Focusing on the key basic scientific issues in the new generation of energy storage and conversion materials system, the research on new energy systems such as electrolytic water devices, fuel cells, zinc-air batteries, and lithium/sodium ion batteries is carried out around the charge and mass transfer mechanism of electrode materials and their interfaces.
Energy conversion: Design the microstructure of electrocatalysts from the atomic and molecular levels, develop high-activity and high-stability electrocatalytic hydrogen/oxygen evolution (HER, OER), oxygen reduction (ORR) and other catalysts, laying the foundation for the application of new materials in electrocatalytic water cracking, fuel cells and metal-air batteries.
Energy storage battery: From the aspects of microstructure design, battery assembly process, etc., develop high-capacity and long-cycle life lithium/sodium ion battery anode materials, and solve the key scientific problems of new energy materials in the application of lithium/sodium ion batteries.

2002.09-2005.06 Northeast Normal University, Chemistry major, Doctor of Science
1994.09-1997.06 Changchun University of Technology, Chemical Engineering major, Master of Engineering
1988.09-1992.06 Dalian Polytechnic University, Silicate major, Bachelor of Engineering

2009.01-present Beijing Institute of Technology, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Professor
2008.01-2008.10 Northeast Normal University, School of Chemistry, Professor
2006.03-2007.12 Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Humboldt Scholar
1997.07-2006.02 Northeast Normal University, School of Chemistry, Lector-Associate Professor

So far, he has published more than 180 papers in domestic and foreign academic journals, including PNAS, Nat. Commun., Angew Chem.Int.Ed., J. Am. Chem.Soc., ACS Energy Letter, etc., and been cited more than 5000 times. Up to 700 citations per paper; Has applied for more than 10 Chinese invention patents; The research results of "Nanomicrostructure regulation and properties of functional inorganic substances" won the first prize of Natural Science of the Ministry of Education in 2012, and "Microstructure regulation and electromagnetic properties of iron absorbing materials" won the second prize of Beijing Natural Science Award in 2019.
Representative research papers:
[1]T. Meng+, P. P. Sun+, F. Yang+, J. Zhu, B. G. Mao*, L. R. Zheng, M. H. Cao*. PANS, 2022, 119, e2214089119.
[2]M. X. Jiang+, Y. J. Hu+, B. G. Mao*, Y. X. Wang, Z. Yang, T. Meng, X. Wang, M. H. Cao*. Nat. Commun., 2022, 13, 5588.
[3]J. B. Huang+, M. Y. Hao+, B. G. Mao*, L. R Zheng, J. Zhu, M. H. Cao*. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2022, 61, e202114899.
[4]B. G Mao+, P. P Sun+, Y. Jiang+, T. Meng+, D. L. Guo, J. W. Qin, M. H. Cao*. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2020, 59, 15232–15237.
[5]B. G. Mao, D. L. Guo, J. W. Qin, T. Meng, X. Wang, M. H. Cao*. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2018, 57, 446–450.
[6]J. Wang, Z. Yang, B. G. Mao*, Y. X. Wang, Y. Jiang, M. H. Cao*. ACS Energy Lett., 2022, 7, 2781−2791.
[7]J. Wang+, Y. J. Hu+, B. F. Yang, X. Wang, J. W. Qin*, M. H. Cao*. Nano Energy, 2021, 87, 106053.
[8]Y. Jiang, J. B. Huang, B. G. Mao, T. Y. An, J. Wang, M. H. Cao*. Appl. Catal. B, 2021, 293, 120220.
[9]Y. Jiang+, P. P. Sun+, L. Sharma, B. G. Mao, R. Kakkar, T. Meng, L. R. Zheng, M. H. Cao*. Nano Energy, 2021, 81, 105645.
[10]D. L Guo, J. W. Qin, Z. G. Yin, J. M. Bai, Y. K. Sun*, M. H. Cao*. Nano Energy, 2018, 45, 136–147.