Du Xiwen

Research direction

Quantum dots/ ligands composite luminescent materials

Education

1.March, 1997-March, 2001,Ph. D. student in Microscope Laboratory, Tsinghua University;
2.September, 1994-March, 1997, Master student in Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Tianjin University;
3.September, 1990-July, 1994,Bachelor student in Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Shenyang Polytechnic University.

Employment history

1.September, 2010-October, 2010,visiting professor in University of Queensland, Australia.
2.June, 2007-present,full professor in Materials Science, and chair professor in the division of Functional Materials .
3.April, 2003-June, 2007, Associate Professor in Materials Science, Tianjin University.
4.April, 2002-April, 2003, Postdoctor in National Institute of Materials Science, Japan.
5.April, 2001-April, 2002, Senior Engineer in MOS17, Motorola.
6.March, 1997-March, 2001, Teach Assistant in Electron Microscope Laboratory, Tsinghua University.

Areas of research interest

1.Quantum dots/ ligands composite luminescent materials;
2.Synthesis of quantum dots by laser ablation;
3.Quantum dots sensitized solar cells

Teaching

1.Modern Techniques on Materials Analysis;
2.Introduction to Functional Materiasl;
3.Functional Materials;
4.Introduction to Innovative Research in Materials Science

Honors and awards

1.Professor Xi-Wen Du got his PhD degree from Tsinghua University in 2001, after that, he worked in Motorola company as a senior engineer for 1 year, and then entered National Institute of Materials Science, Japan for his postdoctoral research. In 2003, he became an associate professor in Tianjin University, and was promoted to full professor with exceptive admission in 2007. He was awarded the title of new century excellent talent in university, and famous teacher of Tianjin University. He won Tianjin Youth Science and Technology Award, the second prize in National Teaching Award, the first prize in Tianjin Natural Science Award, outstanding contribution award on combination of production, study and research, Baogang Excellent Teaching Award. As a chief editor, his book was awarded as the national level excellent textbook.
2.Professor Du is now a chair professor in functional materials of Tianjin University, and visiting professor of University of Queensland. He is a committee member of Chinese Crystal Society, Chinese Society of Physics, and Tianjin Society of Vacuum. Moreover, He is the director of national level excellent course.
3.Professor Du developed a theory on the luminescence from organic/inorganic hybrid materials, and achieved an unprecedented luminescent efficiency in ZnO quantum dots. He proposed a novel model on quantum dots solar cells, the related paper was selected as a cover paper and a research highlight by J. Mater. Chem. He set up a theory on controllable synthesis of nanostructures by long-pulse-width laser, and produced various novel nanostructures, which was highlighted by Nature China.
4.Professor Du took charge of more than ten research projects, including national high-tech project (863 project), national natural science foundation, and key projects from the Ministry of Education or Tianjin City. He published more than one hundred peer-reviewed papers in decent international journals, including JACS, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed./Adv. Mater./Chem. Mater., J. Mater. Chem., Langmuir, APL, and the papers were cited more than 700 times.

Research projects

1.National high-tech (863) Project"Solar cells composed of hierarchical nanostructure sensitized by quantum dots sensitized"
2.National natural science foundation " Controllable synthesis of nanostructures by millisecond pulsed laser"
3.National natural science foundation "Study on luminescence originated from interface state of quantum dots/ligands composite"
4.National natural science foundation "Self assembly of silicon quantum dots by magnetron sputtering"
5.National natural science foundation "the abnormal structure of silicon quantum dots and their high efficiency blue emission-fabrication, characterization, and electroluminescence."
6.National high-tech (863) Project "Preparation of nontoxic quantum dots probe and their functionization"
7.New century excellent talent in university project "Silicon-based high efficiency luminescent materials"
8.Key project of Natural Science Foundation of Tianjin City "Solar cells composed of ZnO hierarchical nanostructure sensitized by CdS quantum dots"
9.Key project of Natural Science Foundation of Tianjin City "The synthesis of semiconductor quantum dots and their luminescent mechanism"

Selected publications(Journal articles, patents and books)

[1] Xi-Wen Du/Xu-Bo Yuan,,2006, Tianjin University Press.(National excellent textbook)

1.            Zhang YY, Han LL, Wang CH, Wang WH, Ling T, Yang J, Dong CK, Lin F, Du XW: Zinc-Blende CdS Nanocubes with Coordinated Facets for Photocatalytic Water Splitting. ACS Catal 2017, 7(2):1470-1477.

