Yi Cui
Associate Professor of Materials Science and Engineering and of Photon Science
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Cui studies nanoscale phenomena and their applications broadly defined. Research Interests: Nanocrystal and nanowire synthesis and self-assembly, electron transfer and transport in nanomaterials and at the nanointerface, nanoscale electronic and photonic devices, batteries, solar cells, microbial fuel cells, water filters and chemical and biological sensors.
Academic Appointments
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Associate Professor, Materials Science and Engineering
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Associate Professor, Photon Science Directorate
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Member, Bio-X
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Affiliate, Precourt Institute for Energy
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Member, Stanford Neurosciences Institute
Honors & Awards
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David Filo and Jerry Yang Faculty Scholar, Stanford University (2010-2014)
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Sloan Research Fellowship, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation (2010)
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Investigator Award, KAUST (2008)
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Young Investigator Award, ONR (2008)
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Innovators Award, MDV (2008)
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Terman Fellowship, Stanford University (2008)
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Top 100 Young Innovator Award, Technology Review (2004)
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Miller Research Fellowship, Miller Institute (2003)
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Distinguished Graduate Student Award in Nanotechnology, Foresight Institute (2002)
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Graduate Student Gold Medal Award, Materials Research Society (2001)
Professional Education
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PhD, Harvard University (2002)
2015-16 Courses
- Materials Chemistry
MATSCI 192, MATSCI 202 (Aut) - Nanoscale Science, Engineering, and Technology
MATSCI 316 (Spr) -
Independent Studies (12)
- Advanced Undergraduate Research
CHEM 190 (Aut, Win, Spr, Sum) - Directed Instruction/Reading
CHEM 110 (Aut, Win, Spr) - Graduate Independent Study
MATSCI 399 (Aut, Win, Spr, Sum) - Master's Research
MATSCI 200 (Aut, Win, Spr, Sum) - Participation in Materials Science Teaching
MATSCI 400 (Win, Spr) - Ph.D. Research
MATSCI 300 (Aut, Win, Spr, Sum) - Practical Training
MATSCI 299 (Aut, Win, Spr, Sum) - Research and Special Advanced Work
CHEM 200 (Aut, Win, Spr, Sum) - Research in Chemistry
CHEM 301 (Aut, Win, Spr, Sum) - Special Studies and Reports in Electrical Engineering
EE 391 (Aut, Win, Spr) - Undergraduate Independent Study
MATSCI 100 (Aut, Win, Spr, Sum) - Undergraduate Research
MATSCI 150 (Aut, Win, Spr, Sum)
- Advanced Undergraduate Research
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Prior Year Courses
2014-15 Courses
- Materials Chemistry
MATSCI 192, MATSCI 202 (Aut) - Nanoscale Science, Engineering, and Technology
MATSCI 316 (Spr)
2013-14 Courses
- Materials Science Colloquium
MATSCI 230 (Aut) - Nanoscale Science, Engineering, and Technology
MATSCI 316 (Spr) - Principles, Materials and Devices of Batteries
MATSCI 303 (Aut)
2012-13 Courses
- Nanoscale Science, Engineering, and Technology
MATSCI 316 (Spr) - Principles, Materials and Devices of Batteries
MATSCI 303 (Aut)
- Materials Chemistry
Stanford Advisees
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Postdoctoral Faculty Sponsor
Guangxu Chen, Wei Chen, Hyun Wook Lee, Jangsoo Lee, Sang han Lee, Lei Liao, Bofei Liu, Chong Liu, Kai Liu, Wei Liu, Zhiyi Lu, Andrew Jacques Marais, Jie Sun, Yongming Sun, Tong Wu, Jin Xie, Kai Yan, Jinsong Zhang, Rufan Zhang, Wenting Zhao, Guangmin Zhou, Chenxi Zu
All Publications
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Two-dimensional chalcogenide nanoplates as tunable metamaterials via chemical intercalation
Nano Letters
View details for DOI 10.1021/nl402937g
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Facile synthesis of Li2S-polypyrrole composite structures for high-performance Li2S cathodes
Energy and Environmental Science
2014
View details for DOI 10.1039/C3EE43395A
- Full open-framework batteries for stationary energy storage Nature Communications 2014; 3007 (5)
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Elastic moduli of polycrystalline Li15Si4 produced in lithium ion batteries
JOURNAL OF POWER SOURCES
2013; 242: 732-735
View details for DOI 10.1016/j.jpowsour.2013.05.121
View details for Web of Science ID 000323628100092
- First-row transition metal dichalcogenide catalysts for hydrogen evolution reaction Energy and Environmental Science 2013; 3553 (6)
- Strengthening effect of single-atomic-layer graphene in metal-graphene nanolayered composites Nature Communications 2013; 2114 (4)
- Performance enhancement of metal nanowire transparent conducting electrodes by mesoscale metal wires Nature Communications 2013; 2522 (4)
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Self-healing chemistry enables the stable operation of silicon microparticle anodes for high-energy lithium-ion batteries
Nature Chemistry
2013
View details for DOI 10.1038/NCHEM.1802
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High-performance hollow sulfur nanostructured battery cathode through a scalable, room temperature, one-step, bottom-up approach
PNAS
2013
View details for DOI 10.1073/pnas.1220992110
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Stable cycling of lithium sulfide cathodes through strong affinity with a bifunctional binder
Chemical Science
2013
View details for DOI 10.1039/c3sc51476e
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Critical-temperature/Peierls-stress dependent size effects in body centered cubic nanopillars
Applied Physics Letters
2013; 102: 41910
View details for DOI 10.1063/1.4776658
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Electrochemical tuning of vertically aligned MoS2 nanofilms and its application in improving hydrogen evolution reaction
2013
View details for DOI 10.1073/pnas.1316792110
- Conducting nano-sponge electroporation for affordable and high-efficiency disinfection of bacteria and viruses in water. Nano Letters 2013; 9 (13): 4288-4293
- All-back-contact ultra-thin silicon nanocone solar cells with 13.7% power conversion efficiency Nature Communications 2013; 2950 (4)
- Understanding the Role of Different Conductive Polymers in Improving the Nanostructured Sulfur Cathode Performance Nano Letters 2013; 13: 5534-5540
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Understanding the Lithiation of Silicon and Other Alloying Anodes for Lithium-Ion Batteries (25th Anniversary Article)
Advanced Materials
2013
View details for DOI 10.1002/adma.201301795
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Microbial battery for efficient energy recovery.
