主要成果和技术贡献：

主持国家自然科学基金三项，参加973项目、国家自然科学基金和重大基金各一项，在包括Nat. Commun., J. Am. Chem. Soc., Nano Lett., Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., Adv. Func. Mater., Small, Chem. Commun., Appl. Phys. Lett., Chem. Eur. J.等国外著名期刊上共发表被SCI收录论文175余篇，引用3910次，H指数为34。

最新发表在Nat. Commun.的文章首次介绍了在酸性体系中，利用硅和铑纳米材料作为共催化剂进行电化学析氢。其实验和理论计算的结果表明硅-铑纳米材料在大电流下具有优于铂催化剂的活性；首先发现了具有驻极体效应的硅纳米线并用于纳米发电机的制备，成果发表在Nano Lett.上；首次观测到氢饱和的硅纳米线具有优异的光催化活性，研究结果发表在JACS上；利用流体的流动进行催化剂图案化，并生长硅纳米线阵列，发表在Chem. Commun.上，是封面文章和热点文章，并有很高的评论；利用钒酸银为基底进行表面增强拉曼研究，在极低浓度下可得到罗丹明6G、TNT、结晶紫和牛血清白蛋白的拉曼信号，该工作可用于食品安全、反恐检测，论文发表在Chem. Commun.上，是封面文章和热点文章。在国内外会议上做学术报告10次，其中特邀报告1次，担任的国际杂志Journal of Nanoengineering and Nanomanufacturing和Frontiers of Optoelectronics in China的Guest Editor.

代表性论文：

17. Lili Zhu, Haiping Lin, Youyong Li*, Fan Liao, Yeshayahu Lifshitz, Minqi Sheng, Shuit-Tong Lee*, Mingwang Shao*, The rhodium/silicon co-electrocatalyst design concept to surpass the platinum hydrogen evolution activity at high overpotentials, Nature Communications, Doi: 10.1038/ncomms12272.

16. Baoquan Sun*, Mingwang Shao*, Shuit-Tong Lee, Nanostructured Silicon Used for Flexible and Mobile Electricity Generation, Advanced Materials, Accept.

15. Fei Hu, Qian Cai, Fan Liao, Mingwang Shao*, Shuit-Tong Lee, Recent Advancements in Nanogenerators for Energy Harvesting, Small, DOI: 10.1002/smll.201501011.

14. Lili Zhu, Qian Cai, Fan Liao, Minqi Sheng*, Bin Wu, Mingwang Shao*, Ru-modified silicon nanowires as electrocatalysts for hydrogen evolution reaction, Electrochemical Communications, 2015, 52, 29-33.

13. Suning Gao, Fan Liao*, Shuzhen Ma, Lili Zhu and Mingwang Shao*, Network-like mesoporous NiCo2O4 grown on carbon cloth for high-performance pseudocapacitors, J. Mater. Chem. A, 2015, 3, 16520-16527.

12. Ronghui Que*, Yucheng Huang, Qinling Li, Hong Yao, Baoyou Geng*, Mingwang Shao*, Generating electric current based on the solvent-dependent charging effects of defective boron nitride nanosheets, ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, 2014, 6, 19752-19757.

11. Fei Hu, Zhaoshun Zhang, Fan Liao, Mingwang Shao*, Yeshayahu Lifshitz, Shuit-Tong Lee*, Smart liquid SERS substrates based on Fe3O4/Au nanoparticles with reversibly tunable enhancement factor for practical quantitative detection, Sci. Rep., 2014, 4, 7204.

10. Qian Cai, Shunkai Lu, Fan Liao, Yanqing Li*, Shuzhen Ma, Mingwang Shao*, Catalytic degradation of dye molecules and in-situ sers monitoring by peroxidase-like Au/CuS composite,Nanoscale, 2014, 6, 8117-8123.

9. Tao Wang, Zhaoshun Zhang, Fan Liao, Qian Cai, Yanqing Li*, Shuit-Tong Lee, Mingwang Shao*, The effect of dielectric constants on noble metal/semiconductor SERS enhancement: FDTD simulation and experiment validation of Ag/Ge and Ag/Si, Sci. Rep., 2014, 4, 4052.

8. Shanshan Liu, Fei Hu, Jie Zhang, Hanxiao Tang, Mingwang Shao*, Surface-doping effect of InVO4 nanoribbons and the distinctive behavior as gas sensors, ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, 2013, 5, 3208-3211.

7. Fan Liao, Shanshan Liu, Mingwang Shao*, Shuit-tong Lee*, Surface-dependent chemical proper ties of silicon nanowires: The acceleration of copper oxidation, Appl. Phys. Lett., 2012, 100, 093114.

6. Ronghui Que, Qi Shao, Qinliang Li, Mingwang Shao*, Shiduan Cai, Suidong Wang*, Shuit-Tong Lee*, Flexible nanogenerators based on graphene oxide films for acoustic energy harvesting, Angew. Chem. Int. Edit, 2012, 51, 5418-5422.

5. Shujuan Zhuo, Mingwang Shao*, Shuit-Tong Lee*, Upconversion and downconversion fluorescent graphene quantum dots: ultrasonic preparation and photocatalysis, ACS Nano, 2012, 6, 1059-1064.

4. Qi Shao, Ronghui Que, Mingwang Shao*, Liang Cheng, Shuit-Tong Lee*, Copper nanoparticles grafted on a silicon wafer and their excellent surface-enhanced Raman scattering, Adv. Funct. Mater., 2012, 22, 2067-2070.

3. Ronghui Que, Mingwang Shao*, Suidong Wang, Dorothy Duo Duo Ma, Shuit-tong Lee*, Silicon Nanowires with Permanent Electrostatic Charges for Nanogenerators, Nano Lett., 2011, 11, 4870-4873.

2. Ronghui Que, Mingwang Shao*, Shujuan Zhuo, Chunye Wen, Shuit-tong Lee*, Highly Reproducible Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering on a Capillarity-Assisted Gold Nanoparticle Assembly, Adv. Funct. Mater., 2011, 21, 3337-3343.

1. Mingwang Shao*, Liang Cheng, Xiaohong Zhang, Dorthy Duo Duo Ma, Shuit-tong Lee*, Excellent Photocatalysis of HF-Treated Silicon Nanowires, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 131, 17738-17739.