Patents by Inventor Qiucheng LI

Qiucheng LI has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20240059572
    Abstract: One aspect of this invention relates to synthesis of borophane polymorphs by hydrogenating borophene with atomic hydrogen in ultrahigh vacuum, including growing borophene on a substrate in an ultrahigh vacuum chamber; and performing hydrogenation of the borophene in situ to obtain borophane having a diverse set of borophane polymorphs. The borophane polymorphs are metallic with modified local work functions that can be reversibly returned to pristine borophene via thermal desorption of hydrogen. Hydrogenation also provides chemical passivation such that the borophane polymorphs have negligible oxidation for multiple days following ambient exposure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2022
    Publication date: February 22, 2024
    Inventors: Mark C. Hersam, Qiucheng Li
  • Publication number: 20230008590
    Abstract: This invention in one aspect relates to a method of synthesizing a self-assembled mixed-dimensional heterostructure including 2D metallic borophene and 1D semiconducting armchair-oriented graphene nanoribbons (aGNRs). The method includes depositing boron on a substrate to grow borophene thereon at a substrate temperature in an ultrahigh vacuum (UHV) chamber; sequentially depositing 4,4?-dibromo-p-terphenyl on the borophene grown substrate at room temperature in the UHV chamber to form a composite structure; and controlling multi-step on-surface coupling reactions of the composite structure to self-assemble a borophene/graphene nanoribbon mixed-dimensional heterostructure. The borophene/aGNR lateral heterointerfaces are structurally and electronically abrupt, thus demonstrating atomically well-defined metal-semiconductor heterojunctions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2022
    Publication date: January 12, 2023
    Inventors: Mark C. Hersam, Qiucheng Li, Xiaolong Liu, Eden B Aklile
  • Patent number: 8702992
    Abstract: A continuous flow reactor, including a cylindrical coagulation crystallizer, a funnel type protective baffle for static settling, and a conical static settler. A lower end surface of the cylindrical coagulation crystallizer is connected with an upper end surface of the conical static settler, and the funnel type protective baffle for static settling is connected with an inner wall of the cylindrical coagulation crystallizer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2014
    Assignee: Nanjing University
    Inventors: Hongqiang Ren, Qiucheng Li, Tao Zhang, Lili Ding, Ke Xu, Xinkun Ren
  • Publication number: 20120211433
    Abstract: A continuous flow reactor, including a cylindrical coagulation crystallizer, a funnel type protective baffle for static settling, and a conical static settler. A lower end surface of the cylindrical coagulation crystallizer is connected with an upper end surface of the conical static settler, and the funnel type protective baffle for static settling is connected with an inner wall of the cylindrical coagulation crystallizer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2012
    Publication date: August 23, 2012
    Applicant: NANJING UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Hongqiang REN, Qiucheng LI, Tao ZHANG, Lili DING, Ke XU, Xinkun REN