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Advanced Energy Materials Research Group

Wei Li

Research Assistant Professor
Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering

Education:  

  • Ph. D.: Materials Science, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2012
  • B. S.: Chemistry, Ocean University of China, 2007

Employment: 

  • Mar. 2018 ‒ Present, Associate Member of the College Graduate Faculty, West Virginia University
  • Mar. 2018 ‒ Present, Postdoctoral Fellow-Materials Scientist, West Virginia University
  • Mar. 2017 ‒ Mar. 2018, Postdoctoral Fellow, Utah State University
  • Mar. 2015 ‒ Mar. 2017, Marie-Curie COFUND Research Fellow, International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory (INL), Portugal
  • Sep. 2012 ‒ Oct. 2014, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Australia

Research: 

Rechargeable aqueous Zn-ion, Zn-air, Li-ion and Li-S batteries, solar thermochemical hydrogen (STCH) production, water electrolyzers, hydrogen fuel cells, gas sensors, electrocatalysis, water treatment, heterogeneous catalysis, supercapacitors, Synchrotron and Neutron powder diffraction