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Yongzhen Wu is affiliated with the East China University of Science and Technology in China. The primary fields of study for this researcher include Engineering, with a strong focus also on Materials Science. Within these areas, the main subfields encompass Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Materials Chemistry, Polymers and Plastics, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, as well as Organic Chemistry.

Their research spans several key topics related to advanced materials and electronic applications. These topics include:

  • Perovskite Materials and Applications
  • Conducting polymers and applications
  • Quantum Dots Synthesis And Properties
  • Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics
  • Organic Light-Emitting Diodes Research
  • Chalcogenide Semiconductor Thin Films
  • Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques

Yongzhen Wu has published extensively in a number of scientific journals. The frequent publication venues for this researcher are:

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

Among the recent scientific papers authored by this researcher are:

  • "Minimizing buried interfacial defects for efficient inverted perovskite solar cells" (2023), published in Science
  • "Reconstructed covalent organic frameworks" (2022), published in Nature
  • "The Main Progress of Perovskite Solar Cells in 2020-2021" (2021), published in Nano-Micro Letters
  • "High Electron Affinity Enables Fast Hole Extraction for Efficient Flexible Inverted Perovskite Solar Cells" (2020), published in Advanced Energy Materials
  • "A Coplanar π-Extended Quinoxaline Based Hole-Transporting Material Enabling over 21% Efficiency for Dopant-Free Perovskite Solar Cells" (2020), published in Angewandte Chemie International Edition

This researcher collaborates frequently with several colleagues, including:

  • Weihong Zhu
  • Shuo Zhang
  • Huidong Zhang
  • Huanxin Guo
  • Shuaijun Liu

Best Publications

  • Efficient and stable large-area perovskite solar cells with inorganic charge extraction layers

    Wei Chen;Wei Chen;Yongzhen Wu;Youfeng Yue;Jian Liu

  • Organic sensitizers from D-π-A to D-A-π-A: effect of the internal electron-withdrawing units on molecular absorption, energy levels and photovoltaic performances.

    Yongzhen Wu;Weihong Zhu

  • Sulfone-containing covalent organic frameworks for photocatalytic hydrogen evolution from water

    Xiaoyan Wang;Linjiang Chen;Samantha Y. Chong;Marc A. Little

  • Minimizing buried interfacial defects for efficient inverted perovskite solar cells

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  • Retarding the crystallization of PbI2 for highly reproducible planar-structured perovskite solar cells via sequential deposition

    Yongzhen Wu;Ashraful Islam;Xudong Yang;Chuanjiang Qin

  • A dopant-free hole-transporting material for efficient and stable perovskite solar cells

    Jian Liu;Yongzhen Wu;Chuanjiang Qin;Xudong Yang

  • Organic D-A-π-A Solar Cell Sensitizers with Improved Stability and Spectral Response

    Weihong Zhu;Yongzhen Wu;Shutao Wang;Wenqin Li

  • Perovskite solar cells with 18.21% efficiency and area over 1 cm 2 fabricated by heterojunction engineering

    Yongzhen Wu;Xudong Yang;Wei Chen;Youfeng Yue

  • Thermally Stable MAPbI3 Perovskite Solar Cells with Efficiency of 19.19% and Area over 1 cm2 achieved by Additive Engineering.

    Yongzhen Wu;Fengxian Xie;Han Chen;Xudong Yang

  • Reconstructed covalent organic frameworks

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  • Cost-Performance Analysis of Perovskite Solar Modules.

    Molang Cai;Yongzhen Wu;Han Chen;Xudong Yang

  • Vertical recrystallization for highly efficient and stable formamidinium-based inverted-structure perovskite solar cells

    Fengxian Xie;Chun-Chao Chen;Yongzhen Wu;Xing Li

  • Diffusion engineering of ions and charge carriers for stable efficient perovskite solar cells

    Enbing Bi;Han Chen;Fengxian Xie;Yongzhen Wu

  • The Main Progress of Perovskite Solar Cells in 2020-2021.

    Tianhao Wu;Zhenzhen Qin;Yanbo Wang;Yongzhen Wu

  • High-conversion-efficiency organic dye-sensitized solar cells: molecular engineering on D–A–π-A featured organic indoline dyes

    Yongzhen Wu;Magdalena Marszalek;Shaik M. Zakeeruddin;Qiong Zhang

  • Efficient Defect Passivation for Perovskite Solar Cells by Controlling the Electron Density Distribution of Donor-π-Acceptor Molecules

    Tianhao Wu;Yanbo Wang;Xing Li;Yongzhen Wu

  • Hybrid interfacial layer leads to solid performance improvement of inverted perovskite solar cells

    Wei Chen;Wei Chen;Yongzhen Wu;Jian Liu;Chuanjiang Qin

  • Efficient and Stable Chemical Passivation on Perovskite Surface via Bidentate Anchoring

    Hao Zhang;Yongzhen Wu;Chao Shen;Erpeng Li

  • Insight into D-A-π-A Structured Sensitizers: A Promising Route to Highly Efficient and Stable Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells.

    Yongzhen Wu;Wei-Hong Zhu;Shaik M. Zakeeruddin;Michael Grätzel

  • Incorporating Benzotriazole Moiety to Construct D–A−π–A Organic Sensitizers for Solar Cells: Significant Enhancement of Open-Circuit Photovoltage with Long Alkyl Group

    Yan Cui;Yongzhen Wu;Xuefeng Lu;Xi Zhang

  • Highly compact TiO2 layer for efficient hole-blocking in perovskite solar cells

    Yongzhen Wu;Xudong Yang;Han Chen;Kun Zhang

  • High Electron Affinity Enables Fast Hole Extraction for Efficient Flexible Inverted Perovskite Solar Cells

    Pengbin Ru;Enbing Bi;Yao Zhang;Yanbo Wang

  • A novel D–A-π-A organic sensitizer containing a diketopyrrolopyrrole unit with a branched alkyl chain for highly efficient and stable dye-sensitized solar cells

    Sanyin Qu;Sanyin Qu;Chuanjiang Qin;Ashraful Islam;Yongzhen Wu

Frequent Co-Authors

Liyuan Han
Liyuan Han Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Weihong Zhu
Weihong Zhu East China University of Science and Technology
Xudong Yang
Xudong Yang Shanghai Jiao Tong University
He Tian
He Tian East China University of Science and Technology
Ashraful Islam
Ashraful Islam National Institute for Materials Science
Molang Cai
Molang Cai North China Electric Power University
Fengxian Xie
Fengxian Xie Fudan University
Wei Chen
Wei Chen National University of Singapore
Michael Grätzel
Michael Grätzel École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Chuanjiang Qin
Chuanjiang Qin Chinese Academy of Sciences

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