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Dr. Gong was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry

Dr. Gong received a DURIP grant from AFOSR

In 2022, we published over 12 peer-reviewed publications.

  • Cao’s paper “Origins of the photocurrent multiplication effect in the polythiophene-based photodetectors” was published 1n Macromol. Rapid Commun., 2022, DOI:10.1002/marc.202100928
  • Yang’s paper “Recent progress in the all-solid-state flexible supercapacitors” was published 1n SmartMat, 2022, DOI: 10.1002/smm2.1103
  • Tao Zhu’s paper “Solution-processed ternary perovskite-organic broadband photodetectors with ultrahigh Detectivity” was published in  ACS Appl. Mater. Interf. 2022, DOI:10.1021/acsami.2c00858
  • Luyao Zheng’s paper “Stable and efficient perovskite solar cells by discrete two-dimensional perovskites capped on the three-dimensional perovskites bilayer thin film” was published in Nano Energy, 2022, DOI: 10.1016/j.mamoen.2022.107126
  • Dezhen Wu paper “Effect of external magnetic field on bulk heterojunction polymer solar cells”  was published in Macromol. Rapid Commun., 2022, DOI：10.1002/marc.202100933
  • April 23, Lening’s paper “Efficient and stable perovskite solar cells by B-site compositional engineered all-​inorganic perovskites and interface Passivation” was published in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, DOI: 10.1021/acsami.2c02023.
  • Jan. 13, Tao and Lening’s paper “High-performance ternary perovskite-organic solar cells” was published in Adv. Mater., 2022, DOI: 10.1002/adma.202109348. Congratulation to Tao Zhu and Lening Shen
  • Jan. 13, Tao and Lening’s paper “High-performance ternary perovskite-organic solar cells” was published in Adv. Mater., 2022, DOI: 10.1002/adma.202109348. Congratulation to tao Zhu and Lening Shen
  • Jan. 5, Lening’s paper “ Bulk heterojunction perovskite solar cells incorporated with p-type low optical gap conjugated Polymers” published in Nano Energy, DOI: 10.1016/j.nanoen.2021.106907. Congratulation to Lening Shen
  • Prof. Xiong Gong serves as an associated editor for Organic Electronics, a primary scientific journal in the fields of organic electronics and flexible electronics
  • 2020
  • 2021  two doctoral students and 3 master students were graduated in the year 2021
  • 2021  12 peer-reviewed papers were published in the year 2021
  • Nov. 16, 2020, Luyao and Tao’s paper “Enhanced Thermoelectric Performance of the F4-TCNQ Doped FASnI3 Thin Films” was accepted for publication in the Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 2020, DOI: 10.1039/D0TA09329G.  Congratulation to Luyao Zheng and Tao Zhu.
  • Nov. 4, Tao’s paper “Novel Quasi-2D Perovskites for Stable and Efficient Perovskite Solar Cells” was published in  ACS Appl. Mater. Interf. 2020, DOI: 10.1021/acsami.0c16514. Congratulation to Tao Zhu.
  • Sept. 23,  Wenzhan and Haodong’s paper “The compositional engineering of organic-inorganic hybrid perovskites for high performance perovskite solar cells”, has been accepted for publication in Emergent Materials, DOI: 10.1007/s42247-020-00128-8.  Congratulation to Wenzhan Xu and Haodong Wu.
  • Sept. 18, Tao’s paper “Wireless portable light-weight self-charging power packs by perovskite-organic  tandem solar cells integrated with solid-state asymmetric supercapacitors” has been accepted for publication in Nano Energy, 2020, 78, 105397. Congratulation to Tao Zhu.
  • Sept. 16, Wenzhan and Tao’s paper “Poly(Ethylene Glycol) Diacrylate as the Passivation Layer for High Performance Perovskite Solar Cells” has been accepted for publication in      ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 2020, DOI: 10.1021/acsami.0c11468. Congratulation to Wenzhan Xu and Tao Zhu
  • June 10, 2020, Dr. Gong received a NSF REU  award.
