Dr. Yun Liu's CV

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(99 peer-reviewed publications.)
(Total citations: 4040. Citations in 2015 alone: 554. h-index=27. Data are taken from ISI Web of Science as of Aug. 12, 2016)

Grants:

• Neutron Scattering Studies of monoclonal antibody and surfactant solutions. Project with Genentech Inc. 2014-present.
• Developing Measurements of Structure-Property Relationships in Complex Fluids in Extreme Environments, IMS grant at NIST, 2014-2019.
  
• In-Situ Visualization of Water Transport & Distribution in Photovoltaic Modules using Neutron Imaging. Project at NIST, 2014.
• Neutron scattering investigation of unconventional shale gas. Project with Aramco Service Company, 2014-2017
  
• Investigation of protein cluster formation. Project with Genentech Inc. 2010-2014
  
• A study of real-space neutron scattering methods. A LDRD Director's Fund of Oak Ridge National Laboratory, 2009-2010;
  
• Experimental, Theoretical and Molecular Modeling Approach to Characterize the Structure and Dynamics of Charged PAMAM Dendrimers in Solution. A LDRD Director's Fund of Oak Ridge National Laboratory, 2008-2009.
  

Awards:

• Science Prize of Neutron Scattering Society of America for "the discovery of dynamic cluster ordering in complex colloidal and protein systems using neutron scattering" (2016)
• Katharine B. Gebbie Young Scientist Award by NIST-Sigma Xi for "the contributions to the field of soft matter, in particular, to fundamental colloidal science and its application to biopharmaceutical science". (2014)
  

Professional services:

• Advisory Board Member for 4th Protein-Protein Interaction Conference, October, 2016.
• Co-organizer for the focus session on "Clustering and gelation with competing interactions" in APS National March Meeting at Baltimore, 2016.
• Session chair of MRS meeting on "Glassy Soft Materials", Boston, December, 2015.
• Co-organizer for a workshop at MIT about "Frontier of Soft Matter Systems", Boston, 2015.
• Discussion leader of "Dynamics in soft matter, glasses, gels, transport in soft matter, and active soft matter" session for the Second Target Station (STS) workshop at Spallation Neutron Source (SNS), ORNL, October, 2015.
• Session chair/moderator for 3rd Protein-Protein Interaction Conference at Boston in October, 2015.
• Co-organizer of the workshop on "Structure and Dynamics of Soft Matter Systems" at CNMS in ORNL in September, 2015.
• Member of International Advisory Committee for the workshop on "Applications and the Future Directions of Neutron Spin-Echo in Soft/Hard Condensed Matter" at ORNL in May, 2015.
• Member of "Soft Matter" program committee for 7th ACNS (American Conference on Neutron Scattering), Knoxville, Tennessee, 2014.
• Member of the Editorial Board for the journal, "Chemical Engineering & Process Techniques".
• Organizer for "Frontier of selective-structure characterization in complex soft matter materials" at Annual Meeting for American Crystallographic Association (ACA) in 2014 at Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA.
• Organizer and session chair for the symposium of "Charged Colloids with Short-range Attractions" for American Physical Society National March Meeting, 2013 at Baltimore, MD
• Session chair for Complex Fluids and Gels for American Conference on Neutron Scattering, June 24-28, Georgetown University, Washington DC, 2012
• Session chair for Biocolloids V for 86th ACS Colloid & Surface Science Symposium at Johns Hopkins University, June 10-13, 2012
• Organizer for the 8th Middle Atlantic Soft Matter Workshop at National Institute of Standards and Technology, Maryland on December 9, 2011
• Reviewer for the Neutron Scattering Section of CPHS at Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, in June, 2011
• Member of the international advisory committee of Compact Pulsed Hadron Sources at Tsinghua University, Beijing, June, 2009.
•  Organizer of a tutorial session of American Conference on Neutron Scattering, Santa Fe, NM, May 11-15, 2008.  
• Symposium co-organizer and session chair of the HH Symposium entitled "The Hydrogen Economy" at the Materials Research Society Meeting in San Francisco, Mar. 24-28, 2008.  
  

Publications:

2016

99)   Wei-Shan Chiang, Emiliano Fratini, Piero Baglinoi, Jin-Hong Chen*, Yun Liu*, "Pore Size Effect of Methane Adsorption in Mesoporous Silica Materials Studied by Small-Angle Neutron Scattering", Langmuir, accepted (2016). 

