• Interface engineering of 2D semiconducting materials for high-efficiency intelligent devices

• First Prize of Science and Technology Award, Chinese Materials Research Society (2024)

• IUMRS Frontier Materials Young Scientists Award (2022)

• First Prize of Science and Technology Award, Chinese Materials Research Society (2020)

• China Excellent Doctoral Dissertation Award (2010)

• Excellent Ph.D. Graduate, Tsinghua University (2008)

• Outstanding Ten Academic Postgraduate Students, Tsinghua University (2008)

1. Peng, Ruixuan; Wu, Yonghuang; Wang, Bolun; Shi, Run; Xu, Longlong; Pan, Ting; Guo, Jing; Zhao, Bochen; Song, Cheng; Fan, Zhiyong; Wang, Chen; Zhou, Peng; Fan, Shoushan; Liu, Kai*. Programmable graded doping for reconfigurable molybdenum ditelluride devices. Nature Electronics, 6, 852 (2023).

2. Li, Chenyu; Zhang, Zhichao; Zhu, Kunlei; Liu, Mingda; Chen, Jiayuan; Zhou, Liang; Zhang, Qinghua; Wu, Yonghuang; Guo, Jing; Shi, Run; Xin, Zeqin; Sun, Yinghui; Liu, Peng; Wu, Hui; Gu, Lin; Wang, Dingsheng; Wang, Rongming; Li, Yadong; Fan, Shoushan; Li, Jia*; Liu, Kai*. Nanoconfined Impulse Synthesis of High-Entropy Nanocarbides for Highly Active and Stable Electrocatalysts. Nature Synthesis, in press (2025).

3. Mingda Liu, Zhichao Zhang, Chenyu Li, Sen Jin, Kunlei Zhu, Shoushan Fan, Jia Li*, Kai Liu*. High-entropy alloyed single-atom Pt for methanol oxidation electrocatalysis. Nature Communications, 16, 6359 (2025).

4. Wang, Enze; Xiong, Zixin; Chen, Zekun; Xin, Zeqin; Ma, Huachun; Ren, Hongtao; Wang, Bolun; Guo, Jing Guo; Sun, Yufei; Wang, Xuewen; Li, Chenyu; Li, Xiaoyan*; Liu, Kai*. Water nanolayer facilitated solitary-wave-like blisters in MoS₂ thin films. Nature Communications, 14, 4324 (2023).

5. Sun, Yufei; Wang, Yujia; Wang, Enze; Wang, Bolun; Zhao, Hengyi; Zeng, Yongpan; Zhang, Qinghua; Wu, Yonghuang; Gu, Lin; Li, Xiaoyan*; Liu, Kai*. Determining the interlayer shearing in twisted bilayer MoS2 by nanoindentation. Nature Communications, 13, 3898 (2022).

6. Li, Chenyu; Wang, Zhijie; Liu, Mingda; Wang, Enze; Wang, Bolun; Xu, Longlong; Jiang, Kaili; Fan, Shoushan; Sun, Yinghui*; Li, Jia*; Liu, Kai*. Ultrafast self-heating synthesis of robust heterogeneous nanocarbides for high current density hydrogen evolution reaction. Nature Communications, 13, 3338 (2022).

7. Wang, Wenxin; Wu, Chenghui; Li, Zonglin; Liu, Kai*. Interface Engineering of Two-Dimensional Materials Toward High-Temperature Electronic Devices.  Advanced Materials, 37, 2418439 (2025).

8. Wu, Yonghuang; Xin, Zeqin; Zhang, Zhibin; Wang, Bolun; Peng, Ruixuan; Wang, Enze; Shi, Run; Liu, Yiqun; Guo, Jing; Liu, Kaihui; Liu, Kai*. All‐transfer Electrode Interface Engineering Towards Harsh‐Environment‐Resistant MoS₂ Field‐Effect Transistors. Advanced Materials, 35, 210735 (2023).

9. Wang, Xuewen; Wang, Bolun; Zhang, Qinghua; Sun, Yufei; Wang, Enze; Luo, Hao; Wu, Yonghuang; Gu, Lin; Li, Huanglong; Liu, Kai*. Grain-Boundary Engineering of Monolayer MoS₂ for Energy-Efficient Lateral Synaptic Devices. Advanced Materials, 33, 2102435 (2021).

10. Ma, He; Xiao, Xiao; Wang, Yu; Sun, Yufei; Wang, Bolun; Gao, Xinyu; Wang, Enze; Jiang, Kaili; Liu, Kai*; Zhang, Xinping*. Wafer-scale freestanding vanadium dioxide film. Science Advances, 7, eabk3438 (2021).