Lilia Xie
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Lilia Xie
Assistant Professor of Chemistry and the Princeton Materials Institute
Email: [email protected]
Research Focus
From the Stone Age to the Iron Age to the present Silicon Age, new materials have enabled technological progress. How, then, will the emerging materials of today form the foundation for the technologies of the future? In myriad applications—from information science to energy storage to heterogeneous catalysis—materials with precisely tailored electronic, magnetic, and optical properties can improve the efficiency of devices beyond the status quo. Our research program combines the tools of molecular and solid-state chemistry to create functional materials from organic and inorganic building blocks alike. We strive to engineer synergy between molecules and extended motifs to uncover useful and unusual physical properties.
Currently, we work on materials featuring low-dimensional inorganic networks that are amenable to tuning via intercalation chemistry and crystal engineering. We are broadly interested in complex magnetism, magnetic semiconductors, correlated electronic properties, and stimuli-responsive solids. Our approach comprises materials synthesis and fundamental structural and physical characterization. We make materials using various solid-state and solution- and vapor-phase methods. We study their structures and properties using magnetometry, electrical transport, X-ray and neutron scattering, optical spectroscopy, electron microscopy, and more.
Honors
L’Oréal USA For Women in Science Fellowship 2021
Arnold O. Beckman Postdoctoral Fellowship 2021
National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship 2017–2020
Selected Publications
Xie, L. S.;† Gonzalez, O.;† Li, K.; Michiardi, M.; Gorovikov, S.; Ryu, S. H.; Fender, S. S.; Zonno, M.; Jo, N. H.; Zhdanovich, S.; Jozwiak, C.; Bostwick, A.; Husremović, S., Erodici, M. P.; Mollazadeh, C.; Damascelli, A.; Rotenberg, E.; Ping, Y.; Bediako, D. K. Comparative Electronic Structures of the Chiral Helimagnets Cr1/3NbS2 and Cr1/3TaS2. Chem. Mater. 2023, 35, 7239–7251.
Xie, L. S.; Husremović, S.; Gonzalez, O.; Craig, I. M.; Bediako, D. K. Structure and Magnetism of Iron- and Chromium-Intercalated Niobium and Tantalum Disulfides. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2022, 144, 9525– 9542.
Xie, L. S.;† Park, S. S.;† Chmielewski, M. J.; Liu, H.; Kharod, R. A.; Yang, L.; Campbell, M. G.; Dincă, M. Isoreticular Linker Substitution in Conductive Metal–Organic Frameworks with Through-Space Transport Pathways. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2020, 59, 19623–19626.
Xie, L. S.; Alexandrov, E. V.; Skorupskii, G.; Proserpio, D.; Dincă, M. Diverse 𝜋–𝜋 Stacking Motifs Modulate Electrical Conductivity in Tetrathiafulvalene-Based Metal–Organic Frameworks. Chem. Sci. 2019, 10, 8558– 8565.