Dr. Guo is Full Professor of Mechanical & Construction Engineering at Northumbria University Newcastle in England. Professor Guo is the director of the Integrated Composites Laboratory (ICL) and is the editor-in-chief of Advanced Composites and Hybrid Materials ( https://www.springer.com/journal/42114 ). Our ICL focuses on  advanced materials preparation, characterization and their  applications. The researchers have developed  unique methods to prepare polymer nanocomposites reinforced with different kinds of nanoparticles  encompassing ceramics, nanocarbon and magnetic metals. Except using the commercially  available nanoparticles, the team  has also  creatively synthesized hollow, core-shell and chain like nanostructures for preparing nanocomposites, developed an in-situ composite fabrication method through wet chemical  reduction method in the polymer solution, electropolized conducive monomers for the nanocoating formation as well.   In addition, different shells surrounding the magnetic core have also been discovered  with a  possibly significant effect on the biomedical and energy areas.

ICL has been investigating the mechanical, electrical, optical, magnetic, electronic, electrochromic,  and electron transport phenomena in the nanoscale materials and their applications. Through  introducing unique interfacial interactions between the nanoparticles and  the polymer matrix and achieving uniform particle dispersion with coupling  agent/surfactant, the team has achieved a series of strengthened polymer  nanocomposites with the matrix ranging from thermoplastics, rubbers and  thermosettings.

The results have been published in Advanced Materials, Advanced Functional Materials, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, Energy and Environmental Science, Chemical Society reviews, Polymer, Macromolecules, Journal of Materials Chemistry, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, Journal of Physical Chemistry, Chemical Communication, Applied Physics Letter, etc.