Ke Gao

9.7k total citations · 6 hit papers
126 papers, 8.4k citations indexed

About

Ke Gao is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Polymers and Plastics and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Ke Gao has authored 126 papers receiving a total of 8.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 100 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 84 papers in Polymers and Plastics and 23 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Ke Gao's work include Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics (92 papers), Conducting polymers and applications (83 papers) and Perovskite Materials and Applications (62 papers). Ke Gao is often cited by papers focused on Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics (92 papers), Conducting polymers and applications (83 papers) and Perovskite Materials and Applications (62 papers). Ke Gao collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Hong Kong. Ke Gao's co-authors include Feng Liu, Alex K.‐Y. Jen, Yuanyuan Kan, Xiaobin Peng, Yong Cao, Xueliang Shi, Lijian Zuo, Thomas P. Russell, Francis Lin and Liangang Xiao 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

Ke Gao

125 papers receiving 8.4k citations

Hit Papers

Solution-processed organic tandem solar cells with power ... 2015 2026 2018 2022 2016 2015 2018 2020 2022 100 200 300 400 500
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. Solution-processed organic tandem solar cells with power conversion efficiencies >12%
    2016 503 citations Ke Gao, Feng Liu et al. profile →
  2. Deep Absorbing Porphyrin Small Molecule for High-Performance Organic Solar Cells with Very Low Energy Losses
    2015 423 citations Ke Gao, Yong Cao et al. profile →
  3. Dithienopicenocarbazole-Based Acceptors for Efficient Organic Solar Cells with Optoelectronic Response Over 1000 nm and an Extremely Low Energy Loss
    2018 380 citations Ke Gao, Feng Liu et al. profile →
  4. Graphdiyne Derivative as Multifunctional Solid Additive in Binary Organic Solar Cells with 17.3% Efficiency and High Reproductivity
    2020 372 citations Yuanyuan Kan, Ke Gao et al. Advanced Materials profile →
  5. Achieving high efficiency and well-kept ductility in ternary all-polymer organic photovoltaic blends thanks to two well miscible donors
    2022 198 citations Ruijie Ma, Kangkang Zhou et al. profile →
  6. Rational control of sequential morphology evolution and vertical distribution toward 17.18% efficiency all-small-molecule organic solar cells
    2022 174 citations Yanna Sun, Li Nian 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
Ke Gao China 48 7.4k 6.0k 1.7k 693 386 126 8.4k
Shirong Lu China 44 8.4k 1.1× 5.3k 0.9× 3.2k 1.9× 564 0.8× 436 1.1× 140 9.2k
Nan Zheng China 47 5.2k 0.7× 3.8k 0.6× 2.3k 1.3× 548 0.8× 306 0.8× 165 6.5k
Ye Xu China 43 9.7k 1.3× 7.8k 1.3× 1.3k 0.8× 847 1.2× 264 0.7× 97 10.5k
Yong Cui China 55 16.7k 2.3× 13.3k 2.2× 2.3k 1.3× 1.1k 1.6× 496 1.3× 142 17.8k
Song Chen China 46 6.6k 0.9× 3.5k 0.6× 3.1k 1.8× 692 1.0× 372 1.0× 197 7.9k
Wonho Lee South Korea 32 3.5k 0.5× 2.9k 0.5× 657 0.4× 621 0.9× 183 0.5× 94 4.2k
Shrayesh N. Patel United States 34 3.4k 0.5× 2.6k 0.4× 1.5k 0.9× 705 1.0× 182 0.5× 89 4.6k
Aung Ko Ko Kyaw China 43 7.0k 1.0× 5.5k 0.9× 2.2k 1.3× 1.3k 1.8× 370 1.0× 163 8.4k
Dong Hwan Wang South Korea 38 6.0k 0.8× 4.4k 0.7× 2.2k 1.3× 967 1.4× 892 2.3× 188 7.3k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Zhang, Xu, Huanhuan Gao, Yuanyuan Kan, et al.. (2024). End‐Extended Conjugation Strategy to Reduce the Efficiency‐Stability‐Mechanical Robustness Gap in Binary All‐Polymer Solar Cells. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 64(3). e202415583–e202415583. 13 indexed citations
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Gao, Huanhuan, Yanna Sun, Yuanyuan Kan, et al.. (2024). Enhancing efficiency and stability of organic solar cells through a simplified four-step synthesis of fully non-fused ring electron acceptor. Journal of Energy Chemistry. 93. 601–608. 7 indexed citations
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Xu, Ke, et al.. (2024). Highly Stretchable and Self-Adhesive Wearable Biosensor Based on Nanozyme-Catalyzed Conductive Hydrogels. ACS Applied Polymer Materials. 6(4). 2188–2200. 22 indexed citations
