LIU Wei

Principal Investigator

Group website：http://nano.suda.edu.cn/liuw/

Contact information

Tel. : +86-0512-62882647

E-mail: wei6@suda.edu.cn

Address: 910-201D, Soochow University, 199 Ren’ai Rd, Suzhou, Jiangsu, P. R. China, 215123.

Personal information:

Wei Liu is a Young Distinguished Professor at the Institute of Functional Nano & Soft Materials (FUNSOM) of Soochow University, China. He took this faculty position in March 2025. Before that, he took the postdoctoral training in Professor Sihong Wang’s group at the University of Chicago and in Professor Takao Someya’s group at the University of Tokyo. He earned Ph.D. degree in 2019 from Beijing Institute of Technology under the supervision of Professors Xiaohong Zhang and Yuping Dong. During the doctoral studies, Wei Liu was awarded a scholarship by the China Scholarship Council to pursue a one-year joint training program at Kyushu University, Japan, where he worked with Professor Chihaya Adachi, a pioneer in the field of thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF) mechanisms for third-generation electroluminescent materials. Wei Liu’s research primarily focused on the development of flexible, stretchable, degradable, and recyclable organic light-emitting diode (OLED) materials and devices.

Research interests:

• Stretchable organic optoelectronic devices

• Green and sustainable development of organic optoelectronic devices

• High-performance optoelectronic materials and devices

Recruitment:

We warmly welcome undergraduate students, graduate students, and postdoc who are interested in highly-interdisciplinarity research to study, exchange and visit our research group at Suzhou. Please contact me at wei6@suda.edu.cn if you have any questions.

Selected publications (†co-first author)：

1. Liu, W.†, Zhang, C.†, Alessandri, R., Diroll, T. B., Li, Y, Fan, X.-C, Wang, K., Cho, H., Liu, Y.-D., Dai, Y.-H., Su, Q., Li, N., Li, S.-S, Wai, S., Xu, J., Zhang, X.-H, Talapin, V. D., de Pablo, J. J., & Wang, S.-H. High-efficiency stretchable light-emitting polymers from thermally activated delayed fluorescence. Nat. Mater. 22, 737–745 (2023).

2. Liu, W.†, Wu, Y.-K.†, Vriza, K., Zhang C., Diroll, T. B., Li, Y., Guo P. J., Mei J.-G., Wang, S.-H., & Xu, J. Depolymerizable and recyclable luminescent polymers with high light-emitting efficiencies. Nat. Sustain. 7, 1048–1056 (2024).

3. Liu, W., Wang, G., & Wang, S.-H. Intrinsically stretchable electroluminescent materials. CCS Chem. 6, 1360–1379 (2024).

4. Liu, W., Chen, J.-X., Zheng, C.-J., Wang, K., Chen, D.-Y., Li, F., Dong, Y.-P., Lee, C.-S., Ou, X.-M. & Zhang, X.H. Novel strategy to develop exciplex emitters for high-performance OLEDs by employing thermally activated delayed fluorescence materials. Adv. Funct. Mater. 26, 2002-2008 (2016).

5. Liu, W., Chen, J.-X., Zheng, C.-J., Wang, K., Chen, D.-Y., Li, F., Dong, Y.-P., Lee, C.-S., Ou, X.-M. & Zhang, X.H. OLEDs: Novel strategy to develop exciplex emitters for high-performance OLEDs by employing thermally activated delayed fluorescence materials. Adv. Funct. Mater. 26, 2036 (2016).

6. Liu, W., Zheng, C. J., Wang, K., Zhang, M., Chen, D. Y., Tao, S. L., Li, F., Dong, Y. P., Lee, C. S., Ou, X. M. & Zhang, X. H. High performance all fluorescence white organic light emitting devices with a highly simplified structure based on thermally activated delayed fluorescence dopants and host. ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 8, 3298432991 (2016).

7. Liu, W., Zheng, C. J., Wang, K., Chen, Z., Chen, D. Y., Li, F., Ou, X. M., Dong, Y. P. & Zhang, X. H. Novel carbazolpyridine-carbonitrile derivative as excellent blue thermally activated delayed fluorescence emitter for highly efficient organic light-emitting devices. ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 7, 18930-18936 (2015).

8. Liu, W.†, Chen, Z.†, Zheng, C.-J., Liu, X.-K., Wang, K., Li, F., Dong, Y.-P., Ou, X.-M. & Zhang, X.-H. A novel nicotinonitrile derivative as an excellent multifunctional blue fluorophore for highly efficient hybrid white organic light-emitting devices. J. Mater. Chem. C 3, 8817-8823 (2015).

9. Zhang, M.†, Liu, W.†, Zheng, C. J., Wang, K., Shi, Y. Z., Li, X., Lin, H., Tao, S. L. & Zhang, X. H. Tricomponent exciplex emitter realizing over 20% external quantum efficiency in organic light-emitting diode with multiple reverse intersystem crossing channels. Adv. Sci. 6, 1801938, (2019).

10. Cai, J.-L.†, Liu, W.†, Wang, K., Chen, J.-X., Shi, Y.-Z., Zhang, M., Zheng, C.-J., Tao, S.-L. & Zhang, X.-H. Highly efficient thermally activated delayed fluorescence emitter developed by replacing carbazole with 1, 3, 6, 8 tetramethyl-carbazole. Front. Chem. 7, 17 (2019).

Edited by Juan Yang