LI Baowen

Professor of Physics
Director, Centre for Computational Science & Engineering

• Phononics - the science and engineering of heat conduction

• Thermoelectronics

• Energy conversion and transport in nanoscale

• Complex networks and systems biology

• Non-equilibrium statistical mechanics

• Econophysics –study of financial market and economy by physics approaches

• Waves in random media

• C.-Y Ung, S.-H Lam, X Zhang, H Li, J Ma, L-X Zhang, B. Li, and Z.-Y Gong, Existence of Inverted Profile in Chemically Responsive Molecular Pathways in the Zebrafish Liver, PLoS ONE 6(11): e27819. doi:10.1371, (2011).

• R.-G Xie,   C- T. Bui, B Varghese,, M.-G Xia,  Q.-X Zhang, C.- H Sow,  B Li, and John T L Thong, “An Electrically Tuned Solid-State Thermal Memory Based on Metal-Insulator Transition of Single-Crystalline VO_2 Nanobeams, Advanced Functional Material 21, 1602 (2011).

• Z.-Q Wang, R.-G Xie, C.-T Bui, D Liu, X-X Ni, B Li, and John T. L. Thong, Thermal transport in suspended and supported few-layer graphene, Nano Letters. 11, 113 (2011).

• B Li,  Now you hear me, now you don’t, Nature Material 9, 962 (2010).

• L.-F Zhang, J Ren, J.-S Wang, and B. Li, Topological Nature of Phonon Hall Effect, Physical Review Letters 105, 225901 (2010).

• J. Chen, G. Zhang, and B Li, Remarkable Reduction of Thermal Conductivity In Silicon Nanotubes Nano Letters 10, 3978 (2010).

• J. Ren, P. Hanggi, and B Li, Berry-Phase induced heat pumping and its impact on the fluctuation theorem, Physical Review Letters 104, 170601 (2010) .

• N Yang, G Zhang and B Li, Violation of Fourier law of heat conduction in nanowire, Nano Today  5, 85,  (2010).

• J. Ren, W.-X Wang, B. Li, and Y.-C Lai, Noise bridges dynamical correlation and topology in complex oscillator networks. Physical Review Letter 104, 058701 (2010)

• D. Poletti, T. Alexander, E  Ostrovskay,  B. Li,  and Y S. Kivshar, Dynamics of matter wave solitons in a ratchet potential. Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 150403 (2008).