2.            Zhang Y, Yin PF, Liu XH, Mao J, Kulinich SA, Du XW: Tuning Band Structure of Cadmium Chalcogenide Nanoflake Arrays via Alloying for Efficient Photoelectrochemical Hydrogen Evolution. Langmuir : the ACS journal of surfaces and colloids 2017, 33(26):6457-6463.

3.            Song JP, Yin PF, Mao J, Qiao SZ, Du XW: Catalytically active and chemically inert CdIn2S4 coating on a CdS photoanode for efficient and stable water splitting. Nanoscale 2017, 9(19):6296-6301.

4.            Ren KX, Yin PF, Zhou YZ, Cao XZ, Dong CK, Cui L, Liu H, Du XW: Localized Defects on Copper Sulfide Surface for Enhanced Plasmon Resonance and Water Splitting. Small 2017, 13(36) 1700867.

5.            Qiu KW, Lu M, Luo YS, Du XW: Engineering hierarchical nanotrees with CuCo2O4 trunks and NiO branches for high-performance supercapacitors. Journal of Materials Chemistry A 2017, 5(12):5820-5828.

6.            Meng C, Ling T, Ma TY, Wang H, Hu ZP, Zhou Y, Mao J, Du XW, Jaroniec M, Qiao SZ: Atomically and Electronically Coupled Pt and CoO Hybrid Nanocatalysts for Enhanced Electrocatalytic Performance. Advanced Materials 2017, 29(9) 1604607.

7.            Liu XH, Yin PF, Kulinich SA, Zhou YZ, Mao J, Ling T, Du XW: Arrays of Ultrathin CdS Nanoflakes with High-Energy Surface for Efficient Gas Detection. ACS applied materials & interfaces 2017, 9(1):602-609.

8.            Ling T, Yan DY, Wang H, Jiao Y, Hu ZP, Zheng Y, Zheng LR, Mao J, Liu H, Du XW et al: Activating cobalt(II) oxide nanorods for efficient electrocatalysis by strain engineering. Nat Commun 2017, 8. 1509

9.            Li XM, Bi MH, Cui L, Zhou YZ, Du XW, Qiao SZ, Yang J: 3D Aluminum Hybrid Plasmonic Nanostructures with Large Areas of Dense Hot Spots and Long-Term Stability. Advanced Functional Materials 2017, 27(10) 1605703.

10.          Dong CK, Fu JY, Liu H, Ling T, Yang J, Qiao SZ, Du XW: Tuning the selectivity and activity of Au catalysts for carbon dioxide electroreduction via grain boundary engineering: a DFT study. Journal of Materials Chemistry A 2017, 5(15):7184-7190.

11.          Dong C, Liu ZW, Liu JY, Wang WC, Cui L, Luo RC, Guo HL, Zheng XL, Qiao SZ, Du XW et al: Modest Oxygen-Defective Amorphous Manganese-Based Nanoparticle Mullite with Superior Overall Electrocatalytic Performance for Oxygen Reduction Reaction. Small 2017, 13(16):1603903.

12.          Zhou Y, Liu H, Yang J, Mao J, Dong CK, Ling T, Du XW: Scalable synthesis of cubic Cu1.4S nanoparticles with long-term stability by laser ablation of salt powder. Chemical Communications 2016, 52(4):811-814.

13.          Zhou Y, Dong CK, Han LL, Yang J, Du XW: Top-Down Preparation of Active Cobalt Oxide Catalyst. ACS Catal 2016, 6(10):6699-6703.

14.          Zheng XL, Song JP, Ling T, Hu ZP, Yin PF, Davey K, Du XW, Qiao SZ: Strongly Coupled Nafion Molecules and Ordered Porous CdS Networks for Enhanced Visible-Light Photoelectrochemical Hydrogen Evolution. Advanced Materials 2016, 28(24):4935-4942.

15.        Zheng XL, Dinh CT, de Arquer FPG, Zhang B, Liu M, Voznyy O, Li YY, Knight G, Hoogland S, Lu ZH et al: ZnFe2O4 Leaves Grown on TiO2 Trees Enhance Photoelectrochemical Water Splitting. Small 2016, 12(23):3181-3188.

16.          Zhang YQ, Li Z, Ling T, Kulinich SA, Du XW: Superior gas-sensing performance of amorphous CdO nanoflake arrays prepared at room temperature. Journal of Materials Chemistry A 2016, 4(22):8700-8706.

17.          Yin PF, Wang JJ, Zhou YZ, Mao J, Qin WJ, Qiao SZ, Ling T, Du XW: Engineering hollow electrodes for hybrid solar cells for efficient light harvesting and carrier collection. Journal of Materials Chemistry A 2016, 4(44):17260-17266.

