个人简介：
南昌大学光伏研究院副教授，香江****计划获得者，南昌大学材料物理与化学专业博士，攻读博士期间在美国华盛顿大学访问学习。现于南昌大学光伏研究院从事新型太阳能电池材料及其器件的应用研究。
至今已发表SCI论文50余篇，被引用总次数900余次。其中以第一作者或通讯作者的身份在国际权威刊物Advanced Materials, Advanced Energy Materials, Advanced Functional Materials, Nano Energy等上发表 SCI一区论文20余篇，其中影响因子大于10的有6篇，发表论文被多次被评为热点论文。目前担任多个国际著名SCI杂志审稿人。主持国家自然科学基金一项、省自然科学基金青年重点项目和省青年科学基金各一项。获江西省高等学校科技成果一等奖和江西省优秀博士论文等奖励。

教育经历（按时间倒排序）：
2009/9 - 2014/6，南昌大学，材料物理与化学，博士，导师：陈义旺；
2012/9 - 2014/3，美国华盛顿大学，材料物理与化学，联合培养博士，导师：Alex K.Y. Jen；
2005/9 - 2009/7，南昌大学，化学，学士，导师：陈义旺；
主要研究兴趣：
有机/无极纳米光电材料的制备；
有机无机杂化材料光电性能的研究；
新型薄膜太阳能电池制备及器件结构设计；
联系方式：yaokai@ncu.edu.cn； www.ipv.ncu.edu.cn

近三年代表性文章：
[1] Adharsh Rajagopal, Kai Yao, and Alex K.-Y Jen. Towards perovskite solar cell commercialization: A perspective and research roadmap based on interfacial engineering. Advanced Materials, 2018, in press. (通讯作者)
[2] Kai Yao, Fan Li, Qiqi He, Xiaofeng Wang, Yihua Jiang, Haitao Huang, Alex K.-Y. Jen, A Copper-Doped Nickel Oxide Bilayer for Enhancing Efficiency and Stability of Hysteresis-Free Inverted Mesoporous Perovskite Solar Cells. Nano Energy 2017, 40, 155–162. (通讯作者)
[3] Qiqi He, Kai Yao, Xiaofeng Wang, Xuefeng Xia, Shifeng Leng, Fan Li, Room-Temperature and Solution-Processable Cu-Doped Nickel Oxide Nanoparticles for Efficient Hole-Transport Layers of Flexible Large-Area Perovskite Solar Cells, ACS applied materials & interfaces, 2017, 9, 41887–41897. (通讯作者)
[4] Kai Yao, Xiaofeng Wang, Yun-Xiang Xu, Fan Li, and Lang Zhou, Multilayered Perovskite Materials Based on Polymeric-Ammonium Cations for Stable Large-Area Solar Cell, Chemistry of Materials, 2016, 28, 3131?3138. (通讯作者)
[5] Kai Yao, Huifeng Jiao, Yun-Xiang Xu, Qiqi He, Fan Li, Xiaofeng Wang, Nano-bio hybrids of plasmonic metals/photosynthetic proteins for broad-band light absorption enhancement in organic solar cells, Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 4, 13400-13406. (通讯作者)
[6] Hui-Feng Jiao, Xiaofeng Wang, Kai Yao, Peng Chen, Zhenrong Jia, Zhiping Peng, Fan Li, Self-assembly of all-conjugated block copolymer nanoparticles with tailoring size and fluorescence for live cell imaging, Journal of Materials Chemistry B, 2016,4, 7882-7887. (通讯作者)
[7] Kai Yao, Xu-Kai Xin, Chu-Chen Chueh, Kung-Shih Chen, Yun-Xiang Xu, and Alex K.-Y. Jen, Enhancement of light harvesting in high efficient ITO-Free and flexible polymer solar cell via combination of microcavity and plasmonic effects, Advanced Functional Materials, 2015, 25, 567–574.
[8] Kai Yao, Xiaofeng Wang, Yun-xiang Xu and Fan Li, A general fabrication procedure for efficient and stable planar perovskite solar cells: Morphological and interfacial control by in-situ-generated layered perovskite, Nano Energy, 2015, 18, 165–175. (通讯作者)
[9] Kai Yao, Yun-Xiang Xu, Fan Li, Xiaofeng Wang, and Lang Zhou, A Simple and Universal Method to Increase Light Absorption in Ternary Blend Polymer Solar Cells Based on Ladder-Type Polymers, Advanced Optical Materials, 2015, 3, 321–327. (通讯作者)
[10] Dana B. Sulas+, Kai Yao+, Jeremy J. Intemann, Spencer T Williams, Chang-Zhi Li, Chu-Chen Chueh, Jeffrey J Richards, Yuyin Xi, Lilo D. Pozzo, Cody W. Schlenker, Alex K. -Y. Jen, and David S Ginger, Open-Circuit Voltage Losses in Selenium-Substituted Organic Photovoltaic Devices from Increased Density of Charge-Transfer States, Chemistry of Materials, 2015, 27, 6583–6591. (共同一作，被美国化学学会选为“ACS Editors' Choice”)