PUBLICATIONS

2024


42. Molecularly Designed and Nanoconfined Polymer Electronic Materials for Skin-like Electronics

Yu-Qing Zheng*, Zhenan Bao*

ACS Central Science 2024, accepted [HTML]

41. Synthesis and structure of a non-van-der-Waals two-dimensional coordination polymer with superconductivity

Zhichao Pan, Xing Huang, Yunlong Fan, Shaoze Wang, Yiyu Liu, Xuzhong Cong, Tingsong Zhang, Shichao Qi, Ying Xing, Yu-Qing Zheng, Jian Li, Xiaoming Zhang, Wei Xu, Lei Sun, Jian Wang, Jin-Hu Dou*

Nature Communications 2024, 15: 9342 [HTML]

40. Chain-Growth Synthesis of Extensively Cross-Conjugated Polyenes via Strained [3] Cumulenes

Zi-Yuan Wang, Yi-Ze Xu, Zhanpeng Cui, Jia-Yu Lu, Yu-Qing Zheng*, Rong Zhu*

ChemRxiv. 2024. [HTML]

39. Degradable photoelectric synapses for VR image processing

Shuangjie Zhang, Ziyan He, Yu-Qing Zheng*

Device 2024, 2,100397. [HTML]

38. CNT array-induced nanobubble assembly, nanodisk fabrication and enhanced spectral detection of CNT bundle density

Zhiyuan Xia, Ziming Ye, Bo Zhao, Tingsong Zhang, Qi Wang, Kun Chen, Meng Li, Xiaobing Kong, Yu-Qing Zheng, Enzheng Shi, Yuanyuan Shang*, Anyuan Cao*

Nano Research 2024, 17, 7737–7745. [HTML]

2023


37. Technology Roadmap for Flexible Sensors

Yifei Luo, Mohammad Reza Abidian, Jong-Hyun Ahn, Deji Akinwande, Anne M Andrews, Markus Antonietti, Zhenan Bao, Magnus Berggren, Christopher A Berkey, Christopher John Bettinger, Jun Chen, Peng Chen, Wenlong Cheng, Xu Cheng, Seon-Jin Choi, Alex Chortos, Canan Dagdeviren, Reinhold H Dauskardt, Chong-an Di, Michael D Dickey, Xiangfeng Duan, Antonio Facchetti, Zhiyong Fan, Yin Fang, Jianyou Feng, Xue Feng, Huajian Gao, Wei Gao, Xiwen Gong, Chuan Fei Guo, Xiaojun Guo, Martin C Hartel, Zihan He, John S Ho, Youfan Hu, Qiyao Huang, Yu Huang, Fengwei Huo, Muhammad M Hussain, Ali Javey, Unyong Jeong, Chen Jiang, Xingyu Jiang, Jiheong Kang, Daniil Karnaushenko, Ali Khademhosseini, Dae-Hyeong Kim, Il-Doo Kim, Dmitry Kireev, Lingxuan Kong, Chengkuo Lee, Nae-Eung Lee, Pooi See Lee, Tae-Woo Lee, Fengyu Li, Jinxing Li, Cuiyuan Liang, Chwee Teck Lim, Yuanjing Lin, Darren J Lipomi, Jia Liu, Kai Liu, Nan Liu, Ren Liu, Yuxin Liu, Yuxuan Liu, Zhiyuan Liu, Zhuangjian Liu, Xian Jun Loh, Nanshu Lu, Zhisheng Lv, Shlomo Magdassi, George G Malliaras, Naoji Matsuhisa, Arokia Nathan, Simiao Niu, Jieming Pan, Changhyun Pang, Qibing Pei, Huisheng Peng, Dianpeng Qi, Huaying Ren, John A Rogers, Aaron Rowe, Oliver G Schmidt, Tsuyoshi Sekitani, Dae-Gyo Seo, Guozhen Shen, Xing Sheng, Qiongfeng Shi, Takao Someya, Yanlin Song, Eleni Stavrinidou, Meng Su, Xuemei Sun, Kuniharu Takei, Xiao-Ming Tao, Benjamin CK Tee, Aaron Voon-Yew Thean, Tran Quang Trung, Changjin Wan, Huiliang Wang, Joseph Wang, Ming Wang, Sihong Wang, Ting Wang, Zhong Lin Wang, Paul S Weiss, Hanqi Wen, Sheng Xu, Tailin Xu, Hongping Yan, Xuzhou Yan, Hui Yang, Le Yang, Shuaijian Yang, Lan Yin, Cunjiang Yu, Guihua Yu, Jing Yu, Shu-Hong Yu, Xinge Yu, Evgeny Zamburg, Haixia Zhang, Xiangyu Zhang, Xiaosheng Zhang, Xueji Zhang, Yihui Zhang, Yu Zhang, Siyuan Zhao, Xuanhe Zhao, Yuanjin Zheng, Yu-Qing Zheng, Zijian Zheng, Tao Zhou, Bowen Zhu, Ming Zhu, Rong Zhu, Yangzhi Zhu, Yong Zhu, Guijin Zou, Xiaodong Chen*

