Dr Bingqiao Xie

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Dr Bingqiao Xie is a chemical engineer specialising in heterogeneous catalysis and solar-driven chemical synthesis. His research focuses on photothermal catalysis for CO₂ utilisation, integrating catalyst design, operando characterisation, and reactor engineering to enable efficient conversion of carbon dioxide into fuels and value-added chemicals.

He received his PhD from the University of New South Wales in Nov. 2021 and has held research fellow position (Mar. 2023 - 2026) at EPFL (Switzerland), where he led day-to-day research activities within the catalysis group. His work spans fundamental mechanistic studies — including the development of light-coupled operando spectroscopy — through to pilot-scale system development, contributing to solar-driven reactor platforms such as SHINE 2.0.

Dr Xie has published in leading journals including Journal of the American Chemical Society, Joule, Nature Catalysis, and Nature Communications. He serves on the Early Career Editorial Board of Chemical Engineering Journal and was recognised as a Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher (2024).

At UNSW, his research aims to advance solar-driven catalytic processes for sustainable fuel production, with a focus on bridging fundamental catalysis with scalable reactor systems aligned with net-zero energy transitions.

Book Chapters | 2025

, 2025, 'Toward innovative photothermal catalysis', in Studies in Surface Science and Catalysis, Elsevier, pp. 431 - 446, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/b978-0-443-33331-6.00120-2
Journal articles | 2026

Shakeri M; Iranshahi D; Meshkani F; Xie B, 2026, 'Simultaneous contribution of surface oxygen defects and stabilized metallic Ni0 on the catalyst promoted by Mo to boost CO2 reforming of glycerol', Applied Surface Science, 727, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.apsusc.2026.165888

Journal articles | 2026

Zhang M; Wang Y; Xu Y; Ma R; Shao Q; Xie B; Zhu X, 2026, 'Unraveling the interplay of adsorption and catalytic sites in Ru-Na/Al2O3 for integrated humid direct air capture and methanation', Separation and Purification Technology, 394, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.seppur.2026.137399

Journal articles | 2025

Ma Z; Leverett J; Yuwono JA; Pan J; Zhou S; Zhang D; Zhang M; Xie B; Peng L; Khan MHA; Londono SL; Kumar PV; Lovell E; Daiyan R; Amal R, 2025, 'Corrigendum to “coupled NOx production and electrochemical conversion processes for sustainable ammonium synthesis from air” [Chem. Eng. J. Volume 524 (2025) 168996] (Chemical Engineering Journal (2025) 524, (S1385894725098389), (10.1016/j.cej.2025.168996))', Chemical Engineering Journal, 526, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cej.2025.170986

Journal articles | 2025

Ma Z; Leverett J; Yuwono JA; Pan J; Zhou S; Zhang D; Zhang M; Xie B; Peng L; Khan MHA; Londono SL; Kumar PV; Lovell E; Daiyan R; Amal R, 2025, 'Coupled NOx production and electrochemical conversion processes for sustainable ammonium synthesis from air', Chemical Engineering Journal, 524, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cej.2025.168996

Journal articles | 2025

Mani M; Mariandry K; Ghorpade UV; Saha S; Kokate R; Mishra R; Nielsen MP; Tilley R; Xie B; Suryawanshi MP; Kumar PV, 2025, 'Plasmonic Hot-Carrier Engineering at Bimetallic Nanoparticle/Semiconductor Interfaces: A Computational Perspective', Small, 21, pp. 2410173, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/smll.202410173

Journal articles | 2025

Xie B; Zhu YF; Shakeri M; Jin S; O’Connell G; Saha S; Mensi M; Kumar PV; Luterbacher JS; Lovell EC; Amal R; Kröcher O, 2025, 'Flame-Made Surface-Substituted Copper–Ceria as an Excellent Reverse Water–Gas Shift Reaction Catalyst via Three Reaction Pathways', Journal of the American Chemical Society, 147, pp. 32649 - 32661, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/jacs.5c07701

Journal articles | 2025

Zhu YF; Yuwono JA; Wilson M; Xie B; Kumar P; Amal R; Scott J; Lovell EC, 2025, 'Visible light contributions transform CO2 into higher hydrocarbons during Fischer Tropsch synthesis over K-Fe catalysts', Applied Catalysis B Environmental, 379, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.apcatb.2025.125736

Journal articles | 2024

Xie B; Hu D; Kumar P; Ordomsky VV; Khodakov AY; Amal R, 2024, 'Heterogeneous catalysis via light-heat dual activation: A path to the breakthrough in C1 chemistry', Joule, 8, pp. 312 - 333, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.joule.2023.12.013

Journal articles | 2024

Yuan X; Li J; Sun K; Huang J; Cui X; Wang A; Xie B; Hoex B; Green M; Hao X, 2024, 'Improved carrier collection efficiency in CZTS solar cells by Li-enhanced liquid-phase-assisted grain growth', Ecoenergy, 2, pp. 181 - 191, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece2.31

