Bowen Li
Research focuses on the synthesis and properties of efficient thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF) materials, and the development of organic near-infrared emitters for bioimaging, disease diagnosis and therapy.
Biography
Received a PhD in Materials Science and Engineering from Harbin Institute of Technology in 2020. In the same year, joined the School of Optoelectronic Materials and Technology and the Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Flexible Optoelectronic Materials and Technology at Jianghan University. Joined the State Key Laboratory of New Textile Materials and Advanced Processing Technologies at Wuhan Textile University and Professor Yonggang Lv’s team in 2025.
Has published more than 20 SCI-indexed papers as first or corresponding author in journals including Chemical Engineering Journal, Advanced Optical Materials and Chinese Chemical Letters, including one ESI Highly Cited and Hot Paper. Selected for the Wuhan Talent Program (Outstanding Young Talent) in 2023. Has supervised several national-, provincial- and university-level undergraduate innovation training projects.
Research Projects
- National Natural Science Foundation of China Youth Project, Grant No. 22105086, 2022.01–2024.12; principal investigator; completed.
- Key Scientific Research Project of the Hubei Provincial Department of Education, No. D20234401, 2024.01–2025.12; principal investigator; ongoing, as recorded.
- Major Research Project for First-Class Discipline Development, Jianghan University, No. 2023XKZ030, 2023.06–2025.06; principal investigator; completed.
Selected Publications
- Li B. W., Pan Z. Q., Liu T., Lv Y. G.* Synergistic diphenylboron and heavy-atom effect: A BF2-free strategy for four-coordinated boron room-temperature phosphorescence. Advanced Functional Materials, 2026, 36 (59): e76766.
- Li B. W.*, Lv Y. G.* Recent advances of aromatic cyclic imide/amide acceptors in thermally activated delayed fluorescent materials for organic light-emitting diodes. Advanced Optical Materials, 2025, 13(29): e01835.
- Zhengqin Pan, Jie Pan, Long Sang, Zhenming Ding, Meihua Liu, Laichao Fu, Mengqiu Wang, Xiaokang Huang, Bowen Li*, Shaofeng Chen, Dongcheng Chen, Yu Liu*, Weiguo Zhu, Xiaobo Wan*. Highly efficient solution-processable four-coordinate boron compound: A thermally activated delayed fluorescence emitter with short-lived phosphorescence for OLEDs with small efficiency roll-off. Chemical Engineering Journal, 2024, 483: 149221. (ESI Highly Cited Paper and ESI Hot Paper)
- Bowen Li*, Zhenming Ding, Zhimin Wu, Meihua Liu, Shaofeng Chen, Dongcheng Chen, Zhigao Li, Long Sang, Yu Liu*, Lili Lin*, Weiguo Zhu, Xiaobo Wan*. Thermally activated delayed fluorescence emitters with bulky four-coordinate boron acceptors for high-performance solution-processed OLEDs. Chemical Engineering Journal, 2023, 476: 146484.
- Bowen Li*, Miao Xiong, Meihua Liu, Zhigao Li, Long Sang, Zihan Xiong, Biao Xiao, Jian Pei, Xiaobo Wan*. Thiazoloisoindigo-based polymer semiconductors: Synthesis, structure-property relationship, charge carrier polarity, and field-effect transistor performance. Chinese Journal of Polymer Science, 2023, 42(1): 24-31.
- Bowen Li*, Meihua Liu, Long Sang, Zhigao Li, Xiaobo Wan, Yong Zhang*. Role of the intramolecular-locking strategy in the construction of organic thermally activated delayed fluorescence emitters with rotation-restricted acceptors. Advanced Optical Materials, 2023, 11(7): 2202610.
- Bowen Li*, Xiangyu Zou, Qiyi Li, Hongqian Sang, Youbing Mu*, Jieyu Wang, Jian Pei, Chunming Yang, Liang Li, Xiaobo Wan*. Alternating copolymers of thiophene-flanked thiazoloisoindigo and thiophene-flanked benzothiadiazole for high-performance ambipolar organic field-effect transistors. Organic Electronics, 2023, 113: 106708.
- Youbing Mu*, Qian Su, Bowen Li*, Xiaobo Wan*. Advances in the synthesis and applications of mussel-inspired polymers. Polymer Reviews, 2023, 63(1): 1-39.
- Bowen Li*, Xiangyu Zou, Miao Xiong, Qiyi Li, Xu Kang, Youbing Mu*, Jieyu Wang, Jian Pei, Chunming Yang, Zhenggang Lan, Xiaobo Wan*. Thiazoloisoindigo-based ambipolar polymer for excellent balanced hole and electron mobility. Materials Chemistry Frontiers, 2022, 6: 3369-3381.
- Bowen Li, Zhiyi Li, Qing Xia, Xiangan Song, Daoyuan Chen, Fengyun Guo, Shiyong Gao, Ying Wang*, Yong Zhang*. Singlet-triplet splitting energy management for thermally activated delayed fluorescence emitters: Up-conversion of acceptor triplet into charge transfer singlet state. Journal of Materials Chemistry C, 2022, 10: 16064-16069.
- Bowen Li, Zhiyi Li, Xiangan Song, Fengyun Guo, Ying Wang*, Shiyong Gao, Yong Zhang*. Pyrimidine-based thermally activated delayed fluorescent materials with unique asymmetry for highly-efficient organic light-emitting diodes. Dyes and Pigments, 2022, 203: 110373.
- Siyu Lv, Qiyi Li, Bowen Li*, Jieyu Wang, Youbing Mu*, Liang Li, Jian Pei*, Xiaobo Wan*. Thiazole-flanked thiazoloisoindigo as a monomer for balanced ambipolar polymeric field-effect transistors. Chinese Journal of Polymer Science, 2022, 40(10): 1131-1140.
