I will start by giving an overview of active research activities in my research group located at University of Maryland Energy Research Center. Then I will focus on three research topics. 
In Topic One, I will discuss designs, fabrications and device applications of nanocellulose (from wood) based mesostructures, including transparent paper, transparent wood, flexible electronics and batteries.
In Topic Two, I will discuss our recent progress on garnet based solid-state Li metal batteries and transient batteries (batteries can “disappear” upon external trigger).
In Topic Three, I will display our research on Intercalation Optoelectronics, where the optoelectronic properties of two-dimensional materials (such as graphene, reduced graphene oxide and MoS2) are tailored reversibly with metal ions.

Bio
Liangbing Hu （胡良兵） received his B.S. in physics from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) in 2002, where he worked with Prof Yuheng Zhang on colossal magnetoresistance (CMR) materials for three years. He did his Ph.D. in at UCLA (with George Gruner), focusing on carbon nanotube based nanoelectronics (2002-2007). In 2006, he joined UnidymInc (www.unidym.com) as a co-founding scientist. At Unidym, Liangbing’s role was the development of roll-to-roll printed carbon nanotube transparent electrodes and device integrations into touch screens, LCDs, flexible OLEDs and solar cells. He worked at Stanford University (with Yi Cui) from 2009-2011, where he work on various energy devices based on nanomaterials and nanostructures. Currently, he is an associate professor at University of Maryland College Park. His research interests include nanomaterials and nanostructures, roll-to-roll nanomanufacturing, energy storage focusing on solid-state batteries and Na ion batteries, and printed electronics. He received many awards, including: Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award (2016), ACS Division of Energy and Fuel Emerging Investigator Award (2016), SME Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineer Award (2016), University of Maryland Junior Faculty Award (School of Engineering, 2015), 3M Non-tenured Faculty Award (2015), Maryland Outstanding Young Engineer (2014), University of Maryland Invention of Year (2014 Physical Science), Campus Star of the American Society for Engineering Education (2014), Air Force Young Investigator Award (AFOSR YIP, 2013). For more info, please visit www.bingnano.umd.edu