Li Wu Professor

09.2002-07.2005： Ph.D candidate, Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), P. R. China

12.2014-up to now: Professor, School of Physics, Nankai University, P. R. China 12.2008-12.2014：Associate Professor, School of Physics, Nankai University, P. R. China 07.2006-09.2007：Post-doctoral fellow supported by Alexander von Humboldt foundation, Institute of Crystallography, RWTH-Aachen University, Germany 07.2005-12.2008：Assistant Professor, School of Physics, Nankai University, P. R. China

Li Wu is a professor of Physics at Nankai University. She received her PhD degree from Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2005, worked at RWTH-Aachen University as an Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship-supported postdoc in 2006-2007, and was selected in the Program for New Century Excellent Talents in University of China by Ministry of Education in 2011. She is a member of International Centre for Diffraction Data (ICDD), the member of the X-ray Diffraction Committee of the Chinese Physical Society, and the member of the 8th Council of the Youth Working Committee of the Chinese Materials Research Society. Her research interest is focused on the photoelectric functional materials and devices.

Prof. Wu has dedicated to studying optical functional materials using physical methods. Her research interest is focus on the optoelectronic materials and devices, solid microstructure and solid-state luminescence, and mechanical stimulation induced optical information storage technology.

Recent publications：

1. J. Y. Gao, Z. W. Jia, J. Meng, P. S. Lv, Y. X. Bai, C. T. Gao, X. W. Fu*, L. Wu*, Y. F. Kong, Y. Zhang, and J. J. Xu*. Synchronous measurement of temperature and rotational speed by color-tunable mechanoluminescent material, Laser & Photonics Reviews, 2025; 0:e02783.

2. Pan Zhang, Xinyi Jiang, Jingyi Gao, Jiabin Dong, Fan Yang*, Tongqing Sun*, Li Wu*,  Yongfa Kong, Yi Zhang, and Jingjun Xu, Layered-Tunnel Structure Enables  High Defect Tolerance for Coexistence of Anomalous Thermal Quenching  and Mechanoluminescence in Sr₂ZnSi₂O₇:Mn²⁺, Materials Today Physics, 2026, 60, 101958.

3. Pan Zhang, Xiaohui Zhao, Zhenwei Jia, Jiabin Dong, Tianlong Liang, Yue Liu, Qilin Cheng, Liqun Ding, Li Wu*, Dengfeng Peng, Yongfa Kong, Yi Zhang, Jingjun Xu*, High Defect Tolerance Breaking the Design Limitation of Full-Spectrum Multimodal Luminescence Materials, Advanced Materials, 2025, 37(5), 2411532.

4. Zhenwei Jia, Xiaohui Zhao, Jingyi Gao, Tongqing Sun*, Li Wu,* Yongfa Kong, Jingjun Xu, A novel broadband near-infrared phosphor Na₃Mg₄LiSi₁₂O₃₀:Cr³⁺: moderate synthesis and application, Journal of Materials Chemistry C, 2025, 13, 385 – 392. 

5. Pan Zhang, Xiang Chen, Yuxing Bai, Xiaohui Zhao Xuewen Fu, Li Wu,* Yuhua Wang,* Tongqing Sun,* Yongfa Kong, Yi Zhang, and Jingjun Xu, Quasi-Continuous Defect Levels in Broadband Gap: A New Strategy for High-Temperature Long Persistent Luminescence Materials, Advanced Optical Materials 12 (2024) 2301406.

6. Liwei Wu, Yuxing Bai, Huimin Chen, Lirong Zheng, Huan Yi, Li Wu,* Zhenpeng Hu, Xinzheng Zhang, Yongfa Kong, Yi Zhang, and Jingjun Xu, Unique Self-Reduction of Transitional Metal Ion in a Borate with Planar [BO₃]³⁻ Groups, Advanced Optical Materials 11(19) (2023) 2300515.

