Liangbing Hu

Carol and Douglas Melamed Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering
Office Address:
15 Prospect Street
New Haven, CT 06511
Mailing Address:
P.O. Box 208284
New Haven, CT 06520
Email: liangbing.hu@yale.edu
Degrees:
  • Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles
  • University of Science and Technology of China (USTC)

Interests:

  • Wood nanoscience and nanotechnologies, various engineered wood such as super wood, transparent wood, moldable wood, and insulating wood
  • Ultrahigh temperature processes and their use for non-equilibrium synthesis (shock synthesis)
  • High entropy catalysts
  • Ionic materials and technologies
  • Solid state batteries
  • Roll-to-roll printed electronics and flexible electronics

Selected Awards & Honors:

  • The HUJI Nano center Dan Maydan prize for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (2024)
  • Distinguished University Professor (2023)
  • Senior Faculty Outstanding Research Award in the A. James Clark School of Engineering (2023)
  • R&D100 (2022)
  • Nature Spinoff Prize by Nature (2021)
  • R&D100 (2022)
  • American Chemical Society Energy & Fuels (ENFL) Research Excellence Award in Electrochemical Energy Storage (2022)
  • Technical Association of the Pulp and Paper Industry Nano Technical Award (2022)
  • Blavatnik National Award for Young Scientists Finalist (2019, 2020, 2021, 2022)
  • Fellow of MRS (2021)
  • Distinguished Scholar-Teacher Award (2021)
  • R&D100 (2020)
  • TAPPI Nano Middle Career Award (2019)
  • R&D100 (2018)  
  • ACS Nano Letter Young Investigator (2017)
  • Emerging Investigator Award, ACS Division of Energy and Fuel (2016)
  • ONR Young Investigator Award (2016)
  • Air Force Young Investigator Award (AFOSR YIP) (2013)

Selected Publications:

  • Zhao, X.; Li, T.; Xie, H.; Wang, L.; Qu, Y.; Li, S.; Liu, H.; Liu, S.; Brozena, A.; Yu, Z.; Srebric, J.; Hu, L.* A Solution-Processed Radiative Cooling Glass, Science, 2023, 382, 684.
  • Xie, H.; Liu, N.; Zhang, Q.; Zhong, H.; Guo, L.; Zhao, X.; Li, D.; Liu, S.; Huang, Z.; Lele, A.; Brozena, A.; Wang, X.; Song, K.; Chen, S.; Yao, Y.; Chi, M.; Xiong, W.; Rao, J.; Zhao, M.; Shneider, M.; Luo, J.; Zhao, J.*; Ju, Y.*; Hu, L.* A Stable Atmospheric Pressure Plasma for Extreme-Temperature Synthesis, Nature, 2023, 623, 964.
  • Dong, Q.; Dilip Lele, A.; Zhao, X.; Li, S.; Cheng, S.; Wang, Y.; Cui, M.; Guo, M.; Brozena, A.H.; Lin, Y.; Li, T.; Xu, L.; Qi, A.; Kevrekidis, I.; Mei, J.; Pan, X.; Liu, D.; Ju, Y.; Hu, L*. Depolymerization of plastics via electrified spatiotemporal heating, Nature, 2023, 616, 488.
  • Dong, Q.; Yao, Y.; Cheng, S.; Alexopoulos, K.; Gao, J.; Srinivas, S.; Yang, Y.; Pei, Y.; Zheng, C.; Brozena, A.; Zhao, H.; Wang, X.; Toraman, H.; Yang, B.; Kevrekidis, I.; Ju, Y.; Vlachos, D.; Liu, D.; Hu, L*. Programmable heating and quenching for efficient thermochemical synthesis. Nature, 2022, 605, 470. (Cover).
  • Yao, Y.; Dong, Q.; Brozena, A.; Luo, J.; Miao, J.; Chi, M.; Wang, C.; Kevrekidis, I.; Ren, J.; Greeley, J.; Wang, G.; Anapolsky, A.; Hu, L.* High Entropy Nanoparticles: Synthesis-Structure-Property Relationships and Data-Driven Accelerated Discovery, Science, 2022, 376, eabn3102.
  • Li, T.; Chen, C.; Brozena, A.; Zhu, J.; Xu, L.; Driemeier, C.; Dai, J.; Rojas, O.; Isogai A.; Wagberg, L.; Hu, L*. Developing Fibrillated Cellulose as a Sustainable Technological Material, Nature, 2021, 590, 47.
  • Yang, C.; Wu, Q.; Xie, W.; Zhang, X.; Zheng, J.; Garaga M.; Ko, B.; Mao, Y.; Brozena, A.; He, S.; Dai, J.; Tyagi, M.; Jiao, F.; Greenbaum, S.; Hu, Y.; Briber, R.; Isogai, A.; Xu, K.; Qi, Y.; Hu, L*. Copper-Coordinated Cellulose Ion Conductors for Solid-State Batteries, Nature, 2021, 598, 590.
  • Xiao, S.; Chen, C.; Xia, Q.; Liu, Y.; Yao, Y.; Chen, Q.; Hartsfield, M; Brozena, A.; Tu, K.; Eichhorn, S.J.; Yao, Y.; Li, J.; Gan, W.; Shi, S.; Yang, V.; Ricco, M.; Zhu, Y.; Burgert, I.; Luo, A.; Li, T.; Hu, L*. Lightwight, Strong, Moldable Wood via Cell Wall Engineering as a Sustainable Structural Material, Science, 2021, 374, 465. (Cover)
  • Wang, C.; Ping, W.; Bai, Q.; Cui, H.; Hensleigh, R.; Wang, R.; Brozena, A., Xu, Z.; Dai, J.; Pei, Y.; Zheng, C.; Pastel, G.; Gao, J.; Wang, X.; Wang, H.; Zhao, J.; Yang, B.; Luo, J.; Zheng, X.; Mo, Y.; Dunn, B.; Hu, L.* A General Method to Synthesize and Sinter Bulk Ceramics in Seconds, Science, 2020, 368, 521 (Cover).
  • Li, T.; Zhai, Y.; He, S.; Gan, W.; Wei, Z.; Heidarinejad, M.; Dalgo, D.; Mi, R.; Zhao, X.; Song, J.; Dai, J.; Chen, C.; Aili, A.; Vellore, A.; Martini, A.; Yang, R.; Srebric, J.; Yin, X.; Hu, L.* A Radiative Cooling Structural Material. Science, 2019, 36, 760.
  • Yao, Y.; Huang, Z.; Xie, P.; Lacey, S.; Jacob, R.; Xie, H.; Chen, F.; Nie, A.; Pu, T.; Rehwoldt, M.; Yu, D.; Zachariah, M.; Wang, C.; Shahbazian-Yassar R.; Li, J.; Hu, L.* Carbo-Thermal Shock Synthesis of High Entropy Alloy Nanoparticles. Science, 2018, 359, 1489 (Cover).
  • Song, J.; Chen, C.; Zhu, S.; Zhu, M.; Dai, J.; Ray, U.; Li, Y.; Kuang, Y.; Li, Y.; Quyispe, N.; Yao, Y.; Gong, A.; Leiste, U.H.; Bruck, H.A.; Zhu, J.Y.; Vellore, A.; Martini, A.; Li, T.; Hu, L*. A General Strategy for Processing Wood into Super Strong and Tough Structural Materials. Nature, 2018, 554, 224.