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

• Mixing of Spacer Cations in 2D Halide Perovskites , ChemRxiv (2026)
• Anisotropic Thermal Transport in Quasi-2D Ruddlesden-Popper Hybrid Perovskite Superlattices , Physical Review X (2025)
• Surface or Bulk? Mechanistic Insights into Ni²⁺-Doped Brookite TiO₂ Photocatalysts , ACS Nanoscience Au (2025)
• Unraveling the Ultrafast Carrier Dynamics and Lasing Pathways in 2D Tin Halide Perovskites , Advanced Optical Materials (2025)
• Cationic ligation guides quantum-well formation in layered hybrid perovskites , Matter (2024)
• Two-dimensional lead halide perovskite lateral homojunctions enabled by phase pinning , Greater South Information System (2024)
• Two-dimensional lead halide perovskite lateral homojunctions enabled by phase pinning , Greater South Information System (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)