Dr. Chuanlang Zhan

Professor
Chinese academy of Science, China

Highest Degree
Ph.D. in Chemistry from Chinese academy of Science, China

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Area of Interest:

Chemistry
Supramolecular Chemistry
Photovoltaic Materials
Organic Nonlinear
Solar Radiation

Selected Publications

  1. Gupta, M., D. Yan, J. Xu, J. Yao and C. Zhan, 2018. Tetraphenylphosphonium bromide as a cathode buffer layer material for highly efficient polymer solar cells. ACS Applied Mater. Interfaces, 10: 5569-5576.
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  2. Xu, J., W. Liu, Y. Geng, K. Deng, C. Zhan and Q. Zeng, 2017. An STM/STS study of site-selective adsorption of C70 molecules onto arc-shaped BODIPY molecular-networks. Nanoscale, 9: 2579-2584.
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  3. Tang, A., C. Zhan, J. Yao and E. Zhou, 2017. Design of Diketopyrrolopyrrole (DPP)-based small molecules for organic-solar-cell applications. Adv. Mater., Vol. 29, No. 2. 10.1002/adma.201600013.
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  4. Liu, W.X., J.N. Yao and C.L. Zhan, 2017. Tailoring the photophysical and photovoltaic properties of boron-difluorodipyrromethene dimers. Chin. Chem. Lett., 28: 875-880.
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  5. Liu, W., W. Li, J. Yao and C. Zhan, 2017. Achieving high short-circuit current and fill-factor via increasing quinoidal character on nonfullerene small molecule acceptor. Chin. Chem. Lett., 29: 381-384.
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  6. Liu, W., J. Yao and C. Zhan, 2017. A novel BODIPY-based low-band-gap small-molecule acceptor for efficient non-fullerene polymer solar cells. Chin. J. Chem., 35: 1813-1823.
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  7. Li, W., X. Zhang, X. Zhang, J. Yao and C. Zhan, 2017. High-performance solution-processed single-junction polymer solar cell achievable by post-treatment of PEDOT: PSS layer with water-containing methanol. ACS Applied Mater. Interfaces, 9: 1446-1452.
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  8. Li, W., D. Yan, W. Liu, J. Chen, W. Xu, C. Zhan and J. Yao, 2017. A new function of N719: N719 based solution-processible binary cathode buffer layer enables high-efficiency single-junction polymer solar cells. Solar RRL, Vol. 1. 10.1002/solr.201700014.
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  9. Zhang, X., W. Li, J. Yao and C. Zhan, 2016. High-efficiency nonfullerene polymer solar cell enabling by integration of film-morphology optimization, donor selection and interfacial engineering. ACS Applied Mater. Interfaces, 8: 15415-15421.
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  10. Zhang, X., J. Yao and C. Zhan, 2016. Boosting organic solar cell electrical performance by introducing large aromatics onto small-molecule peripheral side-chains. Adv. Mater. Interfaces, Vol. 3, No. 17. 10.1002/admi.201600323.
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  11. Zhan, C. and J. Yao, 2016. More than conformational “twisting” or “coplanarity”: Molecular strategies for designing high-efficiency nonfullerene organic solar cells. Chem. Mater., 28: 1948-1964.
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  12. Sun, M.J., X. Zhang, Y.W. Zhong, C. Zhan and J. Yao, 2016. Tunable self-assembly and morphology-dependent photoconductivity of a donor-acceptor-structured diruthenium complex. Inorg. Chem., 55: 13007-13013.
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  13. Jiang, B., J. Yao and C. Zhan, 2016. Modulating PCBM-acceptor crystallinity and organic solar cell performance by judiciously designing small-molecule mainchain end-capping units. ACS Applied Mater. Interfaces, 8: 26058-26065.
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  14. Huang, J., S. Zhang, B. Jiang, Y. Chen and X. Zhang et al., 2016. Terminal moiety-driven electrical performance of asymmetric small-molecule-based organic solar cells. J. Mater. Chem. A, 4: 15688-15697.
