Rate My Professor Qianqian Shi

Dr. Qianqian Shi is a lecturer and an ARC Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA) fellow in the Discipline of Chemistry at the School of Environmental and Life Sciences, University of Newcastle, Australia. She earned her PhD in Chemical Engineering from Monash University in April 2018. Immediately following her doctoral studies, she served as a postdoctoral research fellow in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Monash University from 2018 to 2020. In January 2020, she was promoted to ARC DECRA Fellow in the same department, a position she held until January 2024. In 2024, Dr. Shi joined the University of Newcastle as a lecturer in the School of Science. Her academic career is marked by an outstanding track record in the self-assembly of plasmonic nanoassemblies, with over 43 peer-reviewed research papers published, including 13 as first or corresponding author in high-impact journals such as Advanced Materials, Advanced Functional Materials, ACS Nano, Materials Horizons, Advanced Materials Interfaces, ACS Photonics, and Journal of Physical Chemistry C. She has also contributed to two book chapters. Her publications have accumulated more than 2300 citations, achieving an H-index of 24.

Dr. Shi's research specializes in the design and assembly of novel plasmonic nanocrystals with specific functions for photocatalysis, plasmonics, and sensing applications. Her work encompasses engineering materials design, including building blocks synthesis, surface functionalization, and bottom-up self-assembly. She harnesses the programmable plasmonic properties and soft conductive properties of plasmonic nanocrystals for innovative applications such as artificial leaves, flexible plasmonic sensors, and flexible plasmonic electronics. Key expertise areas include flexible plasmonics, functional 2D nanomaterials, surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS), plasmonic nanoparticles, and self-assembly. Notable publications include 'A Rootless Duckweed-Inspired Flexible Artificial Leaf from Plasmonic Photocatalysts' (ACS Nano, 2024), 'Flexible Leaf-Like Fuel Cell From Plasmonic Janus Nanosheet' (Advanced Functional Materials, 2025), 'Hierarchically Resistive Skins as Specific and Multimetric On-Throat Wearable Biosensors' (Nature Nanotechnology, 2023), 'Cell Sheet-Like Soft Nanoreactor Arrays' (Advanced Materials, 2022), 'Pd-Conformally Coated, One-End-Embedded Gold Nanowire Percolation Network for Intrinsically Stretchable, Epidermal Tattoo Fuel Cell' (Biosensors and Bioelectronics, 2023), and 'Soft Plasmene Helical Nanostructures' (Advanced Materials Technologies, 2023). Dr. Shi received the ARC Discovery Early Career Researcher Award Fellowship in 2020.