PNAS
2013
View details for DOI 10.1073/pnas.1307327110
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Large-Area Free-Standing Ultrathin Single-Crystal Silicon as Processable Materials
Nano Letters
2013
View details for DOI 10.1021/nl402230v
- Antimicrobial Nanomaterials for Water Disinfection in Nano-Antimicrobials 2012: 465-494
- The surface surfaces Nature Nanotechnology 2012; 7: 85-86
- High-capacity micrometer-sized Li(2)S particles as cathode materials for advanced rechargeable lithium-ion batteries JACS 2012; 37 (134): 15387-94
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Copper hexacyanoferrate battery electrodes with long cycle life and high power
Nature Communications
2011; 2:550
View details for DOI 10.1038/ncomms1563
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Carbon nanotube-coated macroporous sponge for microbial fuel cell electrodes
Energy Environ. Sci.
2011
View details for DOI 10.1039/C1EE02122B
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Symmetrical MnO2 Carbon Nanotube Textile Nanostructures for Wearable Pseudocapacitors with High Mass Loading
ACS Nano
2011
View details for DOI 10.1021/nn203085j
- Low-Temperature Self-CatalyticGrowth of Tin Oxide Nanocones overLarge Area ACS Nano 2011; 5: 5800-5807
- Low Reflectivity and High Flexibility of Tin-Doped Indium Oxide Nanofiber Transparent Electrodes Journal of the American Chemical Society 2010
- Amorphous silicon core-shell nanowire solar cellls 2010
- High Speed Water Sterilization Using One-Dimentional Nanostructures Nano Letters 2010; 10: 3628-3632
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Silicon nanowire hybrid photovoltaics
2010
View details for DOI 10.1109/PVSC.2010.5614661,000934 - 000938
- More solar cells for less Nature Materials 2010; 9: 183-184
- Phase-Change Nanowires for Non Volatile Memory 2007
- Nanowires for Nanoscale Electronics, Biosensors and Energy Applications (invited paper) 2007
- Mechanical and Electrical Properties of CdTe Tetrapods Studied by Atomic Force Microscopy J. Chem. Phys. 2007; 127: 184704
- Electrical Transport Through a Single Nanoscale Semiconductor Branch Point Nano Letters 2005; 5: 1519-1523
- Multiplexed Electrical Detection of Cancer Markers with Nanowire Sensor Arrays Nature Biotech. 2005; 23: 1294-1301
- Colloidal Nanocrystal Heterostructures with Linear and Branched Topology Nature 2004; 430: 190-195
- Lithographically Directed Self-Assembly of Nanostructures J. Vac. Sci. Tech. 2004; B22: 3409-3414
- Controlled Growth and Structures of Molecular-Scale Silicon Nanowires Nano Letters 2004; 4: 433-436
- Integration of Colloidal Nanocrystals into Lithographicall Patterned Devices Nano Letters 2004; 4: 1093-1098
- in Molecular Nanoelectronics Nanowires as Building Blocks for Nanoscale Electronics and Optoelectronic edited by Reed, M., Lee, T. American Scientific Publisher. 2003: 1
- Nanowire Crossbar Arrays as Address Decoders for Integrated Nanosystems Science 2003; 302: 1377-1379
- High Performance Silicon Nanowire Field Effect Transistors Nano Letters 2003; 3: 149-152
- Nanowires as Building Blocks for Nanoscale Electronics and Optoelectronics in Molecular Nanoelectronics edited by Reed, M., Lee, T. American Scientific Publisher. 2003: 1
- in Nanowires and Nanobelts- Materials, Properties, and Devices Nanowires as Building Blocks for Nanoscale Science and Technology edited by Wang, Z., L. Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers. 2003: 1
- Nanowires as Building Blocks for Nanoscale Science and Technology in Nanowires and Nanobelts- Materials, Properties, and Devices edited by Wang, Z., L. Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers. 2003: 1
- Gallium Nitride Nanowire Nanodevices Nano Letters 2002; 2: 101-104
- Diameter-Controlled Synthesis of Single Crystal Silicon Nanowires App. Phys. Lett. 2001; 78: 2214-2216
- Functional Nanoscale Electronic Devices Assembled using Silicon Nanowire Building Block Scienc 2001; 291: 851-853
- Indium Phosphide Nanowires as Building Blocks for Nanoscale Electronic and Optoelectronic Devices Nature 2001; 409: 66-69
- Logic Gates and Computation from Assembled Nanowire Building Blocks Science 2001; 294: 1313-1317
- Nanowire Nanosensors for Highly-Sensitive, Selective and Integrated Detection of Biological and Chemical Species Scienc 2001; 293: 1289-1292
- Highly Polarized Photoluminescence and Polarization-Sensitive Photodetectors from Single Indium Phosphide Nanowirees Science 2001; 293: 1455-1457
- Doping and Electrical Transport in Silicon Nanowires J. Phys. Chem. 2000; B 104: 5213-5216