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Dr. Jun Li | |||
| Professor | Research Themes | ||
 | junli@ksu.edu |    | |
 | CBC 201 | ||
 | 785-532-0955 (office) | ||
| 785-532-6979 (lab) | |||
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Biography | |
| 2012-Present 2007-2012 2000-2007 1998-2000 1997-1998 1994-1997 1989-1995 1988-1989 1987-1988 1983-1987 | Professor, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS Associate Professor (with tenure), Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS Senior Research Scientist (up to GS15) and Group Lead, NASA Ames Research Center Moffett Field, CA Research Fellow & Principle Investigator, Institute of Materials Research and Engineering Singapore Application Scientist, Molecular Imaging Co, Phoenix, AZ Postdoctoral Research, Electrochemistry, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY (Mentor: Prof. Hector D. Abrunã) Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ (Mentors: Prof Giacinto Scoles and Dr. Keng S. Liang of Exxon Corporate Research) Graduate Teaching Assistant in Chemistry, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA Graduate study in Electrochemistry, Wuhan University, Wuhan, P.R. China B.S. in Chemistry, Wuhan University, Wuhan, P.R. China |
Research Overview
Research in the Li laboratory is in the interdisciplinary field of nanoscience and nanotechnology,with an emphasis on the development of novel applications of micro-/nano- devices in chemical/biochemical analysis, biomedicine, energy conversion and storage, environmental monitoring and protection, and electronics. Our foci are the fundamental understanding of new phenomena involved in nanomaterials growth/assembly, characterization, surface modification, device fabrication, and function evaluation. The projects involve close collaboration with partners from academia, industry, and government labs. Current projects include: (a) Nanomaterials growth and composite materials synthesis: mainly focused on high-aspect ratio 1D nanofibers (carbon nanotubes, carbon nanofibers, semiconducting inorganic nanowires), 2D planar mnanomaterials (graphene, graphene oxide, reduced graphene oxide, transitional metal dichacogenides and other graphene analogues), and assembly of nanomaterials into 3D hierarchical hybrids, particularly those consisting of nanocarbon cores and functional nanomaterials shells; (b) Biosensor development: mainly focused on nanostructed electrodes for electrochemical detection of proteases activity and nanoscale dielectrophoretic capture and detection of virus/bacterial particles; (c) Energy conversion and storage: mainly focused on developing 3D architectures based on core-shell hybrid materials for lithium-ion batteries, supercapacitors, electrocatalysts, and dye-sensitized solar cells.
Five Selected Publications
- Chen, Y.; Elangovan, A.; Zeng, D.; Zhang Y.; Ke, H.; Li, J.*; Sun, Y.*; Cheng, H.*, Vertically Aligned Carbon Nanofibers on Cu Foil as a 3D Current Collector for Reversible Li Plating/Stripping toward High-Performance Li–S Batteries. Advanced Functional Materials 2020,30 (4), 1906444.
- Anderson, M. J.; Song, Y.; Fan, H.; Wright, J. G.; Ren, Z.; Hua, D. H.; Koehne, J. E.; Meyyappan, M.; Li, J.*, Simultaneous, multiplex quantification of protease activities using a gold microelectrode array. Biosensors & Bioelectronics. 2020,165, 112330.
- Elangovan, A.; Xu, J.; Sekar, A.; Liu, B.; Li, J.*, Enhancing Methanol Oxidation Reaction with Platinum-based Catalysts using a N-Doped Three-dimensional Graphitic Carbon Support. ChemCatChem 2020,12 (23), 6000-6012.
- Song, Y.; Fan, H.; Anderson, M.; Wright, J.; Hua, D.; Koehne, J.; Meyyappan, M.; Li, J.*, Quantitative Electrochemical Analysis of Cathepsin B Activity Using Carbon Nanofiber Nanoelectrode Arrays with Optimized Peptide Substrate Length and Temperature, Anal. Chem., 2019,91 (6), 3971-3979.
- Li, J.*; Pandey, G. P. Advanced Physical Chemistry of Carbon Nanotubes. Annu. Rev. Phys. Chem. 2015,66 (1), 331-56.
