Jun Liu Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, NC State University
919-513-1397 jliu38@ncsu.eduBio
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.
Education
Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering University of Colorado Boulder 2013
Bachelor's Degree Power and Energy Engineering Huazhong University of Science and Technology 2008
Publications
- Microscale simulation of water desalination in Direct Contact Membrane Distillation , International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer (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)
- Molecular engineering in layered metal halide hybrid perovskites for tunable thermal conductivity, elastic modulus, and beyond , MRS COMMUNICATIONS (2025)
- Oscillations in incident electric field enhances interfacial water evaporation , MATERIALS HORIZONS (2025)
- Redox-Active Oxide/molten Salt Composites for Hybrid Thermal-Chemical Energy Storage , ADVANCED ENERGY AND SUSTAINABILITY RESEARCH (2025)