Zhixiao Xu

Zhixiao Xu

School of Chemical Engineering

Faculty of Sciences, Engineering and Technology

Eligible to supervise Masters and PhD (as Co-Supervisor) - email supervisor to discuss availability.

  • Journals
    Year Citation
    2025 Zhang, S., Xu, Z., Chen, Y., Jiang, L., Wang, A., Shen, G., & Ding, X. (2025). Lanthanide Metal-Organic Framework Flowers for Proteome Profiling and Biomarker Identification in Ultratrace Biofluid Samples. ACS Nano, 19(4), 4377-4390.
    DOI Scopus4 Europe PMC3
    2025 Jia, W., Xu, Z., Chen, Y., Ning, P., Cao, H., & Wang, X. (2025). Synergistic Lewis Acid-Base pair electrolyte Configuration enables reversible zinc anode via multiple electrostatic interactions. Chemical Engineering Journal, 506, 9 pages.
    DOI Scopus2 WoS1
    2025 Xu, Z., Li, P., Zhao, J., Hu, K., Jia, W., Gasilov, S., . . . Wang, X. (2025). A Universal Thick Anode for Aqueous and Seawater Energy Storage Devices. Advanced Materials, 37(12), 12 pages.
    DOI Scopus4 WoS4 Europe PMC1
    2025 Zhang, Q., Wang, B., Jessica., Ghalandari, B., Chen, Y., Xu, Z., . . . Ding, X. (2025). PISAD: De novo peptide design for target protein with iterative stochastic searching algorithm and docking assessment. Biosensors and Bioelectronics, 278, 117338.
    DOI Scopus1
    2025 Xu, Z., Xu, Y., Qiu, Y., Cao, Y., Gasilov, S., Li, G., . . . Wang, X. (2025). Pressurized organic electrodes enable practical and extreme batteries. Nature Communications, 16(1), 12 pages.
    DOI Scopus3 WoS3
    2024 Chen, Y., Zhang, K., Xu, Z., Gong, F., Feng, R., Jin, Z., & Wang, X. (2024). Regulating interfacial reactions through electrolyte chemistry enables an anion-rich interphase for wide-temperature zinc metal batteries. Energy and Environmental Science, 18(2), 713-727.
    DOI Scopus17 WoS17
    2024 Fei, Y., Li, Z., Li, P., Zhang, X., Xu, Z., Deng, W., . . . Li, G. (2024). Dual-Functional Metal-Organic Framework Freestanding Aerogel Boosts Sulfur Reduction Reaction for Lithium-Sulfur Batteries. ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, 16(40), 53833-53842.
    DOI Scopus6 WoS6 Europe PMC3
    2024 Li, P. C., Zhang, Z. Q., Zhao, Z. W., Li, J. Q., Xu, Z. X., Zhang, H., & Li, G. (2024). Dipole Moment Influences the Reversibility and Corrosion of Lithium Metal Anodes. Advanced Materials, 36(31), e2406359.
    DOI Scopus19 WoS17 Europe PMC5
    2024 Xu, Z., Sun, Z., Shan, J., Jin, S., Cui, J., Deng, Z., . . . Wang, X. (2024). O, N-Codoped, Self-Activated, Holey Carbon Sheets for Low-Cost And High-Loading Zinc-Ion Supercapacitors. Advanced Functional Materials, 34(14), 11 pages.
    DOI Scopus67 WoS56
    2023 Zhao, Z., Zhang, S., Xu, Z., Chen, L., & Li, G. (2023). Biodegradable Pea Protein Fibril Hydrogel-Based Quasi-Solid-State Zn-Ion Battery. ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, 15(42), 49060-49070.
    DOI Scopus17 WoS16 Europe PMC3
    2023 Xu, Z., Li, Y., Li, G., Zhang, H., & Wang, X. (2023). Reversible zinc powder anode via crystal facet engineering. Matter, 6(9), 3075-3086.
