Surface Structures & Surface Reactions



XU Research Group

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Xu Hu

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January 2024: The work entitled "Diverse degeneracy types in topological phonons: A perspective" carried out by P. Y. Qin et al. has been accepted for publication in Applied Physics Letters.

October 2023: The work entitled "Generalized Octet Rule with Fractional Occupancies for Boron" carried out by S. G. Xu et al. has been accepted for publication in Journal of the American Chemical Society.

September 2023: The work entitled "Self-surfactant effect in graphene growth on Pt(111)" carried out by X. X. Dong et al. has been accepted for publication in Physical Review B.

August 2023: The work entitled "Roles of Topological Surface States and Spin-Orbit Coupling in Catalytic Activity on Topological Insulators" carried out by X. T. Hu et al. has been accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. Applied.

August 2023: The work entitled "Paired charge-2 Weyl-Dirac phonons in tetragonal crystals" carried out by W. Peng et al. has been accepted for publication in Physical Review B.

July 2023: The work entitled "Toward hidden materials with directional bonds" carried out by S. G. Xu et al. has been accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. Materials.

June 2023: The work entitled "Understanding Oxygen Evolution Mechanisms by Tracking Charge Flow at the Atomic Level" carried out by C. M. Zhao et al. has been accepted for publication in iScience.

June 2023: The work entitled "NiO Matrix Decorated by Ru Single Atoms: Electron-Rich Ru-Induced High Activity and Selectivity toward Electrochemical N2 Reduction" carried out by X. Huang et al. has been accepted for publication in The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters.

March 2023: The work entitled "Step-guided epitaxial growth of blue phosphorene on vicinal Ag(111)" carried out by C. He et al. has been accepted for publication in Physical Review Materials.

February 2023: The work entitled "Activation of CO2 by Direct Cleavage Triggered by Photoelectrons on Rutile TiO2(110)" carried out by C. M. Zhao et al. has been accepted for publication in The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters.

January 2023: The work entitled "The surface charge induced high activity of oxygen reduction reaction on the PdTe2" carried out by X. Huang et al. has been accepted for publication in Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics.

December 2022: The work entitled "Triple hourglass Weyl phonons" carried out by G. Liu et al. has been accepted for publication in Physical Review B.

August 2022: The work entitled "Coexistence of charge-2 Dirac and Weyl phonons in chiral space groups" carried out by G. Liu et al. has been accepted for publication in Physical Review B.

August 2022: The work entitled "Five-fold symmetry in Au–Si metallic glass" carried out by C. C. He et al. has been accepted for publication in Nanoscale.

July 2022: The work entitled "Identifying the alloy structures of germanene grown on Al (111)" carried out by F. N. Yan et al. has been accepted for publication in Physical Review B.

June 2022: The work entitled "Straightforward strategy for selecting and tuning substrates for two-dimensional material epitaxy" carried out by C. He et al. has been accepted for publication in Physical Review Materials.

March 2022: The work entitled "Holes as Catalysts for CO Photo-Oxidation on Rutile TiO2(110)" carried out by C. M. Zhao et al. has been accepted for publication in The Journal of Physical Chemistry C.

February 2022: The work entitled "Hybrid nodal-ring phonons with hourglass dispersion in AgAlO2" carried out by Z. J. Chen et al. has been accepted for publication in Physical Review Materials.

January 2022: The work entitled "Type-II quadratic and cubic Weyl fermions" carried out by Y. J. Jin et al. has been accepted for publication in Physical Review B.

September 2021: The work entitled "High Anisotropic Optoelectronics in Two Dimensional Layered PbSnX2 (X = S/Se)" carried out by W. P. Xu et al. has been accepted for publication in The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters.

September 2021: The work entitled "Anchoring an Fe Dimer on Nitrogen-Doped Graphene toward Highly Efficient Electrocatalytic Ammonia Synthesis" carried out by Z. Zhang et al. has been accepted for publication in ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces.

August 2021: The work entitled "Developing Proton-Conductive Metal Coordination Polymer as Highly Efficient Electrocatalyst toward Oxygen Reduction" carried out by X. Huang et al. has been accepted for publication in The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters.

July 2021: The work entitled "Classification and materials realization of topologically robust nodal ring phonons" carried out by R. Y. Wang et al. has been accepted for publication in Physical Review Materials.

June 2021: The work entitled "Symmetry-enforced straight nodal-line phonons" carried out by G. Liu et al. has been accepted for publication in Physical Review B.

April 2021: The work entitled "Three-Dimensional Dirac Phonons with Inversion Symmetry" carried out by Z. J. Chen et al. has been accepted for publication in Physical Review Letters.

April 2021: The work entitled "Unconventional line defects engineering in two-dimensional boron monolayers" carried out by S. G. Xu et al. has been accepted for publication in Physical Review Materials.

