Faculty Profiles - XU Yixin | The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Yixin XU
徐伊昕

PhD in Mechanical Engineering
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, 2024

Research Assistant Professor
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

meyixinx@ust.hk
Room 1213

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ORCID

0000-0002-4147-6414

ResearcherID

JTI-2467-2023

Scopus ID

57202602485

Research Interest Publications Projects

Research Interest

Transport phenomena (micro / nano-scale)
Thermodynamics
Molecular simulations (MD, MM)

Publications

All Years 27 2026 8 2025 5 2024 5 2023 6 2022 3 2021 0

2026 8

Erratum to: An effective boundary condition in pseudopotential LBM simulations for modeling the flow boiling

International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer, v. 179, article number 112196
Guo, Lingyi; Xu, Yixin; Zhang, Shiwei; Zhou, Yanguang
Article

Fast Ionic Transport Governed by Collective Vibrational Dynamics

Physical Review Letters, v. 136, (12), article number 126302
Xu, Yixin; Xiang, Xing; Li, Zhigang; Lu, Yanglong; Zhou, Yanguang
Article

Interfacial thermal transport spectroscopy: a review of theory and experiment

PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY CHEMICAL PHYSICS
Xu, Yixin; Xiang, Xing; Liu, Wenxiang; Zhu, Yue; Hu, Yinglong; Li, Man; Ma, Hao; Cao, Bing Yang; Zhou, Yanguang
Article

Local ionic enthalpy mismatch as the origin of high thermoelectric performance in superionic crystals

Physical Review B, v. 114, article number 045201
XU, Yixin; XIANG, Xing; LI, Zhigang; ZHENG, Qiye; Yu, Yuan; ZHOU, Yanguang
Article

Net-like Al-Si Anode Integrating Structural Anchoring with Built-In 3D Ion Channels for High-Power-Density All-Solid-State Lithium Batteries

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, v. 18, (33), p. 45256-45265
Guan, Fayang; Xu, Yixin; Cheng, Bing; Zhou, Yanguang; Fan, Aoran; Zhu, Lingyun; Zhang, Xing
Article

Strain-Gradient-Driven Decoupling of Thermal Suppression from Anisotropy in β-Ga₂O₃

Acta Materialia, v. 307, article number 121973
Zhang, Guangwu; Xiang, Xing; Qian, Ziyan; Xu, Yixin; Yue, Shengying; Jang, Hyejin; Yang, Lin; Zhou, Yanguang; Wang, Xinyu; Zheng, Qiye
Article

Tailoring thermal transport in (Sc,Yb)AlN thin films to the glassy limit

Acta Materialia, v. 304, article number 121767
Qian, Ziyan; Zhang, Guangwu; Lai, Zhanyu; Hanai, Ayaka; Xu, Yixin; Wang, Guang; Lu, Yang; Gu, Jiaqi; Zhou, Yanguang; Yanagitani, Takahiko; Jia, Junjun; Zheng, Qiye
Article

Ultrathin Magnesium-Ion Selective COF Membranes for Efficient Osmotic Power and Iontronic Logic Control

Small, v. 22, (44), p. 1-14, article number e74164
Yang, Lixue; Xu, Yixin; Du, Yan; Yang, Feiyao; Zhou, Yanguang; Wang, Zhe; Wang, Zhong Lin; Wei, Di
Article

2025 5

Enhancing nanoscale phase-change heat transfer by collaborative roles of surface functionalization and external electric field

International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, v. 236, (Part 2), article number 126363
LIU, Wenxiang; XU, Yixin; Li, Zhigang; Duan, Fei; Zhou, Yanguang
Article

Microscopic dynamics of collective acoustic excitations in simple liquids

Physical Review B, v. 111, (17), article number 174208
XU, Yixin; XIANG, Xing; Li, Zhigang; Zhou, Yanguang
Article

Observation of extraordinary vibration scatterings induced by strong anharmonicity in lead-free halide double perovskites

Advanced Science, v. 12, (10), p. 1-12, article number 2408149
Wang, Guang; Zheng, Jiongzhi; Xue, Jie; Xu, Yixin; Zheng, Qiye; Hautier, Geoffroy; Lu, Haipeng; Zhou, Yanguang
Article

