RESEARCH INTERESTS

Nanoenergy (Fuel Cells, Green Hydrogen, Batteries and Artificial Photosynthesis)

Nanochemistry for Metal, Carbon and Semiconductor Nanomaterials

Nanomaterials for Therapy and Bioimaging

EDUCATION

2005.09–2011.01, Ph.D., Chinese Academy of Sciences (Advisor: Prof. Erkang Wang)

2001.09 – 2005.07, B.S., College of Chemistry, Jilin University

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2021.02 – Present, Full Professor with Tenure, School of Materials Science and Engineering, and College of Engineering, Peking University

2019.02 – 2021.01, Associate Professor with Early Tenure, Department of Materials Science & Engineering, College of Engineering, Peking University

2015.09 – 2019.01, Tenure Track Associate Professor, Department of Materials Science & Engineering, College of Engineering, Peking University

2013.06 – 2015.09, J. Robert Oppenheimer Distinguished Fellow, Los Alamos National Laboratory

2011.01 – 2013.06, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Chemistry Department, Brown University

SHORT BIO

Shaojun GUO is a Boya Distinguished Professor in Peking University, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry. He is renowned for his outstanding contribution to the interdisciplinary fields of materials chemistry for energy electrocatalysis. He has published more than 200 papers in top journals as corresponding author, including 50 in Nature, Science and Nature/Science/Cell sister journals (h-index=153 and 81,000 citations). He is one of Highly Cited Researchers from 2014 to 2024, and World Top 2% Scientist from Stanford University (Ranking: 2000). His selected awards/honors include the First Prize of Natural Science of Ministry of Education, National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars, Beijing Outstanding Young Scientist, China Youth Science and Technology Prize, Elsevier Chinese Most Cited Researcher,etc. He is serving as (advisory) board members of Adv. Energy Mater., Chem. Commun., Sci. Bull., Sci. China Mater., eScience, etc.

HONORS & AWARDS

·2014-2024. Highly Cited Researcher (Materials/Chemistry)

·2024. Young Scientist SDGs Award

·2023. Qingshan Science & Technology Prize

·2017-2023. Elsevier-Chinese Highly Cited Researcher (Materials/Chemistry)

·2020-2024. World's Top 2% Scientists (Stanford University)

·2023. Beijing Extraordinary Young Scientist

·2023. The First Prize of Natural Science of Ministry of Education

·2023. Nano Materials Science Young Scientist Award

·2023. Advisory Member of Beijing Nature Foundation Committee

·2021. Chief Scientist of the National Key Research and Development (R&D) Program

·2021. Small Young Innovator Award,Wiley

·2020. China Youth Science and Technology Award

·2020. National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars

·2019. Xplorer Prize

·2019. Chinese Chemical Society-Royal Society of Chemistry Young Chemist Award

·2019. Mao Yisheng Beijing Youth Science and Technology Award

·2019. Elesiver-Energy Chem Young Scienst Award

·2019. Nano Research Young Innovators Award

·2019. Catalysts Young Investigator Winner

·2018. Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry

·2018. Journal of Materials Chemistry Lectureship

·2018. Beijing Science Foundation for Distinguished Young Scholar

·2018. Elsevier Chinese Most Cited Researchers

·2018. Young Analyst Prize of China

·2018. Huangtingfang/Xinhe Distinguished Young Scholar

·2017. Elsevier Chinese Most Cited Researchers

·2017. Young Scientist Prize for China Electrochemical Society

·2016. Internationl Society of Electrochemistry (ISE)-Elsevier Prize for Applied Electrochemistry

·2013. J. Robert Oppenheimer Distinguished Fellowship (Los Alamos National Lab)

·2012. Excellent Doctoral Dissertation Awards of Chinese Academy of Sciences

·2010. Lindau Fellow

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

1. Yu Gu, Yingjun Tan, Hao Tan, Ying Han, Dongfang Cheng, Fangxu Lin, Zhengyi Qian, Lingyou Zeng, Shipeng Zhang, Ruijin Zeng, Youxing Liu, Hongyu Guo, Mingchuan Luo & Shaojun Guo*, Nature Synthesis, 2025, DOI: 10.1038/s44160-024-00722-2.

