Pei Cheng

11.5k total citations · 4 hit papers
146 papers, 9.9k citations indexed

About

Pei Cheng is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Polymers and Plastics and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Pei Cheng has authored 146 papers receiving a total of 9.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 125 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 101 papers in Polymers and Plastics and 23 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Pei Cheng's work include Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics (114 papers), Conducting polymers and applications (99 papers) and Perovskite Materials and Applications (54 papers). Pei Cheng is often cited by papers focused on Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics (114 papers), Conducting polymers and applications (99 papers) and Perovskite Materials and Applications (54 papers). Pei Cheng collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Hong Kong. Pei Cheng's co-authors include Xiaowei Zhan, Yang Yang, Gang Li, Yongfang Li, Cenqi Yan, Jiayu Wang, Huitao Bai, Rui Wang, Yuze Lin and Wenchao Huang and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Chemical Society Reviews and Advanced Materials.

In The Last Decade

Pei Cheng

140 papers receiving 9.8k 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.

Next-generation organic photovoltaics based on non-fullerene acceptors

2018 1.7k citations Pei Cheng, Gang Li et al. profile →
Stability of organic solar cells: challenges and strategies

2016 894 citations Pei Cheng, Xiaowei Zhan Chemical Society Reviews profile →
Enabling low voltage losses and high photocurrent in fullerene-free organic photovoltaics

2019 441 citations Jun Yuan, Pei Cheng et al. profile →
Efficient all-small-molecule organic solar cells processed with non-halogen solvent

2024 75 citations Top Archie Dela Peña, Cenqi Yan et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Pei Cheng China	46	9.1k	7.4k	1.1k	693	682	146	9.9k
Ke Gao China	48	7.4k 0.8×	6.0k 0.8×	1.7k 1.5×	693 1.0×	359 0.5×	126	8.4k
Maojie Zhang China	69	16.4k 1.8×	14.5k 1.9×	1.2k 1.1×	730 1.1×	913 1.3×	246	17.1k
Chang‐Qi Ma China	47	6.9k 0.8×	4.6k 0.6×	2.4k 2.2×	1.1k 1.5×	990 1.5×	216	8.5k
Ruijie Ma China	55	8.5k 0.9×	7.1k 1.0×	817 0.8×	613 0.9×	332 0.5×	187	9.0k
Jegadesan Subbiah Australia	37	5.6k 0.6×	4.1k 0.6×	1.7k 1.6×	537 0.8×	395 0.6×	97	6.3k
Yongxi Li China	37	4.8k 0.5×	3.9k 0.5×	1.2k 1.1×	629 0.9×	343 0.5×	96	6.0k
Wang Ni China	28	5.4k 0.6×	4.3k 0.6×	1.2k 1.1×	350 0.5×	352 0.5×	72	6.0k
Ziyi Ge China	57	11.8k 1.3×	8.3k 1.1×	3.9k 3.6×	1.3k 1.9×	582 0.9×	342	13.2k
Guichuan Zhang China	24	7.8k 0.9×	6.5k 0.9×	638 0.6×	403 0.6×	365 0.5×	46	8.1k

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Hu, Lin, Jianru Wang, Fang Wang, et al.. (2025). Bay‐Area Fluorobenzene‐Substituted Perylene Diimide Cathode Interlayer Enables Organic Solar Cells Exceeding 20% Efficiency. Advanced Functional Materials. 36(13). 1 indexed citations

Fu, Jiehao, Hongxiang Li, Heng Liu, et al.. (2025). Two-step crystallization modulated through acenaphthene enabling 21% binary organic solar cells and 83.2% fill factor. Nature Energy. 10(10). 1251–1261. 2 indexed citations

Yu, Hailin, et al.. (2025). Vitamin C modified cathode interlayer for efficient opaque and semitransparent organic photovoltaics. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 13(31). 25384–25391. 1 indexed citations

Zhang, Youlin, Jiayu Wang, Yueqi Mo, et al.. (2025). Polymer donors with phenylacetate pendants for efficient organic photovoltaics. Chemical Communications. 61(16). 3343–3346. 1 indexed citations

Wang, Jiayu, Hongxiang Li, Fang Jin, et al.. (2025). Dynamic S→Zn Coordination Bond Engineering toward High‐Performance Mechanically Robust Organic Photovoltaics. Advanced Functional Materials. 36(17).

