Project: Carbon-dioxide photoreduction

  1. Yen-Yu Chen and Yu-Ying Lai*, Synthesis of 3,3’-(Ethane-1,2-diylidene)bis(indolin-2-one) Promoted by Thermally-activated Electron Transfer and Photoreduction of CO2 to CH4 and CO, ChemSusChem, 2023, 16, e202300604.

  2. Wei-Chun Lai, Shih-Hao Wang, Han-Sheng Sun, Che-Wei Liao, Tao-Yuan Liu, Hao-Ting Lee, Hau-Ren Yang, Leeyih Wang*, Yu-Ying Lai*, Stable and Exclusive Formation of CO from CO2 Photoreduction with H2O Facilitated by Linear Fluorene and Naphthalene Diimide-Based Conjugated Polymers, ACS Applied Polymer Materials, 2022, 4, 521-526.

Project: Microstructure regulation and Organic electronics

  1. Pei-Yu Chen, Ling-Ning Ko, Yen-Yu Chen, Chii-Shen Yang*, and Yu-Ying Lai*, Integrating Conjugated Polymers with Bacteriorhodopsin to Realize Quasi Dual‐Gate Organic Field‐Effect Transistors, Advanced Electronic Materials, 2023, 2300278.

  2. Hau-Ren Yang, Yen-Yu Chen, Han-Sheng Sun, Shih-Huang Tung, Shou-Ling Huang, Po-Chia Huang, Jey-Jau Lee, and Yu-Ying Lai*, Strengthening the Intrachain Interconnection of Polymers by the Naphthalene Diimide–Pyrene Complementary Interactions, Macromolecules, 2021, 54, 7282-7290. (Selected as Supplementary Cover)

  3. Hau-Ren Yang and Yu-Ying Lai*, Regulate the Electron Mobility and Threshold Voltage of P(NDI2OD–T2)-based Organic Field-Effect Transistors by the Compatibility Principle, Advanced Electronic Materials, 2021, 7, 2000939.

  4. Hau-Ren Yang, Chun-Wei Pai, Han-Sheng Sun, Cuo Wu, Yu-Ying Lai*, Shu-Chih Haw, Jey-Jau Lee, and Jin-Ming Chen, Establishment of the Interconnectivity among P(NDI2OD-T2)s in Organic Field-Effect Transistors by Non-Conjugated Crystalline Polymers, Macromolecules, 2020, 53, 10349-10356. (Selected as Supplementary Cover)

  5. Hau-Ren Yang, Yu-Ying Lai*, Jey-Jau Lee, Further Examination of Interconnection in Conjugated Polymers for Organic Field-effect Transistors, Advanced Electronic Materials, 2019, 5, 1900213.

Project: Light-driven hydrogen evolution

  1. Han-Sheng Sun, Tien-Liang Tsai, Cheng-Hao Chang, Yen-Yu Chen, Hau-Ren Yang, Jeffrey C. S. Wu*, and Yu-Ying Lai*, Effect of the Length of Bromoalkyl Chains on Light-Driven Hydrogen Evolution Facilitated by Fluorene-based Polymers, Sustainable Energy & Fuels, 2022, 6, 4470-4476.

  2. Tien-Liang Tsai, Yen-Yu Chen, Cheng-Hao Chang, and Yu-Ying Lai*, Further Investigation of Conjugated Length and Dispersity on Light-driven Hydrogen Evolution Facilitated by Conjugated Polymers, Journal of the Chinese Chemical Society, 2023, 70, 1176-1186 that is dedicated to Professor Yu Wang on the occasion of her 80th birthday.

Project: Direct arylation

  1. Yu-Jen Lin, Han-Sheng Sun, Hau-Ren Yang, Yu-Ying Lai*, Kai-Yuan Hou, and Yi-Hung Liu, Aqueous Palladium-Catalyzed Direct-Arylation Polymerization of 2-Bromothiophene derivatives, Macromolecular Rapid Communications, 2020, 41, 2000021.

  2. Yu-Ying Lai*, Hau-Ren Yang, Hao-Ting Lee, Tien-Liang Tsai, and Han-Sheng Sun, In vitro and In silico Studies on the Base Effect in Palladium-Catalyzed Direct Arylation, Asian Journal of Organic Chemistry, 2020, 9, 296-302.

Project: Molecular modelling

  1. Yu-Ying Lai*, Vi-Hsiang Huang, Hao-Ting Lee, Hau-Ren Yang, Stacking Principles on π- and Lamellar- stacking for Organic Semiconductors Evaluated by Energy Decomposition Analysis, ACS Omega, 2018, 3, 18656–18662.

Project: Polymer degradation

It is on-going.