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Professor Xingtao Xu has long been engaged in fundamental research on the green and high-value utilization of seawater resources, particularly achieving significant innovation in the creation, synthesis, and mechanistic exploration of CDI materials. He has successively undertaken projects such as the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) Young Scientist Fund, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Research Fellowship, and participated as a key member in the Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) ERATO program (total budget of 2 billion yen). He has also received honors including the Zhejiang Province Overseas Talent Introduction Plan Innovative Long-term Project, Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) Highly Cited Author (2021), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Fellowship (2020), being listed in the annual list of the top 2% of global leading scientists in terms of scientific impact (2020-2023), and serving as a visiting associate professor at Nagoya University. He has served as a guest editor, young editorial board member, etc., for journals such as SusMat, Carbon Energy, Environ. Res., Electrochim. Acta, etc. As a first/corresponding author, he has published over 100 papers in journals including J. Am. Chem. Soc., Energy Environ. Sci., Angew. Chem., Adv. Mater. (2 papers), ACS Nano (3 papers), Chem. Sci. (3 papers), Mater. Horiz. (4 papers), Nano Energy/Nano Today/Energy Storage Mater. (5 papers), Small/Small Struct. (8 papers), Chem. Eng. J. (21 papers), and more. He has been included in 48 highly cited papers according to ESI (March 2024 data), with his research cited over 12,000 times (according to Google Scholar statistics), and an H-index of 70. Furthermore, he has been invited by the RSC to publish the first academic monograph in the CDI field, titled 'Capacitive Deionization' (representative work 1).
