Nov. 29th: Tianyu visited Nangjing University of Science And Technology and gave a presentation on how to maximize the novelty of a research work.
Nov. 2nd: Tianyu was promoted to Associate Editor of Materials Science and Physics in Wiley.
Sept. 22nd: Tianyu visited Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering, CAS and gave a presentation on how to maximize the novelty of a research work.
May 12th: Tianyu visited Zhejiang University, Haining International Campus and delivered a talk entitled "Avoiding Pitfalls in Manuscript Preparation and Submission."
Mar. 11th: Tianyu was recognized by Journal of Materials Chemistry A as an Outstanding Reviewer in 2020. Three years in a row!
2020
Dec. 20th: Tianyu attended the Academic Forum on Green Chemistry and Energy Materials held in Nanjing Forestry University in China, and delivered a talk entitled "Publishing and Advancing Big Ideas with Wiley Materials Science Journals."
Mar. 12th: Tianyu was recognized by Journal of Materials Chemistry A as an Outstanding Reviewer in 2019.
2019
Dec. 9th: Tianyu accepted the invitation from Dr. Babak Anasori to serve on the Early Career Professionals Subcommittee of Materials Research Society (MRS).
Oct. 18th: Tianyu was invited by Science China Chemistry to write a press release on lithium-ion batteries on EurekAlert!
Oct. 14th: Tianyu hosted the 2019 Historically Black Colleges and Universities and Minority Serving Institutions Research Summit in the Department of Chemistry, Virginia Tech.
Sept. 17th: Tianyu was recognized by Publons as Top 1% Reviewer in Materials Science, Engineering, and Cross-Field
Sept. 11th: Tianyu accepted the invitation to join the Reviewer Board of Polymers, an open access journal from MDPI.
Mar. 14th: Tianyu accepted an invitation by Materials Research Society to serve as a blogger for Materials Connect a blog website dedicated to engaging the global materials research community.
Dec 21st: Tianyu was invited as a panelist to discuss the experience of managing a focus issue of Journal of Materials Research.
Nov. 21st: Tianyu was selected as a mentor for the MRS Undergraduate Mentoring program held during the 2018 Fall MRS Meeting at Boston, MA, US.
Oct. 22nd: Tianyu was appointed as a news writer for the 2018 MRS Fall Meeting at Boston, MA, US.
Sept. 13th: Tianyu was recognized by Publons as a top 1% reviewer in materials science.
Aug. 23rd: Tianyu was invited to serve as a blog writer for the WeChat platform of Royal Society of Chemistry. He will write blogs to promote selected papers published in Chemical Communications. Stay tuned!
Apr. 16th: Tianyu was recognized as an outstanding reviewer (among the top 10% of the reviewers in terms of the number of manuscript reviews completed during the last two years and review quality) for Journal of Energy StorageandMaterials Science & Engineering B.
Apr. 11th: Tianyu was recognized as an outstanding reviewer (among the top 10% of the reviewers in terms of the number of manuscript reviews completed during the last two years and review quality) for Additive Manufacturing.
Apr. 1st: Tianyu received the Extraordinary Potential Prize of 2017 Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-Financed Students Abroad.
Mar. 27th: Tianyu was invited by the Virginia Tech Center for Sustainable Nanotechnology to give a talk on his research. The talk is titled "Polymer Nanofibers for Electrochemical Energy Storage (Supercapacitors)" and the slides can be accessed here.
Picture courtesy of VTSuN
Mar. 17th: Tianyu completed the online academic reviewer training offered by the ACS Reviewer Lab program.
Mar. 14th: Tianyu's photo was featured on THE BURGS, a local newspaper in the New River Valley of Virginia, U.S.
Mar. 2nd: Tianyu was awarded the “Extraordinary Potential Prize of 2017 Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-Financed Students Abroad" from the China Scholarship Council.
Feb. 28th: Tianyu's co-authored prospective paper "Generating Electricity on Chips: Microfluidic Biofuel Cells in Perspective" was highlighted on the cover of Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research.
Jan. 20th: Tianyu was invited and joined TsingSun Power (清新电源) as an editor. TsingSun Power, a WeChat public platform initiated by Tsinghua University (Shenzhen Campus) in China, aims to introduce the cutting-edge research on materials research associated with energy utilization.
Jan. 15th: Tianyu was appointed as a blog writer for Materials Research Society (MRS) and a news contributor for MRS Bulletin, a journal managed by MRS.
2017
Dec. 1st: Tianyu served as an alternate session chair for 2017 Fall MRS Meeting Symposium 04: Interfaces in Electrochemical Energy Storage.
Oct. 27th: Yu and Tianyu's work on "Three-dimensional Carbon Architectures for Electrochemical Capacitors" has been highlighted on the front cover of J. Colloid Interface Sci.
Oct. 21st: Tianyu's pictures have been selected as the finalists for the 2017 NanoArtography competition hosted by Drexel University, U.S.
Misty Taste of Moonshine
Oct. 19th: Tianyu was appointed as a mentor for the Broadening Participation in Materials Undergraduate Student Event at the 2017 MRS Fall Meeting.
