Teng Li Group Research

Nemo lives in the ocean near the Great Barrier Reef. One day, he bought a hydrogel balloon which is inflated by an inner pressure p. Will the balloon burst eventually or stay safe?

We demonstrated outstanding compressibility of holey graphene nanosheets, which is impossible for pristine graphene. Holey graphene powder can be easily compressed into dense and strong monoliths with different shapes at room temperature without using any solvents or binders. 

ACS Nano, Article ASAP, http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acsnano.7b00227

Flexible Batteries: From Mechanics to Devices, Kun Kelvin Fu, Jian Cheng, Teng Li, and Liangbing Hu, ACS Energy Letters 1, 1065−1079 (2016)

Zheng Jia, Teng Li, Intrinsic stress mitigation via elastic softening during two-step electrochemical lithiation of amorphous silicon, Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 91, 278–290, (2016) (DOI:10.1016/j.jmps.2016.03.014)

Zheng Jia, Teng Li, Failure Mechanics of a Wrinkling Thin Film Anode on a Substrate under Cyclic Charging and Discharging, Extreme Mechanics Letters, accepted, 2016 (DOI:doi:10.1016/j.eml.2016.03.006)

Shuze Zhu* and Teng Li*, Strain-induced programmable half-metal and spin-gapless semiconductor in an edge-doped boron nitride nanoribbon, Physical Review B, 93, 115401 (2016)

Shuze Zhu, Joseph A. Stroscio, Teng Li, Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 245501 (2015)

Electrons dance in pulled graphene

http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2015/07/01/1502870112.full.pdf?with-ds...

H. Zhu*, S. Zhu*, Z. Jia*, S. Parvinian, Y. Li, O. Vaaland, L. Hu, T. Li, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Early Edition, 2015 (DOI:10.1073/pnas.1502870112)

Journal of Power Sources, (2015), Volume 275, 1 February 2015, Pages 866–876

Recent experiments reveal that a scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) probe tip can generate a highly localized strain field in a graphene drumhead, which in turn leads to pseudomagnetic fields in the graphene that can spatially confine graphene charge carriers in a way similar to a lithographically defined quantum dot (QD). While these experimental findings are intriguing, their further implementation in nanoelectronic devices hinges upon the knowledge of key underpinning parameters, which still remain elusive.

Soft Matters, (2014) Advance article

APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS 104, 173103 (2014) DOI

Hydrogenation-Assisted Graphene Origami and Its Application in Programmable Molecular Mass Uptake, Storage, and Release 

Shuze Zhu and Teng Li, ACS Nano, 8 (3), pp 2864–2872 (2014)

Published in Nano Letters, 2014, 14 (1), pp 139–147  

Nano Letters, 13 (7), 3093–3100 (2013). 

ACS Nano, 2013, 7 (3), pp 2717–2724, DOI: 10.1021/nn4001512 (2013).  Download PDF .

Published in the June 22, 2012 issue of Science (DOI:10.1126/science.1220335 , download PDF)

Understanding the adhesion between graphene and other materials is crucial for achieving more reliable graphene-based applications in electronic devices and nanocomposites. The ultra-thin profile of graphene, however, poses significant challenge to direct measurement of its adhesion property using conventional approaches. We show that there is a strong correlation between the morphology of graphene on a compliant substrate with patterned surface and the graphene-substrate adhesion.

Teng Li, Extrinsic morphology of graphene, Modelling Simul. Mater. Sci. Eng., 19, 054005 (2011)  

M.B. Tucker, D.R. Hines, T. Li, A quality map of transfer printing, Journal of Applied Physics, 106, 103504, (2009)  DOI: 10.1063/1.3259422

T. Li, Z. Zhang, Snap-through instability of graphene on substrates, Nanoscale Research Letters,DOI: 10.1007/s11671-009-9460-1 (2009). (Open access)