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HUA Xiao

Alumni

Postdoctoral researcher, Soft Matter Physics

Marie Curie Fellow Goodwin Group Inorganic Chemistry Laboratory University of Oxford

Email:	xiaohua716@gmail.com
	0000-0002-8673-5678

Publications

Stabilizing Configurational Entropy in Spinel‐type High Entropy Oxides during Discharge–Charge by Overcoming Kinetic Sluggish Diffusion
Ke Li, Lingfeng Shi, Jiale An, Mengjie Zhang, Yang Du, Yulin Ma, Shuaifeng Lou, Geping Yin, Zhenjiang Yu, Xiao Hua, Hua Huo
Angewandte Chemie (2025)

Stabilizing Configurational Entropy in Spinel‐type High Entropy Oxides during Discharge–Charge by Overcoming Kinetic Sluggish Diffusion
Ke Li, Lingfeng Shi, Jiale An, Mengjie Zhang, Yang Du, Yulin Ma, Shuaifeng Lou, Geping Yin, Zhenjiang Yu, Xiao Hua, Hua Huo
Angewandte Chemie International Edition (2025)

Structural disorder determines capacitance in nanoporous carbons
Xinyu Liu, Dongxun Lyu, Céline Merlet, Matthew J. A. Leesmith, Xiao Hua, Zhen Xu, Clare P. Grey, Alexander C. Forse
Science 384 , 321-325 (2024)

Porosity characterisation of solid-state battery electrolyte with terahertz time-domain spectroscopy
S. Kiritharan, S. Lucas, R. Degl’Innocenti, X. Hua, R. Dawson, H. Lin
Journal of Power Sources 595 , 234050 (2024)

Interplay between Defects and Short-Range Disorder Manipulating the Oxygen Evolution Reaction on a Layered Double Hydroxide Electrocatalyst
Zixian Li, Jiangrong Yang, Rui Gao, Si-Min Xu, Xianggui Kong, Xiao Hua, Pu Zhao, Haigang Hao, Dermot O’Hare, Yufei Zhao
The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters , 2006-2014 (2024)

Theory-driven design of cadmium mineralizing layered double hydroxides for environmental remediation
Zixian Li, Nuo Xu, Jing Ren, Haigang Hao, Rui Gao, Xianggui Kong, Hong Yan, Xiao Hua, Yung-Kang Peng, Shulan Ma, Dermot O'Hare, Yufei Zhao
Chemical Science (2024)

Understanding porous materials with pair distribution functions
Zhiye Chen, Shichao Mo, He Lin, Zhenduo Wu, Yufei Zhao, Xiao Hua, Pu Zhao
Cell Reports Physical Science , 101681 (2023)

Decoding short-range order in cation-disordered rocksalt materials using Metropolis non-negative matrix factorisation
Xiao Hua, Thomas Dean, Serena A Cussen, Andrew L Goodwin
Journal of Physics: Materials (2023)

Electrochemical lithiation-induced formation of disordered rocksalt
Matthew J. A. Leesmith, Nathan R. Halcovitch, Xiao Hua
Journal of Materials Chemistry A (2023)

Non-equilibrium metal oxides via reconversion chemistry in lithium-ion batteries
Xiao Hua, Phoebe K. Allan, Chen Gong, Philip A. Chater, Ella M. Schmidt, Harry S. Geddes, Alex W. Robertson, Peter G. Bruce, Andrew L. Goodwin
Nature Communications (2021)

Lithiation phase behaviors of metal oxide anodes and extra capacities
Xiao Hua, Phoebe K. Allan, Harry S. Geddes, Elizabeth Castillo-Martínez, Philip A. Chater, Thomas S. Dean, Arianna Minelli, Peter G. Bruce, Andrew L. Goodwin
Cell Reports Physical Science (2021)

Topological Transformation of Mg‐containing Layered Double Hydroxide Nanosheets for Efficient Photo‐driven CH4 Coupling
Yanqi Xu, Xiaoliang Sun, Xian Wang, Lunhua He, Michael T. Wharmby, Xiao Hua, Yufei Zhao, Yu‐Fei Song
Chemistry – A European Journal (2021)

