Xiaotong Li

Bio

Xiaotong obtained her B.S. in chemistry from Nankai University in Tianjin, China. Then, she moved to the US to earn her Ph.D. in chemistry at Northwestern University, under the supervision of Prof. Mercouri Kanatzidis, on structure-property relationships of 2D halide perovskites. Then, she conducted her postdoctoral research at the California Institute of Technology, where she worked with Prof. Kimberly See on cathode materials for Li and Na-ion batteries. She joined the faculty in the Department of Chemistry and Organic and Carbon Electronics Laboratories at North Carolina State University in January 2024. Her group mainly focuses on the synthesis and structural determination of new hybrid/inorganic materials for energy-related applications. She is interested in designing new halide perovskites as well as hybrid organic and inorganic metal halides and studying their structure-property relationships.

Publications

• Cationic ligation guides quantum-well formation in layered hybrid perovskites , Matter (2024)
• Two-dimensional lead halide perovskite lateral homojunctions enabled by phase pinning , NATURE COMMUNICATIONS (2024)
• Correlating Photophysical Properties with Stereochemical Expression of 6s² Lone Pairs in Two‐dimensional Lead Halide Perovskites , Angewandte Chemie International Edition (2023)
• Lattice engineering for stabilized black FAPbI _{3 perovskite single crystals for high-resolution x-ray imaging at the lowest dose} , Science Advances (2023)
• Optical bandgap anomaly with tuning dimensionality in germanium perovskites: Interplay between quantum confinement and lone pair expression , Chem (2023)
• Centimeter-Sized 2D Perovskitoid Single Crystals for Efficient X-ray Photoresponsivity , Chemistry of Materials (2022)
• Expanding the Cage of 2D Bromide Perovskites by Large A-Site Cations , Chemistry of Materials (2022)
• Film formation mechanisms in mixed-dimensional 2D/3D halide perovskite films revealed by in situ grazing-incidence wide-angle X-ray scattering , Chem (2022)
• Hybrid Layered Double Perovskite Halides of Transition Metals , Journal of the American Chemical Society (2022)
• Ordered Mixed-Spacer 2D Bromide Perovskites and the Dual Role of 1,2,4-Triazolium Cation , Chemistry of Materials (2022)