18.          Ling T, Yan DY, Jiao Y, Wang H, Zheng Y, Zheng XL, Mao J, Du XW, Hu ZP, Jaroniec M et al: Engineering surface atomic structure of single-crystal cobalt (II) oxide nanorods for superior electrocatalysis. Nat Commun 2016, 7.

19.          Li Z, Dong CK, Yang J, Qiao SZ, Du XW: Laser synthesis of clean mesocrystal of cupric oxide for efficient gas sensing. Journal of Materials Chemistry A 2016, 4(7):2699-2704.

20.          Han LL, Meng QP, Wang DL, Zhu YM, Wang J, Du XW, Stach EA, Xin HL: Interrogation of bimetallic particle oxidation in three dimensions at the nanoscale. Nat Commun 2016, 7.

21.          Chen XM, Mao J, Zhou YZ, Yang J, Du XW, Qiao SZ: Laser-driven absorption/desorption of catalysts for producing nanowire arrays in solution. Journal of Materials Chemistry A 2016, 4(2):379-383.

22.          Zheng XL, Qin WJ, Ling T, Pan CF, Du XW: Carbon Nanotube Reinforced CdSe Inverse Opal with Crack-Free Structure and High Conductivity for Photovoltaic Applications. Advanced Materials Interfaces 2015, 2(2).

23.          Zhang H, Ling T, Du XW: Gas-Phase Cation Exchange toward Porous Single-Crystal CoO Nanorods for Catalytic Hydrogen Production. Chemistry of Materials 2015, 27(1):352-357.

24.          Yin PF, Ling T, Lu YR, Xu ZW, Qiao SZ, Du XW: CdS Nanoflake Arrays for Highly Efficient Light Trapping. Advanced Materials 2015, 27(4):740-745.

25.          Wu WT, Liu H, Dong C, Zheng WJ, Han LL, Li L, Qiao SZ, Yang J, Du XW: Gain High-Quality Colloidal Quantum Dots Directly from Natural Minerals. Langmuir : the ACS journal of surfaces and colloids 2015, 31(8):2251-2255.

26.          Song ST, Cui L, Yang J, Du XW: Millisecond Laser Ablation of Molybdenum Target in Reactive Gas toward MoS2 Fullerene-Like Nanoparticles with Thermally Stable Photoresponse. ACS applied materials & interfaces 2015, 7(3):1949-1954.

27.          Luo RC, Li C, Du XW, Yang J: Direct Conversion of Bulk Metals to Size-Tailored, Monodisperse Spherical Non-Coinage-Metal Nanocrystals. Angew Chem-Int Edit 2015, 54(16):4787-4791.

28.          Lu YR, Yin PF, Mao J, Ning MJ, Zhou YZ, Dong CK, Ling T, Du XW: A stable inverse opal structure of cadmium chalcogenide for efficient water splitting. Journal of Materials Chemistry A 2015, 3(36):18521-18527.

29.          Liu LB, Qin S, Wang JJ, Zheng WJ, Du XW: Photothermal synthesis of ultrafine CuxO nanoparticles on carbon nanotubes for photosensitized degradation. Chemical Communications 2015, 51(26):5660-5663.

30.          Liu H, Jin P, Xue YM, Dong CK, Li X, Tang CC, Du XW: Photochemical Synthesis of Ultrafine Cubic Boron Nitride Nanoparticles under Ambient Conditions. Angew Chem-Int Edit 2015, 54(24):7051-7054.

31.          Ling T, Wang JJ, Zhang H, Song ST, Zhou YZ, Zhao J, Du XW: Freestanding Ultrathin Metallic Nanosheets: Materials, Synthesis, and Applications. Advanced Materials 2015, 27(36):5396-5402.

32.          Huang C, Mao J, Chen XM, Yang J, Du XW: Laser-activated gold catalysts for liquid-phase growth of cadmium selenide nanowires. Chemical Communications 2015, 51(11):2145-2148.

33.          Han LL, Xin HLL, Kulinich SA, Yang LJ, Du XW: Hierarchical, Ultrathin Single-Crystal Nanowires of CdS Conveniently Produced in Laser-Induced Thermal Field. Langmuir : the ACS journal of surfaces and colloids 2015, 31(29):8162-8167.

34.          Han LL, Kulinich SA, Zhang YY, Zou J, Liu H, Wang WH, Li HB, Yang J, Xin HLL, Qiao SZ et al: Synergistic synthesis of quasi-monocrystal CdS nanoboxes with high-energy facets. Journal of Materials Chemistry A 2015, 3(46):23106-23112.

