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Xiuwen Zhang is affiliated with the University of Colorado Boulder in the United States. Their research focuses primarily on materials science and engineering, with significant contributions in materials chemistry and electrical and electronic engineering subfields. Zhang's work spans a total of 99 publications in materials science and 65 in engineering.

The scientist's research topics include:

  • Perovskite Materials and Applications
  • 2D Materials and Applications
  • MXene and MAX Phase Materials
  • Quantum Dots Synthesis And Properties
  • Catalytic Processes in Materials Science
  • Graphene research and applications
  • Chalcogenide Semiconductor Thin Films

Frequent venues for Zhang's research publications include:

  • Journal of Materials Chemistry C
  • Physical review. B./Physical review. B
  • Advanced Functional Materials
  • The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters
  • SSRN Electronic Journal

Some of Zhang's recent papers are:

  • Efficient and Reabsorption-Free Radioluminescence in Cs3Cu2I5 Nanocrystals with Self-Trapped Excitons, 2020, Advanced Science
  • Circularly polarized luminescence in chiral materials, 2022, Matter
  • Photophysics in Cs3Cu2X5 (X = Cl, Br, or I): Highly Luminescent Self-Trapped Excitons from Local Structure Symmetrization, 2020, Chemistry of Materials
  • Graphdiyne-Based Flexible Photodetectors with High Responsivity and Detectivity, 2020, Advanced Materials
  • Highly Luminescent Zero-Dimensional Organic Copper Halides for X-ray Scintillation, 2021, The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Zhang include:

  • Peng Zhang
  • Pu Huang
  • Alex Zunger
  • Linyuan Lian
  • Jianbo Gao

Best Publications

  • Correcting density functional theory for accurate predictions of compound enthalpies of formation: Fitted elemental-phase reference energies

    Vladan Stevanović;Stephan Lany;Xiuwen Zhang;Alex Zunger

  • Switching a Normal Insulator into a Topological Insulator via Electric Field with Application to Phosphorene

    Qihang Liu;Xiuwen Zhang;L. B. Abdalla;Adalberto Fazzio

  • Efficient and Reabsorption-Free Radioluminescence in Cs 3 Cu 2 I 5 Nanocrystals with Self-Trapped Excitons

    Linyuan Lian;Moyan Zheng;Weizhuo Zhang;Lixiao Yin

  • Electric Field Induced Topological Phase Transition in Two-Dimensional Few-layer Black Phosphorus

    Qihang Liu;Xiuwen Zhang;L. B. Abdalla;A. Fazzio

  • Composition design, optical gap and stability investigations of lead-free halide double perovskite Cs2AgInCl6

    Jun Zhou;Zhiguo Xia;Maxim S. Molokeev;Xiuwen Zhang

  • Prediction and accelerated laboratory discovery of previously unknown 18-electron ABX compounds

    Romain Gautier;Xiuwen Zhang;Linhua Hu;Liping Yu

  • Recent advances in black phosphorus-based photonics, electronics, sensors and energy devices

    Ye Zhou;Maoxian Zhang;Zhinan Guo;Lili Miao

  • Photophysics in Cs3Cu2X5 (X = Cl, Br, or I): Highly Luminescent Self-Trapped Excitons from Local Structure Symmetrization

    Linyuan Lian;Moyan Zheng;Peng Zhang;Zhi Zheng

  • Graphdiyne-Based Flexible Photodetectors with High Responsivity and Detectivity

    Ye Zhang;Pu Huang;Jia Guo;Rongchao Shi

  • Manipulation of Bi3+/In3+ Transmutation and Mn2+-Doping Effect on the Structure and Optical Properties of Double Perovskite Cs2NaBi1-xInxCl6

    Jun Zhou;Ximing Rong;Peng Zhang;Maxim S. Molokeev

  • Highly Luminescent Zero-Dimensional Organic Copper Halides for X-ray Scintillation.

    Linyuan Lian;Xi Wang;Peng Zhang;Jinsong Zhu

  • Mapping the orbital wavefunction of the surface states in three-dimensional topological insulators

    Yue Cao;J. A. Waugh;X. W. Zhang;X. W. Zhang;J. W. Luo

  • Enhanced Photodetection Properties of Tellurium@Selenium Roll-to-Roll Nanotube Heterojunctions.

    Weichun Huang;Ye Zhang;Qi You;Pu Huang

  • Lead-Free Perovskite Derivative Cs2SnCl6−xBrx Single Crystals for Narrowband Photodetectors

    Jun Zhou;Jiajun Luo;Ximing Rong;Peijia Wei

  • Excitonic Circular Dichroism of Chiral Quantum Rods.

    Xiaoqing Gao;Xiuwen Zhang;Ke Deng;Bing Han

  • Sorting Stable versus Unstable Hypothetical Compounds: The Case of Multi-Functional ABX Half-Heusler Filled Tetrahedral Structures

    Xiuwen Zhang;Liping Yu;Andriy Zakutayev;Alex Zunger

  • Theoretical Prediction and Experimental Realization of New Stable Inorganic Materials Using the Inverse Design Approach

    Andriy Zakutayev;Xiuwen Zhang;Xiuwen Zhang;Arpun R. Nagaraja;Liping Yu

  • Exploring the transposition effects on the electronic and optical properties of Cs2AgSbCl6via a combined computational-experimental approach

    Jun Zhou;Ximing Rong;Maxim S. Molokeev;Xiuwen Zhang

  • Efficient Dual-Band White-Light Emission with High Color Rendering from Zero-Dimensional Organic Copper Iodide.

    Linyuan Lian;Peng Zhang;Guijie Liang;Song Wang

  • Design and discovery of a novel half-Heusler transparent hole conductor made of all-metallic heavy elements

    Feng Yan;Xiuwen Zhang;Yonggang G. Yu;Liping Yu

  • False-positive and false-negative assignments of topological insulators in density functional theory and hybrids

    J. Vidal;X. Zhang;L. Yu;J.-W. Luo

  • Halide-Induced Self-Limited Growth of Ultrathin Nonlayered Ge Flakes for High-Performance Phototransistors

    Xiaozong Hu;Pu Huang;Bao Jin;Xiuwen Zhang

  • Self-Limited Epitaxial Growth of Ultrathin Nonlayered CdS Flakes for High-Performance Photodetectors

    Bao Jin;Pu Huang;Qi Zhang;Xing Zhou

  • Distinct Excitonic Circular Dichroism between Wurtzite and Zincblende CdSe Nanoplatelets.

    Xiaoqing Gao;Xiuwen Zhang;Luyang Zhao;Pu Huang

  • Facet Control for Trap‐State Suppression in Colloidal Quantum Dot Solids

    Yong Xia;Wei Chen;Wei Chen;Peng Zhang;Sisi Liu

  • Correcting Density Functional Theory for Accurate Predictions of Compound Enthalpies of Formation:Fitted elemental-phase Reference Energies (FERE)

    Vladan Stevanovic;Xiuwen Zhang;Stephan Lany;Alex Zunger

Frequent Co-Authors

Alex Zunger
Alex Zunger University of Colorado Boulder
Andriy Zakutayev
Andriy Zakutayev National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Han Zhang
Han Zhang Shenzhen University
Stephan Lany
Stephan Lany National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Shu-Shen Li
Shu-Shen Li Chinese Academy of Sciences
Weichun Huang
Weichun Huang Nanjing University
Liping Yu
Liping Yu University of Colorado Denver
Leiming Wu
Leiming Wu Guangdong University of Technology
Tianyou Zhai
Tianyou Zhai Huazhong University of Science and Technology
David S. Ginley
David S. Ginley National Renewable Energy Laboratory

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