Zhichuan Xu

Biography

Zhichuan is a professor in the School of Materials Science and Engineering, Nanyang Technological University. He received his Ph.D. degree in Electroanalytical Chemistry in 2008 and a B.S. degree in Chemistry in 2002 from Lanzhou University, China. His Ph.D. training was received at Lanzhou University (2002-2004), Institute of Physics, CAS (2004-2005), and Brown University (2005-2007). Since 2007, he worked at the State University of New York at Binghamton as a Research Associate and from 2009 he worked at Massachusetts Institute of Technology as a Postdoctoral Researcher. He was shortlisted as the finalist of 2012 NRF Fellowship.

Dr. Xu has received several awards such as Chun-Tsung Endowment Outstanding Contribution Award - Excellent Scholar in 2018 and the Zhaowu Tian Prize for Energy Electrochemistry by the International Society of Electrochemistry (ISE) in 2019. Dr. Xu is a member of the International Society of Electrochemistry (ISE), The Electrochemistry Society (ECS), and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). He was awarded a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC) in Nov. 2017.

He served as guest editors for Electrochimica Acta and Chemistry -- A European Journal, and an associate editor for Nano-Micro Letters. He is also the development editor for Current Opinion in Electrochemistry and the president of the ECS Singapore Section. Dr. Xu has published more than 150 research papers on Nature Catalysis, Nature Energy, Nature Communications, Advanced Materials, etc. and he is selected as a Highly Cited Researcher by Clarivate Analytics, Web of Science since 2018.

Research Interests

• Electrocatalysis • Electrochemical energy storage • Electrochemical interfaces • Electrochemical sensors • Magnetic nanomaterials • Chemistry for materials recycle

Current Grants

• Automated Decentralized on Demand Electrochemical Production of Hydrogen Peroxide
• Catalytic Active Catalyst Support Using Incineration Ash
• Optimizing spin channel in spinel oxides for efficient oxygen electrocatalysis
• Towards energy efficient electrochemical conversion of CO2 to synthetic chemicals in collaboration with NTU

Keywords

• Energy
• Materials Science & Engineering
• Nanotechnology & Nano-Science
• Water & Sustainability
• Chemistry and Chemical Engineering

Articles (Journal)

Highly Cited:

Hao, R., Xing, R., Xu, Z., Hou, Y., Gao, S., & Sun, S. (2010). Synthesis, functionalization, and biomedical applications of multifunctional magnetic nanoparticles. Advanced Materials, 22(25), 2729-2742. doi: 10.1002/ADMA.201000260

Lu, Y. C., Xu, Z., Gasteiger, H. A., Chen, S., Hamad-Schifferli, K., & Shao-Horn, Y. (2010). Platinum−gold nanoparticles : a highly active bifunctional electrocatalyst for rechargeable lithium−air batteries. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 132(35), 12170-12171. doi: 10.1021/JA1036572

Xu, Z., Hou, Y., & Sun, S. (2007). Magnetic core/shell Fe3O4/Au and Fe3O4/Au/Ag nanoparticles with tunable plasmonic properties. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 129(28), 8698-8699. doi: 10.1021/ja073057v

Yan, Y., Xia, B., Xu, Z., & Wang, X. (2014). Recent development of molybdenum sulfides as advanced electrocatalysts for hydrogen evolution reaction. ACS Catalysis, 4(6), 1693-1705. doi: 10.1021/CS500070X

Song, J., Wei, C., Huang, Z. F., Liu, C., Zeng, L., Wang, X., & Xu, Z. J. (2020). A review on fundamentals for designing oxygen evolution electrocatalysts. Chemical Society Reviews, 49(7), 2196-2214. doi: 10.1039/C9CS00607A

Lv, H., Yang, Z., Wang, P. L., Ji, G., Song, J., Zheng, L., ... & Xu, Z. J. (2018). A voltage‐boosting strategy enabling a low‐frequency, flexible electromagnetic wave absorption device. Advanced Materials, 30(15), 1706343. doi: 10.1002/ADMA.201706343

Zhang, X., Xie, H., Liu, Z., Tan, C., Luo, Z., Li, H., ... & Zhang, H. (2015). Black phosphorus quantum dots. Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 54(12), 3653-3657. doi: 10.1002/ANIE.201409400

Huang, Z. F., Song, J., Du, Y., Xi, S., Dou, S., Nsanzimana, J. M. V., ... & Wang, X. (2019). Chemical and structural origin of lattice oxygen oxidation in Co–Zn doi: 10.1038/S41560-019-0355-9

