在纳米材料结构构筑与调控、纳米尺度原位力学研究和电池工作/失效机制等多个领域开展研究，成果发表于 nature、science、nature materials等期刊。
代表性论文：
1. x. wang, j.w. wang, y. he, c.m. wang, l. zhong* and s. x. mao*, unstable twin in body-centered cubic tungsten nanocrystals, nature communications 11, 2479 (2020)
2. x. wang, l. zhong*, and s.x. mao*,advances in understanding atomic-scale deformation of small-sized face-centered cubic metals with in situ transmission electron microscopy, materials today nano 2, 58-69 (2018)
3. li zhong, frederic sansoz, yang he, chongmin wang, and scott x. mao, slip-activated surface creep with room-temperature super-elongation in metallic nanocrystals, nature materials 16, 439-445 (2017).
4. li zhong, yang liu, weiqiang han, jianyu huang, and scott x. mao, in situ observation of single-phase lithium intercalation in sub-25-nm nanoparticles, advanced materials 29, 1700236 (2017).
5. yang he, li zhong, feifei fan, chongmin wang, ting zhu, and scott x. mao, in situ observation of shear-driven amorphization in silicon crystals, nature nanotechnology 11, 866-871 (2016).
6. li zhong, jiangwei wang, hongwei sheng, ze zhang, and scott x. mao, formation of monatomic metallic glasses through ultrafast liquid quenching, nature 512, 177-180 (2014).
7. li zhong, robert r. mitchell, yang liu, betar m. gallant, carl v. thompson, jian yu huang, scott x. mao, and yang shao-horn, in situ transmission electron microscopy observations of electrochemical oxidation of li2o2, nano letters 13, 2209-2214 (2013).
8. li zhong, xiao hua liu, guo feng wang, scott x. mao, and jian yu huang, multiple-stripe lithiation mechanism of individual sno2 nanowires in a flooding geometry, physical review letters 106, 248302 (2011).
9. jian yu huang, li zhong, chong min wang, john p. sullivan, wu xu, li qiang zhang, scott x. mao, nicholas s. hudak, xiao hua liu, arunkumar subramanian, hongyou fan, liang qi, akihiro kushima, and ju li, in situ observation of the electrochemical lithiation of a single sno2 nanowire electrode, science 330, 1515-1520 (2010).
