Wenpei GAO

  • Associate Professor

  • Email address:gaowenpei@sjtu.edu.cn

  • EDUCATION

  • WORKING EXPERIENCE

  • RESEARCH

  • HONORS AND AWARDS

  • PUBLICATIONS

  • 2010 - 2015 University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign | Ph.D in Materials Science and Engineering, 2015

  • 2006 – 2010 Peking University, Beijing, China | Bachelor of Science in Physics

  • 2022 - present Shanghai Jiao Tong University, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Zhangjiang Institute of Advanced Study | Associate Professor,

  • 2020 – 2022 North Carolina State University | Assistant Professor Materials Science and Engineering, 07/2022

  • 2015 – 2019 University of California, Irvine | Postdoctoral Fellow, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science

  • 2015 – 2016 Oak Ridge National Lab | Visiting Scholar, Center of Nanophase Materials Science

  • Semiconductor, Complex Oxide, Interfacial Science, Advanced Electron Microscopy

  • 08/2021  Albert Crewe Award, Microscopy Society of America

  • 08/2019  M&M Postdoctoral Scholar Award, Microscopy Society of America

  • 05/2015 Racheff-Intel Award for Graduate Research, Dept. of MatSE, UIUC

  • 05/2013 Award of Invited Student Talk, Argonne National Laboratory 2013 annul user meeting

  • 01/2013 Racheff/Burnett Teaching Fellow, Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

  • 04/2012 Eric Samuel Award of 2012, Microscopy Society of America

  • 08/2012 Racheff/Burnett Teaching Fellow, Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

  • 08/2010 Hamer Fellowship, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  • Wenpei Gao, Christopher Addiego, Hui Wang, Xingxu Yan, Yusheng Hou, Dianxiang Ji, Colin Heikes, Yi Zhang, Linze Li, Huaixun Huyan, Thomas Blum, Toshihiro Aoki, Yuefeng Nie, Darrell Schlom, Ruqian Wu, Xiaoqing Pan, “Real-Space Charge-Density Imaging with Sub-Angstrom Resolution by Four-Dimensional Electron Microscopy.” Nature, 575 (2019): 480-484

  • Addiego, C., Gao, W*., Huyan, H. et al., “Probing charge density in materials with atomic resolution in real space.” Nature Reviews Physics 5, (2023):117–132

  • Jacob G. Smith, Wenpei Gao* et al., “Disproportionation chemistry in K2PtCl4 visualized at atomic resolution using scanning transmission electron microscopy.”Science Advances. 10 (1) (2024): eadi0175.

  • Wenpei Gao, Peter Tieu, Christopher Addiego, Yanling Ma, Jianbo Wu, Xiaoqing Pan, “Probing the dynamics of nanoparticle formation from a precursor at atomic resolution.” Science Advances, 5 (1) (2019): eaau9590

  • Yanling Ma, Wenpei Gao*, Jianbo Wu* et al. , “Highly stable and active catalyst in fuel cells through surface atomic ordering.” Science Advances, 10 (1) (2024): eado4935

  • Wenpei Gao. et al. “Atomistic insights into the nucleation and growth of platinum on palladium nanocrystals.” Nature Communications 12, (2021): 3215

  • Wenpei Gao*, Yusheng Hou, Zach Hood, Xue Wang, Karren More, Ruqian Wu, Younan Xia, Xiaoqing Pan*, Miaofang Chi*, “Direct in Situ Observation and Analysis of the Formation of Palladium Nanocrystals with High-Index Facets.” Nano Letters, 18 (11) (2018): 7004-7013, Editor’s Choice in ACS

  • Wenpei Gao, Zach Hood, Miaofang Chi, “Interfaces in Heterogeneous Catalyst: Advancing Mechanistic Understanding through Atomic-Scale Measurements.” Accounts of Chemical Research, 50(4) (2017): 787-795.

  • Hsin-Yun Chao, Wenpei Gao*, Miaofang Chi*, et al., “In Situ and Emerging Transmission Electron Microscopy for Catalysis Research.” Chemical Reviews 123 (13) (2023):8347-8394

  • Shi, F., Gao, W*. Wu, J*, et al.,“Direct in-situ imaging of electrochemical corrosion of Pd-Pt core-shell electrocatalysts.”Nature Communications 15, 5084 (2024)