Pengfei Nan

2.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
64 papers, 2.0k citations indexed

About

Pengfei Nan is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. According to data from OpenAlex, Pengfei Nan has authored 64 papers receiving a total of 2.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 52 papers in Materials Chemistry, 28 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 11 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. Recurrent topics in Pengfei Nan's work include Advanced Thermoelectric Materials and Devices (41 papers), Thermal properties of materials (18 papers) and Chalcogenide Semiconductor Thin Films (18 papers). Pengfei Nan is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Thermoelectric Materials and Devices (41 papers), Thermal properties of materials (18 papers) and Chalcogenide Semiconductor Thin Films (18 papers). Pengfei Nan collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Germany. Pengfei Nan's co-authors include Binghui Ge, Yanzhong Pei, Zhiwei Chen, Yixuan Wu, Yue Chen, Xinyue Zhang, Siqi Lin, Lidong Chen, Fen Xiong and G. Jeffrey Snyder 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

Pengfei Nan

60 papers receiving 1.9k citations

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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.

Lattice Strain Advances Thermoelectrics

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Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Pengfei Nan China	21	1.7k	1.0k	312	307	185	64	2.0k
Songting Cai United States	25	2.0k 1.2×	1.2k 1.2×	255 0.8×	421 1.4×	127 0.7×	30	2.2k
Tanmoy Ghosh India	25	2.6k 1.5×	1.7k 1.6×	292 0.9×	397 1.3×	247 1.3×	47	2.8k
Priyanka Jood Japan	18	1.8k 1.1×	906 0.9×	276 0.9×	432 1.4×	96 0.5×	30	1.9k
Tyler J. Slade United States	18	1.5k 0.9×	963 1.0×	283 0.9×	231 0.8×	205 1.1×	42	1.8k
Liangwei Fu China	27	2.4k 1.4×	1.3k 1.3×	300 1.0×	586 1.9×	141 0.8×	66	2.4k
Steven N. Girard United States	20	2.0k 1.2×	1.1k 1.1×	337 1.1×	445 1.4×	265 1.4×	33	2.3k
Kedong Wang China	18	1.6k 1.0×	1.1k 1.1×	251 0.8×	228 0.7×	426 2.3×	56	2.0k
Kyunghan Ahn South Korea	25	1.7k 1.0×	786 0.8×	441 1.4×	389 1.3×	161 0.9×	70	1.9k
Zhiwei Zhou China	26	1.6k 0.9×	1.1k 1.1×	150 0.5×	323 1.1×	105 0.6×	44	1.7k
Qing Tan China	18	2.1k 1.3×	1.2k 1.2×	303 1.0×	525 1.7×	79 0.4×	29	2.2k

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Han, Zhongkang, Yue Zhang, Chenguang Fu, et al.. (2025). Tunable Vacancy Order and Emergent Functionalities in Half‐Heusler Crystals. Advanced Materials. 37(34). e2418520–e2418520. 2 indexed citations

Nan, Pengfei & Binghui Ge. (2025). Electron microscopy approaches to thermoelectrics: Recent advances and emerging opportunities. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 4(3). 20250006–20250006. 1 indexed citations

Wang, Shuxian, Yihao Shen, Xiaoyu Yang, et al.. (2025). Unlocking the phase evolution of the hidden non-polar to ferroelectric transition in HfO2-based bulk crystals. Nature Communications. 16(1). 3745–3745. 3 indexed citations

Li, Yun, Jing Wu, Xinyu Zhang, et al.. (2024). Direct Visualization of Molecular Stacking in Quasi-2D Hexagonal Ice. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 146(33). 23598–23605. 1 indexed citations

Gao, Lei, Pengfei Nan, Yuhang Li, et al.. (2024). Novel Amorphous Nitride‐Halide Solid Electrolytes with Enhanced Performance for All‐Solid‐State Batteries. Angewandte Chemie. 137(3).

