Professional Education


  • Bachelor of Science, Fudan University (2016)
  • Doctor of Philosophy, University of California Berkeley (2021)
  • Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, Chemistry (2021)

Stanford Advisors


Current Research and Scholarly Interests


Functional polymer materials for Li-metal batteries and Li-S batteries

All Publications


  • Tunable 1D and 2D Polyacrylonitrile Nanosheet Superstructures. ACS nano Gong, H., Patino, D. U., Ilavsky, J., Kuzmenko, I., Peña-Alcántara, A. E., Zhu, C., Coffey, A. H., Michalek, L., Elabd, A., Gao, X., Chen, S., Xu, C., Yan, H., Jiang, Y., Wang, W., Peng, Y., Zeng, Y., Lyu, H., Moon, H., Bao, Z. 2023

    Abstract

    Carbon superstructures are widely applied in energy and environment-related areas. Among them, the flower-like polyacrylonitrile (PAN)-derived carbon materials have shown great promise due to their high surface area, large pore volume, and improved mass transport. In this work, we report a versatile and straightforward method for synthesizing one-dimensional (1D) nanostructured fibers and two-dimensional (2D) nanostructured thin films based on flower-like PAN chemistry by taking advantage of the nucleation and growth behavior of PAN. The resulting nanofibers and thin films exhibited distinct morphologies with intersecting PAN nanosheets, which formed through rapid nucleation on existing PAN. We further constructed a variety of hierarchical PAN superstructures based on different templates, solvents, and concentrations. These PAN nanosheet superstructures can be readily converted to carbon superstructures. As a demonstration, the nanostructured thin film exhibited a contact angle of ∼180° after surface modification with fluoroalkyl monolayers, which is attributed to high surface roughness enabled by the nanosheet assemblies. This study offers a strategy for the synthesis of nanostructured carbon materials for various applications.

    View details for DOI 10.1021/acsnano.3c05792

    View details for PubMedID 37668312

  • Neuromorphic sensorimotor loop embodied by monolithically integrated, low-voltage, soft e-skin. Science (New York, N.Y.) Wang, W., Jiang, Y., Zhong, D., Zhang, Z., Choudhury, S., Lai, J. C., Gong, H., Niu, S., Yan, X., Zheng, Y., Shih, C. C., Ning, R., Lin, Q., Li, D., Kim, Y. H., Kim, J., Wang, Y. X., Zhao, C., Xu, C., Ji, X., Nishio, Y., Lyu, H., Tok, J. B., Bao, Z. 2023; 380 (6646): 735-742

    Abstract

    Artificial skin that simultaneously mimics sensory feedback and mechanical properties of natural skin holds substantial promise for next-generation robotic and medical devices. However, achieving such a biomimetic system that can seamlessly integrate with the human body remains a challenge. Through rational design and engineering of material properties, device structures, and system architectures, we realized a monolithic soft prosthetic electronic skin (e-skin). It is capable of multimodal perception, neuromorphic pulse-train signal generation, and closed-loop actuation. With a trilayer, high-permittivity elastomeric dielectric, we achieved a low subthreshold swing comparable to that of polycrystalline silicon transistors, a low operation voltage, low power consumption, and medium-scale circuit integration complexity for stretchable organic devices. Our e-skin mimics the biological sensorimotor loop, whereby a solid-state synaptic transistor elicits stronger actuation when a stimulus of increasing pressure is applied.

    View details for DOI 10.1126/science.ade0086

    View details for PubMedID 37200416

  • High-Porosity Metal-Organic Framework Glasses ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION Xu, W., Hanikel, N., Lomachenko, K. A., Atzori, C., Lund, A., Lyu, H., Zhou, Z., Angell, C., Yaghi, O. M. 2023; 62 (16): e202300003

    Abstract

    We report a synthetic strategy to link titanium-oxo (Ti-oxo) clusters into metal-organic framework (MOF) glasses with high porosity though the carboxylate linkage. A new series of MOF glasses was synthesized by evaporation of solution containing Ti-oxo clusters Ti16 O16 (OEt)32 , linkers, and m-cresol. The formation of carboxylate linkages between the Ti-oxo clusters and the carboxylate linkers was confirmed by Fourier-transform infrared (FT-IR) spectroscopy. The structural integrity of the Ti-oxo clusters within the glasses was evidenced by both X-ray absorption near edge structure (XANES) and 17 O magic-angle spinning (MAS) NMR. After ligand exchange and activation, the fumarate-linked MOF glass, termed Ti-Fum, showed a N2 Brunauer-Emmett-Teller (BET) surface areas of 923 m2  g-1 , nearly three times as high as the phenolate-linked MOF glass with the highest BET surface area prior to this report.

    View details for DOI 10.1002/anie.202300003

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    View details for PubMedID 36791229

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  • Catenated covalent organic frameworks constructed from polyhedra NATURE SYNTHESIS Ma, T., Zhou, Y., Diercks, C. S., Kwon, J., Gandara, F., Lyu, H., Hanikel, N., Pena-Sanchez, P., Liu, Y., Diercks, N. J., Ritchie, R. O., Proserpio, D. M., Terasaki, O., Yaghi, O. M. 2023; 2 (3): 286-295
  • 25 years of Reticular Chemistry. Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) Freund, R., Canossa, S., Cohen, S. M., Yan, W., Deng, H., Guillerm, V., Eddaoudi, M., Madden, D. G., Fairen-Jimenez, D., Lyu, H., Macreadie, L. K., Ji, Z., Zhang, Y., Wang, B., Haase, F., Woll, C., Zaremba, O., Andreo, J., Wuttke, S., Diercks, C. S. 2021

    Abstract

    At its core, reticular chemistry has translated the precision and expertise of organic and inorganic synthesis to the solid state. While initial excitement over metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) and covalent organic frameworks (COFs) was undoubtedly fueled by their unprecedented porosity and surface areas, the most profound scientific innovation of the field has been the elaboration of design strategies for the synthesis of extended crystalline solids through strong directional bonds. In this contribution we highlight the different classes of reticular materials that have been developed, how these frameworks can be functionalized and how complexity can be introduced into their backbones. Finally, we show how the structural control over these materials is being extended from the molecular scale to their crystal morphology and shape on the nanoscale, all the way to their shaping on the bulk scale.

    View details for DOI 10.1002/anie.202101644

    View details for PubMedID 33783111