Liu Deyu
Basic information：Associate professor, Department of polymeric materials
E-Mail: liudeyu@ouc.edu.cn
Research Interests: Stretchable polymer semiconductors, Organic solar cells, Organic chemistry
Biography:
Appointments:
2022.02-present Associate Professor, Ocean University of China
2019.10-2021.10 Postdoctoral Researcher, Stanford University
Education:
2016.09-2019.07 PhD, Qingdao Institute of Bioenergy and Bioprocess Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
2012.08-2014.06 MSc, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Ocean University of China
2008.08-2012.06 BSc, Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, Qingdao University of Science & Technology
Awards and Honors:
2022 Taishan Young Scholar
2022 Excellent Young Scientists (Overseas) of Shandong
2019 Excellent Graduate, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Projects:
1. 2023-2025 Taishan Scholar Program of Shandong Province
2. 2023-2025 Shandong Provincial Natural Science Fund for Excellent Young Scientists Fund Program (Overseas)
3. 2024-2026 National Natural Science Foundation of China
4. 2024-2026 Shandong Provincial Natural Science Foundation
5. 2023-2024 Opening Project of State Key Laboratory of Luminescent Materials and Devices, South China University of Technology
6. 2023-2024 Opening Project of Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Chemical Materials and Devices of Ministry of Education, Jianghan University
7. 2022-2024 Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities
Research output:
1. Deyu Liu, Jaewan Mun, Gan Chen, Nathaniel J. Schuster, Weichen Wang, Yu Zheng, Shayla Nikzad, Jian-Cheng Lai, Yilei Wu, Donglai Zhong, Yangju Lin, Yusheng Lei, Yuelang Chen, Sangah Gam, Jong Won Chung, Youngjun Yun, Jeffrey B.-H. Tok, Zhenan Bao.* A design strategy for intrinsically stretchable high-performance polymer semiconductors: incorporating conjugated rigid fused-rings with bulky side groups. Journal of the American Chemical Society 2021, 143(30), 11679-11689.
2. Deyu Liu, Junyi Wang, Chunyang Gu, Yonghai Li, Xichang Bao, Renqiang Yang.* Stirring up acceptor phase and controlling morphology via choosing appropriate rigid aryl rings as lever arms in symmetry-breaking benzodithiophene for high-performance fullerene and fullerene-free polymer solar cells. Advanced Materials 2018, 30(8), 1705870.
3. Deyu Liu, Qianqian Zhu, Chunyang Gu, Junyi Wang, Meng Qiu, Weichao Chen, Xichang Bao, Mingliang Sun, Renqiang Yang.* High-performance photovoltaic polymers employing symmetry-breaking building blocks. Advanced Materials 2016, 28(38), 8490-8498.
4. Deyu Liu,# Yusheng Lei,# Xiaozhou Ji,# Yilei Wu, Yangju Lin, Yunfei Wang, Song Zhang, Yu Zheng, Yuelang Chen, Jian-Cheng Lai, Donglai Zhong, Hao-Wen Cheng, Jerika A. Chiong, Xiaodan Gu, Sangah Gam, Youngjun Yun, Jeffrey B.-H. Tok, Zhenan Bao.* Tuning the mechanical and electric properties of conjugated polymer semiconductors: side-chain design based on asymmetric benzodithiophene building blocks. Advanced Functional Materials 2022, 32(44), 2203527
5.Deyu Liu, Kaili Zhang, Yaqian Zhong, Chunyang Gu, Yonghai Li, Renqiang Yang.* An effective strategy for controlling the morphology of high-performance non-fullerene polymer solar cells without post-treatment: employing bare rigid aryl rings as lever arms in new asymmetric benzodithiophene. Journal of Materials Chemistry A 2018, 6(37), 18125-18132.
6. Deyu Liu, Chunyang Gu, Junyi Wang, Dangqiang Zhu, Yonghai Li, Xichang Bao, Renqiang Yang.* Naphthalene substituents bonded via the β-position: an extended conjugated moiety can achieve a decent trade-off between optical band gap and open circuit voltage in symmetry-breaking benzodithiophene-based polymer solar cells. Journal of Materials Chemistry A 2017, 5(19), 9141-9147.
7. Yonghai Li,# Deyu Liu,# Junyi Wang, Zhi-Guo Zhang, Yongfang Li, Yanfang Liu, Tingting Zhu, Xichang Bao, Mingliang Sun, Renqiang Yang.* Crystalline medium-bandgap light-harvesting donor material based on β-naphthalene asymmetric-modified benzodithiophene moiety toward efficient polymer solar cells. Chemistry of Materials 2017, 29(19), 8249-8257.
8. Qianqian Zhu,# Deyu Liu,# Zhou Lu, Chunyang Gu, Kaili Zhang, Xichang Bao,* Qun Li, Renqiang Yang.* Length evolution of fused-ring electron acceptors toward optimal blend morphology in polymer solar cells incorporating asymmetric benzodithiophene-based donors. Journal of Materials Chemistry A 2019, 7(9), 4823-4828.
9. Chuantao Gu,# Deyu Liu,# Junyi Wang, Qingfen Niu,* Chunyang Gu, Bilal Shahid, Bing Yu, Hailin Cong,* Renqiang Yang.* Alkylthienyl substituted asymmetric 2D BDT and DTBT-based polymer solar cells with a power conversion efficiency of 9.2%. Journal of Materials Chemistry A 2018, 6(5), 2371-2378.
10. Tingting Zhu,# Deyu Liu,# Kaili Zhang, Yonghai Li, Zhe Liu, Xudong Gao, Xichang Bao, Mingliang Sun,* Renqiang Yang.* Rational design of asymmetric benzodithiophene based photovoltaic polymers for efficient solar cells. Journal of Materials Chemistry A 2018, 6(3), 948-956.
11. Zhe Liu,# Deyu Liu,# Kaili Zhang, Tingting Zhu, Yaqian Zhong, Feng Li, Yonghai Li, Mingliang Sun,* Renqiang Yang.* Efficient fullerene-free solar cells with wide optical band gap polymers based on fluorinated benzotriazole and asymmetric benzodithiophene. Journal of Materials Chemistry A 2017, 5(41), 21650-21657.
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