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  15. Zhang, X., J. Yao and C. Zhan, 2015. A selenophenyl bridged perylene diimide dimer as an efficient solution-processable small molecule acceptor. Chem. Commun., 51: 1058-1061.
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  16. Zhan, C., X. Zhang and J. Yao, 2015. New advances in non-fullerene acceptor based organic solar cells. RSC Adv., 5: 93002-93026.
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  17. Tang, A., C. Zhan and J. Yao, 2015. Series of quinoidal methyl-dioxocyano-pyridine based π-extended narrow-bandgap oligomers for solution-processed small-molecule organic solar cells. Chem. Mater., 27: 4719-4730.
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  18. Tang, A., C. Zhan and J. Yao, 2015. Comparative study of effects of terminal non-alkyl aromatic and alkyl groups on small-molecule solar cell performance. Adv. Energy Mater., Vol. 5, No. 13. 10.1002/aenm.201500059.
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  19. Chen, Y., X. Zhang, C. Zhan and J. Yao, 2015. Origin of effects of additive solvent on film-morphology in solution-processed nonfullerene solar cells. ACS Applied Mater. Interfaces, 7: 6462-6471.
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  20. Chen, Y., X. Zhang, C. Zhan and J. Yao, 2015. In-depth understanding of photocurrent enhancement in solution‐processed small-molecule: Perylene diimide non-fullerene organic solar cells. Physica Status Solidi(a), 212: 1961-1968.
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  21. Zhang, X., C. Zhan and J. Yao, 2014. Non-fullerene organic solar cells with 6.1% efficiency through fine-tuning parameters of the film-forming process. Chem. Mater., 27: 166-173.
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  22. Zhang, X., B. Jiang, X. Zhang, A. Tang, J. Huang, C. Zhan and J. Yao, 2014. Cooperatively tuning phase size and absorption of near IR photons in P3HT:perylene diimide solar cells by bay-modifications on the acceptor. J. Phys. Chem. C, 118: 24212-24220.
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  23. Zhang, S., X. Wang, A. Tang, J. Huang, C. Zhan and J. Yao, 2014. Tuning morphology and photovoltaic properties of diketopyrrolopyrrole-based small-molecule solar cells by taloring end-capped aromatic groups. Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 16: 4664-4671.
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  24. Wang, X., J. Huang, Z. Niu, X. Zhang, Y. Sun and C. Zhan, 2014. Dimeric naphthalene diimide based small molecule acceptors: Synthesis, characterization and photovoltaic properties. Tetrahedron, 70: 4726-4731.
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  25. Tang, A., Z. Lu, S. Bai, J. Huang and Y. Chen et al., 2014. Photocurrent enhancement in diketopyrrolopyrrole solar cells by manipulating dipolar anchoring terminals on alkyl-chain spacers. Chem.: Asian J., 9: 883-892.
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  26. Niu, Z., X. Wang, J. Huang, A. Tang, Y. Sun and C. Zhan, 2014. A solution-processed small-molecule diketopyrrolopyrrole dimer for organic solar cells. Asian J. Org. Chem., 3: 948-952.
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  27. Lu, Z., B. Jiang, X. Zhang, A. Tang, L. Chen, C. Zhan and J. Yao, 2014. Perylene-diimide based non-fullerene solar cells with 4.34% efficiency through engineering surface donor/acceptor compositions. Chem. Mater., 26: 2907-2914.
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  28. Liu, W., A. Tang, J. Chen, Y. Wu, C. Zhan and J. Yao, 2014. Photocurrent enhancement of BODIPY-based solution-processed small-molecule solar cells by dimerization via the meso position. ACS Applied Mater. Interfaces, 6: 22496-22505.
