Kuan Liu

9.4k total citations · 7 hit papers
136 papers, 7.4k citations indexed

About

Kuan Liu is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Polymers and Plastics and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Kuan Liu has authored 136 papers receiving a total of 7.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 89 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 63 papers in Polymers and Plastics and 24 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Kuan Liu's work include Conducting polymers and applications (63 papers), Perovskite Materials and Applications (57 papers) and Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics (52 papers). Kuan Liu is often cited by papers focused on Conducting polymers and applications (63 papers), Perovskite Materials and Applications (57 papers) and Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics (52 papers). Kuan Liu collaborates with scholars based in China, Hong Kong and United States. Kuan Liu's co-authors include Xiaowei Zhan, Xinhui Lu, Jiayu Wang, Tsz‐Ki Lau, Shuixing Dai, Gang Li, Tengfei Li, Lanchao Ma, Yu Song and Yin‐Jian Ye and has published in prestigious journals such as Chemical Reviews, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Advanced Materials.

In The Last Decade

Kuan Liu

130 papers receiving 7.4k 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.

Fused Nonacyclic Electron Acceptors for Efficient Polymer Solar Cells

2017 809 citations Tengfei Li, Kuan Liu et al. profile →
Triarylamine: Versatile Platform for Organic, Dye-Sensitized, and Perovskite Solar Cells

2016 475 citations Jiayu Wang, Kuan Liu et al. profile →
A Long‐Cycle‐Life Self‐Doped Polyaniline Cathode for Rechargeable Aqueous Zinc Batteries

2018 452 citations Kuan Liu et al. profile →
Fused Hexacyclic Nonfullerene Acceptor with Strong Near‐Infrared Absorption for Semitransparent Organic Solar Cells with 9.77% Efficiency

2017 392 citations Cenqi Yan, Jiayu Wang et al. Advanced Materials profile →
Additive-induced miscibility regulation and hierarchical morphology enable 17.5% binary organic solar cells

2021 232 citations Jie Lv, Hua Tang et al. Energy & Environmental Science profile →
Co-adsorbed self-assembled monolayer enables high-performance perovskite and organic solar cells

2024 119 citations Dongyang Li, Ruijie Ma et al. Nature Communications profile →
Achieving 19.4% organic solar cell via an in situ formation of p-i-n structure with built-in interpenetrating network

2024 95 citations Wanyuan Deng, Xinxin Xia et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Kuan Liu China	44	6.2k	4.2k	1.7k	471	448	136	7.4k
Yanan Wei China	40	3.3k 0.5×	2.2k 0.5×	1.5k 0.9×	497 1.1×	878 2.0×	213	5.5k
Fei Qin China	42	4.4k 0.7×	3.0k 0.7×	1.2k 0.7×	431 0.9×	871 1.9×	116	5.2k
Yawen Li China	41	4.1k 0.7×	1.6k 0.4×	2.8k 1.6×	464 1.0×	999 2.2×	218	6.9k
Yong Wang China	49	5.7k 0.9×	2.0k 0.5×	5.3k 3.1×	532 1.1×	406 0.9×	233	9.0k
Jingwen Zhang China	26	2.8k 0.5×	1.1k 0.3×	1.1k 0.6×	729 1.5×	637 1.4×	166	4.0k
Qunliang Song China	45	5.2k 0.8×	2.9k 0.7×	2.8k 1.6×	536 1.1×	905 2.0×	220	7.5k
Jinmin Wang China	38	2.7k 0.4×	2.5k 0.6×	2.0k 1.2×	738 1.6×	543 1.2×	146	5.1k
Pengcheng Li China	42	2.4k 0.4×	2.6k 0.6×	2.4k 1.4×	998 2.1×	2.1k 4.6×	163	5.8k
Ziyi Zhang China	32	3.3k 0.5×	873 0.2×	2.2k 1.3×	831 1.8×	1.1k 2.5×	175	5.6k
Xiaoming Yang China	36	1.6k 0.3×	2.2k 0.5×	1.4k 0.8×	1.1k 2.4×	2.1k 4.8×	149	5.2k

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Ottinger, Marco, Kuan Liu, Tobias Ullmann, et al.. (2025). Pond aquaculture dynamics in Asia: Satellite time series for analyzing the spatio-temporal development of coastal aquaculture. Aquaculture. 610. 742940–742940. 2 indexed citations

Lang, Yongwen, Ying Zhang, Kuan Liu, et al.. (2025). Kinetics Manipulation Enabled by Solubility Control Toward 19% Organic Solar Cells via Compatible Air Coating. Advanced Materials. 37(14). e2420096–e2420096. 6 indexed citations

Liang, Qiong, Kuan Liu, Han Yu, et al.. (2025). Highly stable perovskite solar cells with 0.30 voltage deficit enabled by a multi-functional asynchronous cross-linking. Nature Communications. 16(1). 190–190. 18 indexed citations

Kang, Seunghun, Haojie Liang, Min Wang, et al.. (2025). Solution-Processed High Work Function n-type V ₂ O _{5– x} for Inverted Perovskite Solar Cells with Enhanced Photovoltaic Performance and Reverse Bias Stability. ACS Applied Energy Materials. 8(21). 16192–16212.

