Chemistry professor Zhenfei Liu is among the 126 early-career researchers receiving the 2024 Sloan Research Fellowships from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. The award is one of the most prestigious and recognizes early-career scientists in North America. Sloan scholars represent the most promising scientific researchers working today. Their achievements and potential place them among the next generation of scientific leaders in the U.S. and Canada. Each winner receives $75,000 research fellowship, which may be spent over a two-year term on any expense supportive of their research.

Dr. Zhefei Liu is an assistant professor at Wayne State University’s Department of Chemistry. His research is using and developing first-principles electronic structure methods to study energy conversion mechanisms at heterogeneous molecule-substrate interfaces and nanostructured complex materials.

Liu’s work has been supported by the National Science Foundation, Department of Energy, and American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Fund. He is also the recipient of Wayne State University Academy of Scholars Outstanding Junior Faculty Award. .

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