  • June 6, 2020, Wenzhan and Tao’s paper “Enhanced Device Performance of Perovskite Photovoltaics by Magnetic Field-​Aligned  Perovskites-​Magnetic Nanoparticles Composite Thin Films”  has been accepted for publication in Adv. Fuc. Mater., 2020, DOI:10.1002/adfm.202002808. Congratulation to Wenzhan Xu and Tao Zhu
  • May 20, 2020, Tao’s paper “Recent advancements and challenges for low-toxic perovskite materials” has been accepted for publication in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, DOI:10.1021/acsami.0c02575. Congratulation to Tao Zhu
  • May 15, 2020, Luyao’s paper “High-performance perovskite solar cells by one-step self-assembled perovskite-polymer thin films” has been accepted for publication in ACS Applied Energy Materials, DOI:10.1021/acsaem.0c00823. Congratulation to Luyao Zheng
  • March 10, 2020, Tao’s paper “Solution-Processed Polymeric Thin Film as the Transparent Electrode for Flexible Perovskite Solar Cells” has been accepted for publication in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, DOI:10.1021/acsami.9b22891, Congratulation to Tao Zhu
  • Feb. 2, 2020, Tao and Yongrui’s paper “Bulk Heterojunction Perovskite Solar Cells Incorporated with Solution-Processed TiOx Nanoparticles as the Electron Acceptors” has been accepted for publication in Chinese Chemical Letters, CCLET-D-19-01800R1. Congratulation to Tao Zhu and Yongrui Yang
  • Feb. 2, 2020, Luyao’s paper “Ultrasensitive and high gain solution-processed perovskite photodetectors by CH3NH3PbI2.55Br0.45:Zn2SnO4 bulk heterojunction composite” has been accepted for publication in Emergent Materials. DOI: 10.1007/s42247-020-00072-7. Congratulation to Luyao Zheng
  • Jan. 27, 2020, Tao’s paper “Solution-Processed Flexible Broadband Photodetectors with Solution-Processed Transparent Polymeric Electrode” has been accepted for publication in Advanced Functional Materials, DOI: 10.1002/adfm.201909487. Congratulation to Tao Zhu
  • Oct. 28, Kai and Luyao (equally contribution) paper “High performance perovskites solar cells by hybrid perovskites co-crystallized with poly(ethylene oxide)
    ” was published in   Nano Energy, 2019,  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nanoen.2019.104229
  • Oct. 8, Dr. X. Gong has 202 publications.
  • Oct. 8, Xiang and Luyao (equally contribution) paper “Efficient perovskite solar cells through suppressed non-radiative charge carrier recombination by processing additive” was published in     ACS Appl. Mater. Interf., 2019, DOI: 10.1021/acsami.9b15607.  Congratulation to Luyao Zheng
  • August 26, 2019, Suyuan and Tao’s paper “Zwitterionic Polymer as an Interfacial Layer for Efficient and Stable Perovskite Solar Cells” has been accepted for publication in RSC Advance. DOI: 10.1039/C9RA04907J, Congratulation to Suyuan (formal 3+2 AMP student) and Tao!
  • August 23, 2019, Tao’s paper “Functionality of Non-Fullerene Electron Acceptors in Ternary Organic Solar Cells” (doi: 10.1002/solr.20190032) has been accepted for publication in Solar RRL. Congratulation to Tao!
  • August 22, 2019, Wenzhan and Luyao’s paper “Bulk Heterojunction Perovskite Solar Cells Incorporated
    with Zn2SnO4 Nanoparticles as the Electron Acceptors ” published in  ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, , 2019, DOI: 10.1021/acsami.9b12346 . Congratulation to Wenzhan and Luyao!
  • July 31, 2019, Luyao’s paper “Solution-processed ultrahigh detectivity photodetectors by hybrid perovskite incorporated with heterovalent neodymium cations” published in  ACS Omega, 2019, 10.1021/acsomega.9b01797. Congratulation to Luyao!
  • July 30, 2019, Tao’s paper “Two Dimensional Conjugated Polymeric Nanocrystals for Organic Electronics” published in  ACS Applied Electronic Materials, 2019, DOI: 10.1021/acsaelm.9b00260. Congratulation to Tao!
  • July 1st, 2019, Dr. Gong received an award from NSF, $475,000.
  • June 30, 2019,  Zhiyuan Chen and Yongrui Yang and other’s paper “All-Solid-State Asymmetric Supercapacitors with Metal Selenides Electrodes and Ionic Conductive Composites Electrolytes” has been published in Advanced Functional Materials, DOI:10.1002/adfm.201904182. Congratulation to Zhiyuan and Yongrui !
  • May 8, 2019,  Dr. Kai Wang and Mr. Luyao Zheng’s paper “Efficient perovskite solar cells by hybrid perovskites incorporated with heterovalent neodymium cations” has been published in Nano Energy, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nanoen.2019.04.073. Congratulation to Kai Wang and Luyao Zheng!
  • April 16, 2019,  Dr. Chao Yi’s patent “PEDOT:PSS composite films having enhanced thermoelectric properties” has been published  US 10,263,169 B.  Congratulation to Chao !
