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Ke Gao is affiliated with the University of Washington in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Engineering and Materials Science, with significant specialization in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Polymers and Plastics, Materials Chemistry, Biomedical Engineering, and Mechanical Engineering.

Their main areas of research focus on Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics, Conducting Polymers and Applications, and Perovskite Materials and Applications. Additional topics addressed in their work include Chemical Looping and Thermochemical Processes, Catalytic Processes in Materials Science, Phase Change Materials Research, and Adsorption and Cooling Systems.

Ke Gao has published extensively across various academic venues. Frequent publication outlets include:

  • Advanced Materials
  • Advanced Energy Materials
  • Chinese Journal of Chemistry
  • Journal of Energy Chemistry
  • Joule

Several recent papers highlight the scope and focus of Ke Gao's research:

  • Graphdiyne Derivative as Multifunctional Solid Additive in Binary Organic Solar Cells with 17.3% Efficiency and High Reproductivity (2020, Advanced Materials)
  • 16% efficiency all-polymer organic solar cells enabled by a finely tuned morphology via the design of ternary blend (2021, Joule)
  • Adding a Third Component with Reduced Miscibility and Higher LUMO Level Enables Efficient Ternary Organic Solar Cells (2020, ACS Energy Letters)
  • The coupling and competition of crystallization and phase separation, correlating thermodynamics and kinetics in OPV morphology and performances (2021, Nature Communications)
  • Achieving high efficiency and well-kept ductility in ternary all-polymer organic photovoltaic blends thanks to two well miscible donors (2022, Matter)

Collaborations have involved frequent coauthors such as Yuanyuan Kan, Yanna Sun, Xianglei Liu, Hangbin Zheng, and Chao Song.

Best Publications

  • Solution-processed organic tandem solar cells with power conversion efficiencies >12%

    Miaomiao Li;Ke Gao;Xiangjian Wan;Qian Zhang

  • Deep Absorbing Porphyrin Small Molecule for High-Performance Organic Solar Cells with Very Low Energy Losses

    Ke Gao;Lisheng Li;Tianqi Lai;Liangang Xiao

  • Dithienopicenocarbazole-Based Acceptors for Efficient Organic Solar Cells with Optoelectronic Response Over 1000 nm and an Extremely Low Energy Loss.

    Zhaoyang Yao;Xunfan Liao;Xunfan Liao;Ke Gao;Francis Lin

  • Graphdiyne Derivative as Multifunctional Solid Additive in Binary Organic Solar Cells with 17.3% Efficiency and High Reproductivity

    Le Liu;Yuanyuan Kan;Ke Gao;Jianxiao Wang

  • Over 12% Efficiency Nonfullerene All-Small-Molecule Organic Solar Cells with Sequentially Evolved Multilength Scale Morphologies

    Ke Gao;Sae Byeok Jo;Xueliang Shi;Li Nian

  • Achieving high efficiency and well-kept ductility in ternary all-polymer organic photovoltaic blends thanks to two well miscible donors

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

    Ke Gao;Jingsheng Miao;Liangang Xiao;Wanyuan Deng

  • 11% Efficient Ternary Organic Solar Cells with High Composition Tolerance via Integrated Near-IR Sensitization and Interface Engineering.

    Li Nian;Ke Gao;Feng Liu;Feng Liu;Yuanyuan Kan

  • 16% efficiency all-polymer organic solar cells enabled by a finely tuned morphology via the design of ternary blend

    Tao Liu;Tao Liu;Tong Yang;Ruijie Ma;Lingling Zhan

  • Two-Dimensional Perovskite Solar Cells with 14.1% Power Conversion Efficiency and 0.68% External Radiative Efficiency

    Weifei Fu;Jian Wang;Lijian Zuo;Ke Gao

  • Rational control of sequential morphology evolution and vertical distribution toward 17.18% efficiency all-small-molecule organic solar cells

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  • In situ dynamic observations of perovskite crystallisation and microstructure evolution intermediated from [PbI 6 ] 4− cage nanoparticles

    Qin Hu;Lichen Zhao;Lichen Zhao;Jiang Wu;Ke Gao

  • Highly Efficient Organic Solar Cells Based on S,N-Heteroacene Non-Fullerene Acceptors

    Chuyi Huang;Chuyi Huang;Xunfan Liao;Xunfan Liao;Ke Gao;Lijian Zuo

  • Adding a Third Component with Reduced Miscibility and Higher LUMO Level Enables Efficient Ternary Organic Solar Cells

    Ruijie Ma;Tao Liu;Zhenghui Luo;Zhenghui Luo;Ke Gao;Ke Gao

  • Highly Efficient Porphyrin-Based OPV/Perovskite Hybrid Solar Cells with Extended Photoresponse and High Fill Factor

    Ke Gao;Zonglong Zhu;Bo Xu;Sae Byeok Jo

  • Design of a highly crystalline low-band gap fused-ring electron acceptor for high-efficiency solar cells with low energy loss

    Xueliang Shi;Lijian Zuo;Sae Byeok Jo;Ke Gao

  • The coupling and competition of crystallization and phase separation, correlating thermodynamics and kinetics in OPV morphology and performances.

    Zaiyu Wang;Ke Gao;Yuanyuan Kan;Ming Zhang

  • Low-Bandgap Porphyrins for Highly Efficient Organic Solar Cells: Materials, Morphology, and Applications

    Ke Gao;Ke Gao;Yuanyuan Kan;Xuebin Chen;Feng Liu

  • Approaching 16% Efficiency in All-Small-Molecule Organic Solar Cells Based on Ternary Strategy with a Highly Crystalline Acceptor

    Li Nian;Yuanyuan Kan;Ke Gao;Ming Zhang

  • High‐Performance Polymer Tandem Solar Cells Employing a New n‐Type Conjugated Polymer as an Interconnecting Layer

    Kai Zhang;Ke Gao;Ruoxi Xia;Zhihong Wu

  • Low band gap conjugated polymers combining siloxane-terminated side chains and alkyl side chains: side-chain engineering achieving a large active layer processing window for PCE > 10% in polymer solar cells

    Xuncheng Liu;Li Nian;Ke Gao;Lianjie Zhang

  • Ternary non-fullerene polymer solar cells with 13.51% efficiency and a record-high fill factor of 78.13%

    Li Nian;Yuanyuan Kan;Haitao Wang;Ke Gao

Frequent Co-Authors

Feng Liu
Feng Liu Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Alex K.-Y. Jen
Alex K.-Y. Jen City University of Hong Kong
Yong Cao
Yong Cao South China University of Technology
Thomas P. Russell
Thomas P. Russell University of Massachusetts Amherst
Lijian Zuo
Lijian Zuo Zhejiang University
Fei Huang
Fei Huang South China University of Technology
Yiwang Chen
Yiwang Chen Nanchang University
Junbiao Peng
Junbiao Peng South China University of Technology
Ming Zhang
Ming Zhang China Jiliang University
Bin Kan
Bin Kan Nankai University

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