Dongxia Liu's Resume

MELANIE SCHAAL

YARITZA LOPEZ

Ms. Dongxia Liu

Education

• B.S, Beijing University of Chemical Technology (BUCT) in China, (1993)                               

Honors                                       

• First class Academic Excellence Scholarship at BUCT every year

• First place poster award at the 2003 Spring symposium of the Southeastern Catalysis Society, Asheville, North Carolina

Membership

·         American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AICHE)

·         American Chemical Society (ACS)

Research and Work Experience

2001.8~present              Graduate student at USC, Columbia, SC

• in situ investigation of dendrimer-stabilized nanoparticle adsorption on various supports and as catalyst for liquid-phase hydrogenation reaction

6/1~6/5, 2004                Oak Ridge National Lab, High Temperature Material Division for HRTEM                                         training, Oak Ridge, Tennessee

1993.8-2001.5                Research Scientist at Beijing Research Institute of Chemical Technology   at         Beijing, China

• Composition of radiation-crosslinkable halogen-free flame retardant wire and cable resin composite

• Carbon black/polyethylene composite with high PTC effect

• Composition of flame retarded, reinforced, toughened polypropylene

• Glass fiber-reinforced polypropylene

• Flame retarded polypropylene

• Contact angle variance in the process of magnetizing water

Presentations and Posters

4. Presentation- “Dendrimer-Stabilized Nanoparticles --- Adsorption On Various Supports For Liquid-Phase Hydrogenation Catalysis”, Dongxia Liu, Christopher T. Williams, AICHE national meeting, San Francisco, CA, Nov. 2003

3. Presentation- “Adsorption of Dendrimer-Stabilized Metal Nanoparticles Onto Various Supports”, Dongxia Liu, Christopher T. Williams, 77^th ACS  Colloid and Surface Science Symposium, Atlanta, GA, June, 2003

2. Poster- “Adsorption of Dendrimer-Stabilized Metal Nanoparticles Onto Various Supports”, Dongxia Liu, Christopher T. Williams, 2003 Spring Symposium of the Southeastern Catalysis Society, Ashville, NC, April, 2003

1. Poster- “Dendrimer-Stabilized Nanoparticles for Next-Generation Catalysis” , Dongxia Liu, D. Samuel Deutsch, Michael D. Amiridis, Christopher T. Williams, Jinxin Gao and Catherine J. Murphy, AICHE national meeting, Indianapolis, IN, Nov, 2002

Publications

2. “In-situ Attenuated Total Reflection Infrared Spectroscopy of Dendrimer-Stabilized Platinum Nanoparticles Adsorbed on Alumina,” Dongxia Liu, Jinxin Gao, Catherine J. Murphy, and C. T. Williams, Journal of Physical Chemistry,  in press (2004).

1. “Decomposition and Activation of Pt-Dendrimer Nanocomposites on a Silica Support”, D. Samuel Deutsch, Gwendoine Lafaye, Dongxia Liu, Bert Chandler, Christopher T. Williams, and Michael D. Amiridis, Catalysis Letter, in press (2004)