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Overview

Yilei Wu is affiliated with Stanford University in the United States, with a research focus primarily in the fields of Engineering and Materials Science. Their work involves multiple subfields such as Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Polymers and Plastics, Materials Chemistry, Biomedical Engineering, and Molecular Biology.

The scientist has published extensively on topics including Conducting Polymers and Applications, Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics, Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials, Perovskite Materials and Applications, Porphyrin and Phthalocyanine Chemistry, Luminescence and Fluorescent Materials, and Molecular Junctions and Nanostructures.

Among their recent publications are:

  • Topological supramolecular network enabled high-conductivity, stretchable organic bioelectronics (2022, Science)
  • High-brightness all-polymer stretchable LED with charge-trapping dilution (2022, Nature)
  • Perovskite superlattices with efficient carrier dynamics (2022, Nature)
  • A Design Strategy for Intrinsically Stretchable High-Performance Polymer Semiconductors: Incorporating Conjugated Rigid Fused-Rings with Bulky Side Groups (2021, Journal of the American Chemical Society)
  • F4-TCNQ as an Additive to Impart Stretchable Semiconductors with High Mobility and Stability (2020, Advanced Electronic Materials)

The frequent coauthors in their collaborative works include Zhenan Bao, Jeffrey B.-H. Tok, Yongfang Li, Donglai Zhong, and Yu Zheng.

The venues where Yilei Wu has published most frequently comprise:

  • Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Advanced Functional Materials
  • Solar RRL
  • Nature
  • Advanced Electronic Materials

Best Publications

  • Hybrid Dion–Jacobson 2D Lead Iodide Perovskites

    Lingling Mao;Weijun Ke;Laurent Pedesseau;Yilei Wu

  • White-Light Emission and Structural Distortion in New Corrugated Two-Dimensional Lead Bromide Perovskites

    Lingling Mao;Yilei Wu;Constantinos C. Stoumpos;Michael R. Wasielewski

  • Tunable White-Light Emission in Single-Cation-Templated Three-Layered 2D Perovskites (CH3CH2NH3)4Pb3Br10-xClx

    Lingling Mao;Yilei Wu;Constantinos C. Stoumpos;Boubacar Traore

  • Enabling singlet fission by controlling intramolecular charge transfer in π -stacked covalent terrylenediimide dimers

    Eric A. Margulies;Claire E. Miller;Yilei Wu;Lin Ma

  • Molecular rheometry: direct determination of viscosity in Lo and Ld lipid phases via fluorescence lifetime imaging

    Yilei Wu;Martin Štefl;Martin Štefl;Agnieszka Olzyńska;Martin Hof

  • Ultrafast Photoinduced Symmetry-Breaking Charge Separation and Electron Sharing in Perylenediimide Molecular Triangles.

    Yilei Wu;Ryan M. Young;Marco Frasconi;Severin T. Schneebeli

  • Complexation of polyoxometalates with cyclodextrins

    Yilei Wu;Rufei Shi;Rufei Shi;Yi Lin Wu;James M. Holcroft

  • Electron Sharing and Anion–π Recognition in Molecular Triangular Prisms

    Severin T. Schneebeli;Marco Frasconi;Zhichang Liu;Yilei Wu

  • Perovskite superlattices with efficient carrier dynamics

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  • Ring-fusion as a perylenediimide dimer design concept for high-performance non-fullerene organic photovoltaic acceptors

    Patrick E. Hartnett;H. S.S. Ramakrishna Matte;Nicholas D. Eastham;Nicholas E. Jackson

  • Mapping microbubble viscosity using fluorescence lifetime imaging of molecular rotors

    Neveen A. Hosny;Graciela Mohamedi;Paul Rademeyer;Joshua Owen

  • Dopant-Free Hole Transporting Polymers for High Efficiency, Environmentally Stable Perovskite Solar Cells

    Hsueh Chung Liao;Teck Lip Dexter Tam;Teck Lip Dexter Tam;Peijun Guo;Yilei Wu

  • Fine-Tuning Semiconducting Polymer Self-Aggregation and Crystallinity Enables Optimal Morphology and High-Performance Printed All-Polymer Solar Cells

    Yilei Wu;Sebastian Schneider;Christopher Walter;Ashraful Haider Chowdhury

  • Effects of Crystal Morphology on Singlet Exciton Fission in Diketopyrrolopyrrole Thin Films

    Patrick E. Hartnett;Eric A. Margulies;Catherine M. Mauck;Stephen A. Miller

  • Electron delocalization in a rigid cofacial naphthalene-1,8:4,5-bis(dicarboximide) dimer.

    Yilei Wu;Marco Frasconi;Daniel M. Gardner;Paul R. McGonigal

  • Photoexpulsion of surface-grafted ruthenium complexes and subsequent release of cytotoxic cargos to cancer cells from mesoporous silica nanoparticles.

    Marco Frasconi;Zhichang Liu;Juying Lei;Yilei Wu

  • Exploring viscosity, polarity and temperature sensitivity of BODIPY-based molecular rotors

    Aurimas Vyšniauskas;Ismael López-Duarte;Nicolas Duchemin;Thanh-Truc Vu

  • Correction to "A Design Strategy for Intrinsically Stretchable High-Performance Polymer Semiconductors: Incorporating Conjugated Rigid Fused-Rings with Bulky Side Groups"

    Deyu Liu;Jaewan Mun;Gan Chen;Nathaniel J. Schuster

  • ExTzBox: A Glowing Cyclophane for Live-Cell Imaging

    Indranil Roy;Sharan Bobbala;Jiawang Zhou;Minh T. Nguyen

  • Assembly of Supramolecular Nanotubes from Molecular Triangles and 1,2-Dihalohydrocarbons

    Zhichang Liu;Guoliang Liu;Yilei Wu;Dennis Cao

  • An Electrochromic Tristable Molecular Switch.

    Junling Sun;Yilei Wu;Yuping Wang;Zhichang Liu

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael R. Wasielewski
Michael R. Wasielewski Northwestern University
J. Fraser Stoddart
J. Fraser Stoddart Northwestern University
Marco Frasconi
Marco Frasconi University of Padua
William A. Goddard
William A. Goddard California Institute of Technology
Ryan M. Young
Ryan M. Young Northwestern University
Marina K. Kuimova
Marina K. Kuimova Imperial College London
Mercouri G. Kanatzidis
Mercouri G. Kanatzidis Northwestern University
Hai Xiao
Hai Xiao Tsinghua University
Tobin J. Marks
Tobin J. Marks Northwestern University
Lin X. Chen
Lin X. Chen Northwestern University

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