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Fani Li

Fang Liu

Assistant Professor
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We design materials and energy devices to solve sustainability and energy-related problems. Our current focus includes, but is not limited to:
High-throughput experimentations to accelerate material discovery
Advanced characterizations of electrochemical interfaces
Affordable grid-scale energy storage systems, e.g. Na, Al
Large-scale CO2 capture and utilization

Department

Materials Science & Engineering

Contact

3106, Engineering Centers Building
1550 Engineering Dr
Madison, WI
p: (608) 265-6141

  • PhD 2018, Univ. of California-Los Angeles
  • Bachelor of Engineering 2012, Jilin University

  • Materials and devices for energy storage and conversion
  • batteries
  • solid electrolytes
  • high-throughput experimentation
  • advanced material characterizations
  • CO2 capture and utilization
  • sustainability

Affiliated Departments

  • 2022 Battery500 Consortium, Best Research Poster Award
  • 2021 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), Women Chemist Committee Postdoc Series
  • 2021 Electrochemical Society (ECS), Young Investigator Lecture Series
  • 2017 University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), Dissertation Year Fellowship
  • 2016 University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), Graduate Division Fellowship
  • 2014 Atlantic Richfield Company (ARCO), ARCO Fellowship
  • 2012 University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), Graduate Division Fellowship
  • 2012 Jilin University (JLU), Summa Cum Laude
  • 2010 Ministry of Education, China, National Scholarship
  • 2009 CSPC Pharmaceutical Group Limited, CSPC Scholarship
  • 2009 Ministry of Education, China, National Scholarship

  • Ye, Y., Xu, R., Huang, W., Ai, H., Zhang, W., Affeld, J. O., Cui, A., Liu, F., Gao, X., Chen, Z., & others, (2024). Quadruple the rate capability of high-energy batteries through a porous current collector design. Nature Energy, 1--11.
  • Ma, Y., Wan, J., Xu, X., Sendek, A. D., Holmes, S. E., Ransom, B., Jiang, Z., Zhang, P., Xiao, X., Zhang, W., & others, (2023). Experimental Discovery of a Fast and Stable Lithium Thioborate Solid Electrolyte, Li6+ 2 x [B10S18] S x (x≈ 1). ACS Energy Letters, 8(6), 2762--2771.
  • Ye, Y., Huang, W., Xu, R., Xiao, X., Zhang, W., Chen, H., Wan, J., Liu, F., Lee, H. K., Xu, J., & others, (2022). Cold-Starting All-Solid-State Batteries from Room Temperature by Thermally Modulated Current Collector in Sub-Minute. Advanced Materials, 34(36), 2202848.
  • Holmes, S. E., Liu, F., Zhang, W., Sayavong, P., Oyakhire, S. T., & Cui, Y. (2022). Investigating the cyclability and stability at the interfaces of composite solid electrolytes in Li metal batteries. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 14(48), 53736--53743.
  • Huang, W., Ye, Y., Chen, H., Vil'a, Rafael A,, Xiang, A., Wang, H., Liu, F., Yu, Z., Xu, J., Zhang, Z., & others, (2022). Onboard early detection and mitigation of lithium plating in fast-charging batteries. Nature communications, 13(1), 7091.
  • Yu, Z., Yu, W., Chen, Y., Mondonico, L., Xiao, X., Zheng, Y., Liu, F., Hung, S. T., Cui, Y., & Bao, Z. (2022). Tuning fluorination of linear carbonate for lithium-ion batteries. Journal of The Electrochemical Society, 169(4), 040555.
  • Xu, R., Liu, F., Ye, Y., Chen, H., Yang, R. R., Ma, Y., Huang, W., Wan, J., & Cui, Y. (2021). A Morphologically Stable Li/Electrolyte Interface for All-Solid-State Batteries Enabled by 3D-Micropatterned Garnet. Advanced Materials, 2104009.
  • Liu, F., Xu, R., Wu, Y., Boyle, D. T., Yang, A., Xu, J., Zhu, Y., Ye, Y., Yu, Z., Zhang, Z., & others, (2021). Dynamic spatial progression of isolated lithium during battery operations. Nature, 600(7890), 659--663.
  • Lee, H. K., Huang, W., Ye, Y., Xu, J., Peng, Y., Wu, T., Yang, A., Chou, L., Xiao, X., Gao, X., & others, (2021). Sensitive, portable heavy-metal-ion detection by the sulfidation method on a superhydrophobic concentrator (SPOT). One Earth, 4(5), 756--766.
  • Liu, F., & Cui, Y. (2021). Zeolite-based electrolyte accelerating the realization of solid-state Li-air battery. Chemical Research in Chinese Universities, 37(3), 801--802.

  • CBE 890 - Pre-Dissertator's Research (Spring 2025)
  • CHEM 699 - Directed Study (Spring 2025)
  • M S & E 401 - Special Topics in Materials Science and Engineering (Spring 2025)
  • M S & E 699 - Independent Study (Spring 2025)
  • M S & E 790 - Master's Research or Thesis (Spring 2025)
  • M S & E 890 - Pre-Dissertator's Research (Spring 2025)
  • CBE 890 - Pre-Dissertator's Research (Fall 2024)
  • CHEM 699 - Directed Study (Fall 2024)
  • M S & E 351 - Materials Science-Structure and Property Relations in Solids (Fall 2024)
  • M S & E 699 - Independent Study (Fall 2024)
  • M S & E 790 - Master's Research or Thesis (Fall 2024)
  • CBE 890 - Pre-Dissertator's Research (Summer 2024)
  • M S & E 790 - Master's Research or Thesis (Summer 2024)
  • CBE 890 - Pre-Dissertator's Research (Spring 2024)
  • CHEM 699 - Directed Study (Spring 2024)
  • M S & E 401 - Special Topics in Materials Science and Engineering (Spring 2024)
  • M S & E 699 - Independent Study (Spring 2024)
  • M S & E 790 - Master's Research or Thesis (Spring 2024)
  • CHEM 699 - Directed Study (Fall 2023)
  • M S & E 299 - Independent Study (Fall 2023)
  • M S & E 351 - Materials Science-Structure and Property Relations in Solids (Fall 2023)
  • M S & E 790 - Master's Research or Thesis (Fall 2023)
  • M S & E 890 - Pre-Dissertator's Research (Fall 2023)
  • M S & E 299 - Independent Study (Summer 2023)