科研方向

• 储能材料与器件
• 能源材料力化学行为
• 锂电池力化学失效机理与调控机制
• 多场耦合原位实验与数值模拟
• 先进材料的微纳米力学表征

发表论文

以第一作者或通讯作者发表SCI论文20余篇，包括Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids 、Advanced Materials、Chemical Reviews、Extreme Mechanics Letters 、Advanced Energy Materials等期刊。作为共同作者发表论文30余篇（Science、Nature、Nature Energy、Nature Nanotechnology、Nature Materials等）。论文被引3000余次，h因子33，多篇论文入选ESI高被引论文及期刊（JMPS，EML等）高被引论文。代表性论文：

• Luize Vasconcelos†, Rong Xu†, Zhengrui Xu, Jin Zhang, Nikhil Sharma, Sameep Shah, Jiaxiu Han, Xiaomei He, Xianyang Wu, Hong Sun, Shan Hu, Madison Perrin, Xiaokang Wang, Yijin Liu, Feng Lin, Yi Cui, and Kejie Zhao. Chemomechanics of rechargeable batteries: Status, theories, and perspectives. Chemical Reviews. 122, 13043–13107 (2022).
• Rong Xu, Fang Liu, Yusheng Ye, Hao Chen, Yinxing Ma, Wenxiao Huang, Jiayu Wan, Yi Cui. A morphologically stable Li/electrolyte interface for all-solid-state batteries enabled by 3D-micropatterned garnet. Advanced Materials. 33, 202104009 (2021).
• Rong Xu, Yang Yang, Fei Yin, Pengfei Liu, Peter Cloetens, Yijin Liu, Feng Lin, Kejie Zhao. Heterogeneous damage in Li-ion batteries: Experimental analysis and theoretical modeling. Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids. 129, 160-183 (2019). (ESI Highly Cited Paper) (News report “Most detailed X-ray image of batteries yet to reveal why they still aren’t good enough“. Reports from SSRL, VT, and ESRF.)
• Rong Xu, Kejie Zhao*, Corrosive fracture of electrodes in Li-ion batteries. Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids. 121, 258-280 (2018).
• Rong Xu, Luize Vasconcelos, Junzhe Shi, Jianlin Li, Kejie Zhao*. Disintegration of meatball electrodes for LiNi_xMn_yCo_zO₂ cathode materials. Experimental Mechanics. 58, 549-559 (2018). (Invited article) (Most cited articles of EM)
• Rong Xu, Kejie Zhao*. Mechanical interactions regulated kinetics and morphology of composite electrodes in Li-ion batteries. Extreme Mechanics Letters. 8, 13-21 (2016). (Most cited articles of EML)
• Fang Liu, Rong Xu, Yecun Wu, David Boyle, Ankun Yang, Jinwei Xu, Yangying Zhu, Yusheng Ye, Zhiao Yu, Zewen Zhang, Xin Xiao, Wenxiao Huang, Hansen Wang, Hao Chen, and Yi Cui. Dynamic Polarization and Spatial Progression of Isolated Lithium Metal during Battery Operations, Nature. 600, 659-663 (2021).
• Zewen Zhang, Yuzhang Li, Rong Xu, Weijiang Zhou, Yanbin Li, Solomon T. Oyakhire, Yecun Wu, Jinwei Xu, Hansen Wang, Zhiao Yu, David T. Boyle, William Huang, Yusheng Ye, Zhenan Bao, Wah Chiu, and Yi Cui. Capture the swelling of solid-electrolyte interphase in lithium-metal batteries, Science. 375, 66-70 (2022).

科研奖励

• ExxonMobil Emerging Energy Research Fellow, 2019-2022
• 1st most cited articles published on Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids (since 2018), 2020-2021
• Most cited articles published on Extreme Mechanics Letters, 2019
• CoE Outstanding Research Award, Purdue, 2018
• Ward A. Lambert Graduate Teaching Fellowship, Purdue, 2018.
• Drs. Helen and Marvin Adelberg Fellowship, Purdue, 2017.
• The outstanding abstract for the 2016 MRS Spring conference, Phoenix, 2016.
• The outstanding graduate award, Xi’an Jiaotong University, China, 2014.
• National scholarship, Xi’an Jiaotong University, China, 2008, 2009 & 2013.

学术兼职

会议主席:

2018 Midwest Society of Experimental Mechanics Student Conference, Purdue University.
2017 Prospective Graduate Student Visitation Research Posters Session, Purdue University.

学会会员:

The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), the Materials Research Society (MRS), the Society of Engineering Science (SES), Stanford Strategic Energy Alliance，中国力学学会

期刊编委:

International Journal of Computational Materials Science and Surface Engineering (IJCMSSE)

期刊审稿:

Nature Communications, Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, Joule, Nano Letters, Advanced Functional Materials, Journal of Applied Physics, Acta Materialia, Mechanics of Materials, Extreme Mechanics Letters, The Journal of Physical Chemistry, Electrochimica Acta, Journal of the European Ceramic Society, Materials and Design, Journal of Energy Storage, ournal of Materials Science, Science China Technological Sciences.