Associate Professor
E-mail: dwxu@hust.edu.cn
Academic Area: Micro and nano scale heat transfer
Research interests: Thermal transport in low - dimensional materials, thermal management in energy storage materials
Academic Degrees
PhD, 2012, Condensed Matter Physics, Oklahoma State University, Oklahoma, USA;
Master, 2007, Condensed Matter Physics, Lanzhou University, Gansu, China.
Bachelor, 2005, Material Physics, Lanzhou University, Gansu, China.
Professional Experience
Associate Professor (Nov. 2017 - present), School of Energy and Power engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China
Postdoctoral Appointee (Feb. 2015. - Nov. 2017), Material Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, USA
Lecturer (Feb. 2014 - Dec. 2014); Department of Physical Science, Moraine Valley Community College, USA
Part-time Temporary Faculty(Aug. 2013–Dec. 2013), Department of Physics, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA
Research Staff (Sep. 2012–June 2013), Department of Physics, Michigan Technological University, USA
Selected Publications
1. Xueru Cai, Guoqing Sun,Yaxin Xu,Jinlong Ma, Dongwei Xu*, Effect of hydrogenation on thermal conductivity of 2D Gallium Nitride, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 23:22423-22429, 2021.
2. Xueru Cai, Yiming Ma, Jinlong Ma, Dongwei Xu* and Xiaobing Luo, Structure and electronic bandgap tunability of m-plane GaN multilayers, Physical chemistry chemical physics, 23:5431-5437, 2021.
3. Xueru Cai#, Yangyang Ren#, Menghao Wu, Dongwei Xu* and Xiaobing Luo, Strain-induced phase transition and giant piezoelectricity in monolayer tellurene, Nanoscale, 12:167-172, 2020.
4. Dongwei Xu, E. Mitchell Hoppera, Kee-Chul Changa, Peter M. Baldoa, Haesun Parka, Jeffrey A. Eastmana, Hoydoo Youa, Paul H. Fuossa, Brian J. Ingram and Peter Zapol, The effect of water vapor on surface oxygen exchange kinetics of thin film (La,Sr)(Co,Fe)O3-δ, Journal of Power Sources, 451:227478, 2020
5. G. Ju, D. Xu, M. J. Highland, C. Thompson, H. Zhou, J. A. Eastman, P. H. Fuoss, P. Zapol, H. Kim and G. B. Stephenson, Coherent X-ray spectroscopy reveals the persistence of island arrangements during layer-by-layer growth, Nature Physics, 15: 589–594, 2019
Awards:
2003 Chun-Tsung scholar
Courses Taught
Fundamental of Thermal Engineering
Engineering Thermodynamics
Project
National Natural Science Foundation of China:51806072, Study on the structure and thermal transport properties of two-dimensional GaN with non-polar planes, 2018/01—2021/12
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