Chen,Wei

Brief Bio

Wei Chen received his BS (2003) and PhD (2008) in Materials Science and Engineering, both from Tsinghua University in China. He then did his post-doctoral research from 2008 to 2010 in the Department of Chemistry at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. In April 2010, he joined Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China, as an associate professor. His research interests cover the synthesis, understanding, and applications of functional nanomaterials in the next generation solar cells, including dye or quantum dot-sensitized solar cells, printable inorganic or hybrid solar cells, etc.

Nanomaterials chemistry; Dye-sensitized solar cells; Quantum dot-sensitized solar cell; nanostructured solar cells

Recent publications:

1. Branched ZnO nanostructures as building blocks of photoelectrodes for efficient solar energy conversion, Chen Wei, Qiu YC, Yang SH, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2012, 14, 10872;

2. Hydrothermal synthesis of ultrasmall CuCrO2 nanocrystal alternatives to NiO nanoparticles in efficient p-type dye-sensitized solar cells, Dehua Xiong, Zhen Xu, Xianwei Zeng, Wenjun Zhang, Wei Chen,* Xiaobao Xu, Mingkui Wang and Yi-Bing Cheng, Journal of Materials Chemistry, 2012, 22, 24760.

3. Recent progress on tandem structured dye-sensitized solar cells, Dehua Xiong, Wei Chen,* Front. Optoelectron., 2012, DOI 10.1007/s12200-012-0283-9.

4. Xianwei Zeng, Wenjun Zhang, Yan Xie, Dehua Xiong, Wei Chen,* Xiaobao Xu, Mingkui Wang, Yi-Bing Cheng, Low-cost porous Cu2ZnSnSe4 film remarkably superior to noble Pt as counter electrode in quantum dot-sensitized solar cell system, Journal of Power Sources, 2013, 226:359–362

5. Keyou Yan, Wei Chen and Shihe Yang, Significantly Enhanced Open Circuit Voltage and Fill Factor of Quantum Dot Sensitized Solar Cells by Linker Seeding Chemical Bath Deposition,J. Phys. Chem. C, Article ASAP, DOI: 10.1021/jp3094319

6. Jie Bai, Xiaobao Xu, Ling Xu, Jin Cui, Dekang Huang, Wei Chen, Yibing Cheng, Yan Shen, * Mingkui Wang *, p-Type Semiconducting Zinc Oxide as an Efficiency Photocathode Material in Dye-sensitized Solar Cells. ChemSusChem,in press, 2013, DOI: 10.1002/cssc.201200935.

7. Jianfeng Lu, Xiaobao Xu, Zhihong Li, Kun Cao, Jin Cui, Yibo Zhang, Yan Shen*, Yi Li, Jun Zhu, Songyuan Dai*, Wei Chen, Yibing Cheng, and Mingkui Wang*, Zinc Porphyrins with Pyridine Ring Anchoring Group for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells.Chemistry-An Asian Journal, in press, 2013, DOI: 10.1002/asia.201201136.

• Transfer printed tandem structured dye-sensitized solar cells;

• Highly efficient flexible dye-sensitized solar cells;

• Solid-state nanostructured solar cells;

• p-n type tandem structured dye-sensitized solar cells with wide light absorption range;

• Fundamental researches on quantum dot-sensitized solar cells