Revisiting the boiling heat transfer at surfaces with microgrooves using lattice boltzmann method

ASME Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, v. 147, (12), article number 121603
Guo, Lingyi; Xu, Yixin; Su, Wei; Zhou, Yanguang
Article

Thermal transport spectroscopy across interfaces

Paper presented at The 5th International Symposium on Multiscale Simulations of Thermophysics, (MSTP-2025), Hefei, China
XU, Yixin; ZHOU, Yanguang
Conference paper

2024 5

Metric for quantifying elastic and inelastic thermal transport at interfaces

Physical Review B, v. 110, (11), article number 115305
Xu, Yixin; Zhou, Yanguang
Article

Near-interface effects on interfacial phonon transport: Competition between phonon-phonon interference and phonon-phonon scattering

International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, v. 232, article number 125943
XU, Yixin; Cao, Bing Yang; Zhou, Yanguang
Article

Role of elastic phonon couplings in dictating the thermal transport across atomically sharp SiC/Si interfaces

International Journal of Thermal Sciences, v. 204, article number 109182
HE, Qinqin; XU, Yixin; Wang, Haidong; Li, Zhigang; Zhou, Yanguang
Article

Surface functionalization enabling highly effective phase-change heat transfer of R1234yf: A molecular dynamics study

Applied Thermal Engineering, v. 240, article number 122275
XU, Yixin; Duan, Fei; Li, Zhigang; Zhou, Yanguang
Article

Tuning the thermal conductivity of a silicon membrane using nanopillars: From crystalline to amorphous pillars

Physical Review Applied, v. 22, (3), article number 034016
Yang, Lina; Xu, Yixin; Wang, Xianheng; Zhou, Yanguang
Article

2023 6

Aligned carbon-doping to modulate thermal and electrical conductivity of boron carbon nitride grown from chemical vapor deposition

Carbon, v. 215, article number 118397
GALLIGAN, Patrick Ryan; XU, Yixin; TANG, Tsz Wing; LIU, Hongwei; TAMTAJI, Mohsen; Zhou, Yanguang; Luo, Zhengtang
Article

Collaborative mechanisms boost the nanoscale boiling heat transfer at functionalized gold surfaces

International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, v. 210, article number 124179
XU, Yixin; Zhou, Yanguang
Article

Quantifying spectral thermal transport properties in framework of molecular dynamics simulations: a comprehensive review

Rare Metals, v. 42, (12), p. 3914-3944
XU, Yixin; FAN, Hongzhao; Zhou, Yan Guang
Article

Signatures of anharmonic phonon transport in ultrahigh thermal conductance across atomically sharp metal/semiconductor interface

International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, v. 201, article number 123628
XU, Yixin; FAN, Hongzhao; Li, Zhigang; Zhou, Yanguang
Article

Collaborative Mechanisms Boost the Nanoscale Boiling Heat Transfer at Functionalized Gold Surfaces

Xu, Yixin; Zhou, Yanguang
Conference paper

Collaborative Mechanisms Boost the Nanoscale Boiling Heat Transfer at Functionalized Gold Surfaces

Proceedings of The 26th Annual Conference of HKSTAM 2023: The 18th Shanghai – Hong Kong Forum on Mechanics and Its Application / edited by Hui Tang and Gang Wang. Hong Kong : HKSTAM, 2023, p. 78
Xu, Yixin; Zhou, Yanguang
Conference paper

2022 3

Broadly manipulating the interfacial thermal energy transport across the Si/4H-SiC interfaces via nanopatterns

International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, v. 187, article number 122499
XU, Yixin; WANG, Guang; Zhou, Yanguang
Article

Origin of the weakly temperature-dependent thermal conductivity in ZIF-4 and ZIF-62

Physical Review Materials, v. 6, (1), article number 015403
Zhou, Yanguang; XU, Yixin; Gao, Yufei; Volz, Sebastian
Article

The interfacial thermal conductance spectrum in nonequilibrium molecular dynamics simulations considering anharmonicity, asymmetry and quantum effects

Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, v. 24, (39), p. 24503-24513
XU, Yixin; Yang, Lina; Zhou, Yanguang
Article

Article 8

Erratum to: An effective boundary condition in pseudopotential LBM simulations for modeling the flow boiling

