Chao Xu

Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor at Department of Materials Science and Engineering; Nanotechnology and Functional Materials

Telephone:: +46 18 471 32 30
E-mail:: chao.xu@angstrom.uu.se
Visiting address:: Ångströmlaboratoriet, Regementsvägen 10
Postal address:: Box 35
751 03 UPPSALA

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Academic merits:: Docent in Engineering Science with Specialisation in Nanotechnology and Functional Materials

Short presentation

Chao Xu is currently an Associate Professor at Uppsala University, where he leads an independent research group focusing on functional porous materials. He is the main PI of several research projects funded by Swedish Research Council, Formas, Swedish Energy Agency, Vinnova, and ÅForsk. He has received several awards, including the King Carl XVI Gustaf’s 50th Birthday Fund for Science, Technology, and the Environment and the Göran Gustafsson Prize (UU/KTH).

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Research

Our research focuses on the green synthesis and engineering of porous materials, including covalent organic frameworks (COFs), porous organic polymers (POPs), and metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), for energy and environmental applications.

Relevant publications:

COFs and POPs

Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2026, 65, e23595

Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2026, e2684732

Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2026, 65, e5692086

J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2025, 147, 2927

Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2025, 64, e202425426

J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2024, 146, 742

Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2023, 62, e202305225

MOFs

Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2024, 63, e202318387

ACS Materials Lett. 2022, 4, 1058