Areas of Focus
- Crystal growth
- Biomimetic materials
- Flexible materials and flexible optoelectronic devices
- Applications in health and smart ocean
Work Experience
- 2012-7 to present - Xiamen University - National Distinguished Professor
- 2008-7 to present - Ministry of Education - Changjiang Scholar Chair Professor
- 1999-11 to 2021-5 - National University of Singapore - Tenured Full Professor
- 1996-7 to 1999-11 - Unilever, Port Sunlight Laboratory - Permanent Researcher
- 1993-11 to 1996-7 - University of Nijmegen - Postdoctoral Researcher, Supervisor: Piet Bennema
- 1985-8 to 1989-8 - Chinese Academy of Sciences, Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter - Assistant Researcher
Academic Background & Achievements
- 1989-9 to 1993-11 PhD: University of Nijmegen, Physics, Supervisor: Piet Bennema
- 1982-9 to 1985-7 Master's: Shandong University, Solid State Physics, Supervisor: Academician Minhua Jiang
- 1978-9 to 1982-7 Bachelor's: Shandong University, Chemistry
- Published over 400 SCI papers, including more than 90 in top journals (3 in Nature)
- Published 6 monographs in Chinese and English
- Approximately 90 international and domestic patents
Publications
- The rough-flat-rough transition at crystal surfaces, X.Y. Liu*, P. BENNEMA and J.P. van der Eerden, 1992
- Prediction of growth morphology of crystals based on interfacial structure analysis, X.Y. Liu*, E.S Boek, W.J. Briels and P. BENNEMA, 1995
- In situ observation of colloidal monolayer nucleation driven by an alternating electric field, K.Q. Zhang and X. Y. Liu*, 2004
- New Silk Road: From Mesoscopic Reconstruction/Functionalization of Cocoon Silk to Flexible Meso-Electronics/Photonics, CY Shi, F Hu, RH Wu, ZJ Xu, GWShao, R Yu*, and XY Liu*, 2021