Wendy Mao

About

Wendy Mao is a Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences and of Photon Science at Stanford University. She is a member of the Planetary Science community within the Earth and Planetary Sciences Department, which includes faculty, postdocs, researchers, and students from multiple departments across Stanford as well as external affiliates. The page lists her academic titles but does not provide further details about her research focus, background, or key contributions.

Research topics

• Materials science
• Computer Science
• Chemistry
• Geometry
• Crystallography
• Optoelectronics
• Mathematics
• Physics
• Nanotechnology
• Electrical engineering

Selected publications

• Preserving a robust CsPbI3 perovskite phase via pressure-directed octahedral tilt

  Nature Communications · 2021 · 166 citations

  . Here, we present a high-pressure strategy for manipulating the (meta)stability of halide perovskites for the synthesis of desirable phases with enhanced materials functionality.

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• Nitrogen in black phosphorus structure

  Science Advances · 2020 · 161 citations

  normal modes. Synthesis of black phosphorus-structured nitrogen provides a firm base for exploring new type of high-energy-density nitrogen and a new direction of two-dimensional nitrogen.

  DOI

• Sub-10-nm graphene nanoribbons with atomically smooth edges from squashed carbon nanotubes

  Nature Electronics · 2021 · 105 citations

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• Materials under extreme conditions using large X-ray facilities

  Nature Reviews Methods Primers · 2023-11-02 · 26 citations

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• Ultrahigh-pressure crystallographic passage towards metallic hydrogen

  Nature · 2025-05-14 · 12 citations

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Recent grants

• Geophysics of Iron in the Earth’s Core

  NSF · $330k · 2021–2025

• Determination of Equilibrium Iron Isotope Fractionation Factors at High Pressure

  NSF · $99k · 2015–2020

• Geophysics of Iron in the Earth's Core

  NSF · $330k · 2015–2019

Frequent coauthors

• Russell J. Hemley

  University of Illinois Chicago

  207 shared

• Jinfu Shu

  Center for High Pressure Science and Technology Advanced Research

  195 shared

• Wenge Yang

  191 shared

• Ho‐kwang Mao

  Shanghai Advanced Research Institute

  179 shared

• Qiaoshi Zeng

  Shanghai Advanced Research Institute

  137 shared

• Yue Meng

  China Academy of Space Technology

  117 shared

• Ho‐kwang Mao

  Center for High Pressure Science and Technology Advanced Research

  113 shared

• Yu Lin

  SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

  112 shared

Labs

• Wendy Mao's LabPI

  Our Planetary Science community includes faculty, postdocs, researchers and students from multiple departments across Stanford, as well as external affiliates from SETI and NASA.

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