Zhang Guangye, Assistant Professor

Profile:

Zhang Guangye, Doctor, Assistant Professor, Shenzhen Overseas High-level Peacock Plan Talent (Category B). He graduated from the University of Science and Technology of China in 2009 with a bachelor's degree in Materials Physics, and then pursued his doctoral studies at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), where he graduated from the Department of Chemistry in 2015. He has been a postdoctoral researcher at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) since 2016, and a research assistant professor at the Shenzhen Research Institute of HKUST in 2017. In 2018, he established an organic photovoltaic company as a co-founder to promote the industrialization of organic photovoltaics. He joined Shenzhen Technology University in 2020. His main research interests are organic semiconductor materials, devices and physics. He has more than 10 years of R&D or industrialization experience in the field of organic photovoltaics. He has published more than 60 papers with more than 4,000 citations and was listed in the 3rd edition of the Top 2% of Global Scientists (2020 Science Impact List). His publications have also appeared in Chemical Reviews, Advanced Materials, Advanced Energy Materials, Advanced Functional Materials, Joule, etc.

Academic Background:

2009 - 2015 University of California, Los Angeles, USA, Doctoral Candidate

2005 - 2009 University of Science and Technology of China, Undergraduate

Work Experience:

2020 - Present Shenzhen Technology University, School of New Materials and New Energy, Assistant Professor

2019 - 2020 eFlexPV Limited, Founder and CEO

2017 - 2019 Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Shenzhen Research Institute, Research Assistant Professor

2016 - 2017 Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Postdoctoral Fellow

2015 Los Angeles Harbor College, Lecturer

2015 University of California, Los Angeles, Lecturer

Major Honors:

Selected as Shenzhen Overseas High-Level Catategory B Talent in 2019

Research Interests:

1. Organic photovoltaic device engineering, device physics

2. Organic semiconductor thin film morphology

Representative Papers:

1.G. Zhang,^†J. Zhao,^†P. C. Y. Chow,^†K. Jiang,^†J. Zhang, J. Zhang, F. Huang and H. Yan,* “Non-Fullerene Acceptor Molecules for Bulk Heterojunction Organic Solar Cells”, Chemical Reviews, 118, (2018), 3447-3507

2.S. Chen,^† G. Zhang,^†J. Liu, H. Yao, J. Zhang, T. Ma, Z. Li, and H. Yan,* “An All-Solution Processed Recombination Layer with Mild Post-Treatment Enabling Efficient Homo-Tandem Non-fullerene Organic Solar Cells”, Advanced Materials, 29, (2017), 1604231.

3.L. Arunagiri,^†Z. Peng,^†X. Zou,^†H. Yu, G. Zhang,*Z. Wang, J. Y. L. Lai, J. Zhang, Y. Zheng, C. Cui, F. Huang, Y. Zou, K. S. Wong, P. C. Y. Chow,* H. Ade,* and H. Yan*, “Selective Hole and Electron Transport in Efficient Quaternary Blend Organic Solar Cells”, Joule, 4, (2020), 1790-1805

4.K. Jiang,^† G. Zhang,^†* G. Yang, J. Zhang, Z. Li, T. Ma, W. Ma, H. Ade, and H. Yan,* “Multiple Cases of Efficient Non-Fullerene Ternary Organic Solar Cells Enabled by An Effective Morphology Control Method”, Advanced Energy Materials, 8, (2018), 1701370

5.H. Yao,^†L.-K. Ma,^†H. Yu,^†J. Yu, P. C.Y. Chow, W. Xue, X. Zou, Y. Chen, J. Liang, L. Arunagiri , F. Gao, H. Sun,*G. Zhang,*W. Ma,* and H. Yan,* “All-Polymer Solar Cells with over 12% Efficiency and a Small Voltage Loss Enabled by a Polymer Acceptor based on an Extended Fused Ring Core”, Advanced Energy Materials, (2020), 2001408

