Education and Work Experiences：

PhD., Northwestern University (USA) (1989.08-1992.07)

Postdoc, Argonne National Laboratory (USA) (1992.08-1994.03）

Director, R&D, Senior Scientist, QQC, Inc. (USA) (1994.04-1997.07）

Senior Scientist, BP Solar (USA) (1998.10-2003.04）

Senior Scientist, United Solar Ovonic LLC (USA) (2003.04-2011.09）

Prof. Shaanxi Normal University (From 2011 to now)

Research Interests：

Solar cells, optoelectronics, nanomaterials, thin films

Awards and Honor:

For Example: First Prize in Science and Technology of Shaanxi Province, 2018

1、 First Place Prize in Science and Technology of Shaanxi Province, 2024

2、 Lu Jiaxi Outstanding Mentor Award, 2022

3、 Outstanding Mentor of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2021

4、 Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics Technical Research Team Award, 2023

5、 First Place Prize for Outstanding Scientific and Technological Research Achievements in Higher Education Institutions in Shaanxi, 2024

6、 ELSEVIER and Stanford University’ Top 2% Scientists List, since 2020

7、 Fellow of the royal society of chemistry, since 2023

8、 Top 1% highly-cited Chinese authors by the royal society of chemistry, since 2018

9、 Clarivate Highly Cited Researchers, since 2020

Research Projects as Principal Investigator:

1. National Key Research and Development Program of China, Grant No. 2017YFA0204802, High-Efficiency Structural Optimization, Functional Prediction, and Material Design of Novel Nanomaterials, July2017- June2022, 7.35million.

2. National Key Research and Development Program of China, Grant No. 2016YFA0202403, Design, Preparation and Process Technology Research of High Performance Perovskite Solar Cells, July 2016- June 2021, 8.49 million.

3. Major Research Plan of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, Grant No. 91733301, January 2018-December 2020, 2.1 million

4. Joint Funds of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, Grant No. U21A20102, Key technology research on low-cost coating and printing preparation of efficient flexible perovskite solar cells, January 2022- December 2025, 2.6 million

5. National Natural Science Foundation of China, Grant No. 62174103, The influence mechanism of grain boundary stress on the dynamic behavior of photo generated charge carriers in perovskite solar cells, January 2022- December 2025, 0.6million.

6. National Natural Science Foundation of China, Grant No. 61674098，Research on the Design of Single Crystal Perovskite Solar Cells: Single Crystal Thin Films and Doping, January 2017- December2020,0.62 million.

7. CAS Scientific Instrument Development Project: Collaborative deposition equipment for functional films of new photovoltaic cells based on ultrashort pulse excitation, January 2021- December 2022, 2.98 million.

8. CAS Strategic Pioneer Science and Technology Project: Research on large-area flexible perovskite solar cell modules, Grant No. XDA21061001, April 2022- April 2023, 1.5 million.

9. CAS Clean Energy Innovation Institute - Yulin College Joint Fund Project: Research on large-area high-efficiency flexible perovskite/CIGS tandem solar cells, January 2023- December 2024, 2 million.

10. National Key R&D Program: Research on large-area flexible perovskite solar cell modules, Grant No. 2022YFE0138100, April 2023- April 2025, 2 million.

11. National Task/National Natural Science Foundation/Foreign Scholars Research Fund Project: Full-vacuum preparation technology for large-area flexible perovskite solar cells aimed at continuous production, Grant No. 5231101500, January 2024- December 2025, 1.945 million yuan.

12. Enterprise Cooperation Project: Development of rigid large-area high-efficiency stable perovskite solar cells and production lines, February 2022- March 2024, 29.5 million.

13. Enterprise Commissioned Project: Development of flexible large-area high-efficiency stable perovskite solar cells and production lines, March 2022- March 2024, 39.5 million.

