个人简历

Dr. Chuan Xia is a Professor of Materials and Energy at University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC). He obtained his Ph.D. at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) in 2018 followed by a post-doctoral Fellowship at Harvard university and Rice university, USA. In 2020 he joined UESTC, where he initiated an active research group focusing on developing methods for controlling the architecture of molecules and materials, understanding their fundamental properties, and utilizing such structures to develop novel catalysts that can be applied in the areas of electrocatalysis, energy generation, storage, and conversion. He is the author of 50+ refereed journal articles, and has 3 issued USA patents. In the recent five years, as the first author/corresponding author, he has published more than 20 papers in prestigious journals such as Science, Nat. Energy, Nat. Catal., Nat. Chem., among which 9 are ESI highly cited papers and 2 are hot papers. He has won the KAUST outstanding Ph.D. Student Award (2016), J. Evans Attwell-Welch postdoctoral fellowship (2019), best applied paper award of AIChE (2020). He was the guest editor of Fronter in Chemistry. He is also an active reviewer for many refereed journals, including Nature sisters, Advanced Materials and its sisters, JACS, Angewandte Chemie, EST, ACS Catalysis, Chemistry of Materials, Nano Letter, Energy Storage Materials.

研究领域

"""""Dr. Xia’s research interests are in developing nanomaterials and nanotechnology for carbon-neutral society and sustainable future. Current projects include: electrocatalysis

