Background Information: 

Wei Xia is an Assistant Professor at the Eastern Institute of Technology, Ningbo, China. He holds a Ph.D. degree from Peking University and worked as a Postdoctoral Associate and Associate Research Fellow in Western University and Southern University of Science and Technology, respectively. His research interests include electrochemical energy storage and conversion, crystal structure, and neutron scattering. He has authored over 60 publications in international peer-reviewed journals, including Chemical Reviews, Nature Communications, Journal of the American Chemical Society, Angewandte Chemie, Energy & Environmental Science, Advanced Materials and Nano Letters, with more than 8800 citations and an H-index of 33.

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Research Field:

Solid-State Batteries, Neutron Scattering, Automated Synthesis and Structural Analysis of Crystalline Materials

Educational Background:

2011-2016:  Peking University, Ph.D. (Advanced Materials and Mechanics)

2014:  Argonne National Laboratory, Visiting Student

2007-2011:  University of Science and Technology Beijing, Bachelor (Material Physics)

Work Experience:

2022.07-Present:   Eastern Institute of Technology, Ningbo, Assistant Professor

2022.02-2022.06:  Southern University of Science and Technology, Associate Research Fellow

2019.09-2022.02:  Western University, Postdoctoral Associate & Visiting Professor

2019.03-2019.09:  Southern University of Science and Technology, Associate Research Fellow

2016.07-2019.02:  Battery R&D Center of World Top 500 Company, Engineer

Academic Part-time Jobs (Partial):

Young Editorial Board Member of Carbon Neutralization

Reviewer for Nature Communications, Matter, Advanced Energy Materials, etc.

Awards and Honors:

2023: World Top 2% Scientists

2021: Shenzhen Overseas High-Caliber Personnel (Level C)

2016: Outstanding PhD thesis of Peking University

Representative Works:

General Information

More than 60 SCI papers; Over 8800 Citations; H-index 33

Google Scholar:

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=0jTpNa4AAAAJ&hl=zh-CN

Web of Knowledge:

https://www.webofscience.com/wos/author/record/1887572

10 Representative Papers (‡co-first author; *corresponding author)

[1] Meng Li, Haoxiang Zhuo, Jiuwei Lei, Yaqing Guo, Yifei Yuan, Kuan Wang, Zhou Liao, Wei Xia*, Dongsheng Geng*, Xueliang Sun*, Jiangtao Hu*, Biwei Xiao*, Unravelling the structure-stability interplay of O3-type layered sodium cathode materials via precision spacing engineering, Nature Communications, 2025, 16, 2010.

[2] Hailun Jin, Jiuwei Lei, Fiaz Hussain, Wen Tang, Chunlei Zhao, Pengcheng Yu, Yuhang Li, Ming Liu, Jiaxu Zhang, Wen Yin, Wei Xia*, Yusheng Zhao, Regulating chemical bonds in halide frameworks for lithium superionic conductors, ACS Nano, 2025, 19(6), 6399-6411.

[3] Pengcheng Yu, Haochang Zhang, Fiaz Hussain, Jing Luo, Wen Tang, Jiuwei Lei, Lei Gao, Denys Butenko, Changhong Wang, Jinlong Zhu, Wen Yin, Hao Zhang, Songbai Han*, Ruqiang Zou*, Wei Chen, Yusheng Zhao, Wei Xia*, Xueliang Sun*, Lithium metal compatible antifluorite electrolytes for solid-state batteries, Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2024, 2024, 146(18): 12681-12690.

[4] Jin-Xiu Chen, Jin-Hao Zhang, Xiao-Zhong Fan, Fang-Fang Wang, Wen Tang, Wei Xia*, Yusheng Zhao*, Long Kong*, Solvating lithium and tethering aluminium using di-coordination-strength anions for low-temperature lithium metal batteries, Energy & Environmental Science, 2024, 17(12), 4036-4043.

[5] Fiaz Hussain, Jinlong Zhu*, Yusheng Zhao, Wei Xia*, Exploring superionic conduction in lithium oxyhalide solid electrolytes considering composition and structural factors, npj Computational Materials, 2024, 10, 148.

[6] Wei Xia‡, Yang Zhao‡, Feipeng Zhao‡, Keegan Adair, Ruo Zhao, Shuai Li, Ruqiang Zou*, Yusheng Zhao*, Xueliang Sun*, Antiperovskite electrolytes for solid-state batteries, Chemical Reviews, 2022, 122(3): 3763-3819.

[7] Hao Zhang‡, Wei Xia‡, Haoming Shen, Wenhan Guo, Zibin Liang, Kexin Zhang, Yingxiao Wu, Bingjun Zhu, Ruqiang Zou*, Antiperovskite intermetallic nanoparticles for enhanced oxygen reduction, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2020, 59(5): 1871-1877.

[8] Wei Xia‡, Chong Qu‡, Zibin Liang, Bote Zhao, Shuge Dai, Bin Qiu, Yang Jiao, Qiaobao Zhang, Xinyu Huang, Wenhan Guo, Dai Dang, Ruqiang Zou*, Dingguo Xia*, Qiang Xu*, Meilin Liu*, High-performance energy storage and conversion materials derived from a single metal-organic framework/graphene aerogel composite, Nano Letters, 2017, 17(5): 2788-2795.

[9] Wei Xia, Asif Mahmood, Zibin Liang, Ruqiang Zou*, Shaojun Guo*, Earth-abundant nanomaterials for oxygen reduction, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2016, 55(8): 2650-2676.

[10] Wei Xia, Ruqiang Zou*, Li An, Dingguo Xia, Shaojun Guo*, A metal-organic framework route to in situ encapsulation of Co@Co3O4@C core@bishell nanoparticles into a highly ordered porous carbon matrix for oxygen reduction, Energy & Environmental Science, 2015, 8(2): 568-576.