Cui, Xinyue, Guanshui Xie, Yuqiang Liu, et al.. (2024). Boosting the Efficiency of Perovskite/Organic Tandem Solar Cells via Enhanced Near‐Infrared Absorption and Minimized Energy Losses. Advanced Materials. 36(45). e2408646–e2408646. 14 indexed citations

Xu, Wei, Li Du, Zhengkun Du, et al.. (2024). Enhanced Photovoltaic Performance of Asymmetrical Benzo Dithiophene Homopolymer Donor Materials in Nonfullerene Acceptor-Based Organic Photovoltaics. Molecules. 29(6). 1332–1332.

Zhang, Dongling, et al.. (2024). Simultaneously Improving Stretchability and Efficiency of Flexible Organic Solar Cells by Incorporating a Copolymer Interlayer in Active Layer. Advanced Functional Materials. 34(46). 17 indexed citations

Zhu, Zhendong, Longbo Luo, Jiayu Wang, et al.. (2023). Enabling High‐Performance Artificial Muscles via a High Strength Fiber Reinforcement Strategy. Advanced Materials Technologies. 8(17). 6 indexed citations

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Yu, Hailin, Jiayu Wang, Qiao Zhou, et al.. (2023). Semi-transparent organic photovoltaics. Chemical Society Reviews. 52(13). 4132–4148. 109 indexed citations

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Qin, Meng, et al.. (2022). Toward high-performance organic photovoltaics: the new cooperation of sequential solution-processing and promising non-fullerene acceptors. Materials Horizons. 9(8). 2097–2108. 36 indexed citations

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Xu, Wei, Wei He, Jingnan Wu, et al.. (2022). Challenging PM6-like donor polymers for pairing with a Y-type state-of-the-art acceptor in binary blends for bulk heterojunction solar cells. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 25(4). 2916–2925. 2 indexed citations

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Wang, Jiayu, et al.. (2022). The multifaceted potential applications of organic photovoltaics. Nature Reviews Materials. 7(11). 836–838. 75 indexed citations

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Cheng, Pei, et al.. (2022). Light-induced trap emptying revealed by intensity-dependent quantum efficiency of organic solar cells. Journal of Applied Physics. 131(13). 7 indexed citations

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Liu, Shi, Qiang Xu, Yuting Bai, et al.. (2022). Toward strong X-band-electromagnetic-wave-absorbing materials: polyimide/carbon nanotube composite aerogel with radial needle-like porous structure. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 10(47). 25140–25147. 18 indexed citations

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Cheng, Hao‐Wen, P. Raghunath, Pei Cheng, et al.. (2019). Potassium-Presenting Zinc Oxide Surfaces Induce Vertical Phase Separation in Fullerene-Free Organic Photovoltaics. Nano Letters. 20(1). 715–721. 51 indexed citations

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Wang, Zhengxu, Guangwei Xu, Zhiyu Zhao, et al.. (2019). Cluster Size Control toward High Performance Solution Processed InGaZnO Thin Film Transistors. ACS Applied Electronic Materials. 1(12). 2483–2488. 6 indexed citations

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Cheng, Hao‐Wen, Huotian Zhang, Yu‐Che Lin, et al.. (2019). Realizing Efficient Charge/Energy Transfer and Charge Extraction in Fullerene-Free Organic Photovoltaics via a Versatile Third Component. Nano Letters. 19(8). 5053–5061. 49 indexed citations

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Huang, Wenchao, Bowen Zhu, Sheng‐Yung Chang, et al.. (2018). High Mobility Indium Oxide Electron Transport Layer for an Efficient Charge Extraction and Optimized Nanomorphology in Organic Photovoltaics. Nano Letters. 18(9). 5805–5811. 35 indexed citations

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Yang, Yang, Jingshuai Zhu, Tsz‐Ki Lau, et al.. (2017). Constructing D–A copolymers based on thiophene-fused benzotriazole units containing different alkyl side-chains for non-fullerene polymer solar cells. Journal of Materials Chemistry C. 5(32). 8179–8186. 23 indexed citations

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