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Yuan Liu is affiliated with Hunan University in China and conducts research primarily in the fields of Engineering and Materials Science. Their work spans several related subfields including Materials Chemistry, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Molecular Biology, and Mechanical Engineering. This multidisciplinary approach supports diverse scientific investigations centered on materials and their applications.

The main areas of focus in Yuan Liu's research include 2D Materials and Applications, Graphene research and applications, Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques, Perovskite Materials and Applications, MXene and MAX Phase Materials, Advanced Nanomaterials in Catalysis, and Nanowire Synthesis and Applications.

Yuan Liu has published extensively, contributing papers to key scientific journals. Some notable recent publications include:

  • "Promises and prospects of two-dimensional transistors," 2021, Nature
  • "Efficient strain modulation of 2D materials via polymer encapsulation," 2020, Nature Communications

Other influential papers associated with co-authors in their network include:

  • "Early Transmission Dynamics in Wuhan, China, of Novel Coronavirus-Infected Pneumonia," 2020, New England Journal of Medicine
  • "General synthesis of two-dimensional van der Waals heterostructure arrays," 2020, Nature
  • "2D Heterostructures for Ubiquitous Electronics and Optoelectronics: Principles, Opportunities, and Challenges," 2022, Chemical Reviews

Frequent collaborators in their research include Lei Liao, Xidong Duan, Zheyi Lu, Quanyang Tao, and Lingan Kong, reflecting substantial ongoing partnerships.

The scientist publishes regularly in several venues, with the highest number of contributions appearing in:

  • Nano Letters
  • Nature Communications
  • Nature Electronics
  • ACS Nano
  • SSRN Electronic Journal

Best Publications

  • Van der Waals heterostructures and devices

    Yuan Liu;Nathan O. Weiss;Xidong Duan;Hung-Chieh Cheng

  • Approaching the Schottky-Mott limit in van der Waals metal-semiconductor junctions.

    Yuan Liu;Yuan Liu;Jian Guo;Enbo Zhu;Lei Liao

  • Van der Waals integration before and beyond two-dimensional materials

    Yuan Liu;Yuan Liu;Yu Huang;Xiangfeng Duan

  • High-speed graphene transistors with a self-aligned nanowire gate

    Lei Liao;Yung Chen Lin;Mingqiang Bao;Rui Cheng

  • Promises and prospects of two-dimensional transistors

    Yuan Liu;Xidong Duan;Hyeon-Jin Shin;Seongjun Park

  • Highly efficient gate-tunable photocurrent generation in vertical heterostructures of layered materials

    Woo Jong Yu;Yuan Liu;Hailong Zhou;Anxiang Yin

  • Electroluminescence and Photocurrent Generation from Atomically Sharp WSe2/MoS2 Heterojunction p–n Diodes

    Rui Cheng;Dehui Li;Hailong Zhou;Chen Wang

  • Flexible solid-state supercapacitors based on three-dimensional graphene hydrogel films.

    Yuxi Xu;Zhaoyang Lin;Xiaoqing Huang;Yuan Liu

  • Solution-processable 2D semiconductors for high-performance large-area electronics

    Zhaoyang Lin;Yuan Liu;Yuan Liu;Udayabagya Halim;Mengning Ding

  • Graphene: An Emerging Electronic Material

    Nathan O. Weiss;Hailong Zhou;Lei Liao;Yuan Liu

  • 2D Heterostructures for Ubiquitous Electronics and Optoelectronics: Principles, Opportunities, and Challenges.

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  • Plasmon resonance enhanced multicolour photodetection by graphene

    Yuan Liu;Rui Cheng;Lei Liao;Hailong Zhou

  • General synthesis of two-dimensional van der Waals heterostructure arrays.

    Jia Li;Xiangdong Yang;Yang Liu;Bolong Huang

  • Chemical vapour deposition growth of large single crystals of monolayer and bilayer graphene.

    Hailong Zhou;Woo Jong Yu;Woo Jong Yu;Lixin Liu;Rui Cheng

  • Few-layer molybdenum disulfide transistors and circuits for high-speed flexible electronics

    Rui Cheng;Shan Jiang;Yu Chen;Yuan Liu

  • Large Area Growth and Electrical Properties of p-Type WSe2 Atomic Layers

    Hailong Zhou;Chen Wang;Jonathan C. Shaw;Rui Cheng

  • Two-dimensional transistors beyond graphene and TMDCs

    Yuan Liu;Yuan Liu;Xidong Duan;Yu Huang;Xiangfeng Duan;Xiangfeng Duan

  • Toward barrier free contact to molybdenum disulfide using graphene electrodes.

    Yuan Liu;Hao Wu;Hung-Chieh Cheng;Sen Yang

  • Efficient strain modulation of 2D materials via polymer encapsulation.

    Zhiwei Li;Yawei Lv;Liwang Ren;Jia Li

  • Chemical vapor deposition growth of monolayer MoSe2 nanosheets

    Jonathan C. Shaw;Hailong Zhou;Yu Chen;Nathan O. Weiss

  • Wafer-scale growth of large arrays of perovskite microplate crystals for functional electronics and optoelectronics.

    Gongming Wang;Dehui Li;Hung-Chieh Cheng;Yongjia Li

Frequent Co-Authors

Xiangfeng Duan
Xiangfeng Duan University of California, Los Angeles
Yu Huang
Yu Huang University of California, Los Angeles
Lei Liao
Lei Liao Hunan University
Xidong Duan
Xidong Duan Hunan University
Qiyuan He
Qiyuan He City University of Hong Kong
Hao Wu
Hao Wu Harvard University
Yang Xu
Yang Xu Zhejiang University
Zipeng Zhao
Zipeng Zhao Beijing Institute of Technology
Tailiang Guo
Tailiang Guo Fuzhou University
Shu-Wei Huang
Shu-Wei Huang University of Colorado Boulder

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