Wenshuo Xu

Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy,
University of Cambridge,
27 Charles Babbage Road,
Cambridge, CB3 0FS

wx256@cam.ac.uk

Education:

• DPhil in Materials (Oct 2014 - April 2019) – University of Oxford, UK
      Supervisor: Prof. Jamie H. Warner
• Academic Visit (Nov 2017, Nov 2019) – Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
      Materials Science and Engineering
• Master of Science (Sep 2013 - Sep 2014) – Imperial College London, UK
      Advanced Materials Science and Engineering
• Bachelor of Engineering (Sep 2009 - July 2013) – Beihang University, China
     

Selected Publications:

• W. Xu, G. S. Jung, W. Zhang, A. T. S. Wee, J. H. Warner. Atomically Sharp Jagged Edges of Chemical Vapor Deposition-Grown WS2 for Electrocatalysis, Materials Today Nano, 2022, 18, 100183.

• W. Xu, S. Li, G. H. Ryu, P. Tang, M. Pasta, J. H. Warner. Single-Step Chemical Vapor Deposition Growth of Platinum Nanocrystal: Monolayer MoS2 Dendrite Hybrid Materials for Efficient Electrocatalysis, Chemistry of Materials, 2020, 32(19): 8243-8256.

• W. Xu, S. Li, S. Zhou, J. K. Lee, S. Wang, S. G. Sarwat, X. Wang, H. Bhaskaran, M. Pasta, J. H. Warner. Large Dendritic Monolayer MoS2 Grown by Atmospheric Pressure Chemical Vapor Deposition for Electrocatalysis, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 2018, 10(5): 4630-4639.

• W. Xu, Y. Ke, Z. Wang, W. Zhang, A. T. S. Wee. The Metallic Nature of Two-Dimensional Transition-Metal Dichalcogenides and MXenes, Surface Science Reports, 2021, 76(4): 100542.

• W. Xu, S. Li, M. Pasta, J. H. Warner. Defect Engineered Single-Layer MoS2 Dendrites as an Efficient Electrocatalyst for Hydrogen Evolution Reaction, TechConnect Briefs, 2019.

• W. Xu, D. Kozawa, Y. Zhou, Y. Wang, Y. Sheng, T. Jiang, M. S. Strano, J. H. Warner. Controlling Photoluminescence Enhancement and Energy Transfer in WS2:hBN:WS2 Vertical Stacks by Precise Interlayer Distances, Small, 2019, 16(3): 1905985.

• W. Xu, D. Kozawa, Y. Liu, Y. Sheng, K. Wei, V. B. Koman, S. Wang, X. Wang, T. Jiang, M. S. Strano, J. H. Warner. Determining the Optimized Interlayer Separation Distance in Vertical Stacked 2D WS2:hBN:MoS2 Heterostructures for Exciton Energy Transfer, Small, 2018, 14(13): 1703727.

• Z. Wang, W. Xu, B. Li, Q. Hao, D. Wu, D. Qi, H. Gan, J. Xie, G. Hong, W. Zhang. Selective Chemical Vapor Deposition Growth of WS2/MoS2 Vertical and Lateral Heterostructures on Gold Foils. Nanomaterials, 2022, 12(10): 1696.

• P. Chen, W. Xu, Y. Gao, P. Holdway, J. H. Warner, M. R. Castell. Thermal Degradation of Monolayer MoS2 on SrTiO3 Supports, Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 2019, 123(6): 3876-3885.

• P. Chen, W. Xu, Y. Gao, J. H. Warner, M. R. Castell. Epitaxial Growth of Monolayer MoS2 on SrTiO3 Single Crystal Substrates for Applications in Nanoelectronics, ACS Applied Nano Materials, 2018, 1(12): 6976-6988.

• E. Chen, W. Xu, J. Chen, J. H. Warner. 2D Layered Noble Metal Dichalcogenides (Pt, Pd, Se, S) for Electronics and Energy Applications, Materials Today Advances, 2020, 7: 100076.

• H. Tan, W. Xu, Y. Sheng, C. S. Lau, Y. Fan, Q. Chen, M. Tweedie, X. Wang, Y. Zhou, J. H. Warner. Lateral Graphene-Contacted Vertically Stacked WS2/MoS2 Hybrid Photodetectors with Large Gain, Advanced Materials, 2017, 29(46): 1702917.

• Y. Zhou, W. Xu, Y. Sheng, H. Huang, Q. Zhang, L. Hou, V. Shautsova, J. H. Warner. Symmetry-Controlled Reversible Photovoltaic Current Flow in Ultrathin All 2D Vertically Stacked Graphene/MoS2/WS2/Graphene Devices, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 2019, 11(2): 2234-2242.

• H. Huang, W. Xu, T. Chen, R.-J. Chang, Y. Sheng, Q. Zhang, L. Hou, J. H. Warner. High-Performance Two-Dimensional Schottky Diodes Utilizing Chemical Vapour Deposition-Grown Graphene–MoS2 Heterojunctions, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 2018, 10(43): 37258-37266.

• Z. He, W. Xu, Y. Zhou, X. Wang, Y. Sheng, Y. Rong, S. Guo, J. Zhang, J. M. Smith, J. H. Warner. Biexciton Formation in Bilayer Tungsten Disulfide, ACS Nano, 2016, 10(2): 2176-2183.

• Y. Sheng, W. Xu, X. Wang, Z. He, Y. Rong, J. H. Warner. Mixed Multilayered Vertical Heterostructures Utilizing Strained Monolayer WS2, Nanoscale, 2016, 8(5): 2639-2647.