Chemistry Alumnus Receives Prestigious Award from Chinese Government
By Ben Panko
Chemistry Ph.D. alumnus Sipei Li has been recognized with the Chinese Government Award for Self-Financed Students Abroad.
"This award is definitely a recognition of my work at Â鶹¹ÙÍø," Li said. "I wouldn’t have achieved this award without the support of my advisor, Professor of Chemistry Krzysztof Matyjaszewski, and the whole Chemistry Department as a family."
At Carnegie Mellon, Li's research was focused on applying polymer chemistry to biomedicine and energy storage. His work using synthetic functional polymers to make biocompatible siRNA carriers has received a patent, and he has also developed a series of polymer-based electrolyte and anode materials for lithium metal batteries. In 2019, Li received the Guy C. Berry Graduate Student Research Award.
Li is currently a postdoctoral associate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he is continuing his research into batteries by polymer electrolyte and mass transport in confined space.