Welcome to the Yao Group

We are an organic nano/bioelectronic research group in the College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering at Hunan University. Our research is interdisciplinary, combining chemistry, physics, materials science, and device engineering. We are interested in understanding and nanofabrication of innovative organic vertical devices. This versatile technology could provide exciting opportunities for developing next-generation electronic devices, enabling high flexibility, conformability, and accuracy in optical, electronic, and electrophysiological measurements that would be impossible to achieve using current techniques. Please click research to learn more.
● Organic/inorganic heterojunctions: production, tuning of their properties, and fabrication of devices.
● Multiscale tailoring of smart supramolecular fiber: development of large-area flexible and conformable organic circuits.
● High-performance organic electrochemical devices for electrophysiological monitoring, optoelectronics, sensing, data storage, etc.

09 September 2025

Yi He, Rutong Yan, Yanzhi Yang, and Yunhao Huang join our group as PhD students and Master students. Welcome, Yi, Rutong, Yanzhi, and Yunhao!


13-14 May 2025

Prof. Paolo Samorì from ISIS, University of Strasbourg, France, visiting our group and giving us lectures.


03 September 2024

Wanyu Liang, Qihui Feng, and Jianbing Zeng join our group as PhD and Master students. Welcome, Wanyu, Qihui, and Jianbing!

Hao Liu, Yingzhi Li, Kun Yang, Lei Guo, Zebing Zeng, Yifan Yao*. "Revealing key surface contaminants via stack-flipping strategy: investigating rinsing protocols for clean graphene transfer and enhanced electrical performance", J. Mater. Chem. C, 2025, 13, 19606-19614.

Hao Liu, Yifan Yao*, Paolo Samorì*, “Taming Multiscale Structural Complexity in Porous Skeletons: From Open Framework Materials to Micro/Nanoscaffold Architectures”, Small Methods, 2023, 7, 2300468.