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Zihao Xu

Altair Engineering (United States) · US
Area of research
Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment · Materials Chemistry
Research interest
Research interests include Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques, Quantum Dots Synthesis And Properties, Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion, and Luminescence and Fluorescent Materials.
h-index
35
citations
3,983
works
116
NIH funding
primary concept
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Recent publications

Organic solar cells with 21% efficiency enabled by a hybrid interfacial layer with dual-component synergy
Nature Materials 2025cited by 135position: middledoi
Shell Thickness and Heterogeneity Dependence of Triplet Energy Transfer between Core–Shell Quantum Dots and Adsorbed Molecules
Journal of the American Chemical Society 2025cited by 11position: middledoi
Synergizing Electron and Heat Flows in Photocatalyst for Direct Conversion of Captured CO<sub>2</sub>
Angewandte Chemie International Edition 2023cited by 45position: middledoi
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 2023cited by 21position: middledoi
Homoleptic Al(III) Photosensitizers for Durable CO<sub>2</sub> Photoreduction
Journal of the American Chemical Society 2022cited by 53position: middledoi
Quantifying the Ligand-Induced Triplet Energy Transfer Barrier in a Quantum Dot-Based Upconversion System
The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters 2022cited by 27position: lastdoi
Radical Chain Reduction via Carbon Dioxide Radical Anion (CO<sub>2</sub><sup>•–</sup>)
Journal of the American Chemical Society 2021cited by 263position: middledoi
Soft materials as biological and artificial membranes
Chemical Society Reviews 2021cited by 65position: middledoi
Highly Efficient Plasmon Induced Hot-Electron Transfer at Ag/TiO<sub>2</sub> Interface
ACS Photonics 2021cited by 62position: middledoi
Tafel Slope Analyses for Homogeneous Catalytic Reactions
Catalysts 2021cited by 43position: middledoi
Photodriven water oxidation initiated by a surface bound chromophore-donor-catalyst assembly
Chemical Science 2021cited by 25position: middledoi
Mechanistic Understanding and Rational Design of Quantum Dot/Mediator Interfaces for Efficient Photon Upconversion
Accounts of Chemical Research 2020cited by 74position: firstdoi
Anthracene Diphosphate Ligands for CdSe Quantum Dots; Molecular Design for Efficient Upconversion
Chemistry of Materials 2020cited by 69position: middledoi
Evolution from Tunneling to Hopping Mediated Triplet Energy Transfer from Quantum Dots to Molecules
Journal of the American Chemical Society 2020cited by 57position: middledoi
Competition of Dexter, Förster, and charge transfer pathways for quantum dot sensitized triplet generation
The Journal of Chemical Physics 2020cited by 47position: middledoi
Tuning the Quantum Dot (QD)/Mediator Interface for Optimal Efficiency of QD-Sensitized Near-Infrared-to-Visible Photon Upconversion Systems
ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 2020cited by 45position: firstdoi
Transient Second-Order Nonlinear Media: Breaking the Spatial Symmetry in the Time Domain via Hot-Electron Transfer
Physical Review Letters 2020cited by 45position: middledoi
Photocarrier‐Induced Active Control of Second‐Order Optical Nonlinearity in Monolayer MoS<sub>2</sub>
Small 2020cited by 31position: middledoi
Catalytic Strategy for Regioselective Arylethylamine Synthesis
Journal of the American Chemical Society 2019cited by 141position: middledoi
Enhanced Near-Infrared-to-Visible Upconversion by Synthetic Control of PbS Nanocrystal Triplet Photosensitizers
Journal of the American Chemical Society 2019cited by 89position: middledoi
Direct triplet sensitization of oligothiophene by quantum dots
Chemical Science 2019cited by 35position: firstdoi
Enhanced triplet state generation through radical pair intermediates in BODIPY-quantum dot complexes
The Journal of Chemical Physics 2019cited by 27position: middledoi
Two-Dimensional Morphology Enhances Light-Driven H<sub>2</sub> Generation Efficiency in CdS Nanoplatelet-Pt Heterostructures
Journal of the American Chemical Society 2018cited by 130position: middledoi
Radical Hydroarylation of Functionalized Olefins and Mechanistic Investigation of Photocatalytic Pyridyl Radical Reactions
Journal of the American Chemical Society 2018cited by 118position: middledoi
Hot‐Electron‐Assisted Femtosecond All‐Optical Modulation in Plasmonics
Advanced Materials 2018cited by 83position: middledoi
Ultrafast Control of Phase and Polarization of Light Expedited by Hot-Electron Transfer
Nano Letters 2018cited by 83position: middledoi
PbS/CdS Core–Shell Quantum Dots Suppress Charge Transfer and Enhance Triplet Transfer
Angewandte Chemie International Edition 2017cited by 107position: middledoi
Low Threshold Multiexciton Optical Gain in Colloidal CdSe/CdTe Core/Crown Type-II Nanoplatelet Heterostructures
ACS Nano 2017cited by 74position: middledoi
High Stability of Immobilized Polyoxometalates on TiO<sub>2</sub> Nanoparticles and Nanoporous Films for Robust, Light-Induced Water Oxidation
Chemistry of Materials 2015cited by 78position: middledoi

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Frequent collaborators

Tianquan Lian · Emory University25 papers (2015–2025)Ming Lee Tang · XLAB (Slovenia)7 papers (2017–2022)Zhiyuan Huang · University of California, Riverside6 papers (2017–2020)Tao Jin · University of Science and Technology of China6 papers (2019–2025)Kyu‐Tae Lee · Georgia Institute of Technology4 papers (2018–2020)Wenshan Cai · Georgia Institute of Technology4 papers (2018–2020)Mohammad Taghinejad · Georgia Institute of Technology4 papers (2018–2020)Fengyi Zhao · Intercontinental Exchange (United States)3 papers (2022–2023)Hossein Taghinejad · University of California, Berkeley3 papers (2018–2020)Nathan T. Jui · Georgia Institute of Technology3 papers (2018–2021)James R. McBride · University of Tennessee at Knoxville3 papers (2017–2021)Ali Adibi · Georgia Institute of Technology3 papers (2018–2020)Sean P. Rodrigues · Georgia Institute of Technology3 papers (2018–2020)Eilaf Egap · Rice University3 papers (2019–2020)Yiming Huang · University of Shanghai for Science and Technology3 papers (2019–2020)Francesco A. Evangelista · Emory University2 papers (2019–2020)Tingting Huang · Fudan University2 papers (2020–2020)Qiushi Yin · Emory University2 papers (2015–2021)Melika Mahboub · University of California, Riverside2 papers (2017–2019)Ciaran P. Seath · Scripps Research Institute2 papers (2018–2019)