Yongchun Liu
Professor, Full-time PI
Specializations: Atmospheric Environmental Chemistry
Research interests: VOCs field measurements, source apportionment,
secondary transformation and control technology;
Secondary organic aerosol formation; Toxicity of aerosol
Email: liuyc@buct.edu.cn
Phone: 18310332792, 010-68471480
Office Location: 529, Teaching Building of West Campus/BUCT, 98 Zizhuyuan Road, Haidian District, Beijing
Group Website: https://www.x-mol.com/groups/liuyc
Academic achievements:
1.Chenjie Hua, Wei Ma, Jinwen Li, Yuzheng Wang, Feixue Zheng, Yusheng Zhang, Yanqin Ren, Tianzeng Chen, Hongyan Li, Federico Bianchi, Tuukka Petäjä, Veli-Matti Kerminen, Douglas Worsnop, **************, Haidong Kan, Yongchun Liu*. Internal exposure risks to humans of particle-bound PAHs with an hourly time resolution to humans in Beijing. Environ. Sci. Technol., 2025, 59, 24, 12035–12047.
2.Jiannong Quan*, Pengkun Ma, Yubing Pan, Qianqian Wang, Linhui Lan, Lindong Dai, Yuzheng Wang, Yongchun Liu*. Vertical mixing of pollutants and secondary inorganic aerosol formations over Beijing, China. Atmos. Environ., 2025, 357(D17):121312 .
3.Yusheng Zhang, Yongchun Liu*, Wei Ma*, Chenjie Hua, Feixue Zheng, Chaofan Lian, Weigang Wang*, Men Xia, Zhixin Zhao, Jinwen Li, Jiali Xie, Zongcheng Wang, Yuzheng Wang, Xin Chen, Ying Zhang, Zemin Feng, Chao Yan, Biwu Chu, Wei Du, Veli-Matti Kerminen, Federico Bianchi, Tuukka Petäjä, Douglas Worsnop, **************. Changing Aerosol Chemistry is Redefining HONO Sources. Nat. Commun., 2025, 16 (1), 5238.
4.Guanwei Zhao, Wei Ma, Hongyu Pang, Ligang Zhang, Yuzheng Wang, Xiaoxue Ren, Kuo Liu*, Hongling Yang, Yongchun Liu*. Unexpected large size of Pt nanoparticles induced by DMF on SBA-15 for enhanced low-temperature catalytic oxidation of toluene. Appl. Surf. Sci., 2025, 703, 163352.
5.Hongling Yang,* Ganggang Li, Wei Ma, Boyi Hao, Zhongshen Zhang, YongchunLiu,* Zhengping Hao*. Recent Developments in Heterogeneous Catalyzed Epoxidation of Ethylene to Ethylene Oxide. Chem. Eur. J., 2025, 0, e202404773.
6.Wei Ma, Zemin Feng, Xin Chen, Men Xia, Yafei Liu, Yusheng Zhang, Yuan Liu, Yuzheng Wang, Feixue Zheng, Chenjie Hua, Jinwen Li, Zhixin Zhao, Hongling Yang, **************, Douglas R. Worsnop, Hong He, Yongchun Liu*. Overlooked Significance of Reactive Chlorines in the Reacted Loss of VOCs and the Formation of O3 and SOA. Environ. Sci. Technol., 2025, 59, 6155−6166.
7.Men Xia*, Yifan Jiang, Jianing Dai, Yongchun Liu, Chao Yan, **************, Tao Wang*. Chlorine activation in marine air: Insights from chemical budgets of molecular chlorine and hypochlorous acid. J. Geophys. Res.: Atmos., 2005, 130, e2024JD042568.
8.Jingwei Zhang, Haiyan Ran, Yu Qu, Chaofan Lian, Weigang Wang*, Yusheng Zhang, Feixue Zheng, Xiaolong Fan, Dawei Lu, Chao Yan, Kaspar R. Daellenbach, Zhiqiang Ma, Yongchun Liu, Maofa Ge, **************, Junling An*. Inconsistent capacity of potential HONO sources to enhance secondary pollutants: evidence from WRF-Chem modeling. J. Environ. Sci., 2025, 10.1016/j.jes.2025.02.023.
9.Jin Wu, Hao Wu, Yiran Li, Tingyu Liu, Mei Zheng, Cheng Huang, Fang Zhang, Jun Zhao, Jianwu Shi, Xiaoxiao Li, Yongchun Liu, Rujing Yin, Xiaotong Chen, Qiang Zhang, Jiming Hao, Jingkun Jiang*. Characterizing airborne nanoparticles in six Chinese cities based on their interactions with natural air ions. Environ. Sci. Nano, 2025, 12, 1138-1149.
10.Jiali Xie, Feixue Zheng, Yusheng Zhang, Yuzheng Wang, Penghan Wang, Zhixin Zhao, Junlei Zhan, Chenjie Hua, Wei Ma, Zemin Feng, Men Xia, Federico Bianchi, Veli-Matti Kerminen, Tuukka Petäjä, **************, Yongchun Liu*. The semi-solid phase of atmospheric particles facilitates the formation of secondary brown carbon: possible contribution of ionic strength to Maillard-like reactions. Atmos. Environ., 2025, 343, 120991.
11.Feixue Zheng, Jinwen Li, Chenjie Hua, Jiali Xie, Yusheng Zhang, Liye Li, Sunan Shen, Simo Hakala, Chao Yan, Zemin Feng, Xiaolong Fan, Federico Bianchi, Tuukka Petäjä, Veli-Matti Kerminen, **************, Men Xia, Qiaozhi Zha, Wei Du, Kaspar R. Daellenbach, Jing Cai*, Yongchun Liu*. Dust event identification and characterization with one-year online observations in Beijing. Sci. Total Environ., 2024, 956, 177296.
12.***************, Santeri Tuovinen, Sander Mirme, Paap Koemets, Lauri Ahonen, Yongchun Liu, Heikki Junninen, Tuukka Petäjä, and Veli-Matti Kerminen. On the potential of the Cluster Ion Counter (CIC) to observe local new particle formation, condensation sink and growth rate of newly formed particles. Aerosol Res., 2024, 2, 291-301.
13.Yi Yuan, Xin Chen, Runlong Cai, Xiaoxiao Li, Yuyang Li, Rujing Yin, Dandan Li, Chao Yan, Yongchun Liu, Kebin He, **************, Jingkun Jiang*. Resolving Atmospheric Oxygenated Organic Molecules in Urban Beijing Using Online Ultrahigh-Resolution Chemical Ionization Mass Spectrometry. Environ. Sci. Technol., 2024, 58(40), 17777-17785.
