Faculty
Liang Guo received his bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering, from Tsinghua University in 2009. He conducted graduate research on nanoscale heat transfer in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University. His projects included heat transfer across metal-dielectric interfaces, wavelength tuning effect in time-domain thermoreflectance for measuring thermal properties, and phonon dynamics in thermoelectric materials. He obtained his Ph.D. degree in September 2014. From October 2014 to July 2017, as a postdoctoral researcher, he utilized femtosecond two-dimensional electronic spectroscopy (2DES) to study energy transfer in novel two-dimensional semiconductors in chemistry, University of California, Berkeley.
He joined the Department of Mechanical and Energy Engineering at Southern University of Science and Technology in January 2018. He is focusing on energy transfer in micro- and nano-scale, femtosecond laser manufacture, and energy carrier dynamics based on ultrafast spectroscopy. He published more than 50 SCI-listed articles in world-renowned journals, including Nature Physics, Science Advances, Nano Letters, Advanced Materials, Physical Review B, Applied Physics Letters, ACS Photonics, Journal of Heat Transfer, etc. He manages 2 grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China, 2 grants from the Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province, 2 grants from the Characteristic Innovation Project of the Department of Education of Guangdong Province, 2 grants from Shenzhen Basic Research Projects, 1 grant from Shenzhen Science and Technology Project. He is involved in 1 grant from the National Natural Science Foundation of China,1 grant from China’s Ministry of Science and Technology, 1 grant from Key Laboratory of Ordinary Universities in Guangdong Province, 1 grant from the Shenzhen Engineering Research Center Project, 1 grant from the Shenzhen Science and Technology Program. He has applied for 8 national invention patents (authorized 3), and obtained 2 software copyrights. He also receives (Level C) high-caliber personnel financial support from Shenzhen Science and Technology Program. He teaches undergraduate course “Fundamentals of Energy Engineering”, “Introduction to Energy Science” and graduate course “Advanced Laser Processing and Inspection Technology”, and won the First Prize in the Teaching Competition for Young Teachers and the Second Prize of Graduate Teaching Achievement Award at South University of Science and Technology. He also manages a Guangdong Province Graduate Teaching Reform Project and a SUSTech Graduate Teaching Reform Project.
Research Interest：
◆ Nanoscale energy conversion and transfer
◆ Laser-matter interaction
◆ Femtosecond time-resolved spectroscopy
◆ Micro- and nanoscale manufacture by laser
Education and Working Experience：
◆ 2023.06-present, Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical and Energy Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology
◆ 2018.01-2023.05, Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical and Energy Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology
◆ 2014.10-2017.12, Postdoctoral Researcher, Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley
◆ 2009.08-2014.12, Ph. D., Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University
◆ 2005.09-2009.07, B. S., Mechanical Engineering, Tsinghua University
Honors and Awards：
◆ 2024, 2021, Excellent Communist Party member of SUSTech
◆ 2023, The First Prize in the 7th Teaching Competition of SUSTech
◆ 2023, Excellent Undergraduate Advisor in SUSTech
◆ 2021, 2019, Excellent Undergraduate Advisor in Zhixin Residential College, SUSTech
◆ 2019, Industrial Development and Innovation Talent Award of Shenzhen
◆ 2018, Overseas High-Caliber Personnel of Shenzhen
◆ 2018, High-level Talent in Nanshan District of Shenzhen
◆ 2009-2010, Ross Fellowship at Purdue University
◆ 2009, The Prize of Excellent Graduation Thesis of Tsinghua University
◆ 2009, The Honor of Excellent Graduate of Tsinghua University
Representative Publications：
1. Ding P.#, Chen D.#, Tamtaji M.#, Hu S., Qammar M., Ko P. K., Sergeev A. A., Zou B., Tang B., Wong K. S., Guo L.*, Chen G.*, Rogach A. L.*, and Halpert J. E.*, Intense circular dichroism and spin selectivity in AgBiS2 nanocrystals by chiral ligand exchange, Advanced Materials, 2024, 36 (52), 2410087. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/adma.202410087
2. Ding P.#, Zhu Y.#, Han Z.#, Li L., Zhang L., Cai Y., Singh D. J., Zhang L., Zhang W., Shin S., Yang J.*, Liu W.*, and Guo L.*, Coherent acoustic phonon dynamics facilitating acoustic deformation potential characterization of Mg3Sb2, Physical Review B, 2023, 108 (6), 064310. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.108.064310
3. Ji Y.#, Zhang Y.#, Zhu J.#, Geng P., Halpert J. E., and Guo L.*, Splashing-assisted femtosecond laser-activated metal deposition for mold- and mask-free fabrication of robust microstructured electrodes for flexible pressure sensors, Small, 2023, 19 (24), 2207362. https://doi.org/10.1002/smll.202207362
4. Zhong Y.#, Zhang L.#, Park J., Cruz S., Li L., Guo L.*, Kong J.*, and Wang E. N.*, A unified approach and descriptor for the thermal expansion of two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenide monolayers, Science Advances, 2022, 8 (46), eabo3783. https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abo3783
5. Guo L.#, Wu M.#, Cao T.#, Monahan, D. M.#, Lee Y. H., Louie S. G.*, and Fleming G. R.*, Exchange-driven intravalley mixing of excitons in monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides, Nature Physics, 2019, 15 (3), 228-232. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41567-018-0362-y
Other Information：
◆The group welcomes postdoctoral researchers and research assistants. We also actively recruit PhDs, masters, and undergraduates with intense research interests.
◆The research in this group is interdisciplinary and we are open to students and scholars with interest in mechanical engineering (including energy engineering, thermal engineering, and precision instruments), optics, and material chemistry.