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Kan, Yuanyuan, Yanna Sun, Yi Ren, et al.. (2024). Amino‐Functionalized Graphdiyne Derivative as a Cathode Interface Layer with High Thickness Tolerance for Highly Efficient Organic Solar Cells. Advanced Materials. 36(16). e2312635–e2312635. 63 indexed citations
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Zhang, Xu, Huanhuan Gao, Yuanyuan Kan, et al.. (2024). End‐Extended Conjugation Strategy to Reduce the Efficiency‐Stability‐Mechanical Robustness Gap in Binary All‐Polymer Solar Cells. Angewandte Chemie. 137(3). 1 indexed citations
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Liu, Xianglei, Hangbin Zheng, Chao Song, et al.. (2023). Hierarchically doping calcium carbonate pellets for directly solar-driven high-temperature thermochemical energy storage. Solar Energy. 251. 197–207. 19 indexed citations
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Wang, Qian, Xu Zhang, Huajun Xu, et al.. (2023). Silane or Siloxane‐Side‐Chain Engineering of Photovoltaic Materials for Organic Solar Cells†. Chinese Journal of Chemistry. 41(24). 3703–3713. 8 indexed citations
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Xu, Yixuan, Qian Wang, Xu Zhang, et al.. (2023). Recent Progress in All‐Solution‐Processed Organic Solar Cells. Chinese Journal of Chemistry. 42(2). 190–198. 11 indexed citations
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Zhang, Yingyue, et al.. (2023). A record-breaking high efficiency facilitated by hierarchical morphology in all polymer solar cells. Journal of Energy Chemistry. 87. 460–461. 4 indexed citations
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Zhang, Xu, Jiawei Qiao, Jifa Yu, et al.. (2023). A Bithiazole‐Substituted Donor for High‐Efficiency Thick Ternary Organic Solar Cells via Regulation of Crystallinity and Miscibility. Advanced Energy Materials. 13(23). 59 indexed citations
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Qin, Ying, et al.. (2023). Structural Fusion Yields Guest Acceptors that Enable Ternary Organic Solar Cells with 18.77 % Efficiency. Angewandte Chemie. 135(11). 3 indexed citations
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Xu, Huajun, Yanna Sun, Yuanyuan Kan, & Ke Gao. (2022). Recent Progress in Design of Organic Electro‐optic Materials with Ultrahigh Electro‐optic Activities†. Chinese Journal of Chemistry. 40(24). 3001–3012. 12 indexed citations
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Liu, Xianglei, Hangbin Zheng, Chao Song, et al.. (2022). Synergy of Li2CO3 promoters and Al-Mn-Fe stabilizers in CaCO3 pellets enables efficient direct solar-driven thermochemical energy storage. Materials Today Energy. 30. 101174–101174. 12 indexed citations
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Liu, Xianglei, Meng Chen, Qiao Xu, et al.. (2022). Bamboo derived SiC ceramics-phase change composites for efficient, rapid, and compact solar thermal energy storage. Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells. 240. 111726–111726. 61 indexed citations
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Wang, Zaiyu, Ke Gao, Yuanyuan Kan, et al.. (2021). The coupling and competition of crystallization and phase separation, correlating thermodynamics and kinetics in OPV morphology and performances. Nature Communications. 12(1). 332–332. 197 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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Nian, Li, Yuanyuan Kan, Haitao Wang, et al.. (2018). Ternary non-fullerene polymer solar cells with 13.51% efficiency and a record-high fill factor of 78.13%. Energy & Environmental Science. 11(12). 3392–3399. 144 indexed citations
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Huang, Jun, Yumin Tang, Ke Gao, et al.. (2016). Head-to-Head Linkage Containing Dialkoxybithiophene-Based Polymeric Semiconductors for Polymer Solar Cells with Large Open-Circuit Voltages. Macromolecules. 50(1). 137–150. 37 indexed citations
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Chen, Jin-Xiang, Lianjie Zhang, Xiaofang Jiang, et al.. (2016). Using o‐Chlorobenzaldehyde as a Fast Removable Solvent Additive during Spin‐Coating PTB7‐Based Active Layers: High Efficiency Thick‐Film Polymer Solar Cells. Advanced Energy Materials. 7(3). 52 indexed citations

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