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Xinqi Chen

Research Professor

Facility Manager of Keck Interdisciplinary Surface Science (Keck-II) Center, NUANCE Center

Contact

2145 Sheridan Road
Tech AG95
Evanston, IL 60208

847-491-5505 Email Xinqi Chen

Website

Keck-II Webpage

Departments

Mechanical Engineering

Education

PhD, Electronic Engineering, 1999, Kyoto University, Japan

MS, Electrical Engineering, 1991, Xi’an Jiaotong University, China

BS, Electrical Engineering, 1988, Xi’an Jiaotong University, China

Research Interests

Nanomaterials synthesis and characterization; surface science and advanced analytical techniques

Selected Publications

Seo, B., Choi, Y., Shekhawat, G.S., Shin, M., Koo, K., Hu, X., Kim. J., Choi, W., Chen, X., Dravid, V.P., (2026). Electrically Assisted Thermal Stamping of Tunable Carbon‐Based Nanofilms for Direct Fabrication of Hydrophobic, Energy Harvesting, and Sensing Devices, Advanced Materials, e16478.

Seo, B., Choi, Y., Noh, D., Kim, J., Chen, X., Choi, W., (2025). Triangular electrode arrangement for minimizing electrode density and footprint in tactile sensors and flexible electronics, Device, 3 (3).

Seo, B., Noh, D., Choi, Y., Chen, X., Hu, R., Choi, W., (2024). Mechanical‐Stimuli‐Driven Pseudo‐Conductive Channels Along Dielectric Heterojunction Interfaces for Mechanoelectric Energy Conversion and Transmission, Advanced Materials, 37 (8), 2416952.

Koo, K., Li, Z., Liu, Y., Ribet, S. M., Fu, X., Jia, Y., Chen, X., Shekhawat, G., Smeets, P. J. M., Reis, R. D., Park, J., Yuk, J. M., Hu, X., & Dravid, V. P. (2024). Ultrathin silicon nitride microchip for in situ/operando microscopy with high spatial resolution and spectral visibility. Science Advances, 10(3), eadj6417.

Lin, Y., Gao, X., Yue, J., Fang, Y., Shi, J., Meng, L., Clayton, C., Zhang, X. X., Shi, F., Deng, J., Chen, S., Jiang, Y., Marin, F., Hu, J., Tsai, H. M., Tu, Q., Roth, E. W., Bleher, R., Chen, X., P Griffin, Z Cai, A Prominski, T W Odom, Tian, B. (2023). A soil-inspired dynamically responsive chemical system for microbial modulation. Nature Chemistry, 15(1), 119-128.

Shehzad, M. A., Das, P. M., Tyner, A. C., Cheng, M., Lee, Y. S., Goswami, P., Dos Reis, R., Chen, X., & Dravid, V. P. (2022). Synthesis of layered vs planar Mo₂C: Role of Mo diffusion. 2D Materials, 9(1), Article 015039.

Shehzad, M. A., Lee, Y. S., Cheng, M., Lebedev, D., Das, P. M., Gao, Z., dos Reis, R., Hersam, M. C., Dravid, V. P., Goswami, P., Shehzad, M. A., dos Reis, R., Chen, X., Dravid, V. P., Tyner, A. C., Goswami, P., Hersam, M. C., Hersam, M. C., & Chen, X. (2022). Vapor-liquid assisted chemical vapor deposition of Cu₂X materials. 2D Materials, 9(4), Article 045013.

Xu, X., Carr, C., Chen, X., Myers, B. D., Huang, R., Yuan, W., Choi, S., Yi, D., Phatak, C., & Haile, S. M. (2021). Local Multimodal Electro-Chemical-Structural Characterization of Solid-Electrolyte Grain Boundaries. Advanced Energy Materials, 11(10), Article 2003309.

Du, J., Rong, Q., Chen, X., Liu, Q., & Dravid, V. (2020). Hierarchically Structured Mixed Oxide Electrodes for Oxygen Evolution Reaction: A Multimodal Electron Microscopy Study. Microscopy and Microanalysis, 26(S2), 618–620.

Li, Y., Murthy, A. A., Distefano, J. G., Jung, H. J., Hao, S., Villa, C. J., Wolverton, C., Chen, X., & Dravid, V. P. (2019). MoS₂-capped Cu_:XS nanocrystals: A new heterostructured geometry of transition metal dichalcogenides for broadband optoelectronics. Materials Horizons, 6(3), 587-594.

Li, Y., Moy, E. C., Murthy, A. A., Hao, S., Cain, J. D., Hanson, E. D., DiStefano, J. G., Chae, W. H., Li, Q., Wolverton, C., Chen, X., & Dravid, V. P. (2018). Large-Scale Fabrication of MoS₂ Ribbons and Their Light-Induced Electronic/Thermal Properties: Dichotomies in the Structural and Defect Engineering. Advanced Functional Materials, 28(13), Article 1704863.

Li, Y., Majewski, M. B., Islam, S. M., Hao, S., Murthy, A. A., Distefano, J. G., Hanson, E. D., Xu, Y., Wolverton, C., Kanatzidis, M. G., Wasielewski, M. R., Chen, X., & Dravid, V. P. (2018). Morphological Engineering of Winged Au@MoS₂ Heterostructures for Electrocatalytic Hydrogen Evolution. Nano letters, 18(11), 7104-7110.

Murthy, A. A., Li, Y., Palacios, E., Li, Q., Hao, S., Distefano, J. G., Wolverton, C., Aydin, K., Chen, X., & Dravid, V. P. (2018). Optically Active 1D MoS₂ Nanobelts. ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, 10(8), 6799-6804.