Qiang Zhao;Zhenjie Ni;Qingyuan Li

  • Insight into the Mechanism of Axial Ligands Regulating the Catalytic Activity of Fe–N4 Sites for Oxygen Reduction Reaction

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  • Carboxyl-functionalized graphene oxide–polyaniline composite as a promising supercapacitor material

    Yan Liu;Ruijie Deng;Zan Wang;Hongtao Liu

  • An ionic liquid-type carbon paste electrode and its polyoxometalate-modified properties

    Hongtao Liu;Ping He;Zhiying Li;Chunyan Sun

  • Electrochemical deposition of silver in room-temperature ionic liquids and its surface-enhanced Raman scattering effect.

    Ping He;Hongtao Liu;Zhiying Li;Yang Liu

  • Monolayer Hexagonal Boron Nitride Films with Large Domain Size and Clean Interface for Enhancing the Mobility of Graphene‐Based Field‐Effect Transistors

    Lifeng Wang;Lifeng Wang;Bin Wu;Jisi Chen;Hongtao Liu

  • Theory-Guided Regulation of FeN4 Spin State by Neighboring Cu Atoms for Enhanced Oxygen Reduction Electrocatalysis in Flexible Metal-Air Batteries.

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  • Ethylene glycol reduced graphene oxide/polypyrrole composite for supercapacitor

    Yan Liu;Yao Zhang;Guoheng Ma;Zan Wang

  • Inkjet Printing High‐Resolution, Large‐Area Graphene Patterns by Coffee‐Ring Lithography

    Lei Zhang;Hongtao Liu;Yan Zhao;Xiangnan Sun

  • Atomically sharp interface enabled ultrahigh-speed, nonvolatile memory devices.

    Liangmei Wu;AiWei Wang;Jinan Shi;Jiahao Yan

  • The design and construction of a high-resolution velocity-map imaging apparatus for photoelectron spectroscopy studies of size-selected clusters

    Iker León;Zheng Yang;Hong-Tao Liu;Lai-Sheng Wang

  • Heterogeneous NiCo 2 O 4 @polypyrrole core/sheath nanowire arrays on Ni foam for high performance supercapacitors

    Jing Hu;Minchan Li;Minchan Li;Fucong Lv;Mingyang Yang;Mingyang Yang

  • A novel room temperature ionic liquid sol–gel matrix for amperometric biosensor application

    Yang Liu;Lihong Shi;Meijia Wang;Zhiying Li

  • Production of Graphite Chloride and Bromide Using Microwave Sparks

    Jian Zheng;Hong-Tao Liu;Bin Wu;Chong-An Di

  • Facile interfacial adhesion enabled LATP-based solid-state lithium metal battery

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  • Preparation and Properties of Nanostructure Anatase TiO2 Monoliths Using 1-Butyl-3-methylimidazolium Tetrafluoroborate Room-Temperature Ionic Liquids as Template Solvents

    Yang Liu;Jun Li;Meijia Wang;Zhiying Li

  • Evolution of conductive filament and its impact on reliability issues in oxide-electrolyte based resistive random access memory

    Hangbing Lv;Xiaoxin Xu;Hongtao Liu;Ruoyu Liu

  • Highly active horseradish peroxidase immobilized in 1-butyl-3-methylimidazolium tetrafluoroborate room-temperature ionic liquid based sol–gel host materials

    Yang Liu;Yang Liu;Meijia Wang;Jun Li;Zhiying Li

  • Holey graphene hydrogel with in-plane pores for high-performance capacitive desalination

    Weiqing Kong;Xidong Duan;Yongjie Ge;Hongtao Liu

  • The electrochemical behavior of Cl− assisted Al3+ insertion into titanium dioxide nanotube arrays in aqueous solution for aluminum ion batteries

    Yingying Liu;Shangbin Sang;Qiumei Wu;Zhouguang Lu

Frequent Co-Authors

Yunqi Liu
Yunqi Liu Fudan University
Yunlong Guo
Yunlong Guo University of Tokyo
Jinghong Li
Jinghong Li Tsinghua University
Gui Yu
Gui Yu Chinese Academy of Sciences
Ming Liu
Ming Liu Fudan University
Shibing Long
Shibing Long University of Science and Technology of China
Hangbing Lv
Hangbing Lv Chinese Academy of Sciences
Zhouguang Lu
Zhouguang Lu Southern University of Science and Technology
Wenping Hu
Wenping Hu Tianjin University
Jian Zheng
Jian Zheng National Institutes for Quantum and Radiological Science and Technology

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