Associate Professor (in Prof. Xiao-Hong ZHANG’s Group)
Education and Research Experience：
2021/2－Now: Associate Professor, Institute of Functional Nano & Soft Materials (FUNSOM), Soochow University, Suzhou, China;
2018/11-2019/10: Visiting Scholar, Center for Organic Photonics and Electronics Research (OPERA), Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan (Advisor: Prof. Chihaya Adachi)
2017/12-2021/1: Postdoc, FUNSOM, Soochow University, Suzhou, China (Advisor: Prof. Le He/ Prof Xiao-Hong Zhang);
2012/9－2017/7: Ph.D., Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry (IPC), Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China (Supervisor: Prof. Xiao-Hong Zhang)
2008/9－2012/7：B. Eng., School of Materials Science and Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing, China
Research Interests:
Design, synthesis and characterization of organic light-emitting materials and their applications in optoelectronic devices
E-mail：
wkai@suda.edu.cn
Selected Publications:
1. Kai Wang, Cai-Jun Zheng,* Wei Liu, Ke Liang, Yi-Zhong Shi, Si-Lu Tao, Chun-Sing Lee,* Xue-Mei Ou, and Xiao-Hong Zhang,* Avoiding energy loss on TADF emitters: controlling the dual conformations of D–A structure molecules based on the pseudoplanar segments. Adv. Mater. 2017,29, 1701476.
2. Kai Wang, Yi-Zhong Shi, Cai-Jun Zheng,* Wei Liu, Ke Liang, Xing Li, Ming Zhang, Hui Lin, Si-Lu Tao, Chun-Sing Lee,* Xue-Mei Ou, Xiao-Hong Zhang,* Control of Dual Conformations: Developing Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence Emitters for Highly Efficient Single-Emitter White Organic Light-Emitting Diodes. ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2018,10, 31515-31525.
3. Kai Wang, Wei Liu, Cai-Jun Zheng,* Yi-Zhong Shi, Ke Liang, Ming Zhang, Xue-Mei Ou and Xiao-Hong Zhang,* A comparative study of carbazole-based thermally activated delayed fluorescence emitters with different steric hindrance. J. Mater. Chem. C, 2017, 5, 4797-4803.
4. Yizhong Shi,#Kai Wang,# Youichi Tsuchiya, Wei Liu, Takeshi Komino, Xiaochun Fan, Dianming Sun, Gaole Dai, Jiaxiong Chen, Ming Zhang, Caijun Zheng, Shiyun Xiong, Xuemei Ou, Jia Yu, Jiansheng Jie, Chun-Sing Lee,* Chihaya Adachi,* Xiaohong Zhang,* Hydrogen bond-modulated molecular packing and its applications in high-performance non-doped organic electroluminescence. Mater. Horiz.2020, 7, 2734-2740.
5. Jia-Xiong Chen, Wen-Wen Tao, Wen-Cheng Chen, Ya-Fang Xiao, Kai Wang,* Chen Cao, Jia Yu, Shengliang Li, Feng-Xia Geng, Chihaya Adachi, Chun-Sing Lee,* Xiao-Hong Zhang,* Red/Near-Infrared Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence OLEDs with Near 100 % Internal Quantum Efficiency. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2019,58, 14660-14665.
6. Jia-Xiong Chen, Ya-Fang Xiao, Kai Wang,* Dianming Sun, Xiao-Chun Fan, Xiang Zhang, Ming Zhang, Yi-Zhong Shi, Jia Yu, Feng-Xia Geng, Chun-Sing Lee,* Xiao-Hong Zhang,* Managing Locally Excited and Charge-Transfer Triplet States to Facilitate Up-Conversion in Red TADF Emitters That are Available for Both Vacuum- and Solution-Processes. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2021,60, 2478-2484.
7. Yi-Zhong Shi, Kai Wang*, Xing Li, Gao-Le Dai, Wei Liu, Ke Ke, Ming Zhang, Si-Lu Tao, Cai-Jun Zheng*, Xue-Mei Ou, Xiao-Hong Zhang*, Intermolecular Charge-Transfer Transition Emitter Showing Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence for Efficient Non-Doped OLEDs, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed.2018, 57, 9480-9484.
8. Jia-Xiong Chen, Kai Wang,* Cai-Jun Zheng,* Ming Zhang, Yi-Zhong Shi, Si-Lu Tao, Hui Lin, Wei Liu, Wen-Wen Tao, Xue-Mei Ou, and Xiao-Hong Zhang,* Red Organic Light-Emitting Diode with External Quantum Efficiency beyond 20% Based on a Novel Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence Emitter. Adv. Sci. 2018, 1800436.
9. Lin Wu, Kai Wang,* Cheng Wang, Xiao-Chun Fan, Yi-Zhong Shi, Xiang Zhang, Shao-Li Zhang, Jun Ye,* Caijun Zheng, Yanqing Li, Jia Yu, Xuemei Ou and Xiaohong Zhang,* Using Fluorene to Lock Electronically Active Moieties in Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence Emitters for High-Performance Non-doped Organic Light-Emitting Diodes with Suppressed Roll-off. Chem. Sci.2021, DOI: 10.1039/D0SC05631F.
Edited by Juan Yang