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Yuanyuan Li

Associate Professor

yua@kth.se

+46 72 841 06 15

 

Project Title

Cellulose-based biocomposites for energy-saving structural materials

Academic Background

2019 - ongoing: Researcher at the Division of Biocomposite

2015 - 2019 Post-Doctoral Researcher at the Division of Biocomposites

2011-2014: Nanjing Forestry University, PhD in Pulp and Paper Making Engineering, as an visiting PhD student at University of Maryland
2009-2011: Nanjing Forestry University, Master in Pulp and Paper Making Engineering.
2005-2009: Nanjing Forestry University, Bachelor in Pulp and Paper Making Engineering.

Recent Publications

Recent Publications

[1]
L. Li et al., "Synchronized ultrasonography and electromyography signals detection enabled by nanocellulose based ultrasound transparent electrodes," Carbohydrate Polymers, vol. 347, 2025.
[2]
X. Xu et al., "Metallic Wood through Deep-Cell-Wall Metallization : Synthesis and Applications," ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, vol. 16, no. 17, pp. 22433-22442, 2024.
[3]
Y. Chen et al., "Wood-derived scaffolds decorating with nickel cobalt phosphate nanosheets and carbon nanotubes used as monolithic electrodes for assembling high-performance asymmetric supercapacitor," Chemical Engineering Journal, vol. 454, 2023.
[4]
Y. Gao et al., "ZnO microrods sandwiched between layered CNF matrix : Fabrication, stress transfer, and mechanical properties," Carbohydrate Polymers, vol. 305, 2023.
[5]
J. Garemark et al., "Advancing Hydrovoltaic Energy Harvesting from Wood through Cell Wall Nanoengineering," Advanced Functional Materials, vol. 33, pp. 2208933, 2023.
[6]
J. Garemark et al., "Strong, Shape-Memory Aerogel via Wood Cell Wall Nanoscale Reassembly," ACS Nano, vol. 17, no. 5, pp. 4775-4789, 2023.
[7]
Y. Gao et al., "Scalable hierarchical wood/ZnO nanohybrids for efficient mechanical energy conversion," Materials & design, vol. 226, 2023.
[8]
Y. Gao et al., "Gradience Free Nanoinsertion of Fe3O4 into Wood for Enhanced Hydrovoltaic Energy Harvesting," ACS Sustainable Chemistry and Engineering, vol. 11, no. 30, pp. 11099-11109, 2023.
[9]
Y. Liu et al., "Porous, robust, thermally stable, and flame retardant nanocellulose/polyimide separators for safe lithium-ion batteries," Journal of Materials Chemistry A, vol. 11, no. 43, pp. 23360-23369, 2023.
[10]
Y. Li et al., "Active sites of atomically dispersed Pt supported on Gd-doped ceria with improved low temperature performance for CO oxidation," Chemical Science, vol. 14, no. 44, pp. 12582-12588, 2023.
[11]
P. Samanta et al., "Fire-retardant and transparent wood biocomposite based on commercial thermoset," Composites. Part A, Applied science and manufacturing, vol. 156, 2022.
[12]
F. Ram et al., "Scalable, efficient piezoelectric wood nanogenerators enabled by wood/ ZnO nanocomposites," Composites. Part A, Applied science and manufacturing, vol. 160, 2022.
[13]
M. Titirici et al., "The sustainable materials roadmap," Journal of Physics : Materials, vol. 5, no. 3, pp. 032001, 2022.
[14]
J. Garemark et al., "Nanostructurally Controllable Strong Wood Aerogel toward Efficient Thermal Insulation," ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, vol. 14, no. 21, pp. 24697-24707, 2022.
[15]
S. J. Eichhorn et al., "Current international research into cellulose as a functional nanomaterial for advanced applications," Journal of Materials Science, vol. 57, no. 10, pp. 5697-5767, 2022.
[16]
Z. Li et al., "Inkjet Printed Disposable High-Rate On-Paper Microsupercapacitors," Advanced Functional Materials, vol. 32, no. 1, pp. 2108773, 2022.
[17]
B. W. Hoogendoorn et al., "Ultra-low Concentration of Cellulose Nanofibers (CNFs) for Enhanced Nucleation and Yield of ZnO Nanoparticles," Langmuir, vol. 38, no. 41, pp. 12480-12490, 2022.
[18]
F. Ram et al., "Functionalized Wood Veneers as Vibration Sensors : Exploring Wood Piezoelectricity and Hierarchical Structure Effects," ACS Nano, vol. 16, no. 10, pp. 15805-15813, 2022.
[19]
B. W. Hoogendoorn et al., "Cellulose-assisted electrodeposition of zinc for morphological control in battery metal recycling," Materials Advances, 2022.
[20]
L. Labrador-Páez et al., "Excitation Pulse Duration Response of Upconversion Nanoparticles and Its Applications," The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, vol. 13, no. 48, pp. 11208-11215, 2022.
[21]
H. Wang et al., "Aliovalent Doping of CeO2 Improves the Stability of Atomically Dispersed Pt," ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, vol. 13, no. 44, pp. 52736-52742, 2021.
[22]
P. Chen et al., "Small Angle Neutron Scattering Shows Nanoscale PMMA Distribution in Transparent Wood Biocomposites," Nano Letters, vol. 21, no. 7, pp. 2883-2890, 2021.
[23]
Y. Li et al., "Dynamic structure of active sites in ceria-supported Pt catalysts for the water gas shift reaction," Nature Communications, vol. 12, no. 1, 2021.
[24]
L. Wang et al., "A crosslinked polymer as dopant-free hole-transport material for efficient n-i-p type perovskite solar cells," Journal of Energy Chemistry, vol. 55, pp. 211-218, 2021.
