Battelle Energy Alliance Professor of Nuclear Science and Engineering，
MIT Professor of Materials Science and Engineering
E-mail: liju@mit.edu
Tel: 617-253-0166, Fax: 617-253-8863

Experience

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139
Battelle Energy Alliance Professor of Nuclear Science and Engineering,
Full Professor (7/2011-present), Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering
and Department of Materials Science and Engineering

University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104
Associate Professor of Materials Science and Engineering (9/2007-6/2011)

Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210
Assistant Professor of Materials Science and Engineering (9/2002-9/2007)

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139
Research scientist (4/2002-9/2002), postdoctoral associate (9/2000-4/2002)
Departments of Nuclear Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering

Education

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139
Department of Nuclear Engineering (1994-2000) Ph.D., Sept. 2000
GPA 5.0/5.0: 40 graduate-level courses at 8 MIT departments

University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026, P.R.C.
Special Class for Gifted Young (1990-1994) B.S. in Physics, 1994

Awards

  • Lee Hsun Young Scientist Lecture Series on Materials Science, Institute of Metal Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences (2011)
  • Chinese Ministry of Education and Li Ka Shing Foundation Chang Jiang Scholar Award (2009)
  • TMS Robert Lansing Hardy Award (2009)
  • Technology Review TR35 award (2007)
  • Materials Research Society (MRS) 2006 Outstanding Young Investigator Award
  • Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) 2005
  • Materials Research Society (MRS) Graduate Student Silver Medalist 1998

Recent Publications

  • Z.-J. Wang, Z.-W. Shan, J. Li, J. Sun and E. Ma, "Pristine-to-Pristine Regime of Plastic Deformation in Submicron-Sized Single Crystal Gold Particles," Acta Materialia, in print.
  • L. Huang, Q.-J. Li, Z.-W. Shan, J. Li, J. Sun and E. Ma,"A new regime for mechanical annealing and strong sample-size strengthening in body-centred cubic molybdenum," Nature Communications 2 (2011) 10.1038/ncomms1557 
  • S. Z. Li, X. D. Ding, J. Li, X. B. Ren, J. Sun and E. Ma, "High-efficiency mechanical energy storage and retrieval using interfaces in nanowires," Nano Letters 10 (2010) 1774-1779.
  • J.-Y. Zhang, G. Liu, R. H. Wang, J. Li, J. Sun and E. Ma, "Double-inverse grain size dependence of deformation twinning in nanocrystalline Cu," Phys. Rev. B 81 (2010) 172104
  • S.Z. Li, X.D. Ding, J.K. Deng, T. Lookman, J. Li, X.B. Ren, J. Sun and A. Saxena, "Superelasticity in BCC nanowires by a reversible twinning mechanism," Phys. Rev. B 82 (2010) 205435.
  • S. Z. Li, X. D. Ding, J. Li, X. B. Ren, J. Sun, E. Ma and T. Lookman, "Inverse martensitic transformation in Zr nanowires," Phys. Rev. B 81 (2010) 245433.
  • J. Li, S. Sarkar, W. T. Cox, T. J. Lenosky, E. Bitzek and Y.Z. Wang, “Diffusive molecular dynamics and its application to nanoindentation and sintering,'' Phys. Rev. B 84 (2011) 054103.
  • J.S. Qi, J.Y. Huang, J. Feng, D.N. Shi and J. Li, “The Possibility of Chemically Inert, Graphene-Based All-Carbon Electronic Devices with 0.8 eV Gap,'' ACS Nano 5 (2011) 3475-3482.
  • J. Y. Huang, L. Zhong, C. M. Wang, J. P. Sullivan, W. Xu, L. Q. Zhang, S. X. Mao, N. S. Hudak, X. H. Liu, A. Subramanian, H.
  • Y. Fan, L. Qi, A. Kushima and J. Li, “In situ observation of the electrochemical lithiation of a single SnO2 nanowire electrode,'' Science 330 (2010) 1515-1520..
  • S. Hara and J. Li, “Adaptive strain-boost hyperdynamics simulations of stress-driven atomic processes,'' Phys. Rev. B 82 (2010) 184114.
  • T. Zhu and J. Li, “Ultra-strength materials,'' Progress in Materials Science 55 (2010) 710-757.
  • Q. Yu, Z.-W. Shan, J. Li, X.X. Huang, L. Xiao, J. Sun and E. Ma, “Strong crystal size effect on deformation twinning,'' Nature 463 (2010) 335-338.
  • J. Y. Huang, F. Ding, B. I. Yakobson, P. Lu, L. Qi and J. Li, “In situ observation of graphene sublimation and multi-layer edge reconstructions,'' PNAS 106 (2009)10103-10108.