一、研究领域或方向
热电能源材料

二、工作经历
2019.6-2021.5 北京航空航天大学博士后
2021.5-至今 西安交通大学特聘研究员（青拔B）

三、科研项目
1. 西安交通大学青年拔尖人才支持计划
四、学术成果介绍
长期从事热电能源材料的研究，致力于通过微观结构设计和能带调控策略开发高效热电材料。2019年入选博士后创新人才支持计划，2019年获得国际热电学会“Graduate Student Award”。目前在热电相关领域发表学术论文40余篇，其中以（共同）第一作者或通讯作者发表论文20余篇，包括Science, J. Am. Chem. Soc., Energy Environ. Sci., Adv. Energy Mater.等，文章被引用1300余次。
代表性论文：
1. Yu Xiao, Li-Dong Zhao*. Seeking new, highly effective thermoelectrics, Science, 367 (2020) 1196-1197.
2. Yu Xiao, Dongyang Wang, Yang Zhang, Congrun Chen, Shuxuan Zhang, Kedong Wang, Guangtao Wang, Stephen J. Pennycook, G. Jeffrey Snyder, Haijun Wu,* Li-Dong Zhao.* Band sharpening and alignment enable high quality factor to enhance thermoelectric performance in n-type PbS, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 142 (2020) 4051-4060.
3. Yu Xiao^#, Haijun Wu^#, Dongyang Wang, Changlei Niu, Yanling Pei, Yang Zhang, Ioannis Spanopoulos, Ian Thomas Witting, Xin Li, Stephen J. Pennycook, G. Jeffrey Snyder, Mercouri G. Kanatzidis, Li-Dong Zhao.* Amphoteric indium enables carrier engineering to enhance the power factor and thermoelectric performance in n-type Ag_nPb₁₀₀In_nTe_100+2n (LIST), Advanced Energy Materials, 9 (2019) **.
4. Yu Xiao, Dongyang Wang, Bingchao Qin, Jinfeng Wang, Guangtao Wang, Li-Dong Zhao.* Approaching topological insulating states leads to high-performance n-type PbTe, Journal of the American Chemical Society, 140 (2018) 13097-13102.
5. Yu Xiao, Li-Dong Zhao.* Charge and phonon transports in PbTe-based thermoelectric materials, npj Quantum Materials, 3 (2018) 55.
6. Yu Xiao^#, Haijun Wu^#, Dongyang Wang, Liangwei Fu, Jiaqing He, Stephen J. Pennycook, Li-Dong Zhao*. Realizing high performance n-type PbTe via synergistically optimizing effective mass, carrier mobility and suppressing bipolar thermal conductivity, Energy & Environmental Science, 11 (2018) 2486 - 2495.
7. Yu Xiao^#, Haijun Wu^#, Meijie Yin, Wei Li, Liangwei Fu, Yuexing Chen, Stephen John Pennycook, Li Huang, Jiaqing He, Li-Dong Zhao.* Remarkable roles of Cu to synergistically optimize phonon and carrier transport in n-type PbTe-Cu₂Te, Journal of the American Chemical Society, 139 (2017) 18732–18738.
8. Yu Xiao, Cheng Chang, Yanling Pei, Di Wu, Kunling Peng, Xiaoyuan Zhou, Shengkai Gong, Jiaqing He, Yongsheng Zhang*, Zhi Zeng, Li-Dong Zhao*. Origin of low thermal conductivity in SnSe, Physical Review B, 94 (2016) 125203.
9. Shaoping Zhan, Lei Zheng, Yu Xiao,* Li-Dong Zhao.* Phonon and Carrier Transport Properties in Low-Cost and Environmental-Friendly SnS₂: A Promising Thermoelectric Material, Chemistry of Materials, 32 (2020) 10348-10356.
10. Yongxin Qin, Tao Hong, Bingchao Qin, Dongyang Wang, Wenke He, Xiang Gao, Yu Xiao,* Li-Dong Zhao.* Contrasting Cu Roles Lead to High Ranged Thermoelectric Performance of PbS, Advanced Functional Materials., (2021) accepted.