Rachel Carson College Faculty Fellows
Sikina Jinnah is Rachel Carson College's new faculty chair!
The Chair of the Faculty is an Academic Senate member, other than the Provost, who is elected by the college Faculty to serve a two year term, and will serve as a member of the Executive Committee.
Dr. Jinnah is an Associate Professor in the Politics Department, an affiliated faculty member in the Environmental Studies Department, and a 2017 Andrew Carnegie Fellow. Her research focuses on the shifting locations of power and influence in global environmental governance, and in particular the role of transnational actors in environmental decision-making. Her most recent projects examine how key norms in global climate politics shape power relations, the role of U.S. preferential trade agreements in shaping environmental policy in trading partner nations, and the politics of climate engineering governance.
- Title
- Professor
- Division Physical & Biological Sciences Division
- Department
- Chemistry & Biochemistry Department
- Phone
- Website
- Office Location
- Physical Sciences Building, 160
- Physical Sciences Bldg 160 (Office)
- Physical Sciences Bldg 198 (Lab)
- Mail Stop Chemistry
- Mailing Address
- 1156 High Street
- Santa Cruz CA 95064
- Faculty Areas of Expertise Chemistry, Energy, Material Science
- Courses CHEM 146C Advanced Physical Chemistry Laboratory, CHEM 164 Physical Chemistry Laboratory, CHEM 163A Quantum Chemistry and Spectroscopy, CHEM 268 Solid State and Material Chemistry
Summary of Expertise
Materials chemistry, energy conversion and storage, catalysis
Research Interests
The Li lab focuses on the rational design and fabrication of functional nanomaterials, which could serve as versatile platforms to study fundamental science questions and open up new opportunities for technologies. We seek to understand the chemical and physical properties of these nanomaterials and to explore their potential applications in catalysis, energy conversion, and energy storage.
Biography, Education and Training
B.Sc. (1999), Ph.D. (2002), The University of Hong Kong
Postdoctoral Fellow (2002-2003), The University of Hong Kong
Postdoctoral Fellow (2003-2007), Harvard University
Honors, Awards and Grants
2018 CAPA Distinguished Faculty Award (Chinese-American Chemistry & Chemical Biology Professors Association)
2017 & 2018 Highly Cited Researcher (Clarivate Analytics)
2009-2014 U.S. National Science Foundation CAREER Award
2009-2011 Senior Visiting Scholar Fellowship, Fudan University, China
2008-2010 Visiting Scientist Fellowship, National Center for Electron Microscopy, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
2003-2005 Croucher Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship, Croucher Foundation, Hong Kong
2002 Sir Edward Youde Memorial Fellowship, Sir Edward Youde Memorial Fund, Hong Kong
2002 Li Po Chun Postgraduate Scholarship, The University of Hong Kong
Selected Publications
1. Kou T., Wang S., Hauser J., Chen M., Oliver S., Ye Y., Guo J. and Li Y., Ni Foam Supported Fe-doped β-Ni(OH)2 Nanosheets Shows Ultralow Overpotential for Oxygen Evolution Reaction, ACS Energy Lett., 4, 622-628 (2019)
2. Yao B., Chandrasekaran S., Zhang J., Xiao W., Qian F., Zhu C., Duoss E., Spadaccini C., Worsley M., Li Y., Efficient 3D Printed Pseudocapacitive Electrodes with Ultrahigh MnO2 Loading, Joule, 3, 459-470 (2019)
3. Kou T., Smart T., Yao B., Chen I., Thota D., Ping Y., Li Y. Theoretical and Experimental Insight into the Effect of Nitrogen Doping on Hydrogen Evolution Activity of Ni3S2 in Alkaline Medium, Adv. Energy Mater., 1703538 (2018)
4. Liu T., Zhang F., Song Y., Li Y. Revitalizing Carbon Supercapacitor Electrodes with Hierarchical Porous Structures, J. Mater. Chem. A, 5, 17705-17733 (2017)
5. Song Y., Liu T., Yao B., Li M., Kou T., Huang Z., Feng D., Wang F., Tong Y., Liu X., Li Y. Ostwald Ripening Improves Rate Capability of High Mass Loading Manganese Oxide for Supercapacitors, ACS Energy Lett., 2, 1752-1759 (2017)
6. Zhu C., Liu T., Qian F., Chen W., Chandrasekaran S., Yao B., Song Y., Duoss E., Kuntz J., Spadaccini C., Worsley M., Li Y. 3D Printed Functional Nanomaterials for Electrochemical Energy Storage, Nano Today, 15, 107-120 (2017)
7. Yao B., Zhang J., Kou T., Song Y., Liu T., Li Y. Paper-based Electrodes for Flexible Energy Storage Devices, Adv. Sci., 4, 1700107 (2017)
8. Wang G., Yang Y., Han D., Li Y. Oxygen Defective Metal Oxides for Energy Conversion and Storage, Nano Today, 13, 23-39 (2017)
9. Zhang F., Liu T., Li M., Yu M., Yang L., Tong Y., Li Y. Multi-scale Pore Network Boosts Capacitance of Carbon Electrodes for Ultrafast Charging, Nano Lett., 17, 3097-3104 (2017)
10. Zhu C., Liu T., Qian F., Han T., Duoss E., Kuntz J., Spadaccini C., Worsley M., Li Y. Supercapacitors Based on 3D Hierarchical Graphene Aerogels with Periodic Macropores, Nano Lett., 16, 3448-3456 (2016)
