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Started from my Ph.D study at Tsinghua University (Beijing, China) in 1996, my scientific research has been focused on carbon nanotube growth and applications. This tiny tube lead me travelling from Beijing to Paris (France), Stuttgart (Germany), Troy (NY, USA), and finally Houston (TX, USA). A wonderful life experience!

Lijie Ci, Ph.D
Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
Rice University
6100 Main Street
Houston, TX 77005
Email: lijie.ci@rice.edu
Tel: 1-713-348-5654 (O)

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Selected publications (Full publications)
  1. S. Sethi, L. Ge, L. Ci, P. M. Ajayan and A. Dhinojwala, "Gecko-inspired Carbon nanotube based self cleaning adhesives" Nano Letters 10.1021/nl0727765, 12-Feb-2008
  2. Zu-Po Yang, Lijie Ci, James A. Bur, Shawn-Yu Lin, and P.M. Ajayan, Experimental Observation of an Extremely Dark Material Made By a Low-Density Nanotube Array, Nano Letters, 10.1021/nl072369t, 2008.
  3. J. Suhr, P. Victor, Lijie Ci, S. Sreekala, X. Zhang, O. Nalamasu, P. M. Ajayan, Fatigue Resistance of Aligned Carbon Nanotube Arrays Under Cyclic Compression, Nature Nanotechnology, 2007, 2, 417-421.
  4. Liehui Ge, Sunny Sethi, Lijie Ci, Pulickel Ajayan, Ali Dhinojwala, Carbon Nanotube Based Synthetic Gecko Foot, PNAS, 104(26), 10792-10795, 2007.
  5. Zuankai Wang, Lijie Ci (equal contribution), Li Chen, Saroj Nayak, Pulickel M. Ajayan and Nikhil Koratkar, Polarity Dependent Electro-wetting and Transport of Water through Carbon Nanotube Membranes, Nano Letters , 7, 697-702, 2007.
  6. Lijie Ci, Shaijumon M. Manikoth, Xuesong Li, Robert Vajtai, Pulickel M. Ajayan, Ultra-thick freestanding aligned carbon nanotube films by a self-releasing technique, Advanced Materials, 19, 3300-3307 (2007)
  7. Lijie Ci, Niramol Punbusayakul, Saikat Talapatra, Robert Vajtai and Pulickel. M. Ajayan, Multifuntional Macro Architectures of Double-walled Carbon Nanotube Fibers. Advanced Materials, 19, 1719-1723 (2007).
  8. Lijie Ci, Jinbo Bai.  Novel micro/nanoscale hybrid reinforcement: multi-walled carbon nanotubes on SiC particles. Advanced Materials, 16, 2021-2025.(2004)
  9. Lijie Ci, Zhilong Rao, Zhenping Zhou, Dongsheng Tang, Xiaoqin Yan, Yingxin Liang, Dongfang Liu, Huajun Yuan, Wei Liu, Weiya Zhou, Gang Wang, Sishen Xie,  Double wall carbon nanotubes promoted by sulfur in a floating iron catalyst CVD system. Chemical Physics Letters, 359, 63-67 (2002).


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