Professor Bin Liu received his bachelor of engineering (1st Class Honours) and master of engineering degrees at the National University of Singapore, Singapore in 2002 and 2004, respectively, and completed his doctoral degree at the University of Minnesota, USA in 2011. After spending a year as postdoctoral fellow in the University of California Berkeley, USA, he joined School of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering at Nanyang Technological University as an Assistant Professor in June 2012 and was promoted to Associate Professor in March 2017. In February 2023, Professor Liu joined the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at City University of Hong Kong as a Professor. His research focuses on photo(electro)catalysis and in-situ/operando characterization. Professor Liu has published more than 200 research and review articles in Nature Energy, Nature Catalysis, Nature Water, Nature Communications, Science Advances, Joule, Chem, Journal of the American Chemical Society, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, Energy and Environmental Science, Advanced Materials, Chemical Reviews, Chemical Society Reviews, Accounts of Chemical Research, etc. As at January 2023, his research has been cited over 30,000 times with an h-index of 85 (Google Scholar). Professor Liu was awarded emerging investigator by Journal of Materials Chemistry A, Royal Society of Chemistry in 2016, class of influential researchers by Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, American Chemical Society in 2018, and listed in the “Highly Cited Researchers” in Cross-Field in 2019 and Chemistry in 2020-2022 by Clarivate Analytics.

Recent Publications

1. Y. Xu^*, Z. Mao, R. Qu, J. Wang, J. Yu, X. Luo, M. Shi, X. Mao, J. Ding and B. Liu^* (2023), Electrochemical Hydrogenation of Oxidized Contaminants for Water Purification without Supporting Electrolyte. Nature Water, in press.
2. Q. Wang, Y. Chen, H. B. Tao, Y. Liu, X. Ma, D.-S. Li, H. B. Yang^* and B. Liu^* (2023), Long-Term Stability Challenges and Opportunities in Acidic Oxygen Evolution Electrocatalysis. Angewandte Chemie International Edition, in press.
3. T. Wang, J. Chen, X. Ren, J. Zhang, J. Ding, Y. Liu, K. Lim, J. Wang, X. Li, H. B. Yang^*, Y. Huang, S. Kawi^* and B. Liu^* (2023), Halogen-Incorporated Sn Catalysts for Selective Electrochemical CO₂ Reduction to Formate. Angewandte Chemie International Edition, in press.
4. J. Zhang, H. B. Yang, D. Zhou and B. Liu^* (2022), Adsorption Energy in Oxygen Electrocatalysis. Chemical Reviews, 122, 17028-17072.
5. J. Chen, C. Chen, M. Qin, B. Lin, Q. Mao, H. Yang, B. Liu^* and Y. Wang^* (2022), Reversible Hydrogen Spillover in Ru-WO_3-x Enhances Hydrogen Evolution Activity in Neutral pH Water Splitting. Nature Communications, 13, 5382.
6. J. M. Zhang, J. Ma, T. S. Choksi, D. Zhou, S. Han, Y. -F. Liao, H. B. Yang, D. Liu, Z. Zeng, W. Liu, X. Sun, T. Zhang^* and B. Liu^* (2022), Strong Metal-Support Interaction Boosts Activity, Selectivity, and Stability in Electrosynthesis of H₂O₂. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 144, 2255-2263.
7. M. Chen, S. Wan, L. Zhong, D. Liu, H. Yang, C. Li, Z. Huang, C. Liu, J. Chen^*, H. Pan, S. Li^*, Q. Yan^* and B. Liu^* (2021), Dynamic Restructuring of Cu-Doped SnS₂ Nanoflowers for Highly Selective Electrochemical CO₂ Reduction to Formate. Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 60, 26233-26237.
8. Z. Zeng, L. Y. Gan, H. Yang^*, Z. Su, J. Gao, H. Matsumoto, J. Gong, J. Zhang, W. Cai, Z. Zhang, Y. Yan, B. Liu^* and P. Chen^* (2021), Orbital Coupling of Hetero-diatomic Nickel-Iron Site for Bifunctional Electrocatalysis of CO₂ Reduction and Oxygen Evolution. Nature Communications, 12, 4088.
