Education and Professional Experiences

2022.08 – PresentAssociate Professor, Institute of Functional Nano & Soft Materials (FUNSOM), Soochow University, Suzhou, China. (PI: Prof. Le He)

2017.08 – 2022.05Ph.D. in Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Boston University, USA. (Advisor: Prof. Björn M. Reinhard)

2012.08 – 2016.06B.S. in Materials Chemistry, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, School of Chemistry and Materials Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), China. (Advisor: Prof. Changzheng Wu)

Research Interests

Nanoplasmonics

Plasmonic Photocatalysis

Awards

2021.09Sugata Ray Memorial Award of Boston University department of chemistry

Publications

1. An, Xingda, Joshua C. Kays, Ian V. Lightcap, Tianhong Ouyang, Allison M. Dennis, and Björn M. Reinhard*. Wavelength-Dependent Bifunctional Plasmonic Photocatalysis in Au/Chalcopyrite Hybrid Nanostructures”.ACS Nano(2022), 16, 4, 6813-6824.

2. An, Xingda, Ronghai Cheng, Pinghua Liu, and Björn M. Reinhard*. “Plasmonic Photoreactors-Coated Plastic Tubing as Combined-Active-and-Passive Antimicrobial Flow Sterilizer”.Journal of Materials Chemistry B(2022), 10 (12) 2001-2010.

3. An, Xingda, Ayan Majumder, James McNeely, Jialing Yang, Taranee Puri, Zhiliang He, Taimeng Liang, John K. Snyder, John E. Straub, and Björn M. Reinhard.* Interfacial hydration determines orientational and functional dimorphism of sterol-derived Raman tags in lipid-coated nanoparticles.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences118.33 (2021).

4. An, Xingda, Shyamsunder Erramilli, and Björn M. Reinhard.* Plasmonic nano-antimicrobials: properties, mechanisms and applications in microbe inactivation and sensing.Nanoscale13, 6 (2021): 3374-3411. (Review Article)

5. Behnaz Eshaghi, Nourin Alsharif,Xingda An, Hisashi Akiyama, Keith A. Brown, Suryaram Gummuluru, and Björn M. Reinhard*. Stiffness of HIV‐1 Mimicking Polymer Nanoparticles Modulates Ganglioside‐Mediated Cellular Uptake and Trafficking.Advanced Science7.18 (2020): 2000649.

6. An, Xingda, Nathchar Naowarojna, Pinghua Liu, and Björn M. Reinhard*. Plasmonic Photoreactor as Visible Light-Mediated Bactericides.ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces12, 1 (2019): 106-116.

7. An, Xingda, David Stelter, Tom Keyes, and Björn M. Reinhard*. “Plasmonic Photocatalysis of Urea Oxidation and Visible-Light Fuel Cells.”Chem5, 8, (2019): 2228-2242.

8. Huang, Yimin, Ying Jiang, Qiuyu Wu, Xiangbing Wu,Xingda An, Alexander A. Chubykin, Ji-Xin Cheng,* Xiao-Ming Xu,* and Chen Yang.* Nanoladders Facilitate Directional Axonal Outgrowth and Regeneration.ACS Biomaterials Science & Engineering4, 3 (2018): 1037-1045.

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