Yihong Li Email & Phone Number

Charlotte, Nc, Us

Huntersville, Nc, Us

•Lead R&D road map development through leading global team brainstorming, business partner and consumer survey, textile antimicrobial marketing report and competitor research. •Build high performance team through establishing shared goals and trust, acquiring talents to complete team expertise, mentoring entry level team member and coordinating training, communicating directions and priorities clearly. •Lead new product development from concept screening, lab scale formulation to textile mill validation. Lead technical support to sales, marketing, regulatory, legal as well as customers and textile mills for new product launch. •Manage budget and built-up lab R&D capabilities to meet business growing needs.

Huntersville, Nc, Us

Stockholm, Se

•Develop washing cycles with chemistry, textile, fluid dynamics and programming knowledge•Lead and cooperate with a global team to work on new product development•Lead team innovation activities (5 patents filed) and attend professional meetings (American Association of Textile Chemists and Colorists)•Apply statistical knowledge (Design of experiments et al.), deliver accurate and timely test data and report•Serve as lab liaison•Supervise and mentoring lab technicians and interns•Support sales, marketing and product line groups

Monroe, Nc, Us

•Employ statistical techniques to analyze data including new product regulatory submission and sustaining product quality controls •Provide material process and testing suggestions for advanced sensor project•Assist senior engineer in design of appropriate tests to adequately challenge the perform of new developed gas detection products•Assist senior engineer in the design of test set ups and fixtures to support experimentation in the laboratory•Maintain working knowledge of laboratory test equipment, data acquisition tools and industry standard test methods

Washington, Dc, Us

National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) and Solid State Energy Conversion Alliance (SECA): The National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL), part of DOE’s national laboratory system, is owned and operated by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). NETL has expertise in coal, natural gas, and oil technologies, contract and project management, analysis of energy systems, and international energy issues.http://www.netl.doe.gov/about/index.htmlThe Solid State Energy Conversion Alliance (SECA), founded in the fall of 1999, is a collaboration between the Federal Government, private industry, academic institutions and national laboratories devoted to the development of low-cost, modular, and fuel-flexible solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) technology suitable for a variety of power generation applications.http://www.netl.doe.gov/technologies/coalpower/fuelcells/seca/ I worked for the DOE/NETL In-House Cathode R&D project under SECA program. http://www.netl.doe.gov/technologies/coalpower/fuelcells/seca/core-tech1.htmlMy responsibilities included:• Reporting research plan and progress to Department of Energy Representatives• Design of the Electrical Conductivity Relaxation (ECR) testing system for characterizing oxygen transport behavior in Solid Oxide Fuel Cell (SOFC) cathodes• Review of piping and Instrumentation Diagrams (P&ID) of the system and preparation of hazard reports• Preparation of samples and running ECR tests with other material analysis methods to characterize different SOFC cathode materials• Modeling SOFCs cathode reaction process with experimentally obtained oxygen transport kinetic parameters---surface exchange coefficient and bulk diffusion coefficient• Sharing the modeling results with other group members for cathode performance improvement• Publication of the research results

Morgantown, West Virginia, Us

High temperature oxidation investigation of Solid Oxide Fuel Cell (SOFC) interconnects The interconnect sits between each individual cell and its purpose is to connect each cell in series, so that the electricity each cell generates can be combined. Because the interconnect is exposed to both the oxidizing and reducing side of the cell at high temperatures, it must be extremely stable. In this work, variety of metallic interconnects oxidation behavior were investigated under a simulated SOFC operation environment. Coal syngas, which is a clean way for fossil energy application, was used as the anode gas. • Designed a testing system for investigating SOFC interconnects (Fe- and Ni-based alloys) oxidation behavior at high temperature (800C) with loaded current in coal syngas and air• Analyzed the oxide layer formed on interconnect materials with Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM), X-ray Diffraction (XRD) and Area Specific Resistance (ASR)• Modeled high temperature oxidation behavior of SOFC interconnects

Development of anodizing technique for magnesium alloy• Prepared the anodizing coating on magnesium alloy using a novel solution with silica sol addition• Analyzed the anodizing coating using Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM), X-ray Diffraction (XRD), Raman Spectroscopy and Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM) techniques• Evaluated corrosion resistance of the anodizing coating utilizing salt spray test• Study the silica sol effects on anodizing coating and the anodizing mechanism • Conducted early-stage studies of applying the anodizing coating to Mg-Li alloy for cell phone shell (functioned as corrosion resistant coating) and satellite parts (functioned as conductive barrier layer)

Master Of Arts - Ma, Engineering/Industrial Management

Doctor Of Philosophy (Phd), Mechanical Engineering

Master Of Science (Ms), Applied Chemistry

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Environmental Engineering