RESEARCH INTERESTS

This group devotes to frontier research in the field of organic electronics through multidisciplinary approach of chemistry, materials science, energy and information fields. We design and synthesize novel high-performance conjugated organics and polymers, especially nonfullerene acceptors, for example, we pioneered fused-ring electron acceptors represented by the milestone molecule ITIC. We explore applications of these new materials in renewable energy and information technology, especially fabrication of organic solar cells, perovskite solar cells and photodetectors.

EDUCATION

1993–1998, Ph.D., Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University

1986–1990, B.S., Department of Chemistry, Zhejiang University

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2021–present, Professor, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Peking University

2012-2020, Professor, College of Engineering, Peking University

2006-2012, Professor, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences

2003-2006, Research Scientist, Department of Chemistry, Georgia Institute of Technology

2002-2003, Research Associate, Department of Chemistry, University of Arizona

2000-2002, Associate Professor, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences

1999, Visiting Scholar, Department of Chemistry, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

1998-2000, Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

1. Jiayu Wang, Peiyao Xue, Yiting Jiang, Yong Huo and Xiaowei Zhan*, The principles, design and applications of fused-ring electron acceptors, Nat. Rev. Chem., 2022, 6, 614-634. (cited 146 times)

2. Jiayu Wang, Junxiang Zhang, Yiqun Xiao, Tong Xiao, Runyu Zhu, Cenqi Yan, Youquan Fu, Guanghao Lu, Xinhui Lu, Seth R. Marder and Xiaowei Zhan*, Effect of isomerization on high-performance nonfullerene electron acceptors, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2018, 140, 9140-9147. (cited 374 times)

3. Cenqi Yan, Stephen Barlow, Zhaohui Wang, He Yan, Alex K.-Y. Jen, Seth R. Marder and Xiaowei Zhan*, Non-fullerene acceptors for organic solar cells, Nat. Rev. Mater., 2018, 3, 18003. (cited 2340 times)

4. Pei Cheng, Gang Li*, Xiaowei Zhan* and Yang Yang*, Next-generation organic photovoltaics based on non-fullerene acceptors, Nat. Photon., 2018, 12, 131-142. (cited 1636 times)

5. Shuixing Dai, Fuwen Zhao, Qianqian Zhang, Tsz-Ki Lau, Tengfei Li, Kuan Liu, Qidan Ling, Chunru Wang, Xinhui Lu, Wei You and Xiaowei Zhan*, Fused nonacyclic electron acceptors for efficient polymer solar cells, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2017, 139, 1336–1343. (cited 860 times)

6. Fuwen Zhao, Shuixing Dai, Yang Wu, Qianqian Zhang, Jiayu Wang, Li Jiang, Qidan Ling, Zhixiang Wei, Wei Ma, Wei You, Chunru Wang* and Xiaowei Zhan*, Single-junction binary-blend nonfullerene polymer solar cells with 12.1% efficiency, Adv. Mater., 2017, 29, 1700144. (cited 742 times)

7. Yuze Lin, Fuwen Zhao, Qiao He, Lijun Huo, Yang Wu, Timothy C. Parker, Wei Ma, Yanming Sun, Chunru Wang, Daoben Zhu, Alan J. Heeger, Seth R. Marder and Xiaowei Zhan*, High-performance electron acceptor with thienyl side chains for organic photovoltaics, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2016, 138, 4955-4961. (cited 1005 times)

8. Yuze Lin, Qiao He, Fuwen Zhao, Lijun Huo, Jiangquan Mai, Xinhui Lu, Chun-Jen Su, Tengfei Li, Jiayu Wang, Jingshuai Zhu, Yanming Sun*, Chunru Wang and Xiaowei Zhan*, A facile planar fused-ring electron acceptor for as-cast polymer solar cells with 8.71% efficiency, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2016, 138, 2973-2976. (cited 943 times)

9. Yuze Lin, Jiayu Wang, Zhi-Guo Zhang, Huitao Bai, Yongfang Li, Daoben Zhu and Xiaowei Zhan*, An electron acceptor challenging fullerenes for efficient polymer solar cells, Adv. Mater., 2015, 27, 1170-1174. (cited 3600 times)

10. Yuze Lin, Yongfang Li and Xiaowei Zhan*, Small molecule semiconductors for high-efficiency organic photovoltaics, Chem. Soc. Rev., 2012, 41, 4245-4272. (cited 1890 times)