Nan Gan

3.0k total citations · 3 hit papers
25 papers, 2.6k citations indexed

About

Nan Gan is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Spectroscopy. According to data from OpenAlex, Nan Gan has authored 25 papers receiving a total of 2.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 22 papers in Materials Chemistry, 18 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 8 papers in Spectroscopy. Recurrent topics in Nan Gan's work include Luminescence and Fluorescent Materials (21 papers), Organic Light-Emitting Diodes Research (16 papers) and Molecular Sensors and Ion Detection (8 papers). Nan Gan is often cited by papers focused on Luminescence and Fluorescent Materials (21 papers), Organic Light-Emitting Diodes Research (16 papers) and Molecular Sensors and Ion Detection (8 papers). Nan Gan collaborates with scholars based in China, Singapore and United States. Nan Gan's co-authors include Zhongfu An, Wei Huang, Huifang Shi, Huili Ma, Suzhi Cai, Long Gu, Chaoqun Ma, Zhichao Cheng, Qi Wu and Kun Ling and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Advanced Materials.

In The Last Decade

Nan Gan

24 papers receiving 2.6k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Simultaneously Enhancing Efficiency and Lifetime of Ultralong Organic Phosphorescence Materials by Molecular Self-Assembly

2018 496 citations Lifang Bian, Huifang Shi et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
Recent Advances in Polymer‐Based Metal‐Free Room‐Temperature Phosphorescent Materials

2018 454 citations Nan Gan, Huifang Shi et al. profile →
Organic phosphorescent scintillation from copolymers by X-ray irradiation

2022 132 citations Nan Gan, Xin Zou et al. Nature Communications profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Nan Gan China	19	2.4k	1.5k	814	395	260	25	2.6k
Mingxing Gu China	19	2.6k 1.1×	1.7k 1.1×	914 1.1×	421 1.1×	279 1.1×	21	2.8k
Wenpeng Ye China	19	2.2k 0.9×	1.3k 0.8×	708 0.9×	454 1.1×	272 1.0×	30	2.3k
Lifang Bian China	16	1.9k 0.8×	1.2k 0.8×	655 0.8×	470 1.2×	210 0.8×	37	2.1k
Yunxiang Lei China	31	3.1k 1.3×	1.9k 1.2×	1.3k 1.6×	673 1.7×	422 1.6×	80	3.4k
Kun Ling China	13	2.1k 0.9×	1.3k 0.8×	727 0.9×	324 0.8×	229 0.9×	20	2.2k
Yingxiao Mu China	24	3.0k 1.2×	2.0k 1.3×	1.2k 1.4×	790 2.0×	319 1.2×	51	3.2k
Zichun Ren China	9	1.7k 0.7×	1.1k 0.7×	704 0.9×	329 0.8×	243 0.9×	11	1.8k
Tanya N. Singh-Rachford United States	9	2.2k 0.9×	1.3k 0.9×	219 0.3×	231 0.6×	448 1.7×	10	2.4k
Tonghan Zhao China	21	2.0k 0.8×	571 0.4×	339 0.4×	1.6k 3.9×	128 0.5×	47	2.6k
Zizhao Huang China	17	1.2k 0.5×	539 0.4×	407 0.5×	519 1.3×	136 0.5×	24	1.4k

Countries citing papers authored by Nan Gan

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Nan Gan

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Nan Gan. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Nan Gan 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 Nan Gan. Nan Gan is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

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Zhang, Boxue, Junsheng Luo, Qing Li, et al.. (2025). A cross-linked molecular contact for stable operation of perovskite/silicon tandem solar cells. Science. 390(6775). 837–842.