98)   Jie Chen, Xuewu Wang, Steven R. Kline, Yun Liu*, "Size effects of solvent molecules on the phase behavior and effective interaction of colloidal systems with the bridging attraction", J. Phys. Condens. Matter Accepted (2016). 

97)   V. L. Dharmaraj, P. Douglas Godfrin, Yun Liu, Steven D. Hudson, "Rheology of Clustering Protein Solutions", Biomicrofluidics, 10(4), 043509(2016). 

96)   Clinton G. Wiener, Madhusudan Tyagi, Yun Liu, R. A. Weiss, Bryan D. Vogt, "Spramolecular Hydrophobic Aggregates in Hydrogels Partially Inhibit Ice Formation", J. of Phys. Chem. B, accepted, (2016) 

95)   Carlos R. López-Barrón, Peter J. Beltramo, Yun Liu, Sung-Min Choi, Min-Jae Lee, "Mechanical, Dielectric and Structural Characterization of Cross-Linked PEG-Diacrylate/Ethylammonium Nitrate Ionogels", Polymer, 87, 300-307 (2016). 

94)   Wei-Shan Chiang, Emiliano Fratini, Piero Baglioni, Daniel Georgi, Jin-hong Chen*, Yun Liu*, "Methane Adsorption in Model Mesoporous Material, SBA-15, Studied by Small Angle Neutron Scattering", J. Physical Chemistry C, 120,4354-4363 (2016). 

93)   P. Douglas Godfrin, Jonathan Zarzar, Isidro Zarraga*, Lionel Porcar, Peter Falus, Norman J. Wagner, Yun Liu*, "The Effect of Hierarchical Cluster Formation on the Viscosity of Concentrated Monoclonal Antibody Formulations Studied by Neutron Scattering", J. Phys. Chem. B, 120, 278-291 (2016)

2015

92)   Gregory Barnett, Wei Qi, Samiul Amin, Edgar Lewis, Vladimir Razinkov, Bruce Kerwin, Yun Liu, Christopher Roberts, "Structure Changes and Aggregation Mechanisms for Anti-streptavidin IgG1 at Elevated Concentration", J. Phys. Chem. B, 119,15150-15163 (2015).

91)P. Douglas Godfrin, Steven D. Hudson, Kunlun Hong, Lionel Porcar, Peter Falus, Norman J. Wagner*, Yun Liu*, "Short-time glassy dynamics in viscous protein solutions with competing interactions", Phys. Rev. Lett., in press (2015)

90)   Christopher E. Bertrand, P. Douglas Godfrin, Yun Liu*, "Direct observation of critical adsorption on colloidal particles", J. of Chem. Phys. 143, 084704 (2015). 89)Zhe Wang, Kanae Ito, Juscelino Leao, Leland Harriger, Yun Liu, Sow-Hsin Chen, "The liquid-liquid phase transition and its phase diagram in deeply-cooled heavy water confined in a nanoporous silica matrix", Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters 6, 2009-2014(2015) 88)Jie Chen, Steven Kline, Yun Liu*, "From the depletion attraction to the bridging attraction: the effect of solvent molecules on the effective colloidal interactions", J. of Chem. Phys., 142, 084904 (2015). 87)Junhua Luo, Guangcui Yuan, Chuanzhuang Zhao, Charles C. Han, Jie Chen, Yun Liu, "Gelation of large hard particles with short-range attraction induced by bridging of small soft microgels", Soft Matter, 11,2494-2503(2015) 86)Christopher E. Bertrand, Yun Liu*, "Molecular dynamics of a model dimerizing fluid", J. Chemical Physics, 142, 044503(2015).

2014

85)Hao Shen, Néstor E. Valadez_Pérez, Brett Guralnick, Yun Liu, and Michael E. Mackay, "Performance enhancement of polymer-based solar cells by induced phase-separation with silica particles", J. of Materials Chemistry, in press (2014)

84) Xin Li, Changwoo Do, Yun Liu, Luis Sánchez-Diáz, Gregory Smith, Wei-Ren Chen, "A scattering function of star polymers including excluded volume effects", J. of Applied Cyrstallography 47, 1-25(2014) 83) Rachel Pollock, Jae-Hyuk Her, Craig Brown, Yun Liu, Anne Dailly, "Kinetic Trapping of D2 in MIL-53(Al) Observed using Neutron Scattering", J. Physical Chemistry C 118, 18179-18206(2014).

