Prof. Xu received a bachelor degree in Materials Science & Engineering (MSE) from University of Science & Technology of China (USTC) on 2006 and a Ph. D degree in Chemistry from University of St Andrews in United Kingdom on 2009 (Supervisor: Prof. John T.S. Irvine and Prof. Shanwen Tao). He continued his research on fuel cells and photocatalysts as a research fellow in University of St Andrews with Prof. John T.S. Irvine from 2009 to 2013. He became a visiting scholar in Department of Environmental Science & Engineering at California Institute of Technology on 2011 (Supervisor: Prof. Michael R. Hoffmann). He joined School of Chemical Science & Engineering at Tongji University on 2014.

Solid state chemistry, the correlation between crystal structure and optical, electrical and photocatalytic properties, materials for energy conversions and new energy materials

1.Photocatalysis

2.Photoelectrocatalysis

3.New energy materials

4.Fuel cells

1. Awardee for Thousand Talent Youth Project (2013)

2. Membership of American Chemical Society

Prof. Xu is the corresponding author or co-author of more than 30 scientific papers including Nature Materials, Advanced Materials, ACS Nano, ACS Catalysis, Chemistry of Materials, Journal of Materials Chemistry, Applied Catalysis B-Environmental, ChemSusChem, Scientific Reports, Inorganic Chemistry, ChemCatChem, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, Dalton Transactions etc. He is also a co-author of an international patent:“Use of metallic material having specific electrical conductivity as photoactive material in photovoltaic device, and for photocatalytic splitting of water, photoreduction of carbon dioxide and photooxidation of organic contaminants”. Patent Number: WO2013061069-A1, AU2012328159-A1, US2014231241-A1, EP2771273-A1, CA2885990-A1

1. “Preparation and investigation of new spinel type photocatalysts” NSFC Young Scientists Fund (Grant No. 21401142)

20.Lingwei Lu, Meilin Lv, Di Wang, Gang Liu andXiaoxiang Xu*, “Efficient photocatalytic hydrogen production over solid solutions Sr1-xBixTi1-xFexO3 (0≤x≤0.5)”,Applied Catalysis B: Environmental, 200 (2017) 412-419

19.Meilin Lv, Yawei Wang, Lingwei Lu, Ruinan Wang, Shuang Ni, Gang Liu andXiaoxiang Xu*, “Structural dependence of photocatalytic properties over double perovskite compound A₂InTaO₆(A = Sr or Ba) doped with nickel”,Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 18 (2016) 21491-21499

18.Yinghao Xie, Yawei Wang, Zuofeng Chen andXiaoxiang Xu*, “Role of oxygen defects on the photocatalytic properties of Mg-doped mesoporous Ta₃N₅”,ChemSusChem, 9 (2016) 1403-1412(VIP Paper)

17.Xiaoqin Sun, Shuwei Wang, Cai Shen andXiaoxiang Xu*, “Efficient photocatalytic hydrogen production over Rh doped inverse spinel compound Zn₂TiO₄”,ChemCatChem, 8 (2016) 2289-2295

16.Lingwei Lu, Meilin Lv, Gang Liu andXiaoxiang Xu*, “Photocatalytic hydrogen production over solid solutions between BiFeO₃and SrTiO₃”,Applied Surface Science, 2016,in press

15.Xiaoxiang Xu*, Meilin, Lv, Xiaoqin, Sun and Gang Liu, “Role of surface composition upon the photocatalytic hydrogen production of Cr-doped and La/Cr-codoped SrTiO₃”,Journal of Materials Science, 51, (2016), 6464-6473

14.Fangfang Wu, Meilin Lv, Xiaoqin Sun, Yinghao Xie, Hongmei Chen, Shuang Ni, Gang, Liu andXiaoxiang Xu*, “Efficient photocatalytic oxygen production over nitrogen doped Sr₄Nb₂O₉under visible-light irradiation”,ChemCatChem,8, (2016), 615-623

