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Dr. Tao Liu is an Assistant Professor of the Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering at College of Engineering, Florida A&M-Florida State University. He received his Bachelor degree (1992) in Chemical Engineering from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, and M.S. (1999) and Ph.D. (2002) degrees in Polymer Science and Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia. As a Research Scientist II, he did his post-graduate researches in the Department of Polymer, Textile and Fiber Engineering, Georgia Tech, on carbon nanotube /polymer nanocomposite fibers and films. Before joining Florida State University in 2007, Dr. Tao Liu respectively worked with GE Advanced Materials, Mt. Vernon, Indiana, for processing and product development of polymer optical films, and with Battelle Memorial Institute, Columbus, Ohio, for R&D of nanomaterial enabled functional materials. At Florida State University, he also serves as the PI of the High-Performance Materials Institute. Dr. Liu’s research interests include processing-structure-property relationship of polymer/nanocomposites; carbon materials based electrodes for electrical energy storage; SWNT thin films for structural health monitoring of advanced polymer composites; and the interfacial effect between nano-particles and polymer matrix. Dr. Liu has published 16 refereed journal articles and 2 patents.

Publications

1. Tao Liu, Sida Luo, Chuck Zhang, and Ben Wang, “Preparative Ultracentrifuge Method for Characterization of Carbon Nanotube Dispersions”, in press

2. Chongfu Zhou, Tao Liu, Tong Wang, and Satish Kumar, “SWNT/PAN/SAN Ternary Composite – A Novel Approach for High Performance Supercapacitor”, Polymer, 47, 5831-5837 (2006)

3. Huina Guo, T. V. Sreekumar, Tao Liu, Marilyn Minus and Satish Kumar, “Structure and Properties of Polyacrylonitrile/Single Wall Carbon Nanotube Composite Films”, Polymer, 46, 3001 – 3005 (2005)

4. Jing Liu, Tao Liu, and Satish Kumar, “Effect of Solvent Solubility Parameter on SWNT Dispersion in PMMA”, Polymer, 46, 3419 – 3424 (2005)

5. Tao Liu, Robert Samuels, “Physically Correct Theoretical Prism-wave Guide Coupler Model”, Journal of the Optical Society of America A, 21, 1322 – 1333 (2004)

6. Xiefei Zhang, T. V. Sreekumar, Tao Liu, and Satish Kumar, “Properties and Structure of Nitric Acid Oxidized Single Wall Carbon Nanotube Films”, J. Phys. Chem. B 108, 16435-16440 (2004)

7. Xiefei Zhang, Tao Liu, T.V. Sreekumar, Satish Kumar, Xiaodong Hu and Ken Smith, “Gel Spinning of PVA/SWNT Composite Fiber”, Polymer, 45, 8801-8807 (2004)

8. T. V. Sreekumar, Tao Liu, Byung G. Min, Huina Guo, Satish Kumar, Robert H. Hauge, and Richard E. Smalley, “Polyacrylonitrile-Single Wall Carbon Nanotube Composite Fibers”, Advanced Materials, 16, 58 – 61 (2004)

9. Tao Liu, Clifford L. Henderson and Robert Samuels, “Quantitative Characterization of the Optical Properties of Absorbing Polymer Films: Comparative Investigation of the Internal Reflection Intensity Analysis Method”, Journal of Polymer Science, Part B: Polymer Physics, 41, 842 – 855 (2003)

10. Tao Liu, Satish Kumar, “Quantitative Characterization of SWNT Orientation by Polarized Raman Spectroscopy”, Chemical Physics Letters, 378, 257-262 (2003)

11. Tao Liu, T. V. Sreekumar, Satish Kumar, Robert H. Hauge, and Richard E. Smalley, “SWNT/PAN Composite Film based Supercapacitors”, Carbon, 41,2447 – 2449  (2003)

12. Tao Liu, Satish Kumar, “Effect of Orientation on the Modulus of SWNT Films and Fibers, Nano Letters, 3, 647 – 650 (2003)

13. T. V. Sreekumar, Tao Liu, Satish Kumar, Lars M. Ericson, Robert H. Hauge, and Richard E. Smalley, “Single-Wall Carbon Nanotube Films”, Chemistry of Materials, 15, 175 – 178 (2003)

14. Xiefei Zhang, Tao Liu, T. V. Sreekumar, Satish Kumar, Valerie C. Moore, Robert H. Hauge and Richard E. Smalley, “Poly (vinyl alcohol) /SWNT Composite Film”, Nano Letters 3, 647 – 650 (2003)

15. A. R. Bhattacharyya, T. V. Sreekumar, Tao Liu, Satish Kumar, Lars M. Ericson, Robert H. Hauge, Richard E. Smalley, “Crystallization and Orientation Studies in Polypropylene/Single Wall Carbon Nanotube Composite”, Polymer, 44, 2373 – 2377 (2003)

16. Tao Liu and Robert Samuels, “The Influence of HCl Doping Level on the Complex Refractive Indices of Anisotropic Polyaniline film: Application of a New Internal Reflection Wave-guide coupling Technique”, Journal of Polymer Science, Part B, Polymer Physics, 39, 2481-2490 (2001)