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Yingping Zou is affiliated with Central South University in China and has a substantial research record in the fields of Engineering and Materials Science, with particular emphasis on Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Polymers and Plastics. Their work spans several specialized subfields, including Materials Chemistry, Biomedical Engineering, and Organic Chemistry.

The scientist's research primarily focuses on topics related to Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics, Conducting Polymers and Applications, and Perovskite Materials and Applications. Additional areas of interest include Molecular Junctions and Nanostructures, Thin-Film Transistor Technologies, Organic Light-Emitting Diodes Research, and Luminescence and Fluorescent Materials.

Yingping Zou has frequently published in a variety of scientific journals. The most common venues include:

  • Journal of Materials Chemistry A
  • Solar RRL
  • Science China Chemistry
  • ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
  • Journal of Central South University

Among their notable papers are the following publications:

  • High-efficiency organic solar cells with low non-radiative recombination loss and low energetic disorder, 2020, Nature Photonics
  • Delocalization of exciton and electron wavefunction in non-fullerene acceptor molecules enables efficient organic solar cells, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Recent progress in organic solar cells (Part I material science), 2021, Science China Chemistry
  • Tuning the electron-deficient core of a non-fullerene acceptor to achieve over 17% efficiency in a single-junction organic solar cell, 2020, Energy & Environmental Science
  • Fine-Tuning Energy Levels via Asymmetric End Groups Enables Polymer Solar Cells with Efficiencies over 17%, 2020, Joule

Yingping Zou frequently collaborates with several co-authors, among whom are:

  • Jun Yuan (80 joint publications)
  • Qingya Wei (38 joint publications)
  • Yunbin Hu (23 joint publications)
  • Lihui Jiang (23 joint publications)
  • Xinhui Lu (22 joint publications)

The combined focus of Zou's work centers on the development and enhancement of organic solar cells, polymer solar cells, and related materials and device technologies within organic electronics and photovoltaics. Their research outputs contribute to the broader scientific understanding of energy conversion and materials engineering.

Best Publications

  • Single-Junction Organic Solar Cell with over 15% Efficiency Using Fused-Ring Acceptor with Electron-Deficient Core

    Jun Yuan;Yunqiang Zhang;Liuyang Zhou;Liuyang Zhou;Guichuan Zhang

  • High-efficiency organic solar cells with low non-radiative recombination loss and low energetic disorder

    Sha Liu;Jun Yuan;Wanyuan Deng;Mei Luo

  • Alkyl Chain Tuning of Small Molecule Acceptors for Efficient Organic Solar Cells

    Kui Jiang;Kui Jiang;Qingya Wei;Joshua Yuk Lin Lai;Zhengxing Peng

  • A thieno[3,4-c]pyrrole-4,6-dione-based copolymer for efficient solar cells.

    Yingping Zou;Ahmed Najari;Philippe Berrouard;Serge Beaupré

  • Recent progress in organic solar cells (Part I material science)

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  • Conjugated Polymer Photovoltaic Materials with Broad Absorption Band and High Charge Carrier Mobility

    Yongfang Li;Yingping Zou

  • Delocalization of exciton and electron wavefunction in non-fullerene acceptor molecules enables efficient organic solar cells

    Guichuan Zhang;Xian Kai Chen;Xian Kai Chen;Jingyang Xiao;Philip C.Y. Chow

  • Ultrafast fluorescence imaging in vivo with conjugated polymer fluorophores in the second near-infrared window

    Guosong Hong;Yingping Zou;Alexander L. Antaris;Shuo Diao

  • Enabling low voltage losses and high photocurrent in fullerene-free organic photovoltaics

    Jun Yuan;Tianyi Huang;Pei Cheng;Yingping Zou

  • Recent progress in organic solar cells (Part II device engineering)

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  • A unified description of non-radiative voltage losses in organic solar cells

    Xian-Kai Chen;Deping Qian;Yuming Wang;Thomas Kirchartz;Thomas Kirchartz

  • Tuning the electron-deficient core of a non-fullerene acceptor to achieve over 17% efficiency in a single-junction organic solar cell

    Can Zhu;Jun Yuan;Fangfang Cai;Lei Meng

  • Fine-Tuning Energy Levels via Asymmetric End Groups Enables Polymer Solar Cells with Efficiencies over 17%

    Zhenghui Luo;Ruijie Ma;Tao Liu;Jianwei Yu

  • Biological Imaging Using Nanoparticles of Small Organic Molecules with Fluorescence Emission at Wavelengths Longer than 1000 nm

    Zhimin Tao;Guosong Hong;Chihiro Shinji;Changxin Chen

  • Fused Benzothiadiazole: A Building Block for n-Type Organic Acceptor to Achieve High-Performance Organic Solar Cells

    Jun Yuan;Yunqiang Zhang;Liuyang Zhou;Liuyang Zhou;Chujun Zhang

  • Barrierless Free Charge Generation in the High-Performance PM6:Y6 Bulk Heterojunction Non-Fullerene Solar Cell

    Lorena Perdigon-Toro;Huotian Zhang;Anastaa si Markina;Jun Yuan

  • A-DA′D-A non-fullerene acceptors for high-performance organic solar cells

    Qingya Wei;Wei Liu;Mario Leclerc;Jun Yuan

  • A High-Mobility Low-Bandgap Poly(2,7-carbazole) Derivative for Photovoltaic Applications

    Yingping Zou;David Gendron;Réda Badrou-Aïch;Ahmed Najari

  • Reducing Voltage Losses in the A-DA′D-A Acceptor-Based Organic Solar Cells

    Jun Yuan;Huotian Zhang;Rui Zhang;Yuming Wang

  • Low-Bandgap Non-fullerene Acceptors Enabling High-Performance Organic Solar Cells

    Wei Liu;Xiang Xu;Jun Yuan;Mario Leclerc

  • Synthesis and Characterization of New Thieno[3,4‐c]pyrrole‐4,6‐dione Derivatives for Photovoltaic Applications

    Ahmed Najari;Serge Beaupré;Philippe Berrouard;Yingping Zou

  • Efficient All-Polymer Solar Cells based on a New Polymer Acceptor Achieving 10.3% Power Conversion Efficiency

    Huatong Yao;Fujin Bai;Huawei Hu;Lingeswaran Arunagiri

Frequent Co-Authors

Jun Yuan
Jun Yuan University of York
Yongfang Li
Yongfang Li Soochow University
Yuehui He
Yuehui He Central South University
Mario Leclerc
Mario Leclerc Université Laval
Feng Gao
Feng Gao Linköping University
He Yan
He Yan Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Alexei R. Khokhlov
Alexei R. Khokhlov Lomonosov Moscow State University
Kechao Zhou
Kechao Zhou Central South University
Pei Cheng
Pei Cheng University of California, Los Angeles
Xinhui Lu
Xinhui Lu Chinese University of Hong Kong

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