About Zhongfan Liu’s work
From April to October 2000, Zhongfan Liu held a Croucher Visitorship at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. At the time, Liu was based at Peking University.
Biography
Zhongfan Liu graduated from the Department of Chemical Engineering of Changchun University of Technology in 1983, graduated from Yokohama National University in 1987 with a master’s degree. From 1990 to 93, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Tokyo and the National Institute of Molecular Sciences. In 2011, he was elected as a member of the Department of Chemistry of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Liu's research focus is in low-dimensional materials and nanodevices, molecular self-assembly, and electrochemistry.
He has developed the chemical vapor deposition growth methodology of carbon nanomaterials, invented new catalysts such as carbon-based catalysts and binary alloy catalysts. He extended the concept of self-assembly of small organic molecules to the field of quasi-one-dimensional carbon nanotubes, established a variety of chemical self-assembly methods. He has published more than 310 academic papers and 19 Chinese invention patents. He was the Chief Scientist of the National Climbing Program (B), the 973 Program and the Major Nano Research Program.