    DOI Scopus53 WoS54
    2023 Dong, Y., Deng, Z., Xu, Z., Liu, G., & Wang, X. (2023). Synergistic Tuning of CoO/CoP Heterojunction Nanowire Arrays as Efficient Bifunctional Catalysts for Alkaline Overall Water Splitting. Small Methods, 7(7), 10 pages.
    DOI Scopus50 WoS53 Europe PMC16
    2023 Deng, W., Xu, Z., Li, G., & Wang, X. (2023). Self-Transformation Strategy Toward Vanadium Dioxide Cathode For Advanced Aqueous Zinc Batteries. Small, 19(24), 11 pages.
    DOI Scopus43 WoS26 Europe PMC8
    2023 Ma, R., Xu, Z., & Wang, X. (2023). Polymer Hydrogel Electrolytes for Flexible and Multifunctional Zinc-Ion Batteries and Capacitors. Energy and Environmental Materials, 6(5), 26 pages.
    DOI Scopus99 WoS73
    2023 Zhang, N., Deng, W., Xu, Z., & Wang, X. (2023). Upcycling of spent LiCoO2 cathodes via nickel- and manganese-doping. Carbon Energy, 5(1), 10 pages.
    DOI Scopus63 WoS71
    2022 Xu, Z., Jin, S., Zhang, N., Deng, W., Seo, M. H., & Wang, X. (2022). Efficient Zn Metal Anode Enabled by O,N-Codoped Carbon Microflowers. NANO LETTERS, 22(3), 1350-1357.
    DOI Scopus101 WoS101 Europe PMC25
    2022 Xu, Z., Zhang, N., & Wang, X. (2022). Upcycling spent alkaline batteries into rechargeable zinc metal batteries. Nano Energy, 102, 8 pages.
    DOI Scopus21 WoS21
    2022 Zhang, N., Xu, Z., Deng, W., & Wang, X. (2022). Recycling and Upcycling Spent LIB Cathodes: A Comprehensive Review. ELECTROCHEMICAL ENERGY REVIEWS, 5(SUPPL 1), 38 pages.
    DOI Scopus58 WoS58
    2022 Deng, W., Xu, Z., & Wang, X. (2022). High-donor electrolyte additive enabling stable aqueous zinc-ion batteries. Energy Storage Materials, 52, 52-60.
    DOI Scopus200 WoS198
    2022 Xu, Z., Li, M., Sun, W., Tang, T., Lu, J., & Wang, X. (2022). An Ultrafast, Durable, and High-Loading Polymer Anode for Aqueous Zinc-Ion Batteries and Supercapacitors. Advanced Materials, 34(23), 11 pages.
    DOI Scopus141 WoS141 Europe PMC39
    2022 Xu, Z., Ma, R., & Wang, X. (2022). Ultrafast, long-life, high-loading, and wide-temperature zinc ion supercapacitors. Energy Storage Materials, 46, 233-242.
    DOI Scopus98 WoS97
    2022 Deng, Z., Xu, Z., Deng, W., & Wang, X. (2022). Ultrafine Li<inf>4</inf>Ti<inf>5</inf>O<inf>12</inf> nanocrystals as building blocks for ultrahigh-power lithium-ion battery anodes. Journal of Power Sources, 521, 7 pages.
    DOI Scopus26 WoS26
    2022 Gao, X., Xu, Z., & Li, G. (2022). MOF-driven ultrafine Co<inf>9</inf>S<inf>8</inf> nanocrystals embedded in N, S-Codoped Multilayer-Assembled carbon nanoplates for efficient bifunctional oxygen electrocatalysis. Chemical Engineering Journal, 431, 133385.
    DOI Scopus23 WoS19
    2021 Deng, W., Xu, Z., Deng, Z., & Wang, X. (2021). Enhanced polysulfide regulationviahoneycomb-like carbon with catalytic MoC for lithium-sulfur batteries. Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 9(38), 21760-21770.
    DOI Scopus27 WoS24
    2021 Xu, Z., Xu, L., Xu, Z., Deng, Z., & Wang, X. (2021). N, O-Codoped Carbon Nanosheet Array Enabling Stable Lithium Metal Anode. Advanced Functional Materials, 31(40), 8 pages.
