Wei Ma

48.6k total citations · 27 hit papers
524 papers, 43.1k citations indexed

About

Wei Ma is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Polymers and Plastics and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Wei Ma has authored 524 papers receiving a total of 43.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 479 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 428 papers in Polymers and Plastics and 33 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Wei Ma's work include Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics (459 papers), Conducting polymers and applications (427 papers) and Perovskite Materials and Applications (293 papers). Wei Ma is often cited by papers focused on Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics (459 papers), Conducting polymers and applications (427 papers) and Perovskite Materials and Applications (293 papers). Wei Ma collaborates with scholars based in China, Hong Kong and United States. Wei Ma's co-authors include Harald Ade, He Yan, Jingbo Zhao, Kui Jiang, Haoran Lin, Xia Guo, Maojie Zhang, Jianhui Hou, Zhaozhao Bi and Guofang Yang 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

Wei Ma

511 papers receiving 42.8k 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.

Aggregation and morphology control enables multiple cases of high-efficiency polymer solar cells

2014 2.9k citations Wei Ma, Huawei Hu et al. Nature Communications profile →
Efficient organic solar cells processed from hydrocarbon solvents

2016 2.2k citations Harald Ade, Wei Ma et al. profile →
Fast charge separation in a non-fullerene organic solar cell with a small driving force

2016 1.2k citations Wei Ma, Harald Ade et al. profile →
A Large‐Bandgap Conjugated Polymer for Versatile Photovoltaic Applications with High Performance

2015 1.1k citations Wei Ma, Harald Ade et al. profile →
High-Performance Electron Acceptor with Thienyl Side Chains for Organic Photovoltaics

2016 921 citations Wei Ma, Yanming Sun et al. profile →
Single‐Junction Binary‐Blend Nonfullerene Polymer Solar Cells with 12.1% Efficiency

2017 665 citations Wei Ma et al. profile →
π‐Conjugated Lewis Base: Efficient Trap‐Passivation and Charge‐Extraction for Hybrid Perovskite Solar Cells

2016 594 citations Wei Ma et al. profile →
Fluorination-enabled optimal morphology leads to over 11% efficiency for inverted small-molecule organic solar cells

2016 561 citations Jianqi Zhang, Wei Ma et al. Nature Communications profile →
Single‐Junction Polymer Solar Cells with 16.35% Efficiency Enabled by a Platinum(II) Complexation Strategy

2019 523 citations Zhaozhao Bi, Wei Ma et al. profile →
Conjugated Polymer–Small Molecule Alloy Leads to High Efficient Ternary Organic Solar Cells

2015 511 citations Jianqi Zhang, Wei Ma et al. profile →
Organic photovoltaic cell with 17% efficiency and superior processability

2019 507 citations Huifeng Yao, Tao Zhang et al. profile →
Realizing 19.05% Efficiency Polymer Solar Cells by Progressively Improving Charge Extraction and Suppressing Charge Recombination

2022 504 citations Jingwei Xue, Wei Ma et al. profile →
Three-Bladed Rylene Propellers with Three-Dimensional Network Assembly for Organic Electronics

2016 459 citations Wei Ma, Yanming Sun et al. profile →
14.7% Efficiency Organic Photovoltaic Cells Enabled by Active Materials with a Large Electrostatic Potential Difference

2019 459 citations Huifeng Yao, Wei Ma et al. profile →
The influence of molecular orientation on organic bulk heterojunction solar cells

2014 444 citations Wei Ma, Harald Ade et al. profile →
Realizing Over 13% Efficiency in Green‐Solvent‐Processed Nonfullerene Organic Solar Cells Enabled by 1,3,4‐Thiadiazole‐Based Wide‐Bandgap Copolymers

2017 435 citations Zhaozhao Bi, Wei Ma et al. profile →
High-Performance Ternary Organic Solar Cell Enabled by a Thick Active Layer Containing a Liquid Crystalline Small Molecule Donor

2017 412 citations Wei Ma, He Yan et al. profile →
High Performance All-Polymer Solar Cells by Synergistic Effects of Fine-Tuned Crystallinity and Solvent Annealing

2016 394 citations Wei Ma et al. profile →
Fused Tris(thienothiophene)‐Based Electron Acceptor with Strong Near‐Infrared Absorption for High‐Performance As‐Cast Solar Cells

2018 364 citations Wei Ma et al. profile →
Noncovalently fused-ring electron acceptors with near-infrared absorption for high-performance organic solar cells

2019 362 citations Zhaozhao Bi, Zheng Tang et al. Nature Communications profile →
A high dielectric constant non-fullerene acceptor for efficient bulk-heterojunction organic solar cells

