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Materials Science

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Overview

Xiaodan Gu is affiliated with the University of Southern Mississippi in the United States and conducts research primarily in the fields of Engineering and Materials Science. Their work focuses on specialized subfields including Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Polymers and Plastics, Biomedical Engineering, Materials Chemistry, and Organic Chemistry.

The scientist has contributed extensively to the study of materials related to conducting polymers and their applications, organic electronics and photovoltaics, advanced sensor and energy harvesting materials, perovskite materials and their applications, polymer composites and self-healing materials, organic light-emitting diodes, and force microscopy techniques.

Key recent publications by Xiaodan Gu include:

  • Efficient Organic Solar Cell with 16.88% Efficiency Enabled by Refined Acceptor Crystallization and Morphology with Improved Charge Transfer and Transport Properties, 2020, Advanced Energy Materials
  • High-brightness all-polymer stretchable LED with charge-trapping dilution, 2022, Nature
  • Ultra-conformal skin electrodes with synergistically enhanced conductivity for long-time and low-motion artifact epidermal electrophysiology, 2021, Nature Communications
  • The coupling and competition of crystallization and phase separation, correlating thermodynamics and kinetics in OPV morphology and performances, 2021, Nature Communications
  • Bioadhesive polymer semiconductors and transistors for intimate biointerfaces, 2023, Science

Xiaodan Gu frequently collaborates with other researchers including Yunfei Wang, Song Zhang, Guorong Ma, Simon Rondeau-Gagné, and Zhiqiang Cao. These collaborations represent sustained and active partnerships across various projects.

The scientist's research outputs have appeared in multiple publication venues, predominantly:

  • Macromolecules (16 publications)
  • Chemistry of Materials (15 publications)
  • Advanced Functional Materials (11 publications)
  • Nature Communications (9 publications)
  • Advanced Materials (9 publications)

The research work of Xiaodan Gu emphasizes the development and understanding of organic electronic materials and devices, focusing on improving performance characteristics such as charge transfer, crystallization behavior, conductivity, and device flexibility. These contributions span experimental studies and applications in energy harvesting, bioelectronic interfaces, and optoelectronic devices.

Best Publications

  • Intrinsically stretchable and healable semiconducting polymer for organic transistors

    Jin Young Oh;Simon Rondeau-Gagné;Simon Rondeau-Gagné;Yu-Cheng Chiu;Yu-Cheng Chiu;Alex Chortos

  • Highly stretchable polymer semiconductor films through the nanoconfinement effect

    Jie Xu;Sihong Wang;Ging Ji Nathan Wang;Chenxin Zhu

  • Stretchable Self-Healing Polymeric Dielectrics Cross-Linked Through Metal–Ligand Coordination

    Ying-Li Rao;Alex Chortos;Raphael Pfattner;Franziska Lissel

  • Efficient Organic Solar Cell With 16.88% Efficiency Enabled by Refined Acceptor Crystallization and Morphology With Improved Charge Transfer and Transport Properties

    Lei Zhu;Lei Zhu;Ming Zhang;Guanqing Zhou;Tianyu Hao

  • High-brightness all-polymer stretchable LED with charge-trapping dilution

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  • The meniscus-guided deposition of semiconducting polymers

    Xiaodan Gu;Leo Shaw;Kevin Gu;Michael F. Toney

  • Multi-scale ordering in highly stretchable polymer semiconducting films.

    Jie Xu;Jie Xu;Hung-Chin Wu;Chenxin Zhu;Anatol Ehrlich

  • Aggregation-Induced Multilength Scaled Morphology Enabling 11.76% Efficiency in All-Polymer Solar Cells Using Printing Fabrication

    Lei Zhu;Lei Zhu;Wenkai Zhong;Chaoqun Qiu;Bosai Lyu

  • Ultra-conformal skin electrodes with synergistically enhanced conductivity for long-time and low-motion artifact epidermal electrophysiology

    Yan Zhao;Song Zhang;Tianhao Yu;Yan Zhang

  • Stretchable self-healable semiconducting polymer film for active-matrix strain-sensing array

    Jin Young Oh;Jin Young Oh;Donghee Son;Donghee Son;Donghee Son;Toru Katsumata;Toru Katsumata;Yeongjun Lee

  • 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

  • Pyrazine-Flanked Diketopyrrolopyrrole (DPP): A New Polymer Building Block for High-Performance n-Type Organic Thermoelectrics

    Xinwen Yan;Miao Xiong;Jia-Tong Li;Song Zhang

  • 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

  • Bioadhesive polymer semiconductors and transistors for intimate biointerfaces

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  • Two-dimensional nanomaterials for biosensing applications

    Shao Su;Qian Sun;Xiaodan Gu;Yongqiang Xu

  • An Intrinsically Stretchable High-Performance Polymer Semiconductor with Low Crystallinity

    Yu Zheng;Ging Ji Nathan Wang;Jiheong Kang;Mark Nikolka

  • An in situ grazing incidence X-ray scattering study of block copolymer thin films during solvent vapor annealing.

    Xiaodan Gu;Ilja Gunkel;Ilja Gunkel;Alexander Hexemer;Weiyin Gu

  • A molecular design approach towards elastic and multifunctional polymer electronics

    Yu Zheng;Zhiao Yu;Song Zhang;Xian Kong

  • Tuning the Mechanical Properties of a Polymer Semiconductor by Modulating Hydrogen Bonding Interactions

    Yu Zheng;Minoru Ashizawa;Minoru Ashizawa;Song Zhang;Jiheong Kang;Jiheong Kang

  • Effects of Molecular Structure and Packing Order on the Stretchability of Semicrystalline Conjugated Poly(Tetrathienoacene-diketopyrrolopyrrole) Polymers

    Chien Lu;Chien Lu;Wen-Ya Lee;Xiaodan Gu;Xiaodan Gu;Xiaodan Gu;Jie Xu

  • Role of Polymer Structure on the Conductivity of N-Doped Polymers

    Benjamin D. Naab;Xiaodan Gu;Tadanori Kurosawa;John W. F. To

  • Pattern transfer using block copolymers.

    Xiaodan Gu;Ilja Gunkel;Ilja Gunkel;Thomas P. Russell

  • Unidirectionally aligned line patterns driven by entropic effects on faceted surfaces

    Sung Woo Hong;June Huh;Xiaodan Gu;Dong Hyun Lee

Frequent Co-Authors

Zhenan Bao
Zhenan Bao Stanford University
Thomas P. Russell
Thomas P. Russell University of Massachusetts Amherst
Michael F. Toney
Michael F. Toney University of Colorado Boulder
Kunlun Hong
Kunlun Hong Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Bob C. Schroeder
Bob C. Schroeder University College London
Hung-Chin Wu
Hung-Chin Wu Stanford University
Cheng Wang
Cheng Wang Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Jianguo Mei
Jianguo Mei Purdue University West Lafayette
Gi Xue
Gi Xue Nanjing University
Yong Cao
Yong Cao South China University of Technology

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