NEWS

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• Oct-14-2023: Our warmest congratulations to five JEN group alums on receiving 2022-23 国家高层次青年人才 honors!  (Link). 

• Jul-11-2023: Our collaborative research article entitled "Active self-assembly of piezoelectric biomolecular films via synergistic nanoconfinement and in-situ poling" is now online at Nat. Commun. (Link). 

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• May-10-2023: Our insightful research on the effect of evaporation dynamics and selective interaction of solid additives on vertical component distribution is now online at Adv. Mater (Link) entitled "Understanding the Role of Removable Solid Additives: Selective Interaction Contributes to Vertical Component Distributions". Congratulations to Baobing! ​​​​

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• Apr-10-2023: Our insightful article on modulating the kinetics of perovskite film growth by non-volatile additive is now online at Nature Photonics (Link) entitled "Hydrogen-bond-bridged intermediate for perovskite solar cells with enhanced efficiency and stability". Congratulations to Fengzhu and Xiang!

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• Mar-22-2023: Our study on improving the OSCs stability by a dimer acceptor with flexible linker is now online at Angew. Chem. Int. E. (Link) entitled " Dimer Acceptor Adopting a Flexible Linker for Efficient and Durable Organic Solar Cells". Congratulations to Feng and Yanxun!

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• Mar-07-2023: Our perspective on perovskite-organic tandem solar cells is now online at Joule (Link) entitled "Prospects and challenges for perovskite-organic tandem solar cells". Congratulations to Shengfan!

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• Mar-03-2023: Our research on non-fullerene acceptors based on local-isomerized conjugated side groups in organic solar cells is now online at J. Am. Chem. Soc. (Link) entitled "Correlation of Local Isomerization Induced Lateral and Terminal Torsions with Performance and Stability of Organic Photovoltaics". Congratulations to Baobing and Wei!

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• Mar-03-2023: Our study on clarifying the functions of Cl-based volatile additives and MA-based additives in formamidinium lead iodide (FAPbI3) is now online at J. Am. Chem. Soc. (Link) entitled "Deciphering the Roles of MA-Based Volatile Additives for α-FAPbI3 to Enable Efficient Inverted Perovskite Solar Cells". Congratulations to Leyu and Qiang!

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• Nov-15-2022: Our insightful article on alleviating spin-mediated loss in OPVs is now online at Nature Energy (Link) entitled "Suppressed recombination loss in organic photovoltaics adopting a planar–mixed heterojunction architecture". Congratulations to Kui and Ray! This is our 2nd paper published on Nature Energy and 4th paper published on Nature series journals in 2022!

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• Nov-07-2022: Congratulations to Yichao for being awarded the high recognition from RGC in this year's Hong Kong Postdoc Fellowship! 

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• Oct-27-2022: Our work on designing hole-selective SAMs for high-performance (PCE>24%) inverted perovskite solar cells was published on Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. (Link). Congratulations to Wenlin, Fengzhu and Mingliang! This is our third paper published on Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. in 2022!

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• Oct-08-2022: An insightful study on the correlation between the molecular structure of non-fullerene acceptors and OPV cell performance/stability is now online at Nature Communications (Link). Congratulations to Baobing and Wei!

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• Sep-19-2022: Our collaborative review article in understanding the microstructures in perovskite solar cells entitled "Advances and challenges in understanding the microscopic structure–property–performance relationship in perovskite solar cells" is now online at Nature Energy (Link)!

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• Aug-05-2022: Our collaborative review article summarizing the progression of OPV materials over the past decade entitled "Renewed Prospects for Organic Photovoltaics" is now online at Chemical Reviews (Link)!

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• Jun-24-2022: An insightful research entitled "A Top‐Down Strategy to Engineer Active Layer Morphology for Highly Efficient and Stable All‐Polymer Solar Cells" is now online at Adv. Mater. (Link). We employed layer-by-layer processing technique to fabricate high-performance all-polymer solar cells and conducted in-depth morphological study. Congratulations to Huiting and Qunping! This is our third paper published on Adv. Mater. in 2022!

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• Jun-23-2022: Paper on the molecular design of high-performance small-molecule donor materials by introducing intramolecular Cl-S non-covalent interaction now published on Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. (Link). Congratulations to Wei!

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• Jun-20-2022: Paper on Se-functionalized pseudo-symmetric electron acceptor for over 19% PCE OSCs now published on Adv. Mater. (Link). Congratulations to Wei and Feng!

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• Jun-03-2022: The article entitled "Non-Fullerene Acceptor Doped Block Copolymer for Efficient and Stable Organic Solar Cells" is now online at ACS Energy Lett. (Link). This work presents an effective strategy to address the efficiency-stability tradeoff in block-copolymer-based OSCs. Congratulations to Yue and Qunping!

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• Jun-03-2022: An ultra-narrow band-gap n-type acceptor was designed and achieved decent performance in both all-PSCs and polymeric photodetectors. The article is now online at ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces (Link). Congratulations to Qunping and Huiting!

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• Apr-07-2022: Paper on applying plasmonic local heating effects to modulate residual strain for highly stable perovskite solar cells now published on Adv. Energy Mater. (Link). Congratulations to Fengzhu!

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• Mar-22-2022: A systematic investigation is presented to reveal the impacts of side-chain substituents on the photovoltaic properties of polymerized SMAs. This research is now published on Macromol. Rapid Comm. (Link). Congratulations to Huiting!

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• Feb-28-2022: An insightful review on the research of interface engineering in solution-processed thin-film solar cells of Jen Research Group over the past decade is now published online at Acc. Mater. Res. (Link). Congratulations to Fengzhu!

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• Feb-26-2022: Our collaborative article entitled "The Molecular Ordering and Double-Channel Carrier Generation of Nonfullerene Photovoltaics within Multi-Length-Scale Morphology" is now published on Adv. Mater. (Link). 

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• Feb-01-2022: The synergetic selenophene-substitution and halogenation enable near-infrared absorbing polymerized-SMAs for high-performance all-PSCs. This paper is now online at Nano Energy (Link).  Congratulations to Qunping and Huiting!

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• Dec-03-2021: An asymmetrical molecular design strategy is developed to precisely manipulate the optical absorption and electronic properties of polymerized SMAs for high-performance all-PSCs. This work is now published on Sci. China Chem. (Link). Congratulations to Huiting, Qunping and Wei!

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