Professor Guosheng Shao
Professor Guosheng Shao started his academic career at the Zhengzhou University of Technology in 1981, as an Assistant Lecturer and then a Lecturer in metallurgy. In 1991, he came to the University of Surrey as a visiting scientist. He earned his PhD in materials science at Surrey in 1995 and thereupon worked as a research associate and then research fellow (1999) and senior research fellow (2001), until transferring to the Brunel University as Reader in Materials in 2005. He joined the University of Bolton as professor of materials modelling and simulation in 2007. He has published over 160 refereed papers mainly in major international journals including Nature, and holds a number of patents on advanced materials and devices.
Current research interests:
Multi-scale materials modelling
Materials thermodynamics and kinetics
"Designer" materials
Novel energy materials and sustainable solar cells
High resolution analytical electron microscopy
Group| members and news:
PDRAs: Dr Zan Bian, Dr Xiaoping Han
PhD Students:
Mr Shiva Boppana, Mr Kingsley Anajemba, Mr Kenan Song, Miss Quanrong Deng, Mr Liu Lu, Mr Le Zhu
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Selected recent publications:
G Shao, "Red shift in Mn- and Fe-doped TiO2: a DFT+U analysis", Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 113 (6): 6800-6808 (2009).
G Shao, "Electronic structures of manganese-doped rutile TiO2 from first principles", Journal of Physical chemistry C, 112: 18677-18685 (2008).
G Shao, "Melting of metallic and intermetallic solids: an energetic view from DFT calculated potential wells", Computational Materials Science, 43: 1141–1146 (2008).
G Shao, "Prediction of structural stabilities of transition-metal disilicide alloys by the density functional theory", Acta Materialia, 53: 3729-3736 (2005).
DA Pankhurst, Z Yuan, D Nguyen-Manh, ML Abel, G Shao, JF Watts, DG Pettifor, P Tsakiropoulos, "Electronic structure and bonding in MoSi3, Mo5Si3 and Mo(Si,Al)2 alloys investigated by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy and density functional theory", Physical Review B71: 075114 (2005).
G. Shao, "Thermodynamic and kinetic aspects of intermetallic amorphous alloys", Intermetallics, 11(4): 313-324 (April 2003).
G Shao, "Diffraction from long-period out-of-phase superstructures", Intermetallics, 10 (5), 493 - 496 (2002).
N. Peng, G. Shao, C. Jeynes, and R.P. Webb, R.M. Gwilliam, G Boudreault, D.M. Astill, W.Y. Liang, "Ion beam synthesis of superconducting MgB2 thin films", Applied Physics Letters, 82 (2): 236-238 JAN 13 2003.
M. Milosavljevic, G. Shao, H. Bibic, C.N. McKinty and K.P. Homewood, "Amorphous iron disilicide: a promising semiconductor", Applied Physics Letters, 79 (10): 1438-1440 (2001).
Wai Lek Ng, M.A. Lourenco, R.M. Gwilliam, S. Ledain, G. Shao and K.P. Homewood, "An effective room temperature silicon-based light-emitting diode", Nature, 410: 192-194 (2001).
G Shao, "Prediction of amorphous phase stability in metallic alloys", Journal of Applied Physics, 88(7): 4443-4445 (2000).
G. Shao, P. Tsakiropoulos, "On the omega phase formation in Cr-Al and Ti-Al-Cr alloys", Acta Materialia, 48 (2000), 3671-3685.