Selected Research Awards and Honors

Prof. Jianyong Ouyang

• Distinguished Award for Novel Materials and Their Synthesis by International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry & Organization Committee of Novel Materials and Their Synthesis, (IUPAC & NMS), 2015


• NUS Young Investigator Award, 2007


• Co-winner of Beijing Science and Technology Award, 2005


• Amada Award for Science and Technology Research, the Japan-China Science and Technology Exchange Association, Tokyo, Japan. 1999


• Japanese Governmental Scholarship, 1996-1999


• President Award for Top 20 Graduate Students, Chinese Academy of Sciences. 1996

Bichen Li

• Best Paper Award of the Department of Materials Science & Engineering, National University of Singapore, 2017

Chin Yong Neo

• President's Graduate Fellowship Award, 2013

Swee Jen Cho

• Best Poster Award at the International Conference on Materials for Advanced Technologies (ICMAT), 2011


• Best Paper Award (Student) at the International Conference on Applied Energy, 2010.

Selected Research Highlights

• A paper entitled with "Metal Ion/Dendrimer Complexes with Tunable Work Functions in a Wide Range and Their Application as Electron- and Hole-Transport Materials of Non-Fullerene Organic Solar Cells" (Advanced Functional Materials, 2018, 28, 1802554) was highlighted in Frontier of Polymer Science.


• A paper entitled with "Solution-Processed Highly Superparamagnetic and Conductive PEDOT:PSS/Fe3O4 Nanocomposite Films with High Transparency and High Mechanical Flexibility"(ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 2017, 9, 19001-19010) was highlighted in Frontier of Polymer Science.


• According to the editor of Displays, a paper byProf. Ouyang Jianyong is one of the 5 most highly cited papers in Displays. The paper, "secondary doping" methods to significantly enhance the conductivity of PEDOT:PSS for its application as transparent electrode of optoelectronic devices, published in 2013 is one of the most highly cited papers during 2014, 2015 and up until June 2016.


• A paper entitled with "Boosting the Performance of Planar Heterojunction Perovskite Solar Cell by Controlling the Precursor Purity of Perovskite Materials" (Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 2016, 4, 887-893) was highlighted as a hot article of Journal of Materials Chemistry A.


• A paper entitled with "A molecular nematic liquid crystalline material for high-performance thick-film organic photovoltaics" (Nature Communications, 2015, 6, 6013) was featured in many professional websites, such as Nanowerk, PV Buzz, etc.


• A paper entitled with "Ternary NiAuPt Nanoparticles on Reduced Graphene Oxide as Catalysts toward the Electrochemical Oxidation Reaction of Ethanol" (ACS Catalysis, 2015, 5, 1371-1380) was selected as an article in the virtual special issue "Catalysis in Singapore" by ACS. [Link]


• A paper entitled with “PEDOT:PSS films with significantly enhanced conductivities induced by preferential solvation with cosolvents and their application in polymer photovoltaic cells” (Journal of Materials Chemistry 2011, 21, 4927-4936) was highight as a hot article of Journal of Materials Chemistry.


• A paper entitled with "High-performance dye-sensitized solar cells with gel-coated binder-free carbon nanotube films as counter electrode"(Nanotechnology 2010, 21, 395202) was featured in Nanotechweb.org. [Link]


• A paper entitled with "Nanostructured platinum films deposited by polyol reduction of a platinum precursor and their application as counter electrode of dye-sensitized solar cells”(Journal of Physical Chemistry C 2010, 114, 4237-4244) was featured in Azonano.com.[Link]