OTEZuo Research GroupOrganic Thermoelectrics & Optoelectronics

Publications

Selected publications

2026

  1. Xiaoran Wei, Guanlin Wang, Yong Cui, Yingguo Yang, Dorothea Scheunemann, Yuqian Liu, Wei Fu, Zelong Li, Jianhui Hou, Wanlu Zhang, Martijn Kemerink, Ruiqian Guo, Guangzheng Zuo*. Tuning Charge Delocalization for High Performance Organic Thermoelectrics. Materials Today 96, 103330 (2026).
  2. Bernhard Dörling*, Ian E. Jacobs, Irene Brunetti, Nathan James Pataki, Shannon K. Yee, Dorothea Scheunemann, Keehoon Kang, Guangzheng Zuo, Juan Sebastián Reparaz, Takao Mori, Michael L. Chabinyc, Christian Müller, Mario Caironi, Martijn Kemerink, Mariano Campoy-Quiles. Toward a Consensus Characterization Protocol for Organic Thermoelectrics. Advanced Materials 38, e20430 (2026).
  3. Lei Shi, Hangyang Li, Yazhuo Kuang, Liyao Liu, Linlong Zhang, Yuqian Liu, Minxue Wang, Shuyan Shao*, Yanxiong Pan, Guangzheng Zuo, Zhiyuan Xie, Jian Liu*. Backbone Asymmetry Engineering in Amphipathic Conjugated Polymers Enables Record n-Type Organic Thermoelectrics. Angewandte Chemie International Edition 138, e18464 (2026).

2025

  1. Yuqian Liu, Xiaoran Wei, Dorothea Scheunemann, Maojie Zhang, Wanlu Zhang, Martijn Kemerink, Guangzheng Zuo*. Universal Soft Coulomb Gap Governs Thermoelectric Performance in Doped Conjugated Polymers. ACS Energy Letters 10, 6318-6326 (2025). arXiv
  2. Yuqian Liu, Chenyu Han, Ruilin Zheng, Wanlu Zhang, Xia Guo, Maojie Zhang, Guangzheng Zuo*. Selenium-Driven Charge Delocalization in Conjugated Polymers Enables High Thermoelectric Performance. Chinese Journal of Chemistry 44, 319-327 (2025).
  3. Zelong Li#, Dorothea Scheunemann#, Dennis Derewjanko, Yuqian Liu, Martijn Kemerink*, Guangzheng Zuo*. A Universal Soft Upper Limit to the Seebeck Coefficient in Organic Thermoelectrics. Joule 9, 102140 (2025).
  4. Wei Fu, Zelong Li, Yifan Ding, Maojie Zhang, Yong Cui, Hong Zhang, Xiaoliang Mo, Rongjun Zhang*, Guangzheng Zuo*. Enhancing Dark Current Suppression in Near-Infrared Organic Photodetectors with Morphology Control and Self-Assembled Monolayers. Advanced Optical Materials 13, e00362 (2025).
  5. Chuangchang Lei, Xiang Wu, Yaohua Li, Xu Xu, Guangzheng Zuo, Qiongrong Ou, Shuyu Zhang*. Eu-Doped CsSrCl3 Large Nanocrystal Clusters with Self-Reduction Effect and Near-Unity Quantum Yield. Laser & Photonics Reviews e01672 (2025).
  6. Yang Xiao, Yong Cui*, Haoyu Yuan, Jingwen Wang, Zhihao Chen, GuanLin Wang, Wei Fu, Zhen Fu, Yafei Wang, Tao Zhang, Yue Yu, Runnan Yu, Guangzheng Zuo, Maojie Zhang, Xiaotao Hao, Jianhui Hou*. Suppressing Electrostatic Potential Fluctuations to Achieve High-Efficiency Organic Photovoltaic Cells for Laser Wireless Energy Transfer. Energy & Environmental Science 18, 7136-7145 (2025).
  7. Ni Yang, Yong Cui*, Wei Fu, Xueliang Ma, Tao Zhang, Wenxuan Wang, Yang Xiao, Zhihao Chen, Qian Kang, Guangzheng Zuo, Jianhui Hou*. Low-cost Narrow-Bandgap Organic Semiconductor for Efficient Photovoltaic and Photodetection Applications. ACS Energy Letters 10, 2468-2476 (2025).

