1985年北京大学理学学士
1994年中科院感光化学研究所博士
1990年－1995年中科院感光所助理研究员
1995年－1999中科院感光所副研究员
1999年-至今 中国科学院化学所研究员，博士生导师
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主要研究领域：
Ø 半导体光电化学。
Ø 纳米半导体的制备及光电化学性能。
Ø 半导体表面微观性能的STM及STS研究。
Ø 纳米半导体光催化机理的光电化学研究
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论著成果
Yuan LIN, Xu-Rui XIAO, Scanned Laser Spot Photocurrent response studies of surface modifications of CdSe thin film electrodes, Applied Surface Science, 90(1995)321
Zhou xiaowen, Lin Yuan, Li Xue Ping, Xiao XuRui, Studies of optical Nonlinearity Behaviours of Ultrafine PbS Particles in Perfluorocarboxylated Cation-exchanged Films, High Technology Letters 1,(1995)102
Zhou xiaowen, Lin Yuan, Li XuePing, Xiao XuRui,Preparation of quantum sized CdSe nanocrystalline films by chemical solution deposition,Chinese Chemical Letters. 7,(1996)391
Yuan Lin, RuiFeng Lin, WeiBo Wang, XuRui Xiao, Characterization of TiO2 nanocrystalline thin film by scanning tunneling microscopy and scanning tunneling spectroscopy,Applied Surface Science, 143,169,1999,
Yuan Lin, RuiFeng Lin, Feng Yin, XuRui Xiao, Ming Wu, WanZhen Gu, WenZhao Li, Photoelectrochemical studies of H2 evolution in aqueous methanel solution photocatalysed by Q-ZnS particles,J. Photochem.Photobio. A: chemistry, 125,135,1999,
Yuan Lin, JingBo Zhang, Feng Yin, XuRui Xiao,Interfacial charge transfer behaviours of nanoparticulate CdSe thin film electrodes ,Zeitschrift fuer Physikalisck Chemie, 1999 ,213,1
Yuan Lin, Rui Feng Lin, Xiao Wen Zhou, Jin Bo Zhang, Xu Rui Xiao, Scanning Tunneling Microscope and Scanning Tunneling Spectroscopic Studies of Nanocrystalline CdSe Thin Film, Chinese Chemical Letters, 1997, 8, 831,
Zhang Jingbo, Lin Yuan, Ying Feng Xiao Xurui,Studies On The Interfacial Charge Transfer Processes of Nanocrystalline CdSe Thin Film Electrodes By Intensity Modulated Photo-current Spectroscopy, Science in China (series B) 2000,43,44