research interests:

• Flexible electronics (fractal metallic transparent conductive electrode, flexible solar cell (amorphous silicon, organic solar cell material and perovskite photovoltaic cells), flexible sensor and energy storage devices);

• Solar water splitting (semiconductor and bio-inspired structure);

• High thermal conductive materials and their application in electronic cooling;

• Fundamental researches in solar, thermal, and electric energy conversion and transport mechanism.

research porjects:

• 国家科技部纳米科技重点专项“纳米尺度多场物性与输运性质测量及调控” (2016YFA0201002), 2016-2021，120万（子课题之一), 主要骨干成员。

• 基金委面上项目：面向钙钛矿太阳能电池应用的叶脉分形网络透明电极的电荷输运性能及其机理研究（项目编号：51571094），2016-2019，74万元，负责人。

• 广东省重大专项：印刷亚微米金属网络透明电极薄膜技术及其产业化研究(项目编号：2014B090915005)，2015 -2017，500万，负责人。

• 广东省自然科学基金：新型柔性金属网络透明电极薄膜的制备及其光伏电池应用研究(项目编号：2014A030313447)，2014-2016，负责人，10万。

professinal activities:

• Jinwei Gao, Flexible transparent condutors, Forum of understanding on Nanomaterials and their interdisciplinary applications, 3-5 June 2016 WARSAW, Invited talk.

• 高进伟，柔性透明电极及其薄膜光伏应用，2015年全国新能源材料技术与应用研讨会，27/11-30/11，深圳，邀请报告(Session chair).

• Jinwei Gao*, Submicro-metallic networks as a high perfermance transparent conductors, 2015 Flexible and printalble electonics (全国第五届柔性与印刷电子研讨会（（FPEChina2015, Suzhou, China, Oral.

• Jinwei Gao*, Low-cost Subwavelength metallic network as a high perfermance transparent conductor, 2015 Internatioal conference for top and emerging materials scientists(IC-TEMS 2015), 19-22 July, Lijiang, China, Invited talk.

• Jinwei Gao*,Solution-Processed Metalic network as high performance transparent conductive electrode, International workshop on thin-films for electronics, electro-optics,energy and sensors (TFE3S), 4-6 July, 2015. University of Dayton China Institute, Suzhou, China. Session Chair and invited talk.

• Jinwei Gao*, Solution-Processed Metallic Network as a High Performance Transparent Conductive Electrode, MRS, 1-5, December 2014, Boston (US), Poster.

• Jinwei Gao*, Metallic Networks for Optoelectronic Applications, Progress in Electromagnetics Research Symposium (PIERS), 25-28, August 2014, Guangzhou (Canton), China, Sesstion Orgnizer and invited talk.

• Jinwei Gao*, Solution-processed transparent conductive metallic network/mesh and their applications, The third energy workshop with advanced materials and information, 10-18, August 2014, Sichuan, China, invited talk.

• Jinwei Gao*, Flexible Optoelectronic Network Structures, SYSU Workshop on Nano-Plasmonics, 12-14, October 2014, Guangzhou, China, invited talk.

• Jinwei Gao*, Transparent nanowire network electrode (NNE) for a potential application in solar cell, The second energy workshop with advanced materials and information, 10-19, 2013, Sichuan, China, invited talk.

Publications:

1. B. Han, Y. Huang, R. Li, Q. Peng, J. Luo, K. Pei, A. Herczynski, K. Kempa, Z. Ren, J. Gao*, Bio-inspired networks for optoelectronic applications., Nat. Commun. 5 (2014) 5674. doi:10.1038/ncomms6674.

2. B. Han, Q. Peng, R. Li, Q. Rong, Y. Ding, E. Metin, K. Kempa*, J. Gao*. Optimization of hierarchical structure and nanoscale-enabled plasmonic refraction for window electrodes in photovoltaics, Nat. Commun. 7(2016) 12825.doi:10.1038/ncomms12825.

3. R. Zheng, J. Gao, J. Wang, G. Chen*, Reversible temperature regulation of electrical and thermal conductivity using liquid-solid phase transitions., Nat. Commun. 2 (2011) 289. doi:10.1038/ncomms1288.

4. B. Han, K. Pei, Y. Huang, X. Zhang, Q. Rong, Q. Lin, Y. Guo, T. Sun, C. Guo, D. Carnahan, M. Giersig, Y. Wang, J. Gao*, Z. Ren*, K. Kempa*, Uniform self-forming metallic network as a high-performance transparent conductive electrode, Adv. Mater. 26 (2014) 873–877. doi:10.1002/adma.201302950.

5. J. Gao*, Krzysztof Kempa*, Michael Giersig, Eser Metin Akinoglu, Bing Han, and Ruopeng Li, Physics of Transparent Conductors. Adv. Phys. 65 (2016) 553-617(Invited Review).

6. R. Li, Q. Peng, B. Han, Y. Ke, X. Wang, X. Lu, X. Wu, J. Kong, Z. Ren, E.M. Akinoglu, M. Giersig, G. Zhou, J.-M. Liu, K. Kempa*, J. Gao*, Plasmonic refraction-induced ultrahigh transparency of highly conducting metallic networks, Laser Photon. Rev. (2016). doi:10.1002/lpor.201500271.

7. J. Gao, R.T. Zheng, H. Ohtani, D.S. Zhu, G. Chen*, Experimental investigation of heat conduction mechanisms in nanofluids. Clue on clustering, Nano Lett. 9 (2009) 4128–4132. doi:10.1021/nl902358m.

8. J. Gao*, K. Pei, T. Sun, Y. Wang, L. Zhang, W. Peng, Q. Lin, M. Giersig, K. Kempa, Z. Ren, Y. Wang*, Transparent nanowire network electrode for textured semiconductors, Small. 9 (2013) 733–737. doi:10.1002/smll.201201904.

9. Q. Peng, Songru Li, K. Pei, B. Han, R. Li, G. Zhou, J.-M. Liu, K. Kempa*, J. Gao*, Colossal figure of merit in transparent-conducting metallic ribbon networks, Advanced Materials Technologies.1 (2016) 1600095.

10. R. Zheng, J. Gao, J.J. Wang, S.P. Feng, H. Ohtani, J.J. Wang, G. Chen*, Thermal percolation in stable graphite suspensions, Nano Lett. 12 (2012) 188–192. doi:10.1021/nl203276y.