Prof. Tao Wang received a B.S. in Polymer Materials (2002) and an M.S. in Materials Science (2005). He obtained his Ph.D. in Soft Condensed Matter Physics from the University of Surrey (UK) in Feb. 2009, under the supervision of Prof. Joe Keddie. He then took a post-doc position in the same group until Oct. 2009 when he moved to the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Sheffield (UK), where he worked with Prof. Richard Jones, FRS and Prof. David Lidzey on organic solar cells. He was awarded funding from “Recruitment Program of Global Experts” (The Thousand Talents Plan) of China in 2013 and was appointed professor in the School of Materials Science & Engineering, Wuhan University of Technology (China). His research interests are optoelectronic devices, polymer physics and polymer materials. Honors & Awards 1. Fellow of Royal Society of Chemistry, UK, 2019 2. Vice Chancellor's Young Achiever Award, University of Surrey, UK, 2017 3. Recruitment Program of Global Experts (The Thousand Talents Plan), China, 2013 4. Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-financed Students Abroad, China Scholarship Council and the Ministry of Education, China, 2007 5. Ian Macmillan Ward Prize, Polymer Physics Group, Institute of Physics, UK, 2007

Optoelectronic Devices Organic Solar Cells Perovskite Solar Cells Light Emitting Diodes Field-Effect Transistors Polymer Physics Polymer Thin Films Polymers at Surfaces and Interfaces Super-hydrophobic and Self-cleaning Surfaces Advanced Material Investigation Techniques Synchrotron X-Ray Scattering Synchrotron Neutron Scattering

Donor-acceptor mutually diluted heterojunctions for layer-by-layer fabrication of high-performance organic solar cells. Liang Wang, Chen Chen, Yiwei Fu, Chuanhang Guo, Donghui Li, Jingchao Cheng, Wei Sun, Zirui Gan, Yuandong Sun, Bojun Zhou, Chenghao Liu, Dan Liu, Wei Li, Tao Wang*. Nature Energy, 2024, 9, 208-218. Perovskite-organic tandem solar cells. Kai O. Brinkmann*+, Pang Wang*+, Felix Lang, Wei Li, Xiao Guo, Florian Zimmermann, Selina Olthof, Dieter Neher, Yi You, Martin Stolterfoht, Tao Wang*, Alexandra B. Djurišić, Thomas Riedl*. Nature Reviews Materials, 2024, 9, 202-217. Device engineering of non-fullerene organic photovoltaics with extrapolted operational T80 lifetime over 45000 hours in air. Jingchao Cheng, Chuanhang Guo, Liang Wang, Yiwei Fu, Donghui Li, Chen Chen, Zirui Gan, Yuandong Sun, Dan Liu, Wei Li, Tao Wang*. Joule, 2024, 8, 2250-2264. Molecular interaction induced dual fibrils towards organic solar cells with certified efficiency over 20%. Chen Chen, Liang Wang, Weiyi Xia, Ke Qiu, Chuanhang Guo, Zirui Gan, Jing Zhou, Yuandong Sun, Dan Liu, Wei Li, Tao Wang*. Nature Communications, 2024, 15, 6865. Alkoxythiophene directed fibrillization of polymer donor for efficient organic solar cells. Chenhao Liu+, Yiwei Fu+, Jinpeng Zhou, Liang Wang, Chunhang Guo, Jingchao Cheng, Wei Sun, Chen Chen, Jing Zhou, Dan Liu, Wei Li, Tao Wang*. Advanced Materials, 2024, 36, 2308608. Light induced quinone conformation of polymer donors toward 19.9% efficiency organic solar cells. Chuanhang Guo, Yuandong Sun, Liang Wang, Chenhao Liu, Chen Chen, Jingchao Cheng, Weiyi Xia, Zirui Gan, Jing Zhou, Zhenghong Chen, Jinpeng Zhou, Dan Liu, Jingxing Guo, Wei Li, Tao Wang*. Energy & Environmental Science, 2024, 17, 2492-2499. Tuning of the polymeric nano-fibril geometry via side-chain interaction towards 20.1% efficiency organic solar cells. Jing Zhou, Liang Wang, Chenhao Liu, Chuanhang Guo, Chen Chen, Yuandong Sun, Yujie Yang, Jingchao Cheng, Zirui Gan, Zhenghong Chen, Wei Sun, Jinpeng Zhou,Weiyi Xia, Dan Liu, Wei Li, Tao Wang*. