Европейская академия естественных наук Hannover E.V.

Guosheng Shao

Prof.Dr.Guosheng Shao is the Director of the State Centre for International Cooperation on Designer Low-carbon & Environmental Materials (CDLCEM) at the Zhengzhou University, China. He is also the Founding Director of the Zhengzhou Materials Genome Institute (ZMGI, 2016), and Visiting Professor to the University of Surrey, UK (2018 -). He earned his PhD in materials science at the University of Surrey in 1995 and thereupon worked as a research fellow and senior research fellow, until transferring to Brunel University as Reader (Associate Professor) in Materials in 2005. He joined the University of Bolton as Professor of Materials Modelling & Simulation in 2007, and then established the Institute for Renewable Energy and Environmental Technologies (IREET, 2011) as its founding director, together with the responsibility as Head of Engineering etc.

His main academic interest is “designer” materials, using multi-scale modelling to formulate novel materials with targeted functionalities and performances. Such an ever-advancing approach is interwoven with advanced materials characterization and synthesis/processing. Academically he has published well over 300 papers in major international journals including Nature, with land-mark single-author contributions such as devising the first thermodynamic model to predict the stability of glassy phases and deriving the first analytical equation to predict diffraction patterns of long-range out-of-phase (regular and incommensurate) superlattices. Combining his glass thermodynamic model with his quantifiable model on time-dependent nucleation, the glass forming ability of multi-component alloys can be predicted, which have been recognized as the first generation of high-entropy alloys. The world’s first amorphous FeSi2 semiconductor was then successfully synthesized as a highly promising candidate for low-cost solar cells using sustainable materials resources. The invention of the world’s first Si light emission diode (LED) triggered strong international enthusiasm on developing Si-based LED and laser since 2001, which are key for the development of desirable opto-electronic chips using in situ light sources.

Various novel materials and application devices have been successfully invented under the guidance of theoretical formulation, for example:

1. Invention of a low-cost and green production method for tunnage production of nearly defect-free few-layer graphene powder, which has enabled various advanced applications such as rapid heating with radically reduced energy consumption, high-capacity and sustainingly stable electrodes using over 90 wt% of conversion-type electrode matter, electrodes of sodium ion batteries with areal capacity twice of that of current lithium ion batteries, fully graphene based alkaline fuel cell catalysts that outperforms those using rare and expensive metals such as Pt, Au, and Ru etc. A series of granted graphene patents are also being proactively commercialized in joint ventures.
2. Theoretical formulation and experimental realization of families of solid electrolytes to enable safe metal ion batteries based on hali-sulfides and halides, with ionic conductivity better than the unsafe current liquid organic electrolytes.
3. Formulation and successful synthesis of transparent conducting oxides (TCO) films using sustainable resources, which are recognized as necessary alternative to the current TCO that is based on the depleting metal of indium.

 

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