82) Xin Li, Lionel Porcar, Luis E. Sanchez-Diaz, Changwoo Do, Yun Liu, Tae-Hwan Kim, Gregory S. Smith, William A. Hamilton, Kunlun Hong, Wei-Ren Chen, "Influence of Molecular Solvation on the Conformation of Start Polymers", ACS Macro. Lett., 3, 458-461(2014).

81) P. Douglas Godfrin, Néstor E. Valadez-Pérez, Ramón Castañeda-Priego, Norman J. Wagner*, Yun Liu*, "Generalized phase behavior of cluster formation in colloidal dispersions with competing interactions", Soft Matter 10(28), 5061-5071 (2014).

80) Eric J. Yearley, Paul D. Godfrin, Tatiana Perevozchikova, Hailiang Zhang, Peter Falus, Lionel Porcar, Michihiro Nagao, Joseph E. Curtis, Pradad Gawande, Rosalynn Taing, Isidro E. Zarraga*, Norman J. Wagner, Yun Liu*, "Observation of small cluster formation in concentrated monoclonal antibody solutions and its implications to solution viscosity" Biophysical Journal, 106(8), 1763-1770 (2014)

Highlighted by: 

Chemical & Engineering News "Why Monoclonal Antibody Drugs Get Sticky"

Department of Commerce, USA "NIST Research Offers Guide in Formulating Cancer Treatment Drugs" 

National Institute of Standards and Technology "NIST Helps Cancer Treatment Drugs Get Past Their Sticking Point"

Selected to Scientific Highlight at NIST Center for Neutron Research "Direct observation of small reversible clusters in concentrated monoclonal antibody solutions" 

Selected to Scientific Highlight at Institut Laue-Langevin in France, "Observing protein cluster phase in concentrated monoclonal antibody solutions"

2013

79) Néstor E. Valadez-Pérez, Yun Liu, Aaron P. R. Eberle, Norman J. Wagner, Ramón Castañeda-Priego, "Towards a general definition of gelation for adhesive hard-sphere dispersions", Physical Review E, accepted (2013).

78) Yun Liu*, "Colloidal systems with both a short-range attraction and a long-range repulsion", Chemical Engineering & Process Techniques 1(2), 1010 (2013).

(An invited perspective article about colloidal systems with competing interactions.)

77) Néstor E. Valadez-Pérez, Ramón Castañeda-Priego, Yun Liu*, "Percolation in colloidal systems with competing interactions: the role of long-range repulsion", RSC Advances 3, 25110-25119 (2013).

76) Paul Douglas Godfrin, Ramón Castañeda-Priego, Yun Liu, Norman J. Wagner, "Intermediate range order and structure in colloidal dispersions with competing interactions", J. Chem. Phys. 139, 154904 (2013).

75) Eric J. Yearley, Isidro E. Zarraga*, Steven J. Shire, Thomas M. Scherer, Yatin Gokarn, Norman J. Wagner, Yun Liu*, "Small-Angle Neutron Scattering Characterization of Monoclonal Antibody Conformations and Interactions at High Concentrations", Biophysical Journal 105, 720-731(2013).

74)Ali Qajar, Maryam Peer, Ramakrishnan Rajagopalan, Yun Liu, Craig Brown, Henry C. Foley, "Surface compression of light adsorbates inside microporous PFA-derived carbons" Carbon, 60, 538-549(2013).

73) Baoshan Huang, Yang Zhang, Xiang Shu, Yun Liu, Dayakar Penumadu, X. Philip Ye, "Neutron Scattering for Moisture Detection in Foamed Asphalt", Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering, in press (2013).

72)Bin Wu, Yun Liu*, Xin Li, Eugene Mamontov, Alexander I. Kolesnikov, Souleymane O. Diallo, Changwoo Do, Lionel Porcar, Kunlun Hong, Sean C. Smith, Li Liu, Gregory S. Smith, Takeshi Egami, Wei-Ren Chen*, "Charge-Dependent Dynamics of a Polyelectrolyte Dendrimer and Its Correlation with Invasive Water", J. of the American Chemistry Society 135(13), 5111-5117 (2013).

2012

71)Y. Liu*, C. M. Brown, D. A. Neumann, D. B. Geohegan, A. A. Puretzky, C. M. Rouleau, H. Hu, D. Styers-Barnett, P. O. Krasnov, B. I. Yakobson, "Metal-assisted hydrogen storage on Pt-decorated single-walled carbon nanohorns", Carbon 50, 4953-4964(2012).

