Prof. Yiwang Chen

Dr. Yiwang Chen was born in 1970. Now he is holding professor position in Nanchang University. He earned a Ph.D in Polymeric Chemistry and Physics from Peking University's College of Chemistry in 1999. His dissertation "title" addressed synthesis and properties of bi-functional photorefractive polymers. In 1992, he received a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemistry from Chemistry Department of Jiangxi Normal University, Nanchang, China. Consequently he completed his Master of Science degree in same deparment of Jiangxi Normal University in 1995 with waiving entrance examinations. Afterwards he spent one year career as lecturer in Chemistry Department of Nanchang University, Nanchang, in 1996. Upon Ph.D graduation he was awarded the Graduate Education Fund of China Construction Bank Hubei Branch in Peking University. The following year he then moved to Germany where he worked in a postdoctoral position as awarded an Alexander von Humboldt fellowship at Institute of Organic Chemistry, University of Mainz. His research involved the synthesis of aromatic/aliphatic liquid crystalline copolyesters as orthopaedic applications. From 2001, He moved to the Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry of Philipps-University Marburg to continue the topic of copolyesters as biomedical applications with a Long-term cooperation project supported by Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. Since June of 2003, he has joined in National University of Singapore as a faculty member. Dr. Chen has been shortly in ETH of Switzerland, HKUST of Hongkong, and JKU of Austria as visiting professor. From March of 2004, he turns to a professor and Ph. D supervisor in Nanchang University. Dr. Chen has been honored number of titles and awards during past years. Dr. Chen is the council member of Chinese Chemical Society and standing director of The Jiangxi Society of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering.  His research project regarding photorefractive polymers has been awarded “second class prize of science and technology in universities of China” in 2001. The results on polymer solar cells have been awarded twice with the 2^nd Class Prize of Natural Science in Jiangxi Province in 2007 and 2012 (Rank 1). Meanwhile he has obtained the 3^rd Class Prize of Technological Invention in Jiangxi Province in 2011 (Rank 1). So far he has more than 80 papers published in international journals with high impact factor, such as Chemistry of Materials, Macromolecules, Advanced Functional Materials, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, Polymer Chemistry, Journal of Physical Chemistry C, Biomacromolecules, Journal of Materials Chemistry, and so on. He has been invited to address speeches more than 20 times in Singapore, Frankfurt, Changchun, and Beijing. Since 2003, he has started to review papers for Macromolecules and Chemistry of Materials. His main research interests have ever been focused on many fields such as polymer solar cells, direct methanol fuel cells, and polyelectrolytes lithium ions batteries.

PERSONAL PROFILE

Born in 1970 from Jiujiang, Jiangxi

Current Position

Professor of Nanchang University (2004.05-)

Ganjiang Scholar Professorship (2004-2010)

Dean of College of Chemistry (2014.07-)

Dean of Department of Chemistry (2009.05-2014.07)

Dean of Department of Materials Science (2008.02-2009.05)

Director of Institute of Polymers (2006.01-)

Director of Jiangxi Provincial Key Laboratory of New Energy Chemistry (2012.01-)

EDUCATION BACKGROUND

Sep. 1996-Jul. 1999: Ph. D, Peking University, Polymer Chemistry and Physics

Sep. 1992-Jul. 1995: M. S., Jiangxi Normal University, Organic Chemistry

Sep. 1988-Jul. 1992: B. A., Jiangxi Normal University, Chemistry

POSTDOCTORAL EXPERIENCE

Aug. 1999-Dec. 2000: University of Mainz, Germany

Jan. 2001-May 2001: University of Marburg, Germany

Jun. 2001-May 2003: University of Marburg, Germany

Jun. 2003-May 2004: National University of Singapore

HONORS AND AWARDS

Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship, Germany, Oct. 1999 to May 2001

Long-Term Cooperation Project of Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Jun. 2001 to May 2003

The 2^nd Class Prize of Science and Technology of Universities in China on Project of Photorefractive Materials, 2001

New Century Excellent Talents in University, 2006

The 2^nd Class Prize of Natural Science in Jiangxi Province, 2007 (Rank 1)

The 2^nd Class Prize of Natural Science in Jiangxi Province, 2012 (Rank 1)

The 3^rd Class Prize of Technological Invention in Jiangxi Province, 2011 (Rank 1)

the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars, 2014

INVITED ACTIVITIES

July 1^st-6^th 2002: Invited to be present the Lindau Meetings of Nobel Laureates by Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.

Recent years: many invitation talks in international conferences.

Invitation talks in Jilin University, Xinan University, South China University of Technology, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry Chinese Academy Sciences, Xiangtan University, Yichun University, Jiaxing University, Nanchang Hangkong University, East China Institute of Technology, Gannan Normal University, Jiangxi Normal University, Guilin University of Technology, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, etc.

