Maosheng Miao
Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, CSU Northridge
Visiting Professor, Beijing Comput. Sci. Res. Center
Tel: (216)4067680
Email: mmiao@csun.edu; miaoms@gmail.com
News and blogs
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Chemistry World, Carbon bubble wrap, May 2018.
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Scientific American, Helium compounds- a noble gas suprise, March 2018.
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Science Daily, Helium play a nanny role, March 2018.
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Angewandte Chemie Hg as transition metal under pressure, backcover story, July, 2015
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Nature Chemistry 'Electride explained', March 2015
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Journal of the American Chemical Society Spotlight, 'Interstitial Quasiatoms: Atoms (and Molecules) without Nuclei?' March, 2015
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Compound Semiconductor: 'A high-mobility, single atomic layer of InN could improve the performance of nitride HEMTs' March, 2015
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Scientific American: 'Chemistry calculations reveal a new kind of bonding' Feb, 2014
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Wikipedia: 'Cesium: notes on oxidation states'
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In the pipeline blog: 'Cesium, Uh, Trifluoride?' Nov. 21, 2013
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Scientific American: 'A basic rule of chemistry can be broken ...' Nov. 21, 2013
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Nature Chemistry: 'Caesium chemistry: beyond state I' Sept. 23, 2013
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Nature China: 'Theoretical chemistry: caesium under pressure' Nov. 6, 2013
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The physics arXiv blog: 'Solved? The curious case of earth's missing xenon.' Sept. 13, 2013
Research Interest and Experience
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Novel chemistry under high pressure
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Materials under extreme conditions (high P and high T)
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Semiconductor materials (Defects, surfaces and interfaces)
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Functional materials (oxides, magnetic materials, ferroelectric materials etc. )
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Electronic structure method development
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Teaching experiences
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Gneral chemistry, Chem102
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Physical Chemistry I and II
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Solid state physics and chemistry
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Funding
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NSF CAREER 2019 - 2024
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ACS PRF 2018 - 2020
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XSEDE MRAC
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CSUN RSCA 2018
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Professional Activities
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Editor: Materials SCince and Engineering B (Elsevier)
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Editorial board: Journal of Physics Condensed Matter (IOP)
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Reviewer: NSF, ACS PRF, Nature Chemistry, Nature Communications, PRL, JACS, Angwandte Chemie, PRB, JPCL, APL, etc.
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Current research topics
Research Highlights
Recent representative papers
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J. Botana, X. Wang, C. Hou, D. Yan,H. Lin, Y. Ma and M. S. Miao, Mercury Induced by Pressure to act as a Transition Metal in Mercury Fluorides: Calculated from First Principles, Angew. Chemie accepted as back cover story (2015).
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A. Y. Rogachev, M. S. Miao, G. Merino, and R. Hoffmann, Molecular CsF5 and CsF2+, Angew. Chemie 54, 8275-8278 (2015).
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M. S. Miao and R. Hoffmann, High-pressure electrides: the chemical nature of interstitial quasiatoms, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 137, 3631 (2015).
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Y.-H Zheng, M. S. Miao et al. A solid state effect responsible for an organic quintet state at room temperature and ambient pressure, Adv. Mat. 27, 1718 (2015).
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J. Botana and M. S. Miao*, Pressure-stabilized lithium caesides with caesium anions beyond -1 state, Nature Communications, 5, 4861 (2014).
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Y. H. Zheng, M. S. Miao, Y. Zhang, Yuan, T.-Q. Nguyen, and F. Wudl, Striking Effect of Intra- versus Intermolecular Hydrogen Bonding on Zwitterions: Physical and Electronic Properties, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 136, 11614 (1024).
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S. H. Lu, Y. C. Wang, H. Y. Liu, M. S. Miao* and Y. M. Ma*, Ultrathin Nanotube self-embedded on diamond (100) surface, Nature Communications, 5, 3666 (2014).
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M. S. Miao and R. Hoffmann, High-pressure electrides: a predictive chemical and physical theory, Accounts of Chemical Research, 47, 1311 (2014). ACS Editor’s choice.
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M. S. Miao, Cs in high oxidation states and as a p-block element, Nature Chemistry, 5, 846-852 (2013).
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D. Zhang, W. Lou, M. S. Miao, S. -C Zhang and K. Chang, Interface-induced Topological Insulator Transition in GaAs/Ge/GaAs Quantum Wells, Phys. Rev. letts. 111, 156402 (2013).
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C. Lu, M. S. Miao and Y. Ma, Structure evolution of carbon dioxide under high pressures, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 135, 14167 (2013).
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C. Lu, M. S. Miao* and Y. Ma*, Structure evolution of cabon dioxide under high pressures, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 135, 14167 (2013).
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M. S. Miao*, Q. M. Yan, C. G. Van de Walle, W. K. Lou, L. L. Li, K. Chang*, Polarization-Driven Topological Insulator Transition in a GaN/InN/GaN Quantum Well, Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 186803 (2012).
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F. Peng, M. S. Miao, H. Wang, Q. Li, Y. M. Ma, Predicted lithium-Boron compounds under pressure, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 134, 18599 (2012).
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T. V. Pho, J. D. Yuen, J. A. Kurzman, B. G. Smith, M. S. Miao, W. T. Walker, R. Seshadri and F. Wudl, N-Alkyldinaphthocarbazoles, Azaheptacenes, for Solution-Processed Organic Field-Effect Transistors, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 134, 18185 (2012).
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X. L. Wang, Y. C. Wang, M. S. Miao, X. Zhong, J. Lv, T. Cui, J. F. Li, L. Chen, C. J. Pickard, Y. M. Ma, Cagelike diamondoid nitrogens at high pressures, Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 175502 (2012).