Dr. Yun Liu, born in October, 1989, is a researcher professor at the Institute of Urban Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences.

He is mainly engaged in the study of surface interface processes and reaction mechanisms related to environmental and energy catalysis; 1. Preparing well-defined surface as model surface to study the transportation, reaction and conversion of the pollution molecules (CO, NOx, VOCs); 2. Developing novel instruments to investigate the complex interfacial process in situ.

Education & Work Experience

2023.01 – until now, Professor, Institute of Urban Environment, CAS, Advisor: Prof. Hong He

2022.09 - 2022.12, Associate Professor, Institute of Urban Environment, CAS, Advisor: Prof. Hong He

2022.01 - 2022.06, Visiting postdoc in Physics, University of Duisburg-Essen, Advisor: Dr. Yujin Tong

2017.09 - 2022.01, Postdoc in Physical Chemistry; Fritz Haber Institute (FHI) of the Max Planck Society, Berlin, Germany,

Advisors: Prof. H-J Freund & Prof. B. Roldan Cuenya

2012.07-2017.07, Ph. D in Physical Chemistry; Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics (DICP), Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian, China,

Supervisors: Prof. Xinhe Bao & Prof. Fan Yang

2011.09-2012.07, Curriculum Learning in Physical Chemistry, University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), Hefei, China;

2007.09-2011.07，B. E in Chemical Engineering and Technology, Huazhong University of Science & Technology (HUST), Wuhan, China;

10.Juanjuan Liu*, Shihui Zou*, Yun Liu*, Jie Fan*, Editorial: Heterogeneous Catalysis for Methane Activation. Front. Chem. 10:962033, 2022.
9.Yun Liu#, *, Zhongkang Han#, S. Gewinner, Wieland Schoellkopf, Sergey V. Levchenko, Helmut Kuhlenbeck*, Beatriz Roldan Cuenya. Adatom Bonding Sites in a Nickel-Fe3O4(001) Single-Atom Model Catalyst and O2 Reactivity Unveiled by Surface Action Spectroscopy with Infrared Free-Electron Laser Light. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 61, e202202561, 2022.
8.Yun Liu, Yuman Peng, Mathias Naschitzki, S. Gewinner, Wieland Schoellkopf, Helmut Kuhlenbeck*, Rossitza Pentcheva, Beatriz Roldan Cuenya. Surface oxygen vacancies on reduced Co3O4(100): superoxide formation and ultra-low-temperature CO oxidation. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 60,16514. 2021.
7.Yun Liu#; Zongfang Wu#; Helmut Kuhlenbeck; H-J Freund*. Surface Action Spectroscopy: A review and a perspective on a new technique to study vibrations at surfaces. Chem. Rec. 21, 1270-1283. 2021.
6.Yun Liu#; Zongfang Wu#; M. Naschitzki, W. Wachsmann, S. Gewinner, W.Schoellkopf, Xiaoke Li#; Joachim Paier*; Joachim Sauer; Helmut Kuhlenbeck*; Hans-Joachim Freund. Elucidating Surface Structure with Action Spectroscopy. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 142, 2665–2671, 2020.
5.Yun Liu#, Fan Yang#*, Yi Zhang, Jianping Xiao, Liang Yu, Qingfei Liu, Yanxiao Ning, Zhiwen Zhou, Hao Chen, Wugen Huang, Ping Liu, Xinhe Bao*. Enhanced Oxidation Resistance of Active Nanostructures via Dynamic Size Effect. Nature Communications, 8,14459. 2017.
4.Yun Liu#, Yanxiao Ning#, Liang Yu, Zhiwen Zhou, Qingfei Liu, Yi Zhang, Jianping Xiao, Ping Liu, Fan Yang*, Xinhe Bao*. Structure and Electronic Properties of Interface-Confined Oxide Nanostructures. ACS Nano, 11, 11449. 2017.
3.Yun Liu, Fan Yang*, Yanxiao Ning, Qingfei Liu, Yi Zhang, Hao Chen, Xinhe Bao*. CO Adsorption on a Pt(111) Surface Partially Covered with FeOx Nanostructures. J. Energy Chem., 26, 602–607. 2017.
2.Hao Chen#, Yun Liu#, Fan Yang*, Mingming Wei, Xinfei Zhao, Yanxiao Ning, Qingfei Liu, Yi Zhang, Qiang Fu, Xinhe Bao*. The Active Phase of FeOx/Pt Catalysts in PROX Reaction. J. Phys. Chem. C, 121, 10398–10405. 2017.
1.Fan Yang，Yun Liu，Xinhe Bao，Scanning Probe Microscopy and Nano-spectroscopy.Chapter 12, in Modern Techniques and Methods in Catalysis (现代催化研究方法新编), Eds: Qin Xin，Mengfei Luo,Jie Xu. Science Press. pp.885-946. 2018. (in Chinese)

Overseas Young Talents Project of Chinese Academy of Sciences (2022)
Overseas Young Talents Project of China (2022)
Alexander von Humboldt foundation for the postdoctoral fellowship (2018-2021)