Selected Publications

• Mohsen Ameri, Zhongliang Ouyang, Jarod Beights, Jacob Breakfield, Qiaoli Liang, Seid Yimer Abate, So Yeon Park, Qilin Dai, Kai Zhu, and Dawen Li*, “Efficient Perovskite Solar Cells Achieved via Rapid photonic Annealing of All Stacking Layers: Unveiling the Crystallization Energy Window”, Small, 2501825, 2025
• Pei Tang, Mohsen Ameri, Qiaoli Liang, Peter I. Udenze, Zhongliang Ouyang, Megan Brown, Logan Smith, Igor Fedin, Dawen Li*, “Interface Modulation by Macromolecules for Enhancing Efficiency and Stability of Perovskite Solar Cells”, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 2025
• Peter I. Udenze, Jiaqi Gong, Shohreh Soltani, Dawen Li*, “A deep neural network with two-step decomposition technique for predicting ultra-short-term solar power and electrical load”, Applied Energy, 382, 125212, (2025)
• Shohreh Soltani, Dawen Li*, “Advancements in Manufacturing of High-Performance Perovskite Solar Cells and Modules Using Printing Technologies”, Energies, 17 (24), 6344, 2024.
• Megan Brown, Dawen Li*, “Interfacial engineering for high performance carbon-based perovskite solar cells”, Frontiers in Energy Research, 12, 1463024, 2024.
• Hayeon Lee, Dawen Li*, “Surface Passivation to Improve the Performance of Perovskite Solar Cells”, Energies, 17 (21), 5282, 2024.
• Seid Yimer Abate, Ziqi Yang, Surabhi Jha, Jada Emodogo, Guorong Ma, Zhongliang Ouyang, Shafi Muhammad, Nihar Pradhan, Xiaodan Gu, Derek Patton, Dawen Li, Jianfeng Cai,* and Qilin Dai*, “Promoting Large-Area Slot-Die-Coated Perovskite Solar Cell Performance and Reproducibility by Acid-Based Sulfono-γ-AApeptide”, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 15, 21, 25495–25505, (2023)
• Qiqi Zhang; Seid Yimer Abate; Guorong Ma; Jada Emodogo; Shafi Muhammad; Zhongliang Ouyang; Paresh Chandra Ray; Glake Alton Hill; Xiaodan Gu; Dawen Li, and Qilin Dai*,”Efficient and Stable Self-passivation Perovskite Solar Cells Prepared in Ambient Air based on Anti-solvent Free Method“, ACS Electronic Materials, 5, 12, 6874–6883, (2023)
• Kanishka Kobbekaduwa, Exian Liu, Qian Zhao, Jasjit Singh Bains, Jianbing Zhang, Ying Shi, Haimei Zheng, Dawen Li, Tong Cai, Ou Chen, Apparao M. Rao, Matthew C. Beard, Joseph M. Luther, and Jianbo Gao*, “Ultrafast Carrier Drift Transport Dynamics in CsPbI3 Perovskite Nanocrystalline Thin Films”, ACS NANO, 17, 14, 13997–14004, (2023)
• Seid Yimer Abate; Ziqi Yang; Surabhi Jha; Guorong Ma; Zhongliang Ouyang; Shafi Muhammad; Nihar Pradhan; Xiaodan Gu; Derek Patton; Dawen Li; Jianfeng Cai, and Qilin Dai*, “Room Temperature Slot-Die Coated Perovskite Layer Modified with sulfonyl-γ-AApeptide for High Performance Perovskite Solar Devices“, Chemical Engineering Journal, 457, 141199 (2022)
• Keonwon Beom, Zhaoyang Fan*, Dawen Li, Nathan Newman, “Halide perovskite based synaptic devices for neuromorphic systems”, Materials Today Physics, 24, 100667 (2022).
• Shoieb Shaik, Ziyou Zhou, Zhongliang Ouyang, Rebecca Han, and Dawen Li*,”Rapid Infrared Lamp Annealing and Incorporation of PAMAM Dendrimers for Fabrication of Perovskite Solar Cells“, Energies, 14, 2656 (2021)
• Zhengran He, Ziyang Zhang, Kyeiwaa Asare-Yeboah, Sheng Bi, Jihua Chen* and Dawen Li*, “Polyferrocenylsilane Semicrystalline Polymer Additive for Solution-Processed p-Channel Organic Thin Film Transistors”, Polymers, 13, 402 (2021)
• Zhongliang Ouyang, Henry Abrams, Robert Bergstone, Quantao Li, Feng Zhu, and Dawen Li*, “Rapid layer-specific annealing enabled by ultraviolet LED with estimation of crystallization energy for high performance perovskite solar cells“, Advanced Energy Materials,  10, (2020). Highlighted as inside front cover.
