People

Title

Professor

Degree

PhD

Research Interests

The synthesis of high-quality and large-size novel 2D monolayers, especially transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) and their applications in catalysis and electronics.

Office Location

Block N4.1, 50 Nanyang Avenue Singapore 639798

Biography

Dr. Zheng Liu received his B.S. degree (2005) at Nankai University, China. He completed his Ph.D at National Center for Nanoscience and Technology (NCNST, China), working on the synthesis and energy harvest of carbon nanotubes. He then worked in Prof. Pulickel M. Ajayan and Prof. Jun Lou’s groups as a joint postdoc research fellow (2010~2012) and research scientist (2012~2013) at Rice University (USA), focusing on the synthesis and applications of two-dimensional (2D) crystals, including graphene, hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN, so-called “white graphene”), oxides and transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs: MoS2, WS2, MoSe2 etc.) Since 2013, he joined Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore, as a Nanyang Assistant Professor.

He is currently a professor at NTU. His work now focuses on the following topics: 1) Synthesis and engineering of high-quality and large-size novel 2D monolayers such as graphene and TMDs; 2) Physical properties of 2D monolayers such as 2D superconductivity, 2D ferroelectricity, 2D ferromagnetism and 2D Wyle semi-metals; 3) Applications of 2D materials such as novel semiconducting electronics. He has published > 300 papers, including > 40 papers in Nature and Science serial journals, with total citations > 40,000 and H-index of 100 (Google Scholar, as of Aug 2022). He was the finalist of the World Technology Award in Energy category in 2012. In 2013, he was awarded the prestigious Singapore NRF Fellowship and the elite Nanyang Assistant Professorship. He was awarded ICON-2DMAT Young Scientist Award and the prestigious Singapore Young Scientist Award in 2018. He was named Materials Research Society of Singapore Chair Professorship in 2019 and awarded Asia’s Rising Scientists and the Nanyang Research Award (Young Investigator) in the same year. He was the highly cited researcher from 2018 – 2022.

Selected Publications

• Jiadong Zhou, Wenjie Zhang, Yung-Chang Lin, Jin Cao, Yao Zhou, Wei Jiang, Huifang Du, Bijun Tang, Jia Shi, Bingyan Jiang, Xun Cao, Bo Lin, Qundong Fu, Chao Zhu, Wei Guo, Yizhong Huang, Yuan Yao, Stuart S. P. Parkin, Jianhui Zhou, Yanfeng Gao, Yeliang Wang, Yanglong Hou, Yugui Yao, Kazu Suenaga, Xiaosong Wu & Zheng Liu Heterodimensional superlattice with in-plane anomalous Hall effect, Nature 2022, 609, 46.
• Jiadong Zhou, Chao Zhu, Yao Zhou, Jichen Dong, Peiling Li, Zhaowei Zhang, Zhen Wang, Yung-Chang Lin, Jia Shi, Runwu Zhang, Yanzhen Zheng, Huimei Yu, Bijun Tang, Fucai Liu, Lin Wang, Liwei Liu, Gui-Bin Liu, Weida Hu, Yanfeng Gao, Haitao Yang, Weibo Gao, Li Lu, Yeliang Wang, Kazu Suenaga, Guangtong Liu, Feng Ding, Yugui Yao & Zheng Liu Composition and phase engineering of metal chalcogenides and phosphorous chalcogenides, Nature Materials 2022.
• Bijun Tang, Xiaowei Wang, Mengjiao Han, Xiaodong Xu, Zhaowei Zhang, Chao Zhu, Xun Cao, Yumeng Yang, Qundong Fu, Jianqun Yang, Xingji Li, Weibo Gao, Jiadong Zhou, Junhao Lin & Zheng Liu Phase engineering of Cr5Te8 with colossal anomalous Hall effect, Nature Electronics 2022, 5, 224.
• Shasha Guo, Jiecai Fu, Peikun Zhang, Chao Zhu, Heming Yao, Manzhang Xu, Boxing An, Xingli Wang, Bijun Tang, Ya Deng, Teddy Salim, Hongchu Du, Rafal E. Dunin-Borkowski, Mingquan Xu, Wu Zhou, Beng Kang Tay, Chao Zhu, Yanchao He, Mario Hofmann, Ya-Ping Hsieh, Wanlin Guo, Michael Ng, Chunlin Jia, Zhuhua Zhang, Yongmin He & Zheng Liu Direct growth of single-metal-atom chains, Nature Synthesis 2022, 1, 245.
• Yongmin He, Liren Liu, Chao Zhu, Shasha Guo, Prafful Golani, Bonhyeong Koo, Pengyi Tang, Zhiqiang Zhao, Mangzhang Xu, Chao Zhu, Peng Yu, Xin Zhou, Caitian Gao, Xuewen Wang, Zude Shi, Lu Zheng, Jiefu Yang, Byungha Shin, Jordi Arbiol, Huigao Duan, Yonghua Du, Marc Heggen, Rafal E. Dunin-Borkowski, Wanlin Guo, Qi Jie Wang, Zhuhua Zhang & Zheng Liu Amorphizing noble metal chalcogenide catalysts at the single-layer limit towards hydrogen production, Nature Catalysis 2022, 5, 212.