Pinyi Yang

3.8k total citations · 2 hit papers
19 papers, 3.3k citations indexed

About

Pinyi Yang is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Biomedical Engineering and Polymers and Plastics. According to data from OpenAlex, Pinyi Yang has authored 19 papers receiving a total of 3.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 10 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 10 papers in Biomedical Engineering and 8 papers in Polymers and Plastics. Recurrent topics in Pinyi Yang's work include Conducting polymers and applications (8 papers), Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics (5 papers) and Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials (5 papers). Pinyi Yang is often cited by papers focused on Conducting polymers and applications (8 papers), Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics (5 papers) and Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials (5 papers). Pinyi Yang collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and South Korea. Pinyi Yang's co-authors include Benjamin Messer, Matt Law, Yan Han, Hannes Kind, Cunjiang Yu, Anish Thukral, Hyunseok Shim, Zhoulyu Rao, Yiying Wu and Kyoseung Sim and has published in prestigious journals such as Advanced Materials, Nature Communications and Advanced Functional Materials.

In The Last Decade

Pinyi Yang

18 papers receiving 3.3k 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.

Nanowire Ultraviolet Photodetectors and Optical Switches

2002 2.0k citations Hannes Kind, Yan Han et al. Advanced Materials profile →
Ultra-conformal drawn-on-skin electronics for multifunctional motion artifact-free sensing and point-of-care treatment

2020 279 citations Faheem Ershad, Anish Thukral 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
Pinyi Yang United States	12	2.1k	2.0k	1.3k	805	615	19	3.3k
Dong Chan Kim South Korea	26	2.3k 1.1×	2.4k 1.2×	2.2k 1.8×	930 1.2×	1.1k 1.7×	92	4.6k
Jin Pyo Hong South Korea	32	1.5k 0.7×	2.1k 1.1×	806 0.6×	733 0.9×	953 1.5×	210	3.6k
Jang‐Yeon Kwon South Korea	36	3.1k 1.5×	3.8k 1.9×	1.0k 0.8×	628 0.8×	839 1.4×	137	4.9k
Tae‐Ho Kim South Korea	14	1.8k 0.9×	2.1k 1.1×	2.6k 2.1×	456 0.6×	1.1k 1.8×	17	4.4k
David Wei Zhang China	29	1.1k 0.5×	1.5k 0.8×	736 0.6×	766 1.0×	489 0.8×	89	2.8k
Heung Cho Ko South Korea	33	2.1k 1.0×	3.0k 1.5×	2.4k 1.9×	290 0.4×	1.4k 2.2×	82	5.2k
Hongtao Cao China	36	1.6k 0.8×	2.6k 1.3×	532 0.4×	522 0.6×	1.0k 1.7×	158	3.7k
Sung Hun Jin South Korea	23	995 0.5×	1.6k 0.8×	1.4k 1.1×	439 0.5×	586 1.0×	121	2.8k
Yung Ho Kahng South Korea	25	1.9k 0.9×	2.4k 1.2×	1.6k 1.2×	600 0.7×	1.4k 2.3×	58	3.9k
Xin‐Gui Tang China	39	4.0k 1.9×	3.0k 1.5×	2.0k 1.6×	2.1k 2.6×	517 0.8×	276	5.4k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Pinyi Yang

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19 of 19 papers shown

Chen, Xi, Rui Wang, Pinyi Yang, et al.. (2025). Self-Assembled Perylenediimide Nanoaggregates with an Alternate Stringlike Morphology as Photoanodes to Enhance the H₂O₂ Photoelectrochemical Cell Performance. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 17(13). 19533–19542. 1 indexed citations

Han, Xiaosong, Pinyi Yang, Yingying Guan, et al.. (2025). O, P co-doped porous carbon derived from corn stalk for supercapacitors. Ionics. 31(4). 3683–3695.

