Yu Xia

Yu Xia is a Post Doc at the Department of Chemistry, Stockholm University, Sweden. He is affiliated with the Tom Willhammar Research Group, focusing on advanced electron microscopy and diffraction techniques for structural characterization of materials.

• PhD (2019–2023) from a joint program between the University of Birmingham (UK) and the Southern University of Science and Technology (China).
• Research emphasizes fabrication of metallic nanoparticles with non-equilibrium structures and shapes using gas-phase condensation and thermal shock methods.
• Specializes in scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM), in-situ heating experiments, and electron energy loss spectroscopy (EELS) for nanoparticle analysis.
• Current work prioritizes 4DSTEM imaging for electron beam-sensitive materials and Python-based post-processing of electron microscopy datasets.

Yu Xia's research spans Materials Science, Nanotechnology, and Electrocatalysis, with applications in photocatalytic hydrogen evolution, graphene composites, and advanced electron microscopy techniques. His work often integrates computational image processing with structural characterization to optimize material properties. Publications highlight innovations in heterostructure engineering, metallic alloy catalysts, and electron beam-sensitive material imaging. No scientific awards are explicitly mentioned in the provided text. Yu Xia's technical expertise includes Python scripting for image analysis, in-situ electron microscopy, and multifunctional graphene-based materials.