SHORT VISITING

April, 2001: ETH, Zurich, Switzerland, Department of Polymer Science, group of Prof. Paul Smith

April, 2003: ETH, Zurich, Switzerland, Department of Polymer Science, group of Prof. Paul Smith

Feb-Dec, 2009: The Hong Kong University of Science & Technology, group of Prof Ben Zhong Tang

Jun. 2012: Johannes Kepler University Linz of Austria, group of Prof. Serdar Sariciftci

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS

Board of the Chinese Chemical Society (2006.10-)

Board of Polymer Division of the Chinese Chemical Society (2011.01-)

Editorial board of Polymer Materials Science and Engineering (2015-2019)

Editorial board of Chinese Journal of Applied Chemistry (2015-2019)

Editorial board of International Journal of Polymer Science (2013-2015)

Editorial board of Journal of Composites and Biodegradable Polymers (2013-)

Editorial board of Chemical Sciences Communications (2013-)

RESEARCH ACTIVITIES

Research interests include solution process and printing of polymer solar cells, solution process and printing of perovskite solar cells, wet printing of graphene transparent electrodes, membrane gel polyelectrolytes for electrochemical batteries and graphene foam supercapacitor.

Publications:

1) Kai Yuan, Yazhou Xu, Johannes Uihlein, Gunther Brunklaus, Lei Shi, Ralf Heiderhoff, Mingming Que, Michael Forster, Thomas Chassé, Thomas Pichler, Thomas Riedl, Yiwang Chen*, Ullrich Scherf*, Straightforward generation of pillared, microporous graphene frameworks for use in supercapacitors, Adv. Mater. 27 (42), 6714-6721 (2015).

2) Wei Zhong, Lie Chen, Shuqin Xiao, Liqiang Huang, Yiwang Chen*, A Versatile Buffer Layer for Polymer Solar Cells: Rendering Surface Potential by Regulating Dipole, Adv. Funct. Mater. 25 (21), 3164-3171 (2015).

3) Lie Chen, Chen Xie, Yiwang Chen*, Optimization of the Power Conversion Efficiency of Room Temperature-Fabricated Polymer Solar Cells Utilizing Solution Processed Tungsten Oxide and Conjugated Polyelectrolyte as Electrode Interlayer, Adv. Funct. Mater. 24 (25), 3986-3995 (2014).

4) Jeremy J. Intemann, Kai Yao, Yong-Xi Li, Hin-Lap Yip, Yun-Xiang Xu, Po-Wei Liang, Chu-Chen Chueh, Fei-Zhi Ding, Xi Yang, Xiaosong Li, Yiwang Chen*, Alex K.-Y. Jen*, Highly Efficient Inverted Organic Solar Cells Through Material and Interfacial Engineering of Indacenodithieno[3,2-b]thiophene-Based Polymers and Devices, Adv. Funct. Mater. 24 (10), 1465-1473 (2014).

5) Kai Yao, Michael Salvador, Chu-Chen Chueh, Xu-Kai Xin, Yun-Xiang Xu, Dane W. deQuilettes, Ting Hu, Yiwang Chen*, David S. Ginger*, Alex K.-Y. Jen*, A General Route to Enhance Polymer Solar Cell Performance using Plasmonic Nanoprisms, Adv. Energy Mater. 4 (9), 1400206 (1-7) (2014).

6) Yueqin Shi, Licheng Tan, Lie Chen, Yiwang Chen*, In-situ Fabricating One-dimensional Donor-acceptor Core-shell Hybrid Nanobeams Network Driven by Self-assembly of Diblock Copolythiophenes, Macromolecules 47 (5), 1757-1767 (2014).

7) Lie Chen, Chen Xie, Yiwang Chen*, Self-Assembled Conjugated Polyelectrolyte-Ionic Liquid Crystal Complex as an Interlayer for Polymer Solar Cells: Achieving Performance Enhancement via Rapid Liquid Crystal-Induced Dipole Orientation, Macromolecules 47 (5), 1623-1632 (2014).

8) Kai Yuan, Peiyao Guo-Wang, Ting Hu, Lei Shi, Rong Zeng, Michael Forster, Thomas Pichler, Yiwang Chen*, Ullrich Scherf*, Nanofibrous and Graphene-Templated Conjugated Microporous Polymer Materials for Flexible Chemosensors and Supercapacitors, Chem. Mater. 27 (21), 7403-7411 (2015).

9) Xiaotian Hu, Lie Chen, Yong Zhang, Qiao Hu, Junliang Yang, Yiwang Chen*, Large-scale Flexible and Highly Conductive Carbon Transparent Electrodes via Roll-to-roll Process and Its High Performance Lab-scale ITO-free PSCs, Chem. Mater. 26 (21), 6293-6302 (2014).

10) Kai Yao, Lie Chen, Xun Chen, Yiwang Chen*, Self-Organized Hole Transport Layers Based on Polythiophene Diblock Copolymers for Inverted Organic Solar Cells with High Efficiency, Chem. Mater. 25 (6), 897-904 (2013).

Contact:

E-mail: ywchen@ncu.edu.cn

Phone: +86 791 83969561

Fax: +86 791 83969561

Adress: College of Chemistry/Institute of Polymers, Nanchang University, 999 Xuefu Avenue, Nanchang 330031, China