Maominmin Associate professor

Dr. Minmin Mao received his bachelor’s and doctor’s degree from Zhejiang University (Hangzhou, China) in 2006 and 2011, respectively. Then, he continued to work at Center of Electron Microscopy in Zhejiang University as a postdoc fellow from 2012 to 2015. During this period, he served as a visiting researcher at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) from 2013 to 2014. Later in 2015, Dr. Mao was appointed as a lecturer and then associate professor at Nanjing Tech University. He moved back to Hangzhou in 2019 as an associate professor in Hangzhou Dianzi University. In 2022, he joined Multi-Scale Robotics Lab (MSRL) of Institute of Robotics and Intelligent Systems (IRIS) at ETH Zürich as a visiting scholar.

Dr. Mao specializes in the research of microwave dielectric materials and devices for future mobile communications (such as 5G/6G antennas, filters, etc.), intelligent material design and devices (piezoelectric/ferroelectric, electro-responsive, piezoelectric actuators, etc.), and new dielectric energy storage and its applications (high-performance capacitors for electric vehicles, portable electronic energy storage devices, etc.). He is particularly interested in the performance of micro/nano-scale materials and devices in the research field and excels in using electron microscopes to explore new phenomena and reveal new principles, thus developing high-performance materials and devices. Dr. Mao has published over 50 articles in international peer-reviewed journals such as Advanced Materials, Advanced Functional Materials, Nature Communications, Nano Letters, Nanotechnology, Journal of the American Ceramic Society, and has undertaken research projects from national, provincial, municipal, and science and technology departments.

microwave dielectric materials and devices for future communication

intelligent material design and devices

dielectric energy storage and its application

1.         Liu, Y., M. M. Mao, T. Ni, H. Liu, J. Fang, L. Li, H. B. Bafrooei, F. Shi, F. Hussain, D. W. Wang and K. X. Song. Unleashing the potential of Mg₂SiO₄-based ceramics for millimeter-wave applications: Achieving ultra-low loss with enhanced temperature stability through heterovalent ion substitution. Ceramics International 2024, 50(1): 329-339.

2.         Pan, Z., M. M. Mao, B. Zhang, Z. Y. Li, K. X. Song, H. F. Li, Z. Mao and D. W. Wang. Excellent Energy Storage Performance in Epoxy Resin Dielectric Polymer Films by a Facile Hot-Pressing Method. Polymers 2023, 15(10). 2315.

3.         Liu, H., Y. Liu, X. Q. Yu, M. M. Mao, B. Liu, H. B. Bafrooei, A. H. Li, Y. Y. Zhang, E. Taheri-Nassaj, K. X. Song, W. J. Li and I. M. Reaney. A high-performance, temperature-stable Mg_1.99Ga_0.01Si_0.99Al_0.01O₄-CaTiO₃ microwave dielectric ceramic and its 5 G/6 G waveguide filter. Journal of the European Ceramic Society 2023, 43(16): 7471-7477.

4.         Qian, H., Z. L. Yu, C. G. Lyu, F. J. Chen, Y. L. Luo, Y. F. Liu, M. M. Mao and Y. N. Lyu. Easy-to-use model to reveal the nature of octahedral rotation transformations in perovskites. Ceramics International 2020, 46(4): 4477-4483.

5.         Qian, H., Z. L. Yu, M. M. Mao, Y. F. Liu and Y. N. Lyu. Nanoscale origins of small hysteresis and remnant strain in Bi_0.5Na_0.5TiO₃-based lead-free ceramics. Journal of the European Ceramic Society 2018, 38(1): 361-369.

6.         Zhang, Z. J., M. M. Mao, J. W. Wang, B. Gludovatz, Z. Zhang, S. X. Mao, E. P. George, Q. Yu and R. O. Ritchie. Nanoscale origins of the damage tolerance of the high-entropy alloy CrMnFeCoNi. Nature Communications 2015, 6. 10143.

7.         M. M. Mao, K. Li, X. L. Zhu and X. M. Chen. Incommensurate and commensurate modulations of Ba₅RTi₃Nb₇O₃₀ (R = La, Nd) tungsten bronzes and the ferroelectric domain structures. Journal of Applied Physics 2015, 117(13).

8.         M. M. Mao, A. M. Nie, J. B. Liu, H. T. Wang, S. X. Mao, Q. X. Wang, K. Li and X. X. Zhang. Atomic resolution observation of conversion-type anode RuO₂ during the first electrochemical lithiation. Nanotechnology 2015, 26(12). 125404.

9.         M. M. Mao, X. M. Chen and X. Q. Liu. Structure and Microwave Dielectric Properties of Solid Solution in SrLaAlO₄-Sr₂TiO₄ System. Journal of the American Ceramic Society 2011, 94(11): 3948-3952.