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Overview

Xugang Guo is affiliated with the Southern University of Science and Technology in China and has a significant research footprint in the fields of Engineering and Materials Science. Their primary research focus lies at the intersection of Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Polymers and Plastics, with additional contributions in Materials Chemistry and Biomedical Engineering.

The scientist's work extensively covers topics in Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics, Conducting Polymers and Applications, and Perovskite Materials and Applications. Other areas explored include Organic Light-Emitting Diodes Research, Molecular Junctions and Nanostructures, Chalcogenide Semiconductor Thin Films, and Advanced Thermoelectric Materials and Devices.

Recent publications by Xugang Guo include:

  • The journey of conducting polymers from discovery to application (2020) in Nature Materials
  • A solution-processed n-type conducting polymer with ultrahigh conductivity (2022) in Nature
  • 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) in Advanced Materials
  • High-Performance n-Type Polymer Semiconductors: Applications, Recent Development, and Challenges (2020) in Chem
  • Vertical organic electrochemical transistors for complementary circuits (2023) in Nature

The scientist frequently collaborates with several researchers, including:

  • Han Young Woo
  • Kui Feng
  • Huiliang Sun
  • Junwei Wang
  • Sang Young Jeong

Key publication venues for their research work include:

  • Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Angewandte Chemie
  • Advanced Materials
  • Advanced Functional Materials
  • ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

Best Publications

  • Imide- and Amide-Functionalized Polymer Semiconductors

    Xugang Guo;Antonio Facchetti;Tobin J. Marks

  • Polymer solar cells with enhanced fill factors

    Xugang Guo;Xugang Guo;Nanjia Zhou;Sylvia J. Lou;Jeremy Smith

  • Material insights and challenges for non-fullerene organic solar cells based on small molecular acceptors

    Jianquan Zhang;Huei Shuan Tan;Xugang Guo;Antonio Facchetti

  • A solution-processed n-type conducting polymer with ultrahigh conductivity

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  • The journey of conducting polymers from discovery to application

    Xugang Guo;Antonio Facchetti

  • Conjugated polymers from naphthalene bisimide.

    Xugang Guo;Mark D Watson

  • Vertical organic electrochemical transistors for complementary circuits

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  • High-mobility ambipolar transistors and high-gain inverters from a donor-acceptor copolymer semiconductor.

    Felix Sunjoo Kim;Xugang Guo;Mark D. Watson;Samson A. Jenekhe

  • 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

  • Monolithic perovskite/organic tandem solar cells with 23.6% efficiency enabled by reduced voltage losses and optimized interconnecting layer

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  • Bithiopheneimide–Dithienosilole/Dithienogermole Copolymers for Efficient Solar Cells: Information from Structure–Property–Device Performance Correlations and Comparison to Thieno[3,4-c]pyrrole-4,6-dione Analogues

    Xugang Guo;Nanjia Zhou;Sylvia J. Lou;Jonathan W. Hennek

  • Slip-Stacked Perylenediimides as an Alternative Strategy for High Efficiency Nonfullerene Acceptors in Organic Photovoltaics

    Patrick E. Hartnett;Amod Timalsina;H. S. S. Ramakrishna Matte;Nanjia Zhou

  • A monothiophene unit incorporating both fluoro and ester substitution enabling high-performance donor polymers for non-fullerene solar cells with 16.4% efficiency

    Huiliang Sun;Tao Liu;Jianwei Yu;Tsz-Ki Lau

  • High-Performance n-Type Polymer Semiconductors: Applications, Recent Development, and Challenges

    Huiliang Sun;Xugang Guo;Antonio Facchetti

  • Dopant-Free Small-Molecule Hole-Transporting Material for Inverted Perovskite Solar Cells with Efficiency Exceeding 21.

    Yang Wang;Yang Wang;Wei Chen;Wei Chen;Lei Wang;Bao Tu

  • Transition metal-catalysed molecular n-doping of organic semiconductors

    Han Guo;Chi-Yuan Yang;Xianhe Zhang;Alessandro Motta

  • Phthalimide-based polymers for high performance organic thin-film transistors.

    Xugang Guo;Felix Sunjoo Kim;Samson A. Jenekhe;Mark D. Watson

  • Bithiophene-Imide-Based Polymeric Semiconductors for Field-Effect Transistors: Synthesis, Structure−Property Correlations, Charge Carrier Polarity, and Device Stability

    Xugang Guo;Rocio Ponce Ortiz;Yan Zheng;Yan Hu

  • Thieno[3,4-c]pyrrole-4,6-dione-Based Polymer Semiconductors: Toward High-Performance, Air-Stable Organic Thin-Film Transistors

    Xugang Guo;Rocio Ponce Ortiz;Rocio Ponce Ortiz;Yan Zheng;Myung Gil Kim

  • Naphthalene Diimide-Based Polymer Semiconductors: Synthesis, Structure–Property Correlations, and n-Channel and Ambipolar Field-Effect Transistors

    Xugang Guo;Felix Sunjoo Kim;Mark J. Seger;Samson A. Jenekhe

  • 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

  • Dialkoxybithiazole: a new building block for head-to-head polymer semiconductors.

    Xugang Guo;Jordan Quinn;Zhihua Chen;Hakan Usta

  • Two compatible polymer donors contribute synergistically for ternary organic solar cells with 17.53% efficiency

    Qiaoshi An;Junwei Wang;Xiaoling Ma;Jinhua Gao

Frequent Co-Authors

Han Young Woo
Han Young Woo Korea University
Antonio Facchetti
Antonio Facchetti Northwestern University
Tobin J. Marks
Tobin J. Marks Northwestern University
Rocio Ponce Ortiz
Rocio Ponce Ortiz University of Malaga
He Yan
He Yan Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Wei Chen
Wei Chen National University of Singapore
Xinhui Lu
Xinhui Lu Chinese University of Hong Kong
Tao Liu
Tao Liu Guangxi University
Lin X. Chen
Lin X. Chen Northwestern University
Yongye Liang
Yongye Liang Southern University of Science and Technology

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