Yuqi SUN

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Biography

  • Yuqi Sun is a Professor at the School of Emergent Soft Matter, South China University of Technology. She received her bachelor’s degree from the School of Materials Science and Engineering at South China University of Technology, and her PhD from the Department of Physics at the University of Cambridge. From 2024 to 2025, she conducted research at the Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, and joined the School of Emergent Soft Matter at South China University of Technology in 2026. Over the past five years, her research has been published as first and/or corresponding author in journals including Nature, Science Advances, and Advanced Materials.

Research Interests

  • Yuqi Sun’s research group focuses on the design of novel organic and hybrid functional materials, interface engineering, and device physics, with emphasis on applications in optoelectronics and energy technologies.


Awards & Honors

2024
Rising Stars of Light (Finalist Award) | Springer Nature, Light: Science & Application

2023
CSAR PhD Award | Cambridge Society for the Application of Research

Selected Publications

  • W. Tao, W. Zhang, Y. Sun*, R. Walia, C. Shang, Y. Liu, X.-K. Chen, M. Zhou*, N. C. Greenham, L.-S. Cui*, Noncovalent through-space charge transfer enables efficient and stable blue electroluminescence. Science Advances 12, eadz5381 (2026). (*Corresponding author)

  • Y. Fan, J. Luo, Z. Wang, Y. Zhao, S. Wu, Y. Sun, P. Zhang, H. Song, X. Zhou, Z. Hu, J. Wu, Y. Gu, L. Qiu, Z. Miao, S. Han, X. Jiang, V. Gray, J. Zhou, A. Rao, Z. Zhang, Remotely Tuned Triplet Transfer via Ligand Proximity in Quantum Dot–Organic Spectral Converters. ACS Nano 20, 9996–10011 (2026).

  • Z. Yu, Y. Deng, J. Ye, L. van Turnhout, T. Liu, A. Tew, R. Arul, S. Dowland, Y. Sun, X. Li, L. Dai, Y. Lu, C. Ducati, J. J. Baumberg, R. H. Friend, R. L. Z. Hoye, A. Rao, Triplets electrically turn on insulating lanthanide-doped nanoparticles. Nature 647, 625–631 (2025).

  • L. Wang, Z. Y. Ooi, F.-Y. Jia, Y. Sun, Y. Liu, L. Dai, J. Ye, J. Zhang, H.-I. Un, Y.-H. Chiang, S. Han, A. J. Mirabelli, M. Anaya, Z. Zhang, Y. Lu, C. Zou, B. Zhao, D. Di, X. Yang, D. Guo, Y. Tan, H. Dong, S. Liu, T. Liu, H. Zhou, S. D. Stranks, L.-D. Sun, C.-H. Yan, R. H. Friend, Efficient perovskite LEDs with tailored atomic layer number emission at fixed wavelengths. Science Advances 11, eadp9595 (2025).

  • Y. Sun, S. Chen, J.-Y. Huang, Y.-R. Wu, N. C. Greenham, Device physics of perovskite light-emitting diodes. Applied Physics Reviews 11, 041418 (2024).

  • R.-Z. An†, Y. Sun†, H.-Y. Chen, Y. Liu, A. Privitera, W. K. Myers, T. K. Ronson, A. J. Gillett, N. C. Greenham, L.-S. Cui, Excited-State Engineering Enables Efficient Deep-Blue Light-Emitting Diodes Exhibiting BT.2020 Color Gamut. Advanced Materials 36, 2313602 (2024). (†Co-first authors)

  • L. Kong, Y. Sun, B. Zhao, K. Ji, J. Feng, J. Dong, Y. Wang, Z. Liu, S. Maqbool, Y. Li, Y. Yang, L. Dai, W. Lee, C. Cho, S. D. Stranks, R. H. Friend, N. Wang, N. C. Greenham, X. Yang, Fabrication of red-emitting perovskite LEDs by stabilizing their octahedral structure. Nature 631, 73–79 (2024).

  • C. Cho†, Y. Sun†, J. You, L.-S. Cui, N. C. Greenham, Enhanced Photon Recycling Enables Efficient Perovskite Light-Emitting Diodes. Advanced Functional Materials 34, 2411556 (2024). (†Co-first authors)

  • Y. Sun, L. Ge, L. Dai, C. Cho, J. Ferrer Orri, K. Ji, S. J. Zelewski, Y. Liu, A. J. Mirabelli, Y. Zhang, J.-Y. Huang, Y. Wang, K. Gong, M. C. Lai, L. Zhang, D. Yang, J. Lin, E. M. Tennyson, C. Ducati, S. D. Stranks, L.-S. Cui, N. C. Greenham, Bright and stable perovskite light-emitting diodes in the near-infrared range. Nature 615, 830–835 (2023).

  • K. Ji, W. Lin, Y. Sun, L.-S. Cui, J. Shamsi, Y.-H. Chiang, J. Chen, E. M. Tennyson, L. Dai, Q. Li, K. Frohna, M. Anaya, N. C. Greenham, S. D. Stranks, Self-supervised deep learning for tracking degradation of perovskite light-emitting diodes with multispectral imaging. Nature Machine Intelligence 5, 1225–1235 (2023).

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