1. Organic/inorganic hybrid thin-film PV devices;

2. High density energy storage devices;

3. Physical chemistry of interfaces in devices;

Employment

Jan. 2009 - Present	Professor,  Deupty Director	International Lab of Adaptive Biotechnology (i-LAB), SINANO, CAS
Aug. 2004-Dec.2008	Assistant Professor	Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Chio Univeristy, Athens, Chio
Nov. 2001-July 2004	Postdoctoral Research Fellow	Joint appointment at Columbia University and IBM T.J. Watson Research Center

Education

Ph.D. 2001	Chemistry and Chemical Biology	Harvard University
M.S. 1996	Chemistry and Molecular Engineering	Peking University
B.S. 1993	Materials Science and Engineering	USTC

1. Wei Lu, Yao Xiong and Liwei Chen. Length-Dependent Dielectric Polarization in Metallic Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C (2009), 113, 10337-10340.
2. Wei Lu, Yao Xiong, Abdou Hassanien, Wei Zhao, Ming Zheng, and Liwei Chen. A Scanning Probe Microscopy Based Assay for Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube Metallicity. Nano Letters (2009), 9, 1668-1672.
3. Dmitri A. Tsyboulski, Ye Hou, Nikta Fakhri, Saunab Ghosh, Ru Zhang, Sergei M. Bachilo, Liwei Chen*, Matteo Pasquali, Jie Liu,* and R. Bruce Weisman*. Do Inner Shells of Double-walled Carbon Nanotubes Really Fluoresce? Nano Letters (2009), 9, 3282-3289.
4. Dan Wang, and Liwei Chen. Facile direct electron transfer in glucose oxidase modified electrodes. Electrochimica Acta (2009), 54, 4316-4320.
5. Yunxiang Gao and Liwei Chen. Versatile control of multiphase laminar flow for in-channel microfabrication. Lab-on-a-chip (2008), 8, 1695-1699. 
6. Yang Xu, Pehr E. Pehrsson, Liwei Chen, Wei Zhao. Controllable Redox Reaction of Chemically Purified DNA-Single Walled Carbon Nanotube Hybrids with Hydrogen Peroxide. Journal of the American Chemical Society (2008), 130, 10054-10055.
7. Maura C. Cannon, Kimberly Terneus, Qi Hall, Li Tan, Yumei Wang, Benjamin L. Wegenhart, Liwei Chen, Derek T. A. Lamport, Yuning Chen, and Marcia J. Kieliszewski. Self-assemblly of the plant cell wall requires an extensin scaffold. PNAS (2008), 105, 2226-2231.
8. Wei Lu, Dan Wang and Liwei Chen. Near-Static Dielectric Polarization of Individual Carbon Nanotubes. Nano letters (2007), 7(9), 2729-2733.
9. Wang, Dan; Chen, Liwei. Temperature and pH-Responsive Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube Dispersions.  Nano Letters.  (2007), 7(6), 1480-1484.
10. Chen, Liwei; Yu, Xuechun; Wang, Dan. Cantilever dynamics and quality factor control in AC mode AFM height measurements. Ultramicroscopy (2007), 107(4-5), 275-280.