Shuai Fu obtained his bachelor’s degree in Materials Science and Engineering from the Harbin Institute of Technology in 2017. He then joined the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, where he pursued his PhD in the Department of Molecular Spectroscopy under the supervision of Prof. Mischa Bonn and Dr. Hai I. Wang. He received his doctoral degree from the University of Amsterdam in 2023, focusing on ultrafast charge carrier dynamics in low-dimensional materials and their interfaces. Following his PhD, he joined Technische Universität Dresden as a postdoctoral researcher in the group of Prof. Xinliang Feng, working on the rational design of organic two-dimensional crystals and the investigation of their light-matter interactions. In 2026, he returned to the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research as a group leader in the Department of Molecular Spectroscopy.
Research interests
His group operates at the interface of chemistry and ultrafast spectroscopy, aiming to bridge the rational design of organic two-dimensional crystals with a fundamental understanding of their excited-state dynamics. By leveraging advanced and complementary ultrafast pump-probe techniques, the research seeks to actively control key physical processes—such as energy relaxation, charge transport, and many-body interactions—in organic two-dimensional crystals, particularly two-dimensional covalent organic frameworks and metal-organic frameworks. By integrating molecular-level design with mechanistic insight and structure–property relationships, the group strives to enable next-generation organic materials for energy conversion and information processing, contributing to a sustainable energy future.
Recent publications
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Prasoon, A.; Dacha, P.; Zhang, H.; Unsal, E.; Hambsch, M.; Croy, A.; Fu, S.; Nguyen, N. N.; Liu, K.; Qi, H.et al.; Chung, S.; Jeong, M.; Gao, L.; Kaiser, U.; Cho, K.; Wang, H. I.; Dong, R.; Cuniberti, G.; Bonn, M.; Mannsfeld, S. C. B.; Feng, X.: High-Performance Phototransistor Based on a 2D Polybenzimidazole Polymer. Advanced Materials 37 (33), 2505810 (2025)
Liu, J.; Fu, S.; Fu, Y.; Chen, Y.; Tadayon, K.; Hambsch, M.; Pohl, D.; Yang, Y.; Müller, A.; Zhao, F.et al.; Mannsfeld, S. C. B.; Gao, L.; Bonn, M.; Feng, X.; Dong, R.: Ammonia-Assisted Chemical Vapor Deposition Growth of Two-Dimensional Conjugated Coordination Polymer Thin Films. Journal of the American Chemical Society 147 (21), pp. 18190 - 18196 (2025)
Lu, Y.; Fu, Y.; Hu, Z.; Feng, S.; Torabi, M.; Gao, L.; Fu, S.; Wang, Z.; Huang, C.; Huang, X.et al.; Wang, M.; Israel, N.; Dmitrieva, E.; Wang, H. I.; Bonn, M.; Samorì, P.; Dong, R.; Coronado, E.; Feng, X.: Rational Construction of Layered Two-Dimensional Conjugated Metal–Organic Frameworks with Room-Temperature Quantum Coherence. Journal of the American Chemical Society 147 (10), pp. 8778 - 8784 (2025)