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 2024, xx, xx. π-extended non-fullerene acceptor for compressed molecular packing in organic solar cells to achieve over 20% efficiency.Yuandong Sun, Liang Wang, Chuanhang Guo, Jinyi Xiao, Chenhao Liu, Chen Chen, Weiyi Xia, Zirui Gan, Jingchao Cheng, Jinpeng Zhou, Zhenghong Chen, Jing Zhou, Dan Liu, Tao Wang, Wei Li*. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 2024, 146(17), 12011-12019. Insulating polymer mediated stability and photovoltaic performance of organic solar cells: influence of molecular weight. Weiyi Xia, Bojun Zhou, Liang Wang, Chuanhang Guo, Jinpeng Zhou, Jingchao Cheng, Wei Sun, Chen Chen, Zirui Gan, Wei Li, Dan Liu*, Tao Wang*. Advanced Functional Materials, 2024, 34, 2408340. Thiophene structured additives toward enhanced structural order and reduced non-radiative loss for 19.9% efficiency organic solar cells. Jinpeng Zhou, Chuanhang Guo, Liang Wang, Chen Chen, Zirui Gan, Yuandong Sun, Chenhao Liu, Jing Zhou, Zhenghong Chen, Dawei Gao, Weiyi Xia, Dan Liu, Tao Wang, Wei Li*. Nano Energy, 2024, 129, 109988. Electrostatic potential design of solid additives for enhanced molecular order of polymer donor in efficient organic solar cells. Zhenghong Chen, Chuanhang Guo, Liang Wang, Chen Chen, Jinlong Cai, Chenhao Liu, Zirui Gan, Yuandong Sun, Jinpeng Zhou, Jing Zhou, Dan Liu, Tao Wang, Wei Li*. Small, 2024, 20, 2401050. Composition design of fullerene based hybrid electron transport layer for efficient and stable wide-bandgap perovskite soalr cells. Shuai Zeng, H. Wang, Xiangyang Li, Hailin Guo, Linfeng Dong, Chuanhang Guo, Zhenghong Chen, Jinpeng Zhou, Yuandong Sun, Wei Sun, Liyan Yang, Wei Li, Dan Liu*, Tao Wang*. Journal of Energy Chemistry, 2025, 102, 172-178. Optimizing the power conversion processes in diluted donor/acceptor heterojunctions towards 19.4% efficiency all-polymer solar cells. Liang Wang, Chen Chen, Zirui Gan, Chenhao Liu, Chuanhang Guo, Weiyi Xia, Wei Sun, Jingchao Cheng, Yuandong Sun, Jing Zhou, Zexin Chen, Dan Liu, Wei Li, Tao Wang*. Journal of Energy Chemistry, 2024, 96, 345-350. Solvent and solid additives directed 19.1% efficiency all-polymer solar cells with enhanced structural order and refined phase seperation. Zirui Gan, Liang Wang, Chen Chen, Weiyi Xia, Chenhao Liu, Zhenghong Chen, Jinpeng Zhou, Zexin Chen, Dan Liu, Wei Li, Tao Wang*. Science China Materials, 2024, x, xx. Push-pull substituent design of fullerene dimer at the buried interface toward stable and efficient perovskite solar cells. Hui Wang, Chuanhang Guo, Fabao Li, Shuai Zeng, Xiangyang Li, Huayu Fu, Tao Wang*, Dan Liu*. Science China Materials, 2024, 67, 58-66. Dual interfacial modification using potassium aspartic acid to realize low-dark current, high-speed non-fullerene photodetector. Yujie Yang, Yating Liu, Jing Zhou, Chuanhang Guo, Dan Liu, Tao Wang, Wei Li*. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 2024, 15, 2675-2681. Brominated Quaternary Ammonium Salt Assisted Hybrid Electron Transport Layer for High Performance Conventional Organic Solar Cells. Wei Sun, Liang Wang, Yiwei Fu, Chuanhang Guo, Jing Zhou, Chen Chen, Chenhao Liu, Zirui Gan, Kui Yan*, Wei Li*‍.