Zhou Xiaoguo

Phone: +86-551-63600031

Fax: +86-551-63600031

E-mail: xzhou@ustc.edu.cn

Address: Department of Chemical Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, No. 96, Jinzhai Road, Hefei, Anhui, China

Personal Profile

Educational Background and Research Experience:

2020 - Present: Professor of the Department of Chemical Physics of the University of Science and Technology of China

2004 - 2020: Associate Professor of the Department of Chemical Physics of the University of Science and Technology of China

2002 - 2004: Postdoctoral Fellow of the Department of Chemistry of the Ohio State University

1997 - 2002: Ph.D. from the Department of Chemical Physics of the University of Science and Technology of China

1993 - 1997: Bachelor’s Degree from the Department of Chemical Physics of the University of Science and Technology of China

Research Directions:

1) Development of novel mass spectrometry and spectroscopy techniques

2) Photodissociation and photoionization dynamics of gas-phase molecules

3) Photoinduced energy transfer and electron transfer dynamics

Research Projects:

1) Ionization energy, bond dissociation energy and dissociative photoionization dynamics of several interstellar peptide-like molecules, General Project of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, (Grant No. 22473104)

2) Spectrometer of aerosols trapped by new optical tweezers, Major National Research Instrument Development Project, (Grant No. 22027801)

3) Development of a high-resolution time-of-flight mass spectrometer, National Key Research and Development Program of China, (Grant No. 2022YFF0707202)

4) Development and Application of Integrated Intelligent sensors for ultra-trace multi-gases, Anhui Science and Technology Innovation Challenge Plan (Grant No. 202423k09020021)

Representative Publications:

1) Water-ice microstructures and hydration states of acridinium iodide studied by phosphorescence spectroscopy, Angew. Chem. Int. Edit 63 (2024), e202405314

2) The N+ formation mechanism of vibrationally selected N2O+ ions in the C2Σ+ state: a TPEPICO imaging study, J. Phys. Chem. A 128 (2024), 4439

3) Efficient red-to-blue triplet-triplet annihilation upconversion using C70-Bodipy-Triphenylamine triad as the heavy-atom-free triplet photosensitizer, J. Phys. Chem. B 127 (2023), 8476

4) Infrared photodissociation spectroscopy of mass-selected [TaO3(CO2)n]+ (n=2‒5) complexes in the gas phase, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 25 (2023), 13198

5) Determining the energy gap between the S1 and T1 states of a thermally activated delayed fluorescence molecule using transient fluorescence spectroscopy, J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 13 (2022), 2507

6) Manifesting direction-specific complexation in [HFIP-H·H2O2]‒: exclusive formation of a high-lying conformation, J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 13 (2022), 8607

7) Ro-vibrational distribution of NO+ dissociated from NO2+ ions in the a3B2 and b3A2 states: a slow “impulsive” dissociation example revealed from threshold photoelectron-photoion coincidence imaging, J. Phys. Chem. A 125 (2021), 3316

8) Regioselective radical α-borylation of α,β-unsaturated carbonyl compounds for direct synthesis of α-borylcarbonyl molecules, Nat. Commun. 10 (2019), 1934