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| - Jie Liu is an assistant professor in the Chemistry Department at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, where he has been on the faculty since 1999. He received his PhD degree in chemistry at Harvard University in 1996 and was a postdoctoral research fellow at Rice University in Houston between 1996 and 1999. Liu's research group at Duke has focused on the synthesis of single-walled carbon nanotubes using chemical vapor deposition and the development of scanning-probe-based lithographic techniques. He has published more than 20 papers over the last four years in the field of nanoscale material synthesis and functionalization.
- Liu is the Jerry G. and Patricia Crawford Hubbard Professor of Chemistry at Duke University. He earned a BS degree in chemistry from Shandong University in 1987 and a PhD degree in chemistry from Harvard University in 1996. Liu's research interests include synthesis and chemical functionalization of nanomaterials, nanoelectronic devices, scanning probe microscopy, and carbon nanomaterials. As a faculty member, Liu has received the DuPont Young Professor Award, the Outstanding Oversea Young Investigator Award from the National Science Foundation-China, the Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award from Oak Ridge Associated Universities, and the Bass Professorship from Duke University for excellence in teaching and research.
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