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Overview

Xingchen Ye is affiliated with Indiana University in the United States and specializes in materials science and engineering. Their research primarily spans materials chemistry, electronic, optical and magnetic materials, electrical and electronic engineering, renewable energy, sustainability and the environment, and organic chemistry.

The scientist's work focuses on several main topics including:

  • Gold and silver nanoparticles synthesis and applications
  • Quantum dots synthesis and properties
  • Electrochemical analysis and applications
  • Pickering emulsions and particle stabilization
  • Electrocatalysts for energy conversion
  • Copper-based nanomaterials and applications
  • Nanocluster synthesis and applications

Xingchen Ye has contributed articles to a range of publication venues, with the most frequent being:

  • Journal of the American Chemical Society (8 publications)
  • Nano Letters (6 publications)
  • ACS Nano (3 publications)
  • Chemistry of Materials (2 publications)
  • Materials Horizons (2 publications)

Recent papers include:

  • "Probing Single-Particle Electrocatalytic Activity at Facet-Controlled Gold Nanocrystals," 2020, Nano Letters
  • "Nanocrystal Assemblies: Current Advances and Open Problems," 2024, ACS Nano
  • "Heterometallic Seed-Mediated Growth of Monodisperse Colloidal Copper Nanorods with Widely Tunable Plasmonic Resonances," 2020, Nano Letters
  • "Unraveling the Structural Sensitivity of CO2 Electroreduction at Facet-Defined Nanocrystals via Correlative Single-Entity and Macroelectrode Measurements," 2022, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • "Structural Diversity in Dimension-Controlled Assemblies of Tetrahedral Gold Nanocrystals," 2022, Journal of the American Chemical Society

The scientist collaborates frequently with several researchers, including:

  • Soojin Jeong
  • Yi Wang
  • Yaxu Zhong
  • Jun Chen
  • Yang Liu

Best Publications

  • Using binary surfactant mixtures to simultaneously improve the dimensional tunability and monodispersity in the seeded growth of gold nanorods.

    Xingchen Ye;Chen Zheng;Jun Chen;Yuzhi Gao

  • A generalized ligand-exchange strategy enabling sequential surface functionalization of colloidal nanocrystals.

    Angang Dong;Xingchen Ye;Jun Chen;Yijin Kang

  • Improved Size-Tunable Synthesis of Monodisperse Gold Nanorods through the Use of Aromatic Additives

    Xingchen Ye;Linghua Jin;Humeyra Caglayan;Jun Chen

  • Quasicrystalline order in self-assembled binary nanoparticle superlattices

    Dmitri V. Talapin;Dmitri V. Talapin;Elena V. Shevchenko;Maryna I. Bodnarchuk;Xingchen Ye

  • Morphologically controlled synthesis of colloidal upconversion nanophosphors and their shape-directed self-assembly.

    Xingchen Ye;Joshua E. Collins;Yijin Kang;Jun Chen

  • Ligand Mediated Transformation of Cesium Lead Bromide Perovskite Nanocrystals to Lead Depleted Cs4PbBr6 Nanocrystals.

    Zeke Liu;Zeke Liu;Zeke Liu;Yehonadav Bekenstein;Yehonadav Bekenstein;Xingchen Ye;Son C. Nguyen

  • Biomolecule-assisted synthesis and electrochemical hydrogen storage of Bi2S3 flowerlike patterns with well-aligned nanorods.

    Bin Zhang;Xingchen Ye;Weiyi Hou;Yu Zhao

  • Thiocyanate-Capped Nanocrystal Colloids: Vibrational Reporter of Surface Chemistry and Solution-Based Route to Enhanced Coupling in Nanocrystal Solids

    Aaron T. Fafarman;Weon Kyu Koh;Benjamin T. Diroll;David K. Kim

  • Platinum nanocrystals selectively shaped using facet-specific peptide sequences

    Chin-Yi Chiu;Yujing Li;Lingyan Ruan;Xingchen Ye

  • Competition of shape and interaction patchiness for self-assembling nanoplates

    Xingchen Ye;Jun Chen;Michael Engel;Jaime A. Millan

  • Metal-Enhanced Upconversion Luminescence Tunable through Metal Nanoparticle–Nanophosphor Separation

    Marjan Saboktakin;Xingchen Ye;Soong Ju Oh;Sung Hoon Hong

  • Synthesis, Shape Control, and Methanol Electro-oxidation Properties of Pt–Zn Alloy and Pt3Zn Intermetallic Nanocrystals

    Yijin Kang;Jun Beom Pyo;Xingchen Ye;Thomas R Gordon

  • Exploiting the colloidal nanocrystal library to construct electronic devices.

    Ji-Hyuk Choi;Ji-Hyuk Choi;Han Wang;Soong Ju Oh;Soong Ju Oh;Taejong Paik

  • Seeded Growth of Monodisperse Gold Nanorods Using Bromide-Free Surfactant Mixtures

    Xingchen Ye;Yuzhi Gao;Jun Chen;Danielle C. Reifsnyder

  • Structural diversity in binary superlattices self-assembled from polymer-grafted nanocrystals.

    Xingchen Ye;Chenhui Zhu;Peter Ercius;Shilpa N. Raja;Shilpa N. Raja

  • Single-particle mapping of nonequilibrium nanocrystal transformations

    Xingchen Ye;Matthew R. Jones;Layne B. Frechette;Qian Chen

  • Plasmonic enhancement of nanophosphor upconversion luminescence in Au nanohole arrays.

    Marjan Saboktakin;Xingchen Ye;Uday K. Chettiar;Nader Engheta

  • Design of Pt–Pd Binary Superlattices Exploiting Shape Effects and Synergistic Effects for Oxygen Reduction Reactions

    Yijin Kang;Yijin Kang;Xingchen Ye;Xingchen Ye;Jun Chen;Jun Chen;Yun Cai;Yun Cai

  • Size‐ and Shape‐Selective Synthesis of Metal Nanocrystals and Nanowires Using CO as a Reducing Agent

    Yijin Kang;Xingchen Ye;Christopher B. Murray

  • Doubling the Efficiency of Third Harmonic Generation by Positioning ITO Nanocrystals into the Hot-Spot of Plasmonic Gap-Antennas

    Bernd Metzger;Mario Hentschel;Mario Hentschel;Thorsten Schumacher;Thorsten Schumacher;Thorsten Schumacher;Markus Lippitz;Markus Lippitz;Markus Lippitz

Frequent Co-Authors

Christopher B. Murray
Christopher B. Murray University of Pennsylvania
Cherie R. Kagan
Cherie R. Kagan University of Pennsylvania
Yijin Kang
Yijin Kang University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
A. Paul Alivisatos
A. Paul Alivisatos University of Chicago
Bin Zhang
Bin Zhang Tianjin University
Yi Xie
Yi Xie University of Science and Technology of China
Benjamin T. Diroll
Benjamin T. Diroll Argonne National Laboratory
Angang Dong
Angang Dong Fudan University
Wanli Ma
Wanli Ma Soochow University
Russell J. Composto
Russell J. Composto University of Pennsylvania

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