Biography

• Associate Research Fellow, College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Peking University (2025.2-present)

• Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California, Irvine (2021.9-2025.1)

• Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry, Peking University (2016.9-2021.7)

• B.S. in Chemistry, Peking University (2012.9-2016.7)

Research Interests

• Conjugated molecules and polymers, optoelectronic and bioelectronic devices

• Charge and energy transport mechanisms in molecular assembled systems

• Molecular simulation of soft matter and heterointerfaces

Awards

• 2024 CAS Future Leaders Top 100, Chemical Abstracts Service of ACS

• 2023 Tom Angell Fellowship Postdoctoral Scholar Award, UC Irvine

• 2022 Excellent Doctoral Dissertation Award in Beijing

• 2021 Outstanding Graduates in Beijing

• 2021 Outstanding Graduates of Peking University

• 2021 Excellent Doctoral Dissertation Award, Peking University

• 2020 National Scholarship for Doctoral Student

• 2020 Star of Chemistry, CCME, Peking University

Selected Publications

1. Ze-Fan Yao, Dmitri L. M. Cordova, Griffin M. Milligan, Diana Lopez, Steven J. Allison, Yuyao Kuang, Herdeline A. M. Ardoña, Maxx Q. Arguilla, Lattice-guided assembly of optoelectronically-active pi-conjugated peptides on 1D van der Waals single crystals, Science Advances, 2024, 10, eadl2402

2. Ze-Fan Yao, Yuyao Kuang, Hao-Tian Wu, Emil Lundqvist, Xin Fu, Natalie Celt, Jian Pei, Albert Yee, Herdeline A. M. Ardoña, Selective induction of molecular- to tissue-level anisotropy on peptide-based optoelectronic cardiac biointerfaces, Advanced Materials, 2024, 36, 2312231

3. Ze-Fan Yao, Hao-Tian Wu, Fang-Dong Zhuang, Peng-Fei Zhang, Qi-Yi Li, Jie-Yu Wang, Jian Pei, Achieving ideal and environmentally stable n-type charge transport in polymer field-effect transistors, Small, 2024, 20, 2306010

4. Ze-Fan Yao, Jie-Yu Wang, Jian Pei, Controlling morphology and microstructure of conjugated polymers via solution-state aggregation, Progress in Polymer Science, 2023, 136, 101626

5. Ze-Fan Yao, Emil Lundqvist, Yuyao Kuang, Herdeline Ann M. Ardoña, Engineering multi-scale organization for biotic and organic abiotic electroactive systems, Advanced Science, 2023, 10, 2205381

6. Ze-Fan Yao, Yu-Qing Zheng, Jin-Hu Dou, Yang Lu, Yi-Fan Ding, Li Ding, Jie-Yu Wang, Jian Pei, Approaching Crystal Structure and High Electron Mobility in Conjugated Polymer Crystals, Advanced Materials, 2021, 33, 2006794

7. Ze-Fan Yao, Qi-Yi Li, Hao-Tian Wu, Yi-Fan Ding, Zi-Yuan Wang, Yang Lu, Jie-Yu Wang, Jian Pei, Building crystal structures of conjugated polymers through X-ray diffraction and molecular modeling, SmartMat, 2021, 84, 076601

8. Ze-Fan Yao, Zi-Yuan Wang, Hao-Tian Wu, Yang Lu, Qi-Yi Li, Lin Zou, Jie-Yu Wang, Jian Pei, Ordered Solid-State Microstructures of Conjugated Polymers Arising from Solution-State Aggregation, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2020, 59, 17467-17471

9.  Ze-Fan Yao, Yu-Qing Zheng, Qi-Yi Li, Ting Lei, Song Zhang, Lin Zou, Han-Yu Liu, Jin-Hu Dou, Yang Lu, Jie-Yu Wang, Xiaodan Gu, Jian Pei, Wafer-Scale Fabrication of High-Performance n-Type Polymer Monolayer Transistors Using a Multi-Level Self-Assembly Strategy, Advanced Materials, 2019, 31, 1806747

For the full list of publications, please see Zefan’s Google Scholar (https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=kp5_ABkAAAAJ&hl)