Cai Zheren

Prof. Cai Zheren

College of Optoelectronic Engineering, Chongqing University, Chongqing, China
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College of Optoelectronic Engineering, Chongqing University

Research Focus & Metrics

Academic Career Length

8Years (2019-Present)

(Calculated once Scilit publication data is synced: current year − year of first publication + 1)

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15 June 2020 in Nature Communications
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XMXiangchuan Meng
Xiangchuan Meng
Cai ZherenCai Zheren
Cai Zheren
YZYanyan Zhang
Yanyan Zhang
XHXiaotian Hu
Xiaotian Hu
ZXZhi Xing
Zhi Xing
YCYiwang Chen
Yiwang Chen
The translation of unparalleled efficiency from the lab-scale devices to practical-scale flexible modules affords a huge performance loss for flexible perovskite solar cells (PSCs). The degradation is attributed to the brittleness and discrepancy of perovskite crystal growth upon different substrates. Inspired by robust crystallization and flexible structure of vertebrae, herein, we employ a conductive and glued polymer between indium tin oxide and perovskite layers, which simultaneously facilitates oriented crystallization of perovskite and sticks the devices. With the results of experimental characterizations and theoretical simulations, this bionic interface layer accurately controls the crystallization and acts as an adhesive. The flexible PSCs achieve the power conversion efficiencies of 19.87% and 17.55% at effective areas of 1.01 cm2 and 31.20 cm2 respectively, retaining over 85% of original efficiency after 7000 narrow bending cycles with negligible angular dependence. Finally, the modules are assembled into a wearable solar-power source, enabling the upscaling of flexible electronics.

21 October 2019 in Advanced Functional Materials
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Cai ZherenCai Zheren
Cai Zheren
SZShengdong Zhao
Shengdong Zhao
ZHZhandong Huang
Zhandong Huang
ZLZheng Li
Zheng Li
MSMeng Su
Meng Su
Yanlin SongYanlin Song
Yanlin Song

1 January 2021 in Research
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ZHZhandong Huang
Zhandong Huang
SZShengdong Zhao
Shengdong Zhao
YZYiyuan Zhang
Yiyuan Zhang
Cai ZherenCai Zheren
Cai Zheren
ZLZheng Li
Zheng Li
JYJun Yang
Jun Yang
Efficient acoustic communication across the water-air interface remains a great challenge owing to the extreme acoustic impedance mismatch. Few present acoustic metamaterials can be constructed on the free air-water interface for enhancing the acoustic transmission because of the interface instability. Previous strategies overcoming this difficulty were limited in practical usage, as well as the wide-angle and multifrequency acoustic transmission. Here, we report a simple and practical way to obtain the wide-angle and multifrequency water-air acoustic transmission with a tunable fluid-type acoustic metasurface (FAM). The FAM has a transmission enhancement of acoustic energy over 200 times, with a thickness less than the wavelength in water by three orders of magnitude. The FAM can work at an almost arbitrary water-to-air incident angle, and the operating frequencies can be flexibly adjusted. Multifrequency transmissions can be obtained with multilayer FAMs. In experiments, the FAM is demonstrated to be stable enough for practical applications and has the transmission enhancement of over 20 dB for wide frequencies. The transmission enhancement of music signal across the water-air interface was performed to demonstrate the applications in acoustic communications. The FAM will benefit various applications in hydroacoustics and oceanography.

10 December 2019 in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
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ZHZhandong Huang
Zhandong Huang
SZShengdong Zhao
Shengdong Zhao
MSMeng Su
Meng Su
QYQiang Yang
Qiang Yang
ZLZheng Li
Zheng Li
Yanlin SongYanlin Song
Yanlin Song

27 October 2021 in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
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ZHZhandong Huang
Zhandong Huang
ZZZhipeng Zhao
Zhipeng Zhao
SZShengdong Zhao
Shengdong Zhao
XCXiaobing Cai
Xiaobing Cai
YZYiyuan Zhang
Yiyuan Zhang
JYJun Yang
Jun Yang

14 September 2020 in Angewandte Chemie International Edition
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Cai ZherenCai Zheren
Cai Zheren
ZHZhandong Huang
Zhandong Huang
ZLZheng Li
Zheng Li
MSMeng Su
Meng Su
ZZZhipeng Zhao
Zhipeng Zhao
Yanlin SongYanlin Song
Yanlin Song