Name:		Yi Xie
	Address:		Department of Chemistry,  University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026, P. R. China
	Tel:		0551-3603987
	Fax:		0551-3606266
	E-mail:		yxie@ustc.edu.cn
	Research group:		Http://staff.ustc.edu.cn/~yxie

EDUCATION AND RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

• 1984.09-1988.07 B. S., Xiamen University
• 1992.09-1996.05 Ph. D., University of Science and Technology of China
• 1997.09-1998.07 Postdoctoral Fellow, State University of New York at Stony Brook
• 1996.11-1998.11 Associated Professor, University of Science and Technology of China
• 1998.11-present Professor, University of Science and Technology of China
• 2001.04-2001.06 Visiting scholar, Penn State University
• 2000.10-2005.09 the Cheung Kong Scholar, Ministry of Education, P.R. China

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Her group is pursuing cutting-edge research at four major frontiers: solid state chemistry, nanotechnology, energy science and theoretical physics. Her group is especially interested in the following topics, including (1) phase transition behavior and functionality of strongly correlated electron systems, such as transition metal oxides and chalcogenides; (2)structural design, controllable synthesis, property and theoretic study of low-dimensional inorganic functional nanostructures; (3) new fabrication approaches, functionality and energy device construction of atomically-thick semiconductor graphene analogous.

HONORS AND AWARDS

• 2010 Science and Technology Award of Anhui Province (Second Class)
• 2009 Excellent Graduate Advisor Award from Chinese Academy of Sciences
• 2008 Excellent Graduate Advisor Award from Chinese Academy of Sciences
• 2007 Science and Technology Award of Anhui Province (First Class)
• 2006 China Young Female Scientist Award
• 2006 Excellent Teachers Award from Baosteel Education Fund
• 2005 Excellent Graduate Advisor Award from Chinese Academy of Sciences
• 2003 Chinese Academy of Sciences-Bayer Young Scientist Award
• 2002 China Young Scientist Award
• 2002 Huo Yingdong Young Teachers Award
• 2001 Natural Science Award (second-class), China
• 2001 The Top Ten Women Award in Chinese Academy of China
• 2000 Natural Science Award (first-class), Chinese Academy of Sciences
• 2000 The Top Ten Women Scientists from Anhui Province
• 1999 The National Excellence Ph. D. Dissertation Award
• 1997 Young-Outstanding Scientist Prize from Chinese Academy of Sciences

RESEARCH AND ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT

International Advisory Editorial Board member of Dalton Transactions, Editorial Board member of 8 journals including: Chinese Journal of Inorganic Chemistry, ACTA CHIMICA SINICA, Journal of University of Science and Technology of China, Chemistry Central Journal, Current Inorganic Chemistry, Nanoscience & Nanotechnology-Asia, ISRN Nanotechnology, Soft Nanoscience Letters

REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS

As a corresponding author, she has published more than 200 peer reviewed articles with total citations of more than 7000, and h-index of 51. Recent publication since 2009 involves Nature Commun. (1), J. Am. Chem. Soc.(10), Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. (2), Adv. Mater. (2), Phys. Rev. Lett. (1), and Scientific Reports (2).

Five key publications:

1. Yongfu Sun, Zhihu Sun, Shan Gao, Hao Cheng, Qinghua Liu, Junyu Piao, Tao Yao, Changzheng Wu, Shuanglin Hu, Shiqiang Wei*, and Yi Xie*,Fabrication of flexible and freestanding zinc chalcogenide single-layers Nature Commun, 2012, 3, 1057
2. Xiaodong Zhang, Jiajia Zhang, Jinyang Zhao, Bicai Pan, Mingguang Kong, Jing Chen and Yi Xie*, Half-metallic ferromagnetism in synthetic Co₉Se₈ nanosheets with atomic thickness, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2012, 134, 11908-11911
3. Chong Xiao, Jie Xu, Boxiao Cao, Kun Li, Mingguang Kong, and Yi Xie*,Solid-Solutioned Homojunction Nanoplates with Disordered Lattice: a Novel Approach toward “Phonon Glass Electron Crystal” Thermoelectric Materials ,J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2012, 134, 7971–7977
4. Chong Xiao, Jie Xu, Kun Li, Jun Feng, Jinlong Yang and Yi Xie*, Superionic Phase Transition in Silver Chalcogenides Nanocrystals Realizing Optimized Thermoelectric Performance , J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2012, 134 (9), 4287-4293
5. Changzheng Wu, Feng Feng, Jun Feng, Jun Dai, Lele Peng, Jiyin Zhao, Jinlong Yang, Cheng Si, Ziyu Wu and Yi Xie*, Hydrogen-incorporation stabilization of metallic VO₂(R) phase to room temperature displaying promising low-temperature thermoelectric effect ,J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2011, 133, 13798-13801