By Prof. Yingping Zou, Central South University, China.
Biography
Yingping Zou received her Ph. D. degree from Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences (ICCAS) in 2008 with Prof.Yongfang Li, then in the following years she performed her postdoctoral research in Laval University with Prof.Mario Leclerc and visiting research in Stanford University with Prof. Hongjie Dai. She was promoted to full professor in 2014 in CSU. Currently her researches focus on the organic small molecules/polymers for high performance optoelectronic devices. She has published more than 190 peer-review papers including Joule, Nat.Photon., Nat.Commun., Adv Mater., J.Am.Chem.Soc, etc. with more than 7000 citations and H index is 44. In organic solar cells, recently, the group led by her have developed a design strategy defined as “A-DAD-A” to obtain a series of high-performing NFAs, called as Y series, which have set new records for the certified power conversion efficiencies by National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). The research on these newly designed electron acceptors has attracted extensive attention. For instance, the research paper on the Y6 acceptor (Joule, 2019, 3, 1140) was cited over 800 times within a very short time since its publication.