2. Fangxu Lin, Heng Luo, Lu Li, Fan Lv*, Yanyan Chen, Qinghua Zhang, Xiaocang Han, Dawei Wang, Menggang Li, Yan Luo, Kai Wang, Lin Gu, Qian Wang, Xiaoxu Zhao, Mingchuan Luo, Shaojun Guo*, Synthesis of Isolated Ru-O₃Sites on hcp-phase Intermetallic Penta-metallene for Hydrogen Oxidation Electrocatalysis, Nature Synthesis, 2025, DOI: 10.1038/s44160-024-00685-4.

3. Youxing Liu, Lu Li, Zhiyuan Sang, Hao Tan, Na Ye, Chenglong Sun, Zongqiang Sun, Mingchuan Luo and Shaojun Guo*, Enhanced hydrogen peroxide photosynthesis in covalent organic frameworks through induced asymmetric electron distribution, Nature Synthesis, 2025, 4, 134-141.

4. Jiashun Liang, Yangyang Wan, Houfu Lv, Xuan Liu, Fan Lv, Shenzhou Li, Jia Xu, Zhi Deng, Junyi Liu, Siyang Zhang, Yingjun Sun, Mingchuan Luo, Gang Lu, Jiantao Han, Guoxiong Wang, Yunhui Huang, Shaojun Guo* and Qing Li*, Metal Bond Strength Regulation Enables Large-Scale Synthesis of Intermetallic Nanocrystals for Practical Fuel Cells, Nature Materials, 2024, 23, 1259-1267.

5. Shi-Yu Lu, Bolong Huang, Mingzi Sun, Mingchuan Luo, Meng Jin, Huawei Yang, Qinghua Zhang, Hui Liu, Peng Zhou, Yuguang Chao, Kun Yin, Changshuai Shang, Junmei Wang, Yan Wang, Fan Lv, Lin Gu and Shaojun Guo*, Synthetic Tuning Stabilizes A High-Valence Ru Single Site for Efficient Electrolysis, Nature Synthesis, 2024, 3, 576-585 (Cover).

6. Hao Tan, Peng Zhou, Meixian Liu, Qinghua Zhang, Fuyang Liu, Hongyu Guo, Yin Zhou, Yan Chen, Lingyou Zeng, Lin Gu, Zhanfeng Zheng, Meiping Tong and Shaojun Guo*, Photocatalysis of Water into Hydrogen Peroxide over an Atomic Ga-N₅Site, Nature Synthesis, 2023, 2, 557-563.

7. Peng Zhou, Mingchuan Luo and Shaojun Guo*, Optimizing the Semiconductor-Metal Single Atom Interaction for Efficient Photocatalytic Reactivity, Nature Reviews Chemistry, 2022, 6, 823-838.

8. Mingchuan Luo, Zhonglong Zhao, Yelong Zhang, Yingjun Sun, Yi Xing, Fan Lv, Yong Yang, Xu Zhang, Sooyeon Hwang, Yingnan Qin, Jing-Yuan Ma, Fei Lin, Dong Su, Gang Lu and Shaojun Guo*, Bimetallene for Oxygen Reduction Catalysis, Nature, 2019, 574, 81-85.

9. Mingchuan Luo and Shaojun Guo*, Strain-Controlled Electrocatalysis on Multimetallic Nanomaterials, Nature Reviews Materials, 2017, 2, 17059.

10. Lingzheng Bu, Nan Zhang, Shaojun Guo*, Xu Zhang, Jing Li, Jianlin Yao, Tao Wu, Gang Lu, Jing-Yuan Ma, Dong Su* and Xiaoqing Huang*, Biaxially Strained PtPb/Pt Core/Shell Nanoplate Boosts Oxygen Reduction Catalysis, Science, 2016, 354, 1410-1414.