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Citations
12921
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12481
National Ranking
338

Overview

Hongbin Li is affiliated with the University of British Columbia in Canada, with a primary focus on Engineering. Their research spans multiple subfields including Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Atomic and Molecular Physics and Optics, Molecular Biology, and Materials Chemistry.

The scientist has contributed notably to advancements in a range of topics, which include:

  • Force Microscopy Techniques and Applications
  • Advanced battery technologies research
  • Cellular Mechanics and Interactions
  • Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion
  • Perovskite Materials and Applications
  • Hydrogels: synthesis, properties, applications
  • Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials

Recent publications highlight a diverse research portfolio:

  • "Cartilage-like protein hydrogels engineered via entanglement," 2023, Nature
  • "Spatial Structure Regulation: A Rod-Shaped Viologen Enables Long Lifetime in Aqueous Redox Flow Batteries," 2021, Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • "Engineering shape memory and morphing protein hydrogels based on protein unfolding and folding," 2022, Nature Communications
  • "A Smartphone-Enabled Portable Digital Light Processing 3D Printer," 2021, Advanced Materials
  • "Conjugate-Driven Electron Density Delocalization of Piperidine Nitroxyl Radical for Stable Aqueous Zinc Hybrid Flow Batteries," 2022, Angewandte Chemie International Edition

Li's work is published in a variety of scientific venues. Frequent publication sources include:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Langmuir
  • Advanced Materials
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Collaborative research is a consistent feature of Li's career. Frequent coauthors are:

  • Chunguang Hu
  • Jiangxuan Song
  • Han Wang
  • Qingyuan Bian
  • Hao Fan

These collaborations and the wide range of publication venues underline contributions across the interdisciplinary domains of materials science, bioengineering, and energy technologies. The integration of experimental techniques and materials chemistry supports research on hydrogels, battery technologies, and advanced manufacturing methods.

Best Publications

  • Mechanical unfolding intermediates in titin modules.

    Piotr E. Marszalek;Hui Lu;Hongbin Li;Mariano Carrion-Vazquez

  • Quantifying thiol-gold interactions towards the efficient strength control

    Yurui Xue;Xun Li;Hongbin Li;Wenke Zhang

  • Force-clamp spectroscopy monitors the folding trajectory of a single protein.

    Julio M. Fernandez;Hongbin Li

  • Designed biomaterials to mimic the mechanical properties of muscles

    Shanshan Lv;Daniel M. Dudek;Daniel M. Dudek;Yi Cao;M. M. Balamurali

  • The mechanical stability of ubiquitin is linkage dependent.

    Mariano Carrion-Vazquez;Hongbin Li;Hui Lu;Piotr E Marszalek

  • Mechanical design of proteins studied by single-molecule force spectroscopy and protein engineering.

    Mariano Carrion-Vazquez;Andres F Oberhauser;Thomas E Fisher;Piotr E Marszalek

  • The unfolding kinetics of ubiquitin captured with single-molecule force-clamp techniques.

    Michael Schlierf;Hongbin Li;Julio M. Fernandez

  • Contour Length and Refolding Rate of a Small Protein Controlled by Engineered Disulfide Bonds

    Sri Rama Koti Ainavarapu;Jasna Brujić;Hector H. Huang;Arun P. Wiita

  • Polyprotein of GB1 is an ideal artificial elastomeric protein

    Yi Cao;Hongbin Li

  • PEVK domain of titin: an entropic spring with actin-binding properties

    Wolfgang A. Linke;Michael Kulke;Hongbin Li;Setsuko Fujita-Becker

  • Hydrogen Bonding Governs the Elastic Properties of Poly(vinyl alcohol) in Water: Single-Molecule Force Spectroscopic Studies of PVA by AFM

    Hongbin Li;Wenke Zhang;Weiqing Xu;Xi Zhang

  • Multiple conformations of PEVK proteins detected by single-molecule techniques.

    Hongbin Li;Andres F. Oberhauser;Sambra D. Redick;Mariano Carrion-Vazquez

  • Atomic levers control pyranose ring conformations

    P. E. Marszalek;Y.-P. Pang;Hongbin Li;J. El Yazal

  • Fingerprinting polysaccharides with single-molecule atomic force microscopy.

    Piotr E. Marszalek;Hongbin Li;Julio M. Fernandez

  • Single-Molecule Force Spectroscopy on Xanthan by AFM

    Hongbin Li;Matthias Rief;Filipp Oesterhelt;Hermann E. Gaub

  • Chair-boat transitions in single polysaccharide molecules observed with force-ramp AFM

    Piotr E. Marszalek;Hongbin Li;Andres F. Oberhauser;Julio M. Fernandez

  • Single-molecule force spectroscopy on polysaccharides by AFM – nanomechanical fingerprint of α-(1,4)-linked polysaccharides

    Hongbin Li;Hongbin Li;Matthias Rief;Filipp Oesterhelt;Hermann E Gaub

  • Morphology control of nanostructures via surface reaction of metal nanodroplets.

    K.Y. Niu;J. Yang;S. A. Kulinich;J. Sun

  • Highly ordered protein nanorings designed by accurate control of glutathione S-transferase self-assembly.

    Yushi Bai;Quan Luo;Wei Zhang;Lu Miao

  • Atomic force microscopy captures quantized plastic deformation in gold nanowires

    Piotr E. Marszalek;William J. Greenleaf;Hongbin Li;Andres F. Oberhauser

Frequent Co-Authors

Yi Cao
Yi Cao Nanjing University
Julio M. Fernandez
Julio M. Fernandez Columbia University
Jiacong Shen
Jiacong Shen Jilin University
Xi Zhang
Xi Zhang Jilin University
Junqiu Liu
Junqiu Liu Hangzhou Normal University
Hermann E. Gaub
Hermann E. Gaub Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Shinichi Takayama
Shinichi Takayama Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute
A. Grant Mauk
A. Grant Mauk University of British Columbia
Bingbing Liu
Bingbing Liu Jilin University
Lifeng Chi
Lifeng Chi Soochow University

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