Professor & Global STEM Scholar
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Research Interests: Functional materials, Smart windows, Flexible devices, Soft electronics, Nanodevice fabrications.

Resume of Career

Yi Long received her Ph.D. degrees in Materials Science from Cambridge University, United Kingdom under full sponsorship of Overseas Research Scholarship (ORS), United Kingdom, Cambridge Trust, and Graduate Scholarship of Selwyn College. She is currently a full Professor at CUHK and Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry. Her current research focuses on developing smart functional materials, to give devices with a greater range of properties than is usually obtained. Her major research includes smart surface for energy saving, flexible devices, soft electronics and nanodevice fabrications. Before joining CUHK, she worked at Chartered Semiconductor (now GlobalFoundries Inc.) and Nanyang Technological University. Her early career in NTU started with successful Lab-to-Fab technology transfer for Seagate Technology.

Current Research Interests

Functional materials, Smart windows, Flexible devices, Soft electronics, Nanodevice fabrications.

Highlights of Recent Research Achievements

• Global STEM Scholar (傑出創科學人) under the Government's Global STEM Professorship Scheme, 2023
• Winner for the Falling Walls Science Breakthroughs of the Year 2022 in Engineering and Technology. https://falling-walls.com/people/filters/2022+breakthrough-day+engineering-and-technology+winner
• Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, 2022
• TOP3 of the Green Awards in the "Energy" category of the annual GREEN AWARDS in Berlin. 2022 https://greentechfestival.com/london/#top3
• Teacher of the Year, 2022, School of Materials Sciences and Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
• Research activity highlighted in Nature. Nature, Vol 591, 18 March 2021, page S31.

External Service in Recent 3 Years

• Scientific Editor and Editorial Board Member, Materials Horizons. since 2022
• Advisory Board Member, Next Energy, since 2022
• Advisory Board Member, The Innovation Materials, since 2023
• Lead guest editor to organize a special issue for Materials Today Energy : Energy Conservation, Generation and Storage in Sustainable Buildings, 2021
• Editorial board, Nanomaterials (2019-2022)

Selected Publications for the Past 3 Years

1. Long, Y., Gao, Y.F. (ed). (2021). Thermochromic smart windows: an option based on Vanadium dioxide, Jenny Stanford Publishing. ISBN 9789814877060，May 28, 2021.
2. Ke, Y.; Li Y.; Wu L.; Wang S., Yang R., Yin J., Tan G., Long Y.*, On-Demand Solar and Thermal Radiation Management Based on Switchable Interwoven Surfaces, ACS Energy Letters,2022, 7 (5), 1758-1763,Invited Paper, Front Cover Reported by MIT Technology Review
3. Wang S., Jiang T., Meng Y., Yang R.G.,* Tan G.*, , Long Y*. Scalable thermochromic smart windows with passive radiative cooling regulation, Science 2021, 374(6574), 1501-1504.
4. Zhou Y., Fan F., Liu Y., Zhao S., Xu Q.*, Wang S.*, Luo D.*, Long Y.*, Unconventional Smart Windows: Materials, Structures and Designs. Nano Energy 2021, 90, 106613.
5. Meng Y., Li X., Wang S., Lau C.K., Hu H., Ke Y., Tan G.*, Yang J.*, Long Y*., Flexible smart photovoltaic foil for energy generation and conservation in buildings. Nano Energy 2021, 91, 106632.
6. Wang S., Zhou Y., Jiang T., Yang R.*, Tan G.*, Long Y*., Thermochromic smart windows with highly regulated radiative cooling and solar transmission. Nano Energy 2021, 89, 106440.
7. Ke Y., Zhang B., Wang T., Zhong Y., Vu T.D., Wang S., Liu Y., Magdassi S., Ye X., Zhao D., Xiong Q., Sun Z.*, Long Y.*Manipulating Atomic Defects in Plasmonic Vanadium Dioxide for Superior Solar and Thermal Management. Materials Horizons 2021, 8(6), 1700-1710. Back Cover
8. Li X., Meng Y., Liu R., Yang Z., Zeng Y., Yi Y., Sha WEI*, Long Y.*, Yang J.*, High-Efficiency and Durable Inverted Perovskite Solar Cells with Thermally-Induced Phase-Change Electron Extraction Layer. Advanced Energy Materials 2021, 2102844.
9. Hu H., Wang S., Feng X., Pauly M.*, Decher G.*, Long Y.*, In-plane aligned assemblies of 1D-nanoobjects: recent approaches and applications. Chemical Society Reviews 2020, 49(2), 509-553.
10. Zhou Y., Wang S., Peng J., Tan Y., Li C., Boey F.Y.C., Long Y.*, Liquid Thermo-Responsive Smart Window Derived from Hydrogel. Joule 2020, 4(11), 2458-2474.
11. Ke Y., Yin Y., Zhang Q., Tan Y., Hu P., Wang S., Tang Y., Zhou Y., Wen X., Wu S., White T.J., Yin J., Peng J., Xiong Q., Zhao D., Long Y.*, Adaptive Thermochromic Windows from Active Plasmonic Elastomers. Joule 2019, 3 (3), 858-871.
12. Ke Y., Chen J., Lin G., Wang S., Zhou Y., Yin J.*, Lee P.S.*, Long Y. *, Smart Windows: Electro-, Thermo-, Mechano-, Photo-Chromics and Beyond. Advanced Energy Materials 2019, 9(39), 1902066 Invited Review, Front inside cover
13. Hu H., Wang S., Wang S., Liu G., Cao T., Long Y.*, Aligned Silver Nanowires Enabled Highly Stretchable and Transparent Electrodes with Unusual Conductive Property. Advanced Functional Materials 2019, 29 (33), 1902922.
14. Ke Y., Zhang Q., Wang T., Wang S., Li N., Lin G., Liu X., Dai Z., Yan J., Magdassi S., Zhao D., Long Y.*, Cephalopodinspired versatile design based on plasmonic VO2 nanoparticle for energy-efficient mechano-thermochromic windows. Nano Energy 2020, 73, 104785.
15. Zhou Y., Wan C., Yang Y., Yang H., Wang S., Dai Z., Ji K., Jiang H., Chen X.*, Long Y.*, Highly Stretchable, Elastic, and Ionic Conductive Hydrogel for Artificial Soft Electronics. Advanced Functional Materials 2019, 29 (1), 1806220.
16. Ke Y., Ye S., Hu P., Jiang H., Wang S., Yang B., Zhang J.*, Long Y.*, Unpacking the toolbox of two-dimensional nanostructures derived from nanosphere templates. Materials Horizons 2019, 6(7), 1380-1408.