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Zou, Xin, Nan Gan, Zhen‐Yi Lin, et al.. (2025). Short-range charge transfer for efficient ultra-narrowband deep blue afterglow. Nature Communications. 16(1). 6412–6412. 7 indexed citations

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Zhang, Jiaqi, Nan Gan, Fangzhou Liu, et al.. (2025). Revealing Performance-Limiting Buried Interfaces in Layered Dion–Jacobson Lead–Iodide Perovskites. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 147(34). 30873–30884. 1 indexed citations

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Zou, Xin, Nan Gan, Yaru Gao, Long Gu, & Wei Huang. (2024). Organic Circularly Polarized Room‐Temperature Phosphorescence: Strategies, Applications and Challenges. Angewandte Chemie. 137(3). 2 indexed citations

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Gan, Nan, Xin Zou, Anqi Lv, et al.. (2024). Stretchable phosphorescent polymers by multiphase engineering. Nature Communications. 15(1). 4113–4113. 64 indexed citations

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Wang, He, Huili Ma, Nan Gan, et al.. (2024). Abnormal thermally-stimulated dynamic organic phosphorescence. Nature Communications. 15(1). 2134–2134. 54 indexed citations

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Zou, Xin, Nan Gan, Yaru Gao, Long Gu, & Wei Huang. (2024). Organic Circularly Polarized Room‐Temperature Phosphorescence: Strategies, Applications and Challenges. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 64(3). e202417906–e202417906. 20 indexed citations

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Dong, Mengyang, Anqi Lv, Xin Zou, et al.. (2024). Polymorphism‐Dependent Organic Room Temperature Phosphorescent Scintillation for X‐Ray Imaging. Advanced Materials. 36(18). e2310663–e2310663. 41 indexed citations

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Gan, Nan, Xin Zou, Yushan Zhang, Long Gu, & Zhongfu An. (2023). Recent advances in multicolor organic room-temperature phosphorescence. Applied Physics Reviews. 10(2). 52 indexed citations

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Zou, Xin, Nan Gan, Mengyang Dong, et al.. (2023). Narrowband Organic Afterglow via Phosphorescence Förster Resonance Energy Transfer for Multifunctional Applications. Advanced Materials. 35(36). e2210489–e2210489. 82 indexed citations

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Gan, Nan, Xin Zou, Mengyang Dong, et al.. (2022). Organic phosphorescent scintillation from copolymers by X-ray irradiation. Nature Communications. 13(1). 3995–3995. 132 indexed citations breakdown →

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Gan, Nan, et al.. (2022). Correcting and Measuring Ionospheric Scintillation Amplitude Stripes in L-Band SAR Images. IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters. 19. 1–5. 8 indexed citations

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Cai, Suzhi, Huili Ma, Huifang Shi, et al.. (2019). Enabling long-lived organic room temperature phosphorescence in polymers by subunit interlocking. Nature Communications. 10(1). 4247–4247. 255 indexed citations

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Wang, Xuan, Huili Ma, Mingxing Gu, et al.. (2019). Multicolor Ultralong Organic Phosphorescence through Alkyl Engineering for 4D Coding Applications. Chemistry of Materials. 31(15). 5584–5591. 156 indexed citations

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Li, Mengping, Kun Ling, Huifang Shi, et al.. (2019). Prolonging Ultralong Organic Phosphorescence Lifetime to 2.5 s through Confining Rotation in Molecular Rotor. Advanced Optical Materials. 7(10). 70 indexed citations

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Lv, Anqi, Wenpeng Ye, Xueyan Jiang, et al.. (2019). Room-Temperature Phosphorescence from Metal-Free Organic Materials in Solution: Origin and Molecular Design. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. 10(5). 1037–1042. 43 indexed citations

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Bian, Lifang, Huifang Shi, Xuan Wang, et al.. (2018). Simultaneously Enhancing Efficiency and Lifetime of Ultralong Organic Phosphorescence Materials by Molecular Self-Assembly. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 140(34). 10734–10739. 496 indexed citations breakdown →

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Wang, Xuan, Nan Gan, Mingxing Gu, et al.. (2018). Subtle structure tailoring of metal-free triazine luminogens for highly efficient ultralong organic phosphorescence. Chinese Chemical Letters. 30(11). 1935–1938. 13 indexed citations

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Sun, Chen, Xueqin Ran, Zhichao Cheng, et al.. (2018). Twisted Molecular Structure on Tuning Ultralong Organic Phosphorescence. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. 9(2). 335–339. 82 indexed citations

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Cai, Suzhi, Huifang Shi, Zaiyong Zhang, et al.. (2018). Hydrogen‐Bonded Organic Aromatic Frameworks for Ultralong Phosphorescence by Intralayer π–π Interactions. Angewandte Chemie. 130(15). 4069–4073. 66 indexed citations

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