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

2. High density energy storage devices;

3. Physical chemistry of interfaces in devices;

Employment

Education

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.