学习工作经历
2011年9月-2015年7月，天津大学材料科学与工程学院获工学学士学位
2015年9月-2020年6月，北京化工大学材料科学与工程学院获理学博士学位
2020年9月-至今，青岛科技大学高分子科学与工程学院，特聘副教授
研究领域介绍
研究工作一直围绕 TADF 材料的设计合成及其光物理和器件物理等方面的内容展开，通过主体调控策略、 分子内敏化策略、 侧链工程以及分子间弱相互作用构建分子聚集体等方法，实现了 TADF 材料中发光颜色、 激发态结构以及激子衰减动力学行为等的有效调控，揭示了相关材料中分子结构对其性能的作用机制，从而最终得到了一系列具有高效率、高稳定性的 TADF 发光材料。主要研究内容包括：（1）研究 TADF 共轭聚合物中主体单元或侧链卤原子修饰等对激发态结构的调控作用，探究三线态-单线态能级间自旋翻转效率提升的内在本质， 并讨论该机理对器件性能的影响；（2）利用氢键、范德华力等分子间弱相互作用力构筑分子聚集体，研究聚集状态下激子衰减过程的变化规律，并探究聚集状态下激子的衰减行为对光电性能的影响；（3）探究共轭聚合物体系分子内敏化作用对增强三线态激子的上转换过程，揭示其提高激子利用率的作用机制，为改善器件的稳定性提供了一种简便的策略。通过系统的研究，迄今在包括 Nature Reviews Materials, CCS Chemistry, Advanced Science, Nano Energy, Chemical Engineering Journal, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, Macromolecules, Journal of Materials Chemistry C 等国际著名学术刊物上以第一作者和共同作者发表学术文章40余篇，总影响因子超过200，累计被引1200余次，授权专利2项。
代表性成果
（1）Yuchao Liu#, Chensen Li#, Zhongjie Ren*, Shouke Yan*, Martin R. Bryce*, All-Organic Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence Materials for Organic Light-Emitting Diodes. Nature Reviews Materials, 2018, 3(4), 18020.
(2) Yuchao Liu*, Yanchao Xie, Lei Hua, Xingwen Tong, Shian Ying, Zhongjie Ren*, Shouke Yan*, Realizing External Quantum Efficiency Over 25% with Low Efficiency Roll-Off in Polymer-Based Light-Emitting Diodes Synergistically Utilizing Intramolecular Sensitization and Bipolar Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence Monomer. CCS Chemistry, 2022, doi.org/10.31635/ccschem.022.202201900.
(3) Yuchao Liu, Lei Hua, Zhennan Zhao, Shian Ying, Zhongjie Ren, Shouke Yan, High-Efficiency Solution-Processable OLEDs by Employing Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence Emitters with Multiple Conversion Channels of Triplet Excitons. Advanced Science, 2021, 8(18): 2101326.
（4）Yuchao Liu, Lei Hua, Shouke Yan*, Zhongjie Ren*, Halogenated π-Conjugated Polymeric Emitters with Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence for Highly Efficient Polymer Light Emitting Diodes. Nano Energy, 2020, 73: 104800.
(5) Yanchao Xie, Lei Hua, Zhi Wang, Yuerong Liu, Shian Ying, Yuchao Liu*, Zhongjie Ren*, Shouke Yan*, Constructing an efficient deep-blue TADF emitter by host-guest interactions towards solution-processed OLEDs with narrowband emission. Science China Chemistry, 2023, 66, doi.org/10.1007/s11426-022-1447-4.
（6）Yuchao Liu, Zhongjie Ren*, Shouke Yan*, π-Conjugated Polymeric Light Emitting Diodes with Sky-Blue Emission by Employing Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence Mechanism. Chemical Engineering Journal, 2020, 128089, doi.org/10.1016/j.cej.2020.128089.
(7) Yuchao Liu, Xingwen Tong, Xinrui Chen, Yafei Wang, Shian Ying, Zhongjie Ren*, Shouke Yan*, Enhanced Upconversion of Triplet Excitons for Conjugated Polymeric Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence Emitters by Employing an Intramolecular Sensitization Strategy. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 2021, 13(7): 8997-9005.
(8) Yuchao Liu, Yukun Wang, Chensen Li, Zhongjie Ren*, Dongge Ma, Shouke Yan*, Efficient Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence Conjugated Polymeric Emitters with Tunable Nature of Excited States Regulated via Carbazole Derivatives forSolution-Processed OLEDs. Macromolecules, 2018, 51(12): 4615-4623.
（9) Yuchao Liu#, Zheng Yin#, Xiangbing Wang#, Etienne Baranoff, Di Zhou, Kai Zhang, Zhongjie Ren*, Shengyue Wang, Weiguo Zhu*, Yafei Wang*, A Novel Donor Moiety 9,9,9’9’-Tetramethyl- 9,9’10,10’-Tetrahydro-2,10’-Biacridine via One-Pot C-H Arylation for TADF Emitters and Their Application in Highly Efficient Solution-Processable OLEDs. Journal of Materials Chemistry C, 2020, 8(26): 8971-8979.
(10) Yuchao Liu, Yanchao Xie, Yannan Cheng, Xi Tian, Lei Hua, Shian Ying, Shouke Yan*, Zhongjie Ren*, High-efficiency emissive dendritic phosphorescent iridium (III) complex with thermally activated delayed fluorescence molecules as functional light-harvesting moieties. Chemical Engineering Journal, 2023, 455: 140747.