Personal statement

Jingxiang Low obtained his B.Eng. (Hons) from Multimedia University, Malaysia and his Master/PhD degree in materials science from Wuhan University of Technology, China. He is currently working atthe Tiangong University, China as Professor. He is also serving as principal investigators for National Key R&D Program of China and Research Fund for International Excellent Young Scientists. He has also been invited by Politecnico di Torino (Tashkent Campus) as co-supervisor of PhD students. He has been also invited to be Foreign Member of Ministry of Innovative Development of Uzbekistan. His current research interests include the developments of in situ/operando methodology toward the liquid/solid interfacial study, synthesis of metallic nanocrystals and semiconductor nanomaterials for solar energy conversion and in situ resource utilization. He has published more than 80 scientific papers in Natl. Sci. Rev., Nat. Commun., Chem. Rev., J. Am. Chem. Soc., Adv. Mater., Angew. Chem., etc., which were cited more than 25,000 times (h-index: 45). 24 of his published papers are SCI highly cited papers. He has awarded as IUPAC International Young Chemist, Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher, Elsevier Most Cited Chinese Researcher, Royal Society of Chemistry Nanoscale Emerging investigator, American Chemical Society Chemistry of Materials Rising Early Career Star, CAS President's International Fellow, and listed as Stanford University/Elsevier Top 2% Scientists Worldwide in 2019–2023. He has also granted 2 Chinese invention patents and an accumulated research fund of 3 million RMB. He is currently serving as Youth Editor for journal Adv. Powder Mater., Chin. Chem. Lett., Acta Phys. Chim. Sin. and Chin. J. Struct. Chem. His achievement has been reported by China Daily (China), Science and Technology Daily (China), EurekAlert! (US), SciTechDaily (US), Phys.org (UK), The Star (Malaysia), Sinchew Daily (Malaysia), Nanyang Siang Pau (Malaysia), etc.

Academic degrees

• Materials Science and Engineering, Wuhan University of Technology, China, 2018
• Materials Processing Engineering,  Wuhan University of Technology, China,  2015
• Bachelor of Electronic Engineering (Hons) majoring in Nanotechnology,  Multimedia University, Malaysia,  2011

Research interests

Recently, severe energy and environmental problems have led to the development of photocatalytic CO₂ reduction technology. This is because this technology can convert the harmful CO₂ into valuable solar fuels, including methane, methanol and ethanol. Due to its suitable band structure and excellent stability, TiO₂ has been widely used in photocatalytic CO₂ reduction. However, single TiO₂ is confronted with low light utilization efficiency and rapid photogenerated electron-hole recombination, leading to its low photocatalytic CO₂ reduction performance. To overcome these limitations, we have made a great effort in the following fields: (1) the morphology tuning of TiO₂ for enhancing the light utilization of photocatalyst; (2) the fabrication of TiO₂-based plasmonic photocatalyst for extending the light absorption; (3) the design of TiO₂-based heterojunction photocatalyst including surface junction and direct Z-scheme heterojunction for accelerating charge carrier separation on the TiO₂. The resultant material systems exhibited efficient visible-light photocatalytic performance and improved power conversion efficiency in solar energy, which underpins important solar-energy conversion applications including solar fuel generation and simultaneous environmental application.

