Faculty
FENG Xinjian / 封心建
  • Department:Division of Nanobionic Research
  • Position:Professor
  • Expertise:Charge transport though one dimensional nanomaterials; Solar energy conversion; biosensor;
  • Email:xjfeng2011@sinano.ac.cn
Research Interest
  1. All solid state PV devices;
  2. biosensor devices;
Experience:

Employment

Feb. 2012 - Present

Professor

Division of Nanobionic Research, SINANO, CAS

Aug. 2011 - Feb. 2012 

Senior Scientist/ Co-Founder

Flux Photon Corp. USA

Aug. 2007 - Jul. 2011 

Postdoc Research Fellow

Materials Research Institute, Penn State University, USA

Aug. 2006 - Jul. 2007 

Humboldt Research Fellow 

Materials Department, Erlangen University, Germany

Aug. 1998 - Jul. 2001

Assistant Engineer

China Lucky Film Corporation

Education

Ph.D. 2006 

Physical Chemistry

Institute of Chemistry CAS 

B. S. 1998 

Chemistry 

Jilin University 

Selected Publication:
  1. X. J. Feng, K. Zhu, A. J. Frank, C. A. Grimes, T. E. Mallouk, Rapid Charge Transport in Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells Made from Aligned Single Crystal Rutile TiO2 Nanowire, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2012, 51, 2727.
  2. J. Z. Su, X. J. Feng, J. D. Sloppy, L. J. Guo, C. A. Grimes, Vertically Aligned WO3 Nanowire Arrays Grown Directly on Transparent Conducting Oxide Coated Glass: Synthesis and Photoelectrochemical Properties, Nano. Lett. 2011, 11, 203.
  3. X. J. Feng, T. J. Latempa, J. I. Basham, G. K. Mor, O. K. Varghese, C. A. Grimes, Ta3N5 Nanotube Arrays for Visible Light Water Photoelectrolysis, Nano. Lett. 2010, 10, 948.
  4. X. J. Feng, K. Shankar, O. K. Varghese, C. A. Grimes, Tantalum Doped Titanium Dioxide Nanowire Arrays for Dye Sensitized Solar Cells with High Open-Circuit Voltage, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2009, 48, 8095.
  5. X. J. Feng, K. Shankar, O. K. Varghese, M. Paulose, T. J. Latempa, C. A. Grimes, Vertically Aligned TiO2 Nanowire Arrays Grown Directly on Transparent Conducting Oxide Coated Glass: Synthesis and Applications, Nano. Lett. 2008, 8, 3781.
  6. X. J. Feng, J. M. Macak, P. Schmuki,  Robust Self-Organization of TiO2 Nanotube Arrays over a Wide pH Range, Chem. Mater. 2007, 19, 1534.
  7. S. T. Wang, X. J. Feng, J. N. Yao, L. Jiang, Wettability and Chromism Dual-responsive Tungsten Oxide Film, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2006, 45, 1264.
  8. X. J. Feng, L. Jiang, Design and Creation of Super-Wetting/Antiwetting Surfaces,   Adv. Mater. 2006, 18, 3063.
  9. X. J. Feng, J. Zhai, L. Jiang,The Fabrication and Switchable Super-hydrophobicity of TiO2 Nanorod Films, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2005, 44, 5115.
  10. X. J. Feng, L. Feng, M. Jin, J. Zhai, L. Jiang, D. B. Zhu,  Reversible Super-hydrophobicity to Super-hydrophilicity Transition of Aligned ZnO Nanorod Films, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2004, 126, 62.