Liangbing Hu
Carol and Douglas Melamed Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering & Materials Science
Office Address:
15 Prospect Street
New Haven, CT 06511
Mailing Address:
P.O. Box 208284
New Haven, CT 06520
About Liangbing Hu
Degrees
- Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles
- B.S., University of Science and Technology of China (USTC)
Perspectives
- Wood nanoscience and nanotechnologies, various engineered wood such as super wood, transparent wood, moldable wood, and insulating wood
- Ultrahigh temperature processes and their use for non-equilibrium synthesis (shock synthesis)
- High entropy catalysts
- Ionic materials and technologies
- Solid state batteries
- Roll-to-roll printed electronics and flexible electronics
Selected Awards & Honors
- MRS Medal (2025)
- Fellow of ACS (2025)
- ACS Anselme Payen Award (2025)
- The HUJI Nano Center Dan Maydan Prize for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (2024)
- Distinguished University Professor (2023)
- Senior Faculty Outstanding Research Award in the A. James Clark School of Engineering (2023)
- R&D100 (2022)
- Nature Spinoff Prize by Nature (2021)
- R&D100 (2022)
- American Chemical Society Energy & Fuels (ENFL) Research Excellence Award in Electrochemical Energy Storage (2022)
- Technical Association of the Pulp and Paper Industry Nano Technical Award (2022)
- Blavatnik National Award for Young Scientists Finalist (2019, 2020, 2021, 2022)
- Fellow of MRS (2021)
- Distinguished Scholar-Teacher Award (2021)
- R&D100 (2020)
- TAPPI Nano Middle Career Award (2019)
- R&D100 (2018)
- ACS Nano Letter Young Investigator (2017)
- Emerging Investigator Award, ACS Division of Energy and Fuel (2016)
- ONR Young Investigator Award (2016)
- Air Force Young Investigator Award (AFOSR YIP) (2013)
Selected Publications
- Yang, J; Dong, Q; Zhang, C; Zhang, W, Miscall, J; Brozena, A; Chen, J; Liu, N; Li, T; Liu, F; Nascimento, C; Dantas, B; Zhang, B; Mumtaz, F; Liu, Z; Liu, S; Du, Y; Wang, Z; Pan, Z; Liu, D; Huang, J; Lima, F; Pan, X; Ju, Y; Fu, K; Hu, S; Beckham, G; Hu, L*. Selective electrified polyethylene upcycling by pore-modulated pyrolysis, Nature Chemical Engineering, 2025, 2, 424 (Cover)
- Wang, X; et.al., Hu, L*. Ultrahigh-Temperature, Atmospheric-Pressure Electrified Vapor Deposition for Nanomaterials Synthesis, Nature Synthesis, 2025 (accepted)
- Wu, M.; Zhang, X.; Zhao, Y.; Yang, C.; Jing, S.; Wu, Q.; Brozena, A.; Miller, J.; Libretto, N.; Wu, T.; Bhattacharyya, S.; Garaga, M.; Zhang, Y.; Qi, Y.; Greenbaum, S.; Briber, R.; Yang, Y. Hu, L*. A high-performance hydroxide exchange membrane enabled by Cu2+-crosslinked chitosan. Nature Nanotechnology, 2022, 17, 629. (Cover)
- Li, T.; Yao, Y.; Huang, Z.; Xie, P.; Liu, Z.; Yang, M.; Gao, J.; Zeng, K.; Brozena, A. H.; Pastel, G.; Jiao, M.; Dong, Q.; Dai, J.; Li, S.; Zong, H.; Chi, M.; Luo, J.; Mo, Y.; Wang, G.; Wang, C.; Yassar, R. S.; Hu, L.* Denary Oxide Nanoparticles as Highly Stable Catalysts for Methane Combustion, Nature Catalysis, 2021, 4, 62. (Cover)
- Yao, Y.; Huang, Z.; Hughes, L.A.; Gao, J.; Li, T.; Morris, D.; Zeltmann, S.C.; Savitzky, B.H.; Ophus, C.; Finfrock, Y.Z.; Dong, Q.; Jiao, M.; Mao, Y.; Chi, M.; Zhang, P.; Li, J.; Minor, A.M.; Shahbazian-Yassar, R.; Hu, L.* Extreme Mixing in Nanoscale Transition Metal Alloys, Matter, 2021, 4, 1
- Yang, C.; Ko, B., Hwang, S., Liu, Z., Yao, Y., Luc, W., Cui, M., Malkani, A., Li, T., Wang, X., Dai, J., Xu, B., Wang, G., Su, D., Jiao, F., Hu, L.*, Overcoming Immiscibility toward Bimetallic Catalyst Library, Science Advances, 2020, 6, eaaz6844
- Yao, Y.; Huang, Z.; Xie, P.; Lacey, S.; Jacob, R.; Xie, H.; Chen, F.; Nie, A.; Pu, T.; Rehwoldt, M.; Yu, D.; Zachariah, M.; Wang, C.; Shahbazian-Yassar R.; Li, J.; Hu, L.* Carbo-Thermal Shock Synthesis of High Entropy Alloy Nanoparticles. Science, 2018, 359, 1489 (Cover).
- Song J, Chen C, Zhu S, Zhu M, Dai J, Ray U, Li Y, Kuang Y, Li Y, Quispe N, Yao Y, Gong A, Leiste UH, Bruck HA, Zhu JY, Vellore A, Li H, Minus ML, Jia Z, Martini A, Li T, Hu L*. Processing bulk natural wood into a high-performance structural material. Nature. 2018 7;554(7691):224.
- Zhu, M.; Song, J.; Li, T.; Gong, A.; Wang, Y.; Dai, J.; Yao, Y.; Luo, W.; Henderson, D.; Hu, L.* Highly anisotropic, highly transparent wood composites, Advanced Materials, 2016, 2, 5181.
