Jingang Li

Jingang Li

Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Engineering

Location: West Lafayette

School of Mechanical Engineering
Purdue University
585 Purdue Mall
West Lafayette, IN 47907-2088
jingang@purdue.edu

Degrees

  • Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California, Berkeley, 2025
  • Ph.D., The University of Texas at Austin, 2021
  • B.S., University of Science and Technology of China, 2017

Research Interests

  • Optical tweezers and optical manipulation
  • Nanophotonics
  • Photothermal conversion and applications
  • Optical and optoelectronic materials
  • Nanoscale energy transfer
  • Laser processing and diagnosis

Fundamental Research Area(s)

Application Area(s)

Selected Publications

R. Yang, R. Li, B. W. Blankenship, J. Li*, and C. P. Grigoropoulos*, Decoupling Carrier Dynamics and Energy Transport in Ultrafast Near-Field Nanoscopy. Nano Letters 2025, 25, 2242–2247. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.nanolett.4c05419

J. Li, D. Zhang, Z. Guo, Z. Chen, X. Jiang, J. M. Larson, H. Zhu, T. Zhang, Y. Gu, B. Blankenship, M. Chen, Z. Wu, S. Huang, A. M. Minor, C. P. Grigoropoulos, D. Akinwande, M. Terrones, J. M. Redwing, H. Li*, Y. Zheng*. Light-Driven C-H Activation Mediated by 2D Transition Metal Dichalcogenides. Nature Communications 2024, 15, 5546. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-49783-z

J. Li, R. Yang, N. Higashitarumizu, S. Dai, J. Wu, A. Javey, C. P. Grigoropoulos*. Transient Nanoscopy of Exciton Dynamics in 2D Transition Metal Dichalcogenides. Advanced Materials 2024, 36, 2311568. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/adma.202311568

J. Li, R. Yang, Y. Rho, P. Ci, M. Eliceiri, J. Wu, C. P. Grigoropoulos*. Ultrafast Optical Nanoscopy of Carrier Dynamics in Silicon Nanowires. Nano Letters 2023, 23, 1445-1450. https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.nanolett.2c04790

J. Li, K. Yao, Y. Huang, J. Fang, P. S. Kollipara, D. E. Fan*, Y. Zheng*. Tunable Strong Coupling in Transition Metal Dichalcogenide Nanowires. Advanced Materials 2022, 34, 2200656. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/adma.202200656

J. Li, P. S. Kollipara, Y. Liu, K. Yao, Y. Liu, Y. Zheng*. Opto-Thermocapillary Nanomotors on Solid Substrates. ACS Nano 2022, 16, 8820-8826. https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/acsnano.1c09800

J. Li, Z. Chen, Y. Liu, P. S. Kollipara, Y. Feng, Z. Zhang, Y. Zheng*. Opto-Refrigerative Tweezers. Science Advances 2021, 7, eabh1101. https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abh1101

J. Li, M. Wang, Z. Wu, H. Li, G. Hu, T. Jiang, J. Guo, Y. Liu, K. Yao, Z. Chen, J. Fang, D. Fan, B. A. Korgel, A. Al?, Y. Zheng*. Tunable Chiral Optics in All-Solid-Phase Reconfigurable Dielectric Nanostructures. Nano Letters 2021, 21, 973-979. https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.nanolett.0c03957

J. Li, Y. Liu, L. Lin, M. Wang, T. Jiang, J. Guo, H. Ding, P. Kollipara, Y. Inoue, D. Fan, B. Korgel, Y. Zheng*. Optical Nanomanipulation on Solid Substrates via Optothermally-gated Photon Nudging. Nature Communications 2019, 10, 5672. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-13676-3

J. Li, E. H. Hill, L. Lin, Y. Zheng*. Optical Nanoprinting of Colloidal Particles and Functional Nanostructures. ACS Nano 2019, 13, 3783-3795. https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acsnano.9b01034