Name: Yuanyuan Cao 
Title：Lecturer
Email：caoyy@szu.edu.cn
Tel：+86-755-26656730
Education
09.2010-06.2013 School of physics and engineering, Sun Yat-Sen University
Ph. D in Condensed matter Physcis
Advisor: Prof. Guowei Yang
09.2008-06.2010 School of physics and engineering, Sun Yat-Sen University
M. S. in condensed matter physics
Advisor: Prof. Guowei Yang
Research interests
Thermodynamic theory of the nanostructure growth mechanism;
Theoretical study on the temperature-dependent growth behavior of nanostructures.
Publication：
(12)Yuanyuan Cao, Liangliang Huang and Dongfeng Diao*, High electrochemical activity induced by doping oxygen in graphene sheets embedded carbon film,Advanced Materials interfaces, 2020,2000694.
(11) Liangliang Huang, Yuanyuan Cao*, Dongfeng Diao*, Surface N-doped graphene sheets induced high electrocatalytic activity for selective ascorbic acid sensing, Sensors & Actuators: B. Chemical, 2019, 283, 556–562.
(10) Yuanyuan Cao, Dongfeng Diao*, Physical mechanism of surface roughening on the radial core-shell nanowire heterostructure with alloy shell, AIP Advances, 2017, 7: 055006.
(9) Yuanyuan Cao, Guowei. Yang*, A nanoscale temperature-dependent heterogeneous nucleation theory, Journal of Applied Physics, 2015, 117 (22), 224303.
(8) Yuanyuan Cao, Gang Ouyang, Chenxin Wang, Guowei. Yang*，Physical Mechanism of Surface Roughening of the Radial Ge-Core/Si-Shell Nanowire Heterostructure and Thermodynamic Prediction of Surface Stability of the InAs-Core/GaAs-Shell Nanowire Structure, Nano Letters, 2013, 13 (2), 436-443.
(7) Yuanyuan Cao, Guowei. Yang*, Temperature-dependent preferential formation of quantum structures upon the droplet epitaxy, Applied Physics Letters, 2012, 100 (15), 151909.
(6) Yuanyuan Cao, Guowei. Yang*, Vertical or Horizontal: Understanding Nanowire Orientation and Growth from Substrates, The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 2012, 116 (10), 6233-6238.
(5) Yuanyuan Cao, Guowei. Yang*, Thermal stability of wetting layer in quantum dot self-assembly, Journal of Applied Physics, 2012, 111 (9), 093526.
(4) Yuanyuan Cao, Xinlei Li, Guowei. Yang*, Physical mechanism of quantum dot to quantum ring transformation upon capping process, Journal of Applied Physics, 2011, 109 (8), 083542.
(3) Yuanyuan Cao, Xinlei Li, Guowei. Yang*, Wetting layer evolution upon quantum dots self-assembly, Applied Physics Letters, 2009, 95 (23), 231902.
(2) Liangliang Huang, Yuanyuan Cao, Dongfeng Diao*, Nanosized graphene sheets induced high electrochemical activity in pure carbon film, Electrochimica Acta, 2018, 262 (1), 173-181.
(1) Liangliang Huang, Yuanyuan Cao, Dongfeng Diao*, N-doped graphene sheets induced high electrochemical activity in carbon film, Applied Surface Science, 2019, 470, 205–211.