FacultyName:Wangchao Chen                                

Title:AssociateProfessor

Position:/

Office:102, Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Building

Phone:+86-0563-3831211

Email:chenwc@hfut.edu.cn

Education:

• B.S.,Applied Chemistry, HefeiUniversity of Technology/HFUT,2008-2012

• Ph.D.,Materials Science and Engineering, Universityof Science and Technology of China/USTC,2012-2017

Biography:WangchaoChen joined the School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, HefeiUniversity of Technology in 2017 after he received his Ph.D. inUniversity of Science and Technology of China. From 2012, he focusedon the research of the advanced solar energy materials and wearablesolar cells, including high performance and stable perovskite,antimony chalcogenides and dye-sensitized solar cells. His mainfunding sources include the National Natural Science Foundation ofChina, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the Science andTechnology Department of Anhui Province. In 2015, he got theOutstanding Paper Award of China Photovoltaic Academic Conference.

ResearchInterests：Ourgroup focused on the research of the advanced solar energy materialsand solar cells:

• Perovskitesolar cells

• Antimonychalcogenides solar cells

• Dye-sensitizedsolar cells

• Flexiblewearable photovoltaic devices

TeachingInterests:

• OrganicChemistry

• SolarEnergy Materials and Engineering

• FineOrganic Synthesis Technology

SelectedFunded Projects:

• NaturalScience Foundation of China (No.52002105, 2021.01-2023.12)

  • Designand Synthesis of High-Mobility Hole Transport Materials with DefectPassivation Function for Antimony Selenide Solar Cells

• NaturalScience Foundation of Anhui Province (No.1908085QB56, 2019.07-2021.06)

  • Designand Synthesis of High Mobility, Film Formation and Dopant-FreePhthalocyanine Based Hole-Transporting Materials for Efficient andStable Photovoltaic Devices

• OpenFoundation of CAS Key Laboratory (No. PA2018ZKSK0028,2018.09-2020.08)

  • Synthesisof Dopant-free Complexes Hole-Transporting Materials and Study onSolar Cells Performance

• PostdoctoralScience Foundation of China (No. 2018M642548, 2018.11-2020.06).

  • Designand Synthesis of Dopant-Free Phthalocyanine based Hole-TransportingMaterials and Study on Solar Cell Performance

• FundamentalResearch Funds for the Central Universities(No.JZ2018HGBZ0176,2018. 05-2020.04)

  • Synthesisof Hole-Transporting Materials based on Fluorene Derivatives andTheir Application in Perovskite Solar Cells

• FundamentalResearch Funds for the Central Universities(No.PA2019GDPK0060,2019.06-2020.12)

  • Preparationof Counter Electrode Based on Three-Dimensional Selenium DopedGraphene Materials and Their Catalytic Performance in Solar Cells

SelectedAwards and Honors:

• OutstandingPaper Award of China Photovoltaic Academic Conference

• FirstPrize of the National Chemical Teachers' Teaching AbilityCompetition

• ExcellentSupervisor for Undergraduate Thesis of Hefei University ofTechnology

• ExcellentSupervisor for College Student Innovation and EntrepreneurshipCompetition of Anhui Province

SelectedPublications：

1.Chen Wangchao*;Sun Jianjun; Zhang Zhi; Wu Miaomiao; Li Zhaoqian*; Zhang Hong*; etal.; Thiazole Functionalized Hole Transport Material Featuring DefectPassivation Effects for High-Performance Perovskite Solar Cells, ACSMaterials Letters 2023,5, 1772-1780.

2.Sun Jianjun; Chen Wangchao*;Ren Yingke; Niu Yunjuan; Yang Zhiqian; Mo Li’e; et al.; MolecularExchange and Passivation at Interface Afford High-performingPerovskite Solar Cells with Efficiency over 24%, Journalof Energy Chemistry2023,82, 219-227.

3.Chen Wangchao*;Zhang Hanyu; Sun Jianjun; Ghadari Rahim; Zhang Zhengguo et al.;Molecular Tailor-Making of Zinc Phthalocyanines as Dopant-FreeHole-Transporting Materials for Efficient and Stable Perovskite SolarCells, Journal of Power Sources2021, 505,230095.

4.ChenWangchao*; Zhang, H.; Zheng, H.; Li, H.;Guo, F.; Ni, G.; et al. Two-Dimensional Triphenylene CoredHole-Transporting Materials for Efficient Perovskite Solar Cells.Chemical Communications2020, 56,1879-1882.

5.ChenWangchao*;Liu, T.; Sun, X.; Guo, F.; Wang, Y.; Shi, C.; et al. Facile Synthesisof Simple Arylamine-Substituted Naphthalene Derivatives asHole-Transporting Materials for Efficient and Stable Perovskite SolarCells. Journal of Power Sources2019, 425,87-93.

6.ChenWangchao*;Yang, H.; Guo, F.; Shi, C.; Sun, X.; Wang, Y.; G et al. SimplyDesigned Nonspiro Fluorene-Based Hole-Transporting Materials for HighPerformance Perovskite Solar Cells. SyntheticMetals2019,250, 42-48.

7.Huang,Y.; Chen Wangchao*;Ghadari, R.; Liu, X.-P.; Fang, X.-Q.; et al., Highly EfficientRuthenium Complexes with Acetyl Electron-Acceptor Unit for DyeSensitized Solar Cells. Journal of PowerSources2018,396, 559-565.

8.Huang,Y.; Chen Wangchao*;Zhang, X.-X.; Ghadari, R.; Fang, X.-Q.; et al., Ruthenium Complexesas Sensitizers with Phenyl-Based Bipyridine Anchoring Ligands forEfficient Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells. Journalof Materials Chemistry C2018,6, 9445-9452.

9.ChenWangchao; Kong, F.-T.*; Ghadari, R.; etal., Unravelling the Structural-Electronic Impact of ArylamineElectron-Donating Antennas on the Performances of Efficient RutheniumSensitizers for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells. Journalof Power Sources2017,346, 71-79.

10.ChenWangchao; Kong, F.-T.*; Li, Z.-Q.; Pan,J.-H.*; et al., Superior Light-Harvesting Heteroleptic Ruthenium(II)Complexes with Electron-Donating Antennas for High PerformanceDye-Sensitized Solar Cells. ACS AppliedMaterials & Interfaces2016,8, 19410-19417.