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Xiaolong Zou

Xiaolong Zou

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Materials Science

D-Index
65
Citations
24092
World Ranking
5502
National Ranking
1676

Overview

Xiaolong Zou is affiliated with Tsinghua University in China and has contributed extensively to the fields of Materials Science and Engineering. Their research output includes 164 publications in Materials Science and 70 in Engineering, demonstrating a focus on interdisciplinary study areas.

The scientist's work covers several subfields with a primary emphasis on Materials Chemistry, accounting for 147 publications. Other significant subfields include Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, and Mechanical Engineering.

The main topics of their research include:

  • 2D Materials and Applications
  • MXene and MAX Phase Materials
  • Graphene Research and Applications
  • Perovskite Materials and Applications
  • Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion
  • Thermal Properties of Materials
  • Advanced Battery Materials and Technologies

Xiaolong Zou has published in a range of scientific venues, with the most frequent being arXiv (Cornell University) with 15 publications. Other notable publication venues include Nature Communications (7), Nano Letters (5), ACS Nano (4), and The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters (4).

Their recent papers highlight various advanced research topics and include:

  • Epitaxial Growth of Centimeter-Scale Single-Crystal MoS2 Monolayer on Au(111), 2020, ACS Nano
  • Conversion of non-van der Waals solids to 2D transition-metal chalcogenides, 2020, Nature
  • A Ta-TaS2 monolith catalyst with robust and metallic interface for superior hydrogen evolution, 2021, Nature Communications
  • Designing Electrophilic and Nucleophilic Dual Centers in the ReS2 Plane toward Efficient Bifunctional Catalysts for Li-CO2 Batteries, 2022, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Highly efficient and selective extraction of gold by reduced graphene oxide, 2022, Nature Communications

The scientist frequently coauthors with several researchers in their field, including Hui-Ming Cheng, Bilu Liu, Junyang Tan, Shuqing Zhang, and Dashuai Wang. These frequent collaborations indicate a network supporting advancements across multiple domains within materials science and engineering.

Best Publications

  • Vertical and in-plane heterostructures from WS2/MoS2 monolayers.

    Yongji Gong;Junhao Lin;Xingli Wang;Gang Shi

  • Intrinsic Structural Defects in Monolayer Molybdenum Disulfide

    Wu Zhou;Xiaolong Zou;Sina Najmaei;Zheng Liu

  • Vapour phase growth and grain boundary structure of molybdenum disulphide atomic layers

    Sina Najmaei;Zheng Liu;Wu Zhou;Wu Zhou;Xiaolong Zou

  • Vapor Phase Growth and Grain Boundary Structure of Molybdenum Disulfide Atomic Layers

    Sina Najmaei;Zheng Liu;Wu Zhou;Xiaolong Zou

  • Chemical Vapor Deposition Growth and Applications of Two-Dimensional Materials and Their Heterostructures

    Zhengyang Cai;Bilu Liu;Xiaolong Zou;Hui-Ming Cheng;Hui-Ming Cheng;Hui-Ming Cheng

  • Morphology and surface chemistry engineering toward pH-universal catalysts for hydrogen evolution at high current density

    Yuting Luo;Lei Tang;Usman Khan;Qiangmin Yu

  • Achieving Highly Efficient, Selective, and Stable CO2 Reduction on Nitrogen-Doped Carbon Nanotubes.

    Jingjie Wu;Ram Manohar Yadav;Mingjie Liu;Pranav P Sharma

  • Strain and structure heterogeneity in MoS2 atomic layers grown by chemical vapour deposition.

    Zheng Liu;Matin Amani;Sina Najmaei;Quan Xu

  • Single-Atomic Ruthenium Catalytic Sites on Nitrogen-Doped Graphene for Oxygen Reduction Reaction in Acidic Medium.

    Chenhao Zhang;Junwei Sha;Huilong Fei;Mingjie Liu

  • Incorporation of Nitrogen Defects for Efficient Reduction of CO2 via Two-Electron Pathway on Three-Dimensional Graphene Foam

    Jingjie Wu;Mingjie Liu;Pranav P. Sharma;Ram Manohar Yadav

  • Batch production of 6-inch uniform monolayer molybdenum disulfide catalyzed by sodium in glass

    Pengfei Yang;Xiaolong Zou;Zhepeng Zhang;Min Hong

  • Predicting Dislocations and Grain Boundaries in Two-Dimensional Metal-Disulfides from the First Principles

    Xiaolong Zou;Yuanyue Liu;Boris I. Yakobson

  • Simultaneous Production and Functionalization of Boron Nitride Nanosheets by Sugar-Assisted Mechanochemical Exfoliation.

    Shaohua Chen;Runzhang Xu;Jiaman Liu;Xiaolong Zou

  • Two-Dimensional MoS2 Confined Co(OH)2 Electrocatalysts for Hydrogen Evolution in Alkaline Electrolytes

    Yuting Luo;Xu Li;Xingke Cai;Xiaolong Zou

  • Epitaxial Growth of Centimeter-Scale Single-Crystal MoS2 Monolayer on Au(111).

    Pengfei Yang;Shuqing Zhang;Shuangyuan Pan;Bin Tang

  • Probing superexchange interaction in molecular magnets by spin-flip spectroscopy and microscopy.

    Xi Chen;Ying-Shuang Fu;Ying-Shuang Fu;Shuai-Hua Ji;Shuai-Hua Ji;Tong Zhang;Tong Zhang

  • Electro-mechanical anisotropy of phosphorene

    Luqing Wang;Alex Kutana;Xiaolong Zou;Boris I. Yakobson

  • Intrinsic Magnetism of Grain Boundaries in Two-dimensional Metal Dichalcogenides

    Zhuhua Zhang;Xiaolong Zou;Vincent H. Crespi;Boris I. Yakobson

  • Boron- and Nitrogen-Substituted Graphene Nanoribbons as Efficient Catalysts for Oxygen Reduction Reaction

    Yongji Gong;Huilong Fei;Xiaolong Zou;Wu Zhou

  • Dislocation motion and grain boundary migration in two-dimensional tungsten disulphide

    Amin Azizi;Xiaolong Zou;Peter Ercius;Zhuhua Zhang

  • Dislocations and grain boundaries in two-dimensional boron nitride.

    Yuanyue Liu;Xiaolong Zou;Boris I. Yakobson

Frequent Co-Authors

Hui-Ming Cheng
Hui-Ming Cheng Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology
Boris I. Yakobson
Boris I. Yakobson Rice University
Bilu Liu
Bilu Liu Tsinghua University
Pulickel M. Ajayan
Pulickel M. Ajayan Rice University
Wenhui Duan
Wenhui Duan Tsinghua University
Jun Lou
Jun Lou Rice University
Yanfeng Zhang
Yanfeng Zhang Peking University
Wu Zhou
Wu Zhou University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
Zhuhua Zhang
Zhuhua Zhang Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Junhao Lin
Junhao Lin Southern University of Science and Technology

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