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  29. Huang, J., X. Wang, X. Zhang, Z. Niu and Z. Lu et al., 2014. Additive-assisted control over phase-separated nanostructures by manipulating alkylthienyl position at donor backbone for solution-processed, non-fullerene, all-small-molecule solar cells. ACS Applied Mater. Interfaces, 6: 3853-3862.
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  30. Chen, Y., A. Tang, X. Zhang, Z. Lu, J. Huang, C. Zhan and J. Yao, 2014. A new solution-processed diketopyrrolopyrrole donor for non-fullerene small-molecule solar cells. J. Mater. Chem. A, 2: 1869-1876.
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  31. Zhang, Z., X. Zhang, C. Zhan, Z. Lu, X. Ding, S. He and J. Yao, 2013. The leverage effect of the relative strength of molecular solvophobicity vs. solvophilicity on fine-tuning nanomorphologies of perylene diimide bolaamphiphiles. Soft Matter, 9: 3089-3097.
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  32. Zhang, X., Z. Lu, L. Ye, C. Zhan and J. Hou et al., 2013. A potential perylene diimide dimer-based acceptor material for highly efficient solution-processed non-fullerene organic solar cells with 4.03% efficiency. Adv. Mater., 25: 5791-5797.
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  33. Zhang, X., C. Zhan, X. Zhang and J. Yao, 2013. Orientation of bromination in bay-region of perylene diimides. Tetrahedron, 69: 8155-8160.
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  34. Zhang, S., B. Jiang, C. Zhan, J. Huang and X. Zhang et al., 2013. Phenyl-1,3,5-trithienyl-diketopyrrolopyrrole: A molecular backbone potentially affording high efficiency for solution-processed small-molecule organic solar cells through judicious molecular design. Chem.: Asian J., 8: 2407-2416.
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  35. Yu, X., C. Zhan, X. Ding, S. Zhang and X. Zhang et al., 2013. Chromism based on supramolecular H-bonds. Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 15: 11960-11965.
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  36. Yu, X., C. Zhan, S. Zhang, A. Tang, X. Zhang, Y. Huang and J. Yao, 2013. Controllable hierarchical self-assembly and disassembly of stable zinc phthalocyanine-peptide nucleic acid-perylene diimide nanoheterojunctions. Asian J. Org. Chem., 2: 54-59.
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  37. Tang, A., L. Li, Z. Lu, J. Huang and H. Jia et al., 2013. Significant improvement of photovoltaic performance by embedding thiophene in solution-processed star-shaped TPA-DPP backbone. J. Mater. Chem. A, 1: 5747-5757.
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  38. Lu, Z., X. Zhang, C. Zhan, B. Jiang, X. Zhang, L. Chen and J. Yao, 2013. Impact of molecular solvophobicity vs. solvophilicity on device performances of dimeric perylene diimide based solution-processed non-fullerene organic solar cells. Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 15: 11375-11385.
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  39. Ke, D., A. Tang, C. Zhan and J. Yao, 2013. Conformation-variable PDI@β-sheet nanohelices show stimulus-responsive supramolecular chirality. Chem. Commun., 49: 4914-4916.
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  40. Jiang, B., X. Zhang, C. Zhan, Z. Lu and J. Huang et al., 2013. Benzodithiophene bridged dimeric perylene diimide amphiphiles as efficient solution-processed non-fullerene small molecules. Polym. Chem., 4: 4631-4638.
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  41. Huang, J., X. Wang, C. Zhan, Y. Zhao and Y. Sun et al., 2013. Wide band gap copolymers based on phthalimide: Synthesis, characterization and photovoltaic properties with 3.70% efficiency. Polym. Chem., 4: 2174-2182.
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  42. Huang, J., C. Zhan, X. Zhang, Y. Zhao and Z. Lu et al., 2013. Solution-processed DPP-based small molecule that gives high photovoltaic efficiency with judicious device optimization. ACS Applied Mater. Interfaces, 5: 2033-2039.
