Xiong, Wei
Strong-coupling Chemistry and Dynamics; Interfacial Charge transfer; Molecular Structure and Dynamics of Self-Assembled Materials
Strong-coupling Chemistry and Dynamics; Interfacial Charge transfer; Molecular Structure and Dynamics of Self-Assembled Materials
Contact Information
Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Kent Wilson Faculty Scholar
Office: Tata Hall 1207
Phone: 858-534-0270
Email: w2xiong@ucsd.edu
Web: ultrafast.ucsd.edu
Group: View group members
Accepting Rotation Students: Yes
Kent Wilson Faculty Scholar
Office: Tata Hall 1207
Phone: 858-534-0270
Email: w2xiong@ucsd.edu
Web: ultrafast.ucsd.edu
Group: View group members
Accepting Rotation Students: Yes
Education
2011 Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Madison
2006 B.S., Peking University
2011 Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Madison
2006 B.S., Peking University
Appointments
2022 Professor, UCSD
2022 Kent Wilson Faculty Scholar, UCSD
2020 Associate Professor, UCSD
2014 Assistant Professor, UCSD
2011 Postdoc, University of Colorado, Boulder
2022 Professor, UCSD
2022 Kent Wilson Faculty Scholar, UCSD
2020 Associate Professor, UCSD
2014 Assistant Professor, UCSD
2011 Postdoc, University of Colorado, Boulder
Awards and Academic Honors
2024
National Brown Investigator Award
2024
Finalist, Blavatnik National Awards for Young Scienstists
2024
Fellow of the American Association of the Advancement of Sciences
2023
Coblentz Award
2023
Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow
2022
Kent Wilson Faculty Scholar
2020
Sloan Research Fellowship
2020
NIH Maximizing Investigator's Research Award (MIRA)
2019
NSF CAREER Award
2019
ACS JPC&PHYS Lectureship Award
2017
DARPA Director's Fellowship
2016
AFOSR Young Investigator Program Award (YIP)
2015
DARPA Young Faculty Award (YFA)
Research Interests
Prof. Xiong aims to controlling and understanding how structures and ultrafast dynamics of molecules and materials change when they couple to chemical environments, to each other and to photonic cavities. By learning the structures and dynamics, we will be able to connect it back to the functions and macroscopic properties of these materials. To achieve this goal, we push the frontier of ultrafast optical techniques by developing methods that can track dynamics in frequency, time and spatial domains, as well as implementing new light sources such as extreme ultraviolet (EUV) to gain element specificities. Several scientific areas of current interests are: polariton chemistry, soft material tissues, charge transfer interfaces, and element specific charge dynamics on solid surfaces.
Primary Research Area
Physical/Analytical Chemistry
Physical/Analytical Chemistry
Interdisciplinary interests
Materials
Atmospheric and Environmental
Macromolecular Structure
Atmospheric and Environmental
Macromolecular Structure
Image Gallery
HD SFG Microscopy
CO2 surface catalysts probed by HD 2D SFG
HD SFG Microscopy
CO2 surface catalysts probed by HD 2D SFG
Selected Publications
- Xiang B,Xiong W "Molecular Polaritons for Chemistry, Photonics and Quantum Technologies", Chem. Rev., 2024, Vol. 124, Issue 5, 2512 [View]
- Yan C,Wang C,Wagner JC,Ren J,Lee C,Wan Y,Wang SE,Xiong W "Multidimensional Widefield Infrared-Encoded Spontaneous Emission Microscopy: Distinguishing Chromophores by Ultrashort Infrared Pulses.", J Am Chem Soc, 2024, Vol. 146, Issue 3, 1874-1886 [View]
- Valentine ML,Yin G,Oppenheim JJ,Dincǎ M,Xiong W "Ultrafast Water H-Bond Rearrangement in a Metal-Organic Framework Probed by Femtosecond Time-Resolved Infrared Spectroscopy.", J Am Chem Soc, 2023, Vol. 145, Issue 21, 11482-11487 [View]
- Xiong W "Molecular Vibrational Polariton Dynamics: What Can Polaritons Do?", Acc Chem Res, 2023, Vol. 56, Issue 7, 776-786 [View]
