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• 2013/02: Prof. Li receives the 2012 E. Robert Kent Outstanding Teaching Award. This annual award is given to a Clark School junior faculty member to honor excellence in teaching.
• 2013/02: Our collaborative research on Li-ion batteries leads to a paper published in ACS Nano, titled "A Beaded-String Silicon Anode". Congrats, Zheng!
• 2013/01: Shuze Zhu is selected to be a 2013 AJC Future Faculty Fellow. Congrats!
• 2012/11: Shuze Zhu won the Best Student Paper Award (3rd place) in ASME Applied Mechanics Division at ASME Congress 2012. Congrats, Shuze!
• 2012/09: Shuze Zhu receives Haythornthwaite Foundation Travel Award from ASME Applied Mechanics Division. Congrats, Shuze!
• 2012/09: Prof. Li is selected to be a Keystone Professor - The Clark School Academy of Distinguished Professors
• 2012/06: The collaboration between NIST Fellow Dr. Strocio's group and our UMD team (Solares and Li groups) on straining suspended graphene leads to a paper published in the June 22, 2012 issue of Science. It is also selected as one of Highlights of Research in this issue of Science. Congrats, Shuze!
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• 2012/05: Prof. Li is awarded promotion to the rank of Associate Professor with tenure
• 2012/05: Prof. Li is selected by US National Committee on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics to receive the 2012 ICTAM Travel Fellowship
• 2012/04: Zhao Zhang wins 2011 University of Maryland Distinguished Dissertation Award! One of four winners across the whole campus and the sole winner in the disciplinary area of Mathematics, Physical Sciences, and Engineering. Heartiest congratuations to Zhao!
• 2012/01: Zheng is selected to be a 2012 AJC Future Faculty Fellow. Congrats!
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Research

• Mechanics of flexible electronics
• Mechanics of nanoelectronics
• Mechanics of low-dimensional carbon (graphene, CNTs, CNSs)
• Mechanics of engery systems (Li-ion batteries, Na-ion batteries)
• Thin films and multilayered structures
• Mechanics of organic/inorganic hybrids
• Biomechanics of cells and subcellular structures

Selected Publications

• A Beaded-String Silicon Anode
• Electromechanical properties of graphene drumheads (Science, 2012)
• Ultrafast nano-oscillators based on carbon nanoscrolls
• Carbon nanotube initiated formation of carbon nanoscrolls
• Failure mechanics of permeation barriers in flexible electronics
• A quality map of transfer printing
• Substrate-regulated morphology of graphene
• A mechanics model of microtubule buckling in living cells
• Ductility of thin metal films on polymer substrates
• Reversible stretchability of thin metal films on elastomeric substrates
• Patterned thin stiff films as platforms for stretchable electronics
• Stretchability of thin metal films on elastomer substrates

Review Paper

• Extrinsic morphology of graphene

Recent Awards

• E. Robert Kent Outstanding Teaching Award, 2012
• Keystone Professor (UMD Clark School Academy of Distinguished Professors), 2012~
• US National Committee on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics Fellowship, 2012
• NSF International Travel Fellowship, 2010
• NSF Summer Institute Fellowship, 2009, 2010
• General Research Board Summer Research Award (UMD), 2009
• Ralph E. Powe Jr. Faculty Award (ORAU), 2007
• The 1st UMD Sci/Terp Video Competition, Runner-up, 2007 (video)
• Gordon Research Conference (GRC) Best Poster Award, 2006
    on Thin film & Small Scale Mechanical Behavior, Waterville, ME
• Gordon Research Conference (GRC) Poster Award, 2005
    on Ceramics, Solid State Studies In, Tilton, NH 
• Materials Research Society (MRS) Outstanding Poster Award, 2004