2024

  1. Zelong Li, Wei Fu, Dorothea Scheunemann, Xiaoran Wei, Maximilian Litterst, Priya Mariam Viji, Yong Cui, Jianhui Hou*, Junhui Tang, Ziqi Liang, Zehua Qu, Martijn Kemerink*, Ruiqian Guo, Guangzheng Zuo*. Two-Step Design Rule for Simultaneously High Conductivity and Seebeck Coefficient in Conjugated Polymer-Based Thermoelectrics. Advanced Science 12, 2409382 (2024).
  2. Xinxin Lian, Quanxing Ma, Ming Luo, Hao Min, Wei Fu, Li Wan, Xiaochan Zuo, Kongxiang Wang, Yifan Chen, Chunyu Xu, Yusheng Lei, Hualiang Lv, Cong Chen, Jin Chang, Guangzheng Zuo, Fengxian Xie, Zhongsheng Wang, Thandiwe Sithole, Qingqing Miao*, Xiaoliang Mo*, Hong Zhang*, Junhao Chu. Toward sustainable manufacturing of highly efficient and stable semi-transparent perovskite solar cells: The critical role of green solvent properties. Nano Energy 131, 110250 (2024).
  3. Junhui Tang, Zhiyuan Wu, Wenhao Li, Guangzheng Zuo, Yan Zhao*, Ziqi Liang*. Learning from Polymeric π-Backbone to Film Sequences Unravels that a Coexistence of Bilayered and Mixed Morphologies Optimally Strengthens Thermoelectrics. Advanced Energy Materials 14, 2303494 (2024).
  4. Xinxin Lian, Ye Xu, Wei Fu, Rui Meng, Quanxing Ma, Chunyu Xu, Ming Luo, Ying Hu, Junchao Han, Hao Min, Anurag Krishna, Yifan Chen, Huawei Zhou, Xueling Zhang, Cong Chen, Jin Chang, Can Li, Yifeng Chen, Zhiqiang Feng, Zhen Li, Guangzheng Zuo, Jifan Gao, Hong Zhang*, Xiaoliang Mo*, Junhao Chu. Homogenizing Morphology and Composition of Methylammonium-Free Wide-Bandgap Perovskite for Efficient and Stable Tandem Solar Cells. Advanced Functional Materials 34, 2402061 (2024).

2023

  1. Yaohui Li, Xiang Wu, Guangzheng Zuo, Yufei Wang, Xianjie Liu*, Yanxian Ma, Bolun Li, Xu-Hui Zhu*, Hongbin Wu, Jian Qing, Lintao Hou, Wanzhu Cai*. An n-n Heterojunction Configuration for Efficient Electron Transport in Organic Photovoltaic Devices. Advanced Functional Materials 33, 2209728 (2023).
  2. Lishuai Yu, Qingqing Zhang, Zhengpin Bian, Guangzheng Zuo, Harm van Eersel, Peter A Bobbert, Reinder Coehoorn, Feilong Liu, Guofu Zhou. Schottky-Contact Formation between Metal Electrodes and Molecularly Doped Disordered Organic Semiconductors. Physical Review Applied 19, 024041 (2023).
  3. Saqib Rafique, Matthew R Burton*, Nafiseh Badieh, Shahin Mehraban, Afshin Tarat*, Guangzheng Zuo, Lijie Li*, Yiqiang Zhan*. Ultralow Thermal Conductivity Achieved by All Carbon Nanocomposites for Thermoelectric Applications. Advanced Electronic Materials 9, 2300023 (2023).
  4. Hanqing Dai*, Wenqing Dai, Yuanyuan Chen, Yukun Yan, Guangzheng Zuo, Zhe Hu, Jinxin Wei, Wenjie Zhou, Wanlu Zhang, Wei Wei*, Guoqi Zhang*, Ruiqian Guo*. A Strategy Inspired by the Cicada Shedding Its Skin for Synthesizing the Natural Material NaFe3S5·2H2O. Advanced Science 10, 2301324 (2023).

