Computational simulation of low-dimensional nanomaterials
Research Overview
Bu Saiyu, an associate professor at Nankai University. She holds a doctorate from East China Normal University and joined the School of Materials Science and Engineering at Nankai University in 2026.
Her research focuses on computational simulation of the growth and properties of low-dimensional nanomaterials. To date, she has published 12 papers as the first or co-first author/corresponding author in
international journals such as Nature Materials, Nature Communications, Advanced Materials (3 papers), Nano Letters, and npj Computational Materials. She has presided over the China Postdoctoral Science
Foundation and has participated in several other projects funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China.
Educational Background
2015.09 - 2020.07, State Key Laboratory of Precision Spectroscopy and Technology, East China Normal University. Doctor of Science (Supervisor: Professor Yuan Qinghong)
2018.05 - 2019.11, University of Queensland, Australia. Jointly cultivated (Supervisor: Professor Debra Bernhardt)
2011.09 - 2015.06, School of Science, Donghua University, Bachelor of Science
Work Experience
2026.06 - Present Associate Professor, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Nankai University
2022.09 - 2025.09 Postdoctoral Fellow, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Peking University (Co-supervisor: tenure-track Assistant Professor Lin Li)
2020.07 - 2022.07 Postdoctoral Fellow, School of Mechanical and Power Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University (Co-supervisor: Associate Professor Niu Tianchao)
1. Shi Z#, Guo W#, Bu S#, Ma L#, Hu Z, Zhu Y, Wu H, Chen X, Zhang X, Novoselov K, Mao B*, Kang N*, Lin Li*. Rapid growth of inch-sized metal oxychloride single crystal for ultrathin gate dielectrics and spintronics. Nat. Mater. 2025, 24, 852-860.
2. Zhou C#, Gao H#, Bu S#, Wu H, Liang F, Li F, Hu Z, Zhao Y, Guo B, Li Z, Yin L, Hu X, Xie Q, Su Y, Liu Z*, Lin L*. Principles for fabricating graphene-based moisture barrier films via stacked Janus graphene layers. Nat. Commun. 2025, 16, 3512.
3. Zhu Y#, Chen X#, Bu S#, Guo W#, Zhang J#, Yu B, Shi Z, Hu Z, Li Y, Feng Y, Ma L, Xu Z, Hu W, Wang X, Li C, Zhang X, Kang N, Wang W*, Liu Z, Lin L*. Wafer-Scale synthesis of V2O5 single crystals for ultrahigh doping of 2D Materials. Adv. Mater. 2025, e15674.
4. Long Y#, Bu S#, Chen H, Liu K, Zhou X, Zhang S, Zhang X, Zhang T, Chen C, Liao W, Loh K P*, Wang L*. Competing ferroelectric polarization and defect migration induced resistive switching in β′-In2Se3. Nano Lett. 2025, 25, 2922-2930.
5. Shang M#, Bu S#, Hu Z, Zhao Y, Liao J, Zheng C, Liu W, Lu Q, Li F, Wu H, Shi Z, Zhu Y, Xu Z, Guo B, Yu B, Li C, Zhang X, Xie Q, Yin J, Jia K, Peng H, Lin L*, Liu Z*. Polyacrylonitrile as an efficient transfer medium for wafer-scale transfer of graphene. Adv. Mater. 2024, 36, 2402000.
6. Chen S#, Chen G#, Zhao Y#, Bu S*, Hu Z, Mao B, Wu H, Liao J, Li F, Zhou C, Guo B, Liu W, Zhu Y, Lu Q, Hu J, Shang M, Shi Z, Yu B, Zhang X, Zhao Z, Jia K, Zhang Y, Sun P, Liu Z*, Lin L*, Wang X*. Tunable adhesion for all-dry transfer of 2D materials enabled by the freezing of transfer medium. Adv. Mater. 2024, 36, 2308950.
7. Bu S, Chen Y, Searles D J*, Yuan Q*. Relationship between graphene nucleation density and epitaxial growth orientation on Cu(111) surfaces. Mater. Today Chem. 2023, 31, 101612.
8. Bu S#, Yao N#, Hunter M A, Searles D J*, Yuan Q*. Design of two-dimensional carbon-nitride structures by tuning the nitrogen concentration. npj Comput. Mater. 2020, 6, 128.
9. Zhang W#, Bu S#, Yuan Q*, Xu Q, Hu M*. Controllable nitrogen-doping of nanoporous carbons enabled by coordination frameworks. J Mater. Chem. A, 2019, 7, 647-656.