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​Haipeng Lu
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Assistant Professor
Department of Chemistry
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China (SAR)
Email: haipenglu@ust.hk       
Tel: +(852) 3469 2097
​Office: Room 4542, Academic Building

Professional Experience:
12/2020-present, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong
2017-2020, Postdoctoral Fellow, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, USA    (Advisor: Matthew C. Beard)


Education:
2017, Ph.D. in Inorganic Chemistry, University of Southern California, USA   (Advisor: Richard L. Brutchey)
2012, B.S. in Chemistry, Nanjing University, China         
          

Awards:
​2019      ACS PHYS Young Investigator Award, American Chemical Society
2017      ACS Division of Inorganic Chemistry Student Travel Award, American Chemical Society
2013      Outstanding Performance in Teaching in General Chemistry, University of Southern California
2010      Scholarship for Excellent Freshman, Nanjing University
2008      Gold Medal in the 21st National Chemistry Olympiad, China


Representative Publications: 
(# equal contribution, * corresponding)
  • Lu, H.; Xiao, C.; Li, T.; Song, R.; Maughan, A.; Levin, A.; Brunecky, R.; Berry, J. J.; Blum, V.; Mitzi, D. B.; Beard, M. C. Highly Distorted Chiral Two-Dimensional Tin Iodide Perovskites for Spin Polarized Charge Transport. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2020, 142, 13030‒13040. (view) (Featured in JACS Spotlights)
  • ​Lu, H.*; Huang, Z.; Martinez, M.; Johnson, J.; Luther, J. M.; Beard, M. C. Transforming Energy Using Quantum Dots. Energy & Environmental Science, 2020, 13, 1347‒1376. (view)
  • Zhang, F.#; Lu, H.#; Tong, J.; Berry, J.; Beard, M. C.; Zhu, K. Advances in Two-Dimensional Organic-Inorganic Hybrid Perovskites. Energy & Environmental Science, 2020, 13, 1154‒1186. (view)
  • Lu, H.#; Wang, J.#; Xiao, C.#; Chen, X.; Brunecky, R.; Berry, J. J.; Zhu, K.; Beard, M. C., Vardeny, Z. V. Spin Dependent Charge Transport through Chiral Perovskite 2D Layered Thin Films. Science Advances, 2019, 5, eaay0571. (view) (In the news: phys.org)
  • Lu, H.#; Chen, X.#; Anthony, J. E.; Johnson, J.; Beard, M. C. Sensitizing Singlet Fission with Perovskite Nanocrystals. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2019, 141, 4919−4927. (view)
  • Lu, H.; Carroll, G. M.; Neale, N. R.; Beard, M. C. Infrared Quantum Dots: Progress, Challenges and Opportunities. ACS Nano, 2019, 13, 939−953. (view)
  • Lu, H.; Carroll, G. M.; Chen, X.; Amarasinghe, D. K.; Neale, N. R.; Miller, E. M.; Sercel, P.; Rabuffetti, F. A.; Efros, A.; Beard, M. C. n-Type PbSe Quantum Dots via Post-Synthetic Indium Doping. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2018, 140, 13753−13763. (view)
  • Lu, H.; Brutchey, R. L. Tunable Room-Temperature Synthesis of Coinage Metal Chalcogenide Nanocrystals from N-Heterocyclic Carbene Synthons. Chemistry of Materials, 2017, 29, 1396-1403. (view)
  • Lu, H.; Zhou, Z.; Prezhdo, O.; Brutchey, R. L. Exposing the Dynamics and Energetics of the N-Heterocyclic Carbene-Nanocrystal Interface. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2016, 138, 14844-14847. (view)
  • Lu, H.; Joy, J.; Gaspar, R. L.; Bradforth, S. E.; Brutchey, R. L. Iodide-Passivated Colloidal PbS Nanocrystals Leading to Highly Efficient Polymer:Nanocrystal Hybrid Solar Cells. Chemistry of Materials, 2016, 28, 1897-1906. (view)​
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