McCormick School of Engineering, Northwestern University

Jiaxing Huang

Morris E. Fine Junior Professor in Materials and Manufacturing

Education

Miller Research Fellow, University of California, Berkeley, CA

Ph.D. Chemistry, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA

B.S. Chemistry, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China

Research Interests

Materials chemistry, processing and manufacturing

Materials processing, broadly defined as the physical and chemical means to tailor materials’ chemical and micro-structures for achieving desirable properties, is the enabling factor for all material applications. Our research interest is in the general area of materials chemistry, processing, and manufacturing. Currently we are working on the following materials systems.

1. Graphene based soft materials and other 2D materials

2. Organic nanostructures

3. Metal nanostructures

4. Conducting polymer nanostructures as a platform for education of materials science and nanoscience

Selected Podcast Interviews

Materials Today Podcast: Seeing Graphene Based Sheets

JACS Podcast: Langmuir-Blodgett Assembly of Graphene Oxide

ACS Nano Podcast: "Construction of Evolutionary Tree for Morphological Engineering of Nanoparticles"

Significant Recognition

• SME Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineer Award (Society of Manufacturing Engineers, 2013)
• Inaugural ISEN Early Career Investigator Award (Northwestern University, 2012)
• Morris E. Fine Research Professor in Materials and Manufacturing (Northwestern University, 2011)
• Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow (Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, 2011)
• NSF CAREER Award (National Science Foundation, 2010)
• Miller Research Fellowship (Miller Research Institute, UC-Berkeley, 2004-2007)
• National Starch & Chemical Award (POLY/PMSE, American Chemical Society, 2006)
• MARCO Inventor Recognition Award (Microelectronics Advanced Research Corporation, 2006)
• IUPAC Prize for Young Chemists (The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry, 2005)
• Distinguished Teaching Assistant Award (Chemistry, UCLA, 2001)

Selected Publications

2D Materials 

Jiayan Luo, Jaemyung Kim and Jiaxing Huang “Material Processing of Chemically Modified Graphene: Some Challenges and Solutions” Accounts of Chemical Research, 2013, DOI: 10.1021/ar300180n

Jaemyung Kim, Laura J. Cote and Jiaxing Huang “Two Dimensional Soft Material: New Faces of Graphene Oxide” Accounts of Chemical Research, 2012, 45, 1356-1364

Jiayan Luo, Hee Dong Jang and Jiaxing Huang “Crumpled Graphene Balls for Scalable Ultracapacitors” ACS Nano, 2013, DOI: 10.1021/nn3052378

Kalyan Raidongia and Jiaxing Huang “Nanofluidic Ion Transport through Reconstructed Layered Materials” Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2012, 134, 16528-16531
Also see: Materials Today – Research News, “GO with the Nano Flow”

Jiayan Luo, Xin Zhao, Jinsong Wu, Hee Dong Jang, Harold H. Kung and Jiaxing Huang “Crumpled Graphene-Encapsulated Si Nanoparticles for Lithium Ion Battery Anodes” Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 2012, 3, 1824-1829

Vincent C. Tung, Jen-Hsien Huang, Jaemyung Kim, Alexander J. Smith, Chih-Wei Chu, Jiaxing Huang “Towards Solution Processed All-Carbon Solar Cells: A Perspective” Energy & Environmental Science, 2012, 5, 7810-7818 (invited Perspective article, featured on the inside cover)

Jiayan Luo, Hee Dong Jang, Tao Sun, Li Xiao, Zhen He, Alexandros P. Katsoulidis, Mercouri G. Kanatzidis, J. Murray Gibson, and Jiaxing Huang “Compression and Aggregation-resistant Particles of Crumpled Soft Sheets” ACS Nano, 2011, 5, 8943–8949 (cover article)
Also see: Chemistry & Industry, “Curious Minds”
Nature, “Perspective: A means to an end”
Chemical & Engineering News, “Crumpled Graphene Resists Aggregation”

Andrei Kolmakov, Dmitriy A. Dikin, Laura J. Cote, Jiaxing Huang, Majid Kazemian Abyaneh, Matteo Amati, Luca Gregoratti, Sebastian Günther and Maya Kiskinova “Graphene Oxide Windows for In-situ Environmental Cell Photoelectron Spectroscopy” Nature Nanotechnology, 2011, 6, 651-657
Also see: Nature Nanotechnology – News and Views, “Electron spectroscopy: A new window opens”

