Guangliu Ran

3.7k total citations · 6 hit papers
83 papers, 2.7k citations indexed

About

Guangliu Ran is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Polymers and Plastics and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Guangliu Ran has authored 83 papers receiving a total of 2.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 66 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 50 papers in Polymers and Plastics and 17 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Guangliu Ran's work include Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics (61 papers), Perovskite Materials and Applications (50 papers) and Conducting polymers and applications (50 papers). Guangliu Ran is often cited by papers focused on Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics (61 papers), Perovskite Materials and Applications (50 papers) and Conducting polymers and applications (50 papers). Guangliu Ran collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Bangladesh. Guangliu Ran's co-authors include Wenkai Zhang, Zhishan Bo, Kerui Liu, Xiaozhang Zhu, Feng Liu, Yuanyuan Jiang, Yahui Liu, Hao Lu, Wenkai Zhang and Renjie Xu and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Advanced Materials and Angewandte Chemie International Edition.

In The Last Decade

Guangliu Ran

80 papers receiving 2.6k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Non-fullerene acceptor with asymmetric structure and phenyl-substituted alkyl side chain for 20.2% efficiency organic solar cells

2024 503 citations Yuanyuan Jiang, Renjie Xu et al. profile →
19.7% efficiency binary organic solar cells achieved by selective core fluorination of nonfullerene electron acceptors

2024 212 citations Kerui Liu, Yuanyuan Jiang et al. profile →
Organic Solar Cells with Over 19% Efficiency Enabled by a 2D‐Conjugated Non‐Fullerene Acceptor Featuring Favorable Electronic and Aggregation Structures

2023 164 citations Kerui Liu, Feng Liu et al. Advanced Materials profile →
High‐Pressure Fabrication of Binary Organic Solar Cells with High Molecular Weight D18 Yields Record 19.65 % Efficiency

2023 133 citations Hao Lu, Wenlong Liu et al. Angewandte Chemie International Edition profile →
Designing A–D–A Type Fused‐Ring Electron Acceptors with a Bulky 3D Substituent at the Central Donor Core to Minimize Non‐Radiative Losses and Enhance Organic Solar Cell Efficiency

2024 111 citations Hao Lu, Dawei Li et al. Angewandte Chemie International Edition profile →
20.6% Efficiency Organic Solar Cells Enabled by Incorporating a Lower Bandgap Guest Nonfullerene Acceptor Without Open‐Circuit Voltage Loss

2025 50 citations Yuanyuan Jiang, Kerui Liu et al. Advanced Materials profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Guangliu Ran China	26	2.3k	1.8k	384	251	158	83	2.7k
Dongfeng Dang China	25	1.0k 0.4×	799 0.4×	753 2.0×	314 1.3×	68 0.4×	59	1.7k
Qinqin Shi China	25	1.1k 0.5×	855 0.5×	536 1.4×	393 1.6×	56 0.4×	42	1.7k
Olivia P. Lee United States	12	1.9k 0.8×	1.6k 0.9×	465 1.2×	141 0.6×	109 0.7×	16	2.2k
Bregt Verreet Belgium	16	1.6k 0.7×	1.1k 0.6×	557 1.5×	160 0.6×	103 0.7×	19	1.9k
Kyohei Nakano Japan	19	1.2k 0.5×	830 0.5×	399 1.0×	98 0.4×	60 0.4×	63	1.5k
Fuwen Zhao China	27	5.6k 2.4×	4.7k 2.6×	574 1.5×	292 1.2×	273 1.7×	53	5.8k
Ana Charas Portugal	25	1.0k 0.4×	676 0.4×	709 1.8×	316 1.3×	96 0.6×	86	1.7k
A. Lux United Kingdom	8	1.2k 0.5×	905 0.5×	431 1.1×	132 0.5×	101 0.6×	11	1.5k
А. В. Ванников Russia	22	1.1k 0.5×	1.0k 0.6×	435 1.1×	331 1.3×	238 1.5×	170	1.7k
Shengjie Xu China	25	2.8k 1.2×	2.3k 1.2×	325 0.8×	136 0.5×	145 0.9×	65	3.1k

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Zhuang, Bo, Guangliu Ran, Wenkai Zhang, & Feng Gai. (2025). Mechanism and dynamics of photoswitchable flavoprotein charge-transfer complexes. Chemical Science. 16(14). 6079–6088. 1 indexed citations

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Cui, Xinyue, Guanshui Xie, Guangliu Ran, et al.. (2025). Organic film evolution and recombination losses in highly efficient perovskite/organic tandem solar cells. Nature Communications. 16(1). 8986–8986. 1 indexed citations

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Ran, Guangliu, et al.. (2024). Endgroup engineering of the third component for high-efficiency ternary organic solar cells. Chemical Engineering Journal. 500. 156906–156906. 5 indexed citations