2021 roadmap for sodium-ion batteries
Nuria Tapia-Ruiz, A Robert Armstrong, Hande Alptekin, Marco A Amores, Heather Au, Jerry Barker, Rebecca Boston, William R Brant, Jake M Brittain, Yue Chen, Manish Chhowalla, Yong-Seok Choi, Sara I R Costa, Maria Crespo Ribadeneyra, Serena A Cussen, Edmund J Cussen, William I F David, Aamod V Desai, Stewart A M Dickson, Emmanuel I Eweka, Juan D Forero-Saboya, Clare P Grey, John M Griffin, Peter Gross, Xiao Hua, John T S Irvine, Patrik Johansson, Martin O Jones, Martin Karlsmo, Emma Kendrick, Eunjeong Kim, Oleg V Kolosov, Zhuangnan Li, Stijn F L Mertens, Ronnie Mogensen, Laure Monconduit, Russell E Morris, Andrew J Naylor, Shahin Nikman, Christopher A O’Keefe, Darren M C Ould, R G Palgrave, Philippe Poizot, Alexandre Ponrouch, Stéven Renault, Emily M Reynolds, Ashish Rudola, Ruth Sayers, David O Scanlon, S Sen, Valerie R Seymour, Begoña Silván, Moulay Tahar Sougrati, Lorenzo Stievano, Grant S Stone, Chris I Thomas, Maria-Magdalena Titirici, Jincheng Tong, Thomas J Wood, Dominic S Wright, Reza Younesi
Journal of Physics: Energy 3 , 031503 (2021)

Revisiting metal fluorides as lithium-ion battery cathodes
Xiao Hua, Alexander S. Eggeman, Elizabeth Castillo-Martínez, Rosa Robert, Harry S. Geddes, Ziheng Lu, Chris J. Pickard, Wei Meng, Kamila M. Wiaderek, Nathalie Pereira, Glenn G. Amatucci, Paul A. Midgley, Karena W. Chapman, Ullrich Steiner, Andrew L. Goodwin, Clare P. Grey
Nature Materials (2021)

Polymer-templated mesoporous lithium titanate microspheres for high-performance lithium batteries
Minh Tri Nguyen, Preston Sutton, Andrea Palumbo, Michael G. Fischer, Xiao Hua, Ilja Gunkel, Ullrich Steiner
Materials Advances (2021)

Comparing the excited-state properties of a mixed-cation–mixed-halide perovskite to methylammonium lead iodide
Jan C. Brauer, Demetra Tsokkou, Sandy Sanchez, Nikolaos Droseros, Bart Roose, Edoardo Mosconi, Xiao Hua, Martin Stolterfoht, Dieter Neher, Ullrich Steiner, Filippo De Angelis, Antonio Abate, Natalie Banerji
The Journal of Chemical Physics (2020)

Flash Infrared Pulse Time Control of Perovskite Crystal Nucleation and Growth from Solution
Sandy Sánchez, Xiao Hua, Antonio Günzler, Esteban Bermúdez-Ureña, Dedy Septiadi, Michael Saliba, Ullrich Steiner
Crystal Growth & Design (2020)

Phase Transformation of Superparamagnetic Iron Oxide Nanoparticles via Thermal Annealing: Implications for Hyperthermia Applications
Federica Crippa, Laura Rodriguez-Lorenzo, Xiao Hua, Bart Goris, Sara Bals, José S. Garitaonandia, Sandor Balog, David Burnand, Ann M. Hirt, Laetitia Haeni, Marco Lattuada, Barbara Rothen-Rutishauser, Alke Petri-Fink
ACS Applied Nano Materials (2019)

Phase Evolution During Perovskite Formation—Insight from Pair Distribution Function Analysis
Sandy Sanchez, Ullrich Steiner, Xiao Hua
Chemistry of Materials (2019)

