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Position
Postdoctoral Fellow
Field of Study
Molecular Nanotechnology
Qualifications
Bachelor of Engineering,
Master of Engineering (DUT); PhD (VUW)
Room 652
Telephone: +64 3 364 2987 Extn 7437 Fax: +64 3 364 2110
Email: xianming.liu@canterbury.ac.nz
Current research and professional activities
Carbon Nanotubes
Synthesis of high-purity
and density-controllable aligned SWNTs and MWNTs by CVD; Self-assembly of SWNTs on carbon surfaces; Chemical modificationof
CNTs; Fabrication of VACNT-based micro-devices; Assembly and separation of CNTs by dielectrophoresis.
Papers :
Journal papers
published or accepted
- X. Liu, K. Baronian
and A. Downard,
“Direct growth of vertically aligned carbon nanotubes on planar carbon substrates by
thermal
chemical vapour deposition”, Carbon, 2008, In press
- X. Liu, K. Baronian
and A. Downard,
“Patterned
Arrays of Vertically Aligned Carbon Nanotube Microelectrodes on Carbon Films Prepared by Thermal Chemical Vapor Deposition”,
Analytical Chemistry, 2008, 80 (22), 8835-8839
- X. Liu,
J. Spencer, A. Kaiser and M. Arnold,
”Multi-walled carbon nanotubes synthesized from different
catalysts: morphology, dielectrophoresis and conductance”,
accepted by International Journal of Nanotechnology
- A. Bubendorfer,
X. Liu and A. V. Ellis,
”Microfabrication of PDMS Microchannels
and Sealing to Polystyrene Substrates using PMMA moulding”, Smart Materials and Structure, 16: pp. 367-371, 2007
- X. Liu, J. L. Spencer,
A. B. Kaiser and W. M. Arnold,
"Selective purification of multiwalled
carbon nanotubes by dielectrophoresis within a large array”, Current Applied Physics,
6 (3): pp. 427-431, 2006
- X. Liu, John L. Spencer, Alan B. Kaiser and W.
Mike Arnold,
"Electric-field oriented carbon nanotubes in different dielectric solvents”,
Current Applied Physics,
4(2): pp. 125-128, 2004.
- Y. Dai, X. Jian, X. Liu, M. D. Guiver,
"Synthesis and characterization
of sulfonated poly (phthalazinone ether sulfone ketone) for ultrafiltration and nanofiltration membranes",
Journal of Applied
Polymer Science, 79: pp. 1685-1692, 2001.
- Y. Dai, X. Zhu, Y. Li, X. Liu,
“Preparation of novel ultrafiltration
membrane of poly (ether sulfone ketone) and its performance study”,
Journal of Dalian University of Technology,
39 (4): pp. 509-513, 1999
Journal Paper submitted
or in preparation:
- X. Liu,
et al., “Three Dimensional Fabrication of Vertically Aligned Carbon Nanotubes for the Application of Dielectrophoresis
at a Radio Requency”, in preparation.
Conference proceedings
1.
X. Liu, A. V. Ellis, and M.
W. Arnold,
“HF/Microwave Impedance of Carbon
Nanotube Films”,
Annual Report Conference
on Electrical Insulation and Dielectric Phenomena, IEEE, 2006, pp. 89-92
2. X. Liu, J. Spencer, A. Kaiser and M. Arnold,
“Manipulation
and purification of multi-walled carbon nanotubes”,
Annual Report Conference on Electrical Insulation and Dielectric
Phenomena, IEEE
2004, pp. 336-339
3. X. Liu, J. Spencer, A. Kaiser and M. Arnold,
“Electric-field-induced
accumulation and alignment of carbon nanotubes”,
Annual Report Conference on Electrical Insulation and Dielectric
Phenomena, IEEE, 2002, pp. 31-34,
4. Y. Dai, X. Jian, X. Liu, S. Zhang,
“Preparation of novel poly (ether solfone ketone)
and the application for dye separation”,
3rd National Fine Chemical Engineering Youth Academic Exchange
Conference, Dalian, China, August 1998, 424.
5. Y. Dai, X. Liu, Y. Yan, X. Jian,
”Novel Thermostable Polymer for Nanofiltration
Membrane”,
Chinese Polymer Annual Conference, Hefei, China, Oct. 1997, c-12
6. X.
Liu, Y. Dai, Y. Ma, X. Jian,
”Sulphonation and Characterization of novel phthalazinone-based poly (ether ketone sulphone)”,
Chinese
Polymer Annual Conference, Hefei, China, Oct. 1997, a-13.
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