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Jie Liu

George Barth Geller Distinguished Professor of Chemistry
Chemistry
Box 90346, Durham, NC 27708-0346
2105 French Science Center, Durham, NC 27708

Featured Works


Synergy between thermal and nonthermal effects in plasmonic photocatalysis

Journal article Nano Research · May 1, 2020 Featured Publication Plasmonic photocatalysis represents the synergetic union of two active fields of research: plasmonic effects in illuminated metallic nanoparticles and catalytic effects in tailored metallic nanoparticles. Traditionally, metallic nanoparticles that excel fo ... Full text Cite

Understanding the Origin of Selective Reduction of CO2 to CO on Single-Atom Nickel Catalyst.

Journal article The journal of physical chemistry. B · January 2020 Featured Publication Electrochemical reduction of CO2 to CO offers a promising strategy for regulating the global carbon cycle and providing feedstock for the chemical industry. Understanding the origin that determines the faradaic efficiency (FE) of reduction of CO ... Full text Cite

Plasmonic catalysis: Heating vs. hot electrons

Conference ABSTRACTS OF PAPERS OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY · August 25, 2019 Featured Publication Link to item Cite

Product selectivity in plasmonic photocatalysis for carbon dioxide hydrogenation

Journal article Nature Communications · February 23, 2017 Featured Publication Open Access Link to item Cite

Strong, Machinable Carbon Aerogels for High Performance Supercapacitors

Journal article Advanced Functional Materials · July 19, 2016 Featured Publication Designing macroscopic, 3D porous conductive materials with high mechanical strength is of great importance in many fields, including energy storage, catalysis, etc. This study reports a novel approach to fabricate polyaniline-coated 3D carbon x-aerogels, a ... Full text Cite

Plasmonics in the UV range with Rhodium nanocubes

Conference Proceedings of SPIE the International Society for Optical Engineering · January 1, 2016 Featured Publication Plasmonics in the UV-range constitutes a new challenge due to the increasing demand to detect, identify and destroy biological toxins, enhance biological imaging, and characterize semiconductor devices at the nanometer scale. Silver and aluminum have an ef ... Full text Cite

Improving the performance of cobalt-nickel hydroxide-based self-supporting electrodes for supercapacitors using accumulative approaches

Journal article Energy and Environmental Science · November 1, 2013 Featured Publication In this paper we describe an accumulative approach to move beyond simple incorporation of conductive carbon nanostructures, such as graphene and carbon nanotubes, to improve the performance of metal oxide/hydroxide based electrodes in energy storage applic ... Full text Cite