Research Interest
Nanocatalysts design and synthesis, green chemistry, heterogeneous catalysis, reaction mechanism.
Curriculum Vitae
Mar 2020 - present | Postdoc in the van Bokhoven Group, Laboratory of Catalysis and Sustainable Chemistry at Paul Scherrer Institut and Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences at ETH Zürich, Switzerland |
Nov 2018 - Feb 2020 | Postdoc student at The Johannes Lercher Group, Department of Technical Chemical II, Technical University of Munich, Garching, Germany |
Sep 2013 - Jun 2018 | PhD student, Qingdao Institute of Bioenergy and Bioprocess Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, China |
Sep 2009 - Jun 2013 | B.S. Department of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shandong University, Jinan, China |
Publications
- A. Fu, Q. Liu, M. Jiang, G. Xu. Selective N-Monomethylation of Amines and Nitroarenes using Methanol over an Encapsulated Iridium Nanocatalyst. Asian J. Org. Chem, 2019, 131, 5471-5475. DOI: 10.1002/ajoc.201900140
- Q. Liu, G. Xu, Z. Wang, X. Liu, X. Wang, L. Dong, X. Mu, and H. Liu. Iridium Clusters Encapsulated in Carbon Nanospheres as Nanocatalysts for Methylation of (Bio)Alcohols. ChemSusChem, 2017, 10, 4748-4755. DOI: 10.1002/cssc.201701607
- Q. Liu, G. Xu, X. Wang, X. Mu. Selective upgrading of ethanol with methanol in water for the production of improved biofuel-isobutanol. Green Chem., 2016, 18, 2811-2818. DOI: 10.1039/C5GC02963E
- Q. Liu, G. Xu, X. Wang, X. Liu, and X. Mu. Highly Selective Upgrading of Biomass-Derived Alcohol Mixtures for Jet/Diesel Fuel Components. ChemSusChem, 2016, 9, 3465-3472. DOI: 10.1002/cssc.201601152
- G. Xu, T. Lammens, Q. Liu, X. Wang, L. Dong, A. Caiazzo, N. Ashraf, J. Guan, X. Mu. Direct self-condensation of bio-alcohols in the aqueous phase. Green Chem., 2014, 16, 3971-3977. DOI: 10.1039/C4GC00510D
- G. Xu, Q. Li, J. Feng, Q. Liu, Z. Zhang, X. Wang, X. Zhang, and X. Mu. Direct α-alkylation of ketones with alcohols in water. ChemSusChem, 2014, 7, 105-109. DOI: 10.1002/cssc.201300815
- X. Liu, X. Wang, Q. Liu, G. Xu, X. Li, X. Mu. A sustainable process for the production of 2-methyl-1,4-butanediol by hydrogenation of biomass-derived itaconic acid. Catal. Today, 2016, 274, 88-93. DOI: 10.1016/j.cattod.2016.01.041
- X. Liu, X. Wang, G. Xu, Q. Liu, X. Mu, H. Liu. Tuning the catalytic selectivity in biomass-derived succinic acid hydrogenation on FeOx-modified Pd catalysts. J. Mater. Chem. A, 2015, 3, 23560-23569. DOI: 10.1039/C5TA03843J