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  • 2026 - Research.com Chemistry in Canada Leader Award
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  • 2025 - Research.com Chemistry in Canada Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Materials Science in Canada Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Chemistry in Canada Leader Award

Overview

Juewen Liu is affiliated with the University of Waterloo in Canada and has an extensive publication record in the fields of biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, materials science, and engineering. Their research spans a range of subfields including molecular biology, materials chemistry, biomedical engineering, electrical and electronic engineering, and spectroscopy.

Their work covers numerous advanced scientific topics such as advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques, advanced nanomaterials in catalysis, biosensors and analytical detection, DNA and nucleic acid chemistry, nanocluster synthesis and applications, RNA interference and gene delivery, and electrochemical sensors and biosensors.

Juewen Liu has published frequently in specific scientific venues, with numerous contributions to:

  • Langmuir
  • Analytical Chemistry
  • Angewandte Chemie
  • Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • The Analyst

Their collaboration network includes frequent co-authors such as Mohamad Zandieh, Po-Jung Jimmy Huang, Zhihe Qing, Yuzhe Ding, and Biwu Liu.

Some of their recent published papers include:

  • Regenerable and stable sp2 carbon-conjugated covalent organic frameworks for selective detection and extraction of uranium, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Nanozymes: A clear definition with fuzzy edges, 2021, Nano Today
  • Nanozymes: Definition, Activity, and Mechanisms, 2023, Advanced Materials
  • Nanozyme for tumor therapy: Surface modification matters, 2021, Exploration
  • Biosensors and sensors for dopamine detection, 2020, View

Best Publications

  • Functional Nucleic Acid Sensors

    Juewen Liu;Zehui Cao;Yi Lu

  • A Colorimetric Lead Biosensor Using DNAzyme-Directed Assembly of Gold Nanoparticles

    Juewen Liu;Yi Lu

  • Preparation of aptamer-linked gold nanoparticle purple aggregates for colorimetric sensing of analytes

    Juewen Liu;Yi Lu

  • Fast Colorimetric Sensing of Adenosine and Cocaine Based on a General Sensor Design Involving Aptamers and Nanoparticles

    Juewen Liu;Yi Lu

  • The targeted delivery of multicomponent cargos to cancer cells by nanoporous particle-supported lipid bilayers

    Carlee E. Ashley;Carlee E. Ashley;Eric C. Carnes;Genevieve K. Phillips;David P Padilla

  • Metal Sensing by DNA

    Wenhu Zhou;Wenhu Zhou;Runjhun Saran;Juewen Liu

  • Accelerated color change of gold nanoparticles assembled by DNAzymes for simple and fast colorimetric Pb2+ detection.

    Juewen Liu;Yi Lu

  • A DNAzyme catalytic beacon sensor for paramagnetic Cu2+ ions in aqueous solution with high sensitivity and selectivity.

    Juewen Liu;Yi Lu

  • Rational Design of “Turn‐On” Allosteric DNAzyme Catalytic Beacons for Aqueous Mercury Ions with Ultrahigh Sensitivity and Selectivity

    Juewen Liu;Yi Lu

  • Regenerable and stable sp 2 carbon-conjugated covalent organic frameworks for selective detection and extraction of uranium

    Wei-Rong Cui;Cheng-Rong Zhang;Wei Jiang;Fang-Fang Li

  • Molecular Imprinting on Inorganic Nanozymes for Hundred-fold Enzyme Specificity

    Zijie Zhang;Xiaohan Zhang;Biwu Liu;Juewen Liu

  • Instantaneous and Quantitative Functionalization of Gold Nanoparticles with Thiolated DNA Using a pH-Assisted and Surfactant-Free Route

    Xu Zhang;Mark R. Servos;Juewen Liu

  • A catalytic beacon sensor for uranium with parts-per-trillion sensitivity and millionfold selectivity

    Juewen Liu;Andrea K. Brown;Xiangli Meng;Donald M. Cropek

  • Adsorption and desorption of DNA on graphene oxide studied by fluorescently labeled oligonucleotides.

    Marissa Wu;Ravindra Kempaiah;Po-Jung Jimmy Huang;Vivek Maheshwari

  • Aptamer-based biosensors for biomedical diagnostics.

    Wenhu Zhou;Po-Jung Jimmy Huang;Jinsong Ding;Juewen Liu;Juewen Liu

  • Nanozymes: A clear definition with fuzzy edges

    Hui Wei;Lizeng Gao;Kelong Fan;Juewen Liu

  • Highly Sensitive and Selective Colorimetric Sensors for Uranyl (UO22+): Development and Comparison of Labeled and Label-Free DNAzyme-Gold Nanoparticle Systems

    Jung Heon Lee;Zidong Wang;Juewen Liu;Yi Lu

  • Surface modification of nanozymes

    Biwu Liu;Juewen Liu

  • Adsorption of DNA onto gold nanoparticles and graphene oxide: surface science and applications

    Juewen Liu

  • Multicopper Laccase Mimicking Nanozymes with Nucleotides as Ligands

    Hao Liang;Feifei Lin;Zijie Zhang;Biwu Liu

  • Regenerable DNA-functionalized hydrogels for ultrasensitive, instrument-free mercury(II) detection and removal in water.

    Neeshma Dave;Michelle Y Chan;Po-Jung Jimmy Huang;Brendan D Smith

  • A Simple and Sensitive “Dipstick” Test in Serum Based on Lateral Flow Separation of Aptamer-Linked Nanostructures

    Juewen Liu;Debapriya Mazumdar;Yi Lu

Frequent Co-Authors

Yi Lu
Yi Lu University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
C. Jeffrey Brinker
C. Jeffrey Brinker University of New Mexico
Peng Wu
Peng Wu Sichuan University
Ronghua Yang
Ronghua Yang Changsha University of Science and Technology
Qipeng Yuan
Qipeng Yuan Beijing University of Chemical Technology
Mark R. Servos
Mark R. Servos University of Waterloo
Jian-Ding Qiu
Jian-Ding Qiu Nanchang University
Yibin Ying
Yibin Ying Zhejiang University
Ru-Ping Liang
Ru-Ping Liang Nanchang University
Xiandeng Hou
Xiandeng Hou Sichuan University

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