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Overview

Kai Liu is affiliated with Tsinghua University in China and has a significant body of research primarily in the fields of Engineering and Materials Science. Their work spans multiple subfields including Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Materials Chemistry, Mechanical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, and Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment.

Their research covers a variety of specialized topics such as:

  • Advanced Memory and Neural Computing
  • 2D Materials and Applications
  • Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials
  • Perovskite Materials and Applications
  • Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion
  • MXene and MAX Phase Materials
  • Conducting Polymers and Applications

Kai Liu has published multiple papers in well-recognized scientific journals. Some of their recent publications include:

  • "Ultrafast self-heating synthesis of robust heterogeneous nanocarbides for high current density hydrogen evolution reaction," 2022, Nature Communications
  • "Progress and perspective of high strain NBT-based lead-free piezoceramics and multilayer actuators," 2020, Journal of Materiomics
  • "Adsorption of C2H2, CH4 and CO on Mn-doped graphene: Atomic, electronic, and gas-sensing properties," 2020, Physica E Low-dimensional Systems and Nanostructures
  • "Ultralow-Power and Multisensory Artificial Synapse Based on Electrolyte-Gated Vertical Organic Transistors," 2022, Advanced Functional Materials
  • "Biomimetic olfactory chips based on large-scale monolithically integrated nanotube sensor arrays," 2024, Nature Electronics

The scientist collaborates frequently with several coauthors, including Yonghuang Wu, Enze Wang, Zeqin Xin, Chenyu Li, and Run Shi, indicating active involvement in collaborative projects.

Kai Liu's work has been published extensively in notable venues with high productivity in:

  • Advanced Materials
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Advanced Functional Materials
  • ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

Best Publications

  • Monolayer behaviour in bulk ReS2 due to electronic and vibrational decoupling

    Sefaattin Tongay;Sefaattin Tongay;Hasan Sahin;Changhyun Ko;Alex Luce

  • Tuning Interlayer Coupling in Large-Area Heterostructures with CVD-Grown MoS2 and WS2 Monolayers

    Sefaattin Tongay;Wen Fan;Wen Fan;Jun Kang;Joonsuk Park

  • Recent progresses on physics and applications of vanadium dioxide

    Kai Liu;Sangwook Lee;Shan Yang;Olivier Delaire

  • Anomalously low electronic thermal conductivity in metallic vanadium dioxide

    Sangwook Lee;Sangwook Lee;Kedar Hippalgaonkar;Kedar Hippalgaonkar;Fan Yang;Fan Yang;Jiawang Hong;Jiawang Hong

  • Flexible, Stretchable, Transparent Conducting Films Made from Superaligned Carbon Nanotubes

    Chen Feng;Kai Liu;Jeah-Sheng Wu;Liang Liu

  • Elastic properties of chemical-vapor-deposited monolayer MoS2, WS2, and their bilayer heterostructures.

    Kai Liu;Qimin Yan;Michelle Chen;Wen Fan;Wen Fan

  • Controlled fabrication of high-quality carbon nanoscrolls from monolayer graphene.

    Xu Xie;Long Ju;Xiaofeng Feng;Yinghui Sun

  • Anisotropic in-plane thermal conductivity of black phosphorus nanoribbons at temperatures higher than 100 K

    Sangwook Lee;Fan Yang;Joonki Suh;Sijie Yang

  • Controlled Growth of Super-Aligned Carbon Nanotube Arrays for Spinning Continuous Unidirectional Sheets with Tunable Physical Properties

    Kai Liu;Yinghui Sun;Lei Chen;Chen Feng

  • Fast Adaptive Thermal Camouflage Based on Flexible VO2/Graphene/CNT Thin Films

    Lin Xiao;He Ma;Junku Liu;Wei Zhao

  • Carbon nanotube yarns with high tensile strength made by a twisting and shrinking method

    Kai Liu;Yinghui Sun;Ruifeng Zhou;Hanyu Zhu

  • Scratch-resistant, highly conductive, and high-strength carbon nanotube-based composite yarns.

    Kai Liu;Yinghui Sun;Xiaoyang Lin;Ruifeng Zhou

  • Measuring the work function of carbon nanotubes with thermionic method.

    Peng Liu;Qin Sun;Feng Zhu;Kai Liu

  • Ultrafast self-heating synthesis of robust heterogeneous nanocarbides for high current density hydrogen evolution reaction

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  • Comprehensive study of the metal-insulator transition in pulsed laser deposited epitaxial VO2 thin films

    Deyi Fu;Kai Liu;Tao Tao;Kelvin Lo

  • Giant-amplitude, high-work density microactuators with phase transition activated nanolayer bimorphs.

    Kai Liu;Chun Cheng;Zhenting Cheng;Kevin Wang;Kevin Wang

  • A growth mark method for studying growth mechanism of carbon nanotube arrays

    Kai Liu;Kaili Jiang;Chen Feng;Zhuo Chen

  • Highly Sensitive Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering Substrate Made from Superaligned Carbon Nanotubes

    Yinghui Sun;Kai Liu;Jiao Miao;Zheyao Wang

  • Cross‐Stacked Superaligned Carbon Nanotube Films for Transparent and Stretchable Conductors

    Kai Liu;Yinghui Sun;Peng Liu;Xiaoyang Lin

  • Probing Local Strain at MX2–Metal Boundaries with Surface Plasmon-Enhanced Raman Scattering

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  • Single-atom Catalytic Materials for Lean-electrolyte Ultrastable Lithium–Sulfur Batteries

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Frequent Co-Authors

Kaili Jiang
Kaili Jiang Tsinghua University
Junqiao Wu
Junqiao Wu University of California, Berkeley
Qunqing Li
Qunqing Li Tsinghua University
Chun Cheng
Chun Cheng Southern University of Science and Technology
Sefaattin Tongay
Sefaattin Tongay Arizona State University
Hui Wu
Hui Wu National Institute of Standards and Technology
Jiaping Wang
Jiaping Wang Tsinghua University
Yi Cui
Yi Cui Stanford University
Andreas Herrmann
Andreas Herrmann RWTH Aachen University
Julie A. Borchers
Julie A. Borchers National Institute of Standards and Technology

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