Ng, V. M. H., Huang, H., Zhou, K., Lee, P. S., Que, W., Xu, J. Z., & Kong, L. B. (2017). Recent progress in layered transition metal carbides and/or nitrides (MXenes) and their composites : synthesis and applications. Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 5(7), 3039-3068. doi: 10.1039/C6TA06772G

Xu, Z., Shen, C., Hou, Y., Gao, H., & Sun, S. (2009). Oleylamine as both reducing agent and stabilizer in a facile synthesis of magnetite nanoparticles. Chemistry of Materials, 21(9), 1778-1780. doi: 10.1021/CM802978Z

Recent Publication:

Wu, T., & Xu, Z. J. (2021). Oxygen evolution in spin-sensitive pathways. Current Opinion in Electrochemistry, 30, 100804. doi: 10.1016/j.coelec.2021.100804

Chen, R. R., Chen, G., Ren, X., Ge, J., Ong, S. J. H., Xi, S., ... & Xu, Z. J. (2021). SmCo5 with a reconstructed oxyhydroxide surface for spin‐selective water oxidation at elevated temperature. Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 60(49), 25884-25890. doi: 10.1002/ANIE.202109065

Ge, J., Chen, R. R., Ren, X., Liu, J., Ong, S. J. H., & Xu, Z. J. (2021). Ferromagnetic–antiferromagnetic coupling core–shell nanoparticles with spin conservation for water oxidation. Advanced Materials, 33(42), 2101091. doi: 10.1002/adma.202101091

Yu, L., Ong, S. J. H., Liu, X., Mandler, D., & Xu, Z. J. (2021). The importance of the dissolution of polysulfides in lithium-sulfur batteries and a perspective on high-energy electrolyte/cathode design. Electrochimica Acta, 392, 139013. doi: 10.1016/j.electacta.2021.139013

Ong, S. J. H., Yu, L., Chen, R. R., Wang, J., Liu, C., & Xu, Z. J. (2021). Interference effect between lithium nitrate additive and the polysulfide adsorber magnesium ferrite in lithium-sulfur cells. Journal of The Electrochemical Society, 168(9), 090556. doi: 10.1149/1945-7111/AC285A

Yuanmiao Sun, Hanbin Liao, Jiarui Wang, Bo Chen, Shengnan Sun, Samuel Jun Hoong Ong, Shibo Xi, Caozheng Diao, Yonghua Du, Jiaou Wang, Mark B.H. Breese, Shuzhou Li, Hua Zhang, Zhichuan J. Xu, Covalency Competition Dominates the Water Oxidation Structure-Activity Relationship on Spinel Oxides, Nature Catalysis, 2020, 3, 554–563

Tianze Wu, Shengnan Sun, Jiajia Song, Shibo Xi, Yonghua Du, Bo Chen, Wardhana Aji Sasangka, Hanbin Liao, Chee Lip Gan, Günther G. Scherer, Lin Zeng, Haijiang Wang, Hui Li, Alexis Grimaud, Zhichuan J. Xu, Iron-facilitated dynamic active-site generation on spinel CoAl2O4 with self-termination of surface reconstruction for water oxidation, Nature Catalysis, 2019, 2, 763–772

Yubo Chen, Haiyan Li, Jingxian Wang, Yonghua Du, Shibo Xi, Yuanmiao Sun, Matthew Sherburne, Joel W. Ager III, Adrian C. Fisher, Zhichuan J. Xu, Exceptionally Active Iridium Evolved from A Pseudo-cubic Perovskite for Oxygen Evolution in Acid, Nature Communications, 2019, 10, 572

Chao Wei, Yuanmiao Sun, Guenther G. Scherer, Adrian C. Fisher, Matthew P. Sherburne, Joel W. Ager, Zhichuan J. Xu, Surface Composition Dependent Ligand Effect in Tuning the Activity of Nickel-copper Bimetallic Electrocatalysts towards Hydrogen Evolution in Alkaline, Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2020, 142, 7765-7775

Zhichuan J. Xu, From Two-Phase to Three-Phase: The New Electrochemical Interface by Oxide Electrocatalysts, Nano-Micro Letters, 2018, 10, 8

Yuanmiao Sun, Shengnan Sun, Haitao Yang, Shibo Xi, Jose Gracia, Zhichuan J. Xu, Spin-Related Electron Transfer and Orbital Interactions in Oxygen Electrocatalysis, Advanced Materials, 2020, 32, 202003297

Shengnan Sun, Yuanmiao Sun, Ye Zhou, Shibo Xi, Xiao Ren, Bicheng Huang, Hanbin Liao, Luyuan Paul Wang, Yonghua Du, Zhichuan J. Xu, Shifting Oxygen Charge Towards Octahedral Metal: A Way to Promote Water Oxidation on Cobalt Spinel Oxides, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2019, 58, 6042-6047