Sunsun Li

14.0k total citations · 7 hit papers
68 papers, 12.1k citations indexed

About

Sunsun Li is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Polymers and Plastics and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Sunsun Li has authored 68 papers receiving a total of 12.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 65 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 59 papers in Polymers and Plastics and 5 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Sunsun Li's work include Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics (61 papers), Conducting polymers and applications (59 papers) and Perovskite Materials and Applications (41 papers). Sunsun Li is often cited by papers focused on Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics (61 papers), Conducting polymers and applications (59 papers) and Perovskite Materials and Applications (41 papers). Sunsun Li collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Uzbekistan. Sunsun Li's co-authors include Jianhui Hou, Shaoqing Zhang, Wenchao Zhao, Huifeng Yao, Long Ye, Bei Yang, Harald Ade, Yun Zhang, Hao Zhang and Feng Gao and has published in prestigious journals such as Chemical Reviews, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Advanced Materials.

In The Last Decade

Sunsun Li

68 papers receiving 12.0k 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.

Molecular Optimization Enables over 13% Efficiency in Organic Solar Cells

2017 2.5k citations Wenchao Zhao, Sunsun Li et al. profile →
Fullerene‐Free Polymer Solar Cells with over 11% Efficiency and Excellent Thermal Stability

2016 1.7k citations Wenchao Zhao, Deping Qian et al. Advanced Materials profile →
Energy‐Level Modulation of Small‐Molecule Electron Acceptors to Achieve over 12% Efficiency in Polymer Solar Cells

2016 1.3k citations Sunsun Li, Long Ye et al. Advanced Materials profile →
Molecular Design of Benzodithiophene-Based Organic Photovoltaic Materials

2016 1.1k citations Huifeng Yao, Long Ye et al. profile →
A Wide Band Gap Polymer with a Deep Highest Occupied Molecular Orbital Level Enables 14.2% Efficiency in Polymer Solar Cells

2018 646 citations Sunsun Li, Long Ye et al. profile →
Design and Synthesis of a Low Bandgap Small Molecule Acceptor for Efficient Polymer Solar Cells

2016 429 citations Huifeng Yao, Yu Chen et al. Advanced Materials profile →
A High‐Efficiency Organic Solar Cell Enabled by the Strong Intramolecular Electron Push–Pull Effect of the Nonfullerene Acceptor

