Yuanwei Li

Assistant Professor of Materials Science & Engineering, and Faculty Affiliate in Chemistry

Additional Campus Affiliations

Assistant Professor, Materials Science and Engineering
Assistant Professor, Micro and Nanotechnology Laboratory
Assistant Professor, Materials Research Laboratory
Assistant Professor, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

Recent Publications

Liu, X., Li, Y., Yazdaanpanah, R., Zhang, Y., Chan, R. R., Hu, X., Yang, Y., Dravid, V. P., Aydin, K., & Mirkin, C. A. (2026). Programmable Stepwise Heteroepitaxial Growth of Colloidal Crystals With Different Phases. Advanced Materials, 38(38), Article e73583. https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.73583

Li, Y., Zhou, W., Zhou, Y., Cheng, H. F., Lee, B., Hu, X., Roth, E. W., Dravid, V. P., Glotzer, S. C., & Mirkin, C. A. (2025). Cocrystals combining order and correlated disorder via colloidal crystal engineering with DNA. Science Advances, 11(16), Article eadu4919. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adu4919

Mirkin, C. A., Petrosko, S. H., Artzi, N., Aydin, K., Biaggne, A., Brinker, C. J., Bujold, K. E., Cao, Y. C., Chan, R. R., Chen, C., Chen, P. C., Chen, X., Chevalier, O. J. G. L., Choi, C. H. J., Crooks, R. M., Dravid, V. P., Du, J. S., Ebrahimi, S. B., Fan, H., ... Zhu, W. (2025). 33 Unresolved Questions in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology. ACS Nano, 19(36), 31933-31968. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.5c12854

Zhang, Y., Xu, D. D., Tanriover, I., Zhou, W., Li, Y., López-Arteaga, R., Aydin, K., & Mirkin, C. A. (2025). Nonlinear optical colloidal metacrystals. Nature Photonics, 19(1), 20-27. Article 6223. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41566-024-01558-0

Li, Z., Lim, Y., Tanriover, I., Zhou, W., Li, Y., Zhang, Y., Aydin, K., Glotzer, S. C., & Mirkin, C. A. (2024). DNA-mediated assembly of Au bipyramids into anisotropic light emitting kagome superlattices. Science Advances, 10(29), Article eadp3756. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adp3756

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