中南大学讲师，硕士研究生导师，中南大学物理学院刘敏教授团队成员。入选2024年全球前2%顶尖科学家榜单，湖南省优秀博士学位论文获得者。湘潭大学物理学硕士，中南大学物理学博士。主持国家自然科学基金青年项目和湖南省自然科学基金项目。

主要从事密度泛函理论计算模拟研究，包括小分子（H₂O、O₂、N₂、NO和CO₂等）活化机制、催化转化反应过程和催化剂设计等。近年来，以第一/共同第一/共同通讯作者在国际权威学术期刊Nat. Catal. (1篇)、 Nat. Commun. (3 篇)、J. Am. Chem. Soc. (2 篇)、Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. (3 篇)、ACS Nano （1篇）、ACS Catal. (1 篇)和J. Phys. Chem. Lett. (1 篇)等发表 SCI 论文 20 余篇。ESI 高被引论文 10 篇，论文总被引 >4000 次，授权专利 1 件。

论文成果：

1. Wang, J.⁺, Liu, K.⁺, Liao, W.⁺, Kang, Y., Xiao, H., Chen, Y., Wang, Q., Luo, T., Chen, J., Li, H., Chan, T.-S., Chen, S., Pensa, E., Chai, L., Liu, F., Jiang, L., Liu, C., Fu, J, Cortés, E.*, Liu, M.*, Metal vacancies in semiconductor oxides enhance hole mobility for efficient photoelectrochemical water splitting. Nat. Catal., 2025, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41929-025-01300-1.

2. Tan, Y.⁺, Fu, J.⁺, Luo, T., Liu, K.*, Liu, M.*, Theoretical Insights into the Selectivity of Single-Atom Fe–N–C Catalysts for Electrochemical NOx Reduction. J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2025, 147, 6, 4937–4944.

3. K. Liu, J. Fu, Y. Lin, T. Luo, G. Ni, H. Li, Z. Lin, M. Liu*, Insights into the activity of single-atom Fe-N-C catalysts for oxygen reduction, Nat. Commun., 2022, 13, 2075.

4. K. Liu, J. Fu, T. Luo, G. Ni, H. Li, L. Zhu, Y. Wang, Z. Lin,* Y. Sun,* E. Cortés,* M. Liu*, Potential-dependent active moiety of Fe–N–C catalysts for the oxygen reduction reaction, J. Phys. Chem. Lett., 2023, 14, 3749.

5. W. Liao, K. Liu*, J. Wang, A. Stefancu, Q. Chen, K. Wu, Y. Zhou, H. Li, L. Mei, M. Li, J. Fu, M. Miyauchi, E. Cortés*, M. Liu*, Boosting nitrogen activation via Ag nanoneedle arrays for efficient ammonia synthesis, ACS Nano, 2023, 17, 1, 411–420.

6. B. Yang⁺, K. Liu⁺, H. Li⁺, C. Liu⁺, J. Fu, H. Li, J. Huang, P. Ou, T. Alkayyali, C. Cai, Y. Duan, H. Liu, P. An, N. Zhang, W. Li, L. Chai, Z. Lin, Y. Gao, M. Miyauchi, E. Cortés, S. Maier^*, M. Liu*, Accelerating CO₂ electroreduction to multicarbon products via synergistic electric–thermal field on copper nanoneedles, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2022, 144, 3039.

7. C. Cai⁺, K. Liu⁺, Y. Zhu, P. Li, Q. Wang, B. Liu, S. Chen, H. Li, J. Fu, Y. Chen, E. Pensa, J. Hu, Y. Lu, T. Chan, E. Cortes^*, M. Liu*, Optimizing hydrogen binding on Ru sites with RuCo alloy nanosheets for efficient alkaline hydrogen evolution, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2022, 61, e202113664.

8. K. Chen⁺, K. Liu⁺, P. An, H. Li, Y. Lin, J. Hu, C. Jia, J. Fu, H. Li, H. Liu, Z. Lin, W. Li, J. Li, Y.-R. Lu, T.-S. Chan, N. Zhang, M. Liu*, Iron phthalocyanine with coordination induced electronic localization to boost oxygen reduction reaction, Nat. Commun., 2020, 11, 4173.

9. Q. Wang⁺, K. Liu⁺, J. Fu, C. Cai, H. Li, Y. Long, S. Chen, B. Liu, H. Li, W. Li, X. Qiu, N. Zhang, J. Hu, H. Pan, M. Liu*, Atomically dispersed s-block magnesium sites for electroreduction of CO₂ to CO, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2021, 60, 25241.

10. K. Liu, J. Fu*, L. Zhu, X. Zhang, H. Li, H. Liu, J. Hu, M. Liu*, Single-atom transition metals supported on black phosphorene for electrochemical nitrogen reduction, Nanoscale, 2020, 12, 4903.

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