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*. Nat. Energy, 9: 208-218 (2024)
2. Perovskite-organic tandem solar cells. Kai O. Brinkmann*+, Pang Wang*+, Felix Lang, Wei Li, Xiao Guo, Florian Zimmermann, Selina Olthof, Dieter Neher, Yi You, Martin Stolterfoht, Tao Wang*, Alexandra B. Djurišić, Thomas Riedl*. Nat. Rev. Mater., 9: 202-217 (2024)
3. Molecular interaction induced dual fibrils towards organic solar cells with certified efficiency over 20%. Chen Chen, Liang Wang, Weiyi Xia, Ke Qiu, Chuanhang Guo, Zirui Gan, Jing Zhou, Yuandong Sun, Dan Liu, Wei Li, Tao Wang*. Nat. Commun., 15: 6865 (2024)
4. 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*. Nat. Commun., 14: 6297 (2023)
5. Device engineering of non-fullerene organic photovoltaics with extrapolated operational T80 lifetime over 45000 hours in air. Jingchao Cheng, Chuanhang Guo, Liang Wang, Yiwei Fu, Donghui Li, Chen Chen, Zirui Gan, Yuandong Sun, Dan Liu, Wei Li, Tao Wang*. Joule, 8: 2250-2264 (2024)
6. Tuning of the polymeric nano-fibril geometry via side-chain interaction towards 20.1% efficiency organic solar cells. Jing Zhou, Liang Wang, Chenhao Liu, Chuanhang Guo, Chen Chen, Yuandong Sun, Yujie Yang, Jingchao Cheng, Zirui Gan, Zhenghong Chen, Wei Sun, Jinpeng Zhou, Weiyi Xia, Dan Liu, Wei Li, Tao Wang*. J. Am. Chem. Soc., 146: 34998 (2024)
7. Diluted ternary heterojunctions to suppress charge recombination for organic solar cells with 21% efficiency. Liang Wang, Chen Chen, Zirui Gan, Jingchao Cheng, Yuandong Sun, Jing Zhou, Weiyi Xia, Dan Liu, Wei Li, Tao Wang*. Adv. Mater., 37: 2419923 (2025)
8. 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 (2024)
9. 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)
10. A 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)
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