70)C. Y. Shew, C. Do, K. Hong, Y. Liu, L. Porcar, G. Smith, W. R. Chen, "Conformational effect on small angle neutron scattering behavior of interacting polyelectrolyte solutions: a perspective of integral equation theory", J. Chem. Phys. 137, 024907(2012).

69)B. Wu, W. R. Chen, T. Egami, X. Li, Y. Liu, Y. Wang, C. Do, L. Porcar, K. Hong, L. Liu, G. Smith, S. Smith, "Molecular dynamics and neutron scattering study of the dependence of polyeletrolyte dendrimer conformation on counterion behavior", accepted, J. Chem. Phys. (2012).

68)B. Wu, B. Kerkeni, T. Egami, C. Do, Y. Liu, Y.M. Wang, L. Porcar, K. L. Hong, S. C. Smith, E. L. Liu, G. S. Smith, W. R. Chen, "Structured water in polyelectrolyte dendrimers: Understanding small angle neutron scattering results through atomistic simulation", J. Chem. Phys. 136, 144901 (2012).

67)P. Falus, L. Porcar, E. Fratini, W. R. Chen, A. Faraone, K. Hong, P. Baglioni, Y. Liu*, "Distinguishing the monomer to cluster phase transition in concentrated lysozyme solutions by studying the temperature dependence of the short-time dynamics", J. Phys. Condensed Matter 24, 064114(2012).

66)Xin Li, Bin Wu, Yun Liu, Roger Pynn, Chwen-Yang Shew, Gregory S. Smith, Kenneth W. Herwig, J. Lee Robertson, Wei-Ren Chen, Li, Liu, "Contrast variation in spin-echo small angle neutron scattering", J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 24, 064115(2012).

65)Kunlun Hong, Yun Liu, Lionel Porcar, Dazhi Liu, Carrie Y. Gao, Gregory S. Smith, Kenneth W. Herwig, Sheng Cai, Xin Li, Bin Wu, Wei-Ren Chen, Li Liu , "Structural response of polyelectrolyte dendrimer towards molecular protonation: the inconsistency revealed by SANS and NMR", J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 24, 064116 (2012).

2011

64) Bin Wu, Xin Li, Changwoo Do, Tae-Hwan Kim, Chwen-Yang Shew, Yun Liu, Jun Yang, Kunlun Hong, Lionel Porcar, Chun-Yu Chen, Emily L. Liu, Gregory S. Smith, Kenneth W. Herwig, Wei-Ren Chen, "Spatial distribution of intra-molecular water and polymeric components in polyelectrolyte dendrimers revaled by small angle scattering investigations", J. Chem. Phys. 135, 144903 (2011).

63)Cheng-Si Tsao, Yun Liu, Haw-Yeu Chuang, Huan-Hsiung Tseng, Tsan-Yao Chen, Chien-Hung Chen, Ming-Sheng Yu, Qixiu Li, Angela Lueking, Sow-Hsin Chen, "Hydrogen Spillover Effect of Pt-Doped Activated Carbon Studied by Inelastic Neutron Scattering", J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 2, 2322 (2011).

(Highlighted by MIT News: "Findings could lead to better hydrogen storage" on Sep. 19, 2011. The link: http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2011/better-hydrogen-storage-0919.html )

62)W. Chen, T. Xu, F. He, W. Wang, C. Wang, J. Strzalka, Y. Liu, J. Wen, D. Miller, J. Chen, K. Hong, L. Yu, S. Darling, "Hierarchical Nanomorphologies Promote Exciton Dissociation in Polymer: Fullerene Bulk Heterojunction Solar Cells", Nano 11, 3707-3713 (2011).

(Highlighted by Argonne National Laboratory of DOE in an article titled as "rethinking the idealized morphology in high-performance organic photovoltaics" in September, 2011. The link is http://www.anl.gov/solar/research/photovoltaic/ideal_morphology.html)

61)E. W. Huang, Y. Liu, Y. Ren, L. Porcar, J. J. Kai, P. K. Liaw, G. S. Smith, W. R. Chen, "Evolution of microstructure in a nickel-based superalloy as a function of aging time", Philosophical Magazine Letters 91(7), 483-490 (2011).

60)A. G. Richter, S. A. Dergunov, B. Ganus, Z. Thomas, S. V. Pingali, V. Urban, Y. Liu, L. Porcar, E. Pinkhassik, "Scattering Studies of Hydrophobic Monomers in Liposomal Bilayers: An Expanding Shell Model of Monomer Distribution", Langmuir 27, 3792-3797 (2011).

