Chancellor's Fellow Professor, Physics & Astronomy
School of Physical Sciences

Electron microscopy, deep learning, in situ and autonomous TEM, lithium ion battery, fuel cells, electro- and thermal catalytss

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2024 Named Chancellor's Fellow
2024 Elected to MSA Fellows
2022 Named Climate Action 30 by Insider
2022-2024 Named Highly Cited Researcher - 2021, 2022 and 2023 by Clarivate
2021 Burton Medal (Microscopy Society of America)
2021 MRS Outstanding Early-Career Investigator Award
2021 Beall Innovation Award in the Physical Sciences
2020 DOE Early Career Award (BES Scanning Probe and Electron Microscopy Program)
2020 UCI Academic Senate Distinguished Early-Career Faculty Award for Research
Research made to Brookhaven Lab's Top-10 Stories of 2020
2019's Top-10 Science and Technology Achievements at Brookhaven National Lab
2014's Top-10 Scientific Achievements at Brookhaven Natoinal Lab
04/2012 Presidential Post-Doctoral Award from Microscopy Society of America
08/2011 Castaing Award from Microbeam Analysis Society
07/2010 Castaing Award from Microbeam Analysis Society
08/2008 Distinguished Scholar Award from Microbeam Analysis Society
08/2005 Cornell Walter Schonlenk Fellowship

Huolin Xin is a Chancellor’s Fellow professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at UCI. He is an expert on studying structure-property relationships for a range of battery materials and liquid/polymer/solid electrolytes. His in-depth diagnostic and material development work has enabled the invention of several battery materials and electrolytes, most notably the zero-strain zero-cobalt stoichiometric layered oxides. Xin holds a strong track record in leading multidisciplinary studies in the battery field. He is the lead PI in charge of managing a $2.5-million DOE Vehicle Technology Office project on low-to-no-cobalt lithium-ion batteries. He was elected to Microscopy Society of America Fellows in 2024. He was named the Climate Action 30 by Insider and Highly Cited Researcher by Clarivate (2021-2023). He received the DOE Early Career Award, the UCI Distinguished Early-Career Faculty for Research, the MRS Outstanding Early-Career Investigator Award, the MSA Burton Medal Award, the Beall Innovation Award in Physical Science. His work on battery and soft materials has been selected as 2020’s, 2019’s and 2014's Top-10 Stories/Scientific Achievements by Brookhaven Lab. Xin has published more than 300 peer-reviewed publications and has co-authored more than 43 publications in Science and Nature sister journals (corresponding author on more than 18). He was the Chair of the Microscopy and Microanalysis 2020 meeting, the annual society meeting of the Microscopy Society of America and the Microanalysis Society.

Compositionally complex doping for zero-strain zero-cobalt layered cathodes, R. Zhang, C. Wang, P. Zou, R. Lin, L. Ma, L. Yin, T. Li, W. Xu, H. Jia, Q. Li, S. Sainio, K. Kisslinger, S. E. Trask, S. N. Ehrlich, Y. Yang, A. M. Kiss, M. Ge, B. J. Polzin, S. J. Lee, W. Xu, Y. Ren and H. L. Xin, Nature, 610, 67–73 (2022) https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-022-05115-z

Long-life lithium-ion batteries realized by low-Ni, Co-free cathode chemistry, R. Zhang, C. Wang, P. Zou, R. Lin, L. Ma, T. Li, I. Hwang, W. Xu, C. Sun, S. Trask & H. L. Xin, Nature Energy, 8, 695-702 (2023) https://doi.org/10.1038/s41560-023-01267-y

Resolving complex intralayer transition motifs in high-Ni-content layered cathode materials for lithium-ion batteries, C. Wang, X. Wang, R. Zhang, T. Lei, K. Kisslinger & H. L. Xin, Nature Materials, 22, 235–241 (2023), https://doi.org/10.1038/s41563-022-01461-5

Characterization of the structure and chemistry of the solid–electrolyte interface by cryo-EM leads to high-performance solid-state Li-metal batteries, R. Lin, Y. He, C. Wang, P. Zou, E. Hu, X.-Q. Yang, K. Xu & H. L. Xin, Nature Nanotechnology, 17, 768–776 (2022) https://doi.org/10.1038/s41565-022-01148-7

A single-atom library for guided monometallic and concentration-complex multimetallic designs, L. Han, H. Cheng, W. Liu, H. Li, P. Ou, R. Lin, H.-T. Wang, C.-W. Pao, A. R. Head, C.-H. Wang, X. Tong, C.-J. Sun, W.-F. Pong, J. Luo, J.-C. Zheng & H. L. Xin, Nature Materials, 21, 681–688 (2022) https://doi.org/10.1038/s41563-022-01252-y

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06/24/2024