Xudong Wang

About

Xudong Wang is a Professor and Associate Chair of the Named MS Studies Department in Materials Science & Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He holds a PhD from Georgia Institute of Technology earned in 2005, an MS from Hunan University obtained in 2001, and a BS from Jilin University completed in 1998. His research interests include oxide nanomaterials growth and characterization, piezoelectric nanostructures and nanodevices for mechanical energy harvesting, semiconductor nanomaterials and devices for solar energy harvesting and energy storage, nanoscale piezoelectric effects and piezotronics, as well as piezocatalysis and the interface between piezoelectricity and electrochemistry. Throughout his career, he has received numerous awards such as the 2023 Nano Energy Award, the 2020 H. I. Romnes Faculty Fellowship, the 2019 Grainger Institute for Engineering Professorship, and the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) in 2019. He is actively involved in teaching courses related to materials science and engineering, including master's research, independent studies, and special topics in materials science.

Research topics

• Chemistry
• Materials science
• Optoelectronics
• Organic chemistry
• Pharmacology
• Biochemistry
• Internal medicine
• Composite material
• Physical chemistry
• Astronomy

Selected publications

• Selenium‐Doped Carbon Quantum Dots Act as Broad‐Spectrum Antioxidants for Acute Kidney Injury Management

  Advanced Science · 2020 · 209 citations

  The manifestation of acute kidney injury (AKI) is associated with poor patient outcomes, with treatment options limited to hydration or renal replacement therapies. The onset of AKI is often associated with a surfeit of reactive oxygen species. Here, it is shown that selenium-doped carbon quantum dots (SeCQDs) have broad-spectrum antioxidant properties and prominent renal accumulation in both healthy and AKI mice. Due to these properties, SeCQDs treat or prevent two clinically relevant cases of…

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• Progress of the TianQin project

  Classical and Quantum Gravity · 2025-08-19 · 34 citations

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  Abstract TianQin is a future space-based gravitational wave (GW) observatory targeting the frequency window of 10 −4 –1 Hz. A large variety of GW sources are expected in this frequency band, including the merger of massive black hole binaries, the inspiral of extreme/intermediate mass ratio systems, stellar-mass black hole binaries, Galactic compact binaries, and so on. TianQin will consist of three Earth orbiting satellites on nearly identical orbits with orbital radii of about 10 5 km. The sat…

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• A Hydro‐Expansive and Degradable Biomaterial Enabling Shape Recovery of Film‐Based Devices in Biofluids

  Advanced Materials · 2025-07-29 · 5 citations

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  Hygroscopic actuation is an important material function, which enables a broad range of applications such as self-healing devices, soft robotics, and catheter implantation. With the current paradigm of implantable devices shifting toward soft and tissue-mimicking systems, this function however, is particularly weak in soft- and bio-materials due to the rapid loss of intermolecular interactions upon water incorporation. Here, a chitosan-based bio-composite is developed, which sustains the intermo…

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• Flexible Proton-Conducting Biocomposites Based on Amino Acid Biomolecules

  Nano Letters · 2025-06-20 · 3 citations

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  Proton-conducting biomaterials have emerged as promising candidates for bioelectronics due to their excellent biocompatibilities and tunable electronic properties. Primarily built on proteins, this group of materials suffers from high humidity-dependent conductivity, poor stability, and brittleness under dry conditions. To address these challenges, we developed a proton-conducting biocomposite film by integrating amino acids and glycerol into a poly(acrylic acid) (PAA) matrix. Introducing polar…

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• CO ₂ Capture, Utilization, and Storage using Amino Acids

  Advanced Sustainable Systems · 2025-11-29 · 1 citations

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  Abstract The capture, utilization, and storage of CO 2 are the primary options to minimize the adverse effects of global warming and related climate change resulting from increased anthropogenic CO 2 emissions. In recent years, amino acids and amino acid‐based ionic liquids (AAILs) are proposed as promising alternatives to the traditional aqueous amine solvent‐based CO 2 capture technology due to the presence of the ─NH 2 group and a CO 2 adsorption mechanism like amines, but with many additiona…

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Recent grants

• Coupling between Piezoelectricity and Charge Transport Property in ZnO Nanowires

  NSF · $257k · 2009–2012

• Nanogenerator-Driven Self-Sustainable Power Source for Intracardiac Pacemakers

  NIH · $2.7M · 2021–2026

• Self-Controlled Surface-Selective Atomic Layer Deposition for Integrated Vertical Nanowire Field Effect Transistors

  NSF · $159k · 2009–2012

Frequent coauthors

• Zhong Lin Wang

  Georgia Institute of Technology

  93 shared

• Yanhao Yu

  60 shared

• Jun Li

  Northwestern University

  56 shared

• Xin Yin

  Nanjing Institute of Environmental Sciences

  48 shared

• Miaolu He

  42 shared

• Zhaodong Li

  China Iron and Steel Research Institute Group

  41 shared

• Yong Ding

  Georgia Institute of Technology

  40 shared

• Ziyi Zhang

  North China University of Science and Technology

  39 shared

Awards & honors

• Nano Energy Award (2023)
• H. I. Romnes Faculty Fellowship (2020)
• Grainger Institute for Engineering Professorship (2019)
• Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineer…
• Vilas Faculty Early Career Investigator Award (2017)

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