Dr. Hua Xie is currently a professor at the School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shandong University. Before returning to China, he served as an Assistant Research Scientist at the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Maryland.
Dr. Xie has long been dedicated to exploring novel material synthesis techniques and the creation of new materials by leveraging green electricity under extreme temperature conditions. His research spans applications in energy storage, environmental protection, and biomass. He has published more than 80 high-impact papers in top-tier international journals, including Nature, Science, Nature Energy, Nature Sustainability, Science Advances, and Journal of the American Chemical Society. His work has garnered more than 12,000 citations, with an H-index of 55.
Dr. Xie has received several accolades, such as the 2020 R&D 100 Innovation Award, the University of Maryland 2023 Final Outstanding Inventor Award, and the 2023 Physical Sciences Invention Award. He serves as a youth editorial board member for journals such as eScience, Energy Storage and Saving, Chinese Chemical Letters and The Innovation. Dr. Xie also has industry experience, having worked as an engineer at SAIC Volkswagen, where he gained valuable expertise in vehicle production and manufacturing.
Warmly welcome undergraduate students, graduate students, and postdoctoral researchers with relevant research backgrounds to join the group! Please contact hx(at)email.sdu.edu.cn
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES （工作经历）
06/2023 till now Shandong University (Qingdao Campus)
Principal investigator/Professor
02/2022 -06/2023 Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park
Assistant Research Scientist
08/2019-01/2022 Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park
Postdoctoral Researcher
07/2014-07/2016 Volkswagen
Engineer
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS （部分已发表文章）
(1) Xie, H., et al. A Stable Atmospheric-Pressure Plasma for Extreme-Temperature Synthesis, Nature, 2023, 10.1038/s41586-023-06694-1.
(2) Zhao, X., Li, T., Xie, H., et al. A Solution-Processed Radiative Cooling Glass, Science, 2023, 382(6671), 684-691.
(3) Xie, H., V.K., Champagne III, W., Zhong, et al. Design, Fabrication, and Screening of Environmental-Thermal Barrier Coatings Prepared by Ultrafast High Temperature Sintering, Advanced Functional Materials, 2023, 2309978.
(4) Xie, H., Qin, M., Hong, M., Rao, J., Guo, M., Luo, J. and Hu, L., Rapid liquid phase–assisted ultrahigh-temperature sintering of high-entropy ceramic composites, Science Advances, 2022, 8 (27), eabn8241.
(5) Xie, H., Xie, X., Hu, G., Prabhakaran, V., Saha, S., Gonzalez-Lopez, L., Phakatkar, A.H., Hong, M., Wu, M., Shahbazian-Yassar, R., Ramani, V., et al. Ta–TiOx nanoparticles as radical scavengers to improve the durability of Fe–N–C oxygen reduction catalysts, Nature Energy, 2022, 7 (3), 281-289.
(6) Li, Z., Chen, C., Xie, H., Yao, Y., Zhang, X., Brozena, A., Li, J., Ding, Y., Zhao, X., Hong, M., Qiao, H., et al. Sustainable high-strength macrofibres extracted from natural bamboo. Nature Sustainability, 2021, 1-10.
(7) Xie, H., Yang, C., Ren, Y., Xu, S., Hamann, T.R., McOwen, D.W., Wachsman, E.D. and Hu, L., Amorphous-carbon-coated 3D solid electrolyte for an electro-chemomechanically stable lithium metal anode in solid-state batteries. Nano Letters, 2021, 21(14): 6163-6170.
(8) Xie, H., Hong, M., Hitz, E.M., Wang, X., Cui, M., Kline, D.J., Zachariah, M.R. and Hu, L., High-temperature pulse method for nanoparticle redispersion. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2020, 142(41), 17364-17371.
(9) Hitz, E., Xie, H., Lin, Y., Connell, J.W., Rubloff, G.W., Lin, C.F. and Hu, L., Ion-conducting, electron-blocking layer for high‐performance solid electrolytes. Small Structures, 2021, 2100014.
(10) Hong, M., Dong, Q., Xie, H., Clifford, B.C., Qian, J., Wang, X., Luo, J. and Hu, L., Ultrafast sintering of solid-state electrolytes with volatile fillers. ACS Energy Letters, 2021, 6 (11), 3753-3760
(11) Xie, H., Liu, Y., Li, N., Li, B., Kline, D.J., Yao, Y., Zachariah, M.R., Wang, G., Su, D., Wang, C. and Hu, L., High-temperature-pulse synthesis of ultrathin-graphene-coated metal nanoparticles. Nano Energy, 2020, 80, 105536.
(12) Hong, M., Dong, Q., Xie, H., et al. Tailoring grain growth and densification toward a high-performance solid-state electrolyte membrane. Materials Today, 2020, 42, 41-48.
(13) Xie, H., Bao, Y., Cheng, J., Wang, C., Hitz, E.M., Yang, C., Liang, Z., Zhou, Y., He, S., Li, T. and Hu, L., Flexible garnet solid-state electrolyte membranes enabled by tile-and-grout design. ACS Energy Letters, 2019, 4(11), 2668-2674.
(14) Wang, C., Xie, H., Ping, W., Dai, J., Feng, G., Yao, Y., He, S., Weaver, J., Wang, H., Gaskell, K. and Hu, L., A general, highly efficient, high temperature thermal pulse toward high performance solid state electrolyte. Energy Storage Materials, 2019, 17, 234-241.
(15) Yang, C., Xie, H., Ping, W., Fu, K., Liu, B., Rao, J., Dai, J., Wang, C., Pastel, G. and Hu, L., An electron/ion dual‐conductive alloy framework for high-rate and high-capacity solid-state lithium-metal batteries. Advanced Materials, 2019, 31(3), 1804815.
(16) Xie, H., Yang, C., Fu, K., Yao, Y., Jiang, F., Hitz, E., Liu, B., Wang, S. and Hu, L., Flexible, scalable, and highly conductive garnet-polymer solid electrolyte templated by bacterial cellulose. Advanced Energy Materials, 2018, 8(18) 1703474.
(17) Xie, H., Fu, K., Yang, C., Yao, Y., Rao, J., Zhou, Y., Liu, B., Kirsch, D. and Hu, L., Necklace-like silicon carbide and carbon nanocomposites formed by steady joule heating. Small Methods , 2018, 1700371, 1700371.
(18) Wang, C.; Xie, H., Zhang, L., Gong, Y., Pastel, G., Dai, J., Liu, B., Wachsman, E.D. and Hu, L., Universal soldering of lithium and sodium alloys on various substrates for batteries. Advanced Energy Materials. 2017, 1701963, 1701963.
(19) Li, G., Xie, H., Yang, G., Liu, G., Li, C. and Li, C., A comprehensive sintering mechanism for TBCs‐Part II: multiscale multipoint interconnection‐enhanced initial kinetics. Journal of the American Ceramic Society, 2017, 100(9), 4240-4251.
(20) Li, G., Xie, H., Yang, G., Liu, G., Li, C. and Li, C., A comprehensive sintering mechanism for TBCs‐Part I: an overall evolution with two‐stage kinetics. Journal of the American Ceramic Society, 2017, 100(5), 2176-2189.
(21) Xie, H., Xie, Y.C., Yang, G.J., Li, C.X. and Li, C.J., Modeling thermal conductivity of thermally sprayed coatings with intrasplat cracks. Journal of thermal spray technology, 2013, 22(8), 1328-1336.
