Professor Huizhou Liu, winner of the National Outstanding Youth Fund, is the director of Key Laboratory of Green Process and Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Prof. Liu's research focuses on the interface and structure of microemulsions, researching green separation methods and developing new and efficient separation technologies. In recent years, he has been mainly engaged in the separation of biochemical products and the separation and purification of complex polymetallic systems, as well as in-depth research on new three-phase extraction processes and their nanostructures and interfaces. He has presided over and undertaken research projects including the National Basic Research Program of China (973 Program), the National High Technology Research and Development (863 Program), the Major Program of National Natural Science Foundation of China, and National Key Scientific Instrument and Equipment Development Project. He authored 386 publications in first-class journals in this field, with 10520 citations by others, and was selected as Elsevier 2016-2020 Most Cited Chinese Researchers. He published two translated works and 10 co-authored monographs. More than 80 Chinese invention patents have been authorized, and 3 international invention patents have been authorized. The awards and honorary titles that Prof. Liu have been obtained include: 1) Second Class Prize of the State Technological Innovation Award (2014, The first accomplisher); 2) First Class Prize (2014) and Second Class Prize (2010) of Science and Technology Progress Award from China Petroleum and Chemical Industry Association; 3) Second Class Prize of Beijing Science and Technology Award (2007); 4) The First “Outstanding Youth of Chinese Academy of Sciences” Title (1997). Prof. Liu is adjunct professor of Department of Applied Chemistry, Peking University and Department of Chemistry, University of Science and Technology Beijing. He concurrently serves as executive director of The Chinese Society for Metals, member of Chemical Engineering Committee of The Chemical Industry and Engineering Society of China, member of Metallurgical Physical Chemistry Professional Committee of The Nonferrous Metals Society of China, member of American Mineral, and member of the Society of Metals and Materials. He also serves as Co-Editors-in-Chief of " Separation Purification Technology ", associate editor of "Chemistry (Huaxue Tongbao)" and member of the editorial board of several journals such as “Green Chemical Engineering”, "Spectroscopy and Spectral Analysis", "Science Bulletin", and "Chinese Journal of Process Engineering", etc.

1. Q. Y. Meng, J. M. Yu, L. R. Yang*, Y. Q. Li, M. Xian, H. Z. Liu*. Efficient recovery of bio-based 1,2,4-butanetriol by using boronic acid anionic reactive extraction, Separation and Purification Technology, 2021, 255, 117728.

2. S. Ni, H. N. Qu, H. F. Xing, Z. H. Xu, X. Y. Zhu, M. L. Yuan, L. Wang, J. M. Yu, Y. Q. Li, L. R. Yang, H. Z. Liu, Donor–Acceptor Couples of Metal and Metal Oxides with Enriched Ni3+ Active Sites for Oxygen Evolution, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 2021, 13, 17501-17510.

3. S. Ni, L. R. Yang, H. N. Qu, X. Y. Zhu, Z. H. Xu, M. L. Yuan, H. F. Xing, L. Wang, J. M. Yu, H. Z. Liu, Tailoring the structure and energy level over transition-metal doped MoS2 towards enhancing 4-nitrophenol reduction reaction, Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering, 2021, 9, 105101.

4. X. Y. Zhu, D. Qiao, L. R. Yang*, Q. L. Bi, H. F. Xing, S. Ni, M. L. Yuan, H. Z. Liu*, L. H. Wang, A. Ma. Novel magnetic carbon supported molybdenum disulfide catalyst and its application in residue upgrading, Green Energy & Environment, DOI: org/10.1016/j.gee.2020.06.025.

5. Z. H. Xu, M. Rong, Q. Y. Meng, H. Y. Yao, S. Ni, L. Wang, H. F. Xing, H. N. Qu, L. R. Yang*, H. Z. Liu*. Fabrication of hypercrosslinked hydroxyl-rich solid phase extractants for cesium separation from the salt lake brine. Chemical Engineering Journal, 2020, 125991.

6. H. Y. Luo, K. Jiang, X. F. Liang, H. Z. Liu*, Y. B. Li*. Small molecule-mediated self-assembly behaviors of Pluronic block copolymers in aqueous solution: impact of hydrogen bonding on the morphological transition of Pluronic micelles. Soft Matter. 2020, 16 (1), 142-151.

7. W. S. Li, L. R. Yang*, T. T. Dong, H. F. Xing, W. Y. Wang, Y. Q. Yang, H. Z. Liu*. Gas-assisted low-field magnetic separation for large scale continuous magnetic bio-separation process. AIChE Journal, 2019, 65(1): 175-183.

8. M. Rong, L. R. Yang*, L.Wang, H. F. Xing, J. M. Yu, H. N. Qu, H. Z. Liu*. Fabrication of Microporous Aminal-Linked Polymers with Tunable Porosity toward Highly Efficient Adsorption of CO2, H2, Organic Vapor, and Volatile Iodine. Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, 2019, 58 (37), 17369-17379.

9. J. F. Zhang, L. R. Yang*, T. T. Dong, F. Pan, H. F. Xing, H. Z. Liu*. Kinetics-controlled separation intensification for cesium and rubidium isolation from salt lake brine. Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, 2018, 57, 4399–4406.

10. P. Sun, K. Huang*, H. Z. Liu, Specific Salt Effect on the Interaction between Rare Earth Ions and Trioctylphosphine Oxide Molecules at the Organic–Aqueous Two-Phase Interface: Experiments and Molecular Dynamics Simulations. Langmuir, 2018, 34, 38, 11374–11383.