Name: Yiwang Chen

Gender: Male

Job title: Professor

Email Address: ywchen@ncu.edu.cn

Education and Work Experience ：

Dr. Yiwang Chen is a full professor of Chemistry at Nanchang University and Jiangxi Normal University. He received his Ph. D from Peking University in 1999 and conducted his postdoctoral work at Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz and Philipps-Universität Marburg in Germany as awarded an Alexander von Humboldt fellowship. He joined the Nanchang University in 2004. He has been honored by the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars in 2014 and Fellow of the Chinese Chemical Society (FCCS) in 2023. Currently he is serving as a president of Gannan Normal University since 2022, director of Institute of Polymers and Energy Chemistry (IPEC) at Nanchang University, director of Key Lab of Fluorine and Silicon for Energy Materials and Chemistry of Ministry of Education at Jiangxi Normal University. He has ever been Dean of the College of Chemistry at Nanchang University since 2009-2019 and vice-president of Jiangxi Normal University since 2019-2022.

Teaching：

Research fields:

Polymer solar cells, perovskite solar cells, hybrid supercapacitors, sodium-ion batteries, electrocatalysis for zinc-air batteries and synthesis, and intelligent elastomers and fibers.

Research projects：

The State Key Program of National Natural Science Foundation of China, the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars, Sino German International Cooperation Project, General Program from Natural Science Foundation of China and National Key Basic Research Program of China (973 Program).

Awards and Honors：

National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars, candidate for the national Millions of Leading Engineering Talents, and member of the “Ten Thousand Talent Program”. Fellow of the Chinese Chemical Society (FCCS). “Second Prize of Outstanding Achievement Award of Scientific Research of the Ministry of Education” in 2019, “First Prize of Natural Science of Jiangxi Province” in 2023 and Gold Medal of The Geneva Salon International Des Inventions in 2022.

Representative papers and patents：

Published more than 500 research papers in high quality journals such as Nat. Commun., J. Am. Chem. Soc., Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., and Adv. Mater., etc. and 40 invention patents as well as 4 books.

1) Licheng Tan*, Yiwang Chen*, et al. Monodisperse Adducts-Induced Homogeneous Nucleation Towards High-Quality Tin-Based Perovskite Film, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. DOI: 10.1002/anie. 202306712 (2023).

2) Ting Hu*, Yiwang Chen*, et al Modulation of Colloidal Assembly Behavior Enables Printable Low-Dimensional Perovskite Photovoltaics, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. DOI: 10.1002/anie.202303177 (2023).

3) Kai Yuan*, Yiwang Chen*, et al. Polycation-Regulated Electrolyte and Interfacial Electric Fields for Stable Zinc Metal Batteries, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. DOI: 10.1002/anie.202302701 (2023).

4) Lin Li*, Meng Su*, Yiwang Chen*, Yanlin Song*, et al. Wearable perovskite solar cells by aligned liquid crystal elastomers, Nat. Commun. 14, 1204 (1-11) (2023).

5) Kai Yuan*, Yiwang Chen*, et al. Carbon Nanocage with Maximum Utilization of Atomically Dispersed Iron as Efficient Oxygen Electroreduction Nanoreactor, Adv. Mater. 35 (5), 2208942 (1-13) (2023).

6) Licheng Tan*, Yiwang Chen*, et al. Inhibition of Ion Migration for Highly Efficient and Stable Perovskite Solar Cells, Adv. Mater. DOI: 10.1002/adma.202302552 (2023).

7) Xunfan Liao*, Yiwang Chen*, et al. Terpolymerization and Regioisomerization Strategy to Construct Efficient Terpolymer Donors Enabling High-Performance Organic Solar Cells, Adv. Mater. DOI: 10.1002/adma.202300820 (2023).

8) Licheng Tan*, Yiwang Chen*, et al, Inhibition of Ion Migration for Highly Efficient and Stable Perovskite Solar Cells, Adv. Mater. (2023). DOI: 10.1002/adma.202302552.

9) Licheng Tan*, Yiwang Chen*, et al, Diammonium Molecular Configuration-Induced Regulation of Crystal Orientation and Carrier Dynamics for Highly Efficient and Stable 2D/3D Perovskite Solar Cells. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 61 (5), e202114588 (1-10) (2022).

10) Xiaotian Hu*, Yiwang Chen*, et al, Pseudo-Planar Heterojunction Organic Photovoltaics with Optimized Light Utilization for Printable Solar Windows. Adv. Mater. 34 (23), 2201604 (1-11) (2022).

11) Xiaotian Hu*, Yiwang Chen*, et al, A Bionic Interface to Suppressing the Coffee-ring Effect for Reliable and Flexible Perovskite Modules with a near 90% Yield Rate, Adv. Mater. 34 (29), 2201840 (1-12) (2022).

12) Xiaotian Hu*, Rui Guo*, Yiwang Chen*, et al, Wearable Tin-based Perovskite Solar Cells Achieved by a Crystallographic Size-Effect, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 60 (26), 14693-14700 (2021).

13) Ting Hu*, Yiwang Chen* et al, Spontaneous Formation of Upper Gradient Two-Dimensional Structure for Efficient and Stable Quasi-2D Perovskites. Adv. Mater. 33 (34), 2101823 (2021).

14) Kai Yuan*, Ming Qiu*, Xiaodong Zhuang*, Yiwang Chen*, et al, Boosting Oxygen Reduction of Single Iron Active Sites via Geometric and Electronic Engineering: Nitrogen and Phosphorus Dual-Coordination, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 142 (5), 2404-2412 (2020).

15) Xiaotian Hu*, Wei Ma*, Yiwang Chen*, et al, A General Approach for Lab-to-Manufacturing Translation on Flexible Organic Solar Cells, Adv. Mater. 31 (41), 1903649 (1-10) (2019). Inside Back Cover