Yongzhen Wu
Professor, PhD Supervisor, Recipient of the NSFC Distinguished Young Scholar
School of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering
wu.yongzhen@ecust.edu.cn
Room 301, Building 13
Personal Profile
  • 2004. 09 - 2008. 06: School of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology, Bachelor’s degree
  • 2008. 09 - 2013. 06: East China University of Science and Technology, School of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Master’s and PhD
  • 2013. 10 - 2016. 10: National Institute for Materials Science, Japan, Postdoctoral Researcher
  • 2016. 10 - 2019. 08: East China University of Science and Technology, School of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Distinguished Professor
  • 2019. 09 - Present, School of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology, Professor
Research Interests
  • Organic optoelectronic functional materials
  • Halide perovskites
  • Novel optoelectronic devices
Research Achievements
  • 1. Minimising buried interfacial defects for efficient inverted perovskite solar cells. Science, 2023
  • 2. Formamidinium lead iodide-based inverted perovskite solar cells with efficiency over 25% enabled by an amphiphilic molecular hole-transporter. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2024
  • 3. Immobilising surface halide in perovskite solar cells via calixpyrrole. Adv. Mater., 2023
  • 4. Overcoming C60-induced interfacial recombination in inverted perovskite solar cells by electron-transporting carborane. Nat. Commun., 2022
  • 5. Circularly polarised perovskite luminescence with a dissymmetry factor of up to 1.9 via a soft helix bilayer device. Matter, 2022
Awards and Honours
  • 2024: National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars
  • 2020: Chinese Chemical Society Young Chemist Award
  • 2019: Second Prize, National Natural Science Award
  • 2018: National Science Fund for Excellent Young Scholars
  • 2017: First Prize, Shanghai Natural Science Award
  • 2017: Selected for the Chinese Chemical Society Young Talent Support Programme
  • 2016: Selected as a Shanghai Oriental Scholar