Publications

76. Hui, L.; Nixon, R.; Tolman, N.; Mukai, J.; Bai, R.; Wang, R.; Liu, H.* “Area-Selective Atomic Layer Deposition of Metal Oxides on DNA Nanostructures and Its Applications” ACS Nano 2020, 14, 13047-13055.

75. Bai, R.; Du, Y.; Xu, A.; Erikson, J. R.; Hui, L.; Chen, J.; Xiong, F.*; Liu, H.*; “DNA-based Strategies for Site-specific Doping” Adv. Func. Mater. 2020, 2005940

74. Zhou, F.; Sun, W.; Zhang, C.; Shen, J.; Yin, P.*; Liu, H.* “3D Freestanding DNA Nanostructure as a Low-Density High-Strength Material”. ACS Nano. 2020, 14, 6582-6588  

73. Kim, M.; Qiu, N.; Li, Z.; Huang, Q.; Chai, Z.; Du, S.*; Liu, H.* “Electric Field Effect on the Reactivity of Solid State Materials: The Case of Single Layer Graphene” Adv. Func. Mater.  2020, 30, 1909269.

72. Hui, L.; Liu, H.* “DNA-based Nanofabrication for Low-cost, High-resolution Patterning” Proc. SPIE  2019 DOI: 10.1117/12.2532934.

71. Hui, L.; Xu, A.; Liu, H.* “DNA-based Nanofabrication for Antifouling Applications” Langmuir 2019, 35, 12543-12549.

70. Hurst, J.; Kim, A.; Peng, Z.; Li, L.*; Liu, H.* “Assessing and Mitigating Airborne Hydrocarbon Contamination of Carbon Electrode Materials” Chem. Mater. 2019, 31, 7133-7142.

69. Salim, M.; Montgomery, M.; Liu, H.* “Airborne contamination of graphite as analyzed by ultra-violet photoelectron spectroscopy” J. Elec. Spec. Rel. Phen. 2019, 235, 8-15. 

68. Tolman, N. L.; Mukai, J. M.; Wang, S.*; Zito, A.; Luo, T.; and Liu, H.* “The Effect of Physical Adsorption on the Capacitance of Activated Carbon Electrodes” Carbon 2019, 150, 334-339.

67. Hui, L.; Zhang, Q.; Deng, W.; Liu, H.* “DNA-Based Nanofabrication: Pathway to Applications in Surface Engineering” Small 2019, 15, 1805428.

66. Xiang, G.*; Tang, Y.; Liu, Z.*; Zhu, W.; Liu, H., Wang, J.; Zhong, G.; Li, J.; Wang, X.*  “Probing ligand-induced cooperative orbital redistribution that dominates nanoscale molecule-surface interactions with on-unit-thin TiO2 nanosheets” Nano Lett. 2018, 18, 7809-7815.   

65. Wang, R.; Zhang, G.*; Liu, H.* “DNA-based Nanofabrication” Curr. Opin. Colloid Interface Sci. 2018, 38, 88-99.

64. Ricardo, K. B.; Liu, H.* “Graphene-encapsulated DNA Nanostructure: Preservation of Topographic Features at High Temperature and Site-specific Oxidation of Graphene” Langmuir 2018, 34, 15045-15054.

63. Hurst, J.; Li, L.; Liu, H.* “Adventitious Hydrocarbons and the Graphite-water Interface” Carbon 2018, 134, 464.

62. Xu, A.; Harb, J. N., Kostiainen, M. A.; Hughes, M. L.; Woolley, A. T.; Liu, H.; Gopinath, A. “DNA origami: The bridge from bottom to top” MRS Bull. 2017, 42, 943-950.

61. Weng, J.; Zhao, S.*, Li, Z.; Ricardo, K. B.; Zhou, F.; Kim, H.; Liu, H.* “Raman Enhancement and Photo-Bleaching of Organic Dyes in the Presence of Chemical Vapor Deposition-Grown Graphene” Nanomaterials 2017, 7, 337.

