Position:  Associate professor

E-mail:  bssa@fzu.edu.cn

Research  Interests:

Integrated  Computational modeling, design and study of novel materials, for instance,  Phase Change Materials, Topological Insulators, Thermoelectric Materials,  Photocatalysts, Low Dimensional Materials and van der Waals heterostructures et  al;

Research  tools include ab initio molecular dynamics computer simulation,  density-functional theory and ab initio quantum mechanical calculations.

Education Background

Jun. 2014: Received Ph.D. degree in  Materials Physics and Chemistry from Xiamen University, China;

Oct. 2011-Sept. 2012: Royal Institute of  Technology (KTH), Sweden, joint PhD student (CSC);

Jul. 2008: Received B.S. degree in  Materials Science and Engineering from Xiamen University, China.

Research Experience

Jan. 2010-Mar. 2010: Dongguk University,  Korea, invited researcher

Hornors and Awards

2012 National Scholarship

2012 The Baogang Scholarship

Project

National Natural Science Foundation of  China

Natural Science Foundation of Fujian  Province

Science Foundation of Education  Department of Fujian Province Under Grant

Publications

1. Baisheng Sa; Jian Zhou; Zhimei  Sun; Junji Tominaga; Rajeev Ahuja. Topological Insulating in GeTe/Sb2Te3  Phase-Change Superlattice. Physical Review Letters 2012, 109 (9), 096802.

2. Baisheng  Sa, Zhimei Sun and Bo Wu. The development of two  dimensional group IV chalcogenides, blocks for van der Waals heterostructures.  Nanoscale 2016, 8, 1169.

3. Qiong  Peng, Zhenyu Wang, Baisheng Sa*, Bo Wu* and Zhimei Sun. Blue  Phosphorene/MS2 (M = Nb, Ta) Heterostructures As Promising Flexible Anodes  for Lithium-Ion Batteries. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 2016, 8,  13449.

4. Rui  Xiong, Baisheng Sa*, Naihua Miao, Yan-Ling Li, Jian Zhou, Yuanchun  Pan, Cuilian Wen,* Bo Wu and Zhimei Sun. Structural stability and  thermoelectric property optimization of Ca2Si. RSC Advanced 2017, 7, 8936.

5. Qiong Peng, Zhenyu Wang, Baisheng Sa*, Bo Wu* and Zhimei  Sun*. Electronic structures and enhanced optical properties of blue  phosphorene/transition metal dichalcogenides van der Waals heterostructures.  Scientific Report 2016, 6, 31994.

6. Yuan Fang; Baisheng Sa*, Naihua  Miao, Zhimei Sun and Bo Wu. The pressure induced twisted distortion in the  flexible oxide Tc2O7. CrystEngComm, 2016, 18, 328.

7. Baisheng Sa, Yan-Ling Li,  Zhimei Sun, Jingshan Qi, Cuilian Wen and Bo Wu. The electronic origin of  shear-induced direct to indirect gap transition and anisotropy diminution in  phosphorene. Nanotechnology 2015, 26, 215205.

8. Baisheng  Sa, Naihua Miao, Zhimei Sun and Bo Wu. Polyhedral transformation and  phase transition in TcO2. RSC Advances 2015, 5, 1690-1696.

9. Baisheng  Sa, Yan-Ling Li, Jingshan Qi, Rajeev Ahuja and Zhimei Sun. Strain  Engineering for Phosphorene: The Potential Application as a Photocatalyst.  The Journal of Physical Chemistry C 2014, 118, 26560-26568.

10. Baisheng Sa; Zhimei Sun.  Electron interactions and Dirac fermions in graphene-Ge2Sb2Te5 superlattices.  Journal of Applied Physics 2014, 115 (23), 233714.

11. Baisheng  Sa; Jian Zhou; Rajeev Ahuja; Zhimei Sun. First-principles investigations  of electronic and mechanical properties for stable Ge2Sb2Te5 with van der  Waals corrections. Computational Materials Science 2014, 82, 66-69.

12. Baisheng  Sa; Zhimei Sun; Thanayut Kaewmaraya; Jian Zhou; Rajeev Ahuja. Structural  and Vibrational Properties of Layered Data Storage Material: Ge2Sb2Te5.  Science of Advanced Materials 2013, 5 (10), 1493-1497.

13. Baisheng  Sa; Jian Zhou; Zhimei Sun. First-principles investigation of mechanical  and thermodynamic properties of the rare earth intermetallic YbAl3 under  pressure. Intermetallics 2012, 22, 92-98.

14. Baisheng  Sa; Jian Zhou; Zhimei Sun; Rajeev Ahuja. Strain-induced topological  insulating behavior in the ternary chalcogenide Ge2Sb2Te5. Europhysics  Letters (EPL) 2012, 97, 27003.

15.  Baisheng Sa; Jian Zhou; Zhitang  Song; Zhimei Sun; Rajeev Ahuja. Pressure-induced topological insulating  behavior in the ternary chalcogenide Ge2Sb2Te5. Physical Review B 2011, 84  (8), 085130.

16. Baisheng  Sa; Jian Zhou; Zhimei Sun. Electronic mechanism of shear modulus  enhancement in rare earth intermetallics Yb1-xTmxAl3. Intermetallics 2011,  19, 1020-1023.

17. Baisheng  Sa; Naihua Miao; Jian Zhou; Zhimei Sun; Rajeev Ahuja. Ab initio study of  the structure and chemical bonding of stable Ge3Sb2Te6. Physical Chemistry  Chemical Physics 2010, 12, 1585-1588.

18. Baisheng  Sa; Nahihua Miao; Jian Zhou; Zhitang Song; Zhimei Sun; Rajeev Ahuja.  Phase stability and electronic structure of Si2Sb2Te5 phase-change material.  Journal of Physics and Chemistry of Solids 2010, 71, 1165-1167.