Tianyu with his mentee (left), Arielle Gamboa, an undergraduate student at Rutger University - New Brunswick in New Jersy, USA.
Oct. 11th: Tianyu was appointed as a member of the advisory board of Cai Liao Niu, a WeChat public platform dedicating to materials science education, news and promotion of the cutting-edge research achievements.
Oct. 9th: Tianyu's scientific artwork "Pollution-fighting Flowers" was highlighted on the C&EN, a weekly magazine published by American Chemical Society.
Sept 19th: Tianyu accepted the postdoc offer from the Dr. Guoliang Liu's group in Department of Chemistry, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech).
Sept 16th: Tianyu was invited to serve on the Committee of Scientific Advisors for the 2018 European Advanced Energy Materials and Technology Congress (AEMC 2018).
Jul. 13th: Tianyu was invited by the Electrochemical Society San Francisco Section to highlight his research and extracurricular activities in the 2017 Cubicciotti award ceremony. The presentation slides can be accessed here.
Jul. 12th: Tianyu was invited by Cai Liao Niu to organize a web-based discussion forum on the topic of "Sustainable Energy Conversion and Storage: Higher, Faster and Stronger". The forum is now open for the presentation abstract submission.
Jun 22nd: Tianyu Liu was selected as the recipient of 2017 The Electrochemical Society Daniel Cubicciotti Student Award!
May 31st: Congratulations to Martina Morelli (an undergraduate researcher supervised by Tianyu in Prof. Yat Li's Lab at UCSC) on receiving the UCSC Undergraduate Research Award!
May 30th: Tianyu passed his dissertation defense! Click here for his dissertation slides.
Tianyu Liu and his Dissertation Committee (from left to right): Prof. Yat Li (advisor), Dr. Tianyu Liu, Prof. Scott Oliver (chair) and Prof. Jin Zhang (member)
May 24th: Tianyu's proposed focus issue of Journal of Materials Research, "Porous Carbon and Carbonaceous Materials for Energy Conversion and Storage" is calling for papers! The editorial team welcomes your submission!
Mar. 22nd: Tianyu is selected to participate in the MRS Science Writing workshop held in the 2017 MRS Spring Meeting. The workshop recruited 12 participants only all over the world.
Mar. 20th: Tianyu’s artwork “Succulent Flowers” has been selected as one of the final entrants for the “Science as Art” competition of the 2017 MRS Spring Meeting.
2017 MRS Spring Meeting “Science as Art” Finalist.
(The scanning electron microscopy image shows several cuprous oxide nano-flowers synthesized by a hydrothermal reaction. Contributors: Prof. Changjin Tang - original SEM image; Mingyang Li - Technical advise; Tianyu Liu - Photoshop)
Mar. 1st: Tianyu is invited by the UCSC Chemistry Club to give a guest lecture on Quantum Dots.
Feb.18th: Tianyu is invited to serve as a writer and editor for Cai Liao Niu, a public scientific media dedicated to rapid communication of cutting-edge and ground-breaking material research works to Chinese material scientists.
Feb. 16th: Tianyu wrote a public science blog entitled "Introduction of Printing Method: Mechanism and Applications in Supercapacitors" (in Chinese) on Cai Liao Niu. Article avaliable here.
Jan. 23rd: Tianyu's proposed focus issue on "Porous Carbon and Carbonaceous Materials for Energy Conversion and Storage" has been accepted by Journal of Materials Research, a Materials Research Society-affiliated peer-review journal.
2016
Nov. 30th: Tianyu won the Graduate Student Silver Award awarded by Materials Research Society in the 2016 MRS Fall Meeting and Exhibition.
Nov. 9th: Tianyu was invited by the UCSC Chemistry Club to give a presentation on harnessing of solar energy. Click here for the presentation slides.
Oct. 12th: Tianyu was selected as a finalist for the 2016 Fall MRS Graduate Student Award.
Oct. 1st: Tianyu's application for the Lemelson-MIT Student Award was advanced to stage #2 - Category Application.
Sept. 13th: Tianyu was selected as a recipient of the Tony Fink Memorial Student Award in Materials Chemistry. Congrats!
Sept. 1st: Tianyu's collaboration work with Yang Yang on microfluidic microbial fuel cells is featured on the back cover of J. Mater. Chem. A.
Apr. 24th: Tianyu was selected as a finalist representing UCSC to participate in the UC Carbon Slam competition held at Xerox PARC, San Jose, CA. Congrats!
Mar. 4th: Tianyu’s poster was awarded the “Best Poster” in 2016 Chemistry & Biochemistry Department Open House, UCSC. Congrats!
Feb. 18th: Tianyu’s work on 3D-printed graphene aerogel electrodes for supercapacitors is featured as a cover paper in Nano Lett.
Feb. 4th: Tianyu gave a presentation about his research to UC Santa Cruz STEM students and Santa Cruz community members in the Tea Talk program hosted by UC Santa Cruz.
2015
Dec. 21st: Tianyu was selected to participate in the Graduate Leadership Certificate Program held by the Division of Graduate Studies, UCSC.
Sept. 9th: Tianyu and Feng’s poster won the “Best Poster” prize in the annual Chemistry and Biochemistry department retreat.