Kai LIU, Assistant Professor

Principal Investigator

Professor Liu is a recipient for the Zhejiang Provincial Thousand Talents Plan (浙江省千人计划创新人才长期项目入选者). He received PhD from Tsinghua University (清华大学) under the guidance of Prof. Gang Yu (余刚院士), he was a postdoctoral researcher at California Institute of Technology (加州理工学院) under the guidance of Prof. Michael R. Hoffmann (迈克尔霍夫曼院士). He is an editorial boar...

Haobin Fang, Ph.D.

Postdoc

Haobin Fang graduated from Sun Yat-Sen University with his doctor's degree of physical chemistry. He joined Liu’s lab as a postdoctoral fellow in 2022. Now he focuses on the synthesis and application of single atomic catalysts. Since joining the group, he has first authored 1 AFM paper

Heshan Qi

Ph.D. Student

Heshan graduated from Nanjing University with his master's degree in MSE. He joined Liu's lab as a PhD student and is interested in degradation of pollutants and water harvesting from the air. Since joining the group, he has first authored 1 manuscript, which is currently under revision with Nature Water 

Rui Li

Ph.D. Student

Rui Li graduated from China University of Geosciences (Wuhan) with a bachelor's degree in 2021, majored in Environmental Science and Engineering (Elite Class). She is interested in AOPs. Since joining the group, she first authored 1 manuscript which is being reviewed by ES&T in 2025

Qi Hao

Ph.D. Student

Qi Hao is currently a PhD candidate at Liu Lab. He received his M.S. degree at Jilin Unibersity. His research interest focuses on electrochemical carbon dioxide reduction. Since joining the group, he has first authored 1 AM, 1 NC papers. 1 manuscript is being reviewed by AEM in 2025

Xiao Liu

Ph.D. Student

Xiao Liu graduated from Nantong University with a Bachelor in environmental Science. He got his master degree from Changzhou University in environmental engineering. His main research interests focused on the designing of environmental functional materials. Since joining the group, he has first authored 1 AFM paper

Linxuan Xie

Ph.D. Student

Linxuan graduated from Northwest A&F University with his master's degree in 2022. After graduation, he joined Liu's lab as a PhD student. Now he is interested in pollution remediation and focus on electrochemical synthesis of ammonia. Since joining the group, he has first authored 1 ACB paper

Zhiyuan Huang

Ph.D. Student

Zhiyuan graduated from Zhejiang University of Technology in 2023. He has joined Waterlab as a Ph.D. student. Now he is interested in environmental catalysis. Since joining the group, he has first authored 1 manuscript which is current being revised with ES&T in 2025

Chaoyi Huang

Ph.D. Student

Chaoyi graduated from the University of Southern California in Environmental Engineering. He joined in Liu's lab in 2021 and his main research interests focused on the catalysts design in AOPs and the application of machine learning. Since joining the group, he has first authored 1 AFM, 1 AMI, 1 Total papers

Suwen Wang

Ph.D. Student

Suwen graduated from Zhejiang A&F University with a master's degree in 2024. After graduation, she joined Liu's lab as a PhD student. Her current research interests focus on electrochemical hydrogen production and its coupling with green synthesis

Huiling Tang

Ph.D. Student

Huiling Tang graduated from Wuhan University with a master's degree in 2023. She joined Liu's lab in March 2025 to carry out research related to photothermal catalytic CO2 reduction

Yudon Wu

Yudong Wu was a research assisstant at Liu Lab. Since joining the group, he has published 1 Small paper

Shiwei Lin

Shiwei Lin was a research assisstant at Liu Lab. Since joining the group, he has published 1 JCP paper

Xiang Xia, Ph.D.

Postdoc

Dr. Xia was a postdoc at Liu's Lab. Since joining the group, he has published 1 JHM and 1 Chemcatchem papers