Prof. He YAN

Biography

• Develop a high-performance n-type polymeric semiconductor, which was published in Nature and highlighted on the journal’s cover page, being referred to as the “new transistor age”
• His work in the development of organic solar cells has broken multiple world record efficiencies, and he was thereby placed on the National Renewable Energy Lab’s “Best Research-Cell Efficiency Chart” in 2015
• Win two national entrepreneurship competitions for his work in proposing and promoting a new route to commercialize organic photovoltaics
• RFS project — to develop efficient and stable non-fullerene organic solar cells (OSCs), by deeply understanding the mechanism of state-of-the-art Nonfullerene acceptors (NFAs) and designing new materials, including NFAs and the corresponding compatible donor polymers
• Awards and Honours:
  • RGC Research Fellow (2020)
  • Tencent Xplorer Prize as one of top 50 young scientists country-wide (2020)
  • Web of Science “Highly Cited Researcher” (2018, 2019)