Director of Flexible Electronic Technology Research Center

Prof. CHEN Zhikuan

Top Talents in Six Areas of Jiangsu Province

Contacts

Email: iamzkchen@njtech.edu.cn

Address: 5 Xin Mo Fan Road, Nanjing Tech University, Nanjing 210009, China

Research Interests

Organic optoelectronic materials and devices

Biographical Information

1985-1989: Bachelor degree; Peking University.

1989-1992: Master degree; Peking University.

1992-1995: PhD degree; Peking University.

1995-1998: Post-Doc.; Department of Chemistry, National University of Singapore.

1998-2013: Research fellow, Senior research fellow, Principal investigator; Institute of Materials Research and Engineering (IMRE).

2013-: Professor; Institute of Advanced Materials, Nanjing Tech University.

Academic Achievements

Prof. CHEN Zhikuan is interested in design and synthesis of organic optoelectronic materials, relationships between material structures and optoelectronic properties/ device properties, and exploration of device processing, device physics and device integration. So far, he has more than 120 SCI papers published onAdvanced Materials, Advanced Functional Materials, Journal of the American Chemical Societyand so on, with over 3000 times cited. Besides, he holds over 80 international or Chinese patents filed or granted in the field of organic optoelectronics.

Publications:

1. K.-H. Ong, S.-L. Lim, H.-S. Tan, H.-K. Wong, J. Li, Z. Ma, L. C. H. Moh, S.-H. Lim, J. C. de Mello, andZ.-K. Chen, A Versatile Low Bandgap Polymer for Air-Stable, High-Mobility Field-Effect Transistors and Efficient Polymer Solar Cells,Adv. Mater.2011,23(11), 1409-1413. DOI: 10.1002/adma.201003903.Highlightedin NPG Asia Materials, an online publication by the Nature Publishing Group on July 04, 2011; Ecoseed on August 17, 2011; Printed Electronics World, September 07, 2011; International Plastics News for Asia, Oct. 2011, Page 24.

2. C.-G. Zhen, Y.-F. Dai, W.-J. Zeng, Z. Ma,Z.-K. Chen,and J. Kieffer, Achieving highly efficient fluorescent blue organic light-emitting diodes through optimizing molecular structures and device configuration,Adv. Funct. Mater.2011,21(4), 699-707. DOI: 10.1002/adfm.201002165.Highlightedin ACS Noteworthy Chemistry in March 21, 2011; Materials Insight on March 23, 2011; R&D Daily on March 23, 2011; CBS Detroit on March 23, 2011; TG Daily on March 24, 2011; Softpedia on March 24, 2011; Materials Views on March 30, 2011.

3. J. Li, H.-S. Tan,Z.-K. Chen, W.-P. Goh, H.-K. Wong, K.-H. Ong, W. Liu, C. M. Li, and B. S Ong, Dialkyl-Substituted Dithienothiophene Copolymers as Polymer Semiconductors for Thin-Film Transistors and Bulk Heterojunction Solar Cells,Macromolecules,2011,44(4), 690-693. DOI: 10.1021/ma102247x.

4. P. Sonar, G.-M. Ng, T.-T. Lin, A. Dodabalapur, andZ.-K. Chen, Solution Processable Low Band Gap Diketopyrrolopyrrole (DPP) Based Derivatives: Novel Acceptors for Organic Solar Cells,J. Mater. Chem.2010,20(18), 3626-3636. DOI: 10.1039/B924404B.

5. C.-G. Zhen,Z.-K. Chen, Q.-D. Liu, Y.-F. Dai, R. Y. C. Shin, S.-Y. Chang, and J. Kieffer, Fluorene-Based Oligomers for Highly Efficient and Stable Organic Blue-Light-Emitting Diodes,Adv. Mater.2009,21, 2425-2429. DOI: 10.1002/adma.200900095.