  • Feb. 5, 2019, Chinese New Year of 2019, Tao Zhu’s paper ” Ultrasensitive Solution-Processed Broadband PbSe Photodetectors through Photomultiplication Effect” has been published in ACS Appl. Mater. Interf. DOI: 10.1021/acsami.8b21966. Congratulation to Tao !
  • Jan 5, 2019, Zhiyuan Chen’s paper ” All-solid-state flexible asymmetric supercapacitors fabricated by the binder-free hydrophilic carbon cloth@MnO2 and hydrophilic carbon @polypyrrole electrodes” has been published in Adv. Elec. Mater. DOI: 10.1002/aelm.201800721.
  • 2018, Dr. Gong won Best Research Award of The University of Akron
  • Feb. 28, 2017, Kai Wang and Chang Liu have passed their final dissertation defenses. In the past four and half years, Kai authored and co-authored 30 publications, among them, 13 was the first author. He also contributed 4 pending patents. Chang authored and co-authored 24 publications, among them, 11 was the first author. She also contributed 4 pending patents. Congratulation to Kai Wang and Chang Liu.
  • Jan. 2017, Kai Wang’s paper “Efficient Polymer Solar Cells by Lithium Sulfonated Polystyrene as a Charge Transport Interfacial Layer” published in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 2017, 9, 5348-5357. Congratulation to Kai Wang.
  • Nov.  2016, Dr. Gong was named as top 1% highly cited researchers by Thomson Reuters. Congratulation to  Dr. Xiong Gong.
  • Sept. 22nd, 2016, Chang’s paper ” PbS Quantum Dots-Induced Trap-Assisted Charge Injection in Perovskite Photodetectors” was accepted for publication in the Nano Energy. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nanoen.2016.09.035, Congratulation to Chang Liu.
  • July 27th, 2016, Chao’s paper ” Highly Electrical Conductive Polyethylenedioxythiophene Thin Films for Thermoelectrics Applications” was accepted for publication in the Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 2016, DOI: 10.1039/C6TA04122A. Congratulation to Chao.
  • April 18th, 2016, Kai’s paper “Inverted Organic Photovoltaic Cells” was published in Chemical Society Reviews, 2016, DOI: 10.1039/C5CS00831J. Congratulation to Kai.
  • Jan. 2nd, 2016, Tim Meng’s paper “High Performance Perovskite Hybrid Solar Cells with E-beam-Processed TiOx Electron Extraction Layer” was accepted for publication in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. Congratulation to Tim.
  • Nov. 5th, 2015, Xu Huang and Kai Wang’s paper “Efficient Perovskite Hybrid Solar Cells by Highly Electrical Conductive PEDOT:PSS Hole Transport Layer” was accepted for publication in Advanced Energy Materials. Congratulation to Xu and Kai.
  • Oct. 20th, 2015, Chang Liu’s paper “Low Bandgap Polymers for Polymeric Photovoltaics” was accepted for publication in Chem. Soc. Rev.. Congratulation to Chang.
  • Oct. 10th, 2015, Dr. Gong was among the top 1% highly cited researcher 2015 reported by Thomson Reuters. He was among the top 1% highly cited researcher 2014 last year. Congratulation to Gong.
  • Sept. 29th, 2015, Chang Liu has been awarded the 2015 Dean Frank N. Kelley Graduate Student Award.Congratulation to Chang.
  • Sept. 29th, 2015, Chang Liu’s paper “Efficient Perovskite Hybrid Photovoltaics via Alcohol-Vapor Annealing Treatment” was accepted for publication in Advanced Functional Materials. Congratulation to Chang.
  • Sept. 28th, 2015, Chao Yi’s paper “Interfacial Engineering for High Performance Organic Photovoltaics” was accepted for publication in Materials Today. Congratulation to Chao.
  • Sept. 23rd, 2015, Chang Liu’s paper “Ultrasensitive Solution-Processed Broad-Band Photodetectors using CH3NH3PbI3 Perovskite Hybrids and PbS Quantum Dots as the Light Harvesters” was accepted for publication in Nanoscale, DOI: 10.1039/C5NR04575D. Congratulation to Chang.
  • Sept. 22nd, 2015. Chao’s paper entitled ‘Efficient Polymer Solar Cells Fabricated from Solvent Processing Additive Solution’ has been selected as a Hot Article for 2015. Congratulation to Chao.
  • Sept. 9, 2015. Welcome two visiting scholars, Prof. Xinjian Xu and Mr. Hui Peng joining our group.
  • Kai’s paper entitled of “Efficient Perovskite Hybrid Solar Cells via Ionomer Interfacial Engineering” accepted for publication in Adv. Func. Mater.
