Professor Chen Qi (right) from the School of Advanced Interdisciplinary Sciences at Beijing Institute of Technology

Meituan Green Tech Fund has recently announced the winners of the 4th (2024) Green Tech Award. Professor Chen Qi from the School of Advanced Interdisciplinary Sciences at Beijing Institute of Technology (BIT) is one of the winners.

The 2024 Meituan Green Tech Fund focuses on four main topics: green and low-carbon materials, carbon capture and resource utilization, new energy and energy storage, and coordinated control of carbon reduction and pollution reduction.

It provides funding for young scientific researchers who play a key role in the fields of materials science, chemistry, chemical engineering, environmental science, energy science, and other related disciplines.

The award is evaluated and granted once a year, with no more than 10 recipients each time.

Professor Chen is mainly engaged in the development and application research of organic-inorganic hybrid and composite materials. He has published over 100 SCI papers in top international journals such as Science, with a total citation count exceeding 35,000. He has been listed multiple times in the Clarivate Analytics global highly cited researchers list.

Leading the energy optoelectronics team, Professor Chen focuses on the industrial application of perovskite solar cells, a frontier direction in next-generation photovoltaic technology. Addressing the crucial challenge of reproducibility faced by perovskite solar cells, the team has identified key scientific issues related to inhibiting microstructural heterogeneity in thin films and conducted systematic research, resulting in a series of original innovative achievements.

Over the years, the team has made breakthroughs in developing controllable thin film growth technologies, revealing the evolution laws of thin film heterogeneity, and preparing wide-bandgap thin films and stacked devices, among other key issues. These achievements have laid the foundation in terms of fundamental theory and core key technologies for the controllable preparation of stable and efficient perovskite solar cells.

Currently, the team is collaborating extensively with enterprises with focus on materials, equipment and quality control technologies, actively exploring the application of perovskite photovoltaic devices in aerospace, building integration, and other specialized scenarios.