Brief bio

Dr Zhu Xi obtained his bachelor degree of physics in the Special Class for the Gifted Young (SCGY) and Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Science at the Microscale,  University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) in 2006, and Ph.D. in Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore, 2011. He used to work as a research fellow in school of materials science and engineering in NTU. His research interests focus on the application of condensed mater physics theory in interdisciplinary research. His current research focus on the AI application in materials science and new energy engineering, he leads the development of the on-demand materials synthesis operation scheme “MAOS” based on the intelligent robotics, promoting the new advance of materials science in AI era. 

Selected papers

1. Jiagen Li  Yuxiao Tu  Rulin Liu  Yihua Lu  Xi Zhu，Toward “On‐Demand” Materials Synthesis and Scientific Discovery through Intelligent Robots, Adanced Science, 2020

2. Carvalho, A.; Wang, M.; Zhu, X.; Rodin, A. S.; Su, H. B.; Neto, A. H. C. Phosphorene: from theory to applications. Nature Reviews Materials 2016, 1, 16.

3. Zhu, X.; Su, H.; Marcus, R. A.; Michel-Beyerle, M. E., Computed and Experimental Absorption Spectra of the Perovskite CH3NH3PbI3. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters 2014, 5 (17), 3061-3065.

4. Lin, G.; Zhu, X.; Anand, U.; Liu, Q.; Lu, J.; Aabdin, Z.; Su, H.; Mirsaidov, U. Nanodroplet-Mediated Assembly of Platinum Nanoparticle Rings in Solution. Nano Letters 2016, 16, 1092-1096.

5. Zhu, X.; Chass, G. A.; Kwek, L.-C.; Rogach, A. L.; Su, H. Excitonic Character in Optical Properties of Tetrahedral CdX (X = S, Se, Te) Clusters. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C 2015, 119, 29171-29177.

6.  Fan, W.; Zhu, X.; Ke, F.; Chen, Y.; Dong, K.; Ji, J.; Chen, B.; Tongay, S.; Ager, J. W.; Liu, K.; Su, H.; Wu, J. Vibrational spectrum renormalization by enforced coupling across the van der Waals gap between MoS2 and WS2 monolayers. Physical Review B 2015, 92, 241408.

7. Zhu, X.; Su, H., Exciton Characteristics in Graphene Epoxide. Acs Nano 2014, 8 (2), 1284-1289.

8. Grouchko, M.; Roitman, Zhu, X.; P.; Popov, I.; Kamyshny, A.; Su, H.; Magdassi, S., Merging of metal nanoparticles driven by selective wettability of silver nanostructures. Nature Communications 2014, 5. 2994

9. Amini, S.; Masic, A.; Bertinetti, L.; Teguh, J. S.; Herrin, J. S.; Zhu, X.; Su, H.; Miserez, A., Textured fluorapatite bonded to calcium sulphate strengthen stomatopod raptorial appendages. Nature Communications 2014, 5. 3187.

10. Zhu, X.; Su, H., Scaling of Excitons in Graphene Nanoribbons with Armchair Shaped Edges. Journal of Physical Chemistry A 2011, 115 (43), 11998-12003.

11. Cai, L.; Guo, H.-M.; Zhu, X.; Du, S.-X.; Shi, D.-X.; Gao, H.-J., Conductance switching mechanism of Rose Bengal organic thin films in ambient conditions. Chinese Physics B 2009, 18 (4), 1622-1626.

12. Zhao, Y.; Zhu, X.; Huang, Y.; Wang, S.; Yang, J.; Xie, Y., Synthesis, growth mechanism, and work function at highly oriented {001} surfaces of bismuth sulfide microbelts. Journal of Physical Chemistry C 2007, 111 (33), 12145-12148.

13. Wu, C.; Yin, P.; Zhu, X.; OuYang, C.; Xie, Y., Synthesis of hematite (alpha-Fe2O3) nanorods: Diameter-size and shape effects on their applications in magnetism, lithium ion battery, and gas sensors. Journal of Physical Chemistry B 2006, 110 (36), 17806-17812.