Education and working experience:

• 2020-present, Associate Professor, Department of Materials Science, Fudan University

• 2019-2020: JSPS Research Fellow, Institute of Physical and Chemical Research (RIKEN), Japan.

• 2017-2019: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan.  

• 2015-2017 Ph.D.,  Organic and Polymeric Materials, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan;

• 2013-2015 M.E.,  Organic and Polymeric Materials, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan;  

• 2010-2013 M.S.,  University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS), Beijing; and Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering, CAS, Ningbo, China;    

• 2006-2010 B.E.,   Northwestern Polytechnical University (NPU), Xi’ an, China.

Biography：

Born in Shaoxing City, Zhejiang Province (1987), Yang WANG obtained his bachelor and M.S. degree from Northwestern Polytechnical University (NPU) and University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS), in 2010 and 2013, respectively. Supported by the Japanese Government (MEXT Scholarship), he then moved to Tokyo Institute of Technology and earned his Ph.D. degree under the supervision of Prof. Tsuyoshi Michinobu in 2017. After two years' postdoctoral training in the same group, he then moved to RIKEN in 2019, working as the JSPS Research Fellow with Prof. Kazuo Takimiya. He is working at Fudan University as Associate Professor from August, 2020. He is now serving as the reviewer for some journals, such as ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, Polymer Chemistry, Energy.

Research Interests:

• design and synthesis of π-conjugated polymers based on electron-deficient dye molecules for organic thin film transistors

• design and synthesis of intrinsically stretchable semiconducting polymers

• new polymerization methods for conjugated polymers

Honors and Recognition:

1. JSPS International Fellowships for Research in Japan (Standard Program), 2019

2. Second Prize of Natural Science Award of Zhejiang Province, 2018

3. The FY 2018 Seiichi Tejima International Student Research Award

4. The 2016 year of Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-financed Student Abroad

5. Japanese government MEXT (Monbukagakusho) scholarship (5-year stipend with a tuition waiver), 2013-2017                                                 

Key Publications:

1. Yang Wang, Kazuo Takimiya*; Naphthodithiophenediimide–Bithiopheneimide Copolymers for High-Performance n-Type Organic Thermoelectrics: Significant Impact of Backbone Orientation on Conductivity and Thermoelectric Performance, Adv. Mater. 2020, 32, 2002060

2. Yang Wang*, Tsukasa Hasegawa, Hidetoshi Matsumoto, and Tsuyoshi Michinobu*; Significant Improvement of Unipolar n-Type Transistor Performances by Manipulating the Coplanar Backbone Conformation of Electron-Deficient Polymers via Hydrogen-Bonding; J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2019, 141, 3566-3575

3. Yang Wang*, Tsukasa Hasegawa, Hidetoshi Matsumoto, and Tsuyoshi Michinobu*; Significant Difference in Semiconducting Properties of Isomeric All-Acceptor Polymers Synthesized via Direct Arylation Polycondensation; Angew. Chem. Int. Ed.  2019, 58, 11893-11902

4. Yang Wang*, Tsukasa Hasegawa, Hidetoshi Matsumoto, Takehiko Mori, and Tsuyoshi Michinobu*; High-Performance n-Channel Organic Transistors Using High-Molecular-Weight Electron-Deficient Copolymers and Amine-Tailed Self-Assembled Monolayers; Adv. Mater. 2018, 30, 1707164.

5. Yang Wang, Tsukasa Hasegawa, Hidetoshi Matsumoto, Takehiko Mori, and Tsuyoshi Michinobu*; “Rational Design of High-Mobility Semicrystalline Conjugated Polymers with Tunable Charge Polarity: Beyond Benzobisthiadiazole-Based Polymers” ; Adv. Funct. Mater., 2017, 27, 1604608. [Inside Back Cover]

6. Yang Wang, Tsukasa Hasegawa, Hidetoshi Matsumoto, Takehiko Mori, and Tsuyoshi Michinobu*; “D-A1-D-A2 Backbone Strategy for Benzobisthiadiazole Based n-Channel Organic Transistors: Clarifying the Selenium Substitution Effect on the Molecular Packing and Charge Transport Properties in Electron-Deficient Polymers” ; Adv. Funct. Mater., 2017, 27, 1701486 [Frontispiece]

7. Qian Liu#,  Yang Wang#,  Akihiro Kohara,  Hidetoshi Matsumoto,  Sergei Manzhos,  Krishna Feron,  Steven E. Bottle,  John Bell,  Tsuyoshi Michinobu*,  Prashant Sonar*; Tuning the Charge Carrier Polarity of Organic Transistors  by Varying the Electron Affinity of the Flanked Units  in Diketopyrrolopyrrole-Based Copolymers Adv. Funct. Mater. 2020, 30, 1907452