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  43. Zhang, Z., C. Zhan, X. Zhang, S. Zhang, J. Huang, A.D. Li and J. Yao, 2012. A self-assembly phase diagram from amphiphilic perylene diimides. Chem.: Eur. J., 18: 12305-12313.
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  44. Zhang, X., S. Pang, Z. Zhang, X. Ding, S. Zhang, S. He and C. Zhan, 2012. Facile synthesis of 1-bromo-7-alkoxyl perylene diimide dyes: Toward unsymmetrical functionalizations at the 1,7-positions. Tetrahedron Lett., 53: 1094-1097.
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  45. Lu, Z., C. Zhan, X. Yu, W. He and H. Jia et al., 2012. Large-scale, ultra-dense and vertically standing zinc phthalocyanine π-π stacks as a hole-transporting layer on an ITO electrode. J. Mater. Chem., 22: 23492-23496.
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  46. Liu, H., H. Jia, L. Wang, Y. Wu, C. Zhan, H. Fu and J. Yao, 2012. Intermolecular electron transfer promoted by directional donor-acceptor attractions in self-assembled diketopyrrolopyrrole-thiophene films. Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 14: 14262-14269.
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  47. Li, P., C. Zhan, S. Zhang, X. Ding, F. Guo, S. He and J. Yao, 2012. Alkali metal cations control over nucleophilic substitutions on aromatic fused pyrimidine-2,4-[1H,3H]-diones: Towards new PNA monomers. Tetrahedron, 68: 8908-8915.
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  48. Huang, J., Y. Zhao, X. Ding, H. Jia and B. Jiang et al., 2012. Synthesis and charge-transporting properties of electron-deficient CN2-fluorene based D-A copolymers. Polym. Chem., 3: 2170-2177.
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  49. Huang, J., Y. Zhao, W. He, H. Jia and Z. Lu et al., 2012. Effects of structure-manipulated molecular stacking on solid-state optical properties and device performances. Polym. Chem., 3: 2832-2841.
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  50. Huang, J., H. Jia, L. Li, Z. Lu and W. Zhang et al., 2012. Fine-tuning device performances of small molecule solar cells via the more polarized DPP-attached donor units. Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 14: 14238-14242.
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  51. Zhu, H., W. He, C. Zhan, X. Li, Z. Guan, F. Guo and J. Yao, 2011. Synthesis, crystal structure and different local conformations of pyridine-imide oligomers. Tetrahedron, 67: 8458-8464.
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  52. Zhan, C. and A.D.Q. Li, 2011. Perylene diimide: Versatile building blocks for molecular self-assemblies, folding motifs and reaction-directing codes. Curr. Org. Chem., 15: 1314-1339.
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  53. Li, A.D., C. Zhan, D. Hu, W. Wan and J. Yao, 2011. Photoswitchable nanoprobes offer unlimited brightness in frequency-domain imaging. J. Am. Chem. Soc., 133: 7628-7631.
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  54. Ke, D., C. Zhan, S. Xu, X. Ding and A. Peng et al., 2011. Self-assembled hollow nanospheres strongly enhance photoluminescence. J. Am. Chem. Soc., 133: 11022-11025.
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  55. Ke, D., C. Zhan, A.D. Li and J. Yao, 2011. Morphological transformation between nanofibers and vesicles in a controllable bipyridine-tripeptide self-assembly. Angewandte Chemie, 123: 3799-3803.
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  56. Li, X., C. Zhan, Y. Wang and J. Yao, 2008. Pyridine-imide oligomers. Chem. Commun., 21: 2444-2446.
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  57. Zhan, C., J.M. Leger and I. Huc, 2006. Cross-hybridization of pyridinedicarboxamide helical strands and their N-oxides. Angewandte Chemie Int. Edn., 45: 4625-4628.
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  58. Dolain, C., C. Zhan, J.M. Leger, L. Daniels and I. Huc, 2005. Folding directed N-oxidation of oligopyridine-dicarboxamide strands and hybridization of oxidized oligomers. J. Am. Chem. Soc., 127: 2400-2401.
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