Principle Investigator
Yongfang Li
Born on August 10, 1948, Chongqing, China.
Professor of Chemistry
CAS Key Laboratory of Organic Solids, Institute of Chemistry
Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Beijing 100190, China
Tel: 86-10-61943915; E-mail: liyf@iccas.ac.cn
Laboratory of Advanced Optoelectronic Materials, College of Chemistry,
Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Soochow University,
Suzhou 215123, China. E-mail: liyongfang@suda.edu.cn
Education
Master Degree was obtained in 1982 in Chemistry Department, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai 200237, China. Physical Chemistry Specialty
Ph.D. degree was obtained in 1986 in Chemistry Department,Fudan University. Shanghai 200433, China. Physical Chemistry Specialty (Electrochemistry).
Research career
1986.8. – 1988.8., Postdoctoral fellow in Institute of Chemistry, CAS (ICCAS), Beijing 100190, China.
1988.9. – present, staff of ICCAS, Beijing 100190, China. 1993.- present, Professor.
1988.10.-1991.4., Visiting scholar, Institute for Molecular Science (IMS), Okazaki, Japan.
1997.6. – 1998.6., Visiting Scientist, Institute for Polymers and Organic Solids, UCSB, USA.
2012.12. – present, Professor of Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu, China.
2013.11. elected as a member of Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Awards
1995, the Second-Grade National Award of China on Natural Sciences, for the contribution in "The studies on conducting polypyrrole"
1998, named as "Young and Middle-aged Specialist with Outstanding Contributions in Natural Science" by Chinese government.
2005, the First-Grade Award of Beijing City on Science and Technology, for the contribution in "The studies on the electrochemistry of conducting polymers and polymer light-emitting electrochemical cells"
2012, "Macro 2012 Lecture Award" by PMSE of ACS (American Chemical Society).
2018, the Second-Grade National Award of China on Natural Sciences, for the contribution in "Photovoltaic materials of the conjugated polymer donors with conjugated side chains and indene-fullerene bisadduct acceptors".
2018, the Second-Grade Award of Beijing City on Science and Technology, for the contribution in "Controllable synthesis of quantum-dots and the studies on their application for high quality LEDs"
Present research interests:
Photovoltaic materials and devices for Polymer solar cells.
Publications
Two books, more than 10 book chapters and more than 800 research papers have been published in the fields of photovoltaic materials and devices for polymer solar cells, electrochemistry of conducting polymers and semiconductor nanocrystals. The published papers have been cited by others for more than 45000 times, h-factor: 107.