Research Areas
1. Environmental nanomaterials, including photocatalytic materials and adsorbents
2. Resource recycling and reusing
Honors
1. Second prize of teaching skills competition for young scholars, College of Materials Science and Engineering, 2019
2. Excellent faculty, Beijing University of Technology, 2021 & 2017
Publications
1. Zhao, L.; Liu, Y. S.; Xi, X.; Shen, Y.; Wang, J.; Liu, Y.; Nie, Z., Bi/Bi2O3/WO3 composite: A bifunctional plasmonic heterostructure for detection and degradation pollutions in wastewater. Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering 2022, 10, (3).
2. Wang, J.; Liu, Y. S.; Xi, X.; Nie, Z., Microwave-assisted synthesis of hierarchical WO3·H2O and its selective adsorption: kinetics, isotherm and mechanism. Journal of Materials Science 2022, 57, (13), 6881-6899.
3. Shen, Y.; Liu, Y. S.; Xi, X.; Nie, Z., Hydrothermal construction of WO3 center dot 0.33H(2)O/g-C3N4 nanocomposites with enhanced adsorption and photocatalytic activity. CrystEngComm 2022, 24, (18), 3437-3447.
4. Gao, W.; Liu, Y. S.; Dong, J., Immobilized ZnO based nanostructures and their environmental applications. Progress in Natural Science-Materials International 2021, 31, (6), 821-834.
5. Zhao, L. Y.; Xi, X. L.; Liu, Y. S.; Ma, L. W.; Nie, Z. R., Growth mechanism and visible-light-driven photocatalysis of organic solvent dependent WO3 and nonstoichiometric WO3-x nanostructures. Journal of the Taiwan Institute of Chemical Engineers 2020, 115, 339-347.
6. Liu, Y. S.; Gao, W.; Zhang, C.; Zhang, L.; Zhi, Y. X., In situ formation of Ag/ZnO heterostructure arrays during synergistic photocatalytic process for SERS and photocatalysis. Journal of the Taiwan Institute of Chemical Engineers 2018, 88, 277-285.
7. Liu, Y. S., Synthesis of AuPd alloy nanoparticles on ZnO nanorod arrays by sputtering for surface enhanced Raman scattering. Materials Letters 2018, 224, 26-28.
8. Meng, X.; Liu, Y. S.; Huang, M. Y.; Cao, J. P., Flexible perfluoroalkoxy films filled with carbon nanotubes and their electric heating property. Journal of Applied Polymer Science 2017, 134, (18).
9. Liu, Y. S.; Wei, S. H.; Gao, W., Ag/ZnO heterostructures and their photocatalytic activity under visible light: Effect of reducing medium. Journal of Hazardous Materials 2015, 287, 59-68.
10. Liu, Y. S.; Gao, W., Growth process, crystal size and alignment of ZnO nanorods synthesized under neutral and acid conditions. Journal of Alloys and Compounds 2015, 629, 84-91.
11. Liu, Y. S.; Chen, W. W.; Wei, S.; Gao, W., TiO2/ZnO nanocomposite, ZnO/ZnO bi-level nanostructure and ZnO nanorod arrays: microstructure and time-affected wettability change in ambient conditions. RSC Advances 2014, 4, (58), 30658-30665
12. Liu, Y. S.; Han, J.; Qiu, W.; Gao, W., Hydrogen peroxide generation and photocatalytic degradation of estrone by microstructural controlled ZnO nanorod arrays. Applied Surface Science 2012, 263, 389-396.
Personal statement
Yangsi Liu, associate professor, master degree supervisor. He obtained bachelor and master degree from Sichuan University, China and Ph.D. degree from the University. of Auckland, New Zealand. He has worked as a Yield Engineer at Intel (Chengdu) products company, Inc. and now as an associate professor at Beijing University of Technology. Dr. Liu focuses on research works about environmental nanomaterials and resource recycling. He is in charge of one National Natural Science Foundation of China and one Beijing Natural Science Foundation, and takes part in two National key R & D plans.
