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Feng Wang

Associate Professor, Docent

I am a materials chemist, working on developing novel materials for renewable energy areas.

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Dr. Feng Wang has been working as an associate professor at Linköping University since 2023. Before that, he was Assistant Professor (2015-2017) and Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellow (2013-2015) at Linköping. He received his Docent from Linköping in 2022, and his PhD from the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2012. He was a Visiting Postdoc at the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland in 2017-2018.

He has received research grants from the following funding organizations: Swedish Research Council (VR), Vinnova, EU Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions, STINT, Carl Tryggers Foundation (CTS), FORMAS, Olle Engkvists Stiftelse.

Feng Wang has been a frequent reviewer for funding organizations, including the EU Horizon MSCA program and the National Science Centre of Poland.

He is also a co-founder of the start-up company LinXole AB, which commercializes stable hole transport materials that can significantly extend the lifetime of new-generation solar cells.

Research

Lead-based perovskite solar cells

Hybrid organic-inorganic perovskites with the formula ABX3 (where A is an organic cation, B is a metal dication and X is a halide anion) hold great promise for providing the clean energy deployment and security needed to meet decarbonization goals. They have achieved great success as photovoltaic materials with high efficiency in energy conversion. Even more attractive, they are adjustable in the bandgap, lightweight and flexible, and can be produced using low-cost processes compatible with printing manufacturing. These properties qualify them as perfect candidates for building-integrated photovoltaics (BIPV) and many mobility applications such as vehicles, boats and airplanes where conventional silicon solar cells cannot be used. My research is mainly focused on improving the operational stability of perovskite solar cells. See relevant publications in Advanced MaterialsAdvanced Functional Materials, and a review paper about the defects in halide perovskites npj Flexible Electronics.

Doped organic semiconductors

Organic semiconductors play a crucial role in all types of optoelectronic devices, including perovskite solar cells. Their unique advantages such as excellent flexibility, good solubility in organic solvents, and easy processing in solutions make them promising candidates for flexible devices. However, organic molecules are generally insulating and not good for charge collection and transport properties. My research interests focus on developing new and stable doping strategies to enhance their performance in optoelectronic devices. See relevant publications in Science

Lead-free perovskite solar cells

Despite the exciting advances in lead-based perovskite solar cells, the current reliance on toxic Pb in perovskite materials is a key problem on the path to commercialization of these cells. To address this issue, I am also interested in the development of novel lead-free perovskite materials, including tin (Sn)-based perovskites and double perovskites. See relevant publications in Angewandte ChemieAdvanced Materials, and a review paper about the challenges and progress in lead-free halide double perovskite Solar RRL.

Publications

I have co-authored 60 peer-reviewed publications (over 7500 citations; h-index 39) and a book chapter (Elsevier)

2024

Yunxiu Shen, Tiankai Zhang, Guiying Xu, Julian A. Steele, Xiankai Chen, Weijie Chen, Guanhaojie Zheng, Jiajia Li, Boyu Guo, Heyi Yang, Yeyong Wu, Xia Lin, Thamraa Alshahrani, Wanjian Yin, Jian Zhu, Feng Wang, Aram Amassian, Xingyu Gao, Xiaohong Zhang, Feng Gao, Yaowen Li, Yongfang Li (2024) Strain regulation retards natural operation decay of perovskite solar cells Nature (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Xin Wang, Hui Wang, Tong Shan, Qingyi Ma, Yanjie Chen, Lifei Chen, Xiaoming Zhao, Feng Wang (2024) Fluorocarbon-based Solvent-Bath Annealing for High-Performance Perovskite Photovoltaics Advanced Functional Materials (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Shaobing Xiong, Fuyu Tian, Feng Wang, Aiping Cao, Zeng Chen, Sheng Jiang, Di Li, Bin Xu, Hongbo Wu, Yefan Zhang, Hongwei Qiao, Zaifei Ma, Jianxin Tang, Haiming Zhu, Yefeng Yao, Xianjie Liu, Lijun Zhang, Zhenrong Sun, Mats Fahlman, Junhao Chu, Feng Gao, Qinye Bao (2024) Reducing nonradiative recombination for highly efficient inverted perovskite solar cells via a synergistic bimolecular interface Nature Communications, Vol. 15, Article 5607 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Yu Wang, Feng Wang, Jiaxing Song, Jingchuan Ye, Jieying Cao, Xinxing Yin, Zhen Su, Yingzhi Jin, Lin Hu, Han Zuilhof, Zaifang Li, Wensheng Yan, Feng Gao (2024) Ethyl Thioglycolate Assisted Multifunctional Surface Modulation for Efficient and Stable Inverted Perovskite Solar Cells Advanced Functional Materials (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Fuxiang Ji, Johan Klarbring, Bin Zhang, Feng Wang, Linqin Wang, Xiaohe Miao, Weihua Ning, Muyi Zhang, Xinyi Cai, Babak Bakhit, Martin Magnuson, Xiaoming Ren, Licheng Sun, Mats Fahlman, Irina A Buyanova, Weimin Chen, Sergei I Simak, Igor A. Abrikosov, Feng Gao (2024) Remarkable Thermochromism in the Double Perovskite Cs2NaFeCl6 Advanced Optical Materials, Vol. 12, Article 2301102 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI

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