14. Enterprise Cooperation Project: Patent and proprietary technology licensing agreement, May 2023-, 116 million.

Representative Publications:

1、 Stereoelectronic manipulation of ligands for perovskite solar cells. Tinghuan Yang, Erxin Zhao, Nan Wu, Xiaoming Chang, Chenqing Tian, Hai-Long Wang, Lu Zhang, Nannan Gu, Ting Nie, Ye Yang, Zheng Zhang, Tianfei Xu, Xin Chen, Shuang Wang, Tianqi Niu, Niansheng Xu, Chuang Ma, Haojin Li, Buyi Yan, Zicheng Ding, Shengzhong Liu*, Feng Gao*, Kui Zhao*. Nature. 2026, 654, 660–667

2、 Carrier management through electrode and electron-selective layer engineering for 10.70% efficiency antimony selenosulfide solar cells. Jiabin Dong, Qianqian Gao, Li Wu, Junjie Yang, Huizhen Liu, Weihuang Wang, Rongfeng Tang, Jianyu Li, Zixiu Cao, Yue Liu, Han Xu, Pan Zhang, Rutao Meng, Jianpeng Li, Xuejun Xu, Zijun Zhang, Tianchi Li, Tao Chen, Shengzhong Liu* & Yi Zhang*. Nature Energy 2025, 10, 857–868

3、 Lattice Oxygen Redox Mechanisms in the Alkaline Oxygen Evolution Reaction. Xiangrong Ren，Yiyue Zhai，Na Yang*，Bolun Wang*，Shengzhong Liu*. Advanced Science. 2025,12 (8)

4、 Reducing Energy Loss of 2D Perovskite Single Crystal for Stable and Efficient X-Ray Detection by Quenching the Radioluminescence. Binxia Jia，Depeng Chu，Yingjie Hu，Zeqin Zhao，Jiacheng Pi，Yunxia Zhang*, Ziyang Feng,Peijun Wang，Lu Wang，Ningyi Yuan，Jianning Ding，Yucheng Liu*，Shengzhong Liu*. Advanced Materials. 2025, e03463

5、 Lattice Mismatch at the Heterojunction of Perovskite Solar Cells. Yong Wang, Dexu Zheng, Kai Wang, Qi Yang, Jin Qian,* Jiaju Zhou, Shengzhong Liu,* and Dong Yang*. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed.2024, 63, e202405878

6、 Interfacial molecular anchor for ambient all-bladed perovskite solar modules. Xuejie Zhu，Dongqi Yu，Xin Zhou， Nan Wang，Hong Liu，Zihui Liang，Congcong Wu，Kai Wang，Dayong Jin，Shengzhong Liu ，Dong Yang. Joule. 2025,9, 101919

7、 A flowing liquid phase induces the crystallization processes of cesium lead triiodide for 21.85%efficiency solar cells and low-energy loss. Fei Yang，Yuyao Ruan，Shuo Li，Xingpei Wei，Shuwan Zai，Fei Gao*，Shengzhong Liu*，Wangen Zhao*. Energy & Environmental Science. 2025,18(3) DOI: https://doi.org/10.1039/D4EE04051A

8、 Surface chemistry-induced reconstruction of inorganic perovskites for efficient and stable inverted solar cells, Tianfei Xu，Shengzhong Liu*，Sang II Seok*，Wanchun Xiang*. Joule 2025,9101826.

9、 Comprehensive crystallization retardation of inorganic perovskites for high performance inverted solar cells, Energy & Environmental Science, Zezhang Wang，Tianfei Xu，Nan Li，Zhen Chang，Jing Shan，Yong Wang，Minfang Wu，Fengwei Xiao，Shengzhong Liu*，Wanchun Xiang* Energy & Environmental Science 2025, 18, 4130.

10、 The structure of C60 Molecule: X-ray crystal structure determination of a twin at 110K. Shengzhong Liu, Ying-Jie Lu, Manfred M. Kappes, James A. Ibers. Science 1991, 254:408-410.