B.S. (Applied Physics), Xi’an Jiaotong University, 2003
Ph.D. (Physics), Tsinghua University, 2008

The Thousand Youth Talents Program (2015)
China Excellent Doctoral Dissertation Award (2010)
Excellent Ph.D. Graduate, Tsinghua University (2008)
Outstanding Ten Academic Postgraduate Students, Tsinghua University (2008)

Representative Publications
1.Y. Sun, R. Wang, K. Liu*. Substrate Induced Changes in Atomically Thin 2-Dimensional Semiconductors: Fundamentals, Engineering, and Applications. Appl. Phys. Rev., 4, 011301 (2017). (Invited Review)
2.H. Ma, J. Hou, X. Wang, J. Zhang, Z. Yuan, L. Xiao, Y. Wei*, S. Fan, K. Jiang, K. Liu*. Flexible, All-Inorganic Actuators Based on Vanadium Dioxide and Carbon Nanotube Bimorphs. Nano Lett., 17, 421 (2017).
3.S. Lee#, K. Hippalgaonkar#, F. Yang#, J. Hong#, C. Ko, J. Suh, K. Liu, K. Wang, J. J. Urban, X. Zhang, C. Dames, S. A. Hartnoll, O. Delaire*, J. Wu*. Anomalously Low Electronic Thermal Conductivity in Metallic Vanadium Dioxide. Science, 355, 371 (2017)
4.J. Hou#, X. Wang#, D. Fu, C. Ko, Y. Chen, Y. Sun, S. Lee, K. X. Wang, K. Dong, Y. Sun, L. Jiao, J. Yao, K. Liu*, J. Wu*. Modulating photoluminescence of monolayer disulfide by metal-insulator phase transition in active substrates. Small, 12, 3976 (2016).
5.L. Xiao*,#, H. Ma#, J. Liu, W. Zhao, Y. Jia, Q. Zhao, K. Liu*, Y. Wu, Y. Wei*, S. Fan, K. Jiang. Fast Adaptive Thermal Camouflage Based on Flexible VO2/Graphene/CNT Thin Films. Nano Lett., 15, 8365 (2015).
6.K. Liu, C.-L. Hsin, D. Fu, J. Suh, S. Tongay, M. Chen, Y. Sun, A. Yan, J. Park, K. M. Yu, W. Guo, H. Zheng, D. Chrzan, J. Wu*. Self-passivation of defects: effects of high-energy particle irradiation on elastic modulus of multilayer graphene. Adv. Mater., 27, 6841 (2015).
7.K. Liu, Q. Yan, M. Chen, W. Fan, Y. Sun, J. Suh, D. Fu, S. Lee, J. Zhou, S. Tongay, J. Ji, J. B. Neaton, J. Wu. Elastic Properties of Chemical-Vapor-Deposited Monolayer MoS2, WS2, and Their Heterostructures. Nano Lett., 14, 5097 (2014).
8.Y. Sun#, K. Liu#, X. Hong, M. Chen, J. Kim, S. Shi, J. Wu, A. Zettl, F. Wang. Probing Local Strain of MX2-metal Boundaries with Surface Plasmon Enhanced Raman Scattering. Nano Lett., 14, 5329 (2014). (# Equal contribution)
9. K. Liu, C. Cheng, J. Suh, R. Tang-Kong, D. Fu, S. Lee, J. Zhou, L. O. Chua, J. Wu. Powerful, Multifunctional Micro Torsional Muscles Activated by Phase Transition. Adv. Mater., 26, 1746 (2014).
10.K. Liu, C. Cheng, Z. Cheng, K. Wang, R. Ramesh, J. Wu. Giant-Amplitude, High-Work Density Microactuators with Phase Transition Activated Nanolayer Bimorphs. Nano Lett., 12, 6302 (2012).