xl3p@virginia.edu
https://engineering.virginia.edu/faculty/xiaodong-chris-li
Dr. Li’s expertise and interests include (but not limited to) additive manufacturing, smart manufacturing, nanomaterial-enabled energy systems, biological and bio-inspired materials and devices, biomechanics, micro/nanomechanics, surface engineering, and tribology. His stature in the field of his expertise includes over 230 peer-reviewed journal articles in prestigious journals such as Science, Nature Communications, Advanced Materials, Advanced Energy Materials, Advanced Functional Materials, Nano Letters, Physical Review Letters, Acta Materialia, Physical Review B, Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, and Philosophical Magazine; over 10,780 citations with H-index of 51; TMS MPMD Distinguished Scientist/Engineer Award (2015), Professional Engineering Publisher's PE Prize (2008), University of South Carolina CEC Research Progress Award (2008) and CEC Research Achievement Award (2011); over 70 invited plenary lectures/keynotes/talks at international conferences/workshops; Campus Director of the South Carolina Space Grant Consortium (2007- 2012); Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME); Fellow of the Society of Experimental Mechanics (SEM); University of South Carolina CEC Distinguished Professor in Mechanical Engineering (10/2009-9/2012); and Rolls-Royce Commonwealth Professor at the University of Virginia (8/2013-present). His breakthrough work has been featured by over 1,000 media outlets worldwide including BBC, Discovery News, Science Daily, and MSNBC. His innovation on cotton textile based composites was recently selected by New York Times – Year in Ideas for Year 2010. He currently serves as an Associate Editor for Transactions of the ASME - Applied Mechanics Reviews, and is on the editorial board for ten journals. He reviews papers for over 150 journals including Science and Nature series, and he was the elected chair for the TMS nanomechanical materials behavior committee.
Research Interests
Additive Manufacturing/Smart Manufacturing
Nanomaterial-enabled Energy Systems
Biomaterials and Biomechanics
Micro/Nanomechanics
Surface Engineering/Tribology
TMS MPMD Distinguished Scientist/Engineer Award
Professional Engineering Publisher's PE Prize
New York Times – Year in Ideas for Year 2010
Fellow of the Society of Experimental Mechanics
Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers
Cotton-textile-enabled flexible self-sustaining power packs via roll-to-roll fabrication, Nature Communications, 7 (2016) 11586
ZAN GAO, CLIFTON BUMGARDNER, NINGNING SONG, YUNYA ZHANG, JINGJING LI, XIAODONG LI
Cotton textile enabled, flexible lithium-ion batteries with enhanced capacity and extended lifespan, Nano Letters, 15 (2015) 8194–8203
ZAN GAO, NINGNING SONG, YUNYA ZHANG, AND XIAODONG LI
Hydrogen passivation induced dispersion of multi-walled carbon nanotubes, Advanced Materials, 24 (2012) 881-885
YINGCHAO YANG, ZHI-HUI XU, ZHENGWEI PAN, AND XIAODONG LI
Order-disorder transition of aragonite nanoparticles in nacre, Physical Review Letters, 109 (2012) 025501
ZAIWANG HUANG AND XIAODONG LI
Unveiling the formation mechanism of pseudo-single crystal aragonite platelets in nacre, Physical Review Letters, 102 (2009) 075502
XIAODONG LI AND ZAIWANG HUANG