ACS Nano 2023, 17, 5211–5295. [HTML]

36. Highly stretchable polymer semiconductor thin films with multi-modal energy dissipation and high relative stretchability

Hung-Chin Wu, Shayla Nikzad, Chenxin Zhu, Hongping Yan, Yang Li, Weijun Niu, James R Matthews, Jie Xu, Naoji Matsuhisa, Prajwal Kammardi Arunachala, Reza Rastak, Christian Linder, Yu-Qing Zheng, Michael F Toney, Mingqian He*, Zhenan Bao*

Nature Communications 2023, 14, 8382. [HTML]

2022


35. A Tissue-like Neurotransmitter Sensor for Interfacing with Brain and Gut

Jinxing Li(#), Yuxin Liu(#), Lei Yuan(#), Baibing Zhang, Estelle Spear Bishop, Kecheng Wang, Jing Tang, Yu-Qing Zheng, Wenhui Xu, Simiao Niu, Levent Beker, Thomas L. Li, Gan Chen, Modupeola Diyaolu, Anne-Laure Thomas, Vittorio Mottini, Jeffrey B.-H. Tok, James C. Y. Dunn, Bianxiao Cui, Sergiu P. Pașca, Yi Cui, Aida Habtezion, Xiaoke Chen*, and Zhenan Bao*

Nature 2022, 606, 94-101. [HTML]

2021


34. Monolithic Optical Microlithography of High-density Elastic Circuits

Yu-Qing Zheng(#), Yuxin Liu(#), Donglai Zhong(#), Shayla Nikzad, Shuhan Liu, Zhiao Yu, Deyu Liu, Hung-Chin Wu, Chenxin Zhu, Jinxing Li, Helen Tran, Jeffrey B-H Tok, and Zhenan Bao*

Science 2021, 373, 88-94. [HTML] [Video]

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33. Influence of Solution-state Aggregation on Conjugated Polymer Crystallization in Thin Films and Microwire Crystals

Yu-Qing Zheng, Ze-Fan Yao, Jin-Hu Dou, Yilin Wang, Wei Ma, Lin Zou, Shayla Nikzad, Qi-Yi Li, Ze-Hao Sun, Zhi-Ao Yu, Wen-Bin Zhang, Jie-Yu Wang, and Jian Pei*

Giant 2021, 7, 100064. [HTML]

32. A Design Strategy for High Mobility Stretchable Polymer Semiconductors

Jaewan Mun(#), Yuto Ochiai(#), Weichen Wang, Yu Zheng, Yu-Qing Zheng, Hung-Chin Wu, Naoji Matsuhisa, Tomoya Higashihara, Jeffrey B-H Tok, Youngjun Yun*, and Zhenan Bao*

Nature Communications 2021, 12, 35. [HTML]

31. Approaching Crystal Structure and High Electron Mobility in Conjugated Polymer Crystals

Ze‐Fan Yao, Yu‐Qing Zheng, Jin‐Hu Dou, Yang Lu, Yi‐Fan Ding, Li Ding, Jie‐Yu Wang, Jian Pei*

Advanced Materials 2021, 33, 2170075. [HTML]

30. Modular Synthesis of Fully Degradable Imine-Based Semiconducting p-Type and n-Type Polymers

Helen Tran(#), Shayla Nikzad(#), Jerika A Chiong(#), Nathaniel J Schuster, Amnahir E Peña-Alcántara, Vivian R Feig, Yu-Qing Zheng, Zhenan Bao*

