She was selected as one of the 2019 American Chemical Society Young Investigators and included in the 2021 Forbes 30 Under 30 list of top scientists.
During her undergraduate studies, she spent a year at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, where she worked with Hong Yang on nanocrystals for electrocatalysis.
After graduating from Nanyang Technological University in 2014 Liu returned to the United States, joining Yi Cui's laboratory to work on next-generation batteries.
[3] By applying the coating to a graphene oxide electrodes, Liu managed to improve battery stability and Coulombic efficiency.
[4] After earning her doctoral degree in 2019 Liu moved to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she works alongside T. Alan Hatton on stimuli-responsive gas membranes.