07/15/2024
Dr. Li is awarded another NSF grant and highlighted by NIU Newsroom.
05/20/2024
Dr. Li is awarded a NSF grant and highlighted by NIU Newsroom.
04/25/2024
Congratulations to Emanuel Naumann with the Zydowsky Research Fund.
04/25/2024
Congratulations to Rena Gonzalez with the ACS Undergraduate Award in Organic Chemistry.
04/25/2024
Congratulations to Lingzhe Fang with the Outstanding Graduate Student Award.
3/07/2024
Congratulations to Xingyi Lyu with the Dissertation Completion Fellowship.
3/05/2024
Congratulations, Dr. Fang. Lingzhe Fang successfully defended and is the 4th Ph.D. in our group.
10/25/2023
Our group is highlighted.
10/12/2023
Congratulations, Dr. Liu. Xinyi Liu successfully defended. She will work in A123 company.
10/12/2023
Dr. Li gave a talk at Yale Energy Science Institute.
10/5/2023
DOE and NIU have highlighted our group research.
9/25/2023
Dr. Li is co-PI of the new Energy Earthshot Research Center funded by DOE.
9/20/2023
Dr. Li is leading a prestigious NSF DMREF project.
9/15/2023
Dr. Li is awarded another 3 years NSF grant from NSF-FuSe program starting 10/1/23.
05/16/2023
Three undergraduates join our group for the summer NSF REU program; welcome!
05/12/2023
Our collaborative work has been accepted in Nature Catalyst, Nature Review Materials, Nature Communication.
04/24/2023
Congratulations to Xinyi Liu with John D. Graham Scholarship.
03/06/2023
Congratulations to Lingzhe Fang with the Dissertation Completion Fellowship.
11/22/2022
Congratulations to Prof. Li on his election as ISTC's 5th cohort of Researchers.
10/21/2022
Congratulations to Prof. Li with earning new NSF awards for energy research.
08/23/2022
Congratulations to Dr. Li with ACS Emerging Researcher Award.
8/15/2022
Dr. Li is awarded another 3 years NSF grant from CBET catalyst program starting 10/1/22.
7/27/2022
Dr. Li is awarded another 3 years NSF grant from CBET Electrochemical Systems starting 10/1/22.
07/07/2022
Congratulations to Professor Li for tenure and promotion to associate professor.
05/20/2022
Lingzhe and Xingyi visited BNL 11bm for SAXS experiment.
05/9/2022
Congratulations to Lingzhe who has been selected to attend the highly competitive 24th National School on Neutron and X-ray scattering that will be held July 10-22, 2022 at both ANL and ORNL.
12/9/2021
Our group is highlighted by NIU Today.
11/2/2021
Congratulations to graduate student Erik Sarnello for passing his Ph.D. defense and will join ANL as a postdoc.
7/27/2021
Dr. Li is awarded 3 years NSF grant from CBET Electrochemical Systems.
7/01/2021
5/4/2021
Congratulations to Dr. Li for being highlighted by NIU today. https://www.niu.edu/spotlight/faculty/li.shtml
2/10/2021
Congratulations to graduate student Erik Sarnello for being highlighted by the DOE Office of Science. https://www.energy.gov/science/office-science
https://twitter.com/doescience/status/1359540896627326978/photo/1
10/01/2020
Congratulations to graduate student Erik Sarnello for his receiving the DOE Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) fellowship. https://www.niutoday.info/2020/11/18/among-the-best-and-brightest-two-niu-scientists-win-doe-awards/
8/10/2020
Led by Prof. Linda Yasui, our proposal “MRI: Acquisition of a Zeiss LSM 900 with Airyscan 2 for Research and Education at Northern Illinois University” has been selected for funding by NSF.https://newsroom.niu.edu/2020/10/23/niu-earns-grant-to-acquire-high-tech-microscope/
5/18/2020
Congratulate first-year graduate student Lingzhe Fang's first author paper has been accepted by Small Methods. Nice job!
3/2/2020
Our collaborative works have been published in ACS Catalysis, Nano Letter, Nature Materials, Nano Energy, Nature Communication Chemistry, and Journal of Material Chemistry A.
