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)