Overview Academic/Research Interest Areas

Synthesis and characterization of nanomaterials and nanostructures

Nanocomposites fabrication and properties

Nanomaterial-based device for sensor application

Professional Affiliations

TMS (Minerals, Metals, Materials Society), 2007- present

SWE (Society of Woman Engineering), 2003-present

APS (American Physical Society), 2003 - present

AVS (American Vacuum Society), 2003 - present

MRS (Materials Research Society), 2002 - present

ASME (American Society of Mechanical Engineers), 2002 - present

IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers), 1999 - present

Recent Publications

Amin, S. S., Nichollas, A. W., Xu, T. T., "A Facile Approach to Synthesize Single Crystalline Rutile TiO2 One-Dimensional Nanostructures", Nanotechnology, 18, 445609, (2007).

Xu, T. T., Nicholls, A. W., and Ruoff, R. S., "Boron nanowires and novel tube-catalytic particle-wire hybrid boron nanostructures", Nano, 1(1), 55-63, (2006).

Xu, T. T., Zheng, J. G., Nicholls, A. W., Stankovich, S., Piner, R. D., and Ruoff, R. S., "Single Crystal Calcium Hexaboride Nanowires: Synthesis and Characterization", (2004), Nano Letters, 4(10), 2051-2055.

Xu, T. T., Zheng, J. G., Wu, N. Q., Nicholls, A. W., Roth, J. R., Dikin, D. A. and Ruoff, R.S. (2004), "Crystalline Boron Nanoribbons: Synthesis and Characterization", (2004), Nano Letters 4(5), 963-968.

Piner, R. D., Xu, T. T., Fisher F. T., Qiao, Y. and Ruoff, R. S. (2003). "Atomic force microscopy study of clay nanoplatelets and their impurities", Langmuir 19(19), 7995-8001.

Educational Background

B.Eng., Materials Science & Engineering, Shanghai University, P. R. China, 1995.

M.Phil., Mechanical Engineering, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology, Hong Kong, 1998.

Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, Northwestern University, USA, 2004.