March 2021: The work entitled "Structural Evolution and Underlying Mechanism of Single-Atom Centers on Mo2C(100) Support during Oxygen Reduction Reaction" carried out by X. Huang et al. has been accepted for publication in ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces.

February 2021: The work entitled "Tunable double Weyl phonons driven by chiral point group symmetry" carried out by Y. J. Jin et al. has been accepted for publication in Physical Review B.

January 2021: The work entitled "Avoiding Sabatier’s conflict in bifunctional heterogeneous catalysts for the WGS reaction" carried out by H. Tian et al. has been accepted for publication in Chem.

August 2020: The work entitled "Two-dimensional Dirac semimetals without inversion symmetry" carried out by Y. J. Jin et al. has been accepted for publication in Physical Review Letters.

June 2020: The work entitled "Unraveling the oxide layer on Mo2C as the active center for hydrogen evolution reaction" carried out by X. Huang et al. has been accepted for publication in Journal of Catalysis.

June 2020: The work entitled "Three-terminal Weyl complex with double surface arcs in a cubic lattice" carried out by Z. Q. Huang et al. has been accepted for publication in npj Computational Materials.

April 2020: The work entitled "Surface Adsorption and Vacancy in Tuning the Properties of Tellurene" carried out by W. P. Xu et al. has been accepted for publication in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces.

March 2020: The work entitled "Ideal type-III nodal-ring phonons" carried out by B. B. Zheng and B. W. Xia et al. has been accepted for publication as a Rapid Communication in Physical Review B.

February 2020: The work entitled "Strain-tunable out-of-plane polarization in two-dimensional materials" carried out by J. Z. Zhao, and L. C. Chen et al. has been accepted for publication as a Rapid Communication in Physical Review B.

February 2020: The work entitled "Symmetry-protected topological triangular Weyl complex" carried out by R. Wang et al. has been accepted for publication in Physical Review Letters.

July 2019: The work entitled "Two-dimensional Metal Phosphorus Network" carried out by H. Tian et al. has been accepted for publication in Matter.

July 2019: The work entitled "Symmetry-protected ideal type-II Weyl phonons in CdTe" carried out by B. W. Xia and R. Wang et al. has been accepted for publication in Physical Review Letters.

June 2019: The work entitled "Two-Dimensional Li-Based Ternary Chalcogenides for Photocatalysis" carried out by W. P. Xu et al. has been accepted for publication in The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters.

June 2019: The work entitled "New Family of Two-Dimensional Group-(II3–V2) Photoelectric Materials" carried out by W. P. Xu et al. has been accepted for publication in The Journal of Physical Chemistry C.

June 2019: The work entitled "Tunable ferromagnetic Weyl fermions from a hybrid nodal ring" carried out by B. B. Zheng et al. has been accepted for publication in npj Computational Materials.

March 2019: The work entitled "New Family of Two-Dimensional Ternary Photoelectric Materials" carried out by W. P. Xu et al. has been accepted for publication in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces.

March 2019: The work entitled "Insights into the Unusual Semiconducting Behavior in Low-Dimensional Boron" carried out by S. G. Xu et al. has been accepted for publication in Nanoscale.

February 2019: The work entitled "Ideal Nodal Line Semimetal in a Two-Dimensional Boron Bilayer" carried out by S. G. Xu et al. has been accepted for publication in The Journal of Physical Chemistry C.

February 2019: The work entitled "An Essential Descriptor for Oxygen Evolution Reaction on Reducible Metal Oxide Surfaces" carried out by X. Huang et al. has been accepted for publication in Chemical Science.

January 2019: The work entitled "Robust twin pairs of Weyl fermions in ferromagnetic oxides" carried out by B. W. Xia et al. has been accepted for publication in Physical Review Letters.

December 2018: The work entitled "Ideal intersecting nodal ring phonons in a body-centered cubic C8" carried out by Y. J. Jin et al. has been accepted for publication as a Rapid Communication in Physical Review B.

November 2018: The work entitled "Recipe for Dirac Phonon States with a Quantized Valley Berry Phase in Two-Dimensional Hexagonal Lattices" carried out by Y. J. Jin et al. has been accepted for publication in Nano Letters.

November 2018: The work entitled "Large-gap quantum anomalous Hall phase in hexagonal organometallic frameworks" carried out by Y. J. Jin et al. has been accepted for publication in Physical Review B.

November 2018: The work entitled "Extremely High Mobilities in Two-Dimensional Group-VA Binary Compounds with Large Conversion Efficiency of Solar Cell" carried out by W. P. Xu et al. has been accepted for publication in The Journal of Physical Chemistry C.

October 2018: The work entitled "Topological Rashba-like edge states in large-gap quantum spin Hall insulators" carried out by Y. J. Jin et al. has been accepted for publication in Physical Review Materials.