60. Kim, H.; Arbutina, K.; Xu, A.; Liu, H.* “Increasing the stability of DNA nanostructure templates by atomic layer deposition of Al2O3 and its application in imprinting lithography” Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2017, 8, 2363.

59. Gajurel, P.; Kim, M.; Wang, Q.; Dai, W.; Liu, H.; Cen, C.* “Vacancy-Controlled Contact Friction in Graphene” Adv. Func. Mater. 2017, 27, 1702832.

58. Liu, H.* “Nanofabrication Using Unmodified DNA Nanostructures” IEEE-Nano 2017. DOI: 10.1109/NANO.2017.8117368.

57. Peng, Z.; Yang, R.; Kim, M. A.; Lei, L.*; Liu, H.* “Influence of O2, H2O and airborne hydrocarbons on the properties of selected 2D materials” RSC Advances. 2017, 7, 27048-27057

56. Liu, H.*; Li, L.* “Graphitic Materials: Intrinsic Hydrophilicity and Its Implications” Extreme Mech. Lett. 2017, 14, 44-50.

55. Kozbial, A.; Trouba, C.; Liu, H.; Li, L.* “Characterization of the Intrinsic Water Wettability of Graphite Using Contact Angle Measurements: Effect of Defects on Static and Dynamic Contact Angles” Langmuir 2017, 33, 959-967

54. Ricardo, K. B.; Xu, A.; Salim, M.; Zhou, F.; Liu, H.* “Deposition of DNA Nanostructures on Highly Oriented Pyrolytic Graphite” Langmuir 2017, 33, 3991-3997  

53. Tian, C.; Kim, H.; Sun, W.; Yin, P.; Liu, H.* “DNA Nanostructure-Mediated Molecular Imprinting Lithography” ACS Nano 2017, 11, 227-238.

52. Kozbial, A.; Zhou, F.; Li, Z.; Liu, H.*; Li, L.* “Are Graphitic Surfaces Hydrophobic?” Acc. Chem. Res. 2016, 49, 2765-2773.

51. Parobek, D.; Shenoy, G. J.; Ward, M.*; Liu, H.* “Synthesizing and Characterizing Graphene via Raman Spectroscopy: An Upper-Level Undergraduate Experiment That Exposes Students to Raman Spectroscopy and a 2D Nanomaterial” J. Chem. Edu. 2016, 93, 1798-1803

50. Zhao, S.*; Zhou, F.; Li, Z.; Liu, H.* “Effect of precursor purity and flow rate on the CVD growth of hexagonal boron nitride” J. Alloy. Compd. 2016, 688, 1006-1012

50. Chen. R.; Balla, R. J.; Li, Z.; Liu, H.; Amemiya, S.* “Origin of Asymmetry of Paired Nanogap Voltammograms Based on Scanning Electrochemical Microscopy: Contamination Not Adsorption” Anal. Chem. 2016, 88, 8323-8331.

49. Liu, H.; Yang, X.; Ma, N.; Liu, H.; Xia, Y.; Chen, C.; Yang, D.*; Yao, X.* “Scalable and Cost-Effective Synthesis of Highly Efficient Fe2N-Based Oxygen Reduction Catalyst Derived from Seaweed Biomass” Small 2016, 12, 1295-1301.

48. Peng, Z.; Liu, H.* “Bottom-up Nanofabrication Using DNA Nanostructures” Chem. Mater. 2016, 28, 1012-1021.

47. Zhou, F.; Sun, W.; Ricardo, K. B.; Shen, J.; Yin, P.; Liu, H.* “Programmably-shaped Carbon Nanostructure from Shape-conserving Carbonization of DNA” ACS Nano, 2016, 10, 3069-3077.