Rao, Zhoulyu, Anish Thukral, Pinyi Yang, et al.. (2021). All‐Polymer Based Stretchable Rubbery Electronics and Sensors. Advanced Functional Materials. 32(15). 28 indexed citations

Shi, Mengyun, et al.. (2021). The exploration of artificial intelligence application in fashion trend forecasting. Textile Research Journal. 91(19-20). 2357–2386. 18 indexed citations

Liu, Xi, Lijun Huang, Hao Zhang, et al.. (2021). Facile Amidogen Bio‐Activation Method Can Boost the Soft Tissue Integration on 3D Printed Poly–Ether–Ether–Ketone Interface. Advanced Materials Interfaces. 8(19). 7 indexed citations

Sim, Kyoseung, Faheem Ershad, Yongcao Zhang, et al.. (2020). An epicardial bioelectronic patch made from soft rubbery materials and capable of spatiotemporal mapping of electrophysiological activity. Nature Electronics. 3(12). 775–784. 195 indexed citations

Ershad, Faheem, Anish Thukral, Jiping Yue, et al.. (2020). Ultra-conformal drawn-on-skin electronics for multifunctional motion artifact-free sensing and point-of-care treatment. Nature Communications. 11(1). 3823–3823. 279 indexed citations breakdown →

Shim, Hyunseok, Kyoseung Sim, Faheem Ershad, et al.. (2019). Stretchable elastic synaptic transistors for neurologically integrated soft engineering systems. Science Advances. 5(10). eaax4961–eaax4961. 256 indexed citations

Yang, Pinyi, et al.. (2014). Identifying effects of TiO₂ nanowires inside bulk heterojunction organic photovoltaics on charge diffusion and recombination. Journal of Materials Chemistry C. 2(25). 4922–4927. 8 indexed citations

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Yang, Pinyi, et al.. (2013). TiO2 nanowire electron transport pathways inside organic photovoltaics. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 15(13). 4566–4566. 17 indexed citations

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Yang, Pinyi, et al.. (2013). Influence of fluorine substituents on the film dielectric constant and open-circuit voltage in organic photovoltaics. Journal of Materials Chemistry C. 2(17). 3278–3284. 61 indexed citations

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Yuan, Mingjian, et al.. (2012). Low Bandgap Polymers Based on Silafluorene Containing Multifused Heptacylic Arenes for Photovoltaic Applications. Macromolecules. 45(15). 5934–5940. 35 indexed citations

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Yang, Pinyi, et al.. (2010). P3HT:PCBM polymer solar cells with TiO2 nanotube aggregates in the active layer. Journal of Materials Chemistry. 20(13). 2612–2612. 28 indexed citations

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Liŭ, Dan, Pinyi Yang, & Christine K. Luscombe. (2008). Preparation of Titanium Oxide Pillars on Glass Substrates and Ultrathin Titanium Oxide Layer using PMMA/PS Blend Films. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 112(21). 7886–7894. 5 indexed citations

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Yan, Huang, Justin C. Johnson, Matt Law, et al.. (2003). ZnO Nanoribbon Microcavity Lasers. Advanced Materials. 15(22). 1907–1911. 206 indexed citations

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Kind, Hannes, Yan Han, Benjamin Messer, Matt Law, & Pinyi Yang. (2002). Nanowire Ultraviolet Photodetectors and Optical Switches. Advanced Materials. 14(2). 158–160. 2040 indexed citations breakdown →

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Ruby, D.S., et al.. (2002). Recent progress on the self-aligned, selective-emitter silicon solar cell. 39–42. 9 indexed citations

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Wu, Yiying, Benjamin Messer, & Pinyi Yang. (2001). Superconducting MgB2 Nanowires. Advanced Materials. 13(19). 1487–1489. 151 indexed citations

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Ruby, D.S., et al.. (1998). Improved performance of self-aligned, selective-emitter silicon solar cells. University of North Texas Digital Library (University of North Texas). 1 indexed citations

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