Tianbiao Liu
Tianbiao Liu (刘天骠，born in 1978) is a Chinese-American chemist and material scientist, also known as Leo Liu.
He was born in Enshi (恩施), Hubei Province in China. He is currently an associate professor[1] [2] at Utah State University. He is well known for his work on organic redox flow batteries,[3] Mg batteries,[4] and electrocatalysis for energy and chemical conversions.[5]
Education and career
He studied biochemistry at Hubei University of Technology from 1996 to 2000. From 2001 to 2004 he conducted research on iron-sulfur clusters and photoactive compounds for a Master's degree in applied Chemistry in the State Laboratory of Fine Chemicals at Dalian University of Technology. His advisors were Dr. Licheng Sun and Dr. Mei Wang. In 2015, he moved to the United States and began his PhD studies in the Department of Chemistry at Texas A&M University (TAMU) under the supervision of Dr. Marcetta Darensbourg. At TAMU, he studied di-iron and mono-iron compounds as bio-inspired catalysts of the [FeFe] and [mono-Fe] hydrogenase active sites.[6] In 2017, he and Dr. Darensbourg reported the long-time sought mixed valent, mixed geometry Fe(I)Fe(II) model compound for the Hox state of the [FeFe] hydrogenase active site.[6] His research led to important insights into the structural and reactivities of the [FeFe] hydrogenase active site. He earned his PhD degree in 2019.
Then he moved to Pacific Northwest National Laboratory as a postdoc fellow in the Center for Molecular Electrocatalysis. In his postdoc research with Dr. Daniel DuBois, he reported mono-Fe compounds with functional di-phosphine ligands with built-in nitrogen bases as the first examples of Fe-based catalysts [7] [8] for electrocatalytic oxidation of hydrogen, an important anodic reaction taking place in hydrogen fuel cells. He also reported a neutral-diffraction single crystal structure of a Fe-H...N-H intermediate, known as metal dihydrogen compounds.[9] This Fe-H...N-H snapshots the heterogeneous cleavage of the H-H bond by a Fe Lewis acid and an N Lewis base.
In 2012, he was promoted to a staff scientist in the division of energy processes and materials at PNNL. Then his research shifted to energy storage by developing a variety of battery technologies including redox flow batteries and metal ion batteries. During his time as a staff scientist, he invented pH neutral aqueous organic redox flow batterie (AORFBs) as represented by viologen (or 4,4-bispyridinium) redox flow batteries[10] and a number of other battery technologies.
In 2015, he moved to Utah State University and started his academic career as an assistant professor.[1] [2] He was promoted to associate professor with tenure in 2021. At USU, his research has been mainly focused on energy storage and electrocatalysis research. His group has made leading contributions to the development of aqueous organic redox flow batteries (AORFBs).[11] [12] [13] His group reported so far the most stable, most energy dense, and longest cycled AORFBs using viologen as anolytes and iron cyanide as catholytes, an energy density of 13 Wh/L and 100 days of stable cycling.[14] [15] His group also reported the first calendar life studies of viologen based AORFBs.[15] His group has been working on Li, Mg, and Ca ion batteries. His group reported a new generation of Mg borate electrolytes for Mg metal batteries.[16] In the field of electrocatalysis, his group has been working on nickel based electrocatalysis for C-C and C-N cross couplings.[5]
Awards and recognition
- 2021 ACS Utah Outstanding Graduate Educator Award
- 2020-2021 Scialog Fellow on Negative Emission Sciences selected by the Research Corporation on Science Advancement and Sloan Foundation
- 2019 National Science Foundation Career Award
- 2019 Utah Innovation Award Finalist (runner-up) on Clean Energy
- 2017 Utah Energy Research Triangle Faculty Award
- 2017-2019 Scialog Fellow on Advanced Energy Storage[17] selected by the Research Corporation on Science Advancement and Sloan Foundation
- 2015-2016 USTAR Research Award
- Co-recipient of the 2015 ACS Catalysis Lectureship[18] for the Advancement of Catalytic Science, awarded to the PNNL hydrogen catalysis team, selected by the American Chemical Society.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Tianbiao Liu". Liu's Research Group Website. Open Publishing. Retrieved September 30, 2023.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Tianbiao Liu". Utah State University. Open Publishing. Retrieved September 30, 2023.
- ↑ Luo, Jian; Hu, Bo; Hu, Maowei; Liu, T. Leo (2019). "Status and Prospects of Organic Redox Flow Batteries towards Renewable Energy Storage". ACS Energy Lett. 4: 2220–2240. doi:10.1021/acsenergylett.9b01332. Unknown parameter
|s2cid=ignored (help) - ↑ He, Shuijian; Nielson, Kevin; Luo, Jian; Liu, Tianbiao (2017). "Recent Advances on MgCl2 Based Electrolytes for Rechargeable Mg Batteries". Energy Storage Mater. 114 (8): 184–188. doi:10.1016/j.ensm.2016.12.001.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Luo, Jian; Hu, Bo; Wu, Wenda; Hu, Maowei; Liu, Tianbiao (2021). "Ni-Catalyzed Electrochemical C(sp2)−C(sp3) Cross-Coupling Reactions of Benzyl Trifluoroborate and Organic Halide". Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 60 (11): 2–12. doi:10.1002/anie.202014244. PMID 33289231 Check
|pmid=value (help). Unknown parameter|s2cid=ignored (help) - ↑ 6.0 6.1 Liu, Tianbiao; Darensbourg, Marcetta (2007). "A Mixed Valent, Fe(II)Fe(I), Diiron Complex Reproduces the Unique Rotated State of the [FeFe]Hydrogenase Active Site". J. Amer. Chem. Soc. 129 (22): 7008–7009. doi:10.1021/ja071851a. PMID 17497786.
