Peijun Guo

Research

• 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

Education

Ph.D., Northwestern University
M.Sc., Northwestern University
B.Sc., Tsinghua University

Selected Awards and 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