Journal articles | 2024

Zhu YF; Xie B; Yuwono JA; Kumar P; Sharma AS; Nielsen MP; Bendavid A; Amal R; Scott J; Lovell EC, 2024, 'Making light work: designing plasmonic structures for the selective photothermal methanation of carbon dioxide', Ees Catalysis, 2, pp. 834 - 849, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/d3ey00315a

Journal articles | 2023

Tan TH; Zhang H; Xie B; Mann R; Peng L; Yun SLJ; Amal R; Gu Z; Gunawan C, 2023, 'Hydroxyl Radical Generating Monovalent Copper Particles for Antimicrobial Application', Journal of Nanomaterials, 2023, http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2023/8812824

Journal articles | 2023

Zhu YF; Xie B; Amal R; Lovell EC; Scott J, 2023, 'Light-Enhanced Conversion of CO2 to Light Olefins: Basis in Thermal Catalysis, Current Progress, and Future Prospects', Small Structures, 4, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/sstr.202200285

Journal articles | 2022

Xie B; Tan TH; Kalantar-Zadeh K; Zheng J; Kumar P; Jiang J; Zhou S; Scott J; Amal R, 2022, 'Promoting low-temperature methanol production over mixed oxide supported Cu catalysts: Coupling ceria-promotion and photo-activation', Applied Catalysis B Environmental, 315, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.apcatb.2022.121599

Journal articles | 2022

Yu M; Liu H; Xiao K; Xie B; Han Z; Wang DW, 2022, 'Redox-mediated proton transport of two-dimensional polyaniline-based nanochannels for fast capacitive performance', Battery Energy, 1, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/bte2.20210004

Journal articles | 2021

Jantarang S; Ligori S; Horlyck J; Lovell EC; Tan TH; Xie B; Amal R; Scott J, 2021, 'Plasma-induced catalyst support defects for the photothermal methanation of carbon dioxide', Materials, 14, http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ma14154195

Journal articles | 2021

Jantarang S; Lovell EC; Tan TH; Xie B; Scott J; Amal R, 2021, 'Altering the influence of ceria oxygen vacancies in Ni/CexSiy O2for photothermal CO2methanation', Catalysis Science and Technology, 11, pp. 5297 - 5309, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/d1cy00136a

Journal articles | 2021

Ullah S; Lovell EC; Tan TH; Xie B; Kumar PV; Amal R; Scott J, 2021, 'Photoenhanced CO2 methanation over La2O3 promoted Co/TiO2 catalysts', Applied Catalysis B Environmental, 294, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.apcatb.2021.120248

Journal articles | 2021

Xie B; Kumar P; Tan TH; Esmailpour AA; Aguey-Zinsou KF; Scott J; Amal R, 2021, 'Doping-mediated metal−support interaction promotion toward light-assisted methanol production over Cu/ZnO/Al2O3', ACS Catalysis, 11, pp. 5818 - 5828, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acscatal.1c00332

Journal articles | 2021

Xie B; Lovell E; Tan TH; Jantarang S; Yu M; Scott J; Amal R, 2021, 'Emerging material engineering strategies for amplifying photothermal heterogeneous CO2 catalysis', Journal of Energy Chemistry, 59, pp. 108 - 125, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jechem.2020.11.005

Journal articles | 2021

Zhou S; Sun K; Huang J; Lu X; Xie B; Zhang D; Hart JN; Toe CY; Hao X; Amal R, 2021, 'Accelerating Electron-Transfer and Tuning Product Selectivity Through Surficial Vacancy Engineering on CZTS/CdS for Photoelectrochemical CO2 Reduction', Small, 17, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/smll.202100496

Journal articles | 2020

Gao W; Liang S; Wang R; Jiang Q; Zhang Y; Zheng Q; Xie B; Toe CY; Zhu X; Wang J; Huang L; Gao Y; Wang Z; Jo C; Wang Q; Wang L; Liu Y; Louis B; Scott J; Roger AC; Amal R; He H; Park SE, 2020, 'Industrial carbon dioxide capture and utilization: State of the art and future challenges', Chemical Society Reviews, 49, pp. 8584 - 8686, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/d0cs00025f

Journal articles | 2020

Tan TH; Xie B; Ng YH; Abdullah SFB; Tang HYM; Bedford N; Taylor RA; Aguey-Zinsou KF; Amal R; Scott J, 2020, 'Unlocking the potential of the formate pathway in the photo-assisted Sabatier reaction', Nature Catalysis, 3, pp. 1034 - 1043, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41929-020-00544-3

Journal articles | 2020

Xie B; Wong RJ; Tan TH; Higham M; Gibson EK; Decarolis D; Callison J; Aguey-Zinsou KF; Bowker M; Catlow CRA; Scott J; Amal R, 2020, 'Synergistic ultraviolet and visible light photo-activation enables intensified low-temperature methanol synthesis over copper/zinc oxide/alumina', Nature Communications, 11, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-15445-z