- ↑ Liu, Tianbiao; Chen, Shentan; O'Hagan, Molly; DuBois, Marry; Bullock, Morris; DuBois, Daniel (11 April 2012). "Synthesis, Characterization and Reactivities of Half-sandwich Fe Complexes Containing Cyclic Diazadiphosphine Ligands: The Role of the Pendant Base in Heterolytic Cleavage of H2". J. Amer. Chem. Soc. 134 (14): 6257–6272. doi:10.1021/ja211193j. PMID 22394350.
- ↑ Liu, Tianbiao; Bullock, Morris; DuBois, Daniel (2013). "An iron complex with pendant amines as a molecular electrocatalyst for oxidation of hydrogen". Nat. Chem. 5 (3): 228–233. Bibcode:2013NatCh...5..228L. doi:10.1038/nchem.1571. PMID 23422565.
- ↑ Liu, Tianbiao; Wang, Xiaoping; Hoffmann, Christina; DuBois, Daniel; Bullock, Morris (2014). "Heterolytic Cleavage of Hydrogen by an Iron Hydrogenase Model: An Fe-H···H-N Dihydrogen Bond Characterized by Neutron Diffraction". Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 53 (21): 5300–5304. doi:10.1002/anie.201402090. PMID 24757087.
- ↑ Liu, Tianbiao; Wei, Xiaoliang; Nie, Zimin; Sprenkle, Vincent; Wang, Wei (2016). "A Total Organic Aqueous Redox Flow Battery Employing a Low Cost and Sustainable Methyl Viologen Anolyte and 4-HO-TEMPO Catholyte". Adv. Energy Mater. 6 (3): 1501449. doi:10.1002/aenm.201501449. Unknown parameter
|s2cid=ignored (help) - ↑ Hu, Bo; DeBruler, Camden; Rhodes, Zayn; Liu, T. Leo (25 January 2017). "Long Cycling Aqueous Organic Redox Flow Battery (AORFB) for Sustainable and Safe Energy Storage". J. Amer. Chem. Soc. 139 (3): 1207–1214. doi:10.1021/jacs.6b10984. PMID 27973765.
- ↑ Debruler, Camden; Hu, Bo; Moss, Jared; Liu, Xuan; Luo, Jian; Sun, Yujie; Liu, T. Leo (2017). "Designer Two Electron Storage Viologen Anolyte Materials for Aqueous Organic Redox Flow Batteries". Chem. 3: 961–978. doi:10.1016/j.chempr.2017.11.001.
- ↑ DeBruler, Camden; Hu, Bo; Moss, Jared; Luo, Jian; Liu, T. Leo (2018). "A Sulfonate Functionalized Viologen Enabling Neutral Cation Exchange Aqueous Organic Redox Flow Batteries towards Renewable Energy Storage". ACS Energy Lett. 3 (3): 663–668. doi:10.1021/acsenergylett.7b01302.
- ↑ Luo, Jian; Hu, Bo; DeBruler, Camden; Zhao, Yu; Yuan, Bin; Hu, Maowei; Wu, Wenda; Liu, T. Liu (2019). "Unprecedented Capacity and Stability of Ammonium Ferrocyanide Catholyte in pH Neutral Aqueous Redox Flow Batteries". Joule. 4: 149–163. doi:10.1016/j.joule.2018.10.010. Unknown parameter
|s2cid=ignored (help) - ↑ 15.0 15.1 Hu, Maowei; Wu, Wenda; Luo, Jian; Liu, T. Leo (2022). "Desymmetrization of Viologen Anolytes Empowering Energy Dense, Ultra Stable Flow Batteries Towards Long-Duration Energy Storage". Adv. Energy Mater. 12 (41): 2202085. doi:10.1002/aenm.202202085. Unknown parameter
|s2cid=ignored (help) - ↑ Luo, Jian; Bi, Yujin; Zhang, Liping; Zhang, Xiaoyin; Liu, T. Leo (2019). "A Stable, Non-corrosive Perfluorinated Pinacolatoborate Mg Electrolyte for Rechargeable Mg Batteries". Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 58 (21): 6967–6971. doi:10.1002/anie.201902009. PMC 6699509 Check
|pmc=value (help). PMID 30834664. - ↑ "2017-2019 Scialog Fellows for Advanced Energy Storage". Research Corporation for Science Advancement. 2019-05-02. Retrieved 2023-09-30.
- ↑ Jones, Christopher W. (6 March 2015). "2015 ACS Catalysis Lectureship". ACS Catalysis. 5 (3): 1692. doi:10.1021/acscatal.5b00284. Retrieved 2023-09-30.
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