  • Pengcheng’s paper entitled of “Polyaniline Modified Oriented Graphene Hydrogel Film as the Free-Standing Electrode for Flexible Solid-state Supercapacitors” accepted for publication in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces.
  • Dr. Gong received an award from Air Force Research, $819,543.
  • Kai’s paper entitled of “Effects of Magnetic Nanoparticles and External Magnetostatic Field on the Bulk Heterojunction Polymer Solar Cells” published in Scientific Reports, 2015, 5, 9265.
  • Chang’s paper “Ultrasensitive solution-processed perovskite hybrid photodetectors” as the front cover published in Journal of Materials Chemistry C: Materials for Optical and Electronic Devices, 2015, 3(26), 6600-6606.
  • Chao’s paper entitled of “Enhanced Thermoelectric Properties of Poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene):poly(styrenesulfonate) by Binary Secondary Dopants” published in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 2015, 7(17), 8984-8989.
  • Dr. Gong received an award of I-Corps project from Ohio Third Frontier, $15,000.
  • Chang’s paper entitled “Efficient Solution-Processed Bulk Heterojunction Perovskite Hybrid Solar Cells” published in Advanced Energy Materials, 2015, OI:10.1002/aenm.201402024.
  • Pengcheng’s paper entitled of “Self-Powered Electronics by Integration of Flexible Solid-State Graphene-Based Supercapacitors with High Performance Perovskite Hybrid Solar Cells” published in Advanced Functional Materials, 2015, 25(16), 2420-2427.
  • Kai’s paper entitled of “Efficient Perovskite Hybrid Solar Cells Through a Homogeneous High-Quality Organolead Iodide Layer” published in Small, 2015, 11(27), 3369-3376
  • Kai’s paper entitled of “Efficiencies of perovskite hybrid solar cells influenced by film thickness and morphology of CH3NH3PbI3-xClx layer” published in Organic Electronics, 2015, 21, 19-26.
  • Chang’s paper entitled of “Single-Junction Polymer Solar Cells with Over 10% Efficiency by a Novel Two-Dimensional Donor-Acceptor Conjugated Copolymer” published in ACS Applied Materials & interface, 2015, 7(8), 4928-4935.
  • Kai’s paper entitled of “Bulk heterojunction perovskite hybrid solar cells with large fill factor” publication in Energy & Environmental Science, 2015, 8(4), 1245-1255.
  • July 2015, Dr. Gong’s name is placed on the World’s Most Influential Scientific Minds 2014. More information can be found in the sciencewatch.com/…/worlds-most-influential-scientific-minds-2014.pdf. Dr. Gong is the only researcher at UA to be placed on this list.
  • Chang’s paper entitled “High Performance Planar Heteojunction Perovskite Solar Cells with Fullerene Derivatives as the Electron Transport Layer” published in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 2015, 7, 1153-1159.
  • Chao’s paper entitled of “Efficient Polymer Solar Cells Fabricated from Solvent Processing Additive Solution” published in J. Mater. Chem. C., 2015, 3, 26-32.
  • Chang’s paper entitled of “Influence of Binary Processing Additives on the Performance of Polymer Solar Cells” published in Nanoscale, 2014, 6, 14297-14304.
  • Xiaowen’s paper entitled of “High-Detectivity Inverted Near-Infrared Polymer Photodetectors using Cross-Linkable Conjugated Polyfluorene as an Electron Extraction Layer” published in J. Mater. Chem. C. 2014, 2, 9592-9598.
  • Chao’s paper entitled of “Water/Alcohol Soluble Neutral Fullerene Derivative to Reengineer the Surface of the Electron Extraction Layer for High Efficiency Inverted Polymer Solar Cells” published in ACS Appl. Mater. & Interface, 2014, 6, 14189-14195.
  • Xiaowen’s paper entitled of “High-Performance Inverted Organic Photovoltaics with Over 1-μm Thick Active Layers” published in Adv. Eng. Mater., 2014, DOI: 10.1002/aenm.201400378.
  • June 2014, Dr. Gong named as the top 1 % highly cited researcher by Thomson Reuters. Dr. Gong is the only researcher at UA to be placed on this list. More information can be found in www.uakron.edu/im/news/xiong-gong-has-influence
  • May 2014, Chang Liu and Kai Wang received best graduate research award from ACS. This was the first time UA graduate student received such prestige award.
  • March 2014, Dr. Gong received NSF CAREER Award.
  • June 2013, Dr. Gong received the Key International Collaboration Project Award, NSF of China (NSFC)