59)P. Vanessa, C. M. Brown, Y. Liu, K. J. Cameron, "Structural Study of D2 within the Trimodal Pore System of a Metal Organic Framework", J. Phys. Chem. C 115, 8851-8857 (2011).

58)A. Chuang, Y. Liu, T. J. Udovic, P. K. Liaw, G. P. Yu, J. H. Huang, "Inelastic neutron scattering study of hydrogenated (Zr55Cu30Ni5Al10)99Y1 bulk metallic glass", Phys. Rev. B. 83(17), 174206 (2011).

57)F. He, W. Wang, W. Chen, T. Xu, S. B. Darling, J. Strzalka, Y. Liu, L. Yu, "Tetrathienoanthracene-based Copolymers for Efficient Solar Cells",  J. of the American Chemical Society 133, 3284-3287 (2011).

56)J. M. Kim, R. Castaneda-Priego, Y. Liu, N. J. Wagner "On the importance of thermodynamic self-consistency for calculating stable clusters in hard-core double Yukawa fluids" J. Chem. Phys. 134, 064904 (2011)

55)X. Li, C. Y. Shew, Y. Liu, R. Pynn, L. Liu, K. Herwig, G. Smith, L. Robertson, W. R. Chen, "Prospect for characterizing interacting soft colloidal structures using spin-echo small angle neutron scattering", J. Chem. Phys. 134, 094504 (2011).

54)Y. Liu*, L. Porcar, J. Chen, W. R. Chen, P. Falus, A. Faraone, E. Fratini, K. Hong, P. Baglioni,  "Lysozyme Protein Solution with an Intermediate Range Order Structure" J. Phys. Chem. B, ASAP (2011). (An invited article for the special issue, "Clusters in Complex Fluids", in J. Phys. Chem. B)

53)Y. Yang, C. M. Brown, C. Zhao, A. L. Chaffee, B. Nick, D. Zhao, P. A. Webley, J. Schalch, J. M. Simmons, Y. Liu, J. H. Her, C. E. Buckley, D. A. Sheppard, "Micro-Channel Development and Hydrogen Adsorption Properties in TEmplated Microporous Carbons Containing Platinum Nanoparticles" Carbon 49, 1305 (2011).

52)X. Li, M. Zamponi, K. Hong, L. Porcar, C. Y. Shew, T. Jenkins, E. Liu, G. S. Smith, K. W. Herwig, Y. Liu*, W. R. Chen*, "pH Responsiveness of Polyelectrolyte Dendrimers: A Dynamical Perspective" Soft Matter 7, 618(2011).

2010 

51) X. Li, K. L. Hong, Y. Liu, C. Y. Shew, E. Liu, K. W. Herwig, G. S. Smith, J. P. Zhao, G. Z. Zhang, S. Pispas, W. R. Chen, "Water distributions in polystyrene-block-poly[Styrene-poly(ethylene oxide)] block grafted copolymer system in aqueous solutions revealed by contrast variation small angle neutron scattering study", J. of Chem. Phys. 133, 144912 (2010). 

50) C. S. Tsao, Y. Liu, M. D. Li, Y. Zhang, J. B. Leao, H. W. Chang, M. S. Yu, S. H. Chen, "Neutron Scattering Methodology for Absolute Measurement of room-Temperature Hydrogen Storage Capacity and Evidence for Spillover Effect in a Pt-Doped Activated Carbon" J. of Physical Chemistry Letters 1, 1569 (2010).

49) X. Li, C. Y. Shew, Y. Liu, R. Pynn, E. Liu, K. W. Herwig, G. S. Smith, J. L. Robertson, W. R. Chen, "Theoretical Studies on the Structure of Interacting Colloidal Suspensions by Spin-echo Small Angle Neutron Scattering", J. Chem. Phys. 132, 174509 (2010).

48) Y. Liu, C. Y. Chen, H. L. Chen, K. L. Hong, C. Y. Shew, X. Li, L. Liu, Y. B. Melnichenko, G. S. Smith, K. W. Herwig, L. Porcar, W. R. Chen, "Electrostatic Swelling and Conformational Variation Observed in High-Generation Polyelectrolyte Dendrimers", J. of Physical Chemistry Letters 1, 2020 (2010).