46. Surwade, S. P.; Zhou, F.; Li, Z.; Powell, A.; O’Donnell, C.; Liu, H.* “Nanoscale Patterning of Self-assembled Monolayers using DNA Nanostructure Templates” Chem. Comm., 2016, 52, 1677-1680.

45. Li, Z.; Kozbial, A.; Nioradze, N.; Parobek, D.; Shenoy, G. J.; Salim, M.; Amemiya, S., Li, L.*; Liu, H.* “Water protects graphitic surface from airborne hydrocarbon contamination” ACS Nano, 2016, 10, 349-359.

44. Shenoy, G. J.; Parobek, D.; Li, Z.; Tian, C.; Liu, H.* “Substrate Dependent Photochemical Oxidation of Monolayer Graphene” RSC Adv., 2016, 6, 8489-8494.

43. Chen, R.; Nioradze, N.; Santhosh, P.; Li, Z.; Surwade, S. P.; Shenoy, G. J.; Parobek, D. G.; Kim, M. A.; Liu, H.; Amemiya, S.* “Ultrafast Electron Transfer Kinetics of Graphene Grown by Chemical Vapor Deposition” Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2015, 54, 15134-15137.

42. Kozbial, A.; Gong, X.; Liu, H.; Li, L.* “Understanding the Intrinsic Water Wettability of Molybdenum Disulfide (MoS2).” Langmuir, 2015, 31, 8429-8435.

41. Gao, T.; Li, Z.; Huang, P.; Shenoy, G.; Parobek, D.; Tan, S.; Lee, J.; Liu, H.; Leu, P.* “Hierarchical Graphene/Metal Grid Structures for Stable, Flexible Transparent Conductors” ACS Nano 2015, 9, 5440-5446.

40. Auletta, J. T.; LeDonne, G. J.; Gronborg, K. C.; Ladd, C. D.; Liu, H.; Clark, W. W.; Meyer, T. Y.*  “Stimuli-Responsive Iron-Cross-Linked Hydrogels That Undergo Redox-Driven Switching between Hard and Soft States” Macromolecules, 2015, 48, 1736-1747.

39. Hui, L.; Auletta, J. T.; Huang Z.; Chen X.; Xia F.; Yang S.; Liu H.; Yang L.* “Surface Disinfection Enabled by a Layer-by-Layer Thin Film of Polyelectrolyte-Stabilized Reduced Graphene Oxide upon Solar Near-Infrared Irradiation” ACS Appl. Mater. Inter. 2015, 7, 10511-10517.

38. Parobek, D.; Liu, H.* “Wettability of graphene” 2D Mater. 2015, 2, 032001

37. Zhou, F.; Michael, B. C.; Surwade, S.; Ricardo, K. B.; Zhao, S.; Liu, H.* “Mechanistic Study of the Nanoscale Negative-tone Pattern Transfer from DNA Nanostructures to SiO2Chem. Mater. 2015, 27, 1692-1698

36. Zhao, S.*; Liu, H.* “Bottom-up nanofabrication through catalyzed vapor phase HF etching of SiO2Nanotechnology. 2015, 26, 015301

35. Kim, H.; Surwade, S. P.; Powell, A.; O’Donnell, C.; Liu, H.* “Stability of DNA origami nanostructure under diverse chemical environments” Chem. Mater., 2014, 26, 5265-5273

34. Novak, M.; Surwade, S. P.; Prokop, J.; Bolotin, K.; Hone, J.; Brus, L.; Nuckolls, C.*; Liu, H.* “Visualizing individual carbon nanotubes with optical microscopy”. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2014, 136, 8536-8539

33. Hui, L.; Piao, J.; Auletta J.; Hu, K.; Zhu, Y.; Meyer, T.; Liu, H.*; Yang, L.* “Availability of the Basal planes of graphene oxide determines whether it is antibacterial” ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces. 2014, 6, 13183-13190. 

