Publications

Dr. Qiyang Lu‘s Google Scholar Homepage: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=-kK4ibEAAAAJ&hl=en

Independent work after joining Westlake University (underscore = SSI Lab PhD student or postdoc as lead author(s))

16. Kaichuang Yang, Jieping Zheng, Ying Lu, Ziyun Zhang, Hui Zhang, Zhi Liu, Qiyang Lu*, Elucidating the Role of Interfacial Charge Transfer on the Oxygen Incorporation/Evolution Reactions for Solid Oxide Cells, Nature Communications, in press (2025)

15. Ying Lu, Luhan Wei, Yang Hu, Zihan Xu, Haowen Chen, Nian Zhang and Qiyang Lu*, Metal–Support Interaction Tuned by Oxygen Chemical Potential Governs Coarsening of Metal Nanoparticles Exsolved from Perovskite Oxides, Journal of the American Chemical Society, in press (2025)

14. Song Mao, Xiao Yang* and Qiyang Lu*, Deconvoluting Sources of Overpotential of Oxide Ion Conducting Membrane Assisted Inert Anode, Journal of the Electrochemical Society, 172 (2025), 104503

13. Yang Hu, Luhan Wei, Haowen Chen, Zihan Xu, Andrey Shavorskiy, Christoph Baeumer*, Qiyang Lu*, Quantifying Dynamic Changes of Oxygen Non-Stoichiometry and Formation of Surface Phases of SrCoO_x Electrocatalysts by Operando Characterizations, ACS Nano, 19 (2025), 13999-14009

12. Luhan Wei, Haowen Chen, Zihan Xu, Yang Hu, Bin Zhao, Ying Lu, Nian Zhang, Qiyang Lu*, Quantifying Hydrogen Chemical Diffusivity in NdNiO₃ Thin Films Through Operando Multimodal Measurements, Nano Letters, 25 (2025), 6348-6355

11. Ying Lu, Zihan Xu, Luhan Wei, Haowen Chen and Qiyang Lu*, Establishing Quantitative Understanding of Defect-Tuned Properties in Functional Oxides by an Electrochemically-Induced Gradient of Ionic Defect Concentration, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 17 (2025), 13342–13357 (Invited Review)

10. Luhan Wei, Yang Hu, Yiwei Huang, Ying Lu, Zihan Xu, Nian Zhang and Qiyang Lu*, Deconvoluting Surface and Bulk Charge Storage Processes in Redox-Active Oxides by Integrating Electrochemical and Optical Insights, Journal of the American Chemical Society, 146 (2024), 24167–24176

9. Haowen Chen^#, Zihan Xu^#, Luhan Wei, Mingdong Dong, Yang Hu, Ying Lu, Nian Zhang, Jie Wu and Qiyang Lu*, Manipulating Protons and Oxygen Vacancies in Nickelate Oxides via Thermochemical Dehydration, Journal of Materials Chemistry A 12 (2024), 23658-23669

8. Qiyang Lu*, How to Correctly Analyze 2p X-ray Photoelectron Spectra of 3d Transition Metal Oxides: Pitfalls and Principles, ACS Nano 18 (2024), 13973–13982 (Nano Focus Article)

7. Kaichuang Yang, Ying Lu, Yang Hu, Zihan Xu, Jieping Zheng, Haowen Chen, Jingle Wang, Yi Yu, Hui Zhang, Zhi Liu, and Qiyang Lu^*, Differentiating Oxygen Exchange Reaction Mechanisms across Phase Boundaries, Journal of the American Chemical Society, 145 (2023), 25806–25814

6. Ying Lu, Yiwei Huang, Zihan Xu, Kaichuang Yang, Weichao Bao, Qiyang Lu^*, Quantifying Electrochemical Driving Force for Exsolution in Perovskite Oxides by Designing Graded Oxygen Chemical Potential, ACS Nano, 17 (2023), 14005−14013

5. Ellen M. Kiens, Minju Choi, Luhan Wei, Qiyang Lu^*, Le Wang^*, Christoph Baeumer^*, Deeper Mechanistic Insights into Epitaxial Nickelate Electrocatalysts for the Oxygen Evolution Reaction, Chem. Commun., 59 (2023), 4562-4577

-Feature as Cover for ChemComm (Featured Article)

4. Haowen Chen^#, Mingdong Dong^#, Yang Hu, Ting Lin, Qinghua Zhang, Er-Jia Guo, Lin Gu, Jie Wu, Qiyang Lu^*, Protonation-Induced Colossal Chemical Expansion and Property Tuning in NdNiO₃ Revealed by Proton Concentration Gradient Thin Films, Nano Letters, 22 (2022), 8983-8990