47)S. Xiang, W. Zhou, Z. Zhang, M. A. Green, Y. Liu*, B. Chen*, "Open Metal Sites within Isostructural Metal-Organic Frameworks for Differential Recongnition of Acetylene and Extraordinarily High Acetylene Storage at Room Temperature" Angewandte Chemie 49, 4615(2010).

46)Y. Liu, L. Porcar, K. Hong, C. Y. Shew, X. Li, E. Liu, P. D. Butler, K. W. Herwig, G. S. Smith, W. R. Chen, "Effect of Counterion Valence on the pH Responsiveness of Polyamidomaine Dendrimer Structure" J. Chem. Phys. 132, 124901 (2010).

45)H. Wu, J. M. Simmons, Y. Liu, C. M. Brown, X. S. Wang, S. Ma, V. K. Peterson, P. D. Southon, C. J. Kepert, H. C. Zhou, T. Yildirim, W. Zhou, "Metal-Organic Frameworks with Exceptionally High Methane Uptake: Where and How is Methane Stored?" Chemistry: A European Journal 16, 5205 (2010).

44)L. Porcar, K. Hong, P. D. Butler, K. W. Herwig, G. S. Smith, Y. Liu*, W. R. Chen*, "Intramolecular Structural Change of PAMAM Dendrimers in Aqueous Solutions Revealed by Small-Angle Neutron Scattering" J. Phys. Chem. B 114, 1751-1756 (2010).

43)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).

2009

42) 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).

(Highlighted by NIST Tech Beat, Aug. 25, 2009. Reported by many websites worldwide. http://www.nist.gov/public_affairs/techbeat/tb2009_0825.htm#acetylene. "Safer, Denser Acetylene Storage in an Organic Framework")

41) M. Xue, Y. Liu, R. M. Schaffino, S. Xiang, X. Zhao, G. S. Zhu, B. Chen, "A New Prototype IRMOF Zn4O(FMA)3 Exhibiting High Gas Storage", Inorg. Chem. 48 (11), 4649-4651 (2009).

40) C. I. Contescu, C. M. Brown, Y. Liu, V. V. Bhat, N. C. Gallego, "Detection of Hydrogen Spillover in Palladium-modified Activated Carbon Fibers During Hydrogen Adsorption", J. Phys. Chem. C 113, 5886-5890 (2009).

39) C. M. Brown, Y. Liu, T. Yildirim, V. K. Peterson, C. J. Kepert, "Hydrogen Adsorption in HKUST-1: a Combined Inelastic Neutron Scattering and First-principle Study", Nanotechnology, 20, 204025, (2009).

38) L. Porcar, Y. Liu, K. Hong, P. D. butler, E. W. Huang, W. R. Chen, "Counterion Association and Structural Conformation Change of Charged PAMAM Dendrimer in Aqueous Solutions Revealed by Small Angle Neutron Scattering" Macromol. Symp. 279, 65-71 (2009).

2008

37) E. W. Huang, P. K. Liaw, L. Porcar, Y. Liu, Y. L. Liu, J. J. Kai, W. R. Chen, "Study Nano-Precipitates Using Small Angle Neutron Scattering", Applied Physics Letters 93, 161904 (2008).

36) T. Li, K. Hong, L. Porcar, R. Verduzco, P. D. Butler, G. S. Smith, Y. Liu*, W. R. Chen*, "Assessing the Intra-molecular Cavity of a PAMAM Dendrimer in Aqueous Solutions by Small Angle Neutron Scattering", Macromolecules 41(22), 8916-8920 (2008).

35) L. Porcar, Y. Liu, R. Verduzco, K. Hong, P. D. Butler, L. J. Magid, W. R. Chen, "Generational Dependence of Structural Properties of Charged PAMAM Dendrimer in Aqueous Solutions", J. of Physical Chemistry B 112(47), 14772-14778 (2008).

34) 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).

33) J. Luo, H. Xu, Y. Liu, Y. Zhao, L. L. Daemen, C. M. Brown, T. V. Timofeeva, S. Ma, H. C. Zhou, "Hydrogen Adsorption in a Highly Stable Porous Rare-Earth Metal-Organic Framework: Sorption Properties and Neutron Diffraction Studies", J. of the American Chemical Society 130, 9626 (2008).

32) 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).

(Highlighted by NIST Tech Beat, Apr. 1, 2008. Reported by numerous websites worldwide.  http://www.nist.gov/public_affairs/techbeat/tb2008_0401.htm#hydrogen. "More Solid than Solid: A Potential Hydrogen-Storage Compound".)