32. Kozbial, A.; Li, Z.; Liu, H.*; Li, L.* “Study on the surface energy of graphene by contact angle measurement” Langmuir, 2014, 30, 8598-8606

31. Kozbial, A.; Li, Z.; Liu, H.*; Li, L.* “Understanding the intrinsic water wettability of graphite” Carbon 2014, 74, 218-225.

30. Li, Z.; Zhou, F.; Parobek, D.; Shenoy, G. J.; Muldoon, P., Liu, H.* “Copper substrate as a catalyst for the oxidation of chemical vapor deposition-grown graphene” J. Solid State Chem. 2014, 224, 14-20

29. Garcia-Rodriguez, R; Liu, H.* “Mechanistic insights into the role of alkylamine in the synthesis of CdSe nanocrystals” J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2014, 136, 1968-1975

28. Garcia-Rodriguez, R; Liu, H.* “A nuclear magnetic resonance study of the binding of trimethylphosphine selenide to cadmium oleate” J. Phys. Chem. A 2014, 118, 7314-7319

27. Ricardo, K. B.; Sendecki, A.; Liu, H.* “Surfactant-free exfoliation of graphite in aqueous solutions” Chem. Comm. 2014, 50, 2751-2754

26. Xiang, G.-L.; Long, Y.; He, J.; Xu, B.; Liu, H.*; Wang, X.* “Unusual Enrichment and Assembly of TiO2 Nanocrystals at Water/Hydrophobic Interfaces in a Pure Inorganic Phase” Langmuir, 2014, 30, 617-623.

25. Garcia-Rodriguez, R; Liu, H.* “Solution structure of cadmium carboxylate and its implication to the synthesis of cadmium chalcogenide nanocrystals” Chem Comm., 2013, 49, 7857-7859

24. Kozbial, A.; Li, Z.; Iasella, S.; Taylor, A. T.; Morganstein, B.; Wang, Y.; Sun, J.; Zhou, B.; Randall, N. X.; Liu, H.*; Li L.* “Lubricating graphene with a nanometer-thick perfluoropolymer” Thin Solid Films, 2013, 549, 299-305.

23. Zhou, F.; Li, Z.; Shenoy, G. J.; Li, L.; Liu, H.* “Enhanced Room Temperature Corrosion of Copper in the Presence of Graphene” ACS Nano, 2013, 7, 6939-6947.

22. Li, Z.; Wang, Y.; Kozbial, A.; Shenoy, G.; Zhou, F.; McGinley, R.; Ireland, P.; Morganstein, B.; Kunkel, A.; Surwade, S. P. Li, L.* and Liu, H.* “Effect of airborne contaminants on the wettability of supported graphene and graphite” Nature Mater. 2013, 12, 925-931

21. Surwade, S. P.; Zhou, F.; Wei, B.; Sun, W.; Powell, A.; O’Donnell, C.; Yin, P.*; Liu, H.*; “Nanoscale growth and patterning of inorganic oxides using DNA nanostructure templates” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2013, 135, 6778-6781

20. García-Rodríguez, R.; Hendricks, M. P., Cossairt, B. M*; Liu, H.*; Owen, J. S.* “Synthetic aspects of cadmium chalcogenide nanocrystal synthesis” Chem. Mater. 2013, 25, 1233 – 1249. Invited review

19. Zhang, G.; Surwade, S.; Zhou, F.; Liu, H.* "DNA nanostructure meets nanofabrication" Chem. Soc. Rev., 2013, 42, 2488-2496. Invited review

18. Surwade, S. P.; Li, Z.; Liu, H.* “Thermal oxidation and unwrinkling of chemical vapor deposition-grown graphene” J. Phys. Chem. C. 2012, 116, 20600–20606.