2022

  1. Suhao Wang*, Guangzheng Zuo, Jongho Kim, Henning Sirringhaus. Progress of Conjugated pPolymers as Emerging Thermoelectric Materials. Progress in Polymer Science 129, 101548 (2022).
  2. Osnat Zapata-Arteaga, Sara Marina, Guangzheng Zuo, Kai Xu, Bernhard Dörling, Luis Alberto Pérez, Juan Sebastián Reparaz, Jaime Martín, Martijn Kemerink, Mariano Campoy-Quiles*. Design Rules for Polymer Blends with High Thermoelectric Performance. Advanced Energy Materials 12, 2104076 (2022).

Before 2022

  1. Guangzheng Zuo, Mathieu Linares, Tanvi Upreti, Martijn Kemerink*. General Rule for the Energy of Water-induced Traps in Organic Semiconductors. Nature Materials 18, 588-593 (2019).
  2. Guangzheng Zuo, Safa Shoaee, Martijn Kemerink, Dieter Neher. General Rules for the Impact of Energetic Disorder and Mobility on Nongeminate Recombination in Phase-Separated Organic Solar Cells. Physical Review Applied 16, 034027 (2021).
  3. Guangzheng Zuo, Xianjie Liu, Mats Fahlman, Martijn Kemerink*. High Seebeck Coefficient in Mixtures of Conjugated Polymers. Advanced Functional Materials 28, 1703280 (2018).
  4. Guangzheng Zuo, Zhaojun Li, Ergang Wang, Martijn Kemerink*. High Seebeck Coefficient and Power Factor in n-Type Organic Thermoelectrics. Advanced Electronic Materials 4, 1700501 (2018).
  5. Guangzheng Zuo, Hassan Abdalla, and Martijn Kemerink*. Impact of Doping on the Density of States and the Mobility in Organic Semiconductors. Physical Review B 93, 235203 (2016).
  6. Guangzheng Zuo, Hassan Abdalla, Martijn Kemerink*. Conjugated Polymer Blends for Organic Thermoelectrics. Advanced Electronic Materials 5, 1800821 (2019).
  7. Guangzheng Zuo, Xianjie Liu, Mats Fahlman, Martijn Kemerink*. Morphology Determines Conductivity and Seebeck Coefficient in Conjugated Polymer Blends. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 10, 9638-9644 (2018).
  8. Guangzheng Zuo, Olof Andersson, Hassan Abdalla, Martijn Kemerink*. High Thermoelectric Power Factor from Multilayer Solution-Processed Organic Films. Applied Physics Letters 112, 083303 (2018).
  9. Hassan Abdalla§, Guangzheng Zuo§, Martijn Kemerink*. Range and Energetics of Charge Hopping in Organic Semiconductors. Physical Review B Rapid Communications 96, 241202(R) (2017).
  10. Lorena Perdigón-Toro, Huotian Zhang, Anastasia Markina, Jun Yuan, Seyed Mehrdad Hosseini, Christian M. Wolff, Guangzheng Zuo, Martin Stolterfoht, Yingping Zou, Feng Gao, Denis Andrienko, Safa Shoaee, Dieter Neher*. Barrierless Free Charge Generation in the High-Performance PM6:Y6 Bulk Heterojunction Non-Fullerene Solar Cell. Advanced Materials 32, 1906763 (2020).
  11. Wanzhu Cai, Thomas Österberg, Mohammad J. Jafari, Chiara Musumeci, Chuanfei Wang, Guangzheng Zuo, Xiaolong Yin, Xuhao Luo, Jim Johansson, Martijn Kemerink, Liangqi Ouyang*, Thomas Ederth, Olle Inganäs. Dedoping-induced interfacial instability of poly(ethylene imine)s-treated PEDOT:PSS as a low-work-function electrode. Journal of Materials Chemistry C 8, 328-336 (2020).