CUI Chaohua

Title: Ph. D, Professor

Department: College of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science,

Address:No. 199 Ren'ai Road, Industrial Park, Suzhou, Jiangsu 215123, P.R. China

Tel: +86-512-65883671

Email:cuichaohua@suda.edu.cn

Education

08/2011-08/2014Ph.D.Hong Kong Baptist University

09/2009-07/2011M.S.Beijing University of Chemical Technology

09/2005-07/2009B.S.Beijing Institute of Technology

Research Interests

Organic Photovoltaic Materials and Devices

Representative Publications

1. Yingying Dong, Yan Zou, Jianyu Yuan, Hang Yang, Yue Wu,Chaohua Cui*, and Yongfang Li, “Ternary Polymer Solar Cells Facilitating Improved Efficiency and Stability”,Adv. Mater.2019,31, 1904601.

2. Yue Wu,Hang Yang,Yan Zou,Yingying Dong,Jianyu Yuan,Chaohua Cui*,andYongfang Li, “A new dialkylthio-substituted naphtho[2,3-c]thiophene-4,9-dione based polymer donor for high-performance polymer solar cells”,Energy Environ. Sci.,2019,12, 675–683.

3.Chaohua Cui* and Yongfang Li*, “High-performance conjugated polymer donor materials for polymer solar cells with narrow-bandgap nonfullerene acceptors”Energy Environ. Sci.2019,12, 3225–3246.

4. Yingying Dong,Hang Yang,Yue Wu,Yan Zou,Jianyu Yuan,Chaohua Cui*,andYongfang Li, “Towards improved efficiency of polymer solar cells via chlorination on benzo[1,2-b:4,5-b']dithiophene based polymer donor”,J. Mater. Chem. A,2019,7, 2261–2267. (Collected as 2019J. Mater. Chem. AHOT Papers)

5. Yan Zou, Yingying Dong, Chenkai Sun, Yue Wu, Hang Yang,Chaohua Cui*, andYongfang Li, “High-Performance Polymer Solar Cells with Minimal Energy Loss Enabled by a Main-Chain Twisting Nonfullerene Acceptor”,Chem. Mater.,2019,31, 4222–4227.

6. Hang Yang, Yue Wu, Yingying Dong,Chaohua Cui*, and Yongfang Li, “Random Polymer Donor for High-Performance Polymer Solar Cells with Efficiency Over 14%”,ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces2019,11, 40339–40346.

7. Yue Wu, Hang Yang, Yan Zou, Yingying Dong,Chaohua Cui*, and Yongfang Li, “Realizing Enhanced Efficiency in Nonhalogen Solvent Processed Ternary Polymer Solar Cells by Incorporating Compatible Polymer Donor”,Sol. RRL2018,2, 1800060.

8. Hang Yang,Yue Wu,Yan Zou,Yingying Dong,Jianyu Yuan,Chaohua Cui*,andYongfang Li, “New polymer donor for efficient polymer solar cells: simultaneously realizing high short-circuit current density and transparency”,J. Mater. Chem. A,2018,6, 14700–14708. (Collected as 2018J. Mater. Chem. AHOT Papers)

9.Chaohua Cui*, “Recent Progress in Fused-Ring Based Nonfullerene Acceptors for Polymer Solar Cells”Front. Chem.,2018,6, 404.

10. Yan Zou, Yingying Dong, Yue Wu, HangYang,Chaohua Cui*, and Yongfang Li, “Conjugated polymer donor with alkylthio-thiophene π-bridge for efficient polymer solar cells”Org. Electron.,2018,63, 289–295.

11. Yue Wu, Yan Zou, Hang Yang, Yaowen Li, Hongkun Li,Chaohua Cui*, and Yongfang Li, “Achieving over 9.8% Efficiency in Nonfullerene Polymer Solar Cells by Environmentally Friendly Solvent Processing”,ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces2017,9, 37078–37086.

12. Yan Zou, Yue Wu, Hang Yang, Yingying Dong,Chaohua Cui*, Yongfang Li, “The effect of alkylthio side chains in oligothiophene-based donor material for organic solar cells”,Mol. Syst. Des. Eng.2018,3, 131–141.

13. Yaowen Li*, Guiying Xu,Chaohua Cui*, and Yongfang Li*, “Flexible and Semitransparent Organic Solar Cells”,Adv. Energy Mater.2018,8, 1701791.

14.Chaohua Cui, Zhicai He*, Yue Wu, Xiao Cheng, Hongbin Wu, Yongfang Li*, Yong Cao, and Wai-Yeung Wong*, “High-Performance Polymer Solar Cells based on a 2D-Conjugated Polymer with Alkylthio Side-Chain”,Energy Environ. Sci.2016,9, 885–891.

15.Chaohua Cui^*and Wai-Yeung Wong^*, “Effects of Alkylthio and Alkoxy Side Chains in Polymer Donor Materials for Organic Solar Cells”,Macromol. Rapid Commun.2016,37, 287–302.

16. Xiao Cheng, Qun Wan, Yue Wu, Bing Guo, Xia Guo, Yaowen Li, Maojie Zhang*,Chaohua Cui*, and Yongfang Li, “Toward High Open-circuit Voltage by Smart Chain Engineering in 2D-conjugated Polymer for Polymer Solar Cells”,Sol. Energy Mater. Sol. Cells2016,149, 162–169.

17. Jie Min*,Chaohua Cui*, Thomas Heumueller, Stefanie Fladischer, Xiao Cheng,Erdmann Spiecker, Yongfang Li, and Christoph J. Brabec, “Side-Chain Engineering for Enhancing the Properties of Small Molecule Solar Cells: A Trade-off Beyond Efficiency”,Adv. Energy Mater.2016,6, 1600515.

18.Chaohua Cui, Yaowen Li*, and Yongfang Li*, “Fullerene Derivatives for the Applications as Acceptor and Cathode Buffer Layer Materials for Organic and Perovskite Solar Cells”,Adv. Energy Mater.2017,7, 1601251.

19.Chaohua Cui*, Yue Wu, Man-Sing Cheung, Cheuk-Lam Ho, Qingchen Dong, Zhenyang Lin, Yongfang Li and Wai-Yeung Wong, “Conjugated Oligothiophene Derivatives Based on Bithiophene with Unsaturated Bonds as Building Block for Solution-Processed Bulk Heterojunction Organic Solar Cells”Chem. Asian J.,2016,11, 3557–3567.

20.Chaohua Cui, Xia Guo, Jie Min*, Bing Guo, Xiao Cheng, Maojie Zhang*, Christoph J. Brabec and Yongfang Li*. “High-Performance Organic Solar Cells Based on a Small Molecule with Alkylthio-Thienyl-Conjugated Side Chains without Extra Treatments”,Adv. Mater.2015,27, 7469–7475.

21.Chaohua Cui, Wai-Yeung Wong*, and Yongfang Li*, “Improvement of Open-Circuit Voltage and Photovoltaic Properties of 2D-Conjugated Polymers by Alkylthio Substitution”,Energy Environ. Sci.2014,7, 2276–2284. (Highlighted as the Inside Cover)