Selected Publication

• Yujie Xiong*, Full‐Space Electric Field in Mo‐Decorated Zn₂In₂S₅ Polarization photocatalyst for oriented charge flow and efficient hydrogen production, Advanced Materials, 2024, 36, 2405060.
• Lizhong Liu, Zhongliao Wang, Jinfeng Zhang, Olim Ruzimuradov, Kai Dai*, Jingxiang Low*, Tunable interfacial charge transfer in 2D‐2D composite for efficient visible-light-driven CO₂ conversion, Advanced Materials, 2023, 35, 2300643. (ESI highly cited)
• Jingxiang Low, Benzhe Dai, Tong Tong, Chuanjia Jiang and Jiaguo Yu*, In situ irradiated X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy investigation on direct Z-scheme TiO₂/CdS composite film photocatalyst, Advanced Materials, 2019, 31, 1802981. (ESI highly cited)
• Jingxiang Low, Jiaguo Yu*, Mietek Jaroniec, Swelm Wageh and Ahmed A. Al-Ghamdi, Heterojunction photocatalysts, Advanced Materials, 2017, 29, 1601694. (ESI highly cited)
• Chao Zhang, Xiaobin Hao, Jiatang Wang, Xiayu Ding, Yuan Zhong, Yawen Jiang, Ming-Chung Wu, Ran Long, Wanbing Gong, Changhao Liang, Weiwei Cai*, Jingxiang Low*, Yujie Xiong*, Concentrated formic acid from CO₂ electrolysis for directly driving fuel cell, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2024, 63, e202317628.
• Wenbin Jiang^#, Jingxiang Low^#, Keke Mao^#, Delong Duan, Shuangming Chen, Wei Liu, Chih-Wen Pao, Jun Ma, Shuaikang Sang, Chang Shu, Xiaoyi Zhan, Zeming Qi, Hui Zhang, Zhi Liu, Xiaojun Wu, Ran Long*, Li Song, and Yujie Xiong*, Pd-modified ZnO–Au enabling alkoxy intermediates formation and dehydrogenation for photocatalytic conversion of methane to ethylene, Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2021, 143, 269–278. (ESI highly cited)
• Jingxiang Low, Jun Ma, Jun Wan, Wenbin Jiang, Yujie Xiong*, Identification and design of active sites on photocatalysts for the direct artificial carbon cycle, Accounts of Materials Research, 2022, 3, 331–342.
• Canyu Hu^#, Xing Chen^#, Jingxiang Low^#, Yaw-Wen Yang, Hao Li, Di Wu, Shuangming Chen, Jianbo Jin, He Li, Huanxin Ju, Chia-Hsin Wang, Zhou Lu, Ran Long*, Li Song, Yujie Xiong*, Near-infrared-featured broadband CO₂ reduction with water to hydrocarbons by surface plasmon, Nature Communications, 2023, 14, 221. (ESI highly cited)
• Dongdong Chen, Zhongliao Wang, Jinfeng Zhang, Olim Ruzimuradov, Shavkat Mamatkulov, Kai Dai*, Jingxiang Low*, Modulation of internal electric field in S-scheme heterojunction towards efficient photocatalytic CO₂ conversion, Materials Today Physics, 2024, 40, 101315.
• Chao Gao^#, Jingxiang Low^#, Ran Long, Tingting Kong, Junfa Zhu and Yujie Xiong*, Heterogeneous single-atom photocatalysts: Fundamentals and applications, Chemical Reviews, 2020, 120, 12175–12216. (ESI highly cited)

International grants

• Ministry of Science and Technology of China, National Key R&D Program of China, 2022YFE0126500, Modification of Heterojunction Photocatalysts for Highly-Efficient and Selective CO₂ Conversion into C₂₊ Products, 2023-01 to 2024-12, 1,000,000 RMB, Principal Investigator
• National Natural Science Foundation of China, Research Fund for International Excellent Young Scientists, 22150610467, Photocatalytic CO₂ Conversion for Solar Fuel Production, 2022-01 to 2023-12, 800,000 RMB, Principal Investigator
• Ministry of Science and Technology of China, Research Fund for International Young Scientists, WGXZ2022200L, 2022-01 to 2023-12, 300,000 RMB, Principal Investigator
• National Natural Science Foundation of China, Research Fund for International Young Scientists, 21950410514, The studies on TiO₂-based heterojunction system and its applications in photocatalytic CO₂ reduction, 2020-01 to 2020-12, 200,000 RMB, Principal Investigator
• Ministry of Science and Technology of China, Research Fund for International Young Scientists, 2020-01 to 2020-12, 200,000 RMB, Principal Investigator
• Chinese Universities Scientific Fund, Youth Innovation Fund of University of Science and Technology of China, WK2060190096, Study on the performance and structure-activity relationship of TiO₂-based direct Z-type photocatalyst in CO₂ reduction, 2019-04 to 2021-03, 130,000 RMB, Principal Investigator
• Chinese Academy of Sciences, CAS President’s International Fellowship Initiative, 2019PC0114, TiO₂-based photocatalytic materials for solar fuel production, 2019-02 to 2021-01, 505,000 RMB, Principal Investigator
• China Postdoctoral Science Foundation, General Program, 2019M652190, Study on the Effect of Defect Graphene on Photocatalytic CO₂ Reduction Performance of TiO₂, 2018-09 to 2021-03, 80,000 RMB, Principal Investigator
• China Postdoctoral Science Foundation, Specially Funded Projects, 2020T130627, Study on the effect of defect graphene on photocatalytic N₂ fixation performance of TiO₂, 2018-09 to 2021-03, 180,000 RMB, Principal Investigator

International Award/Recognition/Exhibition/Stewardship

2022, Foreign Member of Ministry of Innovative Development of Uzbekistan

2023, PI of National Key R&D Program of China

2022,  NSFC International Excellent Young Scientists

2021-2023,  Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher

2023, 2024,  Elsevier Most Cited Chinese Researcher

2023,  Chemistry of Materials Rising Early Career Star

2022,  Nanoscale Emerging Investigator

2021,  IUPAC International Young Chemist (three awardees every two years)

2017,2019, Chinese 100 Most Influence Papers (three papers)

2019-2023,  Stanford University/Elsevier Top 2% Scientists Worldwide

2023 , Stanford University/Elsevier Lifetime Top 2% Scientists Worldwide

2018, CAS President's International Fellowship Initiative

2017,  Chinese Government Outstanding International Student Awards

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