- Yang Z,Bhakta HH,Xiong W "Enabling multiple intercavity polariton coherences by adding quantum confinement to cavity molecular polaritons.", Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2023, Vol. 120, Issue 1, e2206062120 [View]
- Chen TT,Du M,Yang Z,Yuen-Zhou J,Xiong W "Cavity-enabled enhancement of ultrafast intramolecular vibrational redistribution over pseudorotation.", Science, 2022, Vol. 378, Issue 6621, 790-794 [View]
- Wang C,Jing Y,Chen L,Xiong W "Direct Interfacial Charge Transfer in All-Polymer Donor-Acceptor Heterojunctions.", J Phys Chem Lett, 2022, Vol. 13, Issue 37, 8733-8739 [View]
- Wu Z,Xiong W "Neumann's principle based eigenvector approach for deriving non-vanishing tensor elements for nonlinear optics.", J Chem Phys, 2022, Vol. 157, Issue 13, 134702 [View]
- Wagner JC,Hunter KM,Paesani F,Xiong W "Water Capture Mechanisms at Zeolitic Imidazolate Framework Interfaces.", J Am Chem Soc, 2021, Vol. 143, Issue 50, 21189-21194 [View]
- Wang H,Xiong W "Vibrational Sum-Frequency Generation Hyperspectral Microscopy for Molecular Self-Assembled Systems.", Annu Rev Phys Chem, 2021, Vol. 72, 279-306 [View]
- Xiang B,Wang J,Yang Z,Xiong W "Nonlinear infrared polaritonic interaction between cavities mediated by molecular vibrations at ultrafast time scale.", Sci Adv, 2021, Vol. 7, Issue 19, [View]
- Xiang B,Xiong W "Molecular vibrational polariton: Its dynamics and potentials in novel chemistry and quantum technology.", J Chem Phys, 2021, Vol. 155, Issue 5, 050901 [View]
- Ault AP,Grassian VH,Carslaw N,Collins DB,Destaillats H,Donaldson DJ,Farmer DK,Jimenez JL,McNeill VF,Morrison GC,O'Brien RE,Shiraiwa M,Vance ME,Wells JR,Xiong W "Indoor Surface Chemistry: Developing a Molecular Picture of Reactions on Indoor Interfaces.", Chem, 2020, Vol. 6, Issue 12, 3203-3218 [View]
- Wang H,Wagner JC,Chen W,Wang C,Xiong W "Spatially dependent H-bond dynamics at interfaces of water/biomimetic self-assembled lattice materials.", Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2020, Vol. 117, Issue 38, 23385-23392 [View]
- Xiang B,Ribeiro RF,Du M,Chen L,Yang Z,Wang J,Yuen-Zhou J,Xiong W "Intermolecular vibrational energy transfer enabled by microcavity strong light-matter coupling.", Science, 2020, Vol. 368, Issue 6491, 665-667 [View]
- Xiang B,Ribeiro RF,Li Y,Dunkelberger AD,Simpkins BB,Yuen-Zhou J,Xiong W "Manipulating optical nonlinearities of molecular polaritons by delocalization.", Sci Adv, 2019, Vol. 5, Issue 9, eaax5196 [View]
- Xiang B,Ribeiro RF,Dunkelberger AD,Wang J,Li Y,Simpkins BS,Owrutsky JC,Yuen-Zhou J,Xiong W "Two-dimensional infrared spectroscopy of vibrational polaritons.", Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2018, Vol. 115, Issue 19, 4845-4850 [View]
- Haoyuan Wang, Tian Gao, and Wei Xiong "Self-Phase-Stabilized Heterodyne Vibrational Sum Frequency Generation Microscopy", ACS Photonics, 2017, Vol. 4, Issue 7, 1839
- Xiang B,Li Y,Pham CH,Paesani F,Xiong W "Ultrafast direct electron transfer at organic semiconductor and metal interfaces.", Sci Adv, 2017, Vol. 3, Issue 11, e1701508 [View]
- Jiaxi Wang, Melissa L. Clark, Yingmin Li, Camille L. Kaslan, Clifford P. Kubiak, and Wei Xiong "Short-Range Catalyst–Surface Interactions Revealed by Heterodyne Two-Dimensional Sum Frequency Generation Spectroscopy", JPCL, 2015, Vol. 6, 4204-4209
- Xiong W, Laaser JE, Mehlenbacher RD, Zanni MT, "Adding a dimension to the infrared spectra of interfaces using heterodyne detected 2D sum-frequency generation (HD 2D SFG) spectroscopy.", Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2011, Vol. 108, Issue 52, 20902-7 [View]
- Xiong W, Laaser JE, Paoprasert P, Franking RA, Hamers RJ, Gopalan P, Zanni MT, "Transient 2D IR spectroscopy of charge injection in dye-sensitized nanocrystalline thin films.", J Am Chem Soc, 2009, Vol. 131, Issue 50, 18040-1 [View]