Xudong Hu

Postdoctoral Fellows

Postdoctoral Fellow

Current

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Research Interests

  • Metal halide synthesis, X-ray detection imagin

Selected Publications

  • Xudong Hu, Simil Thomas, Wentao Wu, Renqian Zhou, Issatay Nadinov, Yuanfan Wen, Lijie Wang, Bahaaeddin Irziqat, Shadi Fatayer, Xiansheng Li, Zhe Sun, Yalin Li, Tengjiao He, Vinayak S. Kale, Osama Shekhah, Meng Zhang, Peiren Liu, Shumei Wang, Jian-Xin Wang, Chensen Li, Bo Xu, Mohamed Eddaoudi, Osman M. Bakr, Husam N. Alshareef, Xiaoming Li*, Omar F. Mohammed*. Engineered Excited-State Coupling Enables Efficient Exciton Harvesting in Binuclear Copper Iodide Cluster Scintillators. Advanced Materials. 2026, Accepted
  • Xudong Hu, Zhicheng Wang, Simil Thomas, Issatay Nadinov, Qiuting Cai, Xingliang Dai, Zhigao Huang, Yue Wang, Jialong Gong, Ye Wu, Renqian Zhou, Yuanfan Wen, Jian-Xin Wang, Haibo Zeng, Osman M. Bakr, Husam N. Alshareef, Xiaoming Li*, and Omar F. Mohammed*. Polar Solvent Strategy Enables Scalable Synthesis of Perovskite Nanocrystal Scintillators for Fast X-ray Imaging. Nature Communications. 2026, 17, 4749.
  • Xudong Hu, Peng Yan, Peng Ran, Linpeng Lu, Jing Leng, Yang (Michael) Yang, and Xiaoming Li*. In Situ Fabrication of Cs3Cu2I5: Tl Nanocrystal Films for High-Resolution and Ultrastable X-ray Imaging. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. 2022, 13, 13, 2862-2870.
  • Xudong Hu, Xiaojia Yuan, Jialin Yang, Gaoyu Liu, Lili Xu, Shengli Zhang*, Yunfei Ren, Jialong Gong, Junhui Wang, Kaifeng Wu, Linpeng Lu, Xiuting Wu, Changting Wei, Shumei Wang, Tengyue He, Jian-Xin Wang, Omar F. Mohammed*, Haibo Zeng, and Xiaoming Li*. Thallium-Doping-Modulated Photon Emission and Scintillation Performance in Cs3Cu2I5 Nanocrystals. Nano Letters. 2025, 25, 26, 10680-10689.
  • Xudong Hu, Sihan Luo, Jing Leng, Chujie Wang, Yiyang Chen, Xiaoming Li*, and Haibo Zeng*, Density-Discriminating Chromatic X-ray Imaging Based on Metal Halide Nanocrystal Scintillators. Science Advances. 2023, 9, 37, adh5081.
  • Xudong Hu, Yuting Wu, Yue Wang*, Lili Xu, Shengli Zhang*, Junhui Wang, Kaifeng Wu, Yang Liu, Yuelei Li, and Xiaoming Li*. Surface Anchoring-Induced Robust Luminescence Thermal Quenching Suppression in Shell-Free Perovskite Nanocrystals. Advanced Optical Materials. 2022, 10, 22, 2201205
  • Xudong Hu, Yuelei Li, Ye Wu, Weiwei Chen, Haibo Zeng, and Xiaoming Li*. One-Pot Synthesis of Cs3Cu2I5 Nanocrystals Based on Thermodynamic Equilibrium. Materials Chemistry Frontiers. 2021, 5, 6152-5159.
  • Chengqiang Wang†, Xudong Hu†, Tao Song, Yanlong Ma, Pingyuan Yan, Muyan Zhu, Zhongqi Xie, Zihui Zhou, Heng Li, Qiang Wang, Xiaoming Li*, and Chuangxiang Sheng*. Cation Dependent Linear Dichroism in PL Spectra of Self-Assembled Perovskite Nanoparticle Film and Nanoparticle-Liquid Crystal Mixtures. Nano Energy. 2025, 146, 111523.

Education

  • 2020.9-2025.11, Ph. D. Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing, China
  • 2016.9-2020.6, Bachelors, Hefei University, Material Forming and Control Engineering, Hefei, China.

 

Professional Profile

  • 2026.3-Present, Postdoc fellow, KAUST, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia
  • 2021.9-2023.9 Material Research Consultant, Hangzhou Tiray Technology Co., Ltd.

Awards

  • 2025. May Fourth Youth Medal, Nanjing University of Science and Technology (NJUST).
  • 2024. National Gold Award, 14th “Challenge Cup” China College Students’ Entrepreneurship Competition, Communist Youth League of China.
  • 2024. Scholarship of the “National High-Level University Graduate Program”, China Scholarship Council (CSC).
  • 2023. National Scholarship for Doctoral Students, Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China.

KAUST Affiliations

Research Interests Keywords

Metal Halide synthesis X-ray detection imaging