Journal articles | 2019

Xie B; Yu M; Lu L; Feng H; Yang Y; Chen Y; Cui H; Xiao R; Liu J, 2019, 'Pseudocapacitive Co9S8/graphene electrode for high-rate hybrid supercapacitors', Carbon, 141, pp. 134 - 142, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.carbon.2018.09.044

Journal articles | 2018

Yu M; Zhang S; Chen Y; Jin H; Zhang Y; Lu L; Shu Z; Hou S; Xie B; Cui H, 2018, 'A green method to reduce graphene oxide with carbonyl groups residual for enhanced electrochemical performance', Carbon, 133, pp. 101 - 108, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.carbon.2018.03.019

Journal articles | 2017

Yu M; Xie B; Yang Y; Zhang Y; Chen Y; Yu W; Zhang S; Lu L; Liu D, 2017, 'Residual oxygen groups in nitrogen-doped graphene to enhance the capacitive performance', Rsc Advances, 7, pp. 15293 - 15301, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/c6ra28596a

Journal articles | 2016

Chen Y; Yan Q; Zhang S; Lu L; Xie B; Xie T; Zhang Y; Wu Y; Zhang Y; Liu D, 2016, 'Buffering agents-assisted synthesis of nitrogen-doped graphene with oxygen-rich functional groups for enhanced electrochemical performance', Journal of Power Sources, 333, pp. 125 - 133, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jpowsour.2016.09.111

Journal articles | 2016

Xie B; Chen Y; Yu M; Sun T; Lu L; Xie T; Zhang Y; Wu Y, 2016, 'Hydrothermal synthesis of layered molybdenum sulfide/N-doped graphene hybrid with enhanced supercapacitor performance', Carbon, 99, pp. 35 - 42, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.carbon.2015.11.077

Journal articles | 2016

Xie B; Chen Y; Yu M; Zhang S; Lu L; Shu Z; Zhang Y, 2016, 'Phosphoric acid-assisted synthesis of layered MoS2/graphene hybrids with electrolyte-dependent supercapacitive behaviors', Rsc Advances, 6, pp. 89397 - 89406, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/c6ra17109e

Journal articles | 2016

Yu MY; Zhu MY; Chen Y; Xie BQ; Yan QY; Zhang SS; Lu LH; Chen JZ, 2016, 'Preparation and electrochemical properties of nitrogen-containing porous carbons', Rengong Jingti Xuebao Journal of Synthetic Crystals, 45, pp. 697 - 703

Journal articles | 2015

Xie B; Chen Y; Yu M; Shen X; Lei H; Xie T; Zhang Y; Wu Y, 2015, 'Carboxyl-Assisted Synthesis of Nitrogen-Doped Graphene Sheets for Supercapacitor Applications', Nanoscale Research Letters, 10, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s11671-015-1031-z

Journal articles | 2014

Chen Y; Xie B; Ren Y; Yu M; Qu Y; Xie T; Zhang Y; Wu Y, 2014, 'Designed nitrogen doping of few-layer graphene functionalized by selective oxygenic groups', Nanoscale Research Letters, 9, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1556-276X-9-646

Journal articles | 2013

Chen Y; Xie B; Luo S; Zhang Y, 2013, 'Controlled growth of hierarchical nanostructured MnO 2 /carbon hybrids', Applied Surface Science, 285, pp. 425 - 430, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.apsusc.2013.08.071
Preprints | 2025

Ma Z; Leverett J; Yuwono J; Pan J; Zhou S; Zhang D; Zhang M; Xie B; Peng L; Khan MHA; Londono SL; Kumar PV; Lovell E; Daiyan R; Amal R, 2025, Coupled Nox Production and Electrochemical Conversion Processes for Sustainable Ammonium Synthesis from Air, http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.5387052

EPFL ISIC internal equipment grant (CHF 8,000), 2025
Highly Cited Researcher award by Clarivate, 2024

Of the world’s population of scientists and social scientists, Highly Cited Researchers are 1 in 1,000.

Dean’s Award for Outstanding PhD Thesis, 2022

Awarded to the top 10% of PhD theses being examined.

Post Prize in Catalysis Science & Technology Anniversary Symposium (USD 200), 2021

One of the ten winners selected from 150 participants worldwide.

the Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-financed PhD Students Abroad (USD 6,000), 2021

Rewarding the academic excellence of Chinese PhD students studying abroad. No more than 500 PhD graduates will be granted each year all over the world.

Scientia PhD scholarship (AUD 160,000) with additional career development funds (AUD 40,000), UNSW, 2017 ― 2021

A highly competitive scholarship aimed at training outstanding PhD scholars who have the potential to contribute to the social engagement and/or global impact pillars of the UNSW 2025 Strategy.

China National Scholarship for Master Students, 2016

The highest honor for Chinese master students (top 10% academic grade and research achievements) awarded by Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China.

JASSO Japanese government scholarship, 2015 ― 2016

The scholarship is awarded to international students with excellent academic and personal records to study in Japanese universities under the student exchange agreement.

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