Education and working experience
2005 Sichuan University, Department of Metallic Materials, B.E.
2008 M.E., Department of Advanced Carbon Materials, Institute of Metals, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China.
2014 Department of Physics, Michigan State University, USA, Ph.
2014-2015 Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Materials, Michigan State University, Michigan, USA.
2015-Present, College of Physics, Chongqing University, Specially Appointed Researcher, Ph.D. Supervisor, 100 People Program.
Research interests and achievements
Lu's main research areas include thermoelectric materials, and intrinsic physical transport mechanisms such as electrical and thermal conductivity of bulk materials. Together with his supervisor Prof. Donald Morelli, Dr. Lu has proposed a new idea of using minerals directly as thermoelectric materials, which has caused a big reaction in the international thermoelectric community. So far, he has published more than 50 SCI articles on thermoelectric materials and has been invited to write a book on thermoelectric materials in English (Materials Aspect of Thermoelectricity, CRC Press, LLC, 2016). Among them, we have published more than ten original papers on zoisite based thermoelectric materials as first author/corresponding author, and the related work has laid the foundation of zoisite based thermoelectric materials research. The research has received attention from domestic and international peers, with more than 500 citations in total; and two US patents on zoisite materials have been granted. At present, he has hosted two National Natural Science Foundation of China and one Provincial Natural Science Foundation.
Representative papers
1. X. Lu and D. T. Morelli, Mrs Commun, 2013, 3, 129-133.
2. X. Lu, D. T. Morelli, Y. Xia, F. Zhou, V. Ozolins, H. Chi, X. Y. Zhou and C. Uher, Adv Energy Mater, 2013, 3, 342-348.
3. X. Lu and D. T. Morelli, Phys Chem Chem Phys, 2013, 15, 5762-5766.
4. W. Lai, Y. X. Wang, D. T. Morelli and X. Lu, Adv Funct Mater, 2015, 25, 3648-3657.
5. X. Lu, D. T. Morelli, Y. Xia and V. Ozolins, Chem Mater, 2015, 27, 408-413.
6. X. Lu, W. Yao, G. W. Wang, X. Y. Zhou, D. Morelli, Y. S. Zhang, H. Chi, S. Hui and C. Uher, J Mater Chem A, 2016, 4, 17096-1703.
7. X. Lu, D. T. Morelli, Y. X. Wang, W. Lai, Y. Xia and V. Ozolins, Chem Mater, 2016, 28, 1781-1786.
8. K. L. Peng, X. Lu, H. Zhan, S. Hui, X. D. Tang, G. W. Wang, J. Y. Dai, C. Uher, G. Y. Wang and X. Y. Zhou, Energ Environ Sci, 2016, 9, 454-460.
9. D. F. Yang, W. Yao, Q. F. Chen, K. L. Peng, P. F. Jiang, X. Lu, C. Uher, T. Yang, G. Y. Wang and X. Y. Zhou, Chem Mater, 2016,28, 1611-1615.
10.Y. Yan, H. Wu, G. Wang, X. Lu and X. Zhou, Energy Storage Materials, 2018, 13, 127-133.
Publications
Xu Lu and Donald Morelli, Materials Aspect of Thermoelectricity, Chapter 16, CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, LLC, 2016.
Presiding fund projects
1. National Natural Science Foundation of China, Project No. 51772035, 2018.01-2021.12
2. Natural Science Foundation of Chongqing, General Project, No. cstc2017jcyjAX0388, 2017.07-2020.6
3. National Natural Science Foundation of China, Youth Project, No. 11604032, 2017.01-2019.12
We welcome graduate students with physics, materials, and chemistry backgrounds from inside and outside the university to join the group; undergraduate students are welcome to participate in the research of the group.
Contact: luxu@cqu.edu.cn
Updated March 2018
