Xiaobing Hu, PhD
TEM Facility Manager, NUANCE Center
Research Associate Professor
Department of Materials Science and Engineering
2145 Sheridan Road
Evanston, IL 60208-3113
Phone: 847-467-4992
Email: xbhu@northwestern.edu
Educational/Research Background
| 2023-present | Research Associate Professor, Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern University |
| 2018-2023 | Research Assistant Professor, Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern University |
| 2016-2018 | Research Associate, Condensed Matter Physics and Materials Science Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory |
| 2015-2016 | Postdoctoral Fellow, Nanostructures Research Laboratory, Japan Fine Ceramics Center |
| 2009-2015 | PhD, Institute of Metal Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences |
| 2005-2009 | B.S., Materials Science and Engineering, Central South University |
Research Objective
- Aberration corrected transmission electron microscopy
- Dynamic behavior of various nanomaterials under different stimuli and environments
- Advanced applications of TEM on materials science including engineering alloys, structural ceramics and energy storage materials.
- Microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) based chips design
Publications and Supported Works
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- Kunmo Koo, Bo Shen, Sung-Il Baik, Zugang Mao, Paul J. M. Smeets, Ivan Cheuk, Kun He, Roberto dos Reis, Liliang Huang, Zihao Ye, Xiaobing Hu*, Chad A. Mirkin*, Vinayak P. Dravid*. Formation mechanism of high-index faceted Pt-Bi alloy nanoparticles by evaporation induced growth from metal salts. Nature Communications 14 (2023) 3790. (Selected as Editor’s Highlights)
- Kunmo Koo, Stephanie M Ribet, Chi Zhang, Paul JM Smeets, Roberto Dos Reis, Xiaobing Hu*, Vinayak P Dravid*. Effects of the encapsulation membrane in operando scanning transmission electron microscopy. Nano Letters 22 (2022) 4137–4144.
- Xingyuan San, Mingyu Gong, Jian Wang*, Xiuliang Ma*, Roberto Dos Reis, Paul JM Smeets, Vinayak P Dravid*, Xiaobing Hu*. Uncovering the crystal defects within aragonite CaCO3. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 119 (2022) e2122218119.
- Kun He, Kyoungdoc Kim, Cesar Jared Villa, Stephanie M Ribet, Paul Smeets, Roberto dos Reis, Peter W Voorhees, Xiaobing Hu*, Vinayak P Dravid*. Degeneration behavior of Cu nanowires under carbon dioxide environment: an in situ/operando study. Nano Letters 21 (2021) 6813–6819.
- B. Hu*, N. C. Sheng, Y. M. Zhu, J. F. Nie, J. D. Liu, X. F. Sun, X. L. Ma*. Atomic scale investigation of borides precipitated in a transient liquid phase bonded Ni-based superalloy. Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A 51 (2020) 1689-1698.
- Y. Li, G. Q. Liu, X. B. Hu*, L. H. Wu, C. W. Tan, Vinayak P. Dravid, S. Z. Liu*. A novel medium heavy alloy (MHA) with excellent static/dynamic properties and impact toughness. Scripta Materialia 162 (2019) 311-315.
- Xiaobing Hu, Jianping Huang, Lijun Wu, Merzuk Kaltak, Mariva Victoria Fernandez-Serra, Qingping Meng, Lei Wang, Amy C. Marschilok, Esther S. Takeuchi, Kenneth J. Takeuchi, Mark S. Hybersten, Yimei Zhu. Atomic scale account of the surface effect on ionic transport in silver hollandite. Chemistry of Materials 30 (2018) 6124-6133.
- Xiaobing Hu, Daniil A. Kitchaev, Lijun Wu, Bingjie Zhang, Qingping Meng, Altug S. Poyraz, Amy C. Marschilok, Esther S. Takeuchi, Kenneth J. Takeuchi, Yimei Zhu. Revealing and rationalizing the rich polytypism of todorokite MnO2. Journal of the American Chemical Society 140 (2018) 6961-6968 (Selected as Cover).
- Xiaobing Hu, Craig A. J. Fisher, Shunsuke Kobayashi, Yumi H. Ikuhara, Yasuyuki Fujiwara, Keigo Hoshikawa, Hiroki Moriwake, Keiichi Kohama, Hideki Iba, Yuichi Ikuhara. Structural changes and their effect on Li-Ion conductivity upon quenching of La(1-x)/3LixNbO3 solid electrolytes. Acta Materialia 156 (2018) 379-388.
- X. B. Hu, H. Y. Niu, X. L. Ma, A. R. Oganov, C. A. J. Fisher, N. C. Sheng, J. D. Liu, T. Jin, X. F. Sun, J. F. Liu, Y. Ikuhara. Atomic-scale observation and analysis of chemical ordering in M3B2 and M5B3 borides. Acta Materialia 149 (2018) 274-284.
- Xiaobing Hu, Craig A. J. Fisher, Shunsuke Kobayashi, Yumi H. Ikuhara, Yasuyuki Fujiwara, Keigo Hoshikawa, Hiroki Moriwake, Keiichi Kohama, Hideki Iba, Yuichi Ikuhara. Atomic scale imaging of structural changes in solid electrolyte lanthanum lithium niobate upon annealing. Acta Materialia 127 (2017) 211-219.
- Xiaobing Hu, Craig A. J. Fisher, Shunsuke Kobayashi, Yumi H. Ikuhara, Yasuyuki Fujiwara, Keigo Hoshikawa, Hiroki Moriwake, Keiichi Kohama, Hideki Iba, Yuichi Ikuhara. Atomic Scale Imaging of Structural Variations in La(1-x)/3LixNbO3 (0≤x≤13) Solid Electrolytes. Acta Materialia 123 (2017) 167-176.
- X. B. Hu, Y. L. Zhu, X. H. Shao, H. Y. Niu, L. Z. Zhou, X. L. Ma. Atomic configurations for various kinds of structural intergrowth in the polytypic M2B-type boride precipitated in the Ni-based superalloy. Acta Materialia 100 (2015) 64-72.
- X. B. Hu, Y. L. Zhu, X. L. Ma. Crystallographic account of nano-scaled intergrowth of M2B-type borides in nickel-based superalloys. Acta Materialia 68 (2014) 70-81.
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