Junliang Liu, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor
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Educational History
Postdoctoral Researcher, Nuclear Materials, University of Oxford, 2019-2023
Ph.D., Materials, University of Oxford, 2019
M.S., Nuclear Engineering, University of South Carolina, 2016
B.Eng., Nuclear Technology, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 2013
Research Scientist, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2023-2025
Research Interests
Degradation of Materials in Nuclear Fusion and Fission Reactors
Applications of Advanced Analytical Microscopy
Awards, Honors, and Memberships

John H. Schemel Best Paper Award, Committee B10 on Reactive and Refractory Metal and Alloys, ASTM International, 2025

Mansfield Graduate Award, University of Oxford, 2018

Mansfield Graduate Award, University of Oxford, 2017

Publications

J. Liu, F. Xue, W. Zhang, H. Zhang, P. Frankel, G. Lucadamo, W. Howland, M. Moody, P. Bagot, C. Grovenor, E. A. Marquis, A. Couet, Evidence for hydrogen and oxygen diffusion through grain boundaries in autoclave formed oxides on Zircaloy-4: A correlative APT and TEM study, Corrosion Science, 253 (2025) 112981.

J. Liu, B. Li, H. Gardner, Y. Gong, F. Liu, G. He, M. Moorehead, C. Parkin, A. Couet, A. Wilkinson, D. Armstrong, Origin of Age Softening in the Refractory High-Entropy Alloys, Science Advances, 9 (2023) eadj1511.

H. Xu, W. Ji, J. Jiang, J. Liu, R. Yu, B. Tu, J. Zhang, J. Zou, W. Wang, J. Wu, Z. Fu, Contribution of boundary non-stoichiometry to the lower-temperature plasticity in high-pressure sintered boron carbide, Nature Communications, 14 (2023) 4889.

Z. Ning , G. Li , D. Melvin , Y. Chen , D. S. Jolly , J. Liu , J. Bu , J. Perera , C. Gong , X. Gao , S. Pu , S. Zhang , B. Hu , G. Hartley , A. Bodey , R. Todd , P. Grant , D. Armstrong , T. J. Marrow , C. Monroe, P. Bruce, Dendrite Initiation and Propagation in Lithium Metal Solid-State Batteries, Nature, 618 (2023) .

J. Liu, H. Myers, B. Young, A. Leide, J. Wade-Zhu, C. Grovenor, D. Armstrong, Liquid lithium corrosion of SiC/SiC composites, Materialia, 34 (2024) 102062.

J. Liu, G. He, A. Callow, K. Li, K. L. Moore, H. Nordin, M. Moody, S. Lozano-Perez, C. R. M. Grovenor, The role of β-Zr in Zr-2.5Nb alloys during aqueous corrosion: A multi-technique study, Acta Materialia 215 (2021) 117042.

N. Sakai, R. Warren, F. Zhang, S. Nayak, J. Liu, S. V. Kesava, Y. H. Lin, H. S. Biswal, X. Lin, C. Grovenor, T. Malinauskas, A. Basu, T. D. Anthopoulos,V. Getautis, A. Kahn, M. Riede, P. K. Nayak and H. J. Snaith, Adduct-based p-doping of Organic Semiconductors, Nature Materials, 20 (2021) 1248.

J. Liu, K. Li, J. Sayers, T. Aarholt, G. He, H. Hulme, A. Garner, M. Preuss, H. Nordin, J. Partezana, M. Limbäck, S. Lozano-Perez, S. Ortner, C. Grovenor, Characterisation of deuterium distributions in corroded zirconium alloys using high-resolution SIMS, Acta Materialia 200 (2020) 581.

J. Liu, A. Haq Mir, G. He, M. Danaie, J. Hinks, S. Donnelly, H. Nordin, S. Lozano-Perez, C. R. M. Grovenor, In-situ TEM study of irradiation-induced damage mechanisms in monoclinic-ZrO2, Acta Materialia 199 (2020) 429.

Y. H. Lin, N. Sakai, P. Da, J. Wu, H.C. Sansom, A.J. Ramadan, S. Mahesh, J. Liu, R.D.J. Oliver, J. Lim, L. Aspitarte, K. Sharma, P.K. Madhu, A.B. Morales‐Vilches, P.K. Nayak, S. Bai, F. Gao, C.R.M. Grovenor, M.B. Johnston, J.G. Labram, J.R. Durrant, J.M. Ball, B. Wenger, B. Stannowski, H.J. Snaith, A piperidinium salt stabilizes efficient metal-halide perovskite solar cells, Science 369 (2020) 96.