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Research Interests

Microbial conductive materials and devices, hybrid perovskite solar cells, organic solar cells, synchrotron radiation x-ray scattering characterization, metal nanowire transparent electrode, nanoparticles synthesis and applictaions (such as ZnO, TiOx and MoOx).

Research Experience

Postdoc at Lawrence Berkeley National laboratory

2017.08- present

Project 6: Microbial Conductive Materials of e-Pili for Thin-film Functional Materials and Devices

Visiting Ph.D student at Lawrence Berkeley National laboratory

2015.04 – 2016.11

Project 5: Large Area Printed Solar Cells and In-Situ Morphology Investigation

Project 4: Morphology and Interface Polarization in the Bulk-Heterojunction Polymer Solar Cells

Ph.D student at Peking University

2012.09 – 2017.07

Project 3: Interface Engineering of the Perovskite Solar Cells

Project 2: Morphology control for High-performance Perovskite Solar Cells

Project 1: Multi-length Scaled Silver Nanowire Grid and Application in Efficient Organic Solar Cells

Independent Reviewer

Advanced Functional Materials, Journal of Materials Chemistry A, RSC Advances, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, Synthetic Metals, Applied Surface Science and Energy Technology ......

Selected Publications

1. Q. Hu¹, L. Zhao¹, J. Wu, F. Liu,^* C. Wang, T. P. Russell,^* R. Zhu,^* and Q. Gong, et al., “In-Situ Dynamic Observations of Perovskite Crystallization and Microstructure Evolution Intermediated from [PbI₆]^4- Cage Nanoparticles”, Nat. Commun., 2017, 8, 15688.

2. Q. Hu, J. Wu, C. Jiang, T. Liu, X. Que, R. Zhu^* and Q. Gong^*, “Engineering of Electron-Selective Contact for Perovskite Solar Cells with Efficiency Exceeding 15%”, ACS Nano, 2014, 8, 10161.

3. K. Chen¹, Q. Hu¹, T. Liu¹, Li. Zhao, D. Luo, J. Wu, Y. Zhang, F. Liu, W. Zhang, T. P. Russell,^* H. J. Snaith, R. Zhu,^* and Q. Gong, “Charge Carrier Balance for Highly Efficient Planar Heterojunction Perovskite Solar Cells”, Advanced Materials, 2016, 28, 10718. (Co-first author)

4. T. Liu¹, Q. Hu¹, K. Chen, F. Liu, J. Liu, H. Lu, S. Jia, W. Huang, R. Zhu^*, Q. Gong, “Mesoporous PbI₂ Scaffold for High-Performance Planar Heterojunction Perovskite solar Cells”, Advanced Energy Materials, 2016, 6, 1501890. (Co-first author)

5. Q. Hu¹, Y. Liu¹, L. Ying, Y. Li, J. Wu, T. Liu, Li. Zhao, Q. Gong, R. Zhu^* and F. Huang^*, “Highly Efficient Perovskite Solar Cells Based on a Crosslinkable Amino-functionalized Polyfluorene Cathode Interlayer”, Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 2015, 3, 18483.

6. J. Wu, X. Que, Q. Hu, D. Luo, T. Liu, F. Liu, T. P. Russell,^* R. Zhu^* and Q. Gong, “Multi-Length Scaled Silver Nanowire Grid for Application in Efficient Organic Solar Cells, Advanced Functional Materials, 2016, 6, 4822.

7. C. Lu, X. Hu^*, C. Wu, Q. Hu, R. Zhu, K. Shi, H. Yang, and Q. Gong “Actively Tunable Giant Slow-Light Effect in Ultra-Thin Nonlinear Metasurfaces”, Light: Science & Applications, 2015, 4, e302.

8. Z. Zheng, Q. Hu, S. Zhang, D. Zhang, J. Wang, S. Xie, R. Wang, Y. Qin, W. Li, L. Hong, N. Liang, F. Liu, Y. Zhang, Zh. Wei, Z. Tang, T. P. Russell, J. Hou, H. Zhou, “A Highly Efficient Non-Fullerene Organic Solar Cell with a Fill Factor over 0.80 Enabled by a Fine-Tuned Hole-Transporting Layer”, Adv. Mater. 2018, 1801801.

9. D. Luo, W. Yang, Z. Wang, A. Sadhanala, Q. Hu, R. Su, R. Shivanna, G. F. Trindade, J. F. Watts, Z. Xu, T. Liu, K. Chen, F. Ye, P. Wu, L. Zhao, J. Wu, Y. Tu, Y. Zhang, X. Yang, W. Zhang*, R. H. Friend, Q. Gong, H. J. Snaith* and R. Zhu*, “Enhanced Photovoltage for Inverted Planar Heterojunction Perovskite Solar Cells”, Science, 2018, 340, 1442. Selected Patents

Patent

1. Rui Zhu, Qin Hu, Jiang Wu, Qihuang Qong, “Perovskite Solar Cells Based on Interface Modified and the Prepared Methods”, patent CN2014101128182, granted patent.

2. Rui Zhu, Jiang Wu, Qin Hu, Qihuang Gong, Xinglu Que, “Highly Transparent Metal Nanowire Pattern and the Prepared Methods”, patent CN201510013392.X, granted patent.

3. Rui Zhu, Deying Luo, Lichen Zhao, Qin Hu, Yi Liu, Qihuang Gong, “A kind of additive-assisted perovskite solar cells and the preparation methods ”, patent CN201510930985, under examination.

Selected Honors and Awards

1. 2018, GERA energy research workshop Award, 2018 APS March Meeting, Los Angeles, USA.

2. 2017, Outstanding PhD Graduate Student of Peking University, Outstanding Graduate Student of Beijing.

3. 2015-2016, the Advanced Light Source Doctoral Fellowship at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

4. 2015, National Scholarship, Ministry of Education, China.

5. 2013, Outstanding Key Volunteer of Centennial Physics at Peking University.

6. 2013, the Volunteer of the 9^th China Beijing International Garden Expo.

7. 2012, Outstanding Graduate of Shandong University, Outstanding Graduate of Shandong Province.

8. 2011, the Second Prize of “Bisheng Cup” National Undergraduate Electronic Design Contest.

9. 2011, Advanced Team of Social Practice of Shandong University.

10. 2010, Meritorious Winner of Mathematical Contest in Modeling, USA.

11. 2010, the Second Prize of Contemporary Undergraduate Mathematical Contest in Modeling.

12. 2010, the First prize of Undergraduate Electronic Design Contest in Shandong Province.

13. 2009, National Scholarship, Ministry of Education, China.