Structural Design and Excited-State Dynamics of Optoelectronic Materials

• 2014-09--2019-05, Ph. D. in Physical Chemistry, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, CAS.
• 2010-09--2014-07, B.S. in Material Physics, China University of Petroleum（East China).

   

• 2021-05--Present, Associate Professor, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, CAS.

   

1. Tianxin Bai, Pengfei Cheng*, Zhen Chi, Bo Zhang, Jingyi Zhu, Jianyong Liu, Kaifeng Wu*, Dual-Color Tunable Circularly Polarized Luminescence With Anti-Thermal-Quenching Enabled by Asymmetric Hydrogen-Bonding Networks in Hybrid Manganese Halides. Advanced Materials 2026, 38, e73285.

2. Sijia Wang, Tianxin Bai, Xiaochen Wang, Bo Zhang, Zhen Chi, Jianyong Liu, Jingyi Zhu, Kaifeng Wu*, Pengfei Cheng*, Bright Cyan Circularly Polarized Luminescence and Efficient Second Harmonic Generation in Zero-Dimensional Silver-Based Halides with Achiral Cations. Angewandte Chemie International Edition 2026, 65, e20684.

3. Shun-Shun Li, Pengfei Cheng*, Huaxin Liu, Juntao Li, Jianyong Liu, Junsheng Chen, Kaifeng Wu*, Polycation Engineering in Polymeric Metal Halides Enables Tunable and Multicolor Emission from Single Transition-Metals. Angewandte Chemie International Edition 2025, e202502210.

4. Shun-Shun Li, Pengfei Cheng*, Huaxin Liu, Juntao Li, Sijia Wang, Chunlei Xiao, Jianyong Liu, Junsheng Chen, Kaifeng Wu*, Polymeric metal halides with bright luminescence and versatile processability. Angewandte Chemie International Edition 2024, 63, e202319969.

5. Sijia Wang, Runze Liu, Juntao Li, Caixia Meng, Jianyong Liu, Junsheng Chen, Pengfei Cheng*, Kaifeng Wu*, Blue Long Afterglow and Ultra Broadband Vis-NIR Emission from All-Inorganic Copper-Doped Silver Halide Single Crystals. Angewandte Chemie International Edition 2024, 63, e202403927. 

6.  Pengfei Cheng, Lu Feng, Yuefeng Liu, Daoyuan Zheng, Youbao Sang, Wenyuan Zhao, Yang Yang, Songqiu Yang, Donghui Wei, Guoxiong Wang, Keli Han*. Doped zero-dimensional cesium zinc halides for high-efficiency blue light emission. Angewandte Chemie International Edition 2020, 59, 21414-21418.

7. Pengfei Cheng, Lei Sun, Lu Feng, Songqiu Yang, Yang Yang, Daoyuan Zheng, Yang Zhao, Youbao Sang, Ruiling Zhang, Donghui Wei, Weiqiao Deng, Keli Han*. Colloidal synthesis and optical properties of all-inorganic low-dimensional cesium copper halide nanocrystals. Angewandte Chemie International Edition 2019, 58, 16087-16091.

8. Xiaochen Wang, Danna Song, Tianxin Bai, Shu Zhou, Jianyong Liu, Yan Su*, Pengfei Cheng*,Highly Stable and Efficient Multimodal Luminescence in Rare-Earth-Based Metal Halides Enabled by High-Entropy Design. Laser & Photonics Reviews 2026, e71524.

9. Sijia Wang, Runze Liu, Juntao Li, Fengke Sun, Qing Yang, Shunshun Li, Jianyong Liu, Junsheng Chen, Pengfei Cheng*, Achieving Highly Efficient Warm‐White Light Emission in All-Inorganic Copper-Silver Halides via Structural Regulation. Advanced Science, 2023, 10 ,2303501.

10. Shun-Shun Li, Kaifeng Wu*,Pengfei Cheng*, Recent progress in amorphous metal halides for optoelectronics. Chinese Journal of Structural Chemistry, 2026, 45, 100920.

11. Shun-Shun Li, Pengfei Cheng*,Aggregation-Induced Photocatalysis: Seeing the Forest in Supramolecular Dye Polymers. Chinese Journal of Structural Chemistry, 2026, 101037.

12. Pengfei Cheng*, Keli Han, Junsheng Chen*, Recent advances in lead-free halide perovskites for photocatalysis. ACS Materials Letters, 2023 , 5, 60-78.

13. Pengfei Cheng, Daoyuan Zheng, Lu Feng, Yuefeng Liu, Junxue Liu, Juntao Li, Yang Yang, Guoxiong Wang, Keli Han*, Doped all-inorganic cesium zirconium halide perovskites with high-efficiency and tunable emission. Journal of Energy Chemistry, 2022, 65, 600-604.

14. Pengfei Cheng, Tao Wu, Junxue Liu, Wei-Qiao Deng, Keli Han*. Lead-free, two-dimensional mixed germanium and tin perovskites. The journal of physical chemistry letters, 2018, 9, 2518-2522.

15. Pengfei Cheng, Tao Wu, Jiangwei Zhang, Yajuan Li, Junxue Liu, Lei Jiang, Xin Mao, Rui-Feng Lu, Wei-Qiao Deng*, Keli Han*.  (C₆H₅C₂H₄NH₃)₂GeI₄: A Layered Two-Dimensional Perovskite with Potential for Photovoltaic Applications. The journal of physical chemistry letters, 2017, 8, 4402-4406.

metal halides; excited state dynamics