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Emily Liu, Assistant Professor

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Dr. Liu has over seven years of research in structure and dynamics of water in supercooled states and near hydrphilic surfaces, dynamics of proteins and below the glass transition, structure and dynamics of nano-materials, and neutron scattering. Her major research activity has been in the use of neutron, x-ray and laser spectroscopy to investigate materials properties of complex fluids and soft condensed matter. She has been conducting quasielastic, inelastic, and elastic neutron scattering spectroscopy work at the NIST Center for Neutron Research, at the Intense Pulsed Neutron Source in Argonne National Lab, and at high flux reactors in Oak Ridge National Laboratories.

At Rensselaer, Dr. Liu will conduct research in various aspects of neutron scattering, including its use in nanotechnology and polymer science, such as the dynamics of water confined in nanoporous materials, proteins and DNAs, in looking for alternative energy such as nuclear and hydrogen, and in the measurements and calculations of inelastic neutron cross sections.