General

PI: Zihao (Zed) Xu, Ph.D.

Email: zihaoxu@iccas.ac.cn

Mailing address: 2 Zhongguancun North 1 Street, Haidian District, Beijing, 100190

Research Areas

Time-resolved spectroscopy, Excited state dynamics, Photonics and Opto-electronics device mechanism.

Education

2009-2013, Nanjing University, B.Sc in Chemistry, Advisor: Haibo Ma, Ph.D.

2013-2019, Emory University, Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry, Advisor: Tim Lian, Ph.D.

Experience

2019-2023, Emory University, Postdoc. Advisor: Tim Lian, Ph.D.

Publications

(1) Direct Vibrational Stark Shift Probe of Quasi-Fermi Level Alignment in Metal Nanoparticle Catalyst-Based Metal-Insulator-Semiconductor Junction Photoelectrodes, JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY, 2023, 第 5 作者

(2) Direct In Situ Measurement of Quantum Efficiencies of Charge Separation and Proton Reduction at TiO2-Protected GaP Photocathodes, JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY, 2023, 第 1 作者

(3) Homoleptic Al(III) Photosensitizers for Durable CO2 Photoreduction, JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY, 2023, 第 9 作者

(4) Synergizing Electron and Heat Flows in Photocatalyst for Direct Conversion of Captured CO2, ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION, 2023, 第 9 作者

(5) Quantifying the Ligand-Induced Triplet Energy Transfer Barrier in aQuantum Dot-Based Upconversion System, JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY LETTERS, 2022, 通讯作者

(6) Homoleptic Al(III) Photosensitizers for Durable CO2 Photoreduction, JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY, 2022, 第 9 作者

(7) Quantifying the Ligand-Induced Triplet Energy Transfer Barrier in aQuantum Dot-Based Upconversion System br, JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY LETTERS, 2022, 通讯作者

(8) Highly Efficient Plasmon Induced Hot-Electron Transfer at Ag/TiO2 Interface, ACS PHOTONICS, 2021, 第 4 作者

(9) Mechanistic Understanding and Rational Design of Quantum Dot/Mediator Interfaces for Efficient Photon Upconversion, ACCOUNTS OF CHEMICAL RESEARCH, 2021, 第 1 作者

(10) Photodriven water oxidation initiated by a surface bound chromophore-donor-catalyst assembly, CHEMICAL SCIENCE, 2021, 第 2 作者

(11) Nanoscale TiO2 Protection Layer Enhances the Built-In Field and Charge Separation Performance of GaP Photoelectrodes, NANO LETTERS, 2021, 第 1 作者

(12) Radical Chain Reduction via Carbon Dioxide Radical Anion (CO2 center dot-), JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY, 2021, 第 3 作者

(13) Tafel Slope Analyses for Homogeneous Catalytic Reactions, CATALYSTS, 2021, 第 2 作者

(14) Enhanced intersystem crossing of boron dipyrromethene by TEMPO radical, JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS, 2020, 第 1 作者

(15) Evolution from Tunneling to Hopping Mediated Triplet Energy Transfer from Quantum Dots to Molecules, JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY, 2020, 第 2 作者

(16) Tuning the Quantum Dot (QD)/Mediator Interface for Optimal Efficiency of QD-Sensitized Near-Infrared-to-Visible Photon Upconversion Systems, ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES, 2020, 第 1 作者

(17) Anthracene Diphosphate Ligands for CdSe Quantum Dots; Molecular Design for Efficient Upconversion, CHEMISTRY OF MATERIALS, 2020, 第 6 作者

(18) Transient Second-Order Nonlinear Media: Breaking the Spatial Symmetry in the Time Domain via Hot-Electron Transfer, PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS, 2020, 第 2 作者

(19) Competition of Dexter, Forster, and charge transfer pathways for quantum dot sensitized triplet generation, JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS, 2020, 第 3 作者

(20) Enhanced triplet state generation through radical pair intermediates in BODIPY-quantum dot complexes, JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS, 2019, 第 3 作者

(21) Enhanced Near-Infrared-to-Visible Upconversion by Synthetic Control of PbS Nanocrystal Triplet Photosensitizers, JOURNALOFTHEAMERICANCHEMICALSOCIETY, 2019, 第 2 作者

(22) Direct triplet sensitization of oligothiophene by quantum dots, CHEMICAL SCIENCE, 2019, 第 1 作者

(23) Catalytic Strategy for Regioselective Arylethylamine Synthesis, JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY, 2019, 第 4 作者

(24) Structural factor in radical enhanced intersystem crossing of BODIPY, ABSTRACTS OF PAPERS OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY, 2018, 第 3 作者

(25) Sharp and Tunable Crystal/Fano-Type Resonances Enabled by Out-of-Plane Dipolar Coupling in Plasmonic Nanopatch Arrays, ANNALEN DER PHYSIK, 2018, 第 6 作者

(26) Conjugated Oligomers with Stable Radical Substituents: Synthesis, Single Crystal Structures, Electronic Structure, and Excited State Dynamics, CHEMISTRY OF MATERIALS, 2018, 第 2 作者

(27) Hot-Electron-Assisted Femtosecond All-Optical Modulation in Plasmonics, ADVANCED MATERIALS, 2018, 第 3 作者

(28) Two-dimensional morphology enhances light-driven h-2 generation efficiency in cds nanoplatelet-pt heterostructures, JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY, 2018, 第 5 作者

(29) Ultrafast Control of Phase and Polarization of Light Expedited by Hot-Electron Transfer, NANO LETTERS, 2018, 第 3 作者

(30) Low Threshold Multiexciton Optical Gain in Colloidal CdSe/CdTe Core/Crown Type-II Nanoplatelet Heterostructures, ACS NANO, 2017, 第 2 作者

(31) High Stability of Immobilized Polyoxometalates on TiO2 Nanoparticles and Nanoporous Films for Robust, Light-Induced Water Oxidation, CHEMISTRY OF MATERIALS, 2015, 第 4 作者


Students

I have 1-2 PhD-track student position available every year.

Postdoc position available, time-resolved spectroscopy/optical science background, please send your CV and representative publications to my email.