‍ ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 2024, 16, 23677-23683. Electrostatic force promoted intermolecular stacking of polymer donors toward 19.4% efficiency binary organic solar cells. Zirui Gan, Liang Wang, Jinlong Cai, Chuanhang Guo, Chen Chen, Donghui Li, Yiwei Fu, Bojun Zhou, Yuandong Sun, Chenhao Liu, Jing Zhou, Dan Liu, Wei Li, Tao Wang*. Nature Communications, 2023, 14, 6297. A polycrystalline polymer donor as pre-aggregate toward ordered molecular aggregation for 19.3% efficiency binary organic solar cells. Chuanhang Guo, Yiwei Fu, Donghui Li, Liang Wang, Bojun Zhou, Chen Chen, Jing Zhou, Yuandong Sun, Zirui Gan, Dan Liu, Wei Li, Tao Wang*. Advanced Materials, 2023, 35, 2304921. Fibrillization of non-fullerene acceptors enables 19% efficiency pseudo-bulk heterojunction organic solar cells. Donghui Li, Nan Deng, Yiwei Fu, Chuanhang Guo, Bojun Zhou, Liang Wang, Jing Zhou, Dan Liu, Wei Li, Kai Wang, Yanming Sun, Tao Wang*. Advanced Materials, 2023, 35, 2208211. Realizing an unprecedented fill factor of 82.2% in ternary organic solar cells via co-crystallization of non-fullerene acceptors. Chen Chen, Liang Wang, Yuandong Sun, Yiwei Fu, Chuanhang Guo, Bojun Zhou, Zirui Gan, Dan Liu, Wei Li, Tao Wang*. Advanced Functional Materials, 2023, 33, 2305765. Enhanced photocatalytic hydrogen evolution from organic ternary heterojunction nanoparticles featuring a compact alloy-like phase. Yujie Yang, Donghui Li, Jinlong Cai, Hui Wang, Chuanhang Guo, Shang Wen, Wei Li, Tao Wang, Dan Liu*. Advanced Functional Materials, 2023, 33, 2209643. Bi-continuous donor and acceptor fibril networks enable 19.2% efficiency pseudo-bulk heterojunction organic solar cells. Jing Zhou, Donghui Li, Liang Wang, Xinying Zhang, Chuanhang Guo, Chen Chen, Zirui Gan, Chenhao Liu, Wei Sun, Dan Liu, Wei Li, Zhe Li, Kai Wang, Tao Wang*. Interdisciplinary Materials, 2023, 2, 866-875. Co-crystallization of fibrillar polymer donors for efficient ternary organic solar cells. Donghui Li, Liang Wang, Chuanhang Guo, Yating Liu, Bojun Zhou, Yiwei Fu, Jing Zhou, Dan Liu, Wei Li, Tao Wang*. ACS Materials Letters, 2023, 5, 2065-2073. Isomerization Directed Molecular Packing toward Suppressing Energy Loss in Non-fullerene Ternary Solar Cells. Yuandong Sun, Chen Chen, Liang Wang, Chuanhang Guo, Jinlong Cai, Donghui Li, Bojun Zhou, Chenhao Liu, Dan Liu, Tao Wang, Wei Li*. ACS Materials Letters, 2023, 5, 1710-1717. Self-Assembled Biomolecule Interlayer for Enhanced Efficiency and Stability of Inverted Organic Solar Cells. Yating Liu, Liang Wang, Bojun Zhou, Yiwei Fu, Donghui Li, Chuanhang Guo, Hui Wang, Chen Chen, Jinlong Cai, Xiaoshuai Zhang, Wei Sun, Dan Liu, Wei Li*, Tao Wang*. ACS Materials Letters, 2023, 5, 321-329. Molecular structure engineering toward enhanced photocatalytic hydrogen evolution and stability of organic heterojunction nanoparticles. Shang Wen, Yujie Yang, Jinlong Cai, Chuanhang Guo, Hui Wang, Chen Chen, Yating Liu, Xiaoshuai Zhang, Donghui Li, Zhenghong Chen, Wei Li, Tao Wang, Dan Liu*. ACS Catalysis, 2023, 13, 12730-12736. Directly cross-linked conjugated polymer donor enables efficient polymer solar cells with extraordinary mechanical robustness. Linglong Ye, Yinuo Yang, Chunhui Liu, Xiaopeng Duan, Shijie Wang, Wei Li, Xiaobo Sun*, Tao Wang, Wei Ma, Weiwei Li*, Yanming Sun*. Small, 2023, 19, 2303226. Realizing compact three-dimensional charge transport networks of asymmetric electron acceptors for efficient organic solar cells. Jinlong Cai, Yiwei Fu, Chuanhang Guo, Donghui