主要从事无机光电功能材料和能源材料的研究,具体涉及无机非线性光学晶体材料、电解水催化材料,钙钛矿太阳能电池材料等领域。已主持完成国家自然科学基金项目和福建省自然科学基金项目各1项,以及参与国家自然科学基金重点项目和面上项目多项;已发表SCI收录的国际期刊论文57篇,其中以第一作者或通讯作者发表的论文共12篇,包括Nature Communications、Chemistry of Materials、Inorganic Chemistry等国际重要期刊论文,单篇论文他引最高达300余次;获得授权发明专利8项。目前研究兴趣主要集中于具有钙钛矿结构的新型光电和能源材料。
3.Wen-Wen Wang, Xiang Xu*, Jin-Tao Kong, and Jiang-Gao Mao*, “RE(SO4)[B(OH)4](H2O), RE(SO4)[B(OH)4](H2O)2, and RE(SO4)[B(OH)4](H2O)·H2O: Rare-Earth Borate-Sulfates Featuring Three Types of Layered Structures”, Inorg. Chem. 2018, 57, 163-174.
4.Xiang Xu, Chun-Li Hu, Bing-Xuan Li, and Jiang-Gao Mao*, “K2Au(IO3)5 and β-KAu(IO3)4: Polar Materials with Strong SHG Responses Originating from Synergistic Effect of AuO4 and IO3 Units”, Chem. Eur. J. 2016, 22, 1750-1759.
5.Xiang Xu, Bing-Ping Yang, Chao Huang and Jiang-Gao Mao*, “Explorations of New Second-Order Nonlinear Optical Materials in the Ternary Rubidium Iodate System: Noncentrosymmetric β-RbIO3(HIO3)2 and Centrosymmetric Rb3(IO3)3(I2O5)(HIO3)4(H2O)”, Inorg. Chem. 2014, 53, 1756-1763.
6.Xiang Xu, Chun-Li Hu, Bing-Ping Yang and Jiang-Gao Mao*, “Syntheses, Crystal Structures and Magnetic Properties of Three New Silver Manganese(II) or Manganese(III) Mixed Metal Iodates”, CrystEngComm, 2013, 15, 7776-7782.
7.Xiang Xu, Chun-Li Hu, Fang Kong, Jian-Han Zhang, Jiang-Gao Mao* and Junliang Sun*, “Cs2GeB4O9: a New Second-Order Nonlinear Optical Crystal”, Inorg. Chem. 2013, 52, 5831-5837.
8.Xiang Xu, Chun-Li Hu, Fang Kong, Jian-Han Zhang and Jiang-Gao Mao*, “Ca10Ge16B6O51 and Cd12Ge17B8O58: Two Types of New 3D Frameworks Based on BO4 Tetrahedra and 1D [Ge4O12]n Chains”, Inorg. Chem. 2011, 50, 8861-8868.