Dr. Xiong Gong

Title: Professor
Dept/Program: School of Polymer Science and Polymer Engineering, and Department of Chemical, Biomolecular and Corrosion Engineering
Office: PEAC 321
Phone: 330-972-4983
Fax: 330-972-3406
Email: xgong@uakron.edu
Website: https://ohme.uakron.edu/
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Biography

Honors and Awards

• Outstanding Research Award, University of Akron (2018)
• The World's Most Influential Scientific Minds 2014 (2015)
• Top 1 % Highly Cited Researcher by Thomson Reuters (2016)
• Top 1 % Highly Cited Researcher by Thomson Reuters (2015)
• Top 1 % Highly Cited Researcher by Thomson Reuters (2014)
• NSF CAREER award (2014)
• 3M Non-tenured Faculty Award (2011)
• Overseas Outstanding Chinese Young Scientist Awards, NSFC (2008)
• K. C. Wong Education Foundation Fellow (2009)
• Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship (1999)

Research

Organic/polymer and hybrid perovskite electronic and optoelectronic devices (solar cells, photodetectors, white light light-emitting diodes and displays, organic/polymer thin films diodes, thin film transistors, and biosensors), Organic/perovskite thermoelectric materials and devices, Organic supercapacitors/battery, Chemistry and physics of semiconducting organic/polymer materials, hybrid perovskites, and inorganic quantum dots and nanoparticles, Inorganic nanostructured materials and coordination compounds: synthesis, characterization and applications, CW and ultra-fast lasers, spectroscopy.

Current Research Projects

1. Solution-Processed Perovskites Hybrid Photovoltaics
2. Ultrasensitive Solution-Processed Broadband Photodetectors
3. Organic/Perovskite Thermoelectric Materials and Devices
4. Novel Polymer/Organic and Perovskite materials
5. Inverted Polymer/Organic Solar Cells
6. Magnetic Nanoparticles and Magnetic Field on Photovoltaics
7. Self-Powered Electronics

Publications

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• Wireless portable light-weight self-charging power packs by perovskite-organic tandem solar cells integrated with solid-state asymmetric supercapacitors
  T Zhu, Y Yang, Y Liu, R Lopez-Hallman, Z Ma, L Liu, X Gong
  Nano Energy 78, 105397
• Introduction and Fundamentals of Human Islet Amyloid Polypeptide Inhibitors
  Y Tang, D Zhang, Y Zhang, Y Liu, X Gong, Y Chang, B Ren, J Zheng
  ACS Applied Bio Materials
• All-Solid-State Asymmetric Supercapacitors with Novel Ionic Liquid Gel Electrolytes
  Y Yang, T Zhu, C Chi, L Liu, J Zheng, X Gong
  ACS Applied Electronic Materials
• Novel Quasi-2D Perovskites for Stable and Efficient Perovskite Solar Cells
  T Zhu, Y Yang, K Gu, C Liu, J Zheng, X Gong
  ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
• The compositional engineering of organic–inorganic hybrid perovskites for high-performance perovskite solar cells
  W Xu, X Yao, H Wu, T Zhu, X Gong
  Emergent Materials, 1-24
• Enhanced Device Performance of Perovskite Photovoltaics by Magnetic Field;# 8208; Aligned Perovskites;# 8208; Magnetic Nanoparticles Composite Thin Film
  W Xu, T Zhu, Y Yang, L Zheng, L Liu, X Gong
  Adv. Funct. Mater. 30 (30); 07, 2020)
• Poly (Ethylene Glycol) Diacrylate as the Passivation Layer for High-Performance Perovskite Solar Cells
  W Xu, T Zhu, H Wu, L Liu, X Gong
  ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 12 (40), 45045-45055
• Recent Advancements and Challenges for Low-Toxic Perovskite Materials
  T Zhu, Y Yang, X Gong
  ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
• High-performance perovskite solar cells by one-step self-assembled perovskite-polymer thin films
  L Zheng, K Wang, T Zhu, Y Yang, R Chen, K Gu, C Liu, X Gong
  ACS Applied Energy Materials
• Solution‐Processed Flexible Broadband Photodetectors with Solution‐Processed Transparent Polymeric Electrode
  T Zhu, Y Yang, L Zheng, L Liu, ML Becker, X Gong
  Advanced Functional Materials 30 (15), 1909487

Education

• Ph.D. Physics (Optics), Nankai University, P. R. China (1997)
• M.Sc. Chemistry (Solid State Chemistry), Lanzhou University, P. R. China (1994)
• B.Sc. Chemistry , Northwest Normal University, P. R. China (1986)