6.L. Arunagiri,^† G. Zhang,^†*, H. Hu,^†H. Yao, K. Zhang, Y. Li, P. C. Y. Chow, H. Ade, H. Yan.* “Temperature-Dependent Aggregation Donor Polymers Enable Highly Efficient Sequentially Processed Organic Photovoltaics Without the Need of Orthogonal Solvents”, Advanced Functional Materials, (2019), 1902478

7.T. Liu,^†W. Gao,^†Y. Wang, T. Yang, R. Ma, G. Zhang,* C. Zhong, W. Ma,* H. Yan,* C. Yang,* “Unconjugated Side-Chain Engineering Enables Small Molecular Acceptors for Highly Efficient Non-Fullerene Organic Solar Cells: Insights into the Fine-Tuning of Acceptor Properties and Micromorphology”, Advanced Functional Materials, 29, (2019), 1902155.

8.S. Huang,^† G. Zhang,^†N. S. Knutson, M. T. Fontana, R. C. Huber, A. S. Ferreira, S. H. Tolbert,* B. J. Schwartz,* and Y. F. Rubin,* “Beyond PCBM: Methoxylated 1,4-Bisbenzyl [60]Fullerene Adducts for Efficient Organic Solar Cells”, Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 4, (2016), 416-424.

9.Y. Liu,^†S. Chen,^† G. Zhang,^†P. C. Y. Chow and H. Yan,* “A Wide Bandgap Conjugated Polymer Based on a Vertically-Connected Benzodithiophene Unit Enabling Efficient Non-Fullerene Polymer Solar Cells”, Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 5, (2017), 15017-15020

10.G. Zhang,^†R. C. Huber,^†A. S. Ferreira,^†S. D. Boyd, C. K. Luscombe, S. H. Tolbert,* and B. J. Schwartz,* “Crystallinity Effects in Sequentially Processed and Blend-Cast Bulk-Heterojunction Polymer/Fullerene Photovoltaics”, Journal of Physical Chemistry C118, (2014), 18424-18435.

11.G. Zhang,^†S. A. Hawks^†C. Ngo, L. T. Schelhas, D. T. Scholes, H. Kang, J. C. Aguirre, S. H. Tolbert, and B. J. Schwartz,* “Extensive Penetration of Evaporated Electrode Metals into Fullerene Films: Intercalated Metal Nanostructures and Influence on Device Architecture”ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 7, (2015), 25247-25258.

12.T. Liu,^†W. Gao,^† G. Zhang,* L. Zhang, J. Xin, W. Ma, C. Yang,* H. Yan,* C. Zhan,* and J. Yao, “A High-Performance Non-Fullerene Acceptor Compatible with Polymers with Different Bandgaps for Efficient Organic Solar Cells”, Solar RRL, 3, (2019), 1800376.

13.R. Ma,^†Y. Chen,^†T. Liu, Y. Xiao, Z. Luo, M. Zhang, S. Luo, X. Lu,* G. Zhang,* Y. Li, H. Yan, and K. Chen,* “Improving the performance of near infrared binary polymer solar cells by adding a second non-fullerene intermediate band-gap acceptor”, Journal of Materials Chemistry C, 8, (2020), 909-915

14.R. Ma, G. Li, D. Li, T. Liu,* K. Chen, G. Zhang,*Z. Wang, M. Zhang, S. Luo, T. Yang, Z. Luo, F. Liu, H. Yan,* B. Tang,* “Understanding the Effect of End Group Halogenation in Tuning Miscibility and Morphology of High-performance Small Molecular Acceptors”, Solar RRL,4, (2020), 2000250

15.R. Ma,^†T. Liu,^†* Z. Luo,^†K. Gao,*, K. Chen, G. Zhang,*W. Gao, Y. Xiao, T.-K. Lau, Q. Fan, Y. Chen, L.-K. Ma,* H. Sun, G. Cai, T. Yang, X. Lu, E. Wang, C. Yang, A. K.-Y. Jen, and H. Yan,* “Adding a third component with reduced miscibility and higher LUMO level enables efficient ternary organic solar cells”, ACS Energy Letters, 5, (2020), 2711-2720

Contact Information:

E-mail: zhangguangye@sztu.edu.cn