J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2021, 143, 2285–2292. [HTML]

2020


29. Morphing electronics enable neuromodulation in growing tissue

Yuxin Liu(#), Jinxing Li(#), Shang Song(#), Jiheong Kang, Yuchi Tsao, Shucheng Chen, Vittorio Mottini, Kelly McConnell, Wenhui Xu, Yu-Qing Zheng, Jeffrey B.-H. Tok, Paul M. George*, Zhenan Bao*

Nature Biotechnology 2020, 38, 1031–1036. [HTML]

28. Tuning the mechanical properties of a polymer semiconductor by modulating hydrogen bonding interactions

Yu Zheng(#), Minoru Ashizawa(#)*, Song Zhang, Jiheong Kang, Shayla Nikzad, Zhiao Yu, Yuto Ochiai, Hung-Chin Wu, Helen Tran, Jaewan Mun, Yu-Qing Zheng, Jeffrey B-H Tok, Xiaodan Gu, Zhenan Bao*

Chemistry of Materials 2020, 32, 5700–5714. [HTML]

27. Synthesis, characterization, and tunable semiconducting properties of aza-BODIPY derived polycyclic aromatic dyes

Wanle Sheng(#), Yu-Qing Zheng(#), Qinghua Wu, Kangkang Chen, Mao Li, Lijuan Jiao*, Erhong Hao, Jie-Yu Wang*, Jian Pei*

Science China Chemistry 2020, 63, 1240–1245. [HTML]

2019


26. Multi-scale ordering in highly stretchable polymer semiconducting films

Jie Xu(#), Hung-Chin Wu(#), Chenxin Zhu, Anatol Ehrlich, Leo Shaw, Mark Nikolka, Sihong Wang, Francisco Molina-Lopez, Xiaodan Gu, Shaochuan Luo, Dongshan Zhou, Yun-Hi Kim, Ging-Ji Nathan Wang, Kevin Gu, Vivian Rachel Feig, Shucheng Chen, Yeongin Kim, Toru Katsumata, Yu-Qing Zheng, He Yan, Jong Won Chung, Jeffrey Lopez, Boris Murmann, Zhenan Bao*

Nature Materials 2019, 18, 594–601. [HTML]

25. Low-voltage high-performance flexible digital and analog circuits based on ultrahigh-purity semiconducting carbon nanotubes

Ting Lei(#), Lei-Lai Shao(#), Yu-Qing Zheng, Gregory Pitner, Guanhua Fang, Chenxin Zhu, Sicheng Li, Ray Beausoleil, H.-S. Philip Wong, Tsung-Ching Huang*, Kwang-Ting Cheng*, Zhenan Bao*

Nature Communications 2019, 10, 2161.[HTML]

24. Organic Semiconducting Alloys with Tunable Energy Levels

Jin-Hu Dou, Zhi-Ao Yu, Jun Zhang, Yu-Qing Zheng, Ze-Fan Yao, Zeyi Tu, Xinchang Wang, Shiliang Huang, Chengwen Liu, Junliang Sun, Yuanping Yi, Xiaoyu Cao, Yiqin Gao, Jie-Yu Wang, and Jian Pei*

J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2019, 141, 6561-6568. [HTML]

23. Wafer-Scale Fabrication of High-Performance n-Type Polymer Monolayer Transistors Using a Multi-Level Self-Assembly Strategy

Ze-Fan Yao, Yu-Qing Zheng, Qi-Yi Li, Ting Lei*, Song Zhang, Lin Zou, Han-Yu Liu, Jin-Hu Dou, Yang Lu, Jie-Yu Wang, Xiaodan Gu, and Jian Pei*

Advanced Materials 2019, 31, 1806747. [HTML]

2017


22. Highly Efficient NIR-II Photothermal Conversion Based on an Organic Conjugated Polymer

Yuanyuan Cao(#), Jin-Hu Dou(#), Ning-jiu Zhao, Shiming Zhang, Yu-Qing Zheng, Jian-Ping Zhang, Jie-Yu Wang, Jian Pei*, Yapei Wang*

Chemistry of Materials 2017, 29, 718–725. [HTML]

21. Synthesis, Properties, and Semiconducting Characteristics of BF2 Complexes of β,β-Bisphenanthrene-Fused Azadipyrromethenes

