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[4 July 2019] Surface and Interface Engineering for Advanced Battery Technologies

Title: Development of High-efficient Electrocatalysts and Photoelectrocatalysts and the、

         In-/Ex-situ Analysis

Speaker: Dr. Jian Liu  

               University of British Columbia (UBC) Okanagan

Time: 9:30, 4 July 2019

Location: Room 404, Materials Science Building



      Introduction

      Jian Liu is an Assistant Professor at the University of British Columbia (UBC) Okanagan campus, Canada. Dr. Liu received his Ph.D. in materials science in 2013 from the University of Western Ontario (Canada), and worked as a NSERC Postdoctoral Fellow at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL, USA) prior to joining UBC in January 2017. His current research interests focus on advanced nanofabrication techniques, materials design for Li-ion batteries and beyond, and interfacial control and understanding in energy storage systems (http://nesc.ok.ubc.ca/). Dr. Liu has published over 70 research papers in high-quality peer-reviewed journals, such as Nature Communication, Nature Energy, Advanced Materials, Nano Letters etc. His papers have received 4,000 citations, with an H-index of 34. Dr. Liu is the recipient of many prestigious awards, including NSERC PDF Award, PNNL Alternated-Sponsored PDF, Mitacs Elevate PDF, UBC Emerging Professor Award, and Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-Financed Students Abroad.