2/23/2020
Congratulations graduate student Erik Sarnello won Full Time Dissertation Completion Fellowship!
9/1/2019
Our group is awarded 3 years NSF grant from CBET Catalyst.
7/1/2019
Our papers at NIU with Prof. Stephen Z. D. Cheng have been published in Nature Chemistry, Angew, ACS Macro Letters.
6/25/2019
Three collaborative works have been accepted in ACS Catalysis, Advanced Energy Materials and Journal of Material Chemistry A.
6/1/2019
Welcome William Bailey from Augustana College join our group at ANL as summer intern.
5/25/2019
Our collaborative work has been accepted in J. Phys. Chem. C. Erik is the co-author. Nice work!
05/10/2019
Prof. Li was invited to give a talk at ANL.
05/10/2019
Our collaborative work has been accepted in ACS Materials Letter. Erik is the co-author. Nice work!
04/29/2019
Prof. Li was invited to give two invited talks at MRS meeting in Phoenix and organize a symposium at ACS meeting in Orlando.
03/15/2019
Welcome Xuhui Feng from our collaborator Prof. Ying Li at TAMU join our group at ANL as visiting student. Thanks support from NSF.
03/01/2019
Congratulate our NSF-REU student Bethany Palen was accepted by TAMU.
02/26/2019
Our collaborative work has been accepted in JEC, ACS Applied Energy Materials, Nature Communications. Erik is the co-author of three papers. Nice work!
02/11/2019
Welcome our new postdoctoral scholar, Liguang Wang!
01/04/2019
We found the microscopic structure of the ethylene carbonate in Electrolyte, which is highlighted by JCESR and APS.
https://www.jcesr.org/microscopic-view-of-the-ethylene-carbonate-based-lithium-ion-battery-electrolyte-by-small-angle-x-ray-scattering/
https://www.aps.anl.gov/APS-Science-Highlight/2019-03-05/unexpected-nanoclusters-in-lithium-ion-battery-electrolytes
01/12/2018
Welcome Augusta joins our group as the Ph.D student.
08/01/2018
Congratulations to graduate student Erik Sarnello for his receiving the competitive scholarship from the XVII International Small Angle Scattering Conference to attend this meeting in 2018.
08/01/2018
Our paper “Expanding Interlayer Spacing of Hard Carbon by Natural K+ Doping to Boost Na-Ion Storage” was published at ACS Applied Materials & Interface. First paper for Erik!
06/26/2018
Our collaborative work about Giant Molecule Self‐Assembly has been highlighted on the APS website and NIU today.
https://www.niutoday.info/2018/07/02/summer-break-not-for-busy-niu-researchers/
06/01/2018
Welcome Bethany Palen to join our group as a summer NSF-REU student.
05/30/2018
Our paper at NIU with Prof. Stephen Z. D. Cheng “Multilevel Manipulation of Supramolecular Structures of Giant Molecules via Macromolecular Composition and Sequence” has been published in ACS Macro Letters.
05/05/2018
Our paper “Engineering Single‐Atom Cobalt Catalysts toward Improved Electrocatalysis on the single site catalyst” was published at Small.
03/19/2018
Prof. Li was invited to give two oral talks at ACS meeting in New Orlando.
03/05/2018
Our paper at NIU is publised on Small--------Bio‐inspired single‐atom dispersed cobalt catalysts with enhanced electrocatalytic performance
02/23/2018
Our paper “Effect of Cation–π Interaction on Macroionic Self‐Assembly” collaborating with Prof. Tianbo Liu was published at Angewandte Chemie.
01/23/2018
Our first paper at NIU with Prof. Tianbo Liu “Change of Macroionic Hydration Shells due to Different Macroanion-Countercation Interactions” has been accepted in Chemistry European Journal.
01/23/2018
Welcome Erik Sarnello to join our group as the first graduate student.
01/19/2018
Dr. Li is invited to give a presentation at workshop of “Materials and Bio Synergies” at Argonne National Laboratory.
01/03/2018
New group at NIU!