17. Zhao, S.; Surwade, S. P; Li, Z.; Liu, H.* “Photochemical oxidation of CVD-grown single-layer graphene” Nanotechnology 2012, 23, 355703

16. García-Rodríguez, R.; Liu, H.* “Mechanistic Study of the Synthesis of CdSe Nanocrystals: Release of Selenium” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2012, 134, 1400-1403

15. Surwade, S. P.; Zhao, S.; Liu, H.* “Molecular lithography through DNA-mediated etching and masking of SiOJ. Am. Chem. Soc. 2011, 133, 11868-11871 

14. Ryu, S.; Liu, L.; Berciaud, S.; Yu, Y.-J.; Liu, H.; Kim, P.; Flynn, G.; Brus, L. “Atmospheric Oxygen Binding and Hole Doping in Deformed Graphene on a SiO2 Substrate” Nano Lett. 2010, 10, 4944-4951

13. Owen, J. O.; Chan, E. M.; Liu, H.; Alivisatos, A. P. “Precursor Conversion Kinetics and the Nucleation of Cadmium Selenide Nanocrystals” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2010, 132, 18206-18213

12. Wu, X.; Thrall, E.; Liu, H.; Steigerwald, M.; Brus, L. “Plasmon Induced Photovoltage and Charge Separation in Citrate-Stabilized Gold Nanoparticles” J. Phys. Chem. C, 2010, 114, 12896–12899

11. Liu, H.; Jin, H.; Tang, J.; Liu, H.; Pang, P.; Cao, D.; Lindsay, S.; Nuckolls, C. “Translocation of Single-Stranded DNA through Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes” Science, 2010, 327, 64-67

10. Liu, H.; Ryu, S.; Chen, Z.; Steigerwald, M. L.; Nuckolls, C.; Brus, L. E. “Photochemical Reactivity of Graphene” J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2009, 131, 17099-17101

9.   Liu, H.; Steigerwald, M. L.; Nuckolls, C. “Electrical Double Layer Catalyzed Wet-Etching of Silicon Dioxide” J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2009, 131, 17034-17035.

8.   Liu, H. “Tuning the Binding Energy of Surfactant to CdSe Nanocrystal: A Theoretical Study” J. Phys. Chem. C 2009, 113, 3116-3119

7.   Cabot, A.; Smith, R.; Yin, Y.; Zheng, H.; Reinhard, B.; Liu, H.; Alivisatos, A. P. "Sulfidation of Cadmium at the Nanoscale"  ACS Nano 2008, 2, 1452-1458.

6.   Wu, X.; Redmond P. L.; Liu, H.; Chen, Y.; Steigerwald, M.; Brus, L. “Photovoltage Mechanism for Room Light Conversion of Citrate Stabilized Silver Nanocrystal Seeds to Large Nanoprisms” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2008, 130, 9500-9505.

5.   Liu, H.; Owen, J. S.; Alivisatos, A. P. “Mechanistic Study of Precursor Evolution in Colloidal Group II-VI Semiconductor Nanocrystal Synthesis” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2007, 129, 305-312.

4.   Ryan, K. M.; Mastroianni, A.; Stancil, K. A.; Liu, H.; Alivisatos, A. P. “Electric-Field-Assisted Assembly of Perpendicularly Oriented Nanorod Superlattices” Nano Lett. 2006, 6, 1479-1482.

3.   Kanaras, A. G.; Sonnichsen, C.; Liu, H.; Alivisatos, A. P. “Controlled Synthesis of Hyperbranched Inorganic Nanocrystals with Rich Three-Dimensional Structures” Nano Lett. 2005, 5, 2164-2167

2.   Liu, H.; Alivisatos, A. P. “Preparation of Asymmetric Nanostructures through Site Selective Modification of Tetrapods” Nano Lett. 2004, 4, 2397-240.

1.   Wang, C. Y.; Mo, X.; Zhou, Y.; Zhu, Y. R.; Liu, H.; Chen, Z. Y. “A Convenient Ultraviolet Irradiation Technique for in situ Synthesis of CdS Nanocrystallites at Room Temperature” J. Mater. Chem. 2000, 10, 607-608