I. Introduction
Laboratory of Special Glass and Optoelectronic Materials focuses on the study of novel special glass materials, optoelectronic functional materials, and their applications in fields such as new energy, information technology, and optics. The laboratory is supported by the ‘Materials Science and Engineering’ double first-class discipline at East China University of Science and Technology. Through employing material design, structural regulation, and interface optimization, the laboratory achieves controllable preparation of novel functional materials. Furthermore, by investigating the engineering principles of material scale-up processes, the laboratory es the large-scale production and industrialization of high-performance optoelectronic functional materials. The laboratory's research directions include new energy storage electrode materials, packaging glass and electronic pastes for semiconductors, inorganic optoelectronic functional materials and flexible sensor devices, and metallized electrode materials and processes for crystalline silicon solar cells.
In recent years, the lab has undertaken various national, provincial, and industrial collaborative projects. The team consists of five permanent members, including two senior researchers and two associate researchers, among whom are 1 EU Marie Curie Fellow and 3 Shanghai Pujiang Talents .
II. Research Directions
1) Design, structural regulation, and electrochemical performance of energy storage electrode materials;
2) Specialized optoelectronic glass, encapsulation glass and electronic pastes for semiconductors
3) Inorganic optoelectronic functional materials and flexible sensing devices;
4) Metallization electrode materials and processes for crystalline silicon solar cells.
III. Team Members
1) Qilin Cheng, Ph.D., Professor, Doctoral Supervisor, Laboratory Director. Dr Cheng graduated from East China University of Science and Technology in 1998 and remained at the university as a faculty member. Then he obtained a Ph.D. in Materials Science from East China University of Science and Technology in 2006. And he served as a visiting scholar at the Polymer Center of Tomas Bata University in the Czech Republic from March 2004 to December 2008. He primarily engages in research on inorganic nanomaterials and inorganic/organic functional composite materials. In recent years, he has focused on the preparation and application of energy storage electrode materials.
As the principal investigator, he has undertaken projects such as the National Key Research and Development Program ‘Government-to-Government International Science and Technology Innovation Cooperation’ Key Project, the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the Shanghai Municipal Key Basic Research Program, the Shanghai Municipal International Science and Technology Cooperation Fund, the Shanghai Municipal Nanotechnology Special Project, and the Shanghai Municipal Pujiang Talent Program. The projects he participated in won the First Prize of the Ministry of Education's Natural Science Award in 2010, and the First Prize of the Shanghai Municipal Science and Technology Progress Award in 2009 and 2006. He has applied for 10 Chinese invention patents, with 5 granted. In recent years, he has published over 40 SCI-indexed articles in international academic journals.
2) Huidan Zeng, Ph.D., Professor, Doctoral Supervisor. Dr. Zeng graduated from South China University of Technology in 1998, obtained a Ph.D. from the Shanghai Institute of Optics and Mechanics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2009, and served as an EU Marie Curie Fellow at the University of Paris-Sud from March 2009 to February 2010. Her research focuses on specialized optoelectronic glass, packaging glass for semiconductors, electronic component inks and electronic pastes, inorganic coatings such as enamel, glass fibers for electronic components with low dielectric constant and high power, and inorganic powders and functional composite materials.
As a principal investigator, she has undertaken 5 projects funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the Ministry of Science and Technology, the Shanghai Municipal Government, the Ministry of National Defense, the European Union, the Shanghai Municipal Government/Ministry of Education, and various enterprises. She serves as a council member of the Chinese Society of Ceramics, a council member of the Shanghai Society of Ceramics, a committee member of the TC03 Subcommittee of the International Commission on Glass, and a technical expert at the Advanced Inorganic Non-metallic Materials Industry Center of the National New Materials Testing and Evaluation Platform. In recent years, she has published over 40 SCI-indexed articles in international academic journals.
