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46
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World Ranking
5131
National Ranking
994

Overview

Wentao Xu is affiliated with Nankai University in China and conducts research primarily in the fields of engineering and neuroscience. Their work spans interdisciplinary domains, with a focused interest in electrical and electronic engineering as well as cellular and molecular neuroscience.

The scientist's research addresses topics related to advanced memory and neural computing, neuroscience and neural engineering, and conducting polymers and applications. Additional topics include advanced sensor and energy harvesting materials, photoreceptor and optogenetics research, perovskite materials and applications, and neural dynamics and brain function.

Wentao Xu has published extensively in several notable scientific journals. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Advanced Functional Materials
  • Nature Communications
  • Nano Letters
  • Nano Energy
  • Advanced Science

Their recent works demonstrate a focus on materials science and neuromorphic engineering. Representative papers include:

  • Advances in the Application of Perovskite Materials, 2023, Nano-Micro Letters
  • Mimicking efferent nerves using a graphdiyne-based artificial synapse with multiple ion diffusion dynamics, 2021, Nature Communications
  • Stretchable Neuromorphic Transistor That Combines Multisensing and Information Processing for Epidermal Gesture Recognition, 2022, ACS Nano
  • Evolution of Bio-Inspired Artificial Synapses: Materials, Structures, and Mechanisms, 2020, Small
  • Mammalian-brain-inspired neuromorphic motion-cognition nerve achieves cross-modal perceptual enhancement, 2023, Nature Communications

Their collaborative work includes frequent co-authorship with researchers such as:

  • Yao Ni
  • Huanhuan Wei
  • Jiangdong Gong
  • Lin Sun
  • Jiaqi Liu

Best Publications

  • A bioinspired flexible organic artificial afferent nerve

    Yeongin Kim;Alex Chortos;Wentao Xu;Wentao Xu;Yuxin Liu

  • Enhanced Electrochemical Kinetics on Conductive Polar Mediators for Lithium–Sulfur Batteries

    Hong-Jie Peng;Ge Zhang;Xiang Chen;Ze-Wen Zhang

  • A Cooperative Interface for Highly Efficient Lithium–Sulfur Batteries

    Hong-Jie Peng;Ze-Wen Zhang;Jia-Qi Huang;Ge Zhang

  • Lithium Bond Chemistry in Lithium-Sulfur Batteries.

    Ting-Zheng Hou;Ting-Zheng Hou;Wen-Tao Xu;Wen-Tao Xu;Xiang Chen;Hong-Jie Peng

  • Organic core-sheath nanowire artificial synapses with femtojoule energy consumption.

    Wentao Xu;Sung-Yong Min;Hyunsang Hwang;Tae-Woo Lee

  • Stretchable organic optoelectronic sensorimotor synapse

    Yeongjun Lee;Yeongjun Lee;Jin Young Oh;Jin Young Oh;Wentao Xu;Wentao Xu;Onnuri Kim

  • Organometal Halide Perovskite Artificial Synapses

    Wentao Xu;Himchan Cho;Young Hoon Kim;Young Tae Kim

  • Advances in the Application of Perovskite Materials

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  • Distal radical migration strategy: an emerging synthetic means

    Weipeng Li;Wentao Xu;Jin Xie;Shouyun Yu

  • Recent Progress in Three-Terminal Artificial Synapses: From Device to System

    Hong Han;Haiyang Yu;Huanhuan Wei;Jiangdong Gong

  • 3D Carbonaceous Current Collectors: The Origin of Enhanced Cycling Stability for High‐Sulfur‐Loading Lithium–Sulfur Batteries

    Hong-Jie Peng;Wen-Tao Xu;Lin Zhu;Dai-Wei Wang

  • Healing High-Loading Sulfur Electrodes with Unprecedented Long Cycling Life: Spatial Heterogeneity Control

    Hong-Jie Peng;Jia-Qi Huang;Xin-Yan Liu;Xin-Bing Cheng

  • Recent progress in fabrication techniques of graphene nanoribbons

    Wentao Xu;Tae-Woo Lee

  • Mimicking efferent nerves using a graphdiyne-based artificial synapse with multiple ion diffusion dynamics.

    Huanhuan Wei;Rongchao Shi;Lin Sun;Haiyang Yu

  • Stretchable Neuromorphic Transistor That Combines Multisensing and Information Processing for Epidermal Gesture Recognition.

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  • Dimensionality Dependent Plasticity in Halide Perovskite Artificial Synapses for Neuromorphic Computing

    Sung-Il Kim;Yeongjun Lee;Min-Ho Park;Gyeong-Tak Go

  • Mammalian-brain-inspired neuromorphic motion-cognition nerve achieves cross-modal perceptual enhancement

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  • An artificial visual nerve for mimicking pupil reflex

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  • Organic nanowire fabrication and device applications.

    Sung-Yong Min;Tae-Sik Kim;Yeongjun Lee;Himchan Cho

  • Evolution of Bio-Inspired Artificial Synapses: Materials, Structures, and Mechanisms.

    Haiyang Yu;Huanhuan Wei;Jiangdong Gong;Hong Han

  • A bioinspired flexible neuromuscular system based thermal-annealing-free perovskite with passivation

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  • Multifunctional Heterostructures for Polysulfide Suppression in High-Performance Lithium-Sulfur Cathode.

    Manfang Chen;Wentao Xu;Sidra Jamil;Shouxin Jiang

  • Lateral Artificial Synapses on Hybrid Perovskite Platelets with Modulated Neuroplasticity

    Jiangdong Gong;Haiyang Yu;Xin Zhou;Huanhuan Wei

  • Flexible electro-optical neuromorphic transistors with tunable synaptic plasticity and nociceptive behavior

    Huanhuan Wei;Yao Ni;Lin Sun;Haiyang Yu

  • A new type of power energy for accelerating chemical reactions: the nature of a microwave-driving force for accelerating chemical reactions.

    Jicheng Zhou;Wentao Xu;Zhimin You;Zhe Wang

  • A Supramolecular Capsule for Reversible Polysulfide Storage/Delivery in Lithium-Sulfur Batteries.

    Jin Xie;Hong-Jie Peng;Jia-Qi Huang;Wen-Tao Xu

  • Recent Process of Flexible Transistor‐Structured Memory

    Yao Ni;Yongfei Wang;Wentao Xu

  • Nitrogen-doped carbon-ZnO heterojunction derived from ZIF-8: A photocatalytic antibacterial strategy for scaffold

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  • Ultrasensitive artificial synapse based on conjugated polyelectrolyte

    Wentao Xu;Wentao Xu;Thanh Luan Nguyen;Young Tae Kim;Christoph Wolf

  • Towards Stable Lithium-Sulfur Batteries with a Low Self-Discharge Rate: Ion Diffusion Modulation and Anode Protection.

    Wen-Tao Xu;Hong-Jie Peng;Jia-Qi Huang;Chen-Zi Zhao

Frequent Co-Authors

Tae-Woo Lee
Tae-Woo Lee Seoul National University
Hong-Jie Peng
Hong-Jie Peng University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
Jia-Qi Huang
Jia-Qi Huang Beijing Institute of Technology
Qiang Zhang
Qiang Zhang Tsinghua University
Jin Xie
Jin Xie Nanjing University
Qingmin Wang
Qingmin Wang Nankai University
Xiang Chen
Xiang Chen Tsinghua University
Xin-Bing Cheng
Xin-Bing Cheng Tsinghua University
Chengjian Zhu
Chengjian Zhu Nanjing University
Xianyou Wang
Xianyou Wang Xiangtan University

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