Assistant Professor
| Office: | YEUNG-P5316 |
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| Phone: | +852 3442-4679 |
| Fax: | +852 3442-0522 |
| Email: | jijianxu@cityu.edu.hk |
| Web: | https://jijianxu.com/ |
| ORCID ID: | 0000-0001-7727-0488 |
| Scopus Author ID: | 57218340423 |
- Energy storage and conversion
- Electrochemistry
- Electrolyte design and interphases
- Sustainable energy
Dr. Jijian Xu received his B.S. and Ph.D. degree from Zhejiang University (ZJU) in 2014 and 2019, respectively. After three years as a postdoc with Prof. Chunsheng Wang, he was promoted as an Assistant Research Scientist at the University of Maryland (UMD). He joined City University of Hong Kong and set up his research group in 2023.
Dr. Xu's research interests focus on developing advanced electrolytes and novel electrode materials for high-energy batteries. He has authored more than 90 peer-reviewed papers in Nature, Science, Nature Energy, Nature Sustainability, Nature Synthesis, Nature Reviews Chemistry, Nature Communications, Joule, Advanced Materials (6), etc., with a total citation over 7600 times and an H-index of 38 (Google Scholar). He has obtained over 10 Chinese and PCT invention patents, two of which were granted to related companies for commercialization. Dr. XU received the Croucher Innovation Awards 2025, “Elite Youth” Award of Chinese Chemical Society, Materials Today Rising Star Award, Advanced Science “Rising Stars”, JMCA Emerging Investigator, and Battery Division Postdoctoral Associate Research Award from the Electrochemical Society.
(*corresponding author)
(Full publication list is available here: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=ylNy2ooAAAAJ&hl=zh-CN)
- J. Xu, J. Zhang, T. P. Pollard, Q. Li, T. Sha, S. Hou, H. Wan, F. Chen, H. He, E. Hu, K. Xu, X.-Q. Yang, O. Borodin*, C. Wang*, Electrolyte Design for Li-ion Batteries under Extreme Operating Conditions, Nature, 2023, 614, 694. (ESI highly cited paper)
- J. Xu, X. Ji, J. Zhang, C. Yang, P. F. Wang, S. Liu, K. Ludwig, F. Chen, P. Kofinas, C. Wang*, Aqueous Electrolyte Design for Super-Stable 2.5 V LiMn2O4||Li4Ti5O12 Pouch Cells, Nature Energy, 2022, 7, 186. (ESI highly cited paper)
- H. Wan, J. Xu*, C. Wang*. Designing electrolytes and interphases for high-energy lithium batteries, Nature Reviews Chemistry, 2024, 8, 30-44.
- J. Xu*, V. Koverga, A. Phan, A.-M. Li, N. Zhang, M. Baek, C. Jayawardana, B. L. Lucht, A. T. Ngo*, C. Wang*. Revealing the Anion-Solvent Interaction for Ultralow Temperature Lithium Metal Batteries. Advanced Materials, 2024, 36, 2306462.
- S. Sun, K. Wang, Z. Hong, M. Zhi*, K. Zhang*, J. Xu*. Electrolyte Design for Low-Temperature Li-Metal Batteries: Challenges and Prospects. Nano-Micro Letters, 2024, 16, 35. (Invited)
- L. Yue, M. Yu, X. Li, Y. Shen, Y. Wu, C. Fa, N. Li, J. Xu*. Wide Temperature Electrolytes for Lithium Batteries: Solvation Chemistry and Interfacial Reactions. Small Methods, 2024, 2400183.
- J. Xu, T. P. Pollard, C. Yang, N. K. Dandu, T. Sha, J. Zhou, J. Wamg, X. He, X. Zhang, A.-M. Li, E. Hu, X.-Q. Yang, A. Ngo, O. Borodin, C. Wang*, Lithium Halides Cathodes for Li Metal Batteries, Joule, 2023, 7, 83.
- J. Zhang, P- F. Wang, P. Bai, H. Wan, S. Liu, S. Hou, X. Pu, J. Xia, W. Zhang, Z. Wang, B, Nan, X. Zhang, J. Xu*, C. Wang*, Interfacial Design for 4.6 V High‐Voltage Single‐Crystalline LiCoO2 Cathode. Advanced Materials, 2022, 34, 2108353. (ESI highly cited paper)
- J. Xu*. Critical Review on Cathode Electrolyte Interphase towards High-Voltage Cathodes for Li-Ion Batteries, Nano-Micro Letters, 2022, 14, 166. (Invited)
- S. Hou, X. Ji, K. Gaskell, P.-f. Wang, L. Wang, J. Xu, R. Sun, O. Borodin*, C. Wang*. Solvation sheath reorganization enables divalent metal batteries with fast interfacial charge transfer kinetics. Science, 2021, 374, 172. (ESI highly cited paper)
- J. Xu, D. Wang, S. Kong, R. Li, Z. Hong*, F. Huang*. Pyrochlore phase Ce2Sn2O7 via an atom-confining strategy for reversible lithium storage. Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 2020, 8, 5744.
- J. Xu, J. He, W. Ding, Z. Hong, F. Huang*. Boosting the Stable Na Storage Performance in 1D Oxysulfide. Advanced Energy Materials, 2019, 9, 1900170.
- J. Xu, F. Xu, M. Qian, F. Xu, Z. Hong, F. Huang*. Conductive carbon nitride for excellent energy storage. Advanced Materials, 2017, 29, 1701674.
- J. Xu, W. Ding, W. Zhao, W. Zhao, Z. Hong*, F. Huang*. In situ growth enabling ideal graphene encapsulation upon mesocrystalline MTiO3 (M= Ni, Co, Fe) nanorods for stable lithium storage. ACS Energy Letters, 2017, 2, 659.
- J. Xu, W. Dong, C. Song, Y. Tang, W. Zhao, Z. Hong*, F. Huang*. Black rutile (Sn, Ti)O2 initializing electrochemically reversible Sn nanodots embedded in amorphous lithiated titania matrix for efficient lithium storage. Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 2016, 4,15698
Several positions including Postdoctoral research associate, Ph.D. Students and Research Assistants are available in Dr. Xu’s research lab (https://jijianxu.com). We welcome worldwide applications from motivated students with strong interests in chemical/ materials/energy science & engineering. Highly competitive salaries and benefits will be provided. Please feel free to contact Dr. Xu (jijianxu@cityu.edu.hk) with your CV if you are interested.
Professional service
Prof. Xu is actively involved in a wide range of professional services to the research communities and society.
- Editorial Member of Science Bulletin (Since 2025).
- Early-career Editorial Board Member of Nano-Micro Letters, eScience, Materials Futures, Battery Energy, International Journal of Minerals, Metallurgy and Materials, etc.
- Guest Editor of Energy Storage Materials (2023-2024), Batteries (2022-2023) etc.
- Reviewer for more than 30 prestigious journals such as Nature, Nature Energy, Nature Chemistry, Nature Sustainability, Nature Communications, Advanced Materials, etc.
- Fellow of the Ceramics Committee of the Chinese Crystal Society.