Dr. Lan Li joined the faculty of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Boise State University in 2012. She has a Ph.D. in Nanomaterials and an M.Phil. in Microelectronic Engineering and Semiconductor Physics, both from the University of Cambridge. Her earlier education includes a B.S. in Electronics and a Certificate in Study and Communication from the University of Central Lancashire, and a Certificate in Japanese from the University of Cambridge. Before coming to Boise State, Dr. Li was a NIST-ARRA senior fellow in the Material Measurement Lab at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), and an assistant professor at the Department of Biological Science and Center for Materials Informatics at Kent State University. Her current research interests include the theoretical and computational studies of materials by design for electronics, energy and sustainability applications, and teaming researchers with interdisciplinary backgrounds to develop new approaches to advance materials research. Dr. Li is an active member of The Mineral, Metals and Materials Society, the American Chemical Society, and the Materials Research Society. She is presently a member of TMS ICME (Integrated Computational Materials Engineering) and Edcuation committees, and has served as a symposium/workshop/roundtable organizer and chair for professional meetings and conferences.
Selected Articles
Investigation of NaY Zeolite with Adsorbed CO2 by Neutron Powder Diffraction (with W. Wong-Ng, J. A. Kaduk, Q. Huang, L. Espinal, and J. W. Burress), Microporous and Mesoporous Materials (2013)
The crystal structure of dehydrated NaY zeolite (Na-FAU structure type) with and without adsorbed CO2...
First-Principles DFT + U Studies of the Atomic, Electronic, and Magnetic Structure of α-MnO2 (Cryptomelane) (with Eric Cockayne), Chemical Physics Letters (2012)
Density functional theory DFT + U calculations are used to investigate α-MnO2, a structure containing...
Time-Dependent CO2 Sorption Hysteresis in a One-Dimensional Microporous Octahedral Molecular Sieve (with Laura Espinal, Winnie Wong-Ng, James A. Kaduk, Andrew J. Allen, Chad R. Snyder, Chun Chiu, Daniel W. Siderius, Eric Cockayne, Anais E. Espinal, and Steven L. Suib), Journal of the American Chemical Society (2012)
The development of sorbents for next-generation CO2 mitigation technologies will require better understanding of CO2/sorbent...
Carbon storage properties of OMS-2 manganese oxide (with Eric Cockayne, Laura Espinal, and Winnie Wong-Ng), Proceedings of American Chemical Society (2012)
First-Principles Studies of Ta2O5 Polymorphs (with Yu-Ning Wu and Hai-Ping Cheng), Physical Reveiw B: Condensed Matter and Materials Physics (2011)
Using density functional theory (DFT) with generalized gradient approximations (GGA) and the projector-augmented wave method,...
Selected Presentations
Materials by design for carbon capture and thermoelectric applications (with Eric Cockayne, Laura Espinal, and Winnie Wong-Ng), National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) (2012)
Carbon capture and storage using OMS-2 materials (with Eric Cockayne, Laura Espinal, and Winnie Wong-Ng), MRS (2012)
Carbon Storage Properties of OMS-2 Manganese Oxide (with Eric J. Cockayne, Laura Espinal, and Winnie Wong-Ng), ACS (2012)
Materials informatics and scientific programming (with Laura Bartolo), The Summer School for Integrated Computational Materials Education (2012)