Li Lab

WELCOME TO THE LI LAB IN THE DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS AT CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG.

The Li Laboratory examines molecules and develops measurement tools at the single molecule level to spark advances in electronics and sustainability.


NEWS


2024

September 2024. Weiyi’s work on covalent Au-C contact formation and C-C homocoupling reaction in single-molecule junctions in collaboration with Yuhao from Zhenpin Lu’s group is now published in JACS!

September 2024. We celebrate Song’s passing of his qualifying exam.

September 2024. Xueling (joint with the Lei group), Yihao, and Yaran start their PhDs in the group! The lab welcomes a new undergraduate student Shaarib.

August 2024. Our collaboration with the group of Jianlong Xia and group of Carmen Herrmann is out in The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters.

June 2024. Farewell, Yao! Good luck on your PhD study at the University of Notre Dame.

June 2024. Xueling and Yihao are the group’s first graduating master students. Congratulations!

2023 June poster

June 2024. So proud of our group members, Yihao and Weiyi, for both winning the poster award at PHY annual symposium!

2023 June poster

May 2024. Our editorial about a themed collection on molecular scale electronics with Tim Su and Mike Inkpen is now online.

May 2024. Song Han and Xiu Liang’s review article (a nice collaboration with the Lei group) discusses optical and charge transport characteristics of photoswitching plasmonic molecular systems.

April 2024. The lab welcomes a new research assistant Yaran Cheng.

Feb 2024. The lab welcomes a new research assistant Yao Huo.

Feb 2024. We start 2024 lunar new year with red paper handwriting.

2024 CNY

2024 CNY lunch

Feb 2024. Weiyi’s first first-author paper on robust binding between secondary amines and Au electrodes is published in Chemical Communications! And we are on the cover:

2024 chemcommcover


2023

September 2023. The lab celebrates Jianming’s and Weiyi’s passing of their qualifying exams and advancing to Ph.D. candidacy.

September 2023. The lab welcomes a new master student Yihao Zhang, a new master student/research assistant Xueling Xu, and a new graduate student Song Han.

June 2023. Haixing receives the GRF from the Research Grants Council of Hong Kong.

June 2023. Congratulations to Weiyi for winning the best poster award at PHY annual symposium.

2023 June poster

April 2023. The semester ends with a joint biking event with the Zhang Group.

2023 Mar biking

March 2023. The Lu Group from Chemistry Department and the Li group receive a strategic interdisciplinary research grant from CityU.

January 2023. Haixing receives a teaching start-up grant from CityU.


2022

November 2022. The lab went hiking with the Zhang Group and the other Li Group in Clear Water Bay.

2022 Nov hiking

September 2022. The lab welcomes a new graduate student Weiyi Guo.

July 2022. The lab welcomes a new graduate student Jianming An.

June 2022. Haixing receives the Early Career Scheme grant from the Research Grants Council of Hong Kong.