Academic History
1997B.S. in Physics, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
2000M.S. in Physics, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
2006Ph.D. in Physics, University of California at Santa Barbara.,CA.
Advisor: Prof. Alan J. Heeger(Nobel Laureate)
2007Postdoc.,UC Berkeley, Prof. Paul Alivisatos’ group
Research Interests
Solution processednew generation solar cellsbased on polymers, quantum dots and hybrid materials.
Research Experience and Accomplishments:
- Postdoctoral research work highlighted in Materials Research Society Bulletin. “Ternary Nanocrystals Used as Building Blocks for Solar Cells”,MRS Bulletin,2009,34, 398.
- Total publications cited over 3330 times and an h-index of 12.
- Published the most cited paper on solar cells in the past few years:“Thermally Stable, Efficient Polymer Solar Cells with Nano-scale Control of the Interpenetrating Network Morphology”Adv. Funct. Mater.2005,15, 1617, cited over1500 times.
- Obtainedfivepatents in solar cells and polymer light-emitting diodes.
- Achieved state of the art efficiency (5%) for polymer solar cells in 2005.
- First to apply digital image analysis method on photovoltaic films.
- Awarded Mitsubishi Chemical Distinguished Graduate Fellowship
- Reviewer forNano Letters,Advanced Materials, Advanced Functional Materials,Advanced Energy Materials,Langmuir,Macromolecules,IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology.
1.Wanli Ma, Parameswar Iyer, Alan Heeger, “Water/methanol-soluble Conjugated Copolymer as an Electron-transport Layer in Polymer Light-emitting Diodes”,Adv. Mater.2005,17, 274
2.Wanli Ma, Cuiying Yang, Alan Heeger, “Thermally Stable, Efficient Polymer Solar Cells with Nano-scale Control of the Interpenetrating Network Morphology”,Adv. Funct. Mater.2005,15, 1617.Times cited: 1500
3.Wanli Ma, Cuiying Yang, Alan Heeger, “Spatial Fourier Transform Analysis of the Morphology of Bulk Heterojunction Materials Used in “Plastic” Solar Cells”,Adv. Mater.2007,19,1387.
4.Wanli Ma, Ajay Gopinathan, Alan Heeger, “Nanostructure of the Interpenetrating Networks in Poly (3-hexylthiophene) /fullerene Bulk Heterojunction Materials: Implications for Charge Transport”,Adv. Mater.2007,19, 3656.
5.Wanli Ma, Joseph Luther, Haimei Zheng, Yue Wu, Paul Alivisatos, “Photovoltaic Devices Employing Ternary PbSxSe1-xNanocrystals”,Nano Lett.2009,9, 1699.MRS Bulletin highlighted.
Contact:wlma@suda.edu.cn