Bio

Dr. Liu is interested in micro/nano-scale thermal transport and hybrid organic/inorganic functional materials for energy storage, conversion, and management.

Dr. Liu’s graduate students are motivated to learn; they are familiar with both simulation and experiment work, and tend to solve multidisciplinary, challenging problems. His students have the opportunity to learn multidisciplinary topics in optics, electronics, thermal science, materials, and solid state physics.

Dr. Liu teaches Fluid Mechanics and Thermodynamics at the undergraduate level.

Outside of work, Dr. Liu enjoys travelling and reading.

Publications

• Chirality-driven magnetization emerges from relativistic four-current dynamics , APL Computational Physics (2026)
• Cryogenic to beyond Curie temperature dielectric and piezoelectric properties of Pb(Mg1/3Nb2/3)O3–PbTiO3 single crystals under alternate and direct current poling , Journal of Applied Physics (2026)
• High thermal conductivity of rutile-GeO2 film by metal-organic chemical vapor deposition: 52.9 W m−1 K−1 , Applied Physics Letters (2026)
• A multi-modal embolic gel system for long-term fluorescence imaging and photothermal therapy , Biomaterials Advances (2025)
• Chiral Phonon-Induced Spin Transport via Microscopic Barnett Effect , Physical Review Letters (2025)
• Defects vibrations engineering for enhancing interfacial thermal transport in polymer composites , Science Advances (2025)
• Determination of orbital relaxation in Ti/Ni heterostructure via orbital pumping , Journal of Applied Physics (2025)
• Enhancing Thermal Transport in Polymeric Composites Via Engineered Noncovalent Filler–Polymer Interactions , ASME Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer (2025)
• Improving Adhesion in Organic Photovoltaic Cells with Self-Assembled Monolayers , ACS Energy Letters (2025)
• Microscale simulation of water desalination in Direct Contact Membrane Distillation , International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer (2025)

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