Yue Gao is an assistant professor at the State Key Laboratory of Molecular Engineering of Polymer, Department of Macromolecular Science. Yue gained his Ph.D. at the Pennsylvania State University in 2018 and conducted research as the Vagelos fellow at the University of Pennsylvania in 2019. He joined Fudan in 2020. He published a series of papers regarding organic materials in batteries at Nature Materials, Nature Energy, JACS, PNAS, ACIE, Joule, etc. He has led research projects including Asian Young Scientist Fellowship (12 awardees so far), Battery500 Young Investigator of US Department of Energy (6 awardees so far), Vagelos Postdoctoral fellowship at UPenn (2 awardees per year), National Key Research and Development Program of China (Young Scientist), NSF Excellent Young Scientists Fund Program (Overseas). The group widely pursues transformative advances in energy storage, energy conversion, and robotics by designing organic and polymer materials. Website: ygaogroup.com

Research Interest：

1. Oganic/polymer-regulated high-performance batteries

2. Energy storage for intelligent robots and electric aircraft

3. 3D printing of functional polymers

Award：

• 2023 Asian Young Scientist

• 2022 MIT Technology Review Innovators Under 35

• 2022 Chief Young Scientist of National Key Research and Development Program of China

• 2021 NSF Excellent Young Scientists Fund Program (Overseas)

• 2021 Shanghai Overseas High-Level Young Talents

• 2020 Vagelos Institute Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania

• 2019 Young Investigator of the US Department of Energy Battery500 Consortium

• 2018 Materials Research Society Graduate Student Award

• 2018 Chinese government award for outstanding self-financed students abroad

• 2018 Penn State Graduate Student Award

Representative publication:

1. Gao, Y.; Yan, Z.; Gray, J.; He, X.; Chen, T.; Huang, Q.; Li, Y.; Wang, H.; Kim, S.; Mallouk, T.; Wang, D.* Polymer-inorganic solid-electrolyte interphase for stable lithium metal batteries under lean electrolyte conditions. Nat. Mater. 2019, 18(4), 384.

2. Gao, Y.; Wang, D.; Li, G.; Mallouk, T.; Wang, D.* Low-temperature and high-rate-charging lithium metal batteries enabled by an electrochemically active monolayer-regulated interface. Nat. Energy. 2020, 5(7), 534.

3. Gao, Y.; Wang, D.; Shin, Y.; Hossain, J.; Han, Z.; Shen, S.; Van Duin, A.; Mallouk, T.; Wang, D.* Conjugated-anion modified graphene allowing guided metal deposition and stable interface for metal anodes. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 2020, 117, 30135.

4. Gao, Y.; Zhao, Y.; Li, Y. C.; Huang, Q.; Mallouk, T. E.; Wang, D.* Interfacial chemistry regulation via a skin-grafting strategy enables high-performance lithium-metal batteries. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2017, 139(43), 15288.

5. Fei, S.; Wang, S.; Gao, Y.* Making SOCl2 rechargeable. Joule 2021, 5 (11), 2766.