Peng Chen
- ARC DECRA Fellow
- The University of Queensland, Australia
Dr. Peng Chen is an Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Early-Career Researcher Award (DECRA) Fellow at Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (AIBN), The University of Queensland. He carried out his PhD study on the development of efficient and stable perovskite solar cells in School of Chemical Engineering at UQ (supervisor: Prof. Lianzhou Wang, 2015–2020). He then moved to AIBN and worked as an Australian Centre for Advanced Photovoltaics (ACAP) Research Fellow focusing on the development of perovskite quantum dot solar cells and perovskite composite materials (2020–2022). In 2023, he started his ARC DECRA Fellowship project on all-perovskite tandem solar cells for efficient hydrogen production.
Research impacts
Dr. Peng Chen’s research focuses on the development of low-cost and efficient thin-film photovoltaic technologies for renewable energy conversion and storage, including perovskite solar cells, quantum dot solar cells, and solar hydrogen production. In 2018, he pioneered the developement of bilayer 2D-3D perovskite heterostructured solar cells (Adv. Funct. Mater. 2018, 28, 1706923). In 2021, he participated in the conceptual design of ultrastable perovskite-MOF glassy composites for lighting applications (Science 2021, 374, 621). In 2024, he led the team to demonstrate a certified world record efficiency of 16.65% in lead-free tin-based perovskite solar cells (published in Nature Nanotechnology). In the past decade, he has contributed to over 60 peer-reviewed research papers publishing in top journals including Science, Nature Nanotechnology, Nature Energy, Nature Communications, Advanced Materials, Angewandte Chemie, Advanced Energy Materials, etc, attracting more than 6000 citations with a H-index of 32 (Google Scholar). He has also attracted several research funds from ARC and ARENA, such as ACAP Fellowship (2020–2022), ARC DECRA Fellowship (2023–2025), and ARC DP (2023–2025).
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