武汉理工大学王涛课题组

The Tao Wang Research Group

Prof. Tao Wang received a B.S. in Polymer Materials (2002) and an M.S. in Materials Science (2005). He obtained his Ph.D. in Soft Condensed Matter Physics from the University of Surrey (UK) in Feb. 2009, under the supervision of Prof. Joe Keddie. He then took a post-doc position in the same group until Oct. 2009 when he moved to the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Sheffield (UK), where he worked with Prof. Richard Jones, FRS and Prof. David Lidzey on organic solar cells. He was awarded funding from “Recruitment Program of Global Experts” (The Thousand Talents Plan) of China in 2013 and was appointed professor in the School of Materials Science & Engineering, Wuhan University of Technology (China). His research interests are optoelectronic devices, polymer physics and polymer materials.

Honors & Awards:

1.   Fellow of Royal Society of Chemistry, UK, 2019

2.   Vice Chancellor's Young Achiever Award, University of Surrey, UK, 2017

3.   Recruitment Program of Global Experts (The Thousand Talents Plan), China, 2013

4.   Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-financed Students Abroad, China Scholarship Council and the Ministry of Education, China, 2007

5.   Ian Macmillan Ward Prize, Polymer Physics Group, Institute of Physics, UK, 2007

Selective Publications:

1. Donor-acceptor mutually diluted heterojunctions for layer-by-layer fabrication of high-performance organic solar cells. Liang Wang, Chen Chen, Yiwei Fu, Chuanhang Guo, Donghui Li, Jingchao Cheng, Wei Sun, Zirui Gan, Yuandong Sun, Bojun Zhou, Chenghao Liu, Dan Liu, Wei Li, Tao Wang*. Nature Energy accepted (2023)

2. Electronic force promoted intermolecular stacking of polymer donors toward 19.4% efficiency binary organic solar cells. Zirui Gan, Liang Wang, Jinlong Cai, Chuanhang Guo, Chen Chen, Donghui Li, Yiwei Fu, Bojun Zhou, Yuandong Sun, Chenhao Liu, Jing Zhou, Dan Liu, Wei Li, Tao Wang*. Nature Communications 14:6297 (2023)

3. Molecular order control of non-fullerene acceptors for high efficiency polymer solar cells. Wei Li, Mengxue Chen, Jinlong Cai, Emma K.L. Spooner, Huijun Zhang, Robert S. Gurney, Dan Liu, Zuo Xiao, David G. Lidzey, Liming Ding*, Tao Wang*. Joule 3: 819-833 (2019)

4. Fibrillization of non-fullerene acceptors enables 19% efficiency pseudo-bulk heterojunction organic solar cells. Donghui Li, Nan Deng, Yiwei Fu, Chuanhang Guo, Bojun Zhou, Liang Wang, Jing Zhou, Dan Liu, Wei Li, Kai Wang, Yanming Sun, Tao Wang*. Adv. Mater. 35: 2208211 (2023)

5. Polycrystalline polymer donor as pre-aggregate toward ordered molecular aggregation for 19.3% efficiency binary organic solar cells. Chuanhuang, Guo, Yiwei Fu, Donghui Li, Liang Wang, Bojun Zhou, Chen Chen, Jing Zhou, Yuandong Sun, Zirui Gan, Dan Liu, Wei Li, Tao Wang*. Adv. Mater. 35: 2304921 (2023)

6. Alkoxythiophene directed fibrillization of polymer donor for efficient organic solar cells. Chenhao Liu+, Yiwei Fu+, Jinpeng Zhou, Liang Wang, Chunhang Guo, Jingchao Cheng, Wei Sun, Chen Chen, Jing Zhou, Dan Liu, Wei Li, Tao Wang*. Adv. Mater. 35: 2308608 (2023)

7. Tuning of the Interconnecting layer for monolithic perovskite/organic tandem solar cells with record efficiency exceeding 21%. Pang Wang, Wei Li, Oskar Sandberg, Chuanhang Guo, Rui Sun, Hui Wang, Donghui Li, Huijun Zhang, Shili Cheng, Dan Liu, Jie Min, Ardalan Armin, Tao Wang*. Nano Lett. 21: 7845-7854 (2021)

8. Cold-aging and solvent vapor mediated aggregation control toward 18% efficiency binary organic solar cells. Chuanhang Guo, Donghui Li, Liang Wang, Baocai Du, Zhi-Xi Liu, Ziqiu Shen, Pang Wang, Xue Zhang, Jinlong Cai, Shili Cheng, Cong Yu, Hui Wang, Dan Liu, Chang-Zhi Li, Tao Wang*. Adv. Energy Mater. 11: 2102000 (2021)

9. Conjugated-polymer blends for organic photovoltaics: Rational control of vertical stratification for high performance. Yu Yan, Xuan Liu, Tao Wang*. Adv. Mater. 29: 1601674 (2017)

10. Light-soaking-free inverted polymer solar cells with an efficiency of 10.5% by compositional and surface modifications to a low-temperature-processed TiO₂ electron-transport layer. Yu Yan, Feilong Cai, Liyan Yang, Jinghai Li, Yiwei Zhang, Fei Qin, Chuanxi Xiong, Yinhua Zhou, David G. Lidzey, Tao Wang*. Adv. Mater. 29: 1604044 (2017)