Faculty Profile

Liyang Yu is a Yanghua Scholar (B) of Southwest Jiaotong University, a special appointment researcher, and a doctoral supervisor. His main research areas include material and process development of new optoelectronic functional devices such as organic solar cells, organic field-effect transistors, organic sensors and organic thermoelectric devices, micro-nano structure control, in-situ characterization of solution processing processes, etc. He published over 100 academic papers, including publications as first or corresponding author in journals such as Sci. Adv., Nat. Commun., Adv. Mater., etc., with more than 7,000 citations, and an h -index of 41. He has been granted with 2 international invention patents and 3 utility model patents. He is a member of multiple professional associations. He was supported by the Tianfu Emei Talent Program of Sichuan Province, and awarded Emerging Investigator of the Royal Society of Chemistry's J. Mater. Chem. C in 2021.

Recruiting master and doctoral students with backgrounds in materials technology, organic chemistry and device physics. Please contact: liyangyu@swjtu.edu.cn

Research Fields

· Organic electrochemical transistors and organic sensors

· Processing techniques for organic/perovskite photovoltaic materials

· Thermal analysis, spectral analysis and synchrotron-based diffraction analysis of organic materials

Education

2008.7–2012.3              PhD, Imperial College London, Supervisor: Natalie Stingelin

2006.10–2008.6            BEng, Queen Mary University of London

2004.9–2006.6              BEng, Beihang University (Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics)

Employment

Since 2024.3                  Special appointed Researcher, Research Institute of Frontier Science, Southwest Jiaotong University

2019.5-2024.2               Special appointed Associate Researcher, College of Chemistry/School of Chemical Engineering, Sichuan University

2015.11–2019.4             Postdoc/Researcher, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Chalmers University of Techology

2013.3–2015.11             Postdoc Researcher, Solar Center, King Abdulah University of Science and Technology

2012.3–2013.3               Research Assistant, Department of Materials Science, Imperial College of London

Selected publication

[1] Liyang Yu, Muhammad R. Niazi, Guy O. Ngongang Ndjawa, Ruipeng Li, Ahmad R. Kirmani, Rahim Munir, Ahmed H. Balawi, Frédéric Laquai and Aram Amassian* Sci. Adv., 3, e1602462 (2017)

“Programmable and coherent crystallization of semiconductors”

[2] Weili Yu, Feng Li, Liyang Yu, Muhammad R. K. Niazi, Yuting Zou, Daniel Corzo, Aniruddha Basu, Chun Ma, Sukumar Dey, Max L. Tietze, Ulrich Buttner, Xianbin Wang, Zhihong Wang, Mohamed N. Hedhili, Chunnel Guo, Tom Wu and Aram Amassian* Nat. Commun., 9, 5354 (2018) (共同第一作者)

“Single-crystal hybrid perovskite field-effect transistors”

[3] Min Deng, Xiaopeng Xu,* Yuwei Duan, Liyang Yu,* Ruipeng Li, and Qiang Peng* Adv. Mater. 2308216 (2024)

“19.32% Efficiency Polymer Solar Cells Enabled by Fine-Tuning Stacking Modes of Y-Type Molecule Acceptors: Synergistic Bromine and Fluorine Substitution of the End Groups”

[3] Sheng Hao, Xiaopeng Xu, Liyang Yu,* Shaoqian Peng, Jianlong Xia, Yuan Xie, Chunhui Duan,* Hongbin Wu, Ruipeng Li, Qiang Peng* Adv. Mater. 35, 2301732 (2023)

“Saddle-Shaped Third Component with Out-of-Plane Electrostatic Dipole for Realizing High-Performance Photovoltaic Donor Terpolymers”

[4] Liyang Yu,* Egon Pavlica, Ruipeng Li, Yufei Zhong, Carlos Silva, Gvido Bratina, Christian Müller, Aram Amassian, and Natalie Stingelin* Adv. Mater., 34, 2103002 (2022)

“Conjugated polymer mesocrystals with structural and optoelectronic coherence and anisotropy in three dimensions”

[5] Xiaopeng Xu, Guangjun Zhang, Liyang Yu,* Ruipeng Li and Qiang Peng* Adv. Mater., 31, 1906045, (2019)

"P3HT-based polymer solar cells with 8.25% efficiency enabled by a matched molecular acceptor and smart green-solvent processing technology"

[6] Min Deng, Xiaopeng Xu, Yuwei Duan, Liyang Yu,* Ruipeng Li, and Qiang Peng* Adv. Mater. 2210760 (2023)

“Y-Type Non-Fullerene Acceptors with Outer Branched Side Chains and Inner Cyclohexane Side Chains for 19.36% Efficiency Polymer Solar Cells”

[7] Jie Tang, Chentong Liao, Yuwei Duan, Xiaopeng Xu, Min Deng, Liyang Yu,* Ruipeng Li, Qiang Peng* Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 61, 50, e202213252 (2022)

" Wide Band-gap Polymer Donors Functionalized with Unconventional Carbamate Side Chains for Organic Solar Cells”

[8] Tongyan Yang, Chentong Liao, Yuwei Duan, Xiaopeng Xu, Min Deng, Liyang Yu,* Ruipeng Li and Qiang Peng* Adv. Funct. Mater., 32, 51, 2208950 (2022)

“Tradeoff between intermolecular interaction and backbone disorder by high molecular dipole block for improving blend morphology of polymer solar cells”

[9] Tong Shan, Kui Ding, Liyang Yu,* Xin Wang, Yi Zhang, Xiaoyang Zheng, Chun-Chao Chen, Qiang Peng and Hongliang Zhong* Adv. Funct. Mater., 31, 2100750 (2021)

“Spatially orthogonal 2D sidechains optimize morphology in all-small-molecule organic solar cells”

[10] Min Deng, Xiaopeng Xu, Yuwei Duan, Liyang Yu,* Ruipeng Li,* and Qiang Peng* Adv. Funct. Mater., 2212290 (2023)

“Smartly Optimizing Crystallinity, Compatibility, and Morphology for Polymer Solar Cells by Small Molecule Acceptor with Unique 2D-EDOT Side Chain”