Liyang Yu

10.1k total citations · 7 hit papers
171 papers, 7.8k citations indexed

About

Liyang Yu is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Polymers and Plastics and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Liyang Yu has authored 171 papers receiving a total of 7.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 126 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 96 papers in Polymers and Plastics and 27 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Liyang Yu's work include Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics (110 papers), Conducting polymers and applications (95 papers) and Perovskite Materials and Applications (59 papers). Liyang Yu is often cited by papers focused on Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics (110 papers), Conducting polymers and applications (95 papers) and Perovskite Materials and Applications (59 papers). Liyang Yu collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and United Kingdom. Liyang Yu's co-authors include Xiaopeng Xu, Qiang Peng, Ruipeng Li, Christian Müller, Huifeng Meng, Renee Kroon, David Kiefer, Chentong Liao, Neng Wang and Qiang Peng and has published in prestigious journals such as Chemical Society Reviews, Advanced Materials and Angewandte Chemie International Edition.

In The Last Decade

Liyang Yu

162 papers receiving 7.7k 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.

Thermoelectric plastics: from design to synthesis, processing and structure–property relationships

2016 504 citations Renee Kroon, Liyang Yu et al. profile →
Realizing 19.05% Efficiency Polymer Solar Cells by Progressively Improving Charge Extraction and Suppressing Charge Recombination

2022 504 citations Xiaopeng Xu, Huifeng Meng et al. Advanced Materials profile →
19.10% Efficiency and 80.5% Fill Factor Layer‐by‐Layer Organic Solar Cells Realized by 4‐Bis(2‐Thienyl)Pyrrole‐2,5‐Dione Based Polymer Additives for Inducing Vertical Segregation Morphology

2022 176 citations Mingwei Zhou, Chentong Liao et al. Advanced Materials profile →
Benzo[d]thiazole Based Wide Bandgap Donor Polymers Enable 19.54% Efficiency Organic Solar Cells Along with Desirable Batch‐to‐Batch Reproducibility and General Applicability

2023 166 citations Chentong Liao, Xiaopeng Xu et al. Advanced Materials profile →
Sequential Deposition of Multicomponent Bulk Heterojunctions Increases Efficiency of Organic Solar Cells

2023 162 citations Xiaopeng Xu, Huifeng Meng et al. Advanced Materials profile →
Y‐Type Non‐Fullerene Acceptors with Outer Branched Side Chains and Inner Cyclohexane Side Chains for 19.36% Efficiency Polymer Solar Cells

2023 154 citations Min Deng, Xiaopeng Xu et al. Advanced Materials profile →
Dielectric constant engineering of nonfullerene acceptors enables a record fill factor of 83.58% and a high efficiency of 20.80% in organic solar cells

2025 26 citations Yinfeng Li, Chentong Liao et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Liyang Yu China	44	6.1k	4.8k	1.7k	1.3k	342	171	7.8k
Sungho Kim South Korea	48	7.3k 1.2×	1.4k 0.3×	1.9k 1.2×	1.6k 1.3×	132 0.4×	324	9.6k
Chenxi Li China	38	9.0k 1.5×	7.0k 1.4×	1.0k 0.6×	588 0.5×	136 0.4×	201	9.8k
Peng Lin China	36	7.3k 1.2×	1.1k 0.2×	1.4k 0.9×	813 0.6×	152 0.4×	186	9.2k
Gang Liu China	48	5.9k 1.0×	2.6k 0.5×	2.4k 1.4×	1.4k 1.1×	50 0.1×	198	8.2k
Jun Hu China	54	5.2k 0.9×	1.6k 0.3×	6.1k 3.7×	4.6k 3.7×	180 0.5×	371	11.1k
Sang‐Bum Kim South Korea	37	4.4k 0.7×	1.1k 0.2×	2.3k 1.4×	704 0.6×	417 1.2×	248	7.0k
Ioannis Kymissis United States	41	4.1k 0.7×	834 0.2×	1.9k 1.1×	1.7k 1.4×	251 0.7×	221	5.7k
Derek Ho Hong Kong	44	2.3k 0.4×	1.5k 0.3×	2.5k 1.5×	1.7k 1.3×	61 0.2×	179	6.6k
Wei Li China	49	8.1k 1.3×	2.9k 0.6×	5.6k 3.4×	993 0.8×	115 0.3×	350	10.0k
Dae Woo Kim South Korea	45	2.7k 0.4×	823 0.2×	3.0k 1.8×	2.1k 1.7×	117 0.3×	196	6.3k

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Wang, Junying, Min Deng, Yuwei Duan, et al.. (2025). Minimizing Energy Loss by Designing Multifunctional Solid Additives to Independent Regulation of Donor and Acceptor Layers for Efficient LBL Polymer Solar Cells. Advanced Science. 12(18). e2414712–e2414712. 7 indexed citations

Cai, Huimin, Qiliang Zhu, Tung-Ming Pan, et al.. (2025). Symmetry‐Breaking Strategy Yields Dopant‐Free Small Molecule Hole Transport Materials for Inorganic Perovskite Solar Cells with 20.58% Efficiency and Outstanding Stability. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 64(23). e202502478–e202502478. 1 indexed citations

Zhang, Jun, Ruijie Ma, Ruipeng Li, et al.. (2025). Fused-ring isomerism modulates molecular packing and device performance in non-halogenated organic solar cells. Nature Communications. 16(1). 11480–11480.