Wanle Sheng, Yu-Qing Zheng, Qinghua Wu, Yayang Wu, Changjiang Yu, Lijuan Jiao*, Erhong Hao, Jie-Yu Wang*, Jian Pei

Organic Letters 2017, 19, 2893–2896. [HTML]

20. Unraveling the Solution-State Supramolecular Structures of Donor–Acceptor Polymers and their Influence on Solid-State Morphology and Charge-Transport Properties

Yu-Qing Zheng, Ze-Fan Yao, Ting Lei, Jin-Hu Dou, Chi-Yuan Yang, Lin Zou*, Xiangyi Meng, Wei Ma, Jie-Yu Wang*, and Jian Pei*

Advanced Materials 2017, 29, 1701072. [HTML]

19. Donor End-Capped Hexafluorinated Oligomers for Organic Solar Cells with 9.3% Efficiency by Engineering the Position of π-Bridge and Sequence of Two-Step Annealing

Jin-Liang Wang*, Kai-Kai Liu, Sha Liu, Fei Xiao, Zheng-Feng Chang, Yu-Qing Zheng, Jin-Hu Dou, Ru-Bo Zhang, Hong-Bin Wu*, Jian Pei*, and Yong Cao

Chemistry of Materials 2017, 29, 1036-1046. [HTML]

18. Air- and Active Hydrogen-Induced Electron Trapping and Operational Instability in n-Type Polymer Field-Effect Transistors

Hio‐Ieng Un, Yu‐Qing Zheng, Ke Shi, Jie‐Yu Wang*, Jian Pei

Advanced Functional Materials 2017, 27, 1605058. [HTML]

17. Acenaphtho[1, 2-k]fluoranthene-Fused Diimide Derivatives: An Investigation of the Relationship Between Molecular Structure and Device Performance

Lin Ding, Chi‐Yuan Yang, Yu‐Qing Zheng, Jie‐Yu Wang, Jian Pei*, Zhongmin Su*

Asian Journal of Organic Chemistry 2017, 6, 1231. [HTML]

2016


16. Strong Electron-Deficient Polymers Lead to High Electron Mobility in Air and Their Morphology-Dependent Transport Behaviors

Yu-Qing Zheng(#), Ting Lei(#), Jin-Hu Dou, Xin Xia, Jie-Yu Wang, Chen-Jiang Liu, and Jian Pei*

Advanced Materials 2016, 28, 7213-7219. [HTML]

15. Embedding Electron-Deficient Nitrogen Atoms in Polymer Backbone towards High Performance n-Type Polymer Field-Effect Transistors

Ya-Zhong Dai, Na Ai, Yang Lu, Yu-Qing Zheng, Jin-Hu Dou, Ke Shi, Ting Lei, Jie-Yu Wang, and Jian Pei*

Chemical Science 2016, 7, 5753-5757. [HTML]

2015


14. Fine Tuning of Crystal Packing and Charge Transport Properties of BDOPV Derivatives through Fluorine Substitution

Jin-Hu Dou(#), Yu-Qing Zheng(#), Ze-Fan Yao, Zhi-Ao Yu, Ting Lei, Xingxing Shen, Xu-Yi Luo, Junliang Sun, Shi-Ding Zhang, Yi-Fan Ding, Guangchao Han, Yuanping Yi*, Jie-Yu Wang*, and Jian Pei*

J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2015, 137, 15947-15956. [HTML]

13. A Cofacially Stacked Electron-Deficient Small Molecule Communication with High Electron Mobility over 10 cm2 V−1 s−1 in Air

Jin-Hu Dou, Yu-Qing Zheng, Ze-Fan Yao, Ting Lei, Xingxing Shen, Xu-Yi Luo, Zhi-Ao Yu, Shi-Ding Zhang, Guangchao Han, Zhi Wang, Yuanping Yi*, Jie-Yu Wang, and Jian Pei*

Advanced Materials 2015, 27, 8051-8055. [HTML]

12. Effect of Halogenation in Isoindigo-Based Polymers on the Phase Separation and Molecular Orientation of Bulk Heterojunction Solar Cells

