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67
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17369
World Ranking
5078
National Ranking
1335

Overview

Cheng Wang is affiliated with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Engineering and Materials Science, with significant contributions totaling 66 and 44 publications respectively. Within these broader fields, Wang's work focuses extensively on subfields such as Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Polymers and Plastics, Materials Chemistry, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, and Biomedical Engineering.

The scientist's publication record highlights a prominent engagement with topics including Conducting Polymers and Applications, Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics, Perovskite Materials and Applications, Electrochemical Analysis and Applications, Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion, Combustion and Detonation Processes, and Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials.

Wang has published numerous articles in well-regarded scientific journals. Notable papers include:

  • Operando studies reveal active Cu nanograins for CO2 electroreduction, 2023, Nature
  • High-brightness all-polymer stretchable LED with charge-trapping dilution, 2022, Nature
  • Genetically targeted chemical assembly of functional materials in living cells, tissues, and animals, 2020, Science
  • Efficient, Thermally Stable, and Mechanically Robust All-Polymer Solar Cells Consisting of the Same Benzodithiophene Unit-Based Polymer Acceptor and Donor with High Molecular Compatibility, 2020, Advanced Energy Materials
  • Improving Efficiency and Stability of Perovskite Solar Cells Enabled by A Near-Infrared-Absorbing Moisture Barrier, 2020, Joule

The scientist frequently collaborates with a core group of coauthors, including Wenkai Zhong, Feng Liu, Bumjoon J. Kim, Miquel Salmerón, and Jin-Woo Lee. These collaborations reinforce Wang's interdisciplinary approach within their research domains.

Wang's work is regularly featured in publication venues such as Nature Communications, Advanced Materials, ACS Nano, Nature, and Energy & Environmental Science, reflecting a diverse dissemination of research findings across material science and energy-related disciplines.

Best Publications

  • Single-junction polymer solar cells with high efficiency and photovoltage

    Zhicai He;Biao Xiao;Feng Liu;Hongbin Wu

  • Flexible, highly efficient all-polymer solar cells

    Taesu Kim;Jae-Han Kim;Tae Eui Kang;Changyeon Lee

  • Hierarchical nanomorphologies promote exciton dissociation in polymer/fullerene bulk heterojunction solar cells.

    Wei Chen;Tao Xu;Feng He;Wei Wang

  • Soft x-ray scattering facility at the Advanced Light Source with real-time data processing and analysis.

    E. Gann;A. T. Young;B. A. Collins;H. Yan

  • Achieving Highly Efficient Nonfullerene Organic Solar Cells with Improved Intermolecular Interaction and Open-Circuit Voltage.

    Huifeng Yao;Long Ye;Junxian Hou;Bomee Jang

  • Determining the role of polymer molecular weight for high-performance all-polymer solar cells: its effect on polymer aggregation and phase separation.

    Hyunbum Kang;Mohammad Afsar Uddin;Changyeon Lee;Ki Hyun Kim

  • Polarized X-ray scattering reveals non-crystalline orientational ordering in organic films.

    Brian A Collins;Justin E Cochran;Hongping Yan;Eliot Gann

  • The Crystallization of PEDOT:PSS Polymeric Electrodes Probed In Situ during Printing

    Claudia M. Palumbiny;Feng Liu;Feng Liu;Thomas P. Russell;Thomas P. Russell;Alexander Hexemer

  • Bulk heterojunction photovoltaic active layers via bilayer interdiffusion.

    Dian Chen;Feng Liu;Cheng Wang;Atsuhiro Nakahara

  • Polymer Crystallization of Partially Miscible Polythiophene/Fullerene Mixtures Controls Morphology

    Derek R. Kozub;Kiarash Vakhshouri;Lisa M. Orme;Cheng Wang

  • Conjugated Block Copolymer Photovoltaics with near 3% Efficiency through Microphase Separation

    Changhe Guo;Yen-Hao Lin;Matthew D. Witman;Kendall A. Smith

  • High-performance all-polymer solar cells via side-chain engineering of the polymer acceptor: the importance of the polymer packing structure and the nanoscale blend morphology.

    Changyeon Lee;Hyunbum Kang;Wonho Lee;Taesu Kim

  • Understanding the Morphology of PTB7:PCBM Blends in Organic Photovoltaics

    Feng Liu;Wei Zhao;John R. Tumbleston;Cheng Wang

  • Multi-Length-Scale Morphologies Driven by Mixed Additives in Porphyrin-Based Organic Photovoltaics.

    Ke Gao;Jingsheng Miao;Liangang Xiao;Wanyuan Deng

  • High‐Efficiency Nonfullerene Polymer Solar Cells with Medium Bandgap Polymer Donor and Narrow Bandgap Organic Semiconductor Acceptor

    Liang Gao;Zhi‐Guo Zhang;Haijun Bin;Lingwei Xue

  • Roll-to-Roll printed large-area all-polymer solar cells with 5{\%} efficiency based on a low crystallinity conjugated polymer blend

    Xiaodan Gu;Xiaodan Gu;Yan Zhou;Kevin Gu;Tadanori Kurosawa

  • Flow-enhanced solution printing of all-polymer solar cells

    Ying Diao;Yan Zhou;Tadanori Kurosawa;Leo Shaw

  • Side-chain conducting and phase-separated polymeric binders for high-performance silicon anodes in lithium-ion batteries.

    Sang-Jae Park;Hui Zhao;Guo Ai;Cheng Wang

  • Efficient polymer solar cells based on a low bandgap semi-crystalline DPP polymer-PCBM blends.

    Feng Liu;Yu Gu;Cheng Wang;Wei Zhao

  • A multifunctional biphasic water splitting catalyst tailored for integration with high-performance semiconductor photoanodes

    Jinhui Yang;Jason K. Cooper;Francesca M. Toma;Karl A. Walczak

  • Conjugated block copolymer photovoltaics with near 3\% efficiency

    Changhe Guo;Yen-Hao Lin;Matthew Witman;Kendall Smith

Frequent Co-Authors

Thomas P. Russell
Thomas P. Russell University of Massachusetts Amherst
Chenhui Zhu
Chenhui Zhu Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Harald Ade
Harald Ade North Carolina State University
Xiaodan Gu
Xiaodan Gu University of Southern Mississippi
Michael F. Toney
Michael F. Toney University of Colorado Boulder
Peter Müller-Buschbaum
Peter Müller-Buschbaum Technical University of Munich
Bumjoon J. Kim
Bumjoon J. Kim Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
Han Young Woo
Han Young Woo Korea University
Yong Cao
Yong Cao South China University of Technology
Corrie T. Imrie
Corrie T. Imrie University of Aberdeen

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