Weiyang (Fiona) Li

Overview

Dr. Weiyang (Fiona) Li graduated with BS and MS degrees in chemistry from Nankai University (Tianjin, P.R. China), and a PhD in biomedical engineering from Washington University in St. Louis (with Prof. Younan Xia). She then worked as a postdoctoral associate with Prof. Yi Cui in the Department of Materials Science & Engineering at Stanford University from 2011 to 2015. Her research primarily focuses on the development of functional materials with finely tailored composition and architecture to tackle critical problems in diverse energy-related applications, especially in cost-effective and high-energy battery systems. In her spare time, she enjoys painting, hiking, traveling and watching basketball games.

Research Interests

Energy materials; functional nanomaterials design and synthesis; structure-property correlations; electrochemical engineering; energy storage and conversion devices; batteries, fuel cells, and clean/renewable energy; electrocatalysis

Education

BS, Chemistry, Nankai University, China 2004
MS, Chemistry, Key Laboratory of Advanced Energy Materials Chemistry, Nankai University, China 2007
PhD, Biomedical Engineering, Washington University, St. Louis 2011

Awards

NSF CAREER Award, 2023
Distinguished Research Award for Faculty, 2023
Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award, 2022
NASA Early Career Faculty Award, 2018
Young Investigator Program Award, The Air Force Office of Scientific Research, 2017
Shortlisted (final 10, out of >250 entries) for Nanotechnology Young Researcher Award, Institute of Physics, 2015
The State Natural Science Award, State Council of the People's Republic of China, 2011
Graduate Student Presentation Award, MRS Spring Meeting, San Francisco, CA, 2009

Professional Activities

Nano Letters Early Career Advisory Board
Reviewer for >20 peer review journals, including Nano Letters, Angewandte Chemie, Chemistry−A European Journal, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, Progress in Energy and Combustion Science, Chemistry of Materials, The Journal of Electrochemical Society, and many others
Member, American Chemical Society (ACS)
Member, Materials Research Society (MRS)

Selected Publications

Lu, X.; Wang, Z.; Liu, K.; Luo, J.; Wang, P.; Niu, C.; Wang, H.; Li, W. Hierarchical Sb2MoO6 Microspheres for High-Performance Sodium-Ion Battery Anode. Energy Storage Materials, 2018, DOI: 10.1016/j.ensm.2018.11.021.
Luo, J.; Wang, C.; Wang, H.; Hu, X.; Matios, E.; Lu, X.; W. Zhang, X. Tao, Li, W. Pillared MXene with Ultralarge Interlayer Spacing as a Stable Matrix for High Performance Sodium Metal Anodes. Advanced Functional Materials, 2018, DOI: 10.1002/adfm.201805946.
Wang, C.; Wang, H.; Matios, E.; Hu, X.; Li, W. Chemically-engineered porous copper matrix with cylindrical core-Shell skeleton as a stable host for metallic sodium anode. Advanced Functional Materials, 2018, DOI: 10.1002/adfm.201802282.
Wang, H.; Wang, C.; Matios, E.; Li, W. Facile stabilization of sodium metal anode with additives: unexpected key role of sodium polysulfide and adverse effect of sodium nitrate. Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2018, DOI: 10.1002/anie.201801818.
J. Luo, C. Fang, C. Jin, H. Yuan, O. Sheng, R. Fang, W. Zhang, H. Huang, Y. Gan, Yang Xia, C. Liang, J. Zhang, Li, W., X. Tao Tunable Pseudocapacitance Storage of MXene by Cation Pillaring for High-Performance Sodium Ion Capacitors. Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 2018, DOI: 10.1039/C8TA02068J.
Wang, H.; Wang, C.; Matios, E.; Li, W. "Critical Role of Ultrathin Graphene Films with Tunable Thickness in Enabling Highly Stable Sodium Metal Anodes" Nano Letters, 2017, 17 (11), pp 6808–6815, DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.7b03071
Li, W.; Liang, Z.; Lu, Z.; Tao, X.; Liu, K.; Yao, H.; Cui, Y. "Magnetic Field-Controlled Lithium Polysulfide Semiliquid Battery with Ferrofluidic Properties" Nano Letters, 2015, Article ASAP, DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.5b02818.
Li, W.; Yao, H.; Yan, K.; Zheng, G; Liang, Z.; Chiang, Y-. M.; Cui, Y. "The Synergetic Effect of Lithium Polysulfide and Lithium Nitrate to Prevent Lithium Dendrite Growth" Nature Communications 2015, 6, 7436, DOI:10.1038/ncomms8436.
Li, W.;* Liang, Z.;* Lu, Z.; Yao, H.; Seh, Z. W.; Yan, K.; Zheng, G; Cui, Y. "Sulfur Cathode with Pomegranate-Like Cluster Structure" Advanced Energy Materials 2015, DOI:10.1002/AENM.201500211.(*Co-first author)
Li, W.; Zheng, G; Yuan, Y.; Seh, Z. W.; Liu, N.; Cui, Y. "High-performance hollow sulfur nanostructured battery cathode through a scalable, room-temperature, one-step bottom-up approach" Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 2013, 110, 7148−7153.
Seh, Z. W.;* Li, W.;* Cha, J.; Zheng, G; Yuan, Y.; McDowell, M. T.; Hsu, P. C.; Cui, Y. "Sulfur-TiO2 yolk-shell nanoarchitecture with internal void space for long-cycle lithium-sulfur batteries" Nature Communications 2013, 4, 1331.(*Co-first author)
Li, W.; Zhang, Q.; Zheng, G;Seh, Z. W.; Yao, H.; Cui, Y. Understanding the role of different conductive polymers in improving the nanostructured sulfur cathode performance. Nano Letters 2013, 13, 5534.