Yu-Qing Zheng, Zhi Wang, Jin-Hu Dou, Shi-Ding Zhang, Xu-Yi Luo, Ze-Fan Yao, Jie-Yu Wang*, and Jian Pei*

Macromolecules 2015, 48, 5570-5577. [HTML]

11. Thiophene-fused bowl-shaped polycyclic aromatics with a dibenzo [a, g] corannulene core for organic field-effect transistors

Ru-Qiang Lu, Yi-Nyu Zhou, Xiao-Yun Yan, Ke Shi, Yu-Qing Zheng, Ming Luo, Xin-Chang Wang, Jian Pei*, Haiping Xia, Laura Zoppi, Kim K Baldridge*, Jay S Siegel, Xiao-Yu Cao*

Chem. Commun. 2015, 51, 1681-1684. [HTML]

10. One-dimensional (1D) micro/nanostructures of organic semiconductors for field-effect transistors

Yu-Qing Zheng, Jie-Yu Wang*, Jian Pei*

Science China Chemistry 2015, 58, 937–946.[HTML]

2014


9. Systematic Investigation of Side-Chain Branching Position Effect on Electron Carrier Mobility in Conjugated Polymers

Jin-Hu Dou, Yu-Qing Zheng, Ting Lei, Shi-Ding Zhang, Zhi Wang, Wen-Bin Zhang, Jie-Yu Wang*, and Jian Pei*

Advanced Functional Materials 2014, 24, 6270–6278. [HTML]

8. Corannulene derivatives as non-fullerene acceptors in solution-processed bulk heterojunction solar cells

Ru-Qiang Lu(#), Yu-Qing Zheng(#), Yi-Nyu Zhou, Xiao-Yun Yan, Ting Lei, Ke Shi, Yan Zhou, Jian Pei*, Laura Zoppi, Kim K Baldridge*, Jay S Siegel, Xiao-Yu Cao*

Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 2014, 2, 20515-20519. [HTML]

7. Rational molecular engineering towards efficient non-fullerene small molecule acceptors for inverted bulk heterojunction organic solar cells

Yu-Qing Zheng, Ya-Zhong Dai, Yan Zhou, Jie-Yu Wang*, Jian Pei*

Chemical Communications 2014, 50, 1591-1594. [HTML]

6. Pentacyclic aromatic bislactam-based conjugated polymers: constructed by Beckmann rearrangement and application in organic field-effect transistor

Yue Cao, Zi-Hao Guo, Zi-Ying Chen, Jing-Song Yuan, Jin-Hu Dou, Yu-Qing Zheng, Jie-Yu Wang*, and Jian Pei*

Polymer Chemistry 2014, 5, 5369-5374. [HTML]

5. A Corannulene-Based Donor–Acceptor Polymer for Organic Field-Effect Transistors

Ru-Qiang Lu, Wei Xuan, Yu-Qing Zheng, Yi-Nyu Zhou, Xiao-Yun Yan, Jin-Hu Dou, Rui Chen, Jian Pei*, Wengui Weng*, and Xiao-Yu Cao*

RSC Advances 2014, 4, 56749-56755. [HTML]

2013


4. Towards rational design of organic electron acceptors for photovoltaics: a study based on perylenediimide derivatives

Qifan Yan, Yan Zhou, Yu-Qing Zheng, Jian Pei*, Dahui Zhao*

Chemical Science 2013, 4, 4389-4394. [HTML]

3. Non-fullerene acceptors containing fluoranthene-fused imides for solution-processed inverted organic solar cells

Yan Zhou, Ya-Zhong Dai, Yu-Qing Zheng, Xiao-Ye Wang, Jie-Yu Wang*, Jian Pei*

Chemical Communications 2013, 49, 5802-5804. [HTML]

2. New polymer acceptors for organic solar cells: the effect of regio-regularity and device configuration

Yan Zhou, Qifan Yan, Yu-Qing Zheng, Jie-Yu Wang, Dahui Zhao*, Jian Pei*

Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 2013, 1, 6609-6613. [HTML]

1. All-polymer solar cells based on PTACs/P3HT blends with large open-circuit voltage

Hongwei Kang, Yu-Qing Zheng, Wei Jiang*, Chengyi Xiao, Jie-Yu Wang, Jian Pei*, Zhaohui Wang

Dyes and Pigments 2013, 99, 1065-1071. [HTML]