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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Chemistry in China Leader Award
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  • 2025 - Research.com Best Female Scientists Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Chemistry in China Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Materials Science in China Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Chemistry in China Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Materials Science in China Leader Award
  • 2015 - Fellow, The World Academy of Sciences

Overview

Yi Xie is affiliated with the University of Science and Technology of China. Their research primarily revolves around materials science and engineering, with a strong focus on topics related to nuclear materials and radiation effects.

The main fields of study for Yi Xie include:

  • Materials Science
  • Engineering

Within these fields, their work spans several subfields of study, including:

  • Materials Chemistry
  • Aerospace Engineering
  • Ceramics and Composites
  • Inorganic Chemistry
  • Mechanical Engineering

The central research topics covered by Yi Xie are:

  • Nuclear materials and radiation effects
  • Nuclear Materials and Properties
  • Nuclear reactor physics and engineering
  • Fusion materials and technologies
  • Radioactive element chemistry and processing
  • Recycling and utilization of industrial and municipal waste in materials production
  • Glass properties and applications

Yi Xie has published extensively in several prominent venues, with frequent publications in:

  • Journal of Nuclear Materials
  • Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry
  • Journal of Physics Conference Series
  • Journal of the American Ceramic Society
  • Ceramics International

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Yi Xie include:

  • "Revealing 3D Morphological and Chemical Evolution Mechanisms of Metals in Molten Salt by Multimodal Microscopy," 2020, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
  • "Mechanical and leaching properties of neodymium-contaminated soil glass-ceramics," 2021, Journal of the American Ceramic Society
  • "Out-of-pile and postirradiated examination of lanthanide and lanthanide-palladium interactions for metallic fuel," 2020, Journal of Nuclear Materials
  • "Achieving high energy storage performance by LaMg0.5Ti0.5O3 modification of multiphase engineered Bi0.5Na0.5TiO3-based ceramics," 2023, Ceramics International
  • "XRD and SEM/EDS characterization of two quaternary fuel alloys (U-2.5Mo-2.5Ti-5.0Zr and U-1.5Mo-1.5Ti-7.0Zr in wt. %) for fast reactors," 2020, Materials Characterization

Frequent collaborators in Yi Xie's research include:

  • Xirui Lu
  • Guilin Wei
  • Michael Benson
  • Fen Luo
  • Zhentao Zhang

Yi Xie was awarded the title of Fellow of The World Academy of Sciences in 2015.

Best Publications

  • Defect-rich MoS2 ultrathin nanosheets with additional active edge sites for enhanced electrocatalytic hydrogen evolution

    Junfeng Xie;Hao Zhang;Shuang Li;Ruoxing Wang

  • Controllable Disorder Engineering in Oxygen-Incorporated MoS2 Ultrathin Nanosheets for Efficient Hydrogen Evolution

    Junfeng Xie;Jiajia Zhang;Shuang Li;Fabian Grote

  • Mixed transition-metal oxides: design, synthesis, and energy-related applications.

    Changzhou Yuan;Hao Bin Wu;Yi Xie;Xiong Wen David Lou

  • Enhanced Photoresponsive Ultrathin Graphitic-Phase C3N4 Nanosheets for Bioimaging

    Xiaodong Zhang;Xiao Xie;Hui Wang;Jiajia Zhang

  • Partially oxidized atomic cobalt layers for carbon dioxide electroreduction to liquid fuel

    Shan Gao;Yue Lin;Xingchen Jiao;Yongfu Sun

  • Ultrathin Spinel-Structured Nanosheets Rich in Oxygen Deficiencies for Enhanced Electrocatalytic Water Oxidation

    Jian Bao;Xiaodong Zhang;Bo Fan;Jiajia Zhang

  • Selective visible-light-driven photocatalytic CO 2 reduction to CH 4 mediated by atomically thin CuIn 5 S 8 layers

    Xiaodong Li;Yongfu Sun;Jiaqi Xu;Yanjie Shao

  • Single-Atom Pt as Co-Catalyst for Enhanced Photocatalytic H2 Evolution.

    Xiaogang Li;Wentuan Bi;Lei Zhang;Shi Tao

  • Oxygen vacancies confined in ultrathin indium oxide porous sheets for promoted visible-light water splitting.

    Fengcai Lei;Yongfu Sun;Katong Liu;Shan Gao

  • Vacancy associates promoting solar-driven photocatalytic activity of ultrathin bismuth oxychloride nanosheets

    Meili Guan;Chong Xiao;Jie Zhang;Shaojuan Fan

  • Metallic Few-Layered VS2 Ultrathin Nanosheets: High Two-Dimensional Conductivity for In-Plane Supercapacitors

    Jun Feng;Xu Sun;Changzheng Wu;Lele Peng

  • Two dimensional nanomaterials for flexible supercapacitors.

    Xu Peng;Lele Peng;Changzheng Wu;Yi Xie

  • Metallic nickel nitride nanosheets realizing enhanced electrochemical water oxidation.

    Kun Xu;Pengzuo Chen;Xiuling Li;Yun Tong

  • Low Overpotential in Vacancy-Rich Ultrathin CoSe2 Nanosheets for Water Oxidation

    Youwen Liu;Hao Cheng;Mengjie Lyu;Shaojuan Fan

  • Atomically Dispersed Iron–Nitrogen Species as Electrocatalysts for Bifunctional Oxygen Evolution and Reduction Reactions

    Pengzuo Chen;Tianpei Zhou;Lili Xing;Kun Xu

  • Ultrathin Black Phosphorus Nanosheets for Efficient Singlet Oxygen Generation

    Hui Wang;Xianzhu Yang;Wei Shao;Shichuan Chen

  • Atomically-thin two-dimensional sheets for understanding active sites in catalysis

    Yongfu Sun;Shan Gao;Fengcai Lei;Yi Xie

  • Defect-Mediated Electron–Hole Separation in One-Unit-Cell ZnIn2S4 Layers for Boosted Solar-Driven CO2 Reduction

    Xingchen Jiao;Zongwei Chen;Xiaodong Li;Yongfu Sun

  • High-Performance Flexible Broadband Photodetector Based on Organolead Halide Perovskite

    Xin Hu;Xiaodong Zhang;Lin Liang;Jian Bao

  • Ultrathin Two-Dimensional MnO2/Graphene Hybrid Nanostructures for High-Performance, Flexible Planar Supercapacitors

    Lele Peng;Xu Peng;Borui Liu;Changzheng Wu

  • Metallic Co4N Porous Nanowire Arrays Activated by Surface Oxidation as Electrocatalysts for the Oxygen Evolution Reaction

    Pengzuo Chen;Kun Xu;Zhiwei Fang;Yun Tong

Frequent Co-Authors

Changzheng Wu
Changzheng Wu University of Science and Technology of China
Yitai Qian
Yitai Qian University of Science and Technology of China
Yongfu Sun
Yongfu Sun University of Science and Technology of China
Junfeng Xie
Junfeng Xie Shandong Normal University
Shiqiang Wei
Shiqiang Wei University of Science and Technology of China
Bicai Pan
Bicai Pan University of Science and Technology of China
Wensheng Yan
Wensheng Yan University of Science and Technology of China
Jinlong Yang
Jinlong Yang University of Science and Technology of China
Yujie Xiong
Yujie Xiong University of Science and Technology of China
Wangsheng Chu
Wangsheng Chu University of Science and Technology of China

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