(One of five most cited papers published by Langmuir in 2008 (citations till Nov, 2009) ).

31) D. Liu, Y. Zhang, Y. Liu, J. Wu, C. C. Chen, C. Y. Mou, S. H. Chen, "Density Measurement of 1-D Confined Water by Small Angle Neutron Scattering Method – Pore Size and Hydration Level Dependences", submitted to J. of Physical Chemistry B 112, 4309 (2008).

30) C. M. Brown, Y. Liu, D. A. Neumann, "Neutron Powder Diffraction of Metal-Organic Frameworks for Hydrogen Storage" PRAMANA Physics Journal 71, 755-760 (2008).

2007

29) V. K. Peterson, Y. Liu, C. M. Brown, C. J. Kepert, "Structure Characterization of D2 in Cu3(1,3,5-benzenetricarboxylate)2 Using Neutron Powder Diffraction", Materials Science Forum 561-565, 1601-1604 (2007).

28) W. R. Chen, L. Porcar, Y. Liu, P. D. Butler, L. J. Magid, "Study the Counterion Effect on the Structural Properties of Charged G4 PAMAM Dendrimer Aqueous Solutions by Small Angle Neutron Scattering", Macromolecules 40, 5887 (2007).

27) S. H. Chen, M. Broccio, Y. Liu, E. Fratini, P. Baglioni, "The 2Y Model and its Applications: the Cases of Charged Proteins and Copolymer Micellar Solutions", J. of Applied Crystallography 40, S321 (2007).

26) Y. Liu, C. M. Brown, J. L. Blackburn, D. A. Neumann, T. Gennett, L. Simpson, P. Parilla, A. C. Dillon, M. J. Heben, "Inelastic Neutron Scattering of H2 Adsorbed in Boron Substituted Single Wall Carbon Nanotubes", J. of Alloys and Compounds 446-447, 368 (2007).

25) 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).

24) M. Dinca, W. S. Han, Y. Liu, A. Dailly, C. M. Brown, D. A. Neumann, J. R. Long, "Observation of CuII-H2 Interactions in a Fully-Desolvated, Sodalite-Type Metal-Organic Framework", Angewandte Chemie International Edition 46, 1419 (2007).

23) C. M. Brown, Y. Liu, W. R. Chen, S. P. Tung, and B. J. Hwang, "Dynamics of Water in a Porous Phosphate Glass", Proceedings for the 8th International Conference on Quasi-Elastic Neutron Scattering 2006, page 45-50, Published by Materials Research Society, 2007.

22) Y. Liu, C. M. Brown, D. A. Neumann, H. Kabbour, C. C. Ahn, "Hydrogen adsorption in MOF-74 studied by inelastic neutron scattering", in Life Cycle Analysis for New Energy Conversion and Storage Systems, edited by V. M. Fthenakis, A. C. Dillon, and N. Savage, Materials Research Society Symposium Proceeding 1041E, 1040-R2_03 (2007). (invited)

21) C. M. Brown, Y. Liu, H. Hui, A. A. Puretzky, B. Zhao, C. M. rouleau, D. Styers-Barnett, D. B. Geohegan, "Inelastic Neutron Scattering as a Probe of the States of Hydrogen in Carbon Materials", 2007 Carbon Conference Proceedings, Seattle (2007).

20) H. Hu, B. Zhao, A. A. Puretzky, C. M. Rouleau, D. Styers-Barnett, D. B. Geohegan, C. M. Brown, Y. Liu, W. Zhou, H. Kabbour, D. A. Neumann, C. C. Ahn, "Tailoring of Single Carbon Nanohorns for Hydrogen Storage and Catalyst Supports", 2007 Carbon Conference Proceedings,  Seattle (2007).

19) Y. Liu, C. M. Brown, T. B. Baumann, D. A. Neumann, "Applications of Neutron Scattering Techniques to Hydrogen Storage Materials", Transactions of the American Nuclear Society 97, 319 (2007). (invited)

2006

18) 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).

(Highlighted by Chemical & Engineering News, Vol. 85, 11 (2007) http://pubs.acs.org/cen/news/85/i01/8501notw8.html. "Hydrogen Storage Gets A Boost: Direct H2 binding to metal atoms beefs up capacity").

