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Overview

Wei You is affiliated with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the United States. The research portfolio spans a broad range of work in engineering and materials science, with particular emphasis on electrical and electronic engineering, polymers and plastics, materials chemistry, organic chemistry, and atomic and molecular physics and optics.

The main research topics covered by Wei You include:

  • Conducting polymers and applications
  • Perovskite materials and applications
  • Organic electronics and photovoltaics
  • Advanced polymer synthesis and characterization
  • Organic light-emitting diodes research
  • Spectroscopy and quantum chemical studies
  • Quantum dots synthesis and properties

Wei You has contributed frequently to publication venues such as:

  • The Journal of Chemical Physics
  • Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • UNC Libraries
  • Chemistry of Materials
  • Advanced Energy Materials

Collaborations form an important part of their research activity. Frequent coauthors include Liang Yan, Jeromy James Rech, Harald Ade, Zhu Ma, and Zhuowei Du.

Wei You's notable recent papers comprise:

  • "Chiral-phonon-activated spin Seebeck effect" (2023), published in Nature Materials
  • "The Role of Demixing and Crystallization Kinetics on the Stability of Non-Fullerene Organic Solar Cells" (2020), published in Advanced Materials
  • "Alkyl-Aryl Cation Mixing in Chiral 2D Perovskites" (2021), published in Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • "Mantis shrimp-inspired organic photodetector for simultaneous hyperspectral and polarimetric imaging" (2021), published in Science Advances
  • "Enhancing Charge Transport of 2D Perovskite Passivation Agent for Wide-Bandgap Perovskite Solar Cells Beyond 21%" (2020), published in Solar RRL

In addition to journal articles, Wei You has contributed to book publications. One such work, published by Frontiers Media in 2024, is titled "Celebrating 1 year of Frontiers in Electronic Materials."

Best Publications

  • Fluorine Substituted Conjugated Polymer of Medium Band Gap Yields 7% Efficiency in Polymer-Fullerene Solar Cells

    Samuel C. Price;Andrew C. Stuart;Liqiang Yang;Huaxing Zhou

  • Rational Design of High Performance Conjugated Polymers for Organic Solar Cells

    Huaxing Zhou;Liqiang Yang;Wei You

  • Development of fluorinated benzothiadiazole as a structural unit for a polymer solar cell of 7 % efficiency.

    Huaxing Zhou;Liqiang Yang;Andrew C. Stuart;Samuel C. Price

  • Hierarchical Porous O-doped g-C3N4 with Enhanced Photocatalytic CO2 Reduction Activity

    Junwei Fu;Bicheng Zhu;Chuanjia Jiang;Bei Cheng

  • Fused Nonacyclic Electron Acceptors for Efficient Polymer Solar Cells.

    Shuixing Dai;Fuwen Zhao;Qianqian Zhang;Tsz-Ki Lau

  • Single-Junction Binary-Blend Nonfullerene Polymer Solar Cells with 12.1% Efficiency.

    Fuwen Zhao;Fuwen Zhao;Shuixing Dai;Shuixing Dai;Yang Wu;Qianqian Zhang

  • Fluorine Substituents Reduce Charge Recombination and Drive Structure and Morphology Development in Polymer Solar Cells

    Andrew C. Stuart;John R. Tumbleston;Huaxing Zhou;Wentao Li

  • Status and prospects for ternary organic photovoltaics

    Luyao Lu;Mary Allison Kelly;Wei You;Luping Yu

  • The influence of molecular orientation on organic bulk heterojunction solar cells

    John R. Tumbleston;Brian A. Collins;Brian A. Collins;Liqiang Yang;Andrew C. Stuart

  • Solution-Processed Flexible Polymer Solar Cells with Silver Nanowire Electrodes

    Liqiang Yang;Tim Zhang;Huaxing Zhou;Samuel C. Price

  • 3D hierarchical graphene oxide-NiFe LDH composite with enhanced adsorption affinity to Congo red, methyl orange and Cr(VI) ions

    Yingqiu Zheng;Bei Cheng;Wei You;Jiaguo Yu;Jiaguo Yu

  • Core–Shell Nitrogen-Doped Carbon Hollow Spheres/Co3O4 Nanosheets as Advanced Electrode for High-Performance Supercapacitor

    Tao Liu;Liuyang Zhang;Wei You;Jiaguo Yu;Jiaguo Yu

  • Fuel cells with an operational range of –20 °C to 200 °C enabled by phosphoric acid-doped intrinsically ultramicroporous membranes

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  • Enhanced Photovoltaic Performance of Low‐Bandgap Polymers with Deep LUMO Levels

    Huaxing Zhou;Liqiang Yang;Samuel C. Price;Kelly Jane Knight

  • The Curious Case of Fluorination of Conjugated Polymers for Solar Cells.

    Qianqian Zhang;Mary Allison Kelly;Nicole Bauer;Wei You

  • A molecular interaction–diffusion framework for predicting organic solar cell stability

    Masoud Ghasemi;Nrup Balar;Zhengxing Peng;Huawei Hu

  • Alkaline-Stable Anion Exchange Membranes: A Review of Synthetic Approaches

    Wei You;Kevin J.T. Noonan;Geoffrey W. Coates

  • Enhanced Charge Transport in 2D Perovskites via Fluorination of Organic Cation.

    Fei Zhang;Dong Hoe Kim;Haipeng Lu;Ji Sang Park

  • Parallel-like bulk heterojunction polymer solar cells.

    Liqiang Yang;Huaxing Zhou;Samuel C. Price;Wei You

  • A Weak Donor−Strong Acceptor Strategy to Design Ideal Polymers for Organic Solar Cells

    Huaxing Zhou;Liqiang Yang;Sarah Stoneking;Wei You

  • Mobility-Controlled Performance of Thick Solar Cells Based on Fluorinated Copolymers

    Wentao Li;Steve Albrecht;Liqiang Yang;Steffen Roland

  • Enhancing Performance of Nonfullerene Acceptors via Side-Chain Conjugation Strategy.

    Jiayu Wang;Wei Wang;Xiaohui Wang;Yang Wu

  • Quantitatively Analyzing the Influence of Side Chains on Photovoltaic Properties of Polymer−Fullerene Solar Cells

    Liqiang Yang;Huaxing Zhou;Wei You

Frequent Co-Authors

Harald Ade
Harald Ade North Carolina State University
Jiaguo Yu
Jiaguo Yu China University of Geosciences
Xiaowei Zhan
Xiaowei Zhan Peking University
Long Ye
Long Ye Tianjin University
Xinhui Lu
Xinhui Lu Chinese University of Hong Kong
Luping Yu
Luping Yu University of Chicago
Shubin Liu
Shubin Liu University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Wei Ma
Wei Ma Xi'an Jiaotong University
Franky So
Franky So North Carolina State University
Bei Cheng
Bei Cheng Wuhan University of Technology

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