• Zhongliang Ouyang, Mengjin Yang, James B. Whitaker, Dawen Li* and Maikel F. A. M. van Hest*, “Towards scalable perovskite solar modules using blade-coating and rapid thermal processing”, ACS Applied Energy Materials, 3, (2020)
• Zhengran He, Ziyang Zhang, Sheng Bi, Jihua Chen* and Dawen Li*,”Conjugated Polymer Controlled Morphology and Charge Transport of Small-Molecule Organic Semiconductors “, Scientific Reports, 10, (2020)
• Zhengran He, Jihua Chen*, and Dawen Li*, “Polymer Additive Controlled Morphology for High Performance Organic Thin Film Transistors”, Soft Matter, 15, (2019)
• Sheng Bi, Zhongliang Ouyang, Shoieb Shaik, and Dawen Li*,” Effect of Donor-Acceptor Vertical Composition Profile on Efficiency of Organic Bulk Heterojunction Solar Cells“. Scientific Reports, 8, 9574 (2018)
• Zhongliang Ouyang and Dawen Li*, “Design of segmented high-performance thermoelectric generators with cost in consideration“, Applied Energy, 221, (2018)
• Liping Guo, Baiyu Zhang, Ying Qin, Dawen Li, Lin Li, Xiaofeng Qian,* and Feng Yan*, “Tunable Quasi-One-Dimensional Ribbon Enhanced Light Absorption in Sb2Se3 Thin-film Solar Cells Grown by Close-Space Sublimation“, RRL Solar, 1800128, (2018)
• Hongda Cao, Nicole Bauerb, Sheng Bi, Dawen Li, Wei You, Paul A. Rupar*, “Post-polymerization modification of phosphorus containing conjugated copolymers“, European Polymer Journal 104 (2018) 157–163
• Zhongliang Ouyang and Dawen Li*, “Modelling of segmented high-performance thermoelectric generators with effects of thermal radiation, electrical and thermal contact resistances“, Scientific Reports, 6, (2016)
• Kyeiwaa Asare–Yeboah, Sheng Bi, Zhengran He, and Dawen Li*, “Temperature Gradient Controlled Crystal Growth from TIPS Pentacene-Poly(α-methyl styrene) Blends for Improving Performance of Organic Thin Film Transistors“, Organic Electronics, 32, (2016)
• Shaik Zainuddin*, Abdullah Fahim, Shaik Shoieb, Farooq Syed, Mahesh V. Hosur, Dawen Li, Chelsea Hicks, Shaik Jeelani, “Morphological and Mechanical Behavior of Chemically Treated Jute-PHBV Bio-Nanocomposites Reinforced With Silane Grafted Halloysite Nanotubes“, Journal of Applied Polymer Science, (2016)
• Shoieb Shaik, Dawen Li*, Dee Goldston, Scott Wehby, “The Power of Nanoscale” (outreach and middle school science education), Science Scope, September (2016)
• Abdullah Fahim, S. Zainuddin,*, Shaik Shoieb, Mahesh V. Hosur, Dawen Li,  Mackenzie Matthews and Shaik Jeelani, “Properties of Polyhydroxy Butyrate Polyvalerate Biopolymeric Nanocomposites Reinforced with Natural Halloysite Nanotubes“, Journal of Material Science and Technology Research, 3, (2016)
• Sheng Bi, Zhengran He, Jihua Chen, and Dawen Li*, “Solution-Grown Small-Molecule Organic Semiconductor with Enhanced Crystal Alignment and Areal Coverage for Organic Thin Film Transistors“, AIP Advances, 5, (2015)
• Sheng Bi, Che-Nan Sun, Thomas A. Zawodzinski Jr., Fei Ren, Jong Kahk Keum, Suk-Kyun Ahn, Dawen Li*, Jihua Chen*, “Reciprocated Suppression of Polymer Crystallization towards Improved Solid Polymer Electrolytes: Higher Ion Conductivity and Tunable Mechanical Properties“, Journal of Polymer Science: Polymer Physics, 53, (2015)
• Zhengran He, Shoieb Shaik, Sheng Bi, Jihua Chen, and Dawen Li*, “Air-stable solution-processed n-channel organic thin film transistors with polymer enhanced morphology”,  Applied Physics Letter, 106, (2015)
