Aijie Liu, Ph.D.

Associate professor

Xiamen University, China

Email: aijieliu@xmu.edu.cn

Dr. Aijie Liu obtained her Ph.D. in 2017 from the University of Twente, the Netherlands, under the supervision of Prof. Jeroen J. L. M. Cornelissen. From 2018 to 2021, she was a postdoctoral researcher in Dr. Haining Tian’s group, at Uppsala University, Sweden. Currently, she is working at Xiamen University as an associate professor. Her research interests are the design of nanoreactors for biomedical applications.   

Selected Publications:

1.     Aijie Liu,Lars Gedda, Martin Axelsson, Mariia Pavliuk, Katarina Edwards, Leif Hammaström, Haining Tian, Panchromatic Ternary Polymer Dots involving Sub-Picosecond Energy and Charge Transfer for Efficient and Stable Photocatalytic Hydrogen Evolution., J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2021. 143(7), 2875.                                                                                          

2.     Aijie Liu, Mark V. de Ruiter, Wei Zhu, Stan J. Maassen, Liulin Yang, Jeroen J. L. M. Cornelissen, Compartmentalized Thin Films with Customized Functionality via Interfacial Cross-linking of Protein Cages, Adv. Funct. Mater., 2018, 28, 1801571.                                            

3.     Aijie Liu, Cheuk-Wai Tai, Katerina Hola, Haining Tian, Hollow Polymer Nanoparticles: Nature Mimicking Architecture for Efficient Photocatalytic Hydrogen Evolution, J. Mater. Chem. A, 2019, 7(9), 4797-4803.   (2019 HOT Paper)

4.     Aijie Liu^†, Christoph H.-H. Traulsen^†, Jeroen J. L. M. Cornelissen, Nitroarene Reduction by a Virus Protein Cage Based Nanoreactor, ACS Catal., 2016, 6(5), 3084-3091.                                                    

5.     Aijie Liu, Liulin Yang, Christoph H.-H. Traulsen, Jeroen J.L.M. Cornelissen, Immobilization of catalytic virus-like particles in a flow reactor, Chem Commun., 2017, 53, 7632-7634.                                       

6.     Aijie Liu, Martijn Verwegen, Mark V. de Ruiter, Stan J. Maassen, Christoph H.-H. Traulsen, Jeroen J. L. M. Cornelissen, Protein Cages as Containers for Gold Nanoparticles, J. Phys. Chem. B, 2016, 120 (26), 6352-6357.   

7.     Aijie Liu, Lei Tian, Haining Tian, In Situ Preparation and Immobilization of Semiconducting Polymer Dots on Microbeads for Efficient and Stable Photocatalytic Hydrogen Evolution, ACS Appl. Ener. Mater., 2021, 4(5), 4308-4312.