Yang, Xiaoyu, Ruiheng Li, Chengliang Xia, et al.. (2024). Ordered grain boundary reconstruction induces high-efficiency thermoelectric power generation in SnTe. Energy & Environmental Science. 17(24). 9467–9478. 10 indexed citations

Li, Airan, Yuechu Wang, Yuzheng Li, et al.. (2024). High performance magnesium-based plastic semiconductors for flexible thermoelectrics. Nature Communications. 15(1). 5108–5108. 51 indexed citations

Li, Yuzheng, Feng Liu, Kai Liu, et al.. (2024). Grain recovery facilitated low-angle grain boundaries and texture for high-performance BiSbTe alloys. Materials Today Physics. 49. 101591–101591. 6 indexed citations

Tang, Guodong, Yuqi Liu, Yongsheng Zhang, et al.. (2024). Interplay between metavalent bonds and dopant orbitals enables the design of SnTe thermoelectrics. Nature Communications. 15(1). 9133–9133. 23 indexed citations

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Yang, Xiaoyu, Xinyue Zhang, Pengfei Nan, et al.. (2023). Ordered high-dimensional defects enhancing phonon transport anisotropy in (GeTe)m(Bi2Te3)n. Materials Today Physics. 35. 101120–101120. 2 indexed citations

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Gu, Zhenqi, Kai Wang, Pengfei Nan, et al.. (2023). Atomic-Resolution Electron Microscopy Unravelling the Role of Unusual Asymmetric Twin Boundaries in the Electron-Beam-Sensitive NASICON-Type Solid Electrolyte. Nano Letters. 23(24). 11818–11826. 5 indexed citations

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Zhang, Qingtang, Yue Zhang, Pengfei Nan, et al.. (2023). Ultralow Lattice Thermal Conductivity and High Thermoelectric Performance in Ge_1–x–yBi_xCa_yTe with Ultrafine Ferroelectric Domain Structure. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 15(17). 21187–21197. 8 indexed citations

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Li, Airan, Madison K. Brod, Yuechu Wang, et al.. (2023). Opening the Bandgap of Metallic Half‐Heuslers via the Introduction of d–d Orbital Interactions. Advanced Science. 10(23). e2302086–e2302086. 22 indexed citations

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Nan, Pengfei, Yangjian Lin, Zhiyao Liang, et al.. (2023). Dynamic evolution mechanism of scanning moiré fringes. Ultramicroscopy. 249. 113731–113731.

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Liu, Mengying, Weijie Li, Pengfei Nan, et al.. (2023). Interfacial Characteristics and Optical Properties of InAs/InAsSb Type II Superlattices for the Mid‐Infrared Operation. physica status solidi (RRL) - Rapid Research Letters. 17(4). 6 indexed citations

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Deng, Qian, Fujie Zhang, Pengfei Nan, et al.. (2023). Unique Semi‐Coherent Nanostructure Advancing Thermoelectrics of N‐Type PbSe. Advanced Functional Materials. 34(2). 25 indexed citations

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Nan, Pengfei, et al.. (2023). Anisotropic Amorphization and Phase Transition in Na₂Ti₃O₇ Anode Caused by Electron Beam Irradiation. Small. 20(6). e2305655–e2305655. 5 indexed citations

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Wang, Weiwei, Dongsheng Song, Wensen Wei, et al.. (2022). Electrical manipulation of skyrmions in a chiral magnet. Nature Communications. 13(1). 1593–1593. 96 indexed citations

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Nan, Pengfei, Ruibin Liu, Yunjie Chang, et al.. (2018). Microscopic study of thermoelectric In-doped SnTe. Nanotechnology. 29(26). 26LT01–26LT01. 11 indexed citations

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Huang, Zhiwei, Samuel A. Miller, Binghui Ge, et al.. (2017). High Thermoelectric Performance of New Rhombohedral Phase of GeSe stabilized through Alloying with AgSbSe₂. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 56(45). 14113–14118. 87 indexed citations

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