Bo Shen, PhD
I am a scientist with strong research interests in inorganic synthesis and materials engineering. I received my Ph.D. in Inorganic Chemistry from Brown University under the mentorship of Prof. Shouheng Sun, and I am currently an International Institute for Nanotechnology Postdoctoral Fellow in Prof. Chad A. Mirkin’s laboratory at Northwestern University.
Research Interests
My research focuses on developing rapid methods to discover functional materials, including smart materials for catalysis, permanent magnets, and hybrid materials by combining chemical synthesis with high-throughput techniques and artificial intelligence. These projects led to 12 first-author papers and 15 co-author papers published in peer-reviewed journals, including PNAS, Nature Communications, JACS, Angewandte Chemie, Nano Letters, and ACS Nano.
Publications
B. Shen et. al. "Crystal structure engineering in multimetallic high-index facet nanocatalysts"
PNAS, 2021, 118, e2105722118
B. Shen et. al. "Synthesis of metal-capped nanowires from heterodimer nanoparticle catalysts" J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2020, 142, 18324.
B. Shen et. al. "Chemical synthesis of magnetically hard and strong rare-earth metal-based nanoparticles" Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2019, 58, 602. (Selected as “Hot Paper”)
B. Shen et. al. "Formation mechanism of high-index faceted Pt-Bi alloy nanoparticles by evaporation-induced growth from metal salts" Nat. Commun. 2023, 14, 3790. (Selected as Editors’ Highlights)