RESEARCH INTERESTS

Organic/polymeric functional materials have broad applications in flexible wearable electronics and bioelectronics. Our research involves many fields including materials science, chemistry, microelectronics, and biomedicine. We focus on the development of new organic/polymeric functional materials, constructing wearable or implantable electronics, and exploring their applications in biological and medical fields.

EDUCATION

2008–2013, Ph.D., College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Peking University (Supervisor: Professor Jian Pei)

2004–2008, B.S., College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Peking University

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2018–present, Assistant Professor, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Peking University

2013–2018, Postdoc, Department of Chemical Engineering, Stanford University (Advisor: Prof. Zhenan Bao)

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

1. P. Li^#, J. Shi^#, Y. Lei, Z. Huang, T. Lei*. Switching p-type to high-performance n-type organic electrochemical transistors via doped state engineering. Nat. Commun. 2022, 13, 5970.

2. X. Chen^#, J. Li^#, Y. Fang, X. Deng, X. Wang, G. Liu, Y. Wang, X. Gu, S. Jiang, T. Lei*, High-mobility semiconducting polymers with different spin ground states. Nat. Commun. 2022, 13, 2258.

3. X. Yan^#, M. Xiong^#, X. Deng, K. Liu, J. Li, X. Wang, S. Zhang, N. Prine, Z. Zhang, W. Huang, Y. Wang, J.-Y. Wang, X. Gu, S. K. So, J. Zhu, T. Lei*, Approaching disorder-tolerant semiconducting polymers. Nat. Commun. 2021, 12, 5723.

4. M. Xiong, X. Yan, J. Li, S. Zhang, Z. Cao, N. Prine, Y. Lu, J.-Y. Wang, X. Gu, T. Lei*, Efficient n-doping of polymeric semiconductors through controlling the dynamics of solution-state polymer aggregates. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2021, 60, 8270-8278.

5. X. Yan^#, M. Xiong^#, J. Li, S. Zhang, Z. Ahmad, Y. Lu, Z. Wang, Z. Yao, J.-Y. Wang, X. Gu, T. Lei*, Pyrazine-flanked diketopyrrolopyrrole (DPP): a new polymer building block for high-performance n-type organic thermoelectrics. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2019, 141, 20215-20221.