[25]
Y. Gao et al., "Olive Stone Delignification Toward Efficient Adsorption of Metal Ions," Frontiers in Materials, vol. 8, 2021.
[26]
A. Mendoza-Galván et al., "Transmission mueller-matrix characterization of transparent ramie films," Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology B : Nanotechnology and Microelectronics, vol. 38, no. 1, 2020.
[27]
X. Sheng et al., "Hierarchical micro-reactor as electrodes for water splitting by metal rod tipped carbon nanocapsule self-assembly in carbonized wood," Applied Catalysis B : Environmental, vol. 264, 2020.
[28]
H. Chen et al., "Refractive index of delignified wood for transparent biocomposites," RSC Advances, vol. 10, pp. 40719-40724, 2020.
[29]
J. Garemark et al., "Top-Down Approach Making Anisotropic Cellulose Aerogels as Universal Substrates for Multifunctionalization," ACS Nano, vol. 14, no. 6, pp. 7111-7120, 2020.
[30]
W. Zhang et al., "Organic Salts as p-Type Dopants for Efficient LiTFSI-Free Perovskite Solar Cells," ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, vol. 12, no. 30, pp. 33751-33758, 2020.
[31]
Z. Yao et al., "Conformational and Compositional Tuning of Phenanthrocarbazole-Based Dopant-Free Hole-Transport Polymers Boosting the Performance of Perovskite Solar Cells," Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 142, no. 41, pp. 17681-17692, 2020.
[32]
C. Montanari, Y. Li and L. Berglund, "Multifunctional transparent wood for thermal energy storage applications," Abstracts of Papers of the American Chemical Society, vol. 257, 2019.
[33]
F. Zhang et al., "Polymeric, Cost-Effective, Dopant-Free Hole Transport Materials for Efficient and Stable Perovskite Solar Cells," Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 141, no. 50, pp. 19700-19707, 2019.
[34]
W. Zhang et al., "The Central Role of Ligand Conjugation for Properties of Coordination Complexes as Hole-Transport Materials in Perovskite Solar Cells," ACS Applied Energy Materials, vol. 2, no. 9, pp. 6768-6779, 2019.
[35]
Y. Li et al., "Optically Transparent Wood Substrate for Perovskite Solar Cells," ACS Sustainable Chemistry and Engineering, vol. 7, no. 6, pp. 6061-6067, 2019.
[36]
Y. Guo et al., "Boosting nitrogen reduction reaction by bio-inspired FeMoS containing hybrid electrocatalyst over a wide pH range," Nano Energy, vol. 62, pp. 282-288, 2019.
[37]
L. Wang et al., "Impact of Linking Topology on the Properties of Carbazole-Based Hole-Transport Materials and their Application in Solid-State Mesoscopic Solar Cells," Solar RRL, vol. 3, no. 9, 2019.
[38]
H. Chen et al., "Thickness Dependence of Optical Transmittance of Transparent Wood : Chemical Modification Effects," ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, vol. 11, no. 38, pp. 35451-35457, 2019.
[39]
E. Vasileva et al., "Effect of transparent wood on the polarization degree of light," Optics Letters, vol. 44, no. 12, pp. 2962-2965, 2019.
[40]
W. Zhang et al., "Mechanistic Insights from Functional Group Exchange Surface Passivation : A Combined Theoretical and Experimental Study," ACS Applied Energy Materials, vol. 2, no. 4, pp. 2723-2733, 2019.
[41]
C. Montanari et al., "Transparent Wood for Thermal Energy Storage and Reversible Optical Transmittance," ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, vol. 11, no. 22, pp. 20465-20472, 2019.
[42]
M. Kottwitz et al., "Local Structure and Electronic State of Atomically Dispersed Pt Supported on Nanosized CeO2," ACS Catalysis, vol. 9, no. 9, pp. 8738-8748, 2019.
[43]
L. Berglund et al., "Modification of transparent wood for photonics functions," Abstracts of Papers of the American Chemical Society, vol. 255, 2018.
[44]
A. W. Lang et al., "Transparent Wood Smart Windows : Polymer Electrochromic Devices Based on Poly(3,4-Ethylenedioxythiophene):Poly(Styrene Sulfonate) Electrodes," ChemSusChem, vol. 11, no. 5, pp. 854-863, 2018.
[45]
Y. Li et al., "Towards centimeter thick transparent wood through interface manipulation," Journal of Materials Chemistry A, vol. 6, no. 3, pp. 1094-1101, 2018.
[46]
P. Xu et al., "D-A-D-Typed Hole Transport Materials for Efficient Perovskite Solar Cells : Tuning Photovoltaic Properties via the Acceptor Group," ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, vol. 10, no. 23, pp. 19697-19703, 2018.
[47]
Y. Hua et al., "Composite Hole-Transport Materials Based on a Metal-Organic Copper Complex and Spiro-OMeTAD for Efficient Perovskite Solar Cells," Solar RRL, vol. 2, no. 5, 2018.
[48]
M. Koivurova et al., "Complete spatial coherence characterization of quasi-random laser emission from dye doped transparent wood," Optics Express, vol. 26, no. 10, pp. 13474-13482, 2018.
[49]
L. Wang et al., "Design and synthesis of dopant-free organic hole-transport materials for perovskite solar cells," Chemical Communications, vol. 54, no. 69, 2018.
[50]
F. Zhang et al., "A facile route to grain morphology controllable perovskite thin films towards highly efficient perovskite solar cells," Nano Energy, vol. 53, pp. 405-414, 2018.