7. Yuxing Bai, Liwei Wu, Qilin Cheng, Li Wu*, Yongfa Kong, Yi Zhang, and Jingjun Xu, Li⁺ Doping Induced Zero-Thermal Quenching in Cs₃Zn_6–x–yB₉O₂₁:xEu³⁺, yLi⁺ (0 ≤ x ≤ 0.10, 0.06 ≤ y ≤ 0.16), Journal of Rare Earths, 41 (10) (2023) 1478-1486. （Cover）

8. Li Wu*,  Shaojun Sun, Yuxing Bai, Zhiguo Xia*, Liwei Wu, Huimin Chen, Lirong  Zheng, Huan Yi, Tongqing Sun, Yongfa Kong, Yi zhang*, and Jingjun Xu, Defect-induced Self-reduction and Anti-thermal Quenching in NaZn(PO₃)₃:Mn²⁺ Red Phosphor, Advanced Optical Materials 9 (2021) 2100870.

9. Doudou Qian, Lei Liu, Zhixue Xing, Rui Dong, Li Wu*, Hongkun Cai*, Yongfa Kong, Yi Zhang, Jingjun Xu, Improvement of photoluminescence of perovskite CH₃NH₃PbI₃ by adding additional CH3NH3I during grinding, Chinese Physics Letters, 38 (8) 2021, 087801.

10. Yuxing Bai, Zhongzhong Zheng, Li Wu*, Yongfa Kong, Yi Zhang*, Jingjun Xu, Construction of a novel mechanoluminescent phosphor Li₂MgGeO₄:Mn²⁺ by defect control, Dalton Transactions 50 (2021) 8803-8810.

11. Zhongzhong Zheng, Yuxing Bai, Yijie Ren, Huimin Chen, Li Wu*, Yongfa Kong, Yi Zhang*, Jingjun Xu, Intrinsic and extrinsic defects build a novel mechanoluminescent phosphor Na₂MgGeO₄:Mn²⁺, Journal of Materials Chemistry C 9 (2021) 3513-3521.

12. Huimin Chen, Yuxing Bai, Lirong Zheng, Li Wu*, Liwei Wu, Yongfa Kong, Yi Zhang*, Jingjun Xu, Interstitial oxygen defect induced mechanoluminescence in KCa(PO₃)₃:Mn²⁺, Journal of Materials Chemistry C 8 (2020) 6587-6594.

13. Huimin Chen, Li Wu*,  Tongqing Sun, Rui Dong, Zhongzhong Zheng, Yongfa Kong, Yi Zhang*,  Jingjun Xu, “Intense green elastico-mechanoluminescence from KZn(PO₃)₃:Tb³⁺”, Applied Physics Letters 116 (5) (2020).

14. Huimin Chen, Liwei Wu, Fang Bo, Jikang Jian, Li Wu*, Hongwei Zhang*, Lirong Zheng*, Yongfa Kong, Yi Zhang, Jingjun Xu,  Coexistence of self-reduction from Mn⁴⁺ to Mn²⁺ and elastico-mechanoluminescence in diphase KZn(PO₃)₃:Mn²⁺, Journal of Materials Chemistry C 7 (2019) 7096-7103.

15. Liwei Wu, Yuxing Bai, Li Wu*, Huan Yi, Xinzheng Zhang, Lixin Zhang, Yongfa Kong, Yi Zhang*, Jingjun Xu, Analysis of the structure and abnormal photoluminescence of a red-emitting LiMgBO₃:Mn²⁺ phosphor, Dalton Transactions, 47 (2018) 13094-13105.

A member of the X-ray Diffraction Committee of the Chinese Physical Society;

A member of International Centre for Diffraction Data (ICDD);

A member of the 8th Council of the Youth Working Committee of the Chinese Materials Research Society

Lecture for graduate:

Materials Science and Technology

Lecture for undergraduate:

X-ray Crystallography

Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship, 2006

New Century Excellent Talents in University of China, 2011