• Peggy V. Hatcher, Joseph H. Reibenspies,  Robert C. Haddon, Dawen Li, Nereo Lopeza  and Xiaoliu Chi*, “A Polymorph of the 6,13-Dichloropentacene Organic semiconductor: Crystal Structure, Semiconductor measurement and band structure calculations”, CrystEngComm, 17,(2015)
• Zhengran He, Nereo Lopez, Xiaoliu Chi*, and Dawen Li*, “Solution-based 5,6,11,12-tetrachlorotetracene crystal growth for high-performance organic thin film transistors“, Organic Electronics, 22, (2015)
• Che-Nan Sun, Thomas A. Zawodzinski Jr., Wyatt E. Tenhaeff, Fei Ren, Jong Kahk Keum, Sheng Bi, Dawen Li, Suk-Kyun Ahn, Kunlun Hong, Adam J. Rondinone, Jan-Michael Y. Carrillo, Changwoo Do, Bobby G. Sumptergh and Jihua Chen*, “Nanostructure enhanced ionic transport in fullerene reinforced solid polymer electrolytes“, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 17, (2015)

• Zhenzhong Sun, Scott T. Retterer, and Dawen Li*, “The influence of ion-milling damage to magnetic properties of Co80Pt20 patterned perpendicular media”, Journal of Physics D, Applied Physics, 47, (2014)
• Zhengran He, Jihua Chen, Jong Kahk Keum, Greg Szulczewski, and Dawen Li*, “Improving Performance of TIPS Pentacene-Based Organic Thin Film Transistors with Small-Molecule Additives”, Organic Electronics, 15, (2014)
• Jihua Chen*, Ming Shao, Kai Xiao, Adam Rondinone, Lynn Loo, Paul Kent, Bobby G Sumpter, Dawen Li, Jong Keum, Peter Diemer, John E Anthony, Oana D Jurchescu*, and Jingsong Huang, “Solvent-Type-Dependent Polymorphism and Charge Transport of Long Fused-Ring Organic Semiconductor”, Nanoscale, 6, (2014)
• Kyeiwaa Asare – Yeboah, Rachel M. Frazier, Greg Szulczewski, and Dawen Li*, “Temperature Gradient Approach to Grow Large, Preferentially-Oriented TIPS Pentacene Crystals for Organic Thin Film Transistors“, Journal of Vacuum Science & Technology B, 32, (2014) (* featured article and front cover *)
• José Alonzo, W. Michael Kochemba, Deanna L. Pickel, Muruganathan Ramanathan, Zhenzhong Sun, Dawen Li, Jihua Chen, Bobby G. Sumpter, William T. Heller, and S. Michael Kilbey II*, “Assembly and Organization of Poly(3-hexylthiophene) Brushes and Their Potential Use as Novel Anode Buffer Layers for Organic Photovoltaics”, Nanoscale, 5, (2013)
• Zhengran He, Dawen Li*, Dale K. Hensley, Adam J. Rondinone, and Jihua Chen*, “Switching Phase Separation Mode by Varying the Hydrophobicity of Polymer Additives in Solution-Processed Semiconducting Small-Molecule/Polymer Blends”, Applied Physics Letter, 103, (2013)
• Jihua Chen*, Ming Shao, Kai Xiao, Zhengran He, Dawen Li, Bradley S Lokitz, Dale Hensley, S. Michael Kilbey, John E Anthony, Jong K. Keum, Adam Justin Rondinone, Wen-Ya Lee, Sanghyun Hong, and Zhenan Bao*, “Conjugated Polymer-Mediated Polymorphism of High Performance, Small-Molecule Organic Semiconductor with Tuned Intermolecular Interactions, Enhanced Long-Range Order and Charge Transport”, Chemistry of Materials, 25, 2013
• Ming Shao, Sanjib Das, Kai Xiao*, Jihua Chen, Jong K. Keum, Ilia N. Ivanov, Gong Gu, William Durant, Dawen Li, and David B. Geohegan, “High-Performance Organic Field-Effect Transistors with Dielectric and Active Layers Printed Sequentially by Ultrasonic Spraying”, Journal of Materials Chemistry C, 1, (2013)
• J. Zhang, Z. Sun, J. Sun, S. Kang*, S. Yu, G. Han, S. Yan, L. Mei, and Dawen Li*,”Structural and Magnetic Properties of Patterned Perpendicular Media with Linearly Graded Anisotropy“. Applied Physics Letter, Volume 102, (2013)