Vincent C. Tung, Jen-Hsien Huang, Ian Tevis, Franklin Kim, Jaemyung Kim, Chih-Wei Chu, Samuel I. Stupp, and Jiaxing Huang “Surfactant-free Water-processable Photoconductive All-carbon Composite” Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2011, 133, 4940-4947
Also see: Chemical & Engineering News, “A Better Way To Produce Organic Photovoltaics”
Fast Company Magazine, In “Making Solar Panels as Ubiquitous and Efficient as Leaves”

Franklin Kim, Jiayan Luo, Rodolfo Cruz-Silva, Laura J. Cote, Kwonnam Sohn and Jiaxing Huang “Self-Propagating Domino-Like Reactions in Oxidized Graphite” Advanced Functional Materials, 2010, 20, 2867-2873 (frontispiece article)
Also see: Chemical & Engineering News, “Graphite Oxide's Flammability Explained”
Chemistry & Industry, “Fire Risk for Graphene Oxide”
Journal of Materials Chemistry – Research Highlights, “Chemically modified graphene: flame retardant or fuel for combustion?”

Jaemyung Kim, Franklin Kim, Laura J. Cote, Wa Yuan, Kenneth R. Shull and Jiaxing Huang “Graphene Oxide Sheets at Interfaces” Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2010, 132, 8180-8186
Also see: Nature Chemistry – Research Highlights, “Graphene oxide: Surfactant sheets”
Ars Technica, “Graphene oxide, world’s thinnest bar of soap”

Jaemyung Kim, Laura J. Cote, Franklin Kim and Jiaxing Huang “Visualizing Graphene Based Sheets by Fluorescence Quenching Microscopy” Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2010, 132, 260-267
Also see: Nature Chemistry – Research Highlights, “Microscopy: Glowing graphene”

Laura J. Cote, Rodolfo Cruz-Silva and Jiaxing Huang “Flash Reduction and Patterning of Graphite Oxide and Its Polymer Composite” Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2009, 131, 11027-11032
Also see: Chemical & Engineering News, “Chemical Year In Review 2009”

Laura J. Cote, Franklin Kim and Jiaxing Huang “Langmuir-Blodgett Assembly of Graphite Oxide Single Layers” Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2009, 131, 1043-2049 (cover article)
Also see: Chemical & Engineering News, “Graphene: Carbon As Thin As Can Be”

Organic Nanocrystals and Nanowires

Jian Yao Zheng, Yongli Yan, Xiaopeng Wang, Yong Sheng Zhao, Jiaxing Huang and Jiannian Yao “Wire-on-wire Growth of Fluorescent Organic Heterojunctions” Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2012, 134, 2880-2883
Also see: Chemistry World, “Branched organic nanowire heterojunctions”

Yongsheng Zhao, Peng Zan, Jaemyung Kim, Cheng Sun and Jiaxing Huang “Patterned Growth of Vertical Organic Nanowire Waveguide Arrays” ACS Nano, 2010, 4, 1630-1636

Yongsheng Zhao, Jinsong Wu and Jiaxing Huang “Vertical Organic Nanowire Arrays: Controlled Synthesis and Chemical Sensors” Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2009, 131, 3158-3159

Metal Nanostructures

Ken C. Pradel, Kwon Nam Sohn and Jiaxing Huang “Cross-flow Purification of Nanowires” Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2011, 50, 3412-3416 (hot paper, featured on frontispiece)
Also see: ChemViews Magazine, “Separating the (Nano)wheat from the (Nano)chaff”

Hee Dong Jang, Hankwon Chang, Kuk Cho, Franklin Kim, Kwonnam Sohn and Jiaxing Huang “Co-assembly of Nanoparticles in Evaporating Aerosol Droplets: Preparation of Nanoporous Pt/TiO₂ Composite Particles” Aerosol Science & Technology, 2010, 44, 1140-1145

Kwon Nam Sohn, Franklin Kim, Ken Pradel, Jinsong Wu, Yong Peng, Feimeng Zhou and Jiaxing Huang “Construction of Evolutionary Tree for Morphological Engineering of Nanoparticles” ACS Nano, 2009, 3, 2191-2198
Also see: Nature Nanotechnology - Research Highlights, “Nanoparticle synthesis: Family gold”

Franklin Kim, Kwon Nam Sohn, Jinsong Wu and Jiaxing Huang “Chemical Synthesis of Au Nanowires in Acidic Solutions” Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2008, 130, 14442-14443