Dr. Qiyang Lu was born and raised in Huai’an, Jiangsu, China. He received his bachelor’s degree from Tsinghua University (2012) and his PhD degree from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT, 2018), both in Materials Science and Engineering. His PhD work was awarded best PhD thesis award from MIT. He did his postdoctoral study at Stanford University with a joint fellowship at Advanced Light Source, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. He received several prestigious awards, including Graduate Student Gold Award from Materials Research Society and Ross Coffin Purdy award from American Ceramic Society.

The research in our group focuses on the fundamental understanding and new applications in the field of solid state ionics (SSI), applied surface science and solid state electrochemistry. Our current research interests include:

1. Designing mixed electronic and ionic conducting oxide thin films for reversible solid state electrochemical cells;

2. Understanding the role of ionic defects in determining reaction kinetics in electrocatalysis;

3. Prototyping neuromorphic computing devices enabled by ion transport and intercalation.

1. Haowen Chen^#, Mingdong Dong^#, Yang Hu, Ting Lin, Qinghua Zhang, Er-Jia Guo, Lin Gu, Jie Wu, Qiyang Lu*, Protonation-Induced Colossal Chemical Expansion and Property Tuning in NdNiO3 Revealed by Proton Concentration Gradient Thin Films, Nano Letters, 22 (2022), 8983-8990

2. Ying Lu ,  Yiwei Huang ,  Zihan Xu ,  Kaichuang Yang ,  Weichao Bao , Qiyang Lu*, Quantifying Electrochemical Driving Force for Exsolution in Perovskite Oxides by Designing Graded Oxygen Chemical Potential, ACS Nano, 17 (2023), 14005−14013

3. Qiyang Lu*, Samuel Huberman*, Hantao Zhang, Qichen Song, Jiayue Wang, Gulin Vardar, Adrian Hunt, Iradwikanari Waluyo, Gang Chen, Bilge Yildiz, Bi-directional tuning of thermal transport in SrCoO_x with electrochemically induced phase transitions, Nature Materials (2020) *equally contributing first author

4. Nikolay Tsvetkov*, Qiyang Lu*, Lixin Sun, Ethan Crumlin, and Bilge Yildiz, Improved Chemical and Electrochemical Stability on Perovskite Oxides by Oxidizing Cations at the Surface, Nature Materials 15 (2016) 1010-1016, *equally contributing first author

5. Qiyang Lu and Bilge Yildiz, Voltage-controlled Topotactic Phase Transition in Thin film SrCoO_x Monitored by in situ X-ray Diffraction, Nano Letters 16 (2016), 1186-1193

6. Qiyang Lu, Gulin Vardar, Sean Bishop, Iradwikanari Waluyo, Harry Tuller and Bilge Yildiz, Surface Defect Chemistry and Electronic Structure of Pr_0.1Ce_0.9O_2-δ Revealed in operando, Chemistry of Materials, 30 (2018), 2600-2606

7. Qiyang Lu, Sean Bishop, Dongkyu Lee, Hendrik Bluhm, Ho Nyunge Lee, Harry Tuller and Bilge Yildiz, Electrochemically triggered metal-insulator-transition between VO₂ and V₂O₅, Advanced Functional Materials, 28 (2018), 1803024

8. Qiyang Lu, Yan Chen, Hendrik Bluhm, and Bilge Yildiz, Electronic Structure Evolution of SrCoO_x Probed by X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy during Electrochemically Driven Topotactic Phase transition, Journal of Physical Chemistry C 120 (2016), 24148-24157

Google Scholar Homepage: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=-kK4ibEAAAAJ&hl=en

Email: luqiyang@westlake.edu.cn

Opening: Our group is recruiting postdoctoral scholars, PhD students as well as research associates. We welcome highly motivated researchers with backgrounds of materials science, condensed matter physics, inorganic/surface chemistry or related field (not essential for PhDs and RAs) to join us. 

Interested candidates are welcome to send CV to luqiyang@westlake.edu.cn.