Prof. Liu Zhaotie   Tel: +86-29-81530802  E-mail:ztliu@snnu.edu.cn

Education and Work Experiences：

Ph.D., Institute of Coal Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, (1995)

Visiting Professor, University of Massachusetts/University of Connecticut, (USA), (1997-2000)

Visiting Professor, McGill University, (Canada), (2001-2003)

Research Interests：

Catalytic Science and Technology

Greening and Engineering of Chemical Processes

Awards and Honors：

2020, First Prize of Shaanxi Provincial Science and Technology

2010, Second Prize of Shaanxi Provincial Science and Technology

2010, Leader of Innovative Team under the Ministry of Education's “Changjiang Scholars and Innovative Research Team Development Program”

2009, Excellent Returnee Scholar of Shaanxi Province

1997, Special Government Allowance by the State Council

1997, Outstanding Middle-aged and Young Experts with Significant Contributions to Chinese Academy of Sciences/Academic and Technical Leaders of Sichuan Province/Outstanding Experts with Significant Contributions in Sichuan Province

1996, Selected as First and Second Level Candidates for the “Hundred, Thousand, and Ten Thousand Talent Project” by the Ministry of Personnel and Six Other Ministries

1995, Batch Two of “Hundred Talents Program” of Chinese Academy of Sciences

Research Projects as Principal Investigator:

1. National Natural Science Foundation of China, No. 22578261, Construction of Gallium-based High-entropy Nitride MXene@Molecular Sieve Film Catalysts and Their Catalytic Performance for CO₂-assisted Oxidative Dehydrogenation of Propane, 2026/01~2029/12, 500,000 RMB.

2. National Natural Science Foundation of China, No. 22278261, Fabrication of Metal Oxide-GaN/Hierarchical Pore Molecular Sieve Catalysts and Their Catalysis for CO₂-assisted Oxidative Dehydrogenation of Light Mixed Alkanes, 2023/01~2026/12, 540,000 RMB.

3. National Natural Science Foundation of China, No. 21978160, Electrothermal Synergistic Catalysis of GaN for Propylene Production via CO₂-assisted Oxidative Dehydrogenation of Propane, 2020/01~2023/12, 660,000 RMB.

4. National Natural Science Foundation of China, No. 21776170, Mechanism and Kinetics of the Effects of Al₂O₃ Morphology and GaN Electronic Properties on VOx-catalyzed Oxidative Dehydrogenation of Propane, 2018/01~2021/12, 640,000 RMB.

5. Key Industrial Innovation Chain (Cluster) Project in the Industrial Sector funded by Shaanxi Provincial Department of Science and Technology, No. 2019ZDLGY06-04, Research on Key Technologies for Olefin Production from Light Alkanes via CO₂-assisted Oxidative Dehydrogenation Catalyzed by GaN, 2019/01~2021/12, 900,000 RMB.

6. Horizontal Projects Cooperated with Enterprises and Research Institutes, Design and Development of Single-atom Catalysts and Electrothermal Catalytic Reaction Systems, 2022/01~2027/12, 1,206,000 RMB.

Representative Achievements:

1. Hui-Hui Cao, Zhen-Hong He, Rui-Peng Yan, Dexin Yang, Xuanlu Fan, Yu-Xuan Ji, Kuan Wang, Weitao Wang, Huan Wang, Zhao-Tie Liu, Engineering Multivalent Copper Catalysts From Cu-MOF Towards High-Performance C₂ Electrosynthesis, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2026, 65, e24816.

2. Yang Yang, Ji-Kai Li, Qian-Nan Yang, Yi-Bin Yang, Jian-Hua Meng, Lin Zhang, Ying-Dan Wu, Ke-Xiang Wang, Huan Chen, Zhi-Yuan Jiang, Rui Chao, Wei-Tao Wang, Xiao Ma, Zhao-Tie Liu, Low-Valent Mo Single Atoms Stabilized by Electronegative Oxygen Coordination Enables Efficient Water Oxidation, Chem. Sci., 2026, 17, 8670–8682.

3. Yue Tian, Zhen-Hong He, Lu-Ting Pan, Weitao Wang, Kuan Wang, Huan Wang, Hui Ma, Zhao-Tie Liu, Buxing Han, Efficient Cogeneration of Electricity and Light Olefins over Combined Single-atomic Pt and ZnNi Alloy NPs in Propane-fueled SOFCs, Appl. Catal. B, 2026, 380, 125801.

4. Yi Wang, Kuan Wang, Tong Sun, Jingbo Wang, Zhen-Hong He, Weitao Wang, Huan Wang, Yuxuan Liu, Xiaoguang Guo, Zhao-Tie Liu, Synergistic S-scheme SnO2/BiOCl Heterojunction with Fe3+-induced Frustrated Lewis Pairs for Efficient Bifunctional Photocatalysis, Chem. Eng. J., 2026, 542, 178036.

5. Chun-Fei Li, Zhen-Hong He, Mei-Xia Yang, Yu-Xuan Ji, Sen-Wang Wang, Meng-Nan Liu, Weitao Wang, Kuan Wang, Huan Wang, Zhao-Tie Liu, Photothermal Catalytic CO₂ Oxidative Propane Dehydrogenation over an Oxygen Vacancy-rich CeNiO₃ Perovskite, Green Chem., 2026, 28, 9724.

6. Jiangang Chen, Yuanqi Wang, Zhao-Tie Liu, Yinglei Wang, Yingzhe Liu, Shukun Shen, Zhongwen Liu, Jian Lu. A Fluoropolymer-Modified Single-Layer Graphene Oxide and Its Preparation Method, Chinese Invention Patent, Patent No. ZL 202311615847.6.