3. Xin Yu^#, Yang Hu^#, Haoyuan Shi^#, Ziyang Sun, Jinghang Li, Haoran Liu, Hao Lyu, Jiujie Xia, Jingda Meng, Xingyu Lu, Jingjie Yeo^*, Qiyang Lu^*, and Chengchen Guo^*, Molecular Design and Preparation of Protein-Based Soft Ionic Conductors with Tunable Properties, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 14 (2022), 48061-48071

2. Kaichuang Yang^#, Jiapeng Liu^#, Yuhao Wang^#, Xiangcheng Shi, Jingle Wang, Qiyang Lu^*, Francesco Ciucci^*, and Zhibin Yang^*, Machine-learning-assisted Prediction of Long-term Performance Degradation on Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Cathodes Induced by Chromium Poisoning, Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 10 (2022), 23683-23690

1. Yang Hu, Haowen Chen and Qiyang Lu^*, Understanding the Phase Equilibrium and Kinetics of Electrochemically Driven Phase Transition in CoO_xH_y during Electrocatalytic Reactions, Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 126 (2022), 18198-18207

-Feature as Cover for Journal of Physical Chemistry C (JPCC, Volume 126, Issue 43, November 2022)

Selected Publications after joining Westlake University

• Alessandro R Mazza, Qiyang Lu, Guoxiang Hu, Panchapakesan Ganesh, Thomas Zac Ward, Ho Nyung Lee, Gyula Eres et al., Reversible Hydrogen-Induced Phase Transformations in La_0.7Sr_0.3MnO₃ Thin Films Characterized by In Situ Neutron Reflectometry, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 14 (2022), 10898-10906
• Qiyang Lu, Henrique Martins, Juhan Matthias Kahk, William C Chueh, Johannes Lischner, Slavomir Nemsak et al., Layer-resolved many-electron interactions in delafossite PdCoO₂ from standing-wave photoemission spectroscopy, Communications Physics, 4 (2021), 1-8

• Christoph Baeumer, Jiang Li, Qiyang Lu, Michal Bajdich, Slavomír Nemšák, J Tyler Mefford, William C Chueh et al., Tuning electrochemically driven surface transformation in atomically flat LaNiO₃ thin films for enhanced water electrolysis, Nature Materials, 20 (2021), 674-682

Representative Publications before joining Westlake University

• Qiyang Lu*, Samuel Huberman*, Hantao Zhang, Qichen Song, Jiayue Wang, Gulin Vardar, Adrian Hunt, Iradwikanari Waluyo, Gang Chen, Bilge Yildiz, Bi-directional tuning of thermal transport in SrCoO_x with electrochemically induced phase transitions, Nature Materials 19 (2020) 655-662 *equally contributing first author
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• Nikolay Tsvetkov*, Qiyang Lu*, Lixin Sun, Ethan Crumlin, and Bilge Yildiz, Improved Chemical and Electrochemical Stability of Perovskite Oxides by Oxidizing Cations at the Surface, Nature Materials 15 (2016) 1010-1016, *equally contributing first author

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-Awarded Ross Coffin Purdy Award from American Ceramic Society (ACerS)

• Qiyang Lu and Bilge Yildiz, Voltage-controlled Topotactic Phase Transition in Thin film SrCoO_x Monitored by in situ X-ray Diffraction, Nano Letters 16 (2016), 1186-1193
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• Qiyang Lu, Gulin Vardar, Sean Bishop, Iradwikanari Waluyo, Harry Tuller and Bilge Yildiz, Surface Defect Chemistry and Electronic Structure of Pr_0.1Ce_0.9O_2-δ Revealed in operando, Chemistry of Materials, 30 (2018), 2600-2606

• Qiyang Lu, Sean Bishop, Dongkyu Lee, Hendrik Bluhm, Ho Nyunge Lee, Harry Tuller and Bilge Yildiz, Electrochemically triggered metal-insulator-transition between VO₂ and V₂O₅, Advanced Functional Materials, 28 (2018), 1803024

• Qiyang Lu, Yan Chen, Hendrik Bluhm, and Bilge Yildiz, Electronic Structure Evolution of SrCoO_x Probed by X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy during Electrochemically Driven Topotactic Phase transition, Journal of Physical Chemistry C 120 (2016), 24148-24157