‘Deyu Li’
Tao Hong receives Jack Kent Cooke Foundation Scholarship
Aug. 13, 2021—Tao Hong was recently awarded Jack Kent Cooke Foundation Graduate Scholarship. The award focused on supporting students to complete graduate degrees at top institutions. Tao is eligible to receive up to $150,000 total during the study in PhD program of Interdisciplinary Materials Science at Vanderbilt University. He was first awarded Jack Kent Cooke college transfer...
Engineers’ groundbreaking discovery points to a new route to create thermal superconductors
Apr. 29, 2021—The relentless increase in heat loads imposed on devices in modern technologies is driving renewed interest among engineers and materials scientists in the area of heat transfer. A key challenge is finding approaches to enhance the materials’ capability of conducting heat. Deyu Li A team of engineers led by Vanderbilt mechanical engineering Professor Deyu Li...
Spotlight Podcast Episode 28: Zhiliang Pan – thermal transport in nanowires with unique structures
Nov. 17, 2020—Episode 28 of the VINSE Spotlight Podcast Zhiliang Pan tells Alice Leach thermal transport in nanowires with unique structures. Zhiliang’s paper ” Net negative contributions of free electrons to the thermal conductivity of NbSe3 nanowires ” was published in Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. Zhiliang is a 3rd year mechanical engineering graduate student in the lab...
Three researchers receive EAGER awards
Aug. 22, 2014—Three Vanderbilt researchers have received an award designed to better understand how complex behaviors emerge from activity on brain circuitry as part of President Obama’s BRAIN Initiative. Associate Professor of Biological Sciences Donna Webb, Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering Deyu Li and Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering Yaqiong Xu received the award, which is for...
Deyu Li receives Chancellor’s Award for Research
Aug. 22, 2013—Deyu Li, associate professor of mechanical engineering, was one of five faculty members receiving a Chancellor’s Award for Research, which also recognizes excellence in research, scholarship, or creative expression. These awards are given for works presented or published in the preceding three calendar years. KEEP READING>
New method for enhancing thermal conductivity could cool computer chips, lasers and other devices
Dec. 14, 2011—The surprising discovery of a new way to tune and enhance thermal conductivity – a basic property generally considered to be fixed for a given material – gives engineers a new tool for managing thermal effects in smart phones and computers, lasers and a number of other powered devices. The finding was made by a...