(Ranked as one of Journal of the American Chemical Society's Hot Papers: Nov. 2007, January, March, and May 2008)

17) V. K. Peterson, Y. Liu, C. M. Brown, C. J. Kepert, "Neutron Powder Diffraction Study of D2 Sorption in Cu3(1,3,5-benzenetricarboxylate)2", J. of the American Chemical Society 128, 15578 (2006).

(Highlighted by Chemical & Engineering News, Vol. 85, 11 (2007) http://pubs.acs.org/cen/news/85/i01/8501notw8.html. "Hydrogen Storage Gets A Boost: Direct H2 binding to metal atoms beefs up capacity").

16) M. R. Hartman, V. K. Peterson, Y. Liu, S. S. Kaye, J. R. Long, "Neutron Diffraction and Neutron Vibrational Spectroscopy Studies of Hydrogen Adsorption in the Prussian Blue Analogue Cu3[Co(CN)6]2", Chemistry of Materials 18 (14), 3321 (2006).

15) Y. Liu, E. Fratini, P. Baglioni, W. R. Chen, L. Porcar, S. H. Chen, "Liu et al. Reply", Physical Review Letters 96, 219802 (2006).

14) M. Broccio, D. Costa, Y. Liu, and S. H. Chen, "The Structural Properties of a Two-Yukawa Fluid: Simulation and Analytical Results", J. of Chemical Physics 124, 084501 (2006).

2005

13) Y. Liu, S. H. Chen, D. Berti, P. Baglioni, A. Alatas, H. Sinn, E. Alp, A. Said, "Effects of Counterion Valency on the Damping of Phonons Propagating Along the Axial Direction of Liquid-crystalline DNA", J. of Chemical Physics 123, 214909 (2005).

(Selected for the December 15, 2005 issue of Virtual Journal of Biological Physics Research)

12) 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).

(Selected for the September 15, 2005 issue of Virtual Journal of Biological Physics Research)

11) Y. Liu, D. Berti, P. Baglioni, S. H. Chen, A. Alatas, H. Sinn, A. Said, E. Alp, "Inelastic X-ray Scattering Studies of Phonons Propagating along the Axial Direction of a DNA Molecule Having Different Counter-ion Atmosphere ",  J. of Physics and Chemistry of Solids, 66, 2235 (2005).

10) Y. Liu*, W. R. Chen, S. H. Chen, "Cluster Formation in Two Yukawa Fluids",  J. of Chemical Physics 122, 044507 (2005)

(Selected for the January 15, 2005 issue of Virtual Journal of Biological Physics Research)

Before 2005

9) J. Wu, Y. Liu, W. R. Chen, J. Cao, S. H. Chen, "Structural Arrest Transitions in Fluids Described by Two Yukawa Potentials", Physical Review E 70, 050401 (2004).

8) W. R. Chen, Y. Liu, F. Mallamace, P. Thiyagarajan, S. H. Chen, "Studies of Structural Arrest Transition in L64/D2O Micellar Solutions", J. Physics: Condensed Matter 16, S4951 (2004).

7) 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", Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 6 (7), 1499 (2004).

6) G. Leu, Y. Liu, D. D. Werstler, D. G. Cory, "NMR Characterization of Elastomer-Carbon Black Interactions", Macromolecules 37, 6883 (2004).

5) P. J. Chen, Y. Liu, T. A. Weiss, H. W. Huang, H. Sinn, E. Alp, A. Said, S. H. Chen, "Studies of Short-Wavelength Collective Molecular Motions in Lipid Bilayers Using High Resolution Inelastic X-ray Scattering", Biophysical Chemistry 105, 721 (2003).

4) P. N. Sen, Y. Liu, G. Leu, D. G. Cory, "A New Probe of Pore Geometry: Diffusive MASS NMR", Magnetic Resonance Imaging 21, 257, (2003).

3) Y. Liu, G. Leu, S. Singer, P. N. Sen, D. G. Cory, "Selectively Observing the Amplitude Modulation under Magic Angle Sample Spinning", J. of Chemical Physics 119, 2663, (2003).

2) P. N. Sen, Y. Liu, G. Leu, D. G. Cory, "Detection of Motion through Susceptibility Fields in Two-Dimensional Exchange Diffusive-MASS experiments", Chemical Physics Letters 366, 588, (2002).

1) Y. Liu, G. Leu, S. Singer, D. G. Cory, P. N. Sen, "Manipulation of Phase and Amplitude Modulation of Spin Magnetization in Magic Angle Spinning Nuclear Magnetic Resonance in the Presence of Molecular Diffusion", J. Chemical Physics 114, 5729 (2001).