3) Shuanglong Yuan, Ph.D., Associate Researcher, Master's Supervisor. Dr. Yuan graduated from Chongqing University in 2001, and obtained a Doctor of Engineering degree from East China University of Science and Technology and a Doctor of Science degree from the University of Rennes 1 in France in 2011. With an academic background in both materials and chemistry, he primarily engages in research on nanomaterials, inorganic optoelectronic functional materials, and flexible sensor devices, and has developed perovskite luminescent materials and their applications in dual-mode flexible optoelectronic sensor devices.
As the principal investigator, he has undertaken the Shanghai Natural Science Foundation. As the technical leader, he has participated in the Shanghai Science and Technology Commission's Optoelectronics Special Fund and the Pudong Science and Technology Development Fund. He has collaborated with enterprises on multiple projects, some of which have been commercialized. His research findings have been published in over 20 SCI and EI papers in domestic and international journals. He received the Second Prize for Scientific and Technological Progress in Shanghai in 2012 (the second contributor). He has applied for 10 invention patents, with 3 already granted.
4) Hua Tong, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Master's Supervisor. Dr. Tong graduated from Zhejiang University in 2001, obtained a Ph.D. from the Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2007, and conducted postdoctoral research at the National Institute for Materials Science in Japan from March 2008 to March 2012. His research focuses on metallized electrode materials and processes for crystalline silicon solar cells, electronic transport mechanisms at the electrode interface of crystalline silicon solar cells, and diffusion doping source materials for solar cell silicon wafers.
As the principal investigator, he has undertaken projects funded by the Young Scientist Fund Project (Category C), the Shanghai Municipal Science and Technology Commission's Key Research and Development Program, the Shanghai Municipal Science and Technology Commission's Innovation Society Project, the Shanghai Pujiang Talent Program, and the Ministry of Education's Doctoral Program Fund. In recent years, he has published over 30 SCI-indexed articles in international academic journals.
5) Zhengju Zhu, Ph.D., Lecturer. Dr. Zhu graduated from East China University of Science and Technology in 2012, obtained a Ph.D. from Griffith University in Australia in 2019, and conducted postdoctoral research at East China University of Science and Technology from January 2020 to March 2023. His research focuses on metal single-atom catalysts, low-dimensional hybrid structure electrocatalysis, precious metal-modified photocatalysts, and their industrialization technologies.
As the principal investigator, he has undertaken projects funded by the Young Scientist Fund Project (Category C), the Shanghai Pujiang Talent Program, and the Postdoctoral General Fund. In recent years, he has published 25 SCI-indexed articles in international academic journals.
IV. Representative Achievements
(1) Maoyuan Yang, Qingchao Jia, Chen Chen, Jiayan Yu, Hang Yu, Huidan Zeng*, Xiongke Luo*. Crystallization of low-k boron calcium silicate glass-ceramics induced by β-CaSiO3 seed crystals. Ceramics International, 51 (2025), 14736-14745.
(2) Hujun Zhang, Haifeng Yu, Ling Chen, Muslum Demir, Qilin Cheng*, Hao Jiang*. Limiting cationic mixing and lattice oxygen loss of single-crystalline Ni-rich Co-poor cathodes for high-voltage Li-ion batteries. Green Energy & Environment, DOI: 10.1016/j. gee. 2025. 03. 004.
(3) Ao Li, Chunyu Chen, Qingchao Jia, Shuyu Zhang, Shenrui Zhang, Yangsu Yao, Huidan Zeng*. Enhancing the acid resistance of oxide glass through ion diffusion at the glass/ceramic interface. Applied Surface Science, 693 (2025), 162784.
(4) Qingchao Jia, Wenzhi Wang, Hujun Zhang, Chunyu Chen, Ao Li, Chen Chen, Hang Yu, Liangzhu Zhang, Haizheng Tao, Huidan Zeng*, Xiongke Luo*, Yuanzheng Yue*. Creating single-crystalline β-CaSiO3 for high-performance electronic packaging substrate. Advanced Materials, 37 (2024), 2414156.
(5) Yiwen Li, Zhengju Zhu*, Yulin Zhong, Yifan Jin, Petr Saha, Qilin Cheng*. Heterogeneous Cr-doped Co3S4/NiMoS4 bifunctional electrocatalyst for efficient overall water splitting. Journal of Power Sources, 614 (2024), 234969.