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Xu, Renjie, Yuanyuan Jiang, Feng Liu, et al.. (2024). High Open‐Circuit Voltage Organic Solar Cells with 19.2% Efficiency Enabled by Synergistic Side‐Chain Engineering. Advanced Materials. 36(26). e2312101–e2312101. 43 indexed citations

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Xu, Tongle, Guangliu Ran, Zhenghui Luo, et al.. (2024). Achieving 19.5% Efficiency via Modulating Electronic Properties of Peripheral Aryl‐Substituted Small‐Molecule Acceptors. Small. 20(47). e2405476–e2405476. 1 indexed citations

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Jiang, Xiaolin, Xiaodong Wang, Yifan Wang, et al.. (2024). Achieving 19.78%‐Efficiency Organic Solar Cells by 2D/1A Ternary Blend Strategy with Reduced Non‐Radiative Energy Loss. Advanced Functional Materials. 34(44). 30 indexed citations

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Zhang, Cai’e, Rui Zheng, Hao Huang, et al.. (2024). High‐Performance Ternary Organic Solar Cells with Enhanced Luminescence Efficiency and Miscibility Enabled by Two Compatible Acceptors. Advanced Energy Materials. 14(12). 25 indexed citations

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Luo, Zhenghui, Ruijie Ma, Guangliu Ran, et al.. (2024). Approaching 20% Efficiency in Ortho‐Xylene Processed Organic Solar Cells by a Benzo[a]phenazine‐Core‐Based 3D Network Acceptor with Large Electronic Coupling and Long Exciton Diffusion Length. Advanced Materials. 36(41). e2407517–e2407517. 68 indexed citations

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Cui, Xinyue, Guangliu Ran, Hao Lu, et al.. (2024). Enabling Low Nonradiative Recombination Losses in Organic Solar Cells by Efficient Exciton Dissociation. Advanced Functional Materials. 34(28). 18 indexed citations

10.

Cheng, Yetai, Hongxiang Li, Yanan Chen, et al.. (2024). Enabling High‐Efficiency and Stable Binary Organic Solar Cells by Solid Additive‐Assisted Morphology Modulation. Advanced Functional Materials. 35(7). 9 indexed citations

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Yue, Jianing, et al.. (2023). Complete elimination of pump scattering in transient absorption spectroscopy using phase and amplitude modulation. Chemical Physics. 568. 111846–111846. 1 indexed citations

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Lu, Hao, Wenlong Liu, Guangliu Ran, et al.. (2023). High‐Efficiency Binary and Ternary Organic Solar Cells Based on Novel Nonfused‐Ring Electron Acceptors. Advanced Materials. 36(7). 50 indexed citations

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Zhang, Cai’e, Zhanxiang Chen, Wei Chen, et al.. (2023). Precise Methylation Yields Acceptor with Hydrogen‐Bonding Network for High‐Efficiency and Thermally Stable Polymer Solar Cells. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 63(6). e202315625–e202315625. 49 indexed citations

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Zhang, Lin, Hengwei Qiu, Ran Shi, et al.. (2023). Charge Transport Dynamics of Quasi-Type II Perovskite Janus Nanocrystals in High-Performance Photoconductors. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. 14(7). 1823–1831. 18 indexed citations

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Xu, Tongle, Jie Lv, Daming Zheng, et al.. (2023). Regulating the reorganization energy and crystal packing of small-molecule donors enables the high performance of binary all-small-molecule organic solar cells with a slow film growth rate. Energy & Environmental Science. 16(12). 5933–5943. 13 indexed citations

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Zhang, Cai’e, Zhanxiang Chen, Wei Chen, et al.. (2023). Precise Methylation Yields Acceptor with Hydrogen‐Bonding Network for High‐Efficiency and Thermally Stable Polymer Solar Cells. Angewandte Chemie. 136(6). 1 indexed citations

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Huang, Hao, Guangliu Ran, Cai’e Zhang, et al.. (2023). Improving the Performance of Layer-by-Layer Organic Solar Cells by n-Doping of the Acceptor Layer. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 15(39). 46138–46147. 4 indexed citations

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Lu, Hao, Dawei Li, Guangliu Ran, et al.. (2022). Designing High-Performance Wide Bandgap Polymer Donors by the Synergistic Effect of Introducing Carboxylate and Fluoro Substituents. ACS Energy Letters. 7(11). 3927–3935. 40 indexed citations

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Wang, Xiaodong, Hao Lu, Andong Zhang, et al.. (2022). Molecular-Shape-Controlled Nonfused Ring Electron Acceptors for High-Performance Organic Solar Cells with Tunable Phase Morphology. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 14(25). 28807–28815. 24 indexed citations

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Wang, Xiaodong, Rui Zeng, Hao Lu, et al.. (2022). A Simple Nonfused Ring Electron Acceptor with a Power Conversion Efficiency Over 16%^†. Chinese Journal of Chemistry. 41(6). 665–671. 39 indexed citations

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