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Zhongjie Ren

Professor

Research direction: Light-emitting Polymeric Materials and OLEDs

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  • Email: renzj@mail.buct.edu.cn
  • Office : Huaxian Building 110
  • Introduction
  • Research
  • Teaching
  • Funding
  • Publications
  • Awards
  • Honor Reward
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Introduction

 Professor Zhongjie Ren was awarded MSc (2006) by Changchun institute of applied chemistry, Chinese academy of science. He received his PhD from Institute of chemistry, Chinese academy of science in 2009. He has been a visiting scholar in the University of Durham during 2014-2015. His research is focused on polymeric OLEDs, including phosphorescent host, thermally activated delayed fluorescence materials and morphological control of light-emitting layers. In 2013 and 2017, he was selected to participate in the ‘Beijing Higher Education Young Elite Teacher Project’ and “Young Hundred-Talent Program in Beijing University of Chemical Technology”, respectively. In 2019 he was supported by National Science Foundation for Excellent Young Scholars. He has published more than 150 articles in international academic journal, such as Nature Reviews Materials, Progress in Materials Science, Nature Communications, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, Advanced Materials,Advanced Functional Materials, Chemical Science, Journal of Materials Chemistry and so on. Over 10 authorized patents have resulted from his work.


Education

Work Experience

Social Position

Social Activities

Research

In recent years, his research focuses on the next fields: (1) synthesis of thermally activated delayed fluorescent polymer and its application on light-emitting diodes; (2) synthesis of polysiloxanes and their applications in light-emitting diodes and resistive memory devices; (3) in-situ electrochemical deposition is used to prepare anisotropic conductive polymer films for high performance thermoelectric materials. 

Teaching

The teaching courses are following：

1. Literature Review and Scientific Writing. Undergraduate program, 20 class hours per year.

2. New Energy Materials. Undergraduate program for students major in polymeric materials science and engineering, 16 class hours per year.

3. Multiscale Structure and Regulation Structure of Polymers. Undergraduate program for multi-disciplinary class, 6 class hours per year.


Postgraduates

Funding

1. National Science Foundation of China for Excellent Youth Scholars， 2020-2022

2. National Science Foundation of China for Genenral Program, 2023-2026

3. National Science Foundation of China for Youth Program, 2012-2014

4. Beijing Higher Education Young Elite Teacher Project. 2013-2015

5. Shandong Provincial Natural Science Foundation. 2024-2026

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Horizontal Project

Publications

1.  Yuchao Liu+, Chensen Li+, Zhongjie Ren*, Shouke Yan* and Martin R. Bryce*. All-organic Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence Materials for Organic Light-emitting Diodes. Nat. Rev. Mater., 2018, 3(4), 18020.

2.  Zhongjie Ren and Shouke Yan*. Polysiloxanes for Optoelectronic Applications. Prog. Mater. Sci., 2016, 83, 383-416.

3.  Zhennan Zhao, Shouke Yan and Zhongjie Ren*, Regulating the Nature of Triplet Excited States of Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence Emitters. Acc. Chem. Res., 2023, 56(14),1942-1952.

4.  Maoqiu Li, Lei Hua, Jinyang Zhao, Yuchao Liu, Shouke Yan, and Zhongjie Ren*. Regulating the Spatially Folded Arrangement of Donor and Acceptor Units To Achieve Efficient Orange-Red Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2025, 64(16), e202501179.

5.  Lei Hua, Han Wu, Zekun Xia, Maoqiu Li, Yuchao Liu, Shouke Yan, Weiguo Zhu, Jun Yeob Lee*, Zhongjie Ren* and Yafei Wang*. Narrowband Emissive Solution-Processed Polymer Organic Light-Emitting Diodes with External Quantum Efficiency Above 30%. Adv. Mater., 2025, 37(21), 2502180.