(6) Xinxin Li, Long Chen, Shuanglong Yuan*, Hua Tong, Qilin Cheng, Huidan Zeng, Lei Wei, Qichong Zhang. Stretchable luminescent perovskite-polymer hydrogels for visual-digital wearable strain sensor textiles. Advanced Fiber Materials, 5 (2023), 1671-1684.
(7) Long Chen, Meng He, Wenbin Gong, Peiying Hu, Shuanglong Yuan*, Aiping Chen, Lei Wei*, Qichong Zhang*, Qingwen Li*. Robust salt-shelled metal halide for highly efficient photoluminescence wearable real-time human motion perception. Nano energy, 108 (2023), 108235.
(8) Long Chen, Rongliang Li, Shuanglong Yuan*, Aiping Chen, Yang Li*, Ting Zhang, Lei Wei, Qichong Zhang*, Qingwen Li*. Fiber-shaped artificial optoelectronic synapses for wearable visualmemory systems. Matter, 6 (2023), 925-939.
(9) Zhengju Zhu, Huajie Yin*, Yun Wang, Cheng‐Hao Chuang, Lei Xing, Mengyang Dong, Ying‐Rui Lu, Gilberto Casillas‐Garcia, Yonglong Zheng, Shan Chen, Yuhai Dou, Porun Liu, Qilin Cheng, Huijun Zhao*. Coexisting single-atomic Fe and Ni sites on hierarchically ordered porous carbon as a highly efficient ORR electrocatalyst. Advanced Materials, 32 (2022), 2004670.
(10) Long Chen, Meng He, Lianhui Li, Shuanglong Yuan*, Aiping Chen*, Mengxiao Chen, Yongjiang Wang, Litao Sun, Lei Wei, Ting Zhang, Qingwen Li*, Qichong Zhang*. Hydrochromic CsPbBr3-KBr microcrystals for flexible anti-counterfeiting and wearable self-powered biomechanical monitoring. Chemical Engineering Journal, 450 (2022), 138279-138279.
(11) Haoxuan Zhang, Jingyu Wang, Qilin Cheng*, Petr Saha, Hao Jiang*. Highly surface electron-deficient Co9S8 nanoarrays for enhanced oxygen evolution. Green Energy& Environment, 5 (2020) 492-498.
(12) Chunmei Zhu, Ying He, Yijun Liu, Natalia Kazantseva, Petr Saha, Qilin Cheng*, ZnO@MOF@PANI core-shell nanoarrays on carbon cloth for high-performance supercapacitor electrodes. Journal of Energy Chemistry 35 (2019) 124-131.
(13) Zhengju Zhu, Huajie Yin*, Chunting He, Mohammad Al-Mamun, Porun Liu, Lixue Jiang, Yong Zhao, Yun Wang, Huagui Yang, Zhiyong Tang, Dan Wang, Xiaoming Chen, Huijun Zhao*. Ultrathin transition metal dichalcogenide/3d metal hydroxide hybridized nanosheets to enhance hydrogen evolution activity. Advanced Materials, 30 (2018), 1801171.
(14) Hua Tong, Shuxin Ouyang, Yingpu Bi, Naoto Umezawa, Mitsutake Oshikiri, Jinhua Ye*. Nano photocatalytic materials: possibilities and challenges. Advanced Materials, 24 (2012), 239-252.
(15) Hua Tong, Naoto Umezawa, Jinhua Ye, Takahisa Ohno. Electronic coupling assembly of semiconductor nanocrystals: self-narrowed band gap to promise solar energy utilization. Energy & Environmental Science. 4 (2011), 1684-1689.
(16) Hua Tong, Ying-Jie Zhu*, Li-Xia Yang, Liang Li, Ling Zhang. Lead chalcogenide nanotubes synthesized by biomolecule-assisted self-assembly of nanocrystals at room temperature. Angew. Chem.Int. Ed., 45 (2006), 7739-7742.