International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer, v. 179, article number 112196
Guo, Lingyi; Xu, Yixin; Zhang, Shiwei; Zhou, Yanguang

Fast Ionic Transport Governed by Collective Vibrational Dynamics

Physical Review Letters, v. 136, (12), article number 126302
Xu, Yixin; Xiang, Xing; Li, Zhigang; Lu, Yanglong; Zhou, Yanguang

Interfacial thermal transport spectroscopy: a review of theory and experiment

PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY CHEMICAL PHYSICS
Xu, Yixin; Xiang, Xing; Liu, Wenxiang; Zhu, Yue; Hu, Yinglong; Li, Man; Ma, Hao; Cao, Bing Yang; Zhou, Yanguang

Local ionic enthalpy mismatch as the origin of high thermoelectric performance in superionic crystals

Physical Review B, v. 114, article number 045201
XU, Yixin; XIANG, Xing; LI, Zhigang; ZHENG, Qiye; Yu, Yuan; ZHOU, Yanguang

Net-like Al-Si Anode Integrating Structural Anchoring with Built-In 3D Ion Channels for High-Power-Density All-Solid-State Lithium Batteries

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, v. 18, (33), p. 45256-45265
Guan, Fayang; Xu, Yixin; Cheng, Bing; Zhou, Yanguang; Fan, Aoran; Zhu, Lingyun; Zhang, Xing

Strain-Gradient-Driven Decoupling of Thermal Suppression from Anisotropy in β-Ga₂O₃

Acta Materialia, v. 307, article number 121973
Zhang, Guangwu; Xiang, Xing; Qian, Ziyan; Xu, Yixin; Yue, Shengying; Jang, Hyejin; Yang, Lin; Zhou, Yanguang; Wang, Xinyu; Zheng, Qiye

Tailoring thermal transport in (Sc,Yb)AlN thin films to the glassy limit

Acta Materialia, v. 304, article number 121767
Qian, Ziyan; Zhang, Guangwu; Lai, Zhanyu; Hanai, Ayaka; Xu, Yixin; Wang, Guang; Lu, Yang; Gu, Jiaqi; Zhou, Yanguang; Yanagitani, Takahiko; Jia, Junjun; Zheng, Qiye

Ultrathin Magnesium-Ion Selective COF Membranes for Efficient Osmotic Power and Iontronic Logic Control

Small, v. 22, (44), p. 1-14, article number e74164
Yang, Lixue; Xu, Yixin; Du, Yan; Yang, Feiyao; Zhou, Yanguang; Wang, Zhe; Wang, Zhong Lin; Wei, Di

Article 4

Enhancing nanoscale phase-change heat transfer by collaborative roles of surface functionalization and external electric field

International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, v. 236, (Part 2), article number 126363
LIU, Wenxiang; XU, Yixin; Li, Zhigang; Duan, Fei; Zhou, Yanguang

Microscopic dynamics of collective acoustic excitations in simple liquids

Physical Review B, v. 111, (17), article number 174208
XU, Yixin; XIANG, Xing; Li, Zhigang; Zhou, Yanguang

Observation of extraordinary vibration scatterings induced by strong anharmonicity in lead-free halide double perovskites

Advanced Science, v. 12, (10), p. 1-12, article number 2408149
Wang, Guang; Zheng, Jiongzhi; Xue, Jie; Xu, Yixin; Zheng, Qiye; Hautier, Geoffroy; Lu, Haipeng; Zhou, Yanguang

Revisiting the boiling heat transfer at surfaces with microgrooves using lattice boltzmann method

ASME Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, v. 147, (12), article number 121603
Guo, Lingyi; Xu, Yixin; Su, Wei; Zhou, Yanguang

Conference paper 1

Thermal transport spectroscopy across interfaces

Paper presented at The 5th International Symposium on Multiscale Simulations of Thermophysics, (MSTP-2025), Hefei, China
XU, Yixin; ZHOU, Yanguang

Article 5

Metric for quantifying elastic and inelastic thermal transport at interfaces

Physical Review B, v. 110, (11), article number 115305
Xu, Yixin; Zhou, Yanguang

Near-interface effects on interfacial phonon transport: Competition between phonon-phonon interference and phonon-phonon scattering