6.  Quanwei Li, Haisong Zhao, Maoqiu Li, Yuchao Liu, Shouke Yan, and Zhongjie Ren*, Fused Dual-Donor Design for Accelerating Reverse Intersystem Crossing Rates of Spatially Folded Through-Space Charge Transfer Emitters. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2025, e20250665.

7.  Chensen Li, Zhenchen Lou, Minghui Wu, Fulong Ma, Xinmeng Chen, Haozhe Tan, Zonghang Liu, Feng Gao, Zijie Qiu, Zheng Zhao*, Lianrui Hu*, Guohua Xie*, Maoqiu Li, Yumeng Guo, Zhongjie Ren*, Song Zhang, Yuchao Liu, Shouke Yan, Zhen Li, Bo Xu, Ryan T. K. Kwok, Jacky W. Y. Lam, Benzhong Tang*. Achieving Efficient Organic Room-Temperature Phosphorescence through Acceptor Dendronization. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2025, 147(21), 18317-18326.

8.  Yuchao Liu+, Zhagen Miao+, Haikuo Gao, Shian Ying, Can Gao, Shouke Yan, Huanli Dong* and Zhongjie Ren*. Bipolar Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence Emitter with Balanced Carrier Transport for High-Efficiency Nondoped Green Electroluminescent Devices. CCS Chem., 2024, 6(9), 2346-2357.

9.  Tingcong Jiang, Yuzhuo Zhang, Lei Hua, Hong Li, Jinyang Zhao, Shouke Yan, Zhongjie Ren*. Engineering Chirality and Chromophore of Polyisocyanides for Efficient Circularly Polarized Light Detection. Mater. Sci. Eng. R, 2024, 160,100818.

10.  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 Theramlly Activated Delayed Fluorescence Monomer. CCS Chem.,2023,5(4), 1005-1017.

11.  Zhennan Zhao, Cheng Zeng, Xiaomei Peng, Yuchao Liu, Haisong Zhao, Lei Hua, Shi-Jian Su, Shouke Yan and Zhongjie Ren*. Tuning Intramolecular Stacking of Rigid Heteroaromatics Compounds for High-Efficiency Deep-Blue Through-Space Charge-Transfer Emission. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2022, 61(39), e202210864.

12.  Lei Hua, Yuchao Liu, Binbin Liu, Zhennan Zhao, Lei Zhang, Shouke Yan, Zhongjie Ren*. Constructing High-Efficiency Orange-Red Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence Emitters by Three-Dimension Molecular Engineering. Nat. Commun., 2022, 13, 7828.

13.  Zhennan Zhao, Yuchao Liu, Lei Hua, Shouke Yan* and Zhongjie Ren*, Activating Energy Transfer Tunnels by Tuning Local Electronegativity of Conjugated Polymeric Backbone for High-efficiency OLEDs with Low Efficiency Roll-off. Adv. Funct. Mater., 2022, 32(21), 2200018.

14.  Chensen Li+, Alastair K. Harrison+, Yuchao Liu, Zhennan Zhao, Cheng Zeng, Fernando B. Dias*, Zhongjie Ren*, Shouke Yan and Martin R. Bryce*. Asymmetrical-Dendronized TADF Emitters for Efficient Non-doped Solution-Processed OLEDs by Eliminating Degenerate Excited States and Creating Solely Thermal Equilibrium Routes. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2022, 61(19), e202115140.

15.  Jia Zhou+, Wen Li+, Ye Chen, Yen-Hung Lin, Mingdong Yi*, Jiayu Li, Yangzhou Qian, Yun Guo, Keyang Cao, Linghai Xie, Haifeng Ling, Zhongjie Ren*, Jiangping Xu, Jintao Zhu*, Shouke Yan, Wei Huang*. A Monochloro Copper Phthalocyanine Memristor with High-Temperature Resilience for Electronic Synapse Applications. Adv. Mater., 2021, 33(5), 2006201.


Awards

Second Prize of Shandong Natural Science Award

Patent

Honor Reward

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