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This article summarized the recent advance on the structural design and synthetic strategies of intramolecular charge-transfer compounds as well as their potential applications in two-photon absorption chromophores, organic photovoltaics and organic light-emitting diodes.
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本文综述了分子内电荷转移化合物的结构设计和合成策略, 及其在双光子吸收材料、有机光伏器件和有机发光二极管等领域的应用进展.
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This work was supported by AcRF Tier 1 (RG 8/16, RG 133/14 and RG 13/15) from MOE, Singapore, STU Scientific Research Foundation for Talents (NTF15005), STU Youth Research Fund (YR15001) and the Foundation for Young Talents in Higher Education of Guangdong (2015KQNCX042).
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Liang Xu received his BSc degree from the Department of Chemistry, China Agricultural University in 2009, and his PhD degree from the Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences (ICCAS) in 2014, under the supervision of Prof. Yuliang Li. He did his postdoctoral research at the School of Materials Science and Engineering, Nanyang Technological University (NTU, Singapore), in Prof. Qichun Zhang’s group. His research interests are focused on the design, synthesis, characterization and application exploration of intramolecular charge-transfer compounds.
Qichun Zhang obtained his BSc degree at Nanjing University in 1992, MSc degree in physical organic chemistry (Organic Solid Lab) at ICCAS (Prof. Peiji Wu/Daoben Zhu’s group) in 1998, MSc degree in organic chemistry (Prof. Fred Wudl’s group) at the University of California, Los Angeles (USA), and completed his PhD degree in inorganic chemistry at the University of California Riverside (Prof. Pingyun Feng’s group, USA) in 2007. Then, he joined Prof. Kanatzidis’ group at Northwestern University as a postdoctoral fellow (Oct. 2007–Dec. 2008). Since Jan. 2009, he joined the School of Materials Science and Engineering at NTU as an assistant professor. On Mar 1st, 2014, he has promoted to associate professor with tenure and on Dec. 1st, 2014, he became an adjunct associate professor at Division of Chemistry and Biological Chemistry, School of Physical andMathematical Sciences, NTU. Besides these, he also had three-year working experience in Research Institute of Nanjing Chemical Industry Co. (Aug. 1992–Aug. 1995) and two-year’s research experience in ICCAS (Aug. 1998–Jun 2000). He received TCT fellowship in 2013 and lectureship fromNational Taiwan University in 2014. Currently, he is an associate editor of J Solid State Chem and the advisory board member of Mater Chem Frontiers. He has published > 220 papers and 4 patents (H-index: 46).
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Liang, X., Zhang, Q. Recent progress on intramolecular charge-transfer compounds as photoelectric active materials. Sci. China Mater. 60, 1093–1101 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40843-016-5170-2
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