Group NEWs
2025
• [2025.09] Our manuscript was accepted by APL Machine Learning 🎉 — first time receiving an acceptance notice over a weekend! Many thanks to Yang Liu, Qianjie Lei, Xiaolong He, and all teammates for the hard work. Although a fully human-out-of-the-loop autonomous lab is still ahead, we have validated in class that this teaching experiment design works very well.
• [2025.09] We thank the organizers of Flatlands Beyond Graphene 2025. Prof. Yong Xie delivered an invited talk and chaired the Tuesday evening Shotgun Session (Milan, Italy).
• [2025.08] Delighted to host Prof. Eduardo R. Hernández and Prof. Andres Castellanos-Gomez during the hot summer. They shared deep theoretical insights and practical guidance with our students. Special thanks to graduate students Qianjie Lei and Yang Liu for their dedicated support. Seeds of research often sprout quietly during conversations.
• [2025.07] Our paper on AI agents for instrument control was selected as a back cover in Small Structures. The paper is online and has been featured by Nanowerk Spotlight.
｜Paper DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/sstr.202500173
｜Back cover: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/sstr.70047
｜Media: https://www.nanowerk.com/spotlight/spotid=67169.php
• [2025.07] At the quantum meeting organized by Prof. Xi Chen (ICMM-CSIC), Prof. Yu Shi (Fudan University) highly commended our work. Many thanks to Prof. Chen for organizing a top-tier meeting!
• [2025.06] Our manuscript on AI agents for scientific instrument control was accepted by Small Structures. The work uses LLM tools to control instruments and, to our knowledge, provides the first systematic report of such an AI agent.
• [2025.06] Congratulations to master’s students Kexin He, Yizhe Xue, and Xiaolong He on successfully defending their theses!
2024
• [2024.05] Congratulations to master’s students Haoran Li, Ziwei Dang, and Haitao Yang on successful thesis defenses!
• [2024.05] Congratulations to two collaborative papers (advised by Dr. Nan Zhou) accepted in Small and Small Structures.
Small Structures: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/sstr.202400062 (Nan Zhou, Haoran Li)
Small: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/smll.202400311 (Nan Zhou, Ziwei Dang)
• [2024.02.20] Our Nano Letters paper was accepted: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.nanolett.3c04815. Congratulations to Haitao Yang, Ruiqi Hu, Heng Wu, Xiaolong He, Yizhe Xue, Kexin He, Wenshuai Hu, and all collaborators. Equal first authors: Haitao Yang, Ruiqi Hu, Heng Wu, Xiaolong He; Corresponding authors: Yong Xie, Ping-Heng Tan, Eduardo R. Hernández, Yan Zhou.
2023
• [2023.10.29] Our team won First Prize in the 2nd China Graduate Dual-Carbon Innovation & Creativity Competition (finals). Prof. Yong Xie received the Outstanding Advisor award.
• [2023.10.23] Our Small Methods paper was selected as a cover. Congratulations!
• [2023.06.27] Our work was highlighted in News & Views: https://www.oejournal.org/article/doi/10.29026/oea.2023.230077
• [2023.03.29] Our study received a cover highlight: https://www.oejournal.org/oea/article/2023/3
• [2023.02.20] Media coverage by Nanowerk: https://www.nanowerk.com/spotlight/spotid=62406.php
• [2023.02] Prof. Yong Xie presented a poster at GEFES 2023.
• [2023.01] Prof. Yong Xie presented a poster at MEMS 2023.
• [2023.01] Prof. Yong Xie served on the Organizers & Advisory Committee of #NanoSeries2023. Conference link: https://nanoseriesiac.com/
• [2023.01.10] Our work was selected as a back cover: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/admt.202370005
• [2023.01.06] Media coverage: https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/975945 https://www.alphagalileo.org/en-gb/Item-Display/ItemId/229134
2022
• [2022.12.16] Media coverage: https://www.nanowerk.com/spotlight/spotid=62040.php
• [2022.11.01] Our paper in Opto-Electronic Advances (CAS Tier-1 (Top)) was selected as a cover.
• [2022.10.25] Two good news in one day! A paper with Wenshuai Hu et al. was accepted by Nano Research (CAS Tier-1 (Top)); our collaborative paper with Prof. Guoqiang Wu (Wuhan University) was accepted by MEMS 2023. Congratulations!
• [2022.09.26] A paper (corresponding author: Yong Xie) was accepted by Opto-Electronic Advances (CAS Tier-1).
• [2022.09.07] Congratulations to Wenliang Zhang on his successful PhD defense (co-supervised by Andres Castellanos-Gomez and Yong Xie)! He will join Shaanxi University of Science & Technology as an Associate Professor, and received the highest thesis honor Cum laude.
• [2022.09.07] A collaborative paper was accepted by Nano Letters. Congratulations!
• [2022.09.06] Our work is highlighted on Kudos: https://www.growkudos.com/publications/10.1063%25252F5.0096190/reader
• [2022.08.08] A collaborative paper was accepted by Advanced Materials Technologies: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/admt.202201091
• [2022.08.05] Our paper (first author: Wenshuai Hu; co-authors: Kexin He, Xiaolong He, Yan Bai, Chenyang Liu, etc.; corresponding author: Yong Xie) was accepted by Journal of Applied Physics (https://aip.scitation.org/doi/full/10.1063/5.0096190). Congratulations!