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Gao Lian was born in 1945,in Shanghai. He received his Ph.Ddegree in 1986 from the Shanghai Institue of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (SICCAS). From 1987 to 1992, he worked in the Imperial College, London, UK, as a postdoctoral fellow and the Max-Plank Institute of Metallurgy, Germany, as a visiting scholar, respectively. He is now a distinguished professor of Shanghai Jiao Tong University, the vice director of the Hirano Institute for Materials Innovation, Academician of the International Institute of Ceramics and the expert of the Shanghai Nanotechnology Promotion Center.
Professor Gao is one of the pioneering Chinese scientists on nanoscience and nanotechnology. His main achievements are as follows: ① He proposed a series of novel mechanisms on controlling the size and morphology of nanocrystallites by oriented aggregation, which were published in J. Am. Chem. Soc., Adv. Mater., etc. He discovered the rules for modulating the morphology, size and phase composition of nanocrystallites and synthesized a lot of nano materials including TiO2，ZnO and SnO2, particularly invented the concentrated transparent nano TiO2 sols, aiming at the practical applications in lowcost dyesensitized solar cells (DSSCs) in the SICCAS-SONY Joint Laboratory coestablished in 2006. ②He creatively established the method for characterizing carbon nanotube (CNT) stabilities using the spectrophotometric technique and invented a variety of CNTbased composite materials with markedly enhanced properties. ③He successfully pioneered the application of spark plasma technology for superfast low temperature sintering of ceramics, which demonstrates revolutionary superiosity against the traditional sintering methods. ④He put forward the novel intragranular ceramic strengthening mechanism and synthesized a series of oxide, nitride nanocomposite ceramics with remarkably enhanced mechanical properties or unique functional performances.
He published 698 articles in scientific journals, which were cited by other SCI papers for more than 6000 times. He is the “Highly Cited Researcher” authorized by the ISI. He was authorized 63 Chinese invention patents and published four books. As the first inventor, he was awarded three 1st class prizes of Shanghai Natural Science in 2003, 2005, 2009, and two 2nd class prizes of Shanghai Natural Science in 2002 and 2006, respectively. His influential contribution to the nanoscience and ceramic technology greatly improved the international status of China in the corresponding fields.
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