Prof. Liangti Qu
Department of Chemistry
Tsinghua University
Beijing, China
Phone: 86-10-62780569
E-mail: lqu@mail.tsinghua.edu.cn
Academic Career:
2019- Professor, Department of Chemistry, and Department of Mechanical Engineering, Tsinghua University, China
2009-2019 Professor, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology, China
2004-2009 Research Assistant Professor, University of Dayton, USA
2001-2004 Ph.D., Tsinghua University, China
1998-2001 M.Sc., Dalian University of Technology, China
1994-1998 B.Sc., Jinan University, China
Awards & Honors:
New Century Excellent Talents in University (2009);
Excellent Young Teachers in Universities by Fok Ying Tong Education Foundation (2012);
National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars (2013);
Chang Jiang Scholars of Ministry of Education, China (2014)
Research Fields and Interests：
Our research is involved in advanced functional materials, micro/nanomanufacturing, and new energy.
(1) Advanced material preparation (e.g., graphene, functional polymers, carbon nanomaterials, intelligent responsive materials)
(2) Micro/nanomanufacturing (e.g., molecular/nano level material design, nanochemistry, electrochemistry, micro/nanoassembly, laser micro/nano manufacturing)
(3) New energy (e.g., power generation, batteries/capacitors, flexible electronics and micro/nano energy devices, seawater desalination)
Selected publications (>300 publications, >30000 citations):
1. Sustainable moisture energy, Nat. Rev. Mater., 2024, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41578-023-00643-0
2. Ultralow-resistance electrochemical capacitor for integrable line filtering, Nature, 2023, 624, 74–79.
3. Multifunctional solar water harvester with high transport selectivity and fouling rejection capacity, Nature Water, 2023, 1, 982–991.
4. Multistage coupling water-enabled electric generator with customizable energy output, Nat. Commun., 2023, 14: 5702.
5. Superelastic graphene aerogel-based metamaterials, Nat. Commun., 2022, 13:4561.
6. Transfer learning enhanced water-enabled electricity generation in highly oriented graphene oxide nanochannels, Nat. Commun., 2022, 13: 6819.
7. Moisture adsorption-desorption full cycle power generation, Nat. Commun., 2022, 13:2524.
8. Fast constructing polarity-switchable zinc-bromine microbatteries with high areal energy density, Sci. Adv., 2022, 8, eabo6688.
9. Fixture-free omnidirectional prestretching fabrication and integration of crumpled in-plane microsupercapacitors, Sci. Adv., 2022, 8, eabn8338.
10. Enabling fast-charging selenium-based aqueous batteries via conversion reaction with copper ions, Nat. Commun. 2022, 13:1863
11. Bilayer of polyelectrolyte films for spontaneous power generation in air up to an integrated 1,000 V output, Nat. Nanotechnol., 2021, 16, 811–819.
12. A seamlessly integrated device of microsupercapacitorand wireless charging with ultrahigh energy density and capacitance, Nat. Commun., 2021, 12:2647
13. Arbitrary waveform AC line filtering applicable to hundreds of volts based on aqueous electrochemical capacitors, Nat. Commun.2019, 10: 2855.
14. Plant leaves inspired sunlight-driven purifier for high-efficiency clean water production, Nat. Commun. 2019, 10: 1512.
15. Interface-mediated hygroelectric generator with an output voltage approaching 1.5 volts, Nat. Commun., 2018, 9, 4166.
16. Highly efficient solar vapour generation via hierarchically nanostructured gels, Nat. Nanotechnol., 2018, 13, 489–495.
17. Graphene-Based Functional Architectures: Sheets Regulation and Macrostructure Construction toward Actuators and Power Generators, Acc. Chem. Res., 2017, 50 (7), 1663–1671.
18. Graphene-based smart materials, Nat. Rev. Mater., 2017, 2, 17046.
19. Metal-Free Catalysts for Oxygen Reduction Reaction, Chem. Rev., 2015, 115(11), 4823–4892.
20. Carbon nanotube arrays with strong shear binding-on and easy normal lifting-off, Science, 2008, 322, 238–242.
