Faculty
Dr. Li Sun
Professor of Mechanical & Aerospace EngineeringDirector of Subsea Engineering Program
Office Location N224 Engineering Building 1
Phone 713-743-4509
Fax 713-743-4503
Email lsun4 [at] uh.edu
Education
Ph.D., Materials Science and Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, March 2002
M.S., Materials Science and Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, 1999
B.S., Physics, Nanjing University, China, 1993
Professional Experience
2009-present: Associate Professor of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Houston
2003 – 2009: Bill D. Cook Endowed Assistant Professor of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Houston
2002-2003: NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Materials Research Science and Engineering Center, Johns Hopkins University
Professional and Scientific Affiliations
Materials Research Society
American Chemical Society
American Physical Society
Research Interests
- Nanomaterials fabrication and manipulation
- Multifunctional polymer composites
- Spintronics
- Ferroelectric materials
- Application of nanostructured materials in sensing and biomedical devices
Engineering Applications
Nanomaterials fabrication and manipulation; Spintronics; application of magnetic nanostructures in sensoring and biomedical devices.
Research Facilities
Electrochemical fabrication lab, Sputtering deposition and characterization lab.
Awards & Honors
Bill D. Cook Faculty Scholars Endowment (2003-2008)
NSF 4th US-Japan Exchange Program for Young Researchers in Nanotechnology (2007)
NSF Fellowship for Summer Institute at Northwestern University (2004, 2006, 2009)
NSF Materials Science and Engineering Center (MRSEC) Postdoctoral Fellowship (2002-2003)
Selected Publications
- Risal, S., Singh, N., Yao, Y., Zhu, W. (2024). Accelerating Elastic Property Prediction in Fe-C Alloys through Coupling of Molecular Dynamics and Machine Learning. Materials, 17(3), 601.
- Wang, F., Zhou, B., Wang, R., Fan, Z., Sun, L. (2024). Engineering microcracks in MWCNT/elastomer bilayers for high-performance stretchable sensor development. Nanotechnology, 35(3), 035502.
- Wang, P.-C., Chen, M.-H., Jenkinson, J., Song, Y.-X., Sun, L. (2024). Interfacial friction effects on sealing performances of elastomer packer. Petroleum Science, 21(3), 2037–2047.
- Risal, S., Singh, N., Duff, A.I., Zhu, W. (2023). Development of the RF-MEAM Interatomic Potential for the Fe-C System to Study the Temperature-Dependent Elastic Properties. Materials, 16(10), 3779.
- Cheng, K., Huang, Z., Wang, P., Ardebili, H., Karim, A. (2023). Antibacterial flexible triboelectric nanogenerator via capillary force lithography. Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, 630, 611–622.
- Zhang, H., Sun, L., Song, C., Zhong, J., Sun, L. (2022). Integrated solid-state wearable sweat sensor system for sodium and potassium ion concentration detection. Sensor Review, 42(1), 76–88.
- Risal, S., Zhu, W., Guillen, P., Sun, L. (2021). Improving phase prediction accuracy for high entropy alloys with Machine learning. Computational Materials Science, 192, 110389.
- Wang, Y., Wang, F., Yazigi, S., Zhong, J., Sun, L. (2021). Nanoengineered highly sensitive and stable soft strain sensor built from cracked carbon nanotube network/composite bilayers. Carbon, 173, 849–856.