We study how electrons, photons and ions commute between solid-state nanoscale electronic/photonic systems and soft-state nanoscale biomolecular systems. The created hybrid nanobionics will be used for the applications of healthcare, renewable energy and environment protection.

Our current research projects include:

1. designing, modeling and fabrication of nanoscale light harvesting devices to concentrate and enhance electromagnetic field for energy conversion and biomolecular sensing applications

2. designing and fabrication of nano-bio hybrid molecules by conjugating endogeneous biomolecules with artificial nanophotonic molecules for nucleotide and enzyme imaging and manipulations

3. Label-free living cell spectroscopic imaging facilitated by micro and nanoscale optoelectronic devices.

• Oct 6, 2011 :     Graduate student Austin Hsiao's Paper is published as inside front cover article of Lab on a Chip
• Sep 28, 2011 :     Congratulations Professor Liu, for winning the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE)
  
• Sep 17, 2011 :     Corn microchips highlights on Royal Society of Chemistry
  
• Sep 13, 2011 :     Nanostructured surface brightens up cells (Nanotechweb)ECE IN THE MEDIA
• Feb 27, 2011 :     Former undergraduate students' paper HDCD is published in Lab on a Chip
  
• Jan 21, 2011 :     Graduate student Manas Gartia's Paper is published as cover article of JPCA
• April 6, 2010 :     Graduate student Yemaya Bordain is awarded prestigious NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
• March 19, 2010 :     Visiting scholar Yemaya Bordain admitted to PhD program in ECE department
• March 11, 2010 :     Yemaya Bordain wins NSF EAPSI fellowship
• Feb 15, 2010 :     Graduate Student Manas Gartia has passed the Ph.D Qualifying Examination
• February 15, 2010 :     HDCD Team selected as Finalists for the $150K CIMIT Prize
• February 15, 2010 :     Liu Group Website Redesigned