Liu, Siyang, Xiaowei Chen, Yinfeng Li, et al.. (2024). Chalcogen effect on the photovoltaic performance of nonfused-ring small molecular electron acceptors for efficient organic solar cells. Chemical Engineering Journal. 487. 150579–150579. 5 indexed citations

Zhou, Tao, Wenwen Jin, Yinfeng Li, et al.. (2024). Crossbreeding Effect of Chalcogenation and Iodination on Benzene Additives Enables Optimized Morphology and 19.68% Efficiency of Organic Solar Cells. Advanced Science. 11(23). e2401405–e2401405. 16 indexed citations

Xu, Huijin, et al.. (2024). A comprehensive review on direct air carbon capture (DAC) technology by adsorption: From fundamentals to applications. Energy Conversion and Management. 322. 119119–119119. 19 indexed citations

Deng, Min, Xiaopeng Xu, Wuke Qiu, et al.. (2024). Improving Miscibility of Polymer Donor and Polymer Acceptor by Reducing Chain Entanglement for Realizing 18.64 % Efficiency All Polymer Solar Cells. Angewandte Chemie. 136(35). 4 indexed citations

Deng, Min, Xiaopeng Xu, Yuwei Duan, et al.. (2023). Y‐Type Non‐Fullerene Acceptors with Outer Branched Side Chains and Inner Cyclohexane Side Chains for 19.36% Efficiency Polymer Solar Cells. Advanced Materials. 35(10). e2210760–e2210760. 154 indexed citations breakdown →

Meng, Huifeng, et al.. (2023). Nickel(II) Nitrate Hole‐Transporting Layers for Single‐Junction Bulk Heterojunction Organic Solar Cells with a Record 19.02 % Efficiency. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 62(21). e202301958–e202301958. 39 indexed citations

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Zhou, Mingwei, Chentong Liao, Yuwei Duan, et al.. (2022). 19.10% Efficiency and 80.5% Fill Factor Layer‐by‐Layer Organic Solar Cells Realized by 4‐Bis(2‐Thienyl)Pyrrole‐2,5‐Dione Based Polymer Additives for Inducing Vertical Segregation Morphology. Advanced Materials. 35(6). e2208279–e2208279. 176 indexed citations breakdown →

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Xu, Yun‐Xiang, Qing Ji, Nan Zhang, et al.. (2021). Synergistic Engineering of Substituents and Backbones on Donor Polymers: Toward Terpolymer Design of High-Performance Polymer Solar Cells. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 13(20). 23993–24004. 28 indexed citations

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Yu, Liyang, et al.. (2020). Rapid hull modeling methodology based on CAD and CATIA secondary development. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 1 indexed citations

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Yu, Liyang, Deping Qian, Ferry Anggoro Ardy Nugroho, et al.. (2019). Diffusion-Limited Crystallization: A Rationale for the Thermal Stability of Non-Fullerene Solar Cells. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 11(24). 21766–21774. 98 indexed citations

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Yu, Liyang, Kati Stranius, Sandeep Kumar Singh, et al.. (2019). A Record Chromophore Density in High‐Entropy Liquids of Two Low‐Melting Perylenes: A New Strategy for Liquid Chromophores. Advanced Science. 6(4). 1801650–1801650. 18 indexed citations

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Kim, Kyung Ho, Andrey Danilov, Domenico Montemurro, et al.. (2018). Uniform doping of graphene close to the Dirac point by polymer-assisted assembly of molecular dopants. Nature Communications. 9(1). 3956–3956. 55 indexed citations

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Xu, Zhuo, Jianbo Li, Yucheng Liu, et al.. (2018). Highly Efficient Ruddlesden–Popper Halide Perovskite PA₂MA₄Pb₅I₁₆ Solar Cells. ACS Energy Letters. 3(8). 1975–1982. 144 indexed citations

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Kroon, Renee, Armantas Melianas, Wenliu Zhuang, et al.. (2015). Comparison of selenophene and thienothiophene incorporation into pentacyclic lactam-based conjugated polymers for organic solar cells. Polymer Chemistry. 6(42). 7402–7409. 6 indexed citations

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Qi, Han, et al.. (2014). A Novel QKD Network Routing Algorithm Based on Optical-Path-Switching.. J. Inf. Hiding Multim. Signal Process.. 5. 13–19. 6 indexed citations

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Yu, Liyang, Neng Wang, Wei Zhang, & Chunlei Zheng. (2006). GROUP: A Grid-Clustering Routing Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks.. 1–5. 64 indexed citations

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Allen, Theodore T. & Liyang Yu. (2000). Low cost response surface methods for and from simulation optimization. Winter Simulation Conference. 1. 704–714. 9 indexed citations

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