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  • 2026 - Research.com Materials Science in United States Leader Award
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  • 2025 - Research.com Materials Science in United States Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Materials Science in United States Leader Award
  • 2011 - Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE)
  • 2009 - Fellow of the Materials Research Society
  • 2000 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Younan Xia is affiliated with Johns Hopkins University in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Materials Science and Engineering, with a particular focus on materials chemistry and its applications in energy and biomedical domains.

Their key areas of work include electrocatalysts for energy conversion, the synthesis and application of gold and silver nanoparticles, catalytic processes in materials science, nanomaterials for catalytic reactions, nanocluster synthesis and applications, copper-based nanomaterials and applications, and quantum dots synthesis and properties.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Younan Xia include Zhiheng Lyu, Ruhui Chen, Yifeng Shi, Minghao Xie, and Miaofang Chi.

The venues where Younan Xia most frequently publishes include:

  • Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Angewandte Chemie
  • Advanced Healthcare Materials
  • Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Chemistry - A European Journal

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Younan Xia are:

  • "Noble-Metal Nanocrystals with Controlled Shapes for Catalytic and Electrocatalytic Applications," 2020, Chemical Reviews
  • "Pt-Co@Pt Octahedral Nanocrystals: Enhancing Their Activity and Durability toward Oxygen Reduction with an Intermetallic Core and an Ultrathin Shell," 2021, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • "Phase-Change Materials for Controlled Release and Related Applications," 2020, Advanced Materials
  • "Controlling the Surface Oxidation of Cu Nanowires Improves Their Catalytic Selectivity and Stability toward C2+ Products in CO2 Reduction," 2020, Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • "Introduction: Heterogeneous Single-Atom Catalysis," 2020, Chemical Reviews

Younan Xia has been recognized with several fellowships, including those from the Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE) in 2011, the Materials Research Society in 2009, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in 2000.

Best Publications

  • One‐Dimensional Nanostructures: Synthesis, Characterization, and Applications

    Younan Xia;Peidong Yang;Yugang Sun;Yiying Wu

  • Shape-Controlled Synthesis of Gold and Silver Nanoparticles

    Yugang Sun;Younan Xia

  • Electrospinning of Nanofibers: Reinventing the Wheel?†

    Dan Li;Younan Xia

  • Shape‐Controlled Synthesis of Metal Nanocrystals: Simple Chemistry Meets Complex Physics?

    Younan Xia;Yujie Xiong;Byungkwon Lim;Sara E. Skrabalak

  • Electrospinning and Electrospun Nanofibers: Methods, Materials, and Applications

    Jiajia Xue;Tong Wu;Yunqian Dai;Younan Xia;Younan Xia

  • Pd-Pt Bimetallic Nanodendrites with High Activity for Oxygen Reduction

    Byungkwon Lim;Majiong Jiang;Pedro H. C. Camargo;Eun Chul Cho

  • CONTROLLING THE SYNTHESIS AND ASSEMBLY OF SILVER NANOSTRUCTURES FOR PLASMONIC APPLICATIONS

    Matthew Rycenga;Claire M. Cobley;Jie Zeng;Weiyang Li

  • Monodispersed Colloidal Spheres: Old Materials with New Applications

    Xia Yn;Gates B;Yin Yd;Lu Y

  • Soft lithography for micro- and nanoscale patterning

    Dong Qin;Younan Xia;George McClelland Whitesides

  • Engineered Nanoparticles for Drug Delivery in Cancer Therapy

    Tianmeng Sun;Yu Shrike Zhang;Bo Pang;Dong Choon Hyun

  • Unconventional Methods for Fabricating and Patterning Nanostructures.

    Younan Xia;John A. Rogers;Kateri E. Paul;George M. Whitesides

  • Gold nanostructures: engineering their plasmonic properties for biomedical applications

    Min Hu;Jingyi Chen;Zhi Yuan Li;Leslie Au

  • Electrospinning of polymeric and ceramic nanofibers as uniaxially aligned arrays

    Dan Li;Yuliang Wang;Younan Xia

  • Shape-controlled synthesis of metal nanostructures: the case of silver.

    Benjamin Wiley;Yugang Sun;Brian Mayers;Younan Xia

  • Polyol Synthesis of Uniform Silver Nanowires: A Plausible Growth Mechanism and the Supporting Evidence

    Yugang Sun;Brian Mayers;Thurston Herricks;Younan Xia

  • Crystalline Silver Nanowires by Soft Solution Processing

    Yugang Sun;Byron Gates;Brian Mayers;Younan Xia

  • Uniform silver nanowires synthesis by reducing AgNO3 with ethylene glycol in the presence of seeds and poly(vinyl pyrrolidone)

    Yugang Sun;Yadong Yin;Brian T. Mayers;Thurston Herricks

  • Localized surface plasmon resonance spectroscopy of single silver nanocubes

    Leif J. Sherry;Shih Hui Chang;George C. Schatz;Richard P. Van Duyne

  • Langmuir-Blodgett Silver Nanowire Monolayers for Molecular Sensing Using Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy

    Andrea Tao;Franklin Kim;Christian Hess;Joshua Goldberger

  • Bimetallic Nanocrystals: Syntheses, Properties, and Applications

    Kyle D. Gilroy;Aleksey Ruditskiy;Hsin-Chieh Peng;Dong Qin

  • Fabrication of Titania Nanofibers by Electrospinning

    Dan Li;Younan Xia

Frequent Co-Authors

Jingyi Chen
Jingyi Chen University of Arkansas at Fayetteville
Yadong Yin
Yadong Yin University of California, Riverside
Jie Zeng
Jie Zeng University of Science and Technology of China
George M. Whitesides
George M. Whitesides Harvard University
Benjamin J. Wiley
Benjamin J. Wiley Duke University
Zhi-Yuan Li
Zhi-Yuan Li South China University of Technology
Xiaohu Xia
Xiaohu Xia University of Central Florida
Pedro H. C. Camargo
Pedro H. C. Camargo University of Helsinki
Yugang Sun
Yugang Sun Temple University
Miaofang Chi
Miaofang Chi Oak Ridge National Laboratory

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