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Cheng Zhong

Cheng Zhong

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Chemistry

D-Index
83
Citations
20345
World Ranking
3008
National Ranking
552

Overview

Cheng Zhong is affiliated with Wuhan University in China and has a research focus that spans multiple fields related to engineering and materials science. Their scholarly output includes extensive work in the subfields of electrical and electronic engineering, materials chemistry, polymers and plastics, biomedical engineering, and organic chemistry.

The scientific topics addressed by Zhong emphasize organic electronics and photovoltaics, organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) research, conducting polymers and applications, luminescence and fluorescent materials, perovskite materials and applications, molecular junctions and nanostructures, as well as nanoplatforms for cancer theranostics.

Zhong's recent notable publications include the following:

  • Highly efficient luminescence from space-confined charge-transfer emitters, 2020, Nature Materials
  • Achieving 19% Power Conversion Efficiency in Planar-Mixed Heterojunction Organic Solar Cells Using a Pseudosymmetric Electron Acceptor, 2022, Advanced Materials
  • Precisely Controlling the Position of Bromine on the End Group Enables Well-Regular Polymer Acceptors for All-Polymer Solar Cells with Efficiencies over 15%, 2020, Advanced Materials
  • Suppressed recombination loss in organic photovoltaics adopting a planar-mixed heterojunction architecture, 2022, Nature Energy
  • Extending the π-Skeleton of Multi-Resonance TADF Materials towards High-Efficiency Narrowband Deep-Blue Emission, 2022, Angewandte Chemie International Edition

The scientist has published frequently in several academic venues, with the highest number of publications appearing in:

  • Chemical Engineering Journal
  • Journal of Materials Chemistry C
  • Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Advanced Functional Materials
  • Advanced Materials

Collaboration plays a significant role in Zhong's research, with frequent coauthors including Chuluo Yang, Shaolong Gong, Yang Zou, Linna Zhu, and Jingsheng Miao.

The breadth of Zhong's work reflects a concentrated involvement in the development and study of materials and devices in organic electronics and photovoltaics, as well as functional polymer systems. Their research contributions touch on charge-transfer emitters, solar cell efficiency improvements, polymer acceptor design, and organic photovoltaic architecture optimization.

Best Publications

  • Achieving Nearly 30% External Quantum Efficiency for Orange–Red Organic Light Emitting Diodes by Employing Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence Emitters Composed of 1,8-Naphthalimide-Acridine Hybrids

    Weixuan Zeng;Hsin-Yu Lai;Wei-Kai Lee;Min Jiao

  • Highly efficient luminescence from space-confined charge-transfer emitters.

    Xun Tang;Lin-Song Cui;Hong-Cheng Li;Alexander J. Gillett

  • Achieving 19% Power Conversion Efficiency in Planar‐Mixed Heterojunction Organic Solar Cells Using a Pseudosymmetric Electron Acceptor

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  • Reliable Prediction with Tuned Range-Separated Functionals of the Singlet–Triplet Gap in Organic Emitters for Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence

    Haitao Sun;Cheng Zhong;Jean-Luc Brédas

  • Fine-Tuning of Molecular Packing and Energy Level through Methyl Substitution Enabling Excellent Small Molecule Acceptors for Nonfullerene Polymer Solar Cells with Efficiency up to 12.54

    Zhenghui Luo;Zhenghui Luo;Haijun Bin;Tao Liu;Zhi-Guo Zhang

  • Precisely Controlling the Position of Bromine on the End Group Enables Well-Regular Polymer Acceptors for All-Polymer Solar Cells with Efficiencies over 15.

    Zhenghui Luo;Zhenghui Luo;Tao Liu;Ruijie Ma;Yiqun Xiao

  • Asymmetrical Ladder‐Type Donor‐Induced Polar Small Molecule Acceptor to Promote Fill Factors Approaching 77% for High‐Performance Nonfullerene Polymer Solar Cells

    Wei Gao;Wei Gao;Miao Zhang;Tao Liu;Ruijie Ming

  • A New Design Strategy for Efficient Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence Organic Emitters: From Twisted to Planar Structures.

    Xian Kai Chen;Youichi Tsuchiya;Yuma Ishikawa;Cheng Zhong

  • Realizing 22.5% External Quantum Efficiency for Solution-Processed Thermally Activated Delayed-Fluorescence OLEDs with Red Emission at 622 nm via a Synergistic Strategy of Molecular Engineering and Host Selection.