2018 395 citations Wanning Li, Long Ye et al. Advanced Materials profile →

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sunsun Li

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

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20 of 20 papers shown

#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Sustainable organic solar cells via renewable biomass and circular recycling 2025 ·Matter ·(unknown), (unknown), Min Ru, Yaxiong Li, Sunsun Li, (unknown), Wenchao Zhao	1
2	Achieving High‐Efficiency and Thick‐Film‐Insensitive Organic Solar Cells with a Functional Aid ^† 2025 ·Chinese Journal of Chemistry ·Ruizhi Zhang, (unknown), (unknown), Bing Sun, (unknown), Jiaqi Hu, Chengcheng Li, Sunsun Li, Lina Zhou, (unknown), Sherzod Nematov, (unknown), Wenchao Zhao, Long Ye	2
3	Self-assembled monolayers as hole transport layers in organic solar cells: progress in molecular design and device engineering 2025 ·Science China Materials ·Wenchao Zhao, (unknown), (unknown), Yong Yan, Kuan Ding, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Sunsun Li	1
4	Volatile Solid‐Assisted Molecular Assembly Enables Eco‐Friendly Processed Organic Photovoltaic Cells with High Efficiency and Photostability 2024 ·Advanced Functional Materials ·Lei Xu, (unknown), Sunsun Li, Wenchao Zhao, Jianqi Zhang, Chunyang Miao, Yuyang Zhang, Tao Zhang, (unknown), Shaoqing Zhang, Qiming Peng, Zhen Wang, Long Ye, Jianhui Hou, Jianpu Wang	27
5	Intrinsically Stretchable Organic Photovoltaic Cells with Improved Mechanical Durability and Stability via Dual‐Donor Polymer Blending 2024 ·Advanced Functional Materials ·Xin Li, Huizhen Ke, Sunsun Li, Mengyuan Gao, Saimeng Li, (unknown), (unknown), Kangkang Zhou, Kai Zhang, Long Ye	41
6	Recent Progress and Applications of NanoIR‐AFM in Morphological Characterization of Organic Solar Cells 2024 ·Advanced Functional Materials ·(unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Xinzhou Wang, Liting Du, Sunsun Li, Zhaoyang Xu, (unknown)	14
7	Constructing High‐Performance Solar Cells and Photodetectors with a Doping‐Free Polythiophene Hole Transport Material 2023 ·Advanced Functional Materials ·(unknown), Yuping Gao, Zhihua Zhou, Yahui Du, Junwei Liu, Jingjing Wang, (unknown), Kangkang Zhou, Kaihu Xian, Zhenjia Lin, Yu Chen, Wenchao Zhao, Sunsun Li, (unknown), Hang Yin, Jinyue Yan, Yongsheng Liu, Long Ye	16
8	Powering the Future: A Critical Review of Research Progress in Enhancing Stability of High‐Efficiency Organic Solar Cells 2023 ·Advanced Functional Materials ·(unknown), Bing Ma, Sunsun Li, Jingquan Han, Wenchao Zhao	56
9	Eco-friendly and ultrathin solar cells featuring nanocrystals: advances and perspectives 2023 ·Materials Chemistry Frontiers ·Jingjing Wang, Junwei Liu, Hang Yin, Sunsun Li, (unknown), Long Ye	12
10	A Dual‐Polythiophene Blending Strategy to Reduce the Efficiency‐Stability‐Cost Gap of Solar Cells 2023 ·Small ·Qingchun Qi, Jingjing Wang, Mengyuan Gao, Huizhen Ke, Wenchao Zhao, Kai Zhang, Sunsun Li, Chunyong He, (unknown), Long Ye	7
11	Enhanced photovoltaic effect from naphtho[2,3-c]thiophene-4,9-dione-based polymers through alkyl side chain induced backbone distortion 2020 ·Journal of Materials Chemistry A ·(unknown), Tao Zhang, Cunbin An, Pengqing Bi, Kangqiao Ma, Sunsun Li, Kaihu Xian, Qianglong Lv, Shaoqing Zhang, Huifeng Yao, Bowei Xu, Jianqi Zhang, Shaokui Cao, Jianhui Hou	11
12	p-Doped Conducting Polyelectrolyte as an Anode Interlayer Enables High Efficiency for 1 cm² Printed Organic Solar Cells 2019 ·ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces ·Qian Kang, Qing Liao, Ye Xu, Lin Xu, Yunfei Zu, Sunsun Li, Bowei Xu, Jianhui Hou	31
13	Vacuum-assisted annealing method for high efficiency printable large-area polymer solar cell modules 2019 ·Journal of Materials Chemistry C ·Wenchao Zhao, Yun Zhang, Shaoqing Zhang, Sunsun Li, Chang He, Jianhui Hou	35
14	Correlating Three‐dimensional Morphology With Function in PBDB‐T:IT‐M Non‐Fullerene Organic Solar Cells (Solar RRL 9∕2018) 2018 ·Solar RRL ·Wei Li, Jinlong Cai, (unknown), Feilong Cai, Sunsun Li, Robert S. Gurney, Dan Liu, James McGettrick, Trystan Watson, Zhe Li, Andrew J. Pearson, David G. Lidzey, Jianhui Hou, Tao Wang	6
15	Correlating Three‐dimensional Morphology With Function in PBDB‐T:IT‐M Non‐Fullerene Organic Solar Cells 2018 ·Solar RRL ·Wei Li, Jinlong Cai, Yan Yu, Feilong Cai, Sunsun Li, Robert S. Gurney, Dan Liu, James McGettrick, Trystan Watson, Zhe Li, Andrew J. Pearson, David G. Lidzey, Jianhui Hou, Tao Wang	52
16	Quenching to the Percolation Threshold in Organic Solar Cells 2018 ·Joule ·Long Ye, Sunsun Li, Xiaoyu Liu, Shaoqing Zhang, Masoud Ghasemi, Yuan Xiong, Jianhui Hou, Harald Ade	209
17	Surpassing 10% Efficiency Benchmark for Nonfullerene Organic Solar Cells by Scalable Coating in Air from Single Nonhalogenated Solvent 2018 ·Advanced Materials ·Long Ye, Yuan Xiong, Qianqian Zhang, Sunsun Li, Cheng Wang, Zhang Jiang, Jianhui Hou, Wei You, Harald Ade	161
18	Design and application of volatilizable solid additives in non-fullerene organic solar cells 2018 ·Nature Communications ·Runnan Yu, Huifeng Yao, Ling Hong, Yunpeng Qin, Jie Zhu, Yong Cui, Sunsun Li, Jianhui Hou	284
19	A Self‐Organized Poly(vinylpyrrolidone)‐Based Cathode Interlayer in Inverted Fullerene‐Free Organic Solar Cells 2018 ·Advanced Materials ·Bei Yang, Shaoqing Zhang, Sunsun Li, Huifeng Yao, Wanning Li, Jianhui Hou	55
20	Fullerene‐Free Polymer Solar Cells with over 11% Efficiency and Excellent Thermal Stability breakdown → 2016 ·Advanced Materials ·Wenchao Zhao, Deping Qian, Shaoqing Zhang, Sunsun Li, Olle Inganäs, Feng Gao, Jianhui Hou	1737

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