    DOI Scopus67 WoS67
    2021 Xu, Z., Deng, W., & Wang, X. (2021). 3D Hierarchical Carbon-Rich Micro-/Nanomaterials for Energy Storage and Catalysis. Electrochemical Energy Reviews, 4(2), 269-335.
    DOI Scopus145 WoS136
    2021 Xu, Z., Jin, S., Seo, M. H., & Wang, X. (2021). Hierarchical Ni-Mo<inf>2</inf>C/N-doped carbon Mott-Schottky array for water electrolysis. Applied Catalysis B: Environmental, 292, 120168.
    DOI Scopus103 WoS97
    2020 Zhang, Q., Han, W., Xu, Z., Li, Y., Chen, L., Bai, Z., . . . Wang, X. (2020). Hollow waxberry-like cobalt-nickel oxide/S,N-codoped carbon nanospheres as a trifunctional electrocatalyst for OER, ORR, and HER. RSC Advances, 10(46), 27788-27793.
    DOI Scopus24 WoS24 Europe PMC7
    2020 Chen, L., Xu, Z., Han, W., Zhang, Q., Bai, Z., Chen, Z., . . . Wang, X. (2020). Bimetallic CoNi Alloy Nanoparticles Embedded in Pomegranate-like Nitrogen-Doped Carbon Spheres for Electrocatalytic Oxygen Reduction and Evolution. ACS Applied Nano Materials, 3(2), 1354-1362.
    DOI Scopus50 WoS49
    2019 Xu, Z., Lu, D., Ma, L., Lu, C., Xi, X., Zhang, G., . . . Wu, D. (2019). Hierarchically ordered carbon tube-sheet superstructure via template-directed self-assembly of polyimide. Chemical Engineering Journal, 364, 201-207.
    DOI Scopus20 WoS19
    2018 Xu, Z., Zhang, G., Lu, C., Tian, H., Xi, X., Liu, R., & Wu, D. (2018). Molybdenum carbide nanoparticle decorated hierarchical tubular carbon superstructures with vertical nanosheet arrays for efficient hydrogen evolution. Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 6(39), 18833-18838.
    DOI Scopus24 WoS22
    2018 Lu, D., Liu, H., Huang, T., Xu, Z., Ma, L., Yang, P., . . . Wu, D. (2018). Magnesium ion based organic secondary batteries. Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 6(36), 17297-17302.
    DOI Scopus78 WoS75
    2018 Wu, D., Zhang, G., Lu, D., Ma, L., Xu, Z., Xi, X., . . . Su, Y. (2018). Perylene diimide-diamine/carbon black composites as high performance lithium/sodium ion battery cathodes. Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 6(28), 13613-13618.
    DOI Scopus31 WoS29
    2018 Zhang, G., Xu, Z., Liu, P., Su, Y., Huang, T., Liu, R., . . . Wu, D. (2018). A facile in-situ polymerization strategy towards polyimide/carbon black composites as high performance lithium ion battery cathodes. Electrochimica Acta, 260, 598-605.
    DOI Scopus33 WoS33
    2017 Tang, Y., Jing, F., Xu, Z., Zhang, F., Mai, Y., & Wu, D. (2017). Highly Crumpled Hybrids of Nitrogen/Sulfur Dual-Doped Graphene and Co9S8 Nanoplates as Efficient Bifunctional Oxygen Electrocatalysts. ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, 9(14), 12340-12347.
    DOI Scopus114 WoS111 Europe PMC27
    2017 Liu, H., Tang, Y., Wang, C., Xu, Z., Yang, C., Huang, T., . . . Feng, X. (2017). A Lyotropic Liquid-Crystal-Based Assembly Avenue toward Highly Oriented Vanadium Pentoxide/Graphene Films for Flexible Energy Storage. Advanced Functional Materials, 27(12), 7 pages.
