Yang Zhou

About

Yang Zhou is an Assistant Professor of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology at Brown University. His primary research interests are directed towards understanding the immunopathogenesis of lung injury and repair. He has investigated the roles of a chitinase-like protein and its receptors in various lung diseases, including asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), and pulmonary fibrosis. His future research aims to dissect the common mechanisms underlying the pathogenesis of pulmonary fibrosis, with a specific focus on the role of intracellular receptor trafficking pathways in disease progression. His long-range goals are to identify immune and cellular responses that mediate lung injury and repair, and to pinpoint specific molecular targets for potential treatment of related disorders.

Research topics

• Composite material
• Chemical engineering
• Crystallography
• Physical chemistry
• Inorganic chemistry
• Optoelectronics
• Nanotechnology
• Chemistry
• Materials science

Selected publications

• Interpenetrating interfaces for efficient perovskite solar cells with high operational stability and mechanical robustness

  Nature Communications · 2021-02-12 · 293 citations

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  The perovskite solar cell has emerged rapidly in the field of photovoltaics as it combines the merits of low cost, high efficiency, and excellent mechanical flexibility for versatile applications. However, there are significant concerns regarding its operational stability and mechanical robustness. Most of the previously reported approaches to address these concerns entail separate engineering of perovskite and charge-transporting layers. Herein we present a holistic design of perovskite and cha…

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• Tin Halide Perovskite Solar Cells: An Emerging Thin-Film Photovoltaic Technology

  Accounts of Materials Research · 2021-02-16 · 262 citations

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  ConspectusPerovskite semiconductors are regarded as next-generation photovoltaic materials owing to their superb optoelectronic properties, including an excellent carrier diffusion length, strong light absorbption, low defect density, and solution processability. The PCE of lead perovskite solar cells (LPSC) rapidly increased from 3.8 to 25.5% in the past decade. However, the inclusion of soluble, toxic lead shadows its application due to environmental concerns. Furthermore, on the basis of the…

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• A Fully Non‐fused Ring Acceptor with Planar Backbone and Near‐IR Absorption for High Performance Polymer Solar Cells

  Angewandte Chemie International Edition · 2020-08-31 · 257 citations

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  Fused-ring electron acceptors have made significant progress in recent years, while the development of fully non-fused ring acceptors has been unsatisfactory. Here, two fully non-fused ring acceptors, o-4TBC-2F and m-4TBC-2F, were designed and synthesized. By regulating the location of the hexyloxy chains, o-4TBC-2F formed planar backbones, while m-4TBC-2F displayed a twisted backbone. Additionally, the o-4TBC-2F film showed a markedly red-shifted absorption after thermal annealing, which indica…

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• Enhancing Chemical Stability and Suppressing Ion Migration in CH₃NH₃PbI₃ Perovskite Solar Cells <i>via</i> Direct Backbone Attachment of Polyesters on Grain Boundaries

  Chemistry of Materials · 2020 · 82 citations

  Organic–inorganic halide perovskites feature excellent optoelectronic properties but poor chemical stability. While passivating perovskite grain boundary (GB) by polymers shows prospects on long-term performance of perovskite solar cells (PSCs), its detailed impact on the ion migration phenomenon, which largely deteriorates the PSC stability, remains less probed. Here, we introduce a new polar polymer, polycaprolactone (PCL), to passivate GBs of methylammonium lead triiodide (MAPbI3) perovskite…

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• The magmatic evolution process of the Miyi volcanic rocks in the Emeishan Large Igneous Province and the enrichment mechanisms of associated critical metals (V, Sc, Ga, Cr) in those volcanic rocks

  Bulletin of Mineralogy Petrology and Geochemistry · 2025-10-30

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  为探讨米易火山岩的岩浆演化过程、伴生关键金属富集机制及其与红格钒钛磁铁矿床的成因联系，我们开展了米易火山岩的全岩主微量元素分析以及MELTS模拟计算研究。结果表明，岩浆演化早期少量钒钛磁铁矿的结晶不会造成岩浆中Fe、Ti含量的显著亏损，而大量钒钛磁铁矿的分离结晶是造成岩浆中Fe、Ti、V亏损的关键因素。岩浆中Sc含量的变化主要受控于单斜辉石结晶，Cr含量变化则与铬铁矿和单斜辉石结晶有关，Ga含量随着分离结晶程度升高而增加。富铁贫硅的熔体进入浅部岩浆房，大量结晶钒钛磁铁矿、单斜辉石等矿物，最终形成红格岩体。残余熔体喷发至地表形成米易玄武安山岩和安山岩。具有Fe-Ti-V亏损特征的低镁火山岩（MgO<6%）可作为深部钒钛磁铁矿成矿的指示标志。

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Recent grants

• CAREER: Improving Storage System Performance, Dependability and Manageability Using System Mining Techniques

  NSF · $449k · 2004–2010

• RII Track-4: Novel Electrochemistry in Hybrid Organic-Inorganic Perovskite Materials

  NSF · $94k · 2019–2020

• CAREER: Improving Storage System Performance, Dependability and Manageability Using System Mining Techniques

  NSF · $185k · 2009–2011

Frequent coauthors

• Nitin P. Padture

  Providence College

  356 shared

• Shuping Pang

  Qingdao Institute of Bioenergy and Bioprocess Technology

  132 shared

• Min Chen

  Arizona State University

  101 shared

• Yingxia Zong

  Qingdao University of Science and Technology

  93 shared

• Hector F. Garcés

  Providence College

  58 shared

• Mingyu Hu

  55 shared

• Guanglei Cui

  50 shared

• Srinivas K. Yadavalli

  University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

  49 shared

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