13.Yinghao Xie, Fangfang Wu, Xiaoqin Sun, Hongmei Chen, Meilin Lv, Shuang Ni, Gang Liu andXiaoxiang Xu*, “Quinary wurtzite Zn-Ga-Ge-N-O solid solutions and their photocatalytic properties under visible light irradiation”,Scientific Reports, 6 (2016) 19060

12.Meilin Lv, Shuang Ni, Zhuo Wang, Tongcheng Cao andXiaoxiang Xu*, “Cation ordering/disordering effects upon photocatalytic activity of CrNbO₄, CrTaO₄, Sr₂CrNbO₆and Sr₂CrTaO₆”,International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 41 (2016) 1550-1558

11.Xiaoqin Sun, Yinghao Xie, Fangfang Wu, Hongmei Chen, Meilin Lv, Shuang Ni, Gang Liu andXiaoxiang Xu*, “Photocatalytic hydrogen production over chromium doped layered perovskite Sr₂TiO₄”,Inorganic Chemistry, 54 (2015) 7445-7453

10.Meilin Lv, Yinghao Xie, Yawei Wang, Xiaoqin Sun, Fangfang Wu, Hongmei Chen, Shuwei Wang, Cai Shen, Zuofeng Chen, Shuang Ni, Gang Liu andXiaoxiang Xu*, “Bismuth and chromium co-doped strontium titanates and their photocatalytic properties under visible light irradiation”,Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 17 (2015) 26320-26329

9.Hongmei Chen, Yinghao Xie, Xiaoqin Sun, Meilin Lv, Fangfang Wu, Lei Zhang, Li Li andXiaoxiang Xu*, “Efficient charge separation based on type-II g-C₃N₄/TiO₂-B nanowire/tube heterostructure photocatalysts”,Dalton Transactions, 44 (2015) 13030-13039

8.Xiaoxiang Xu*, Yinghao Xie, Shuang Ni, Abul K. Azad and Tongcheng Cao,“Photocatalytic H₂production from spinels ZnGa_2-xCr_xO₄(0 ≤ x ≤ 2) solid solutions”, Journal of Solid State Chemistry, 230 (2015) 95-101

7.Xiaoxiang Xu*, Gang Liu andAbul K. Azad, “Visible light photocatalysis by in situ growth of plasmonic Ag nanoparticles upon AgTaO₃”,International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 40 (2015) 3672-3678

6.Xiaoxiang Xu*, Abul K. Azad and John T.S. Irvine,“Photocatalytic H₂generation from spinels ZnFe₂O₄, ZnFeGaO₄and ZnGa₂O₄”,Catalysis Today, 199 (2013) 22-26

5.Xiaoxiang Xu, Chamnan Randorn, Paraskevi Efstathiou and John T.S. Irvine*, “A red metallic oxide photocatalyst”,Nature Materials,11 (2012) 7 595-598

4.Xiaoxiang Xu, Gang Liu, Chamnan Randorn and John T.S. Irvine*, “g-C₃N₄coated SrTiO₃as an efficient photocatalyst for H₂production in aqueous solution under visible light irradiation”,International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 36 (2011) 21 13501-13507

3.Xiaoxiang Xu, Shanwen Tao*, Philip Wormald and John T.S. Irvine*, “Intermediate temperature stable proton conductor base upon SnP₂O₇, including additional H₃PO₄”,Journal of Materials Chemistry, 20 (2010) 26 7827-7833

2.Xiaoxiang Xu, Shanwen Tao* and John T.S. Irvine, “Proton Conductivity of Potassium doped Barium Zirconates”,Journal of Solid State Chemistry, 183 (2010) 1 93-98

1.Xiaoxiang Xu, Shanwen Tao* and John T.S. Irvine, “Proton conductivity of Al(H₂PO₄)₃-H₃PO₄composites at intermediate temperature”,Solid State ionics, 180 (2009) 343-350