# Yuzhang Li

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
CHEMICAL AND BIOMOLECULAR ENGINEERING

5531 Boelter Hall

Email: yuzhangli@ucla.edu
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Websites

- Yuzhang Li
- Research Website

##### RESEARCH AND INTERESTS

- Renewable energy generation and storage
- Nanomaterials design and synthesis
- Cryogenic-electron microscopy
- In situ transmission electron microscopy

##### NOTABLE PUBLICATIONS

- Y. Li, Y. Li, and Y. Cui. “Catalyst: How Cryo-EM Shapes the Development of Next-Generation Batteries.” Chem 4 (2018): 2250-2252.
- Y. Li, W. Huang, Y. Li, A. Pei, D.T. Boyle, and Y. Cui. “Correlating structure and function of battery interphases at atomic resolution using cryo-electron microscopy.” Joule 2 (2018): 1-11.
- Y. Li, Y. Li, A. Pei, K. Yan, Y. Sun, C.L. Wu, L.M. Joubert, R. Chin, A.L. Koh, Y. Yu, J. Perrino, B. Butz, S. Chu, and Y. Cui. “Atomic structure of sensitive battery materials and interfaces revealed by cryo-electron microscopy.” Science 358 (2017): 506-510.
- Y. Li, K. Yan, H.W. Lee, Z. Lu, N. Liu, and Y. Cui. “Growth of conformal graphene cages on micrometre-sized silicon particles as stable battery anodes.” Nature Energy 1 (2016): 15029.

##### IN THE NEWS

- Ultrafast Deposition of Faceted Lithium Polyhedra by Outpacing SEI Formation | Nature, August 2023
- Packard Foundation Announces 20 New Fellows For 2023 | Forbes, October 2023
- San Francisco Radio | KCBS–AM, August 2023
- Lithium Rolls the Dice on Batteries | Materials Today, August 2023
- Researchers Maker Discovery That Could Reduce Explosions of Lithium-metal Batteries | UPI, August 2023
- Posts Falsely Claim Electrically-Charged Rocks Found in Congo | AP News, January 2023
- Yuzhang Li Receives U.S. Department of Energy Early Career Research Award | UCLA Newsroom, July 2022
- 30 Under 30 2021 Science | Forbes

##### EDUCATION

- Ph.D. Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford University, (Advisor: Yi Cui), 2018
- B.S. Chemical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, (Advisor: Clayton Radke) 2013

##### AWARDS AND RECOGNITION

- Forbes 30 Under 30, 2021 Science
- Electrochemical Society Daniel Cubicciotti Award, 2018
- Intelligence Community Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, 2018-2020
- Materials Research Society Graduate Student Award, 2017
- National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, 2013-2016