1. Biographical Sketch
Name: Xiangjie Li
E-mail: xxl312@case.edu
Institution: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, 44106
Xiangjie Li, a current junior undergraduate studying at Case Western Reserve
University. He has an interest in biomaterial topics, and is currently majoring in
polymer engineering with over two years of laboratory experience as undergraduate
researcher.
Xiangjie Li has a current overall GPA standing of 3.57 as a polymer major, and is
also pursuing a minor degree in Japanese. During undergraduate school life, Li is an
enthusiastic undergraduate researcher. He spent one year working on
electrospinning nanofiber researches in Professor Gary Wnek’s laboratory and
worked closely with collagen and polycaprolactone (PCL) nanofibers. Li had an
undergraduate research project cooperated with Support of Undergraduate Research
& Creative Endeavors (SOURCE) working on Retinyl Acetate with Gelatin nanofiber
during summer 2014.
Graduated from Nanjing Foreign Language School, one of the best high schools
in southern area of China, Li also has a good connection with Chinese schools and
companies. He spent two summers working closely with Simcere Pharmaceutical
Group and South East University in high school time, and still reserves good relation
with these Chinese companies and universities.
Li is currently working on a potential senior capstone research project on
reinforcing collagen nanofibers using graphene based materials. Because of the
outstanding mechanical, optical and electrical properties of graphene, he hopes to
use reduced graphene oxide (rGO) to reinforce the collagen nanofibers, and
hopefully solve the difficulties in processing high viscosity collagen solution during
electrospinning at the same time. The project expects to discover an experimental
formula for weight ratio of graphene and collagen to properly increase the overall
mechanical property, yet with minimum increase in cost.
Technical specialties: DSC thermal analysis, Electrospinning technique, Elution
chromatography, Image J, IR Spectroscopy, MS Office 2010, Matlab, NMR
spectroscopy, Origin, UV-Vis spectroscopy, UV Probe.