叶刚，博士，湖北大学材料科学与工程学院特任副研究员，硕士生导师，2020年入选国家级博士后项目“国(境)外交流项目引进项目”，2022年获湖北省海外高层次人才“百人计划”创新人才。2014-2019年在荷兰格罗宁根大学攻读博士学位，导师为Ryan C. Chiechi教授和Jan. C. Hummelen教授。之后在深圳大学物理与光电工程学院、荷兰格罗宁根大学、中科院长春应用化学研究所做博士后、访问学者、特别研究助理。主持完成省部级项目三项，参与国家自然科学基金多个项目的研究。主要研究方向为高分子功能材料的设计合成及其在有机热电材料、有机电化学晶体管和分离提纯半导体态碳纳米管的应用研究。在国内外重要学术刊物上发表相关SCI学术论文40余篇，第一作者或通讯作者（含共同）文章23篇，另外撰写Wiley出版的书籍1章和并申请中国发明专利1项。
代表性论文：
1. Yanxi Zhang*, Eveline R. W. van Doremaele, Gang Ye*, Tim Stevens, Jun Song, Ryan C. Chiechi, Yoeri van de Burgt* Adaptive biosensing and neuromorphic classification based on an ambipolar organic mixed ionic-electronic conductor. Advanced Materials 2022, 2200393.
2. Jian Liu, Gang Ye*, Hinderikus G.O. Potgieser, Marten Koopmans, Mohamad Insan Nugraha, Diego Rosasvillava, Hengda Sun, Chen Yao, Jingjin Dong, Xinkai Qiu, Giuseppe Portale, Simone Fabiano, Derya Baran, Thomas D. Anthopoulos, Ryan C. Chiechi*, and L. Jan Anton Koster*. Amphipathic Side Chain of Conjugated Polymer Optimizes Dopant Location for Efficient N-type Organic Thermoelectrics. Advanced Materials, 2021, 33, 2006694.
3. Yanxi Zhang, Gang Ye*, Tom P. A. van der Pol, Jingjin Dong, Eveline R. W. van Doremaele, Imke Krauhausen, Yuru Liu, Paschalis Gkoupidenis, Giuseppe Portale, Jun Song*, Ryan C. Chiechi, Yoeri van de Burgt*. High-performance Organic Electrochemical Transistors and Neuromorphic Devices Comprising Naphthalenediimide-Dialkoxybithiazole Copolymers Bearing Glycol Ether Pendant Groups. Advanced Functional Materials 2022, 2201593.
4. Tao Pan, Xinnian Jiang, Eveline R.W.van Doremaele, JunyuLi, Tom P. A. vander Pol, Chenshuai Yan, Gang Ye,* JianLiu, WenjingHong, RyanC.Chiechi, YoerivandeBurgt,* and Yanxi Zhang*. Over 60h of Stable Water-Operation for N-Type Organic Electrochemical Transistors with Fast Responseand Ambipolarity. Advanced Science 2024, 2400872.
5. Gang Ye†, Yazhuo Kuang†, Mingyu Ma, Xiantao Peng and Jian Liu.* Fluorinated Alkyl Chains Terminated Polar Glycol Ether Side Chain for N-type Organic Thermoelectrics with Enhanced Performance and Air Stability. Advanced Science 2025, 202500571.
6. Hangyang Li, Gang Ye,* Yazhuo Kuang, Mingyu Ma, Shuyan Shao,* Jian Liu.* Side-chain engineering of conjugated molecules for n-type organic thermoelectrics. Materials Horizons 2025, 12, 5075.
7. Yazhuo Kuang, Sander Heester, Shuyan Shao, Gang Ye,* Tangqin Yao, Zhiyuan Xie,* L. JanAnton Koster and Jian Liu.* Adjusting Molecular Weight Optimizes Electronic Transport of Extrinsically N-type Doped Conjugated Polymer Entailing Glycolated Side Chains. Journal of Materials Chemistry A 2024, 12, 4866.
8. Xuwen Yang, Gang Ye,* Karolina Tran, Yuru Liu, Jiamin Cao, Jingjin Dong, Giuseppe Portale, Jian Liu, Ping Zhang, Maria Antonietta Loi, Ryan C. Chiechi,* and L. Jan Anton Koster.* Impact of Oligo(EthyleneGlycol) SideChains on the Thermoelectric Properties of Naphthalenediimide−Dialkoxybithiazole Polymers. ACS Materials Lett. 2024, 6, 1207.
9. Gang Ye, Wytse Talsma, Yuru Liu, Sietske Dijkstra, Karolina Tran, Jiamin Cao, Jianhua Chen, Junle Qu Jun Song∗, Maria Antonietta Loi∗, and Ryan C. Chiechi∗. Polar Side Chains Enhance Selection of Semiconducting Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes by Polymer Wrapping. Macromolecules 2022, 55, 1386.
10. Wytse Talsma[+], Gang Ye[+]∗, Yuru Liu, Herman Duim, Sietske Dijkstra, Karolina Tran, Junle Qu, Jun Song∗, Ryan C. Chiechi∗, and Maria Antonietta Loi∗. Efficient Selectively Sorting of Semiconducting Carbon Nanotubes Using Ultranarrow Bandgap Polymers. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 2022, 14, 38056.
11. Gang Ye, Jian Liu*, Xinkai Qiu, Sebastian Stäter, Li Qiu, Richard Hildner and L. Jan Anton Koster* and Ryan C. Chiechi* Controlling n-Type Molecular Doping via Regiochemistry and Polarity of Pendant Groups on Low Bandgap Donor-Acceptor Copolymers. Macromolecules 2021, 54, 3886.