35.          Zhu ZL, Cui L, Ling T, Qiao SZ, Du XW: CdTe nanoflake arrays on a conductive substrate: template synthesis and photoresponse property. Journal of Materials Chemistry A 2014, 2(4):957-961.

36.          Wang Y, Liu MX, Ling T, Tang CC, Zhi CY, Du XW: Gas-phase anion exchange towards ZnO/ZnSe heterostructures with intensive visible light emission. J Mater Chem C 2014, 2(15):2793-2798.

37.          Wang JJ, Ling T, Qiao SZ, Du XW: Double Open-Circuit Voltage of Three-Dimensional ZnO/CdTe Solar Cells by a Balancing Depletion Layer. ACS applied materials & interfaces 2014, 6(16):14718-14723.

38.          Ling T, Kulinich SA, Zhu ZL, Qiao SZ, Du XW: Highly Conductive CdS Inverse Opals for Photochemical Solar Cells. Advanced Functional Materials 2014, 24(5):707-715.

39.          Yang J, Ling T, Wu WT, Liu H, Gao MR, Ling C, Li L, Du XW: A top-down strategy towards monodisperse colloidal lead sulphide quantum dots. Nat Commun 2013, 4.

40.          Liu H, Zhou Y, Kulinich SA, Li JJ, Han LL, Qiao SZ, Du XW: Scalable synthesis of hollow Cu2O nanocubes with unique optical properties via a simple hydrolysis-based approach. Journal of Materials Chemistry A 2013, 1(2):302-307.

41.          Liang J, Du X, Gibson C, Du XW, Qiao SZ: N-Doped Graphene Natively Grown on Hierarchical Ordered Porous Carbon for Enhanced Oxygen Reduction. Advanced Materials 2013, 25(43):6226-6231.

42.          Huang QH, Ling T, Qiao SZ, Du XW: Pyrite nanorod arrays as an efficient counter electrode for dye-sensitized solar cells. Journal of Materials Chemistry A 2013, 1(38):11828-11833.

43.          Zeng HB, Du XW, Singh SC, Kulinich SA, Yang SK, He JP, Cai WP: Nanomaterials via Laser Ablation/Irradiation in Liquid: A Review. Advanced Functional Materials 2012, 22(7):1333-1353.

44.          Jin MJ, Ma T, Ling T, Qiao SZ, Du XW: Three-dimensional networks of ITO/CdS coaxial nanofibers for photovoltaic applications. Journal of Materials Chemistry 2012, 22(26):13057-13063.

45.          Chen XY, Ling T, Du XW: Low-temperature synthesis of ZnO/CdS hierarchical nanostructure for photovoltaic application. Nanoscale 2012, 4(18):5602-5607.

46.          Niu KY, Zheng HM, Li ZQ, Yang J, Sun J, Du XW: Laser Dispersion of Detonation Nanodiamonds. Angew Chem-Int Edit 2011, 50(18):4099-4102.

47.          Ling T, Wu MK, Niu KY, Yang J, Gao ZM, Sun J, Du XW: Spongy structure of CdS nanocrystals decorated with dye molecules for semiconductor sensitized solar cells. Journal of Materials Chemistry 2011, 21(9):2883-2889.

48.          Niu KY, Yang J, Kulinich SA, Sun J, Li H, Du XW: Morphology Control of Nanostructures via Surface Reaction of Metal Nanodroplets. Journal of the American Chemical Society 2010, 132(28):9814-9819.

49.          Qin WJ, Yang XB, Lu YW, Sun J, Kulinich SA, Du XW: Silicon nanodisks via a chemical route. Chemistry of Materials 2008, 20(12):3892-3896.

50.          Fu YS, Du XW, Kulinich SA, Qiu JS, Qin WJ, Li R, Sun J, Liu J: Stable aqueous dispersion of ZnO quantum dots with strong blue emission via simple solution route. Journal of the American Chemical Society 2007, 129(51):16029-16033.

51.          Chen D, Li JJ, Shi CS, Du XW, Zhao NQ, Sheng J, Liu S: Properties of core-shell Ni-Au nanoparticles synthesized through a redox-transmetalation method in reverse microemulsion. Chemistry of Materials 2007, 19(14):3399-3405.

Social Appointments

1.Committee member of Chinese Crystal Society;
2.Committee member of Chinese Society of Physics;
3.Committee member of Tianjin Society of Vacuum;
4.Committee member of Tianjin Society of Biomedical Engineering;
5.Reviewer for more than 20 international scientific journals, including JACS, Langmuir, JPCC, APL, Carbon.