Intro
I am a materials scientist in LBNL. My primary interest is to understand the fundamental principles in materials, and use them to predict/design new materials. Leveraging the state-of-art atomistic scale simulation tools as well as the recent advance in High-throughput calculations, I seek to explore the electrochemical properties, atomistic configuration, and electronic structures of material systems from an In silico route. Meanwhile, I closely collaborate with experimental scientists to complement their observations.
I have built a solid academic skillset covering a wide spectrum of materials science, including energy materials, nano-materials, materials strain engineering, etc. As one of the core developers in Materials Project, I work with my colleagues and make contribution to the world foremost High-throughput infrastructures and dataset. It is my goal to enable a data-driven approach to accelerate the design and engineering of new materials.
Fishing is my religion. I practice the catch-and-release as much as possible when fishing. There is certainly something in angling that tends to produce a serenity of the mind.
Work
My research yields following publications:
General Synthesis of Dual Carbon-Confined Metal Sulfides Quantum Dots Towards High-Performance Anodes for Sodium-Ion Batteries, Advanced Functional Materials , 2017
Fast Mg2+ Diffusion in Mo3(PO4)3O for Mg Batteries, ChemComm, 2017
Thickness-dependent phase transition and optical behavior of MoS2 films under high pressure , Nano Research, 2017
Surface doping of nanostructures , US Patent App. 15/254,148, 2016
Anharmonicity of monolayer MoS2, MoSe2, and WSe2: A Raman study under high pressure and elevated temperature, Applied Physics Letters, 2017
The Odyssey of Multivalent Cathode Materials: Open Questions and Future Challenges, Chemical Reviews, 2017
High-throughput screening of inorganic compounds for the discovery of novel dielectric and optical materials, Scientific Data, 2017
Evaluation of sulfur spinel compounds for multivalent battery cathode applications, Energy Environmental Science, 2016
A High Capacity Thiospinel Cathode for Mg Batteries, Energy Environmental Science, 2016
Strain-Mediated Interfacial Dynamics During Au-PbS Core-Shell Nanostructure Formation, ACS nano, 2016
Is alpha-V 2 O 5 a cathode material for Mg insertion batteries?, Journal of Power Sources, 2016
Materials Design Rules for Multi-Valent Ion Mobility in Intercalation Structures, Chem. Mater., 2015
First-principles evaluation of Multi-valent cation insertion into Orthorhombic V2O5, Chemical Communications, 2015
Tunable metal-insulator transition in Nd1-xYxNiO3 (x=0.3,0.4) perovskites thin film at near room temperature, Applied Physics Letters, 2015
Spinel Compounds as Multivalent Battery Cathodes: A Systematic Evaluation Based on ab initio Calculations, Energy Environmental Science, 2015
Photoluminescence of Monolayer MoS2 on LaAlO3 and SrTiO3 substrates, Nanoscale, 2014
Quantum Manifestation of Elastic Constants in Nanofilms, Nanotechnology, 2014
Interplay between Quantum Size Effect and Strain Effect on Growth of Nanoscale Metal Thin Film, Phys. Rev. B, 2012
Quantum Electronic Stress: Density-Functional-Theory Formulation and Physical Manifesta- tion, Phys. Rev. Lett., 2012
Chemical versus thermal folding of graphene edges, Nano Research, 2011
Bistability of nanoscale Ag islands on a Si(111)-(4x1)-In surface induced by anisotropic stress, Phys. Rev. Lett., 2009
Quantum Manifestations of Graphene Edge Stress and Edge Instability: A First-Principles Study, Phys. Rev. Lett., 2009
Comparison study of the luminescent properties of the white-light long afterglow phosphors: CaxMgSi2O5+x:Dy3+(x = 1, 2, 3), Journal of Luminescence, 2009
Collective magnetic behavior of graphene nanohole superlattices, Nano Research, 2008
Local Structure of Nanocrystalline Lu2O3:Eu Studied by X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy, J. Phys. Chem. C, 2007
The Valence of Rare Earth Ions in R2MgSi2O7 :Eu,Dy (R=Ca,Sr) Long-afterglow Phosphors, Phys Status Solidi A, 2004