The Kinetics of β-Hematin Crystallization Measured by Depolarized Light Scattering
Omar Rifaie‐Graham, Xiao Hua, Nico Bruns, Sandor Balog
Small (2018)

Polymer-Templated LiFePO4/C Nanonetworks as High-Performance Cathode Materials for Lithium-Ion Batteries
Michael G. Fischer, Xiao Hua, Bodo D. Wilts, Elizabeth Castillo-Martínez, Ullrich Steiner
ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces (2018)

Flash Infrared Annealing for Antisolvent‐Free Highly Efficient Perovskite Solar Cells
Sandy Sanchez, Xiao Hua, Nga Phung, Ullrich Steiner, Antonio Abate
Advanced Energy Materials (2018)

Lithiation Thermodynamics and Kinetics of the TiO2 (B) Nanoparticles
Xiao Hua, Zheng Liu, Michael G. Fischer, Olaf Borkiewicz, Peter J. Chupas, Karena W. Chapman, Ullrich Steiner, Peter G. Bruce, Clare P. Grey
Journal of the American Chemical Society (2017)

Mesoporous Titania Microspheres with Highly Tunable Pores as an Anode Material for Lithium-Ion Batteries
Michael G. Fischer, Xiao Hua, Bodo D. Wilts, Ilja Gunkel, Thomas M. Bennett, Ullrich Steiner
ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces (2017)

X-Ray Scattering Analysis of the Morphology of TiO2 (B) Nanoparticles
Xiao Hua, Zheng Liu, Peter G. Bruce, Clare P. Grey
ECS Meeting Abstracts MA2016-03 , 920-920 (2016)

The Morphology of TiO2 (B) Nanoparticles
Xiao Hua, Zheng Liu, Peter G. Bruce, Clare P. Grey
Journal of the American Chemical Society (2015)

Multiple Redox Modes in the Reversible Lithiation of High-Capacity, Peierls-Distorted Vanadium Sulfide
Sylvia Britto, Michal Leskes, Xiao Hua, Claire-Alice Hébert, Hyeon Suk Shin, Simon Clarke, Olaf Borkiewicz, Karena W. Chapman, Ram Seshadri, Jaephil Cho, Clare P. Grey
Journal of the American Chemical Society (2015)

Comprehensive Study of the CuF2 Conversion Reaction Mechanism in a Lithium Ion Battery
Xiao Hua, Rosa Robert, Lin-Shu Du, Kamila M. Wiaderek, Michal Leskes, Karena W. Chapman, Peter J. Chupas, Clare P. Grey
The Journal of Physical Chemistry C (2014)

Origin of additional capacities in metal oxide lithium-ion battery electrodes
Yan-Yan Hu, Zigeng Liu, Kyung-Wan Nam, Olaf J. Borkiewicz, Jun Cheng, Xiao Hua, Matthew T. Dunstan, Xiqian Yu, Kamila M. Wiaderek, Lin-Shu Du, Karena W. Chapman, Peter J. Chupas, Xiao-Qing Yang, Clare P. Grey
Nat Mater (2013)

New Insights into the Crystal and Electronic Structures of Li1+xV1–xO2 from Solid State NMR, Pair Distribution Function Analyses, and First Principles Calculations
Frédérique Pourpoint, Xiao Hua, Derek S. Middlemiss, Paul Adamson, Da Wang, Peter G. Bruce, Clare P. Grey
Chemistry of Materials (2012)

Conversion Reaction Mechanisms in Lithium Ion Batteries: Study of the Binary Metal Fluoride Electrodes
Feng Wang, Rosa Robert, Natasha A. Chernova, Nathalie Pereira, Fredrick Omenya, Fadwa Badway, Xiao Hua, Michael Ruotolo, Ruigang Zhang, Lijun Wu, Vyacheslav Volkov, Dong Su, Baris Key, M. Stanley Whittingham, Clare P. Grey, Glenn G. Amatucci, Yimei Zhu, Jason Graetz
Journal of the American Chemical Society (2011)