Jingyue Liu

About

Jingyue Liu received his bachelor's degree in metal physics from the University of Science and Technology Beijing, China, and his PhD in condensed matter physics from Arizona State University under the guidance of Professor John M. Cowley. He was a postdoctoral research associate and research scientist in the LeRoy-Eyring Center for Solid State Science at ASU before joining Monsanto Corporate Research as a research specialist and group leader in 1994. After a series of promotions, he was appointed as a Science Fellow of Monsanto in 2000 and a Senior Science Fellow in 2003 for sustained outstanding technical leadership and significant impacts on Monsanto's businesses. He received the prestigious 2001 Edgar M. Queeny Award for Science and Technology, the highest award within Monsanto for scientific achievement and business impact. In 2006, he joined the University of Missouri-St. Louis as the director of the Center for Molecular Electronics and Professor of Physics and Chemistry, and in 2007 became the founding director of the Center for Nanoscience. He joined Arizona State University in 2011 as professor of physics and became a Fellow of the Microscopy Society of America in 2012. Professor Liu's research group focuses on the fundamental understanding of the synthesis-structure-performance relationships of nanostructures and nanostructured systems. They develop and utilize aberration-corrected electron microscopy techniques, including imaging, diffraction, and spectroscopy, to…

Research topics

• Chemistry
• Organic chemistry
• Inorganic chemistry
• Nanotechnology
• Materials science
• Chemical engineering
• Computational chemistry
• Metallurgy
• Crystallography
• Photochemistry

Selected publications

• Functional CeOx nanoglues for robust atomically dispersed catalysts

  Nature · 2022 · 491 citations

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• Activating low-temperature diesel oxidation by single-atom Pt on TiO2 nanowire array

  Nature Communications · 2020 · 153 citations

  C under simulated diesel exhaust conditions while using 5 times less Pt-group metals than a commercial oxidation catalyst. Such an excellent low-temperature performance is sustained over hydrothermal aging and sulfation as a result of highly dispersed and isolated active single Pt ions bonded at the Ti vacancy sites with 5 or 6 oxygen ions on titania nanowire surfaces.

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• Identification of Active Area as Active Center for CO Oxidation over Single Au Atom Catalyst

  ACS Catalysis · 2020 · 147 citations

  Identifying the activity origin of noble-metal-based catalysts is extremely important for fundamental research and practical application. We report that single Au atoms on Co3O4 (Au1/Co3O4 single-atom catalysts (SAC)) exhibit excellent activity and stability for CO oxidation and that the activity origin of Au1/Co3O4 SAC is an active area centered by Au1 atom with one nearby Co and O atoms (and/or O vacancy). The turnover frequency is 3.1 s–1 at −75 °C, to our knowledge, which makes Au1/Co3O4 SAC…

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• Stabilizing supported atom-precise low-nuclearity platinum cluster catalysts by nanoscale confinement

  Nature Chemical Engineering · 2025-01-17 · 51 citations

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• Crystallinity of Cerium Oxide Dictates Reactivity of Platinum Catalysts

  Nano Letters · 2025-02-10 · 18 citations

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  The reactivity of supported metal catalysts can be influenced by the nature of supports, which synergistically activate reactant molecules with metal sites. The investigation of the crystalline effect of CeO2 remains unclear because of the easy formation of fluorite-structure CeO2. Here, we successfully synthesized CeOx clusters with distinct crystallinity and established that the crystalline nature of CeOx clusters dictates the reactivity of the Pt/CeOx catalysts for CO oxidation. Specifically,…

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Recent grants

• SusChEM: Anchoring Single Noble Metal Atoms for Better Catalysis

  NSF · $550k · 2015–2019

• CAS: Functional Nanoglues for Robust and Efficient Single-Atom Catalysis

  NSF · $490k · 2020–2025

• CAS: Heteroatom Dimer and Cluster Catalysis

  NSF · $400k · 2023–2027

Frequent coauthors

• Botao Qiao

  Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics

  114 shared

• Tao Zhang

  Chinese Academy of Sciences

  90 shared

• Yinhua Lv

  90 shared

• Aiqin Wang

  Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics

  60 shared

• Shu Miao

  Institute of Advanced Science Facilities, Shenzhen

  59 shared

• Jian Lin

  Energy Storage Systems (United States)

  46 shared

• Younan Xia

  The Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering

  42 shared

• Jihong Dai

  36 shared

Education

• Ph.D., Condensed Matter Physics

  Arizona State University

• B.S., Metal Physics

  University of Science and Technology Beijing, China

Awards & honors

• 2001 Edgar M. Queeny Award for Science and Technology

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