Curriculum Vitae 

Associate Professor of HIAM at Shenzhen Polytechnic. Xiaoyuan received his B.S. (2012) and Ph.D. degree (2018) from East China University of Science and Technology. During his Ph.D. research, he studied at ShanghaiTech University, Boston Collegeand University of California, Berkeley as a joint Ph.D. student. He has published 18 papers with 11 first-authored ones, including Adv. Mater, JACS, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., Nano Lett., ACS Energy Lett.. His research mainly focuses on the design and synthesis of nanosized porous materials and the related applications.s

Selected Publications

12. H.-L. Xia, J. Zhang, J. Si, H. Wang, K. Zhou, L. Wang, J. Li, W. Sun, L.-L. Qu,* X.-Y. Liu*, J. Li*. Size- and emission-controlled synthesis of full-color luminescent metal-organic frameworks for tryptophan detection, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2023, 10.1002/anie.202308506.

11. J. Si, H.-L. Xia, K. Zhou, J. Li, J. Miao, J. Zhang, H. Wang, L.-L. Qu,* X.-Y. Liu*, J. Li*. Reticular chemistry with art: a case study of Olympic Rings-inspired metal-organic frameworks, Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2022, 144, 22170-22177.

10. H.-L. Xia, K. Zhou, J. Guo, J. Zhang, X. Huang, D. Luo, X.-Y. Liu*, J. Li*. Amino group induced structural diversity and near-infrared emission of yttrium-tetracarboxylate frameworks, Chemical Science, 2022, 13, 9321-9328.

9. H.-L. Xia, K. Zhou, S. Wu, D. Ren, K. Xing, J. Guo, X. Wang, X.-Y. Liu*, J. Li*. Building an emission library of donor-acceptor-donor type linker-based luminescent metal-organic frameworks, Chemical Science, 2022, 13, 8036-8044.

8. D. Ren, H.-L. Xia, K. Zhou, S. Wu, X.-Y. Liu*, X. Wang, J. Li*. Tuning and directing energy transfer in the whole visible spectrum through linker installation, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2021, 60, 10.1002/anie.202110531.

7. S. Wu, D. Ren, K. Zhou, H.-L. Xia, X.-Y. Liu*, X. Wang, J. Li*. Linker engineering toward full-color emission of UiO-68 type metal-organic frameworks, Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2021, 43, 10.1021/jacs.1c04810.

6. X.-Y. Liu, W. P. Lusting, J. Li*. Functionalizing luminescent metal-organic framework for enhanced photoluminescence. ACS Energy Letters, 2020, 5, 8, 2671-2680.

5. X.-Y. Liu, W.-S. Lo, C. Wu, B. P. Williams, L. Luo, Y. Li, L.-Y. Chou, Y. Lee, C.-K. Tsung*. Tuning metal-organic framework nanocrystal shape through Facet-dependent coordination. Nano Letters, 2020, 20, 3, 1774-1780.

4. X.-Y. Liu, K. Xing, Y. Li, C.-K. Tsung* and J. Li*. Three models to encapsulate multi-component dyes into nanocrystal pores: a new strategy for generating high quality white light. Journal of the American Chemical Society,2019, 141, 37, 14807-14813.

3. X.-Y. Liu, F. Zhang, T.-W. Goh, Y. Li, Y.-C. Shao, L. Luo, W. Huang, Y.-T. Long, L.-Y. Chou, C.-K. Tsung*. Using a multi-shelled hollow metal-organic framework as a host to switch the guest-to-host and guest-to-guest interactions. Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2018, 57, 2110-2114.

2. X.-Y. Liu, G. Zhang, H. Chen, H.-W. Li, J. Jiang, Y.-T. Long, Z. Ning*. Defect-controlled efficient photocatalytic hydrogen generation based on near-infrared Cu-In-Zn-S quantum dots. Nano Res., 2018, 11 (3), 1379-1388.

1. X.-Y. Liu, H. Chen, R. Wang, Y. Shang, Q. Zhang, W. Li, G. Zhang, J. Su, C. T. Dinh, F.P.G. de Arquer, J. Li, J. Jiang, Q. Mi, R. Si, X. Li, Y. Sun, Y.-T. Long, H. Tian, E. H. Sargent, Z. Ning*. 0D-2D quantum dot:metal dichalcogenide nanocomposite photocatalyst achieves efficient hydrogen generation. Advanced Materials, 2017, 29, 1605646.