Jun Liu

Associate Professor

Dr. Liu is interested in micro/nano-scale thermal transport and hybrid organic/inorganic functional materials for energy storage, conversion, and management.

Dr. Liu’s graduate students are motivated to learn; they are familiar with both simulation and experiment work, and tend to solve multidisciplinary, challenging problems. His students have the opportunity to learn multidisciplinary topics in optics, electronics, thermal science, materials, and solid state physics.

Dr. Liu teaches Fluid Mechanics and Thermodynamics at the undergraduate level.

Outside of work, Dr. Liu enjoys travelling and reading.

Publications

A multi-modal embolic gel system for long-term fluorescence imaging and photothermal therapy
Zhao, K., Chen, P., Wang, Z., Varghese, G., Liu, J., & Hu, J. (2025), BIOMATERIALS ADVANCES, 174. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bioadv.2025.214298
Defects vibrations engineering for enhancing interfacial thermal transport in polymer composites
Zhou, Y., Ciarla, R., Boonkird, A., Raza, S., Nguyen, T., Zhou, J., … Xu, Y. (2025), SCIENCE ADVANCES, 11(4). https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adp6516
Enhancing Thermal Transport in Polymeric Composites Via Engineered Noncovalent Filler-Polymer Interactions
Zhou, Y., Hertog-Raz, D., Raza, S., Transtamar, J., Abarca, B., Wang, Y., … Xu, Y. (2025), ASME JOURNAL OF HEAT AND MASS TRANSFER, 147(3). https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4067734
Improving Adhesion in Organic Photovoltaic Cells with Self-Assembled Monolayers
Al Shafe, A., Raza, S., Henry, R., Liu, J., & Brendan T. O'Connor. (2025, March 24), ACS ENERGY LETTERS, Vol. 3. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsenergylett.5c00490
Oscillations in incident electric field enhances interfacial water evaporation
Raza, S., Yang, C., Qian, X., & Liu, J. (2025, June 13), MATERIALS HORIZONS. https://doi.org/10.1039/d5mh00353a
Redox-active oxide molten salt composites as a new family of high-capacity thermal energy storage materials
Bektas, H., Cai, R., Raza, S., Liu, J., & Li, F. (2025), Journal of Materials Chemistry A. https://doi.org/10.1039/d5ta02329g
Theoretical analysis of thermal conductivities of water and heavy water based on thermal resistance network model
Sun, S., Wang, Q., Raza, S., Ma, D., Nakayama, T., Liu, J., & Zhou, J. (2025), APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS, 126(1). https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0239480
Anomalous Correlation between Thermal Conductivity and Elastic Modulus in Two-Dimensional Hybrid Metal Halide Perovskites
Negi, A., Yan, L., Yang, C., Yu, Y., Kim, D., Mukherjee, S., … Liu, J. (2024), ACS Nano. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.3c12172
Chiral phonon activated spin Seebeck effect in chiral materials
Li, X., Zhong, J., Cheng, J., Chen, H., Wang, H., Liu, J., … Liu, J. (2024), SCIENCE CHINA-PHYSICS MECHANICS & ASTRONOMY, 67(3). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11433-023-2281-x
Colossal anisotropic absorption of spin currents induced by chirality
Sun, R., Wang, Z., Bloom, B. P., Comstock, A. H., Yang, C., McConnell, A., … Sun, D. (2024), SCIENCE ADVANCES, 10(18). https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adn3240

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Grants

  • Elucidating Interplays of Chirality and Spin in Chiral Assemblies
  • CAREER: Pushing the Lower Limit of Thermal Conductivity in Layered Materials
  • Understanding Wettability and Slipperiness of Surfaces Grafted with Polymer Brushes using Molecular Dynamics Simulations
  • Domain-Engineering Enabled Thermal Switching in Ferroelectric Materials
  • Travel Support for Student Participation at the 2019 ASME-IMECE Micro and Nano Technology Forum; Salt Lake City, Utah; November 10-14, 2019
  • Fundamental Studies on the Thermal Spin-Transfer-Torque: Towards the Next Generation Nonvolatile Memory for Space Exploration
Jun Liu