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Yuanyue Liu is affiliated with The University of Texas at Austin in the United States, focusing research efforts primarily in the fields of Materials Science, Energy, and Engineering. Their work spans subfields such as Materials Chemistry, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, and Catalysis.

The main topics of their research include:

  • Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion
  • CO2 Reduction Techniques and Catalysts
  • 2D Materials and Applications
  • Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques
  • MXene and MAX Phase Materials
  • Advanced Battery Technologies Research
  • Graphene Research and Applications

Yuanyue Liu has contributed to multiple scientific publications, frequently appearing in venues such as ECS Meeting Abstracts, Nature Communications, Journal of the American Chemical Society, ACS Nano, and arXiv (Cornell University).

Their recent notable papers include:

  • Highly active and selective oxygen reduction to H2O2 on boron-doped carbon for high production rates, 2021, Nature Communications
  • O-coordinated W-Mo dual-atom catalyst for pH-universal electrocatalytic hydrogen evolution, 2020, Science Advances
  • Origin of Selective Production of Hydrogen Peroxide by Electrochemical Oxygen Reduction, 2021, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Unveiling the Active Structure of Single Nickel Atom Catalysis: Critical Roles of Charge Capacity and Hydrogen Bonding, 2020, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Electrochemical oxygen reduction to hydrogen peroxide at practical rates in strong acidic media, 2022, Nature Communications

Collaboration is a significant aspect of Yuanyue Liu's research activities. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Xunhua Zhao
  • Chenmu Zhang
  • Zachary Levell
  • Ruoyu Wang
  • Xiaowan Bai

The research portfolio emphasizes catalytic processes relevant to sustainable energy solutions, particularly in the design and understanding of electrocatalysts for energy conversion and hydrogen production. These efforts contribute to broader research themes such as renewable energy and advanced materials chemistry.

Best Publications

  • Laser-induced porous graphene films from commercial polymers

    Jian Lin;Zhiwei Peng;Yuanyue Liu;Francisco Ruiz-Zepeda

  • The Role of Surface Oxygen in the Growth of Large Single-Crystal Graphene on Copper

    Yufeng Hao;M. S. Bharathi;Lei Wang;Yuanyue Liu

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

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

  • Field-effect transistors made from solution-grown two-dimensional tellurene

    Yixiu Wang;Gang Qiu;Ruoxing Wang;Shouyuan Huang

  • Defect Engineering Metal‐Free Polymeric Carbon Nitride Electrocatalyst for Effective Nitrogen Fixation under Ambient Conditions

    Chade Lv;Chade Lv;Yumin Qian;Chunshuang Yan;Chunshuang Yan;Yu Ding

  • Van der Waals metal-semiconductor junction: Weak Fermi level pinning enables effective tuning of Schottky barrier.

    Yuanyue Liu;Paul Stradins;Su Huai Wei

  • Origin of low sodium capacity in graphite and generally weak substrate binding of Na and Mg among alkali and alkaline earth metals

    Yuanyue Liu;Boris V. Merinov;William A. Goddard

  • Schottky-Barrier-Free Contacts with Two-Dimensional Semiconductors by Surface-Engineered MXenes

    Yuanyue Liu;Hai Xiao;William A. Goddard

  • Cu metal embedded in oxidized matrix catalyst to promote CO2 activation and CO dimerization for electrochemical reduction of CO2.

    Hai Xiao;William A. Goddard;Tao Cheng;Yuanyue Liu

  • Two-dimensional copper nanosheets for electrochemical reduction of carbon monoxide to acetate

    Wesley Luc;Wesley Luc;Xianbiao Fu;Jianjian Shi;Jing Jing Lv

  • Oxygen-Vacancy Abundant Ultrafine Co3O4/Graphene Composites for High-Rate Supercapacitor Electrodes.

    Shuhua Yang;Yuanyue Liu;Yuanyue Liu;Yufeng Hao;Xiaopeng Yang

  • Highly active and selective oxygen reduction to H2O2 on boron-doped carbon for high production rates

    Yang Xia;Xunhua Zhao;Chuan Xia;Zhen-Yu Wu

  • Monolayer atomic crystal molecular superlattices

    Chen Wang;Qiyuan He;Udayabagya Halim;Yuanyue Liu

  • Self-optimizing, highly surface-active layered metal dichalcogenide catalysts for hydrogen evolution

    Yuanyue Liu;Yuanyue Liu;Jingjie Wu;Ken P. Hackenberg;Jing Zhang

  • O-coordinated W-Mo dual-atom catalyst for pH-universal electrocatalytic hydrogen evolution.

    Yang Yang;Yumin Qian;Haijing Li;Zhenhua Zhang

  • Origin of Selective Production of Hydrogen Peroxide by Electrochemical Oxygen Reduction.

    Xunhua Zhao;Yuanyue Liu

  • Feasibility of Lithium Storage on Graphene and Its Derivatives.

    Yuanyue Liu;Vasilii I Artyukhov;Mingjie Liu;Avetik R Harutyunyan

  • Predicting Dislocations and Grain Boundaries in Two-Dimensional Metal-Disulfides from the First Principles

    Xiaolong Zou;Yuanyue Liu;Boris I. Yakobson

  • BN white graphene with "colorful" edges: the energies and morphology.

    Yuanyue Liu;Somnath Bhowmick;Boris I. Yakobson

  • Probing the Synthesis of Two‐Dimensional Boron by First‐Principles Computations

    Yuanyue Liu;Evgeni S. Penev;Boris I. Yakobson

  • High-Performance Hydrogen Evolution from MoS2(1-x)P x Solid Solution

    Ruquan Ye;Paz Del Angel-Vicente;Yuanyue Liu;M. Josefina Arellano-Jimenez

  • Cones, Pringles, and Grain Boundary Landscapes in Graphene Topology

    Yuanyue Liu;Boris I. Yakobson

Frequent Co-Authors

Boris I. Yakobson
Boris I. Yakobson Rice University
William A. Goddard
William A. Goddard California Institute of Technology
Guihua Yu
Guihua Yu The University of Texas at Austin
James M. Tour
James M. Tour Rice University
Zhiwei Peng
Zhiwei Peng City University of Hong Kong
Haiqing Zhou
Haiqing Zhou Hunan Normal University
Ruquan Ye
Ruquan Ye City University of Hong Kong
Yuebing Zheng
Yuebing Zheng The University of Texas at Austin
Rafik Addou
Rafik Addou The University of Texas at Dallas
Rodney S. Ruoff
Rodney S. Ruoff Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology

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