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Yuanjing Cai

Yuanjing Cai

Professor, Full-time Principle Investigator

Specializations: Materials Physics and Chemistry, Materials Science and Engineering, Chemistry

Email: 2018500023@mail.buct.edu.cn

Phone: 18518677287

Office Location: Gaojingjian Building 917

Group Website:http://cai-group.com.cn

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Education:


Dec. 2014

Ph.D.

in Materials Physics and Chemistry at Wuhan University of Technology (China)

Aug. 2012 - Aug. 2014

Joint-training PhD student

University of Wisconsin- Madison (UW-Madison, USA), Department of Chemistry

Jun. 2011

M.E.

in Materials Science at Wuhan University of Technology (China)

Jun. 2008

B.E.

in Materials Science & Engineering at Wuhan University of Technology (China)

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Working Experience:


Jun. 2018- Current

Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Soft Matter Science and Engineering

Youth Principal Investigator, Professor

May. 2022-Oct. 2023

University of Toronto (Canada)

Visiting Professor

Sep. 2016 - Apr. 2018

South China University of Technology, State Key Laboratory of Luminescent Materials and Devices

Assistant Researcher

Jan. 2015 - Aug.2016

The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Hong Kong), Chemistry Department

Research Associate

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Research Interests:

1. Light-emission materials in single molecule and aggregates, their mechanisms and theoretical calculation

2. Organic/Inorganic materials in optoelectronic devices (light emitting diodes, photodetectors, solar cell)

3. Organic small molecule as photosensitizer applied in photodynamic therapy

4. Aggregation behavior of luminescent materials and their soft matter applications

5. Specially functional polymer materials

6. Muon spin resonance technology in the mechanism studies of soft matter functional materials

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Teaching:

Safety in Scientific Experiments” (Chinese teaching mode for Postgraduate students, English teaching mode for undergraduate students)

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Funding:

The National Natural Science Foundation of China

Beijing Natural Science Foundation

High-End Foreign Experts Project

University-enterprise cooperation project

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Academic Conference:

International Conference on Advanced Materials Sciences and Engineering

National Conference on Solar Cell Materials and Devices

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Teaching Achievements:

Safety in Scientific Experiments”, 2024 Course Evaluation Rate 96.03

Supervise graduate students to obtain national scholarships

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Publications:

1. Design of efficient benzosilole derivatives for tuning high-performance HLCT OLEDs, Peng, Gueqing;† Wang, Linzhong;† Zhang, Liang;† Samedov, Kerim; Li, Han; Chen, Mingxing; Lu, Yanfei; Chen, Dongcheng;* Cai, Yuanjing;* Small, 2025, doi: 10.1002/smll.202501069.

2. Multi-Functional Silole Hole Transport Layer for Efficient_and_Stable Lead-Tin Perovskite and Tandem Solar Cells, Yuanjing Cai,* Aidan Maxwell, Chongwen Li, Eui Dae Jung, Lewei Zeng, Boran Kumral, Peter Serles, Zhan'ao Tan, Runnan Yu, Salvatore Boccia, Mingxing Chen, Cheng Jiang, Dongcheng Chen, Yanjiang Liu, Zaiwei Wang, Luke Grater, Advanced Materials, 2024,36(46),DOI: 10.1002/adma.202411968.

3. High-lying triplet excitons utilization of silole derivatives enables their efficiency breakthrough in OLEDs, Zhang, Liang;† Wang, Linzhong;† Samedov, Kerim; Chen, Mingxing; Chen, Dongcheng;* Cai, Yuanjing;* Advanced Functional Materials, 2024, doi:10.1002/adfm.202410250.

4. Free radical chemistry of phosphasilenes, Samedov, Kerim; Heider, Yannic; Cai, Yuanjing;* Willmes, Phillipp; Mühlhausen, Daniel; Huch, Volker; West, Robert; Scheschkewitz, David;* Percival, W. Paul;* Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2020, doi:10.1002/anie.202006289.

5. Deciphering the working mechanism of aggregation-induced emission of tetraphenylethylene derivatives by ultrafast spectroscopy, Cai, Yuanjing; Du, Lili; Samedov, Kerim; Qi, Fei; Gu, Xinggui; Sung, Herman H. Y.; Brian, Patrick; Yan, Zhiping; Zhang, Haoke; Lam, Jacky W. Y.; Williams, Ian D.; Phillips, David L.;* Qin, Anjun;* Tang, Ben Zhong;* Chemical Science, 2018, 9(20), 4662-4670.



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