August 2018: The work entitled "Oxidation-Induced Topological Phase Transition in Monolayer 1T’-WTe2" carried out by J. L. Yang et al. has been accepted for publication in The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters.

July 2018: The work entitled "Three-dimensional quantum anomalous Hall effect in ferromagnetic insulators" carried out by Y. J. Jin and R. Wang et al. has been accepted for publication as a Rapid Communication in Physical Review B.

June 2018: The work entitled "Electron Compensation Mechanism for Polymorphism of Boron Monolayers" carried out by S. G. Xu et al. has been accepted for publication in Nanoscale.

June 2018: The work entitled "Adsorption Induced Indirect-to-Direct Band Gap Transition in Monolayer Blue Phosphorus" carried out by W. P. Xu et al. has been accepted for publication in The Journal of Physical Chemistry C.

May 2018: The work entitled "Ferromagnetic Weyl fermions in CrO2" carried out by R. Wang et al. has been accepted for publication as a Rapid Communication in Physical Review B.

May 2018: The work entitled "Nodal line fermions in magnetic oxides" carried out by R. Wang et al. has been accepted for publication in Physical Review B.

March 2018: The work entitled "The Intrinsic Role of Excess Electrons in Surface Reactions on Rutile TiO2 (110): Using Water and Oxygen as Probes" carried out by T. Hao et al. has been accepted for publication in The Journal of Physical Chemistry C.

December 2017: The work entitled "Controllable dissociation of H2O on CeO2 (111) surface" carried out by J. Fan et al. has been accepted for publication in Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics.

November 2017: The work entitled "Role of Surface Adsorption in Tuning the Properties of Black Phosphorus" carried out by W. P. Xu et al. has been accepted for publication in Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics.

November 2017: The work entitled "Two-Dimensional Semiconducting Boron Monolayers" carried out by S. G. Xu et al. has been accepted for publication as a Communication in The Journal of the American Chemical Society.

October 2017: The work entitled "Ferromagnetic Weyl semimetal phase in tetragonal structure" carried out by Y. J. Jin, R. Wang, and Z. J. Chen et al. has been accepted for publication as a Rapid Communication in Physical Review B.

September 2017: The work entitled "First-principles Study on the Initial Decomposition Process of CH3NH3PbI3" carried out by Y. B. Xue et al. has been accepted for publication in The Journal of Chemical Physics.

August 2017: The work entitled "Recipe for generating Weyl semimetals with extended topologically protected features" carried out by R. Wang et al. has been accepted for publication as a Rapid Communication in Physical Review B.

August 2017: The work entitled "The Prediction of a Family Group of Two-dimensional Node-Line Semimetals" carried out by Y. J. Jin et al. has been accepted for publication in Nanoscale.

July 2017: The work entitled "High Reactivity of the ZnO(0001) Polar Surface: The Role of Oxygen Adatoms" carried out by Y. Liu et al. has been accepted for publication in The Journal of Physical Chemistry C.

June 2017: The work entitled "Stable sandwich structures of two-dimensional iron borides FeBx alloy: a first-principles calculation" carried out by S. G. Xu et al. has been accepted for publication in RSC Advances.

May 2017: The work entitled "A Practical Criterion for Screening Stable Boron Nanostructures" carried out by S. G. Xu et al. has been accepted for publication in The Journal of Physical Chemistry C.

February 2017: The work entitled "Emergence of Topological Nodal Loops in Alkaline-Earth Hexaborides XB6 (X=Ca, Sr, Ba) under Pressure" carried out by L-Y. Gan et al. has been accepted for publication in Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics.

February 2017: The work entitled "Splitting methanol on ultra-thin MgO(100) films deposited on a Mo substrate" carried out by Z. J. Song et al. has been accepted for publication in Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics.

November 2016: The work entitled "Observation and Analysis of Ordered and Disordered Structures on the ZnO(0001) Polar Surface" carried out by H. Xu et al. has been accepted for publication in The Journal of Physical Chemistry C.

November 2016: The work entitled "The Enhancement of Surface Reactivity on CeO2 (111) Mediated by Subsurface Oxygen Vacancies" carried out by J. Fan et al. has been accepted for publication in The Journal of Physical Chemistry C.

October 2016: The work entitled "Surface Reactivity Enhancement by O2 Dissociation on a Single-layer MgO Film Deposited on Metal Substrate" carried out by C.Q. Li et al. has been accepted for publication in The Journal of Chemical Physics.

August 2016: The work entitled "Generation of highly reactive oxygen species on metal-supported MgO(100) thin films" carried out by Z. J. Song et al. has been accepted for publication in Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics.

August 2016: The work entitled "Quasi-One-Dimensional Metal-Insulator Transitions in Compound Semiconductor Surfaces" carried out by J. Z. Zhao et al. has been accepted for publication in Physical Review Letters.