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Qing-Hua Xu is affiliated with the National University of Singapore in Singapore and is primarily engaged in research within the fields of Materials Science and Engineering. Their work spans multiple subfields including Materials Chemistry, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, and Biomedical Engineering.

The scientist's main research topics focus on Perovskite Materials and Applications, Crystallization and Solubility Studies, X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography, Gold and Silver Nanoparticles Synthesis and Applications, Nanocluster Synthesis and Applications, Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques, and 2D Materials and Applications.

Qing-Hua Xu has published extensively in several prominent research venues. Frequent publication venues include:

  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • ACS Nano
  • Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
  • Advanced Functional Materials

Collaborations with other researchers are a notable aspect of Xu's work. Frequent co-authors consist of:

  • Kian Ping Loh
  • Xiao Wu
  • Ziyu Zhu
  • In-Hyeok Park
  • Walter P. D. Wong

Several recent papers demonstrate the scope and focus of their research:

  • Homogeneous Carbon/Potassium-Incorporation Strategy for Synthesizing Red Polymeric Carbon Nitride Capable of Near-Infrared Photocatalytic H2 Production (2021, Advanced Materials)
  • Multidimensional nanoscopic chiroptics (2021, Nature Reviews Physics)
  • Self-Powered Photodetector Using Two-Dimensional Ferroelectric Dion-Jacobson Hybrid Perovskites (2020, Journal of the American Chemical Society)
  • π-Extended Conjugated Polymer Acceptor Containing Thienylene-Vinylene-Thienylene Unit for High-Performance Thick-Film All-Polymer Solar Cells with Superior Long-Term Stability (2021, Advanced Energy Materials)
  • Giant Emission Enhancement of Solid-State Gold Nanoclusters by Surface Engineering (2020, Angewandte Chemie International Edition)

Best Publications

  • Mechanistic Investigation of Photon Upconversion in Nd3+-Sensitized Core–Shell Nanoparticles

    Xiaoji Xie;Nengyue Gao;Renren Deng;Qiang Sun

  • Development of Targetable Two-Photon Fluorescent Probes to Image Hypochlorous Acid in Mitochondria and Lysosome in Live Cell and Inflamed Mouse Model

    Lin Yuan;Lin Yuan;Lu Wang;Bikram Keshari Agrawalla;Sung-Jin Park

  • Monolayer Graphene as a Saturable Absorber in a Mode-Locked Laser

    Qiaoliang Bao;Han Zhang;Zhenhua Ni;Yu Wang

  • A Graphene Oxide–Organic Dye Ionic Complex with DNA‐Sensing and Optical‐Limiting Properties

    Janardhan Balapanuru;Jia-Xiang Yang;Si Xiao;Qiaoliang Bao

  • Self-surface charge exfoliation and electrostatically coordinated 2D hetero-layered hybrids.

    Min-Quan Yang;Yi-Jun Xu;Wanheng Lu;Kaiyang Zeng

  • Vapour–liquid–solid growth of monolayer MoS 2 nanoribbons

    Shisheng Li;Shisheng Li;Yung Chang Lin;Wen Zhao;Jing Wu

  • Molecularly thin two-dimensional hybrid perovskites with tunable optoelectronic properties due to reversible surface relaxation.

    Kai Leng;Ibrahim Abdelwahab;Ivan Verzhbitskiy;Mykola Telychko

  • Tuneable near white-emissive two-dimensional covalent organic frameworks

    Xing Li;Qiang Gao;Juefan Wang;Yifeng Chen

  • Plasmon enhanced upconversion luminescence of NaYF4:Yb,Er@SiO2@Ag core–shell nanocomposites for cell imaging

    Peiyan Yuan;Yih Hong Lee;Muthu Kumara Gnanasammandhan;Zhenping Guan

  • Production of Monodisperse Gold Nanobipyramids with Number Percentages Approaching 100% and Evaluation of Their Plasmonic Properties

    Qian Li;Xiaolu Zhuo;Shuang Li;Qifeng Ruan

  • Plasmon-enhanced light harvesting: applications in enhanced photocatalysis, photodynamic therapy and photovoltaics

    Na Zhou;Vanesa López-Puente;Qing Wang;Lakshminarayana Polavarapu

  • Optical sensing of biological, chemical and ionic species through aggregation of plasmonic nanoparticles

    Lakshminarayana Polavarapu;Jorge Pérez-Juste;Qing-Hua Xu;Luis M. Liz-Marzán;Luis M. Liz-Marzán

  • Homogeneous Carbon/Potassium-Incorporation Strategy for Synthesizing Red Polymeric Carbon Nitride Capable of Near-Infrared Photocatalytic H2 Production

    Yangsen Xu;Mingjian Fan;Wenjuan Yang;Yonghao Xiao

  • Graphene Oxides as Tunable Broadband Nonlinear Optical Materials for Femtosecond Laser Pulses

    Xiao-Fang Jiang;Lakshminarayana Polavarapu;Shu Ting Neo;T. Venkatesan

  • Biocompatible glutathione capped gold clusters as one- and two-photon excitation fluorescence contrast agents for live cells imaging

    Lakshminarayana Polavarapu;Manoj Manna;Qing-Hua Xu

  • 20.7% highly reproducible inverted planar perovskite solar cells with enhanced fill factor and eliminated hysteresis

    Xixia Liu;Yuanhang Cheng;Chao Liu;Tianxiang Zhang

  • Photoinduced Nickel-Catalyzed Chemo- and Regioselective Hydroalkylation of Internal Alkynes with Ether and Amide α-Hetero C(sp3)–H Bonds

    Hong-Ping Deng;Xuan-Zi Fan;Zhi-Hui Chen;Qing-Hua Xu

  • Vapor-Liquid-Solid Growth of Monolayer MoS2 Nanoribbons.

    Shisheng Li;Yung-Chang Lin;Wen Zhao;Jing Wu

  • TiO2 coated Au/Ag nanorods with enhanced photocatalytic activity under visible light irradiation

    Na Zhou;Lakshminarayana Polavarapu;Nengyue Gao;Yanlin Pan

  • Metal Nanoparticles for Diagnosis and Therapy of Bacterial Infection

    Peiyan Yuan;Xin Ding;Yi Yan Yang;Qing-Hua Xu

  • A sensitive two-photon probe to selectively detect monoamine oxidase B activity in Parkinson’s disease models

    Lin Li;Cheng-Wu Zhang;Grace Y. J. Chen;Biwei Zhu

Frequent Co-Authors

Kian Ping Loh
Kian Ping Loh National University of Singapore
Lakshminarayana Polavarapu
Lakshminarayana Polavarapu Universidade de Vigo
Xiao-Fang Jiang
Xiao-Fang Jiang South China Normal University
Shao Q. Yao
Shao Q. Yao National University of Singapore
Ghim Wei Ho
Ghim Wei Ho National University of Singapore
Lei Xing
Lei Xing Stanford University
Jianyong Ouyang
Jianyong Ouyang National University of Singapore
Jingjing Chang
Jingjing Chang Xidian University
Ming-Yong Han
Ming-Yong Han Tianjin University
Yong Cao
Yong Cao South China University of Technology

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