Yun Liu

Dr. Yun Liu is a material physicist at the NCNR at the National Institute for Standards and Technology in Gaithersburg, MD. He is an instrument scientist in the SANS group.

Career History/Education:

• Ph. D. of Nuclear Science and Engineering, M.S. in Nuclear Engineering (2005)
  Nuclear Science and Engineering Department, MIT, USA
  Cumulative Graduate GPA: 4.9/5.0
• Master of Nuclear Technology & Application (1999)
  Engineering Physics Department, Tsinghua University, P. R. China
• Bachelor of Engineering Physics (1997)
  Engineering Physics Department, Tsinghua University, P. R. China

Research Interests:

• Structure and dynamics of colloidal systems, such as nucleation/clusterization in colloidal and biological molecular assembly systems, ion/counterion association in polyelectrolyte solution, and colloidal interactions.
• Interaction of small molecules on the surface or porous media, such as hydrogen storage, green-house gas capture, molecular recognition based on surface selection, molecular sieving, small molecule dynamics on functionalized surface.
• Water structure and dynamics in nano-porous systems, such as fuel cell membranes.

Selected Publications:

1. L. Porcar, P. Falus, W. R. Chen, A. Faraone, E. Fratini, K. Hong, P. Baglioni, Y. Liu*, "Formation of the Dynamic Clusters in Concentrated Lysozyme Protein Solutions", J. of Physical Chemistry Letters 1, 126-129 (2010).
2. S. Xiang, W. Zhou, J. M. Gallegos, Y. Liu*, B. Chen*, "Exceptionally High Acetylene Uptake in a Microporous Metal-Organic Framework with Open Metal Sites", J. of the American Chemical Society 131, 12415-12419 (2009).
3. Y. Liu*, J. Her, A. Dailly, A. J. Ramirez-Cuesta, D. A. Neumann, C. M. Brown*, "A Reversible Structure Transition in MIL-53 with Large Temperature Hysteresis", J. of the American Chemical Society 130, 11813-11818 (2008).
4. Y. Liu, H. Kabbour, C. M. Brown, D. A. Neumann, C. C. Ahn, "Increasing the Density of Adsorbed Hydrogen with Coordinatively Unsaturated Metal Centers in Metal-organic Frameworks", Langmuir 24, 4772 (2008).
5. Y. Liu, C. M. Brown, D. A. Neumann, V. K. Peterson, C. Kepert, "Inelastic Neutron Scattering of H2 Adsorbed in HKUST-1", J. of Alloys and Compounds 446-447, 385 (2007).
6. M. Dinca, A. Dailly, Y. Liu, C. M. Brown, D. A. Neumann, J. R. Long, "Hydrogen Storage in a Microporous Metal-Organic Framework with Exposed Mn2+ Coordination Sites", J. of the American Chemical Society 128, 16876 (2006).
7. Y. Liu, E. Fratini, P. Baglioni, W. R. Chen, S. H. Chen, "An Effective Long-range Attraction Between Protein Molecules in Solutions Studied by Small Angle Neutron Scattering", Physical Review Letters 95, 118102, (2005).
8. Y. Liu*, W. R. Chen, S. H. Chen, "Cluster Formation in Two Yukawa Fluids", J. of Chemical Physics 122, 044507 (2005)
9. Y. Liu, D. Berti, A. Faraone, W. R. Chen, A. Alatas, H. Sinn, E. Alp, P. Baglioni, S. H. Chen, "Inelastic X-ray Scattering Studies of Phonons in Liquid Crystalline DNA",
10. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics
6 (7), 1499 (2004).

Contact Information:

• Yun Liu
  National Institute for Standards and Technology
  100 Bureau Drive, STOP 6102
  Gaithersburg MD 20899
• (301)975-6235 (office), (301)921-9847 (fax)
• yun.liu@nist.gov

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