International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, v. 232, article number 125943
XU, Yixin; Cao, Bing Yang; Zhou, Yanguang

Role of elastic phonon couplings in dictating the thermal transport across atomically sharp SiC/Si interfaces

International Journal of Thermal Sciences, v. 204, article number 109182
HE, Qinqin; XU, Yixin; Wang, Haidong; Li, Zhigang; Zhou, Yanguang

Surface functionalization enabling highly effective phase-change heat transfer of R1234yf: A molecular dynamics study

Applied Thermal Engineering, v. 240, article number 122275
XU, Yixin; Duan, Fei; Li, Zhigang; Zhou, Yanguang

Tuning the thermal conductivity of a silicon membrane using nanopillars: From crystalline to amorphous pillars

Physical Review Applied, v. 22, (3), article number 034016
Yang, Lina; Xu, Yixin; Wang, Xianheng; Zhou, Yanguang

Article 4

Aligned carbon-doping to modulate thermal and electrical conductivity of boron carbon nitride grown from chemical vapor deposition

Carbon, v. 215, article number 118397
GALLIGAN, Patrick Ryan; XU, Yixin; TANG, Tsz Wing; LIU, Hongwei; TAMTAJI, Mohsen; Zhou, Yanguang; Luo, Zhengtang

Collaborative mechanisms boost the nanoscale boiling heat transfer at functionalized gold surfaces

International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, v. 210, article number 124179
XU, Yixin; Zhou, Yanguang

Quantifying spectral thermal transport properties in framework of molecular dynamics simulations: a comprehensive review

Rare Metals, v. 42, (12), p. 3914-3944
XU, Yixin; FAN, Hongzhao; Zhou, Yan Guang

Signatures of anharmonic phonon transport in ultrahigh thermal conductance across atomically sharp metal/semiconductor interface

International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, v. 201, article number 123628
XU, Yixin; FAN, Hongzhao; Li, Zhigang; Zhou, Yanguang

Conference paper 2

Collaborative Mechanisms Boost the Nanoscale Boiling Heat Transfer at Functionalized Gold Surfaces

Xu, Yixin; Zhou, Yanguang

Collaborative Mechanisms Boost the Nanoscale Boiling Heat Transfer at Functionalized Gold Surfaces

Proceedings of The 26th Annual Conference of HKSTAM 2023: The 18th Shanghai – Hong Kong Forum on Mechanics and Its Application / edited by Hui Tang and Gang Wang. Hong Kong : HKSTAM, 2023, p. 78
Xu, Yixin; Zhou, Yanguang

Article 3

Broadly manipulating the interfacial thermal energy transport across the Si/4H-SiC interfaces via nanopatterns

International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, v. 187, article number 122499
XU, Yixin; WANG, Guang; Zhou, Yanguang

Origin of the weakly temperature-dependent thermal conductivity in ZIF-4 and ZIF-62

Physical Review Materials, v. 6, (1), article number 015403
Zhou, Yanguang; XU, Yixin; Gao, Yufei; Volz, Sebastian

The interfacial thermal conductance spectrum in nonequilibrium molecular dynamics simulations considering anharmonicity, asymmetry and quantum effects

Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, v. 24, (39), p. 24503-24513
XU, Yixin; Yang, Lina; Zhou, Yanguang

No Publications

Projects

From January 2024 to December 2026

All Projects 2

No Projects.
Design and manipulate the interfacial thermal transport of wide bandgap semiconductors

寬禁帶半導體界面熱輸運設計與調控 Participating

Guangdong Natural Science Foundation
Project Team (HKUST)
ZHOU Yanguang (Lead)

XU Yixin
2024 -
Thermal Transport in Superionic Thermoelectrics

超離子晶體熱電材料的熱輸運性質研究 Participating

State Key Laboratory of Clean Energy Utilization, Zhejiang University
Project Team (HKUST)
ZHOU Yanguang (Lead)

XU Yixin
2023 - 2024

Research Interest

Publications

2026 8

2025 5

2024 5

2023 6

2022 3

Article 8

Article 4

Conference paper 1

Article 5

Article 4

Conference paper 2

Article 3

Projects

From January 2024 to December 2026

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