9. Z. Teng, Q. Zhang, H. Yang, K, Kato, W. Yang, Y. -R. Lu, S. Liu, C. Wang, A. Yamakata, C. Su^*, B. Liu^* and T. Ohno^* (2021), Atomically Dispersed Antimony on Carbon Nitride for the Artificial Photosynthesis of Hydrogen Peroxide. Nature Catalysis, 4, 374-384.
10. X. Li, Y. Fang, J. Wang, H. Fang, S. Xi, X. Zhao, D. Xu, H. Xu, W. Yu, X. Hai, C. Chen, C. Yao, H. B. Tao, A. G. R. Howe, S. J. Pennycook, B. Liu^*, J. Lu^* and C. Su^* (2021), Ordered Clustering of Single Atomic Te Vacancies in Atomically Thin PtTe₂ Promotes Hydrogen Evolution Catalysis. Nature Communications, 12, 2351.
11. X. Li, C. -S. Cao, S. -F. Hung, Y. -R. Lu, W. Cai, A. I. Rykov, S. Miao, S. Xi, H. Yang, Z. Hu, J. Wang, J. Zhao, E. E. Alp, W. Xu, T. -S. Chan, H. Chen, Q. Xiong, H. Xiao, Y. Huang^*, J. Li^*, T. Zhang and B. Liu^* (2020), Identification of the Electronic and Structural Dynamics of Catalytic Centers in Single-Fe-Atom Material. Chem, 6, 3440-3454.
12. X. Li, L. Liu, X. Ren, J. Gao, Y. Huang^* and B. Liu^* (2020), Microenvironment Modulating of Single Atom Catalysts and the Roles in Electrochemical Energy Conversion. Science Advances, 6, eabb6833.
13. X. Li, L. Xiao, L. Zhou, Q. Xu, J. Weng, J. Xu^* and B. Liu^* (2020), Adaptive Bifunctional Electrocatalyst of Amorphous CoFe Oxide@2D Black Phosphorus for Overall Water Splitting. Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 59, 21106-21113.
14. Q. Wang, C. -Q. Xu^*, W. Liu, S. -F. Hung, H. B. Yang, J. Gao, W. Cai, H. M. Chen, J. Li and B. Liu^* (2020), Coordination Engineering of Iridium Nanocluster Bifunctional Electrocatalyst for Highly Efficient and pH-Universal Overall Water Splitting. Nature Communications, 11, 4246.
15. T. Zhang, X. Han, H. Yang, A. Han, E. Hu, Y. Li, X. ‐Q Yang, L. Wang, J. Liu^* and B. Liu^* (2020), Atomically Dispersed Nickel(I) on an Alloy‐Encapsulated Nitrogen‐Doped Carbon Nanotube Array for High‐Performance Electrochemical CO₂ Reduction Reaction. Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 59, 12055-12061.
16. J. Gao, H. B. Yang, X. Huang, S. -F. Hung, W. Cai, C. Jia, S. Miao, H. M. Chen, X. Yang, Y. Huang^* and B. Liu^* (2020), Enabling Direct H₂O₂ Production in Acidic Media through Rational Design of Transition Metal Single Atom Catalyst. Chem, 6, 658-674.
17. S. Liu, H. B. Yang, S. -F. Hung, J. Ding, W. Cai, L. Liu, J. Gao, X. Li, X. Ren, Z. Kuang, Y. Huang^*, T. Zhang and B. Liu^* (2020), Elucidating the Electrocatalytic CO₂ Reduction Reaction over a Model Single-Atom Nickel Catalyst. Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 59, 798-803.
18. H. B. Yang, S. -F. Hung, S. Liu, K. Yuan, S. Miao, L. Zhang, X. Huang, H. -Y. Wang, W. Cai, R. Chen, J. Gao, X. Yang, W. Chen, Y. Huang^*, H. M. Chen, C. M. Li, T. Zhang^* and B. Liu^* (2018), Atomically Dispersed Ni(I) as the Active Site for Electrochemical CO₂ Reduction. Nature Energy, 3, 140-147.