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2022

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Engineering and Technology

D-Index
58
Citations
11420
World Ranking
2520
National Ranking
8

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Engineering and Technology in Qatar Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Engineering and Technology in Qatar Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Materials Science in Qatar Leader Award

Overview

Zhaoyang Liu is a researcher affiliated with Hamad bin Khalifa University in Qatar, focusing primarily on engineering disciplines. Their work spans several interconnected fields, including renewable energy, sustainability and the environment, biomedical engineering, electrical and electronic engineering, water science and technology, and materials chemistry.

Their research topics cover a range of advanced scientific areas such as:

  • CO2 Reduction Techniques and Catalysts
  • Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion
  • Membrane Separation Technologies
  • Ionic liquids properties and applications
  • Nanoplatforms for cancer theranostics
  • Advanced battery technologies research
  • Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques

Liu's recent publications reflect this multidisciplinary approach. Notable papers include:

  • "Accelerating electrochemical CO2 reduction to multi-carbon products via asymmetric intermediate binding at confined nanointerfaces" (2023), published in Nature Communications
  • "Battery-Free and Wireless Smart Wound Dressing for Wound Infection Monitoring and Electrically Controlled On-Demand Drug Delivery" (2021), published in Advanced Functional Materials
  • "Modulation of Ligand Fields in a Single-Atom Site by the Molten Salt Strategy for Enhanced Oxygen Bifunctional Activity for Zinc-Air Batteries" (2022), published in ACS Nano
  • "Coagulation removal of microplastics from wastewater by magnetic magnesium hydroxide and PAM" (2021), published in Journal of Water Process Engineering
  • "Achieving High Single-Pass Carbon Conversion Efficiencies in Durable CO2 Electroreduction in Strong Acids via Electrode Structure Engineering" (2023), published in Angewandte Chemie International Edition

Liu often collaborates with various coauthors, frequently working alongside Le Li, Miao Zhong, Jayaprakash Saththasivam, Oluwaseun Ogunbiyi, and Jenny Lawler.

Their work is published across multiple venues, with recurring contributions to:

  • Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Angewandte Chemie
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Journal of Water Process Engineering
  • Desalination

Best Publications

  • Self-Assembling TiO2 Nanorods on Large Graphene Oxide Sheets at a Two-Phase Interface and Their Anti-Recombination in Photocatalytic Applications

    Jincheng Liu;Hongwei Bai;Yinjie Wang;Zhaoyang Liu

  • An efficient bicomponent TiO2/SnO2 nanofiber photocatalyst fabricated by electrospinning with a side-by-side dual spinneret method.

    Zhaoyang Liu;Darren Delai Sun;Peng Guo;James O. Leckie

  • Extremely efficient terahertz high-harmonic generation in graphene by hot Dirac fermions

    Hassan A. Hafez;Sergey Kovalev;Jan-Christoph Deinert;Zoltán Mics

  • Ultraflexible In-Plane Micro-Supercapacitors by Direct Printing of Solution-Processable Electrochemically Exfoliated Graphene

    Zhaoyang Liu;Zhong-Shuai Wu;Zhong-Shuai Wu;Sheng Yang;Renhao Dong

  • Nano Gives the Answer: Breaking the Bottleneck of Internal Concentration Polarization with a Nanofiber Composite Forward Osmosis Membrane for a High Water Production Rate

    Xiaoxiao Song;Zhaoyang Liu;Darren Delai Sun

  • Organic Radical-Assisted Electrochemical Exfoliation for the Scalable Production of High-Quality Graphene

    Sheng Yang;Sebastian Brüller;Zhong-Shuai Wu;Zhaoyang Liu

  • Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube Film Supported Nanofiltration Membrane with a Nearly 10 nm Thick Polyamide Selective Layer for High-Flux and High-Rejection Desalination

    Yuzhang Zhu;Wei Xie;Shoujian Gao;Feng Zhang

  • Alternating Stacked Graphene-Conducting Polymer Compact Films with Ultrahigh Areal and Volumetric Capacitances for High-Energy Micro-Supercapacitors

    Zhong-Shuai Wu;Khaled Parvez;Shuang Li;Sheng Yang

  • Concurrent filtration and solar photocatalytic disinfection/degradation using high-performance Ag/TiO2 nanofiber membrane

    Lei Liu;Zhaoyang Liu;Hongwei Bai;Darren Delai Sun

  • Transparent Conductive Electrodes from Graphene/PEDOT:PSS Hybrid Inks for Ultrathin Organic Photodetectors

    Zhaoyang Liu;Khaled Parvez;Rongjin Li;Renhao Dong

  • Ultrathin Printable Graphene Supercapacitors with AC Line-Filtering Performance.

    Zhong-Shuai Wu;Zhaoyang Liu;Khaled Parvez;Xinliang Feng

  • One-step fabrication and high photocatalytic activity of porous TiO2 hollow aggregates by using a low-temperature hydrothermal method without templates.

    Zhaoyang Liu;Darren D. Sun;Peng Guo;James O. Leckie

  • Novel-structured electrospun TiO2/CuO composite nanofibers for high efficient photocatalytic cogeneration of clean water and energy from dye wastewater.

    Siew Siang Lee;Hongwei Bai;Zhaoyang Liu;Darren Delai Sun

  • Patterning two-dimensional free-standing surfaces with mesoporous conducting polymers.

    Shaohua Liu;Shaohua Liu;Pavlo Gordiichuk;Zhong-Shuai Wu;Zhaoyang Liu

  • Energy recovery from concentrated seawater brine by thin-film nanofiber composite pressure retarded osmosis membranes with high power density

    Xiaoxiao Song;Zhaoyang Liu;Darren Delai Sun

  • Hierarchical CuO/ZnO “corn-like” architecture for photocatalytic hydrogen generation

    Zhaoyang Liu;Hongwei Bai;Shiping Xu;Darren Delai Sun

  • Small Size, Big Impact: Recent Progress in Bottom‐Up Synthesized Nanographenes for Optoelectronic and Energy Applications

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  • Monodisperse silica nanoparticles encapsulating upconversion fluorescent and superparamagnetic nanocrystals.

    Zhaoyang Liu;Guangshun Yi;Haitao Zhang;Jun Ding

  • Multifunctional graphene oxide–TiO2 microsphere hierarchical membrane for clean water production

    Peng Gao;Zhaoyang Liu;Minghang Tai;Darren Delai Sun

  • Hierarchically multifunctional TiO2 nano-thorn membrane for water purification

    Hongwei Bai;Zhaoyang Liu;Darren Delai Sun

  • A low-energy forward osmosis process to produce drinking water

    Zhaoyang Liu;Hongwei Bai;Jonathan Lee;Darren Delai Sun

  • Highly water soluble and recovered dextran coated Fe3O4 magnetic nanoparticles for brackish water desalination

    Hongwei Bai;Zhaoyang Liu;Darren Delai Sun

Frequent Co-Authors

Darren Delai Sun
Darren Delai Sun Nanyang Technological University
Xie Quan
Xie Quan Dalian University of Technology
Junmin Xue
Junmin Xue National University of Singapore
Jun Ding
Jun Ding National University of Singapore
Nidal Hilal
Nidal Hilal New York University Abu Dhabi
Jian Jin
Jian Jin Soochow University
Wenjing Tian
Wenjing Tian Jilin University
Hongbo Fu
Hongbo Fu Fudan University
Shuo Chen
Shuo Chen Dalian University of Technology
Said Ahzi
Said Ahzi University of Strasbourg

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