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Christopher Y. Li

Christopher Y. Li

D-Index & Metrics

Materials Science

D-Index
63
Citations
13989
World Ranking
6189
National Ranking
1581

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2012 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For his outstanding contributions to the understanding of structureproperty relationships of complex polymerbased, heterogeneous architectures

Overview

Christopher Y. Li is affiliated with Drexel University in the United States. Their research spans multiple areas within materials science and engineering, with a particular focus on polymers and battery materials.

Their work encompasses a number of main fields of study including:

  • Materials Science
  • Engineering

Within these fields, their subfields of study include:

  • Materials Chemistry
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering
  • Biomaterials
  • Organic Chemistry
  • Polymers and Plastics

The scientist's primary research topics cover:

  • Advanced Polymer Synthesis and Characterization
  • Pickering emulsions and particle stabilization
  • Advanced Battery Materials and Technologies
  • Advancements in Battery Materials
  • Biodegradable polymer synthesis and properties
  • Advanced Battery Technologies Research
  • Polymer crystallization and properties

Christopher Y. Li has published extensively, with recent significant papers including:

  • A novel de-coupling solid polymer electrolyte via semi-interpenetrating network for lithium metal battery (2020) in Energy Storage Materials
  • Dendrite-free, wide temperature range lithium metal batteries enabled by hybrid network ionic liquids (2020) in Energy Storage Materials
  • Designing Comb-Chain Crosslinker-Based Solid Polymer Electrolytes for Additive-Free All-Solid-State Lithium Metal Batteries (2020) in Nano Letters
  • The rise of semicrystalline polymers and why are they still interesting (2020) in Polymer
  • Bottom-up, scalable synthesis of anatase nanofilament-based two-dimensional titanium carbo-oxide flakes (2021) in Materials Today

Frequent coauthors in their collaborations include:

  • Qian Qian
  • Shichen Yu
  • Bin Zhao
  • Mark C. Staub
  • Seyong Kim

Their research is commonly published in specific venues such as:

  • Polymer
  • ACS Macro Letters
  • Matter
  • ACS Applied Energy Materials
  • Macromolecules

In addition to journal articles, Christopher Y. Li has contributed to book publications. One notable work is the book "Liquid Crystalline Polymers," published by Springer International Publishing in 2020.

Recognition includes being named a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) in 2012, an award given for contributions to understanding the structure-property relationships of complex polymer-based heterogeneous architectures.

Best Publications

  • Electrospinning of Continuous Carbon Nanotube-Filled Nanofiber Yarns

    Frank Ko;Yury Gogotsi;Ashraf Ali;Nevin Naguib

  • Melt-electrospinning. part I: processing parameters and geometric properties

    Jason Lyons;Christopher Li;Frank Ko

  • Polymer crystallization-driven, periodic patterning on carbon nanotubes

    Lingyu Li;Christopher Y Li;Chaoying Ni

  • Nanohybrid Shish-Kebabs: Periodically Functionalized Carbon Nanotubes†

    Christopher Y. Li;Lingyu Li;Wenwen Cai;Stephen L. Kodjie

  • Structure and crystallization behavior of Nylon 66/multi-walled carbon nanotube nanocomposites at low carbon nanotube contents

    Lingyu Li;Christopher Y. Li;Chaoying Ni;Lixia Rong

  • Hybrid Electrolytes with Controlled Network Structures for Lithium Metal Batteries

    Qiwei Pan;Christopher Li

  • On the structure and morphology of polyvinylidene fluoride-nanoclay nanocomposites

    Douglas R. Dillon;Kishore K. Tenneti;Christopher Y. Li;Frank K. Ko

  • Carbon nanotube induced polymer crystallization: The formation of nanohybrid shish–kebabs

    Lingyu Li;Bing Li;Matthew A. Hood;Christopher Y. Li

  • Amphiphilic Janus gold nanoparticles via combining "solid-state grafting-to" and "grafting-from" methods.

    Bingbing Wang;Bing Li;Bin Zhao;Christopher Y Li

  • Poly(trimethylene teraphthalate) crystal structure and morphology in different length scales

    Bojie Wang;Christopher Y Li;Jennifer Hanzlicek;Stephen Z.D Cheng

  • Structure and Morphology Control in Crystalline Polymer-Carbon Nanotube Nanocomposites

    Eric D. Laird;Christopher Y. Li

  • How Does Nanoscale Crystalline Structure Affect Ion Transport in Solid Polymer Electrolytes

    Shan Cheng;Derrick M. Smith;Christopher Y. Li

  • Morphology and crystallization behavior of HDPE/CNT nanocomposite

    Stephen L. Kodjie;Lingyu Li;Bing Li;Wenwen Cai

  • Dense and Dynamic Polyethylene Glycol Shells Cloak Nanoparticles from Uptake by Liver Endothelial Cells for Long Blood Circulation.

    Hao Zhou;Zhiyuan Fan;Peter Y. Li;Junjie Deng

  • Reduced Graphene Oxide-Induced Polyethylene Crystallization in Solution and Nanocomposites

    Shan Cheng;Xi Chen;Y. Grace Hsuan;Christopher Y. Li

  • 2D MXene-containing polymer electrolytes for all-solid-state lithium metal batteries

    Qiwei Pan;Qiwei Pan;Yongwei Zheng;Sankalp Kota;Weichun Huang;Weichun Huang

  • Directed Self-Assembly of Nanoparticles for Nanomotors

    Bin Dong;Bin Dong;Tian Zhou;Hui Zhang;Hui Zhang;Christopher Y. Li

  • Immobilizing Au Nanoparticles with Polymer Single Crystals, Patterning and Asymmetric Functionalization

    Bing Li;Christopher Li

  • Morphology control of segmented polyurethanes by crystallization of hard and soft segments

    Matthew A. Hood;Bingbing Wang;James M. Sands;John J. La Scala

  • Rubbing-induced molecular reorientation on an alignment surface of an aromatic polyimide containing cyanobiphenyl side chains.

    Jason J. Ge;Christopher Y. Li;Gi Xue;Ian K. Mann

  • Polymer crystallization-driven, periodical patterning on carbon nanotubes

    Lingyu Li;Christopher Li

Frequent Co-Authors

Stephen Z. D. Cheng
Stephen Z. D. Cheng University of Akron
Frank W. Harris
Frank W. Harris University of Akron
Timothy J. Bunning
Timothy J. Bunning United States Air Force Research Laboratory
Benjamin S. Hsiao
Benjamin S. Hsiao Stony Brook University
Bernard Lotz
Bernard Lotz University of Strasbourg
Qi-Feng Zhou
Qi-Feng Zhou Peking University
Vincent P. Tondiglia
Vincent P. Tondiglia United States Air Force Research Laboratory
Xinhua Wan
Xinhua Wan Peking University
Lalgudi V. Natarajan
Lalgudi V. Natarajan Science Applications International Corporation (United States)
Lei Zhu
Lei Zhu Case Western Reserve University

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