MembersYuanwei Li

Yuanwei Li is a nanochemist, who works at the interface of chemistry, photonics, and materials science. Her postdoc research focuses on developing high-Q metasurfaces and modular molecular probes for biosensing and detection. She is also designing and synthesizing novel nanoparticles and their assemblies for Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy (SERS) and photocatalysis. Yuanwei received her PhD in Chemical and Biological Engineering from Northwestern University advised by Chad A. Mirkin, where she synthesized functional colloidal superlattices through geometry-inspired design principles.

Li, Y., Zhou, W., Tanriover. I., Hadibrata,W., Partridge, B.E., Lin, H., Hu, X., Lee, B., Liu, J., Dravid, V. P., Aydin, K., and Mirkin, C. A., Open Channel Metal Particle Superlattices, Nature, 2022, 611, 695

Li, Y., Lin, H., Zhou, W., Sun, L., Samanta, D., and Mirkin, C. A., Corner-, Edge-, and Facet-Controlled Growth of Nanocrystals. Science Advances, 2021, 7, eabf1410

Zhou, W.*, Li, Y.*, Je, K., Vo, T., Lin, H., Partridge, B.E., Huang, Z., Glotzer, S., and Mirkin, C. A., Space-Tiled Colloidal Crystals from DNA-Forced Shape-Complementary Polyhedra Pairing, Science, 2024, 383, 312

Li, Y., Jin, H., Zhou, W., Wang, Z., Lin, Z., Mirkin, C.A., and Espinosa, H.D., Ultrastrong Colloidal Crystal Metamaterials Engineered with DNA, Science Advances, 2023, 9, eadj8103

Li, Y., Tanriover. I., Zhou, W., Hadibrata, W., Dereshgi, S., Samanta, D., Aydin, K., and Mirkin, C. A., Monolayer Plasmonic Nanoframes as Large-Area, Broadband Metasurface Absorbers, Small, 2022, 2201171