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Email：chenrui@hbut.edu.cn
IntroductionDistinguished Professor and recipient of the Hubei Province Chutian Scholar title. Research focuses on the development of high-efficiency and stable perovskite solar cells, with particular emphasis on interface engineering and materials design. Has led and participated in more than ten research projects, including those funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China, key projects of the National Key Research and Development Program, and the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation. Holds two authorized invention patents and has contributed to the formulation of one industry standard for perovskite photovoltaics. To date, more than 60 academic papers have been published, including 17 papers as first (including co-first) or corresponding author in leading international journals such as Science, Nature, Nature Energy, and Nature Communications. Among these publications, six are ESI Highly Cited Papers, with total citations exceeding 4,800.
Education ExperienceSep. 2013-Jun. 2017 School of Materials Science and Chemistry, China University of Geosciences (Wuhan) Bachelor of Engineering
Sep. 2017-Jun. 2022 Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology Doctoral Degree
Work ExperienceJul. 2022-Mar. 2025 Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology Postdoctoral Researcher
Apr. 2025-Present School of Materials and Chemical Engineering Hubei University of Technology
Course Teaching:
Professional English for Materials Science
Perovskite thin-film defect suppression and healing methods, interface modification and barrier encapsulation strategies, and large-area perovskite solar modules
[1] Sanwan Liu#, Tianyin Miao#, Jianan Wang#, Yong Zhang#, Rui Chen#, Xia Lei, Wenming Qin, Zhongjie Zhu, Lanlu Lu, Zhenhua Chen, Peng Cui, Liang Li, Meicheng Li, Erxiang Xu, Yang Shen, Seong Chan Cho, Sang Uck Lee, Seong-Ho Cho, Zonghao Liu, Wei Chen, Nam-Gyu Park. Solvated-intermediate-driven surface transformation of lead halide perovskites. Nature Energy, 2025, 1-12.
[2] Qisen Zhou#, Guoyu Huang#, Jianan Wang#, Tianyin Miao#, Rui Chen#, Xia Lei, Erxiang Xu, Sanwan Liu, He Zhu, Zhengtian Tan, Chenyang Shi, Xiaoxuan Liu, Qianqian Wang, Jingbai Li, Yihua Chen, Qi Chen, Yang Shen, Manling Sui, Yue Lu, Zonghao Liu, Wei Chen. Aromatic interaction-driven out-of-plane orientation for inverted perovskite solar cells with improved efficiency. Nature Energy, 2025, 1-11.
[3] Wenguang Liu, Zhengtian Tan, Jianan Wang, Sanwan Liu, Tahir Imran*, Hasan Raza, Xiaoxuan Liu, Yong Cai, Zheng Zhou, Yixuan Hao, Qisen Zhou, Tianyin Miao, Huaiqing Luo, He Zhu, Wenpei Li, Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin*, Rui Chen*, Zonghao Liu*, Wei Chen*. Defect engineering and crystallization kinetics control via dual-functional mercaptoacetamide for high-performance, large-area perovskite solar modules. Advanced Energy Materials, 2025, 15(40): e02193.
[4] Sanwan Liu#, Jingbai Li#, Wenshan Xiao#, Rui Chen#, Zhenxing Sun, Yong Zhang, Xia Lei, Shuaifeng Hu, Manuel Kober-Czerny, Jianan Wang, Fumeng Ren, Qisen Zhou, Hasan Raza, You Gao, Yitong Ji, Sibo Li, Huan Li, Longbin Qiu, Wenchao Huang, Yan Zhao, Baomin Xu, Zonghao Liu*, Henry J Snaith, Nam-Gyu Park*, Wei Chen*, Buried interface molecular hybrid for inverted perovskite solar cells. Nature, 2024, 632(8025): 536-542.
[5] Wenguang Liu#, Rui Chen#, Zhengtian Tan, Jianan Wang, Sanwan Liu, Chenyang Shi, Xiaoxuan Liu, Yong Cai, Fumeng Ren, Zheng Zhou, Qisen Zhou, Wenpei Li, Tianyin Miao, He Zhu, Tahir Imran, Zonghao Liu*, Wei Chen*, Buried interface engineering for scalable processing of high-performance inverted perovskite solar modules. Advanced Energy Materials, 2024, 15(13): 2404374.
[6] Rui Chen#, Jianan Wang#, Zonghao Liu#, Fumeng Ren, Sanwan Liu, Jing Zhou, Haixin Wang, Xin Meng, Zheng Zhang, Xinyu Guan, Wenxi Liang, Pavel A. Troshin, Yabing Qi, Liyuan Han, Wei Chen*, Reduction of bulk and surface defects in inverted methylammonium- and bromide-free formamidinium perovskite solar cells, Nature Energy, 2023, 8(8): 839-849.
[7] Shuo Zhang#, Fangyuan Ye#, Xiaoyu Wang#, Rui Chen#, Huidong Zhang, Liqing Zhan, Xianyuan Jiang, Yawen Li, Xiaoyu Ji, Shuaijun Liu, Miaojie Yu, Furong Yu, Yilin Zhang, Ruihan Wu, Zonghao Liu, Zhijun Ning, Dieter Neher, Liyuan Han, Yuze Lin, He Tian, Wei Chen*, Martin Stolterfoht*, Lijun Zhang*, Wei-Hong Zhu*, Yongzhen Wu*, Minimizing buried interfacial defects for efficient inverted perovskite solar cells, Science, 2023, 360(6643): 404-409.
[8] Rui Chen#, Sanwan Liu#, Xiaojia Xu#, Fumeng Ren, Jing Zhou, Xueying Tian, Zhichun Yang, Xinyu Guan, Zonghao Liu*, Shasha Zhang, Yiqiang Zhang, Yongzhen Wu, Liyuan Han, Yabing Qi, Wei Chen*, Robust hole transport material with interface anchors enhances the efficiency and stability of inverted formamidinium-cesium perovskite solar cells with a certified efficiency of 22.3%, Energy & Environmental Science, 2022, 15(6): 2567-2580.
[9] Rui Chen#, Wenjun Zhang#, Xinyu Guan#, Hasan Raza, Shasha Zhang, Yiqiang Zhang, Pavel A.Troshin, Sergei A. Kuklin, Zonghao Liu*, Wei Chen*, Rear electrode materials for perovskite solar cells, Advanced Functional Materials, 2022, 32(26): 2200651.
[10] Shaohang Wu#, Rui Chen#, Shasha Zhang#, B. Hari Babu, Youfeng Yue, Hongmei Zhu, Zhichun Yang, Chuanliang Chen, Weitao Chen, Yuqian Huang, Shaoying Fang, Tianlun Liu, Liyuan Han*, Wei Chen*, A chemically inert bismuth interlayer enhances long-term stability of inverted perovskite solar cells, Nature Communications, 2019, 10(1): 1161.
1. Outstanding Ph.D. Graduate of Huazhong University of Science and Technology
2. Special Postdoctoral Fellowship of Huazhong University of Science and Technology
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