    DOI Scopus36 WoS34
    2017 Jing, F., Chen, M., Tang, Y., Xu, Z., Huang, T., Su, Y., & Wu, D. (2017). Bottom-up fabrication of nitrogen-doped mesoporous carbon nanosheets as high performance oxygen reduction catalysts. Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, 492, 8-14.
    DOI Scopus10 WoS9 Europe PMC3
    2016 Wang, C., Huang, Y., Pan, H., Jiang, J., Yang, X., Xu, Z., . . . Wu, D. (2016). Nitrogen-Doped Porous Carbon/Graphene Aerogel with Much Enhanced Capacitive Behaviors. Electrochimica Acta, 215, 100-107.
    DOI Scopus33 WoS32
    2016 Yao, Z., Su, Y., Lu, C., Yang, C., Xu, Z., Zhu, J., . . . Zhang, F. (2016). Template-directed approach to two-dimensional molybdenum phosphide-carbon nanocomposites with high catalytic activities in the hydrogen evolution reaction. New Journal of Chemistry, 40(7), 6015-6021.
    DOI Scopus24 WoS24
    2016 Liu, W., Xu, Z., Wu, D., Wu, Z., & Hu, T. S. (2016). Systematic synthesis of polyimide@inorganics core-shell microspheres via ion-exchange and interfacial reaction. Materials Letters, 177, 30-33.
    DOI Scopus5 WoS6
    2016 Xu, Z., Zhuang, X., Yang, C., Cao, J., Yao, Z., Tang, Y., . . . Feng, X. (2016). Nitrogen-Doped Porous Carbon Superstructures Derived from Hierarchical Assembly of Polyimide Nanosheets. Advanced Materials, 28(10), 1981-1987.
    DOI Scopus446 WoS437 Europe PMC98
    2016 Han, S., Wang, C., Huang, Y., Jiang, J., Huang, Y., Xu, Z., & Wu, D. (2016). Graphene frameworks supported cobalt oxide with tunable morphologies for enhanced lithium storage behaviors. Journal of Materials Science, 51(10), 4856-4863.
    DOI Scopus5 WoS5
    2016 Chen, M., Yang, C., Xu, Z., Tang, Y., Jiang, J., Liu, P., . . . Wu, D. (2016). A facile self-assembly strategy towards naphthalene diimide/graphene hybrids as high performance organic cathodes for lithium-ion batteries. Rsc Advances, 6(17), 13666-13669.
    DOI Scopus17 WoS17
    2016 Yang, C., Wu, D., Zhao, W., Ye, W., Xu, Z., Zhang, F., & Feng, X. (2016). Anion-induced self-assembly of positively charged polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons towards nanostructures with controllable two-dimensional morphologies. Crystengcomm, 18(6), 877-880.
    DOI Scopus5 WoS5

  • Conference Papers
    Year Citation
    2022 Xu, Z., & Wang, X. (2022). 3D Heteroatom-Doped Carbon for Lithium/Zinc Metal Anodes. In ECS Meeting Abstracts Vol. MA2022-01 (pp. 661). Vancouver, Canada: The Electrochemical Society.
    DOI
    2022 Xu, Z., & Wang, X. (2022). Zinc-Ion Capacitors Working at Extreme Conditions. In ECS Meeting Abstracts Vol. MA2022-01 (pp. 561). Vancouver, Canada: The Electrochemical Society.
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  • Current Higher Degree by Research Supervision (University of Adelaide)
    Date Role Research Topic Program Degree Type Student Load Student Name
    2025 Co-Supervisor Design and synthesis of nanostructured carbon-based catalysts for electrochemical reduction of CO2 Master of Philosophy Master Full Time Mr Yuhang Ye
    2025 Co-Supervisor Design of novel catalysts for seawater splitting Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Hongzhou Pan
    2025 Co-Supervisor Basic research on deep eutectic solvents for recovery of cathode active material from lithium-ion batteries Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Guangyuan Luo
    2025 Co-Supervisor Low-cost direct recycling and value appreciation of metal oxide cathode materials Master of Philosophy Master Full Time Mr Bowen Li
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