8. Chia-Hui Chen#, Yang Wang#, Hiroki Tatsumi, Tsuyoshi Michinobu*, Shu-Wei Chang, Yu-Cheng Chiu*, Guey-Sheng Liou*; Novel Photoinduced Recovery of OFET Memories Based on Ambipolar Polymer Electret for Photorecorder Application, Adv. Funct. Mater. 2019, 29, 1902991

9. Yang Wang, Sang Woo Kim, Hidetoshi Matsumoto, Bumjoon J. Kim* and Tsuyoshi Michinobu*, Sidechain Engineering of Dual Imide Derivatives-Based Electron-Deficient Polymers for Efficient Unipolar n-Type Organic Transistors and All-Polymer Solar Cells, ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, 2019, 11, 22583-22594

10. Chia-Hui Chen#, Yang Wang#, Tsuyoshi Michinobu, Shu-Wei Chang, Yu-Cheng Chiu, Chun-Yao Ke, Guey-Sheng Liou, Donor–Acceptor Effect of Carbazole-Based Conjugated Polymer Electrets on Photoresponsive Flash Organic Field-Effect Transistor Memories, ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2020, 12, 5, 6144-6150

11. Yang Wang, Masahiro Nakano,* Tsuyoshi Michinobu, Yasuhiro Kiyota, Takehiko Mori, and Kazuo Takimiya* “Naphthodithiophene diimide-Benzobisthiadiazole-Based Polymers: Versatile n-Type Materials for Field-Effect Transistors and Thermoelectric Devices”, Macromolecules, 2017, 50, 857-864

12. Yang Wang, Hiroyasu Masunaga, Takaaki Hikima, Hidetoshi Matsumoto, Takehiko Mori, Tsuyoshi Michinobu*; “New Semiconducting Polymers Based on Benzobisthiadiazole Analogues: Tuning of Charge Polarity in Thin Film Transistors via Heteroatom Substitution”, Macromolecules, 2015, 48, 4012-4023.

13. Yang Wang, Feng Yang, Ying Liu, Ruixiang Peng, Shaojie Chen, Ziyi Ge*; “New Alkylfuranyl-Substituted Benzo [1, 2-b: 4, 5-b’] dithiophene-Based Donor-Acceptor Polymers for Highly Efficient Solar Cells”, Macromolecules, 2013, 46, 1368-1375.

14. Yang Wang, Ying Liu, Shaojie Chen, Ruixiang Peng, Ziyi Ge*; “Significant Enhancement of Polymer Solar Cell Performance via Side-Chain Engineering and Simple Solvent Treatment”, Chem. Mater., 2013, 25, 3196–3204.

15. Yang Wang*,  Hiroki Tatsumi,  Rikuo Otsuka,  Takehiko Mori  and  Tsuyoshi Michinobu*; Highly-stable, green-solvent-processable organic thin-film transistors: angular- vs linear-shaped carbazoledioxazine derivatives, J. Mater. Chem. C, 2018, 6, 5865-5876 , [Inside Back Cover] [2018 Journal of Materials Chemistry C HOT Papers]

16. Yang Wang,* Aaron Tze-Rue Tan, Takehiko Moria  and  Tsuyoshi Michinobu*; Inversion of charge carrier polarity and boosting the mobility of organic semiconducting polymers based on benzobisthiadiazole derivatives by fluorination, J. Mater. Chem. C, 2018, 6, 3593-3603 [Inside Front Cover] [Celebrating 50 years of Professor Fred Wudl’s contributions to the field of organic semiconductors]

17. Yang Wang,* Tsuyoshi Michinobu; Rational design strategies for electron-deficient semiconducting polymers in ambipolar/n-channel organic transistors and all-polymer solar cells, J. Mater. Chem. C, 2018, 6, 10390-10410

18. Yang Wang, Tsuyoshi Michinobu*, “Benzothiadiazole and Its π-Extended, Heteroannulated Derivatives: Useful Acceptor Building Blocks for High-Performance Donor-Acceptor Polymers in Organic”, J. Mater. Chem. C, 2016, 4, 6200-6214. [Back Cover] [2016 Journal of Materials Chemistry C Most Accessed Manuscripts]

19. Yang Wang, Tomofumi Kadoya, Lei Wang, Teruaki Hayakawa, Masatoshi Tokita, Takehiko Mori, Tsuyoshi Michinobu*; “Benzobisthiadiazole-Based Conjugated Donor-Acceptor Polymers for Organic Thin Film Transistors: Effects of π-Conjugated Bridges on Ambipolar Transport”, J. Mater. Chem. C, 2015, 3, 1196-1207. [Inside Back Cover]

20. Yang Wang, Tsuyoshi Michinobu*; “Polymeric chemosensors: a conventional platform with new click chemistry”, Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Japan, 2017, 90, 1388-1400. [Inside Cover]