近期论文

Nanoconfined engineering over hollow multi-Shell structured copper towards efficient electrocatalytic C-C coupling Chunxiao Liu#, Menglu Zhang#, Jiawei Li#, Weiqing Xue, Tingting Zheng*, Chuan Xia*, Jie Zeng* Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. (2021), DOI:10.1002/anie.202113498\r
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Recent advances in electrocatalytic oxygen reduction for on-site hydrogen peroxide synthesis in acidic media Jun-Yu Zhang, Chuan Xia, Hao-Fan Wang, Cheng Tang* J. Energy Chem. (2021), DOI:10.1016/j.jechem.2021.10.013\r
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Polybenzimidazole functionalized electrolyte with Li-wetting and self-fluorination functionalities for practical Li metal batteries Dongjiang Chen#, Yuanpeng Liu#, Chuan Xia#, Yupei Han, Qingwei Sun, Xuchang Wang, Wei Chen, Xian Jian, Weiqiang Lv, Jianyi Ma, Weidong He* InfoMat. (2021), DOI:10.1002/inf2.12247\r
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Copper-catalyzed exclusive CO2 to pure formic acid conversion via single-atom alloying Tingting Zheng#, Chunxiao Liu#, Chenxi Guo#, Menglu Zhang, Xu Li, Qiu Jiang, Weiqing Xue, Hongliang Li, Aowen Li, Chih-Wen Pao, Jianping Xiao*, Chuan Xia*, Jie Zeng* Nature Nanotechnology (2021), DOI:10.1038/s41565-021-00974-5\r
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Room-temperature electrochemical acetylene reduction to ethylene with high conversion and selectivity Run Shi#, Zeping Wang#, Yunxuan Zhao#, Geoffrey I. N. Waterhouse, Zhenhua Li, Bikun Zhang, Zhimei Sun, Chuan Xia, Haotian Wang* & Tierui Zhang* Nature Catalysis (2021), DOI:10.1038/s41929-021-00640-y\r
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Highly active and selective oxygen reduction to H2O2 on boron-doped carbon for high production rates Yang Xia, Xunhua Zhao, Chuan Xia, Zhen-Yu Wu, Peng Zhu, Jung Yoon (Timothy) Kim, Xiaowan Bai, Guanhui Gao, Yongfeng Hu, Jun Zhong, Yuanyue Liu* & Haotian Wang* Nature Communications (2021), DOI:10.1038/s41467-021-24329-9\r
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Composite Separators for Robust High Rate Lithium Ion Batteries Botao Yuan, Kechun Wen, Dongjiang Chen, Yuanpeng Liu, Yunfa Dong, Chao Feng, Yupei Han, Jiecai Han, Yongqi Zhang*, Chuan Xia*, Andy (Xueliang) Sun, Weidong He* Advanced Functional Materials (2021), DOI:10.1002/adfm.202101420\r
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Electrochemical ammonia synthesis via nitrate reduction on Fe single atom catalyst Zhen-Yu Wu, Mohammadreza Karamad, Xue Yong, Qizheng Huang, David A. Cullen, Peng Zhu, Chuan Xia, Qunfeng Xiao, Mohsen Shakouri, Feng-Yang Chen, Jung Yoon (Timothy) Kim, Yang Xia, Kimberly Heck, Yongfeng Hu, Michael S. Wong, Qilin Li, Ian Gates, Samira Siahrostami* & Haotian Wang* Nature Communications (2021), DOI:10.1038/s41467-021-23115-x\r
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Recent advances in anode materials for potassium-ion batteries: A review Lianbo Ma, Yaohui Lv, Junxiong Wu*, Chuan Xia, Qi Kang*, Yizhou Zhang, Hanfeng Liang & Zhong Jin* Nano Research (2021), DOI:10.1007/s12274-021-3439-3\r
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General synthesis of single-atom catalysts with high metal loading using graphene quantum dots Chuan Xia*, Yunrui Qiu, Yang Xia, Peng Zhu, Graham King, Xiao Zhang, Zhenyu Wu, Jung Yoon(Timothy) Kim, David A.Cullen, Dongxing Zheng, Peng Li, Mohsen Shakouri, Emilio Heredia, Peixin Cui, Husam N.Alshareef, Yongfeng Hu*, Haotian Wang* Nature Chemistry (2021), DOI:10.1038/s41557-021-00734-x\r
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Direct and continuous generation of pure acetic acid solutions via electrocatalytic carbon monoxide reduction Peng Zhu#, Chuan Xia#, Chun-Yen Liu, Kun Jiang, Guanhui Gao, Xiao Zhang, Yang Xia, Yongjiu Lei, Husam N Alshareef, Thomas P Senftle*, Haotian Wang* Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (2021), DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2010868118\r
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Solar Photoelectrochemical Synthesis of Electrolyte-free H2O2 Aqueous Solution without Needing Electrical Bias and H2 Taehwa Jeon, Bupmokim Kim, Chuhyung Kim, Chuan Xia, Haotian Wang, Pedro Alvarez, Wonyong Choi* Energy & Environmental Science (2021) DOI: 10.1039/D0EE03567J\r
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Confined local oxygen gas promotes electrochemical water oxidation to hydrogen peroxide Chuan Xia#, Seoin Back#, Stefan Ringe#, Kun Jiang, Fanhong Chen, Xiaoming Sun, Samira Siahrostami*, Karen Chan*, Haotian Wang* Nature Catalysis (2020) DOI: 10.1038/s41929-019-0402-8\r
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Strategies in catalysts and electrolyzer design for electrochemical CO2 reduction toward C2+ products Lei Fan#, Chuan Xia#, Fangqi Yang, Jun Wang, Haotian Wang*, Yingying Lu* Science Advances (2020) DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aay3111\r
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Electrochemical CO2 reduction to high-concentration pure formic acid solutions in an all-solid-state reactor Lei Fan#, Chuan Xia#, Peng Zhu, Yingying Lu*, Haotian Wang* Nature Communications (2020) DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-17403-1\r
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Recommended practice to report selectivity in electrochemical synthesis of H2O2 Chuan Xia, Jung Yoon Timothy Kim, Haotian Wang* Nature Catalysis (2020) DOI: 10.1038/s41929-020-0486-1\r
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Insights into Practical-Scale Electrochemical H2O2 Synthesis Xiao Zhang, Yang Xia, Chuan Xia, Haotian Wang* Trends in Chemistry (2020) DOI: 10.1016/j.trechm.2020.07.007\r
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Review of MXene electrochemical microsupercapacitors Qiu Jiang#, Yongjiu Lei#, Hanfeng Liang, Kai Xi, Chuan Xia*, Husam N Alshareef* Energy Storage Materials (2020) DOI: 10.1016/j.ensm.2020.01.018\r
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Tungsten Blue Oxide as a Reusable Electrocatalyst for Acidic Water Oxidation by Plasma-Induced Vacancy Engineering Hanfeng Liang, Zhen Cao, Chuan Xia, Fangwang Ming, Wenli Zhang, Abdul-Hamid Emwas, Luigi Cavallo, Husam N Alshareef* CCS Chemistry (2020) DOI: 10.31635/ccschem.020.202000325\r
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MXene printing and patterned coating for device applications Yi‐Zhou Zhang, Yang Wang, Qiu Jiang, Jehad K El‐Demellawi, Hyunho Kim, Husam N Alshareef* Advanced Materials (2020) DOI: 10.1002/adma.201908486