Li, Liang Wang, Chen Chen, Dan Liu, Wei Li, Tao Wang*. Science China Chemistry, 2023, 66, 508-517. Hierarchical aggregates of non-fullerene electronic acceptors. Wei Li, Chen Chen, Dan Liu, Tao Wang*. Chemical Journal of Chinese Universities, 2023, 44, 20230160. Reexamining the role of solution-cast ferroelectric polymer interlayer toward enhanced efficiency and stability in conventional organic solar cells. Wei Sun, Yiwei Fu, Lianmeng Cui, Liang Wang, Yating Liu, Bojun Zhou, Chuanhang Guo, Chenhao Liu, Jing Zhou, Dan Liu, Wei Li, Tao Wang*. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 2023, 15, 41647-41655. Polymer-doped perovskite nanocrystal for efficient single active layer white light-emitting diodes through energy transfer. Xiaoshuai Zhang, Teng Li, Cong Yu, Weiqiang Miao, Hui Wang, Yiwei Fu, Bojun Zhou, Dan Liu, Wei Li*, Tao Wang*. Polymer, 2023, 271, 125805. Photoconductive charge transfer complexes as charge-transport layers for high performance inverted perovskite solar cells.‍ Hui Wang, Pang Wang, Yuandong Sun, Chen Gao, Weiqiang Miao, Donghui Li, Yujie Yang, Tao Wang, Dan Liu*. Advanced Functional Materials, 2022, 32, 2201935. On the stability of non-fullerene acceptors and their corresponding organic solar cells: Influence of side chains. Bojun Zhou, Liang Wang, Yang Liu, Chuanhang Guo, Donghui Li, Jinlong Cai, Yiwei Fu, Chen Chen, Dan Liu, Yinhua Zhou, Wei Li, Tao Wang*. Advanced Functional Materials, 2022, 32, 2206042. Side chain length and interaction mediated charge transport networks of non-fullerene acceptors for efficient organic solar cells. Yiwei Fu, Liang Wang, Chuanhang Guo, Donghui Li, Jinlong Cai, Bojun Zhou, Chen Chen, Chenhao Liu, Dan Liu, Wei Li, Tao Wang*. ACS Materials Letters, 2022, 4, 2009-2018. Non-fullerene acceptor pre-aggregates enable high efficiency pseudo-bulk heterojunction organic solar cells.‍ Donghui Li, Chuanhang Guo, Xue Zhang, Baocai Du, Cong Yu, Pang Wang, Shili Cheng, Liang Wang, Jinlong Cai, Hui Wang, Dan Liu, Huifeng Yao, Yanming Sun, Jianhui Hou*, Tao Wang*. Science China Chemistry, 2022, 65, 373-381. Heating induced aggregation control for efficient sequential-cast organic solar cells.‍ Donghui Li, Chuanhang Guo, Xue Zhang, Baocai Du, Pang Wang, Shili Cheng, Jinlong Cai, Hui Wang, Dan Liu, Huifeng Yao, Jianhui Hou*, Tao Wang*. Aggregate, 2022, 3, e104. Polymer/non-fullerene acceptor bulk heterojunction nanoparticles for efficient photocatalytic hydrogen production from water. Yujie Yang, Donghui Li, Pang Wang, Xue Zhang, Huijun Zhang, Baocai Du, Chuanhang Guo, Tao Wang, Dan Liu*. Polymer, 2022, 244, 124667. An asymmetry strategy to reduce excessive aggregation of brominated non-fullerene acceptors for enhanced efficiency of organic solar cells. Jinlong Cai, Chuanhang Guo, Liang Wang, Yiwei Fu, Chen Chen, Donghui Li, Dan Liu, Tao Wang*. Organic Electronics, 2022, 100, 106357. Defect passivation with potassium trifluoroborate for efficient spray-coated perovskite solar cells in air. Chen Gao, Hui Wang, Pang Wang, Jinlong Cai, Yuandong Sun, Cong Yu, Teng Li, Xiaoshuai Zhang, Dan Liu, Tao Wang*. Journal of Semiconductors, 2022, 43, 092201. Revealing the microstructure-related light-induced degradation for all-polymer solar cells based on regioisomerized end-capping groups acceptors. Jing Guo, Tao Wang, Yao Wu, Rui Sun, Qiang Wu, Wei Wang, Hui Wang, Xinxin Xia, Xinhui Lu, Tao Wang, Jie Min*. Journal of Materials Chemistry C, 2022, 10, 1246-1258.