Peijun Guo

Assistant Professor of Chemical & Environmental Engineering
Room / Office: A177
Office Address:
810 West Campus Drive
West Haven, CT 06516
Mailing Address:
P.O. Box 208286
New Haven, CT 06520
Phone: (203) 432-4200
Fax: (203) 432-4387
Email: peijun.guo@yale.edu
Degrees:
  • Ph.D., Northwestern University
  • M.Sc., Northwestern University
  • B.Sc., Tsinghua University

Interests:

  • Growth and synthesis of nanostructured materials with enhanced light-matter interactions for applications in energy conversion, optoelectronics and information science
  • Ultrafast optical spectroscopy to temporally and spatially resolve the flow of energy in functional materials and heterostructures
  • Optical manipulation and control of excited and nonequilibrium states in emerging materials

Selected Awards & Honors:

  • ACS PRF Doctoral New Investigator (2022)
  • AFOSR Young Investigator Program (YIP) Award (2022)
  • Enrico Fermi Named Fellowship of Argonne National Laboratory (2017-2019)
  • Graduate Student Gold Award, MRS Fall Meeting (2016)
  • SPIE Optics and Photonics Education Scholarship (2016)

Selected Publications:

  • S. Li, D. Chen, B. Li, H. Yan, B. J. Lawrie, B. Choi, D. Rhee, Y. Li, H. Zhao, L. Chen, A. Pattammattel, S. Sarker, D. Jariwala, P. Guo, "Spontaneous formation of single-crystalline spherulites in a chiral 2D hybrid perovskite", Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2025, 147, 3631-3640
  • Y. Li, S. Li, D. Chen, C. A. Kocoj, A. Yang, B. T. Diroll, P. Guo, "Mid-infrared photodetection with 2D metal halide perovskites at ambient temperature", Science Advances, 2024, 10, eadk2778
  • S. Li, B. Li, B. Xie, Y. Ma, S. Mohanraj, P. Guo, "All-optical probing of phase transition dynamics in 2D lead halide perovskites ", ACS Photonics, 2024, 11, 4507-4514
  • D. Chen, S. Li, B. Li, P. Guo, "Thermal transport in metal halide perovskites and other third-generation photovoltaic materials", Applied Physics Reviews, 2024, 11, 041311
  • S. Li, X. Xu, C. A. Kocoj, C. Zhou, Y. Li, D. Chen, J. A. Bennett, S. Liu, L. N. Quan, S. Sarker, M. Liu, D. Y. Qiu, P. Guo, "Large exchange-driven intrinsic circular dichroism of a chiral two-dimensional hybrid perovskite", Nature Communications, 2024, 15, 2573
  • B. Li, J. Xu, C. A. Kocoj, S. Li, Y. Li, D. Chen, S. Zhang, L. Dou, P. Guo, "Dual-hyperspectral pump-probe microscopy with single-nanosecond time resolution", Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2024, 146, 2187-2195
  • D. Chen, M. Fortin-Deschenes, Y. Lou, H. Lee, J. Xu, A. Sheikh, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, Y. Xia, F. Xia, P. Guo, "Direct spectroscopic observation of cross-plane heat transfer in a van der Waals heterostructure", The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 2023, 127, 9121-9128
  • S. Li, Z. Dai, C. A. Kocoj, E. I. Altman, N. P. Padture, P. Guo, "Photothermally induced, reversible phase transition in methylammonium lead iodide", Matter, 2023, 6, 460-474
  • S. Li, X. Li, C. A. Kocoj, X. Ji, S. Yuan, C. C. Stoumpos, F. Xia, L. Mao, M. G. Kanatzidis, P. Guo, "Ultrafast excitonic response in two-dimensional hybrid perovskites driven by intense midinfrared pulses", Physical Review Letters, 2022, 129, 177401
  • S. Li, Z. Dai, L. Li, N. P. Padture, P. Guo, "Time-resolved vibrational-pump visible-probe spectroscopy for thermal conductivity measurement of metal-halide perovskites", Review of Scientific Instruments, 2022, 93, 053003