Dr. Ning Gao joined the School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering of Beijing Institute of Technology in 2023 to conduct independent scientific research. Recent academic research has focused on "the construction and application of Protocell models." Through rational design and orderly assembly of amphiphilic molecules and colloidal particles, the research group is committed to building a cell-like system that can simulate the specific functions of real cells, that is, the primitive cell model. Our aim is to deeply understand the nonlinear material, information and energy conversion mechanism in real cells through the construction and regulation of primitive cell models, so as to better serve the application scenarios such as bionic catalysis and medical health.

We warmly welcome students with scientific research enthusiasm to join the research group to pursue master's degree and doctoral degree. If you have obtained or are about to obtain a PhD, you are welcome to join the research group to continue your scientific research (postdoctoral or research assistant). When it comes to selecting team members, we are not judged on whether we publish high-level papers. At this stage, these three skills are a plus (but not a requirement) :
1. Excellent English level;
2, with colloidal and interfacial chemistry related research experience;
3. Experience in organic synthesis or polymer synthesis.
If you are interested in our research, please send an email to gning@bit.edu.cn.

Research Group Home: https://www.x-mol.com/groups/gaoning

Nanoparticle self-assembly, All aqueous Pickering Emulsion, Original Cells

September 2013 - July 2018, PhD, Department of Chemistry, Tsinghua University (Supervisor: Professor Guangtao Li).
September 2009 - July 2013, College of Materials Science and Engineering, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Bachelor.

March 2023 - present, Associate Professor/Independent PI, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology.
July 2018 - March 2023, Postdoctoral Fellow (Co-supervisor: Prof. Stephen Mann FRS), University of Bristol, UK.

[1] Ning Gao; Stephen Mann*; Membranized Coacervate Microdroplets: from Versatile Protocell Models to Cytomimetic Materials. Accounts of Chemical Research, 2023, 56, 297-307.
[2] Ning Gao; Can Xu; Zhuping Yin; Mei Li; Stephen Mann*; Triggerable Protocell Capture in Nanoparticle-Caged Coacervate Microdroplets. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2022, 144, 3855-3862.
[3] Ning Gao; Mei Li*; Liangfei Tian; Avinash J. Patil; B. V. V. S. Pavan Kumar; Stephen Mann Chemical-mediated translocation in protocell-based microactuators. Nature Chemistry, 2021, 13, 868-879.
[4] Ning Gao; Tian Tian; Jiecheng Cui; Wanlin Zhang; Xianpeng Yin; Shiqiang Wang; Jingwei Ji; Guangtao Li*; Efficient construction of well-defined multicompartment porous systems in a modular and chemically orthogonal fashion, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2017, 56, 3880-3885.
[5] Ning Gao; Jiecheng Cui; Wanlin Zhang; Kai Feng; Yun Liang; Shiqiang Wang; Peng Wang; Kang Zhou; Guangtao Li*; Observation of osmotically driven, highly controllable and reconfigurable oil/water phase separation. Chemical Science, 2019, 10, 7887-7897.