Lang, Yongwen, Hanjian Lai, Yúang Fu, et al.. (2024). Balanced Miscibility and Crystallinity by 2D Acceptors Enabled Halogen‐Free Solvent‐Processed Organic Solar Cells to Achieve 19.28% Efficiency. Advanced Materials. 37(1). e2413270–e2413270. 17 indexed citations

Chandran, Hrisheekesh Thachoth, Ruijie Ma, Jipsa Chelora, et al.. (2024). High‐Detectivity All‐Polymer Photodiode Empowers Smart Vitality Surveillance and Computational Imaging Rivaling Silicon Diodes. Advanced Materials. 36(38). e2407271–e2407271. 22 indexed citations

Huang, Jiaming, Jiehao Fu, Bo Yuan, et al.. (2024). 19.5% Inverted organic photovoltaic with record long-lifetime via multifunctional interface engineering featuring radical scavenger. Nature Communications. 15(1). 10565–10565. 16 indexed citations

He, Jia, et al.. (2023). A Knowledge Graph-Based Approach to Recommending Low-Carbon Construction Schemes of Bridges. Buildings. 13(5). 1352–1352. 7 indexed citations

He, Bin, et al.. (2023). Manganese triggers persistent activation of the integrated stress response by inhibition of SIRT1 on deacetylation of GADD34. The Science of The Total Environment. 887. 164124–164124. 2 indexed citations

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Guo, Hongbo, Dan Liu, Kuan Liu, et al.. (2023). Drug repurposing screen identifies vidofludimus calcium and pyrazofurin as novel chemical entities for the development of hepatitis E interventions. Virologica Sinica. 39(1). 123–133. 5 indexed citations

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Hao, Xia, Ying Zhang, Kuan Liu, et al.. (2023). Oligomeric semiconductors enable high efficiency open air processed organic solar cells by modulating pre-aggregation and crystallization kinetics. Energy & Environmental Science. 16(12). 6078–6093. 44 indexed citations

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Lin, Jinlong, Jinping Cai, Liping Xiao, et al.. (2023). An angle correction method based on the influence of angle and travel speed on deposition in the air-assisted spray. Crop Protection. 175. 106444–106444. 2 indexed citations

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Liu, Kuan, et al.. (2022). Effects of Leaf Surface Roughness and Contact Angle on In Vivo Measurement of Droplet Retention. Agronomy. 12(9). 2228–2228. 23 indexed citations

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Chandran, Hrisheekesh Thachoth, Hua Tang, Taili Liu, et al.. (2022). Architecturally simple organic photodiodes with highly competitive figures of merit via a facile self-assembly strategy. Materials Horizons. 10(3). 918–927. 10 indexed citations

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Liang, Qiong, Kuan Liu, Mingzi Sun, et al.. (2022). Manipulating Crystallization Kinetics in High‐Performance Blade‐Coated Perovskite Solar Cells via Cosolvent‐Assisted Phase Transition. Advanced Materials. 34(16). e2200276–e2200276. 118 indexed citations

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Zhang, Ying, Kuan Liu, Jiaming Huang, et al.. (2021). Graded bulk-heterojunction enables 17% binary organic solar cells via nonhalogenated open air coating. Nature Communications. 12(1). 4815–4815. 206 indexed citations

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Lv, Jie, Hua Tang, Jiaming Huang, et al.. (2021). Additive-induced miscibility regulation and hierarchical morphology enable 17.5% binary organic solar cells. Energy & Environmental Science. 14(5). 3044–3052. 232 indexed citations breakdown →

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Huang, Xin, Xiaoya Dong, Jing Ma, et al.. (2021). Evaluation and Experiment of Flight Parameter Quality of the Plant Protection UAV Based on Laser Tracker. Agriculture. 11(7). 628–628. 26 indexed citations

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Wang, Jiacheng, Tengfei Li, Yiqun Xiao, et al.. (2019). Enhancing the J_SC of P3HT-Based OSCs via a Thiophene-Fused Aromatic Heterocycle as a “π-Bridge” for A−π–D−π–A-Type Acceptors. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 11(29). 26005–26016. 21 indexed citations

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Wang, Yudi, Shuhao Zhang, Jionghua Wu, et al.. (2017). Electropolymerization Porous Aromatic Framework Film As a Hole-Transport Layer for Inverted Perovskite Solar Cells with Superior Stability. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 9(50). 43688–43695. 21 indexed citations

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