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 CNT-based microelectrode arrays; Assembly and separation of CNTs by dielectrophoresis.

Papers :

Journal papers published or accepted

1.      Xianming Liu, John L. Spencer, Alan B. Kaiser and W. Mike Arnold,
"Selective purification of multiwalled carbon nanotubes by dielectrophoresis within a large array”,
accepted by Current Applied Physics.

2.      Xianming 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): 125-128, 2004.

3.      Ying Dai, Xigao Jian, Xianming Liu, Michael D. Guiver,
"Synthesis and characterization of sulfonated poly (phthalazinone ether sulfone ketone) for ultrafiltration and nanofiltration membranes",
Journal of Applied Polymer Science, 79: 1685-1692, 2001.

4.      Ying Dai, Xiuling Zhu, Yanjun Li, Xianming Liu,
“Preparation of novel ultrafiltration membrane of poly (ether sulfone ketone) and its performance study”,
Journal of Dalian University of Technology, China, 39 (4), 509-513, 1999

Conference proceedings

5.      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
2004, pp. 336-339

6.      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,

7.      Y. Dai, X. Jian, X. Liu, S. Zhang,
“Preparation of novel poly (ether solfone ketone) and the application for dye separation”,
3^rd National Fine Chemical Engineering Youth Academic Exchange Conference, Dalian, China, August 1998, 424.

8.      Y. Dai, X. Liu, Y. Yan, X. Jian,
”Novel Thermostable Polymer for Nanofiltration Membrane”,
Chinese Polymer Annual Conference, Hefei, China, Oct. 1997, c-12

9.      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.

Journal Paper submitted or in preparation:

1. Andrea Bubendorfer, Xianming Liu and Amanda V. Ellis,
   ”Microfabrication of PDMS Microchannels and Sealing to Polystyrene Substrates using PMMA moulding”,
   submitted to Smart Materials and Structures,
2. Xianming Liu, John Spencer, Alan Kaiser and Mike Arnold,
   “Synthesis, morphology and dielectrophoretic behaviour of multiwalled carbon nanotubes from different catalysts”, in preparation.
3. Xianming Liu, Amanda V. Ellis and Mike Arnold
   “Impedance analysis of multiwalled carbon nanotubes”, in preparation.