    Weixuan Zeng;Weixuan Zeng;Tao Zhou;Weimin Ning;Cheng Zhong

  • Bipolar Tetraarylsilanes as Universal Hosts for Blue, Green, Orange, and White Electrophosphorescence with High Efficiency and Low Efficiency Roll-Off

    Shaolong Gong;Yonghua Chen;Jiajia Luo;Chuluo Yang

  • Tuning the Optoelectronic Properties of Carbazole/Oxadiazole Hybrids through Linkage Modes: Hosts for Highly Efficient Green Electrophosphorescence

    Youtian Tao;Qiang Wang;Chuluo Yang;Cheng Zhong

  • Multifunctional Fluorene‐Based Oligomers with Novel Spiro‐Annulated Triarylamine: Efficient, Stable Deep‐Blue Electroluminescence, Good Hole Injection, and Transporting Materials with Very High Tg

    Zuoquan Jiang;Zhongyin Liu;Chuluo Yang;Cheng Zhong

  • Heavy-atom effect promotes multi-resonance thermally activated delayed fluorescence

    Tao Hua;Lisi Zhan;Nengquan Li;Zhongyan Huang

  • Achieving 21% External Quantum Efficiency for Nondoped Solution-Processed Sky-Blue Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence OLEDs by Means of Multi-(Donor/Acceptor) Emitter with Through-Space/-Bond Charge Transfer.

    Xujun Zheng;Xujun Zheng;Rongjuan Huang;Cheng Zhong;Guohua Xie

  • A Novel Thiophene‐Fused Ending Group Enabling an Excellent Small Molecule Acceptor for High‐Performance Fullerene‐Free Polymer Solar Cells with 11.8% Efficiency

    Dongjun Xie;Tao Liu;Wei Gao;Cheng Zhong

  • Naphthothiadiazole-Based Near-Infrared Emitter with a Photoluminescence Quantum Yield of 60% in Neat Film and External Quantum Efficiencies of up to 3.9% in Nondoped OLEDs

    Tengxiao Liu;Liping Zhu;Cheng Zhong;Guohua Xie

  • De Novo Design of Excited-State Intramolecular Proton Transfer Emitters via a Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence Channel

    Kailong Wu;Kailong Wu;Tao Zhang;Zian Wang;Lian Wang

  • Pure Hydrocarbon Hosts for ≈100% Exciton Harvesting in Both Phosphorescent and Fluorescent Light-Emitting Devices

    Lin-Song Cui;Yue-Min Xie;Ya-Kun Wang;Cheng Zhong

  • Multifunctional Triphenylamine/Oxadiazole Hybrid as Host and Exciton-Blocking Material: High Efficiency Green Phosphorescent OLEDs Using Easily Available and Common Materials

    Youtian Tao;Qiang Wang;Chuluo Yang;Cheng Zhong

  • Asymmetric Acceptors Enabling Organic Solar Cells to Achieve an over 17% Efficiency: Conformation Effects on Regulating Molecular Properties and Suppressing Nonradiative Energy Loss

    Wei Gao;Huiting Fu;Yuxiang Li;Yuxiang Li;Francis Lin;Francis Lin

  • Star-Shaped Oligotriarylamines with Planarized Triphenylamine Core: Solution-Processable, High-Tg Hole-Injecting and Hole-Transporting Materials for Organic Light-Emitting Devices†

    Zuoquan Jiang;Tengling Ye;Chuluo Yang;Dezhi Yang

  • Highly Efficient Phosphorescent Organic Light-Emitting Diodes Hosted by 1,2,4-Triazole-Cored Triphenylamine Derivatives: Relationship between Structure and Optoelectronic Properties

    Youtian Tao;Qiang Wang;Liang Ao;Cheng Zhong

Frequent Co-Authors

Chuluo Yang
Chuluo Yang Shenzhen University
Jingui Qin
Jingui Qin Wuhan University
Dongge Ma
Dongge Ma South China University of Technology
Shaolong Gong
Shaolong Gong Wuhan University
Zhenghui Luo
Zhenghui Luo Shenzhen University
Guohua Xie
Guohua Xie Xiamen University
Zuo-Quan Jiang
Zuo-Quan Jiang Soochow University
He Yan
He Yan Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Liang-Sheng Liao
Liang-Sheng Liao Soochow University
Jean-Luc Brédas
Jean-Luc Brédas University of Arizona

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