Dr. WEN Xiewen


Assistant Professor


Contact Information Office: G5359YEUNG
Phone: 3442-9061
Email: xiewen.wen@cityu.edu.hk

Research Interests Additive Manufacturing & Advanced spectroscopy and imaging



Xiewen Wen is Assistant Professor in the Dept. of Mechanical Engineering of CityU. He got a PhD degree from Rice University under the supervision of Prof. Jun Lou and Prof. Pulickel Ajayan. and he did his postdoc in Argonne National Laboratory with Gary Wiederrecht. He has co-authored more than thirty papers in prestigious journals such as Nature Materials, Nature Photonics, Nature communications, Science Advances, Advanced Materials, PNAS etc.
Actively recruiting incoming Ph. D. student, RA and postdocs in Intelligent Additive Manufacturing and Advanced Spectroscopy & Imaging.
Whose research directions include optics and photonics, 3D printing; laser direct writing; spectroscopy and imaging; robotics, control, ; chemistry, materials science, polymer-derived ceramics; polymer chemistry and physics; colloidal nanoparticle synthesis and applications, etc. are welcome to reach me via email.
Students with a bachelor degree from C9, 985 Universities and top 200 internationally-ranked universities are preferred.
Students with a master degree from C9, 985 and 211 universities and top internationally-ranked universities and research institutes are preferred.
Students with first or second authored publications are preferred.
Details: https://scholars.cityu.edu.hk/en/persons/xiewen-wen(731b99c7-bcfe-43a5-b95d-a37d1f06a6f3)/opportunities.html
Slected publication:
X. Wen, et. al. "3D Printed Silica with Nanoscale Resolution." Nature Materials. (2021)
H. Tsai, …, X.Wen, … et al. “Bright and Stable Light Emitting Diodes Made with Perovskite Nanocrystals Stabilized in Metal-Organic Frameworks” Nature Photonics. 1-7 (2021)
X. Wen, et al. "Ghost imaging second harmonic generation microscopy." Applied Physics Letters 116.19 (2020): 191101.
J. Liang, …, X.Wen, … et al. "Perovskite‐Derivative Valleytronics." Advanced Materials 32.48 (2020): 2004111.
X. Wen, et al. "Ultrafast probes of electron–hole transitions between two atomic layers." Nature communications 9.1 (2018): 1-9.
Y. Wang, …, X.Wen, … et al. "Cryo-mediated exfoliation and fracturing of layered materials into 2D quantum dots." Science advances 3.12 (2017): e1701500.
Z. Yan, …, X.Wen, … et al. "Three-dimensional mesostructures as high-temperature growth templates, electronic cellular scaffolds, and self-propelled microrobots." PNAS, 114.45 (2017): E9455-E9464.
H. Chen#, X. Wen#, et al. "Ultrafast formation of interlayer hot excitons in atomically thin MoS 2/WS 2 heterostructures." Nature communications 7.1 (2016): 1-8.
X. Wen, et al. "Broadband THz reflective polarization rotator by multiple plasmon resonances." Optics Express 22.23 (2014): 28292-28300.


Previous Experience 19 Mar 2019 - 6 Aug 2021, Postdoc, Argonne National Laboratory.



Last update date : 26 Oct 2021