Kai Chen

5.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
78 papers, 3.9k citations indexed

About

Kai Chen is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Polymers and Plastics and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Kai Chen has authored 78 papers receiving a total of 3.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 66 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 35 papers in Polymers and Plastics and 20 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Kai Chen's work include Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics (42 papers), Conducting polymers and applications (35 papers) and Perovskite Materials and Applications (30 papers). Kai Chen is often cited by papers focused on Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics (42 papers), Conducting polymers and applications (35 papers) and Perovskite Materials and Applications (30 papers). Kai Chen collaborates with scholars based in China, New Zealand and Hong Kong. Kai Chen's co-authors include Justin M. Hodgkiss, Alex J. Barker, Xiaowei Zhan, Sreelakshmi Chandrabose, Wei Ma, Tao Liu, Ruijie Ma, Chuluo Yang, He Yan and Jiadong Zhou 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

Kai Chen

74 papers receiving 3.8k citations

Hit Papers

Physical insights into non-fullerene organic photovoltaics 2024 2026 2025 2024 40 80 120
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.

  1. Physical insights into non-fullerene organic photovoltaics
    2024 121 citations Kai Chen, Justin M. Hodgkiss et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Kai Chen China 30 3.3k 2.3k 743 391 311 78 3.9k
Johannes Benduhn Germany 34 3.7k 1.1× 2.2k 1.0× 991 1.3× 362 0.9× 131 0.4× 75 4.1k
Donato Spoltore Germany 35 3.7k 1.1× 2.3k 1.0× 943 1.3× 369 0.9× 145 0.5× 61 4.1k
G. Juška Lithuania 36 4.3k 1.3× 2.7k 1.2× 1.1k 1.5× 537 1.4× 232 0.7× 126 4.6k
William J. Potscavage United States 31 4.1k 1.2× 1.6k 0.7× 1.9k 2.6× 264 0.7× 252 0.8× 48 4.5k
Philip C. Y. Chow Hong Kong 32 6.1k 1.9× 4.6k 2.0× 1.1k 1.5× 353 0.9× 420 1.4× 66 6.7k
Loren G. Kaake Canada 17 1.9k 0.6× 1.0k 0.5× 585 0.8× 510 1.3× 124 0.4× 40 2.4k
Alexander Hinderhofer Germany 31 4.5k 1.4× 1.8k 0.8× 2.6k 3.5× 575 1.5× 224 0.7× 120 5.0k
Ebinazar B. Namdas Australia 41 4.3k 1.3× 1.8k 0.8× 2.2k 3.0× 372 1.0× 288 0.9× 133 5.1k
Guillaume Schweicher Belgium 25 2.1k 0.6× 949 0.4× 1.1k 1.5× 300 0.8× 277 0.9× 59 2.8k
Musubu Ichikawa Japan 27 2.1k 0.6× 821 0.4× 1.1k 1.4× 277 0.7× 231 0.7× 114 2.7k

Countries citing papers authored by Kai Chen

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Fields of papers citing papers by Kai Chen

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Kai Chen

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Kai Chen. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Kai Chen based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Kai Chen. Kai Chen is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Li, Shaojian, Kai Chen, Desheng Li, et al.. (2025). Perylene Diimide-Based A-D-A-Type Organic Additives for Efficient and Stable Inverted Perovskite Solar Cells. Chemical Engineering Journal. 513. 163008–163008. 1 indexed citations
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Yang, Linji, Zhou Yang, Libin Zhang, et al.. (2025). Efficient Ternary Organic Photovoltaic Films for Fast Exciton Separation to Generate Free Radicals for Wastewater Treatment. Exploration. 5(3). 270001–270001. 7 indexed citations
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Feng, Haiyan, Zhengyu Liu, Xubing Wei, et al.. (2025). Elucidating tribo-corrosion behaviors of Si/N co-incorporated DLC coatings in SBF environment and its dependence on the N/Si ratio. Diamond and Related Materials. 155. 112338–112338. 1 indexed citations
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Chen, Kai, Zengjie Wang, Chong Qiao, et al.. (2025). Large-scale molecular dynamics simulations of negative Poisson’s ratio in hydrogenated biphenylene. Results in Physics. 73. 108251–108251.
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Chen, Kai, Lang Zhou, Ruijie Ma, et al.. (2025). A systematic investigation on pyridine derived solid additives inducing fibrillar morphology for highly efficient organic solar cells with over 20 % efficiency. Materials Science and Engineering R Reports. 164. 100977–100977. 6 indexed citations
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Wang, Hao, Ruijie Ma, Tao Jia, et al.. (2024). Cyano-functionalized pyrazine: an electron-deficient unit as a solid additive enables binary organic solar cells with 19.67% efficiency. Energy & Environmental Science. 17(10). 3365–3374. 54 indexed citations
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Li, Zhixiong, Zhenjie Chen, Wenhui Wang, et al.. (2023). Improved Performance of HfxZnyO‐Based RRAM and its Switching Characteristics down to 4 K Temperature. Advanced Electronic Materials. 9(3). 10 indexed citations
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Fan, Qunping, Ruijie Ma, Zhaozhao Bi, et al.. (2023). 19.28% Efficiency and Stable Polymer Solar Cells Enabled by Introducing an NIR‐Absorbing Guest Acceptor. Advanced Functional Materials. 33(8). 100 indexed citations
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Wei, Yu‐Chen, Justin M. Hodgkiss, Liang‐Yan Hsu, et al.. (2023). Berichtigung: Excited‐State THz Vibrations in Aggregates of PtII Complexes Contribute to the Enhancement of Near‐Infrared Emission Efficiencies. Angewandte Chemie. 135(36). 2 indexed citations
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Li, Xiangzhou, et al.. (2023). Radical scavenging activity of three Scirpusins: A kinetic and mechanistic study. Journal of Molecular Liquids. 389. 122789–122789. 2 indexed citations
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Wang, Wenhui, Longyang Lin, Feichi Zhou, et al.. (2022). Contact Resistance Reduction of Low Temperature Atomic Layer Deposition ZnO Thin Film Transistor Using Ar Plasma Surface Treatment. IEEE Electron Device Letters. 43(6). 890–893. 21 indexed citations
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Bacha, Aziz-Ur-Rahim, Iqra Nabi, Wenhui Wang, et al.. (2022). All Solution-Processed Inorganic, Multilevel Memristors Utilizing Liquid Metals Electrodes Suitable for Analog Computing. ACS Omega. 7(45). 40911–40919. 8 indexed citations
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Sneyd, Alexander J., Tomoya Fukui, David Paleček, et al.. (2021). Efficient energy transport in an organic semiconductor mediated by transient exciton delocalization. Science Advances. 7(32). 110 indexed citations
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Ma, Ruijie, Tao Liu, Zhenghui Luo, et al.. (2020). Adding a Third Component with Reduced Miscibility and Higher LUMO Level Enables Efficient Ternary Organic Solar Cells. ACS Energy Letters. 5(8). 2711–2720. 206 indexed citations
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Chen, Kai, Ruijie Ma, Tao Liu, et al.. (2020). Fluorinated pyrazine-based D–A conjugated polymers for efficient non-fullerene polymer solar cells. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 8(15). 7083–7089. 18 indexed citations
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Ma, Ruijie, Yuzhong Chen, Tao Liu, et al.. (2019). Improving the performance of near infrared binary polymer solar cells by adding a second non-fullerene intermediate band-gap acceptor. Journal of Materials Chemistry C. 8(3). 909–915. 48 indexed citations
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