People. Department of Mechanical Engineering at UT Dallas.

GUOPING XIONG

Guoping.Xiong@utdallas.edu
Mailstop: ECW 31
Office: ECSW 4.150J
800 West Campbell Rd.
Richardson, TX 75080-3021

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ASSISTANT PROFESSOR

Research Interests

Heat transfer; energy storage and conversion; nanomaterials; solar energy harvesting; nanoscale fluid transport

Degrees

PhD, Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University, 2013

MS, Materials Science & Engineering, Tsinghua University, China, 2008

BS, Materials Engineering of Molding & Controlling, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China, 2005

Five Most Recent Journal Publications, Book Chapters, and Books

  • Mashhadian A, Hwang T, Wu S, Toher C, Cho K, Li W, Xiong G. Direct writing of oxygen-doped Mo₂C enabled by low-temperature laser deposition for high-performance acidic hydrogen evolution reaction. Advanced Materials. 2025; e15697.
  • Tian S, Hwang T, Zhang Z, Wu S, Mashhadian A, Zhang R, Milazzo T, Luo T, Jian R, Li T, Cho K, Xiong G. Transforming detrimental crystalline zinc hydroxide sulfate to homogeneous fluorinated amorphous solid–electrolyte interphase on zinc anode. ACS Nano. 2025;19(3):3135.
  • Tian S, Hwang T, Estalaki SM, Tian Y, Zhou L, Milazzo T, Moon S, Wu S, Jian R, Balkus K, Luo T, Cho K, Xiong G. A low-cost quasi-solid-state “water-in-swelling-clay” electrolyte enabling ultrastable aqueous zinc-ion batteries. Advanced Energy Materials. 2023;2300782.
  • Wu S, Tian S, Jian R, Zhou L, Luo T, Xiong G. Simultaneous solar-driven seawater desalination and continuous oil recovery. Nano Energy. 2023;107:108160.
  • Tian S, Huang D, Xu Z, Wu S, Luo T, Xiong G. Enhanced thermal transport across the interface between charged graphene electrodes and poly(ethylene oxide) electrolytes by non-covalent functionalization. International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer. 2022;183:122188.

Major Honors and Awards

  • ACS Petroleum Research Fund, Doctoral New Investigator Award, 2019
  • Ross Doctoral Fellowship, 2008