• Jihua Chen*, Jose Alonzo, Xiang Yu, Kunlun Hong, Jamie M. Messman, Ilia Ivanov, Nickolay V.Lavrik, Moloy Banerjee, Rajendra Rathore, Zhenzhong Sun, Dawen Li, Jimmy W. Mays, and S. Michael Kilbey II*, “Grafting-Density Effects,
  Optoelectrical Properties and Nano-Patterning of Poly(para-Phenylene) Brushes”, Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 1,
  (2013)
• Yi-Chen Lo, Dawen Li, Zhenzhong Sun, Shoieb Shaik, and Xing Cheng*, “High-resolution nondestructive patterning of isolated organic semiconductors“, Journal of Vacuum Science & Technology B, 30, (2012)
• Zhengran He, Jihua Chen, Zhenzhong Sun, Greg Szulczewski, and Dawen Li*, “Air-Flow Navigated Crystal Growth for TIPS Pentacene-Based Organic Thin-Film Transistors”. Organic Electronics, 13, (2012)
• Zhenzhong Sun, Dawen Li*, Anusha Natarajarathinam, Hao Su, Subhadra Gupta, “Large Area Patterning of Single Magnetic Domains with Assistance of Ion Irradiation in Ion Milling”. Journal of Vacuum Science & Technology B, 30, (2012)
• Zhenzhong Sun, Kai Xiao*, Jong Kahk Keum, Xiang Yu, Kunlun Hong, Jim Browning, Ilia N. Ivanov, Jihua Chen, Jose Alonzo, Dawen Li*, Bobby Sumpter, Andrew Payzant, Christopher Rouleau, David B. Geohegan, “PS-b-P3HT Copolymers as P3HT/PCBM Interfacial Compatibilizers for High Efficiency Photovoltaics”.  Advanced Materials, 23, (2011)
• Shuhui Li*, Tim A. Haskew, Dawen Li, Fei Hu, “Integrating photovoltaic and power converter characteristics for energy extraction study of solar PV systems”. Renewable Energy, 36, (2011)
• Zhengran He, Kai Xiao, William Durant, John E. Anthony, Kunlun Hong, S. Michael Kilbey II, Jihua Chen*, and Dawen Li*, “Enhanced Performance Consistency in Nanoparticle/TIPS Pentacene-Based Organic Thin Film Transistors”. Advanced Functional Materials, 21, (2011)
• Dawen Li and L Jay Guo*, “Organic Thin-film Transistors and Light-emitting Diodes Patterned by Inking and Stamping”. Journal of Physics D, Applied Physics, 41, (2008) (One of the 30 highlight papers in Journal of Physics D, Applied Physics, 2008)
• Xiaoliu Chi*, Dawen Li, Yongsheng Chen*, Theo Siegrist, Vanesa Garcia, Celina Garcia, “Tetrachlorotetracene, a Tetracene Derivative with π-stacking Structure: the Synthesis, Crystal Structure and Transistor Properties”. Organic Electronics, 9, (2008)
• Dawen Li and L. Jay Guo*, “Micron-scale Organic Thin Film Transistors with PEDOT Electrodes Patterned by Polymer Inking and Stamping”. Applied Physics Letter, Volume 88, (2006)
• Xing Cheng, Dawen Li, and L. Jay Guo*, “A Hybrid Mask-Mold Lithography Scheme and Its Application in Nanoscale Organic Thin Film Transistors”. Nanotechnology, 17, (2006)
• Mang-mang Ling, Dawen Li, and Zhenan Bao*, “Transistor Performance of Top Rough Surface of Pentacene Measured by Laminated Double Insulated-gate supported on a PDMS base Structure”.  Applied Physics Letter, Volume 88, (2006)
• Dawen Li, Evert-Jan Borkent, Robert Nortrup, Hyunsik Moon, Howard Katz, Zhenan Bao*, “Humidity Effect on Electrical Performance of Organic Thin Film Transistors”. Applied Physics Letter, Volume 86, (2005)
• Jason Locklin, Dawen Li, Stefan C. B. Mannsfeld, Evert-Jan Borken, Hong Meng, Rigoberto Advincula*, and Zhenan Bao*, “Organic Thin Film Transistor Based on Cyclohexyl-Substituted Organic Semiconductors”. Chemistry of Materials, Vol. 17, No. 13, (2005)

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