2017 351 citations Wei Ma et al. profile →
Desired open-circuit voltage increase enables efficiencies approaching 19% in symmetric-asymmetric molecule ternary organic photovoltaics

2022 298 citations Shuixing Li, Jie Min et al. profile →
Small reorganization energy acceptors enable low energy losses in non-fullerene organic solar cells

2022 264 citations Jianqi Zhang, Wei Ma et al. Nature Communications profile →
Asymmetric electron acceptor enables highly luminescent organic solar cells with certified efficiency over 18%

2022 224 citations Chengliang He, Shuixing Li et al. Nature Communications profile →
An organic electrochemical transistor for multi-modal sensing, memory and processing

2023 203 citations Shijie Wang, Zhaozhao Bi et al. profile →
Auxiliary sequential deposition enables 19%-efficiency organic solar cells processed from halogen-free solvents

2023 161 citations Siwei Luo, Chao Li et al. Nature Communications profile →
Improved photovoltaic performance and robustness of all-polymer solar cells enabled by a polyfullerene guest acceptor

2023 123 citations Han Yu, Xinhui Zou et al. Nature Communications profile →

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Acridine‐Substituted‐Centronucleus Nonfullerene Acceptors Enables Organic Solar Cells with Over 20% Efficiency with Low Nonradiative Recombination Loss 2025 ·Angewandte Chemie International Edition ·Jinfeng Liu, Xiaopeng Duan, Junjie Zhang, Zhongwei Ge, Liming Liu, Jiawei Qiao, Y. Li, Zhaozhao Bi, Huotian Zhang, Jiaxin Gao, (unknown), Sha Liu, Jianqi Zhang, Zheng Tang, Xiaotao Hao, Wei Ma, (unknown), Yanming Sun	6
2	High-density, ultraflexible organic electrochemical transistor array for brain activity mapping 2025 ·Journal of Materials Chemistry C ·Wei Xu, (unknown), Xiaolin Zhou, Haoyue Guo, Jingxin Wang, Ruiqi Zhu, Z. W. Hu, Wei Ma, (unknown), Xiaojian Li, Xiaomin Xu	2
3	Existence and multiplicity of solutions for a p(x)-Choquard-Kirchhoff problem involving critical growth and concave-convex nonlinearities 2024 ·Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications ·Wei Ma, (unknown)	0
4	Improving efficiency and flexibility of non-halogenated solvent-processed dual-layer organic solar cells through solvent vapor annealing 2024 ·Organic Electronics ·Lin Zhang, Jun Zhang, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Zhaozhao Bi, Yilin Wang, Yong Zhang, Chen Xie, (unknown), Xiaotian Hu, Wei Ma, Yongbo Yuan	4
5	Hydrogen bonding induced ultra-highly thermal stability of azo dyes for color films 2024 ·Chinese Chemical Letters ·Li Shi, (unknown), Yong Qi, Wenbin Niu, Wei Ma, Bingtao Tang, Shufen Zhang	2
6	Brominated isomerization engineering of 1-chloronaphthalene derived solid additives enables 19.68% efficiency organic solar cells 2024 ·Materials Science and Engineering R Reports ·Han Liu, Hairui Bai, Yibo Zhou, Ping Li, Wenyan Su, Chang Liu, Xunfan Liao, (unknown), Xiong Li, Zhaozhao Bi, Chao Zhao, Hongtao Liu, Guanghao Lu, Huiling Du, Long Jiang, Yuhang Liu, Ruijie Ma, Wei Ma, Qunping Fan	6
7	A Pseudo Planar Heterojunction Structure for Eco‐Friendly Printable Organic Solar Cells Achieving 19.05% Efficiency 2024 ·Advanced Functional Materials ·Pei Wang, Jiayou Zhang, Dou Luo, Jingwei Xue, Lifu Zhang, Houdong Mao, Yilin Wang, (unknown), Wei Ma, Yiwang Chen	31
8	Solvation enabled highly efficient gradient assembly creates robust metal–phenolic coatings 2024 ·Journal of Colloid and Interface Science ·Wei Ma, Yanxia Liu, Xiaoli Jiang, Lin Zhao, Yagang Zhang, (unknown), Yen Wei	3
9	Genome-Wide Analysis of the HSF Gene Family Reveals Its Role in Astragalus mongholicus under Different Light Conditions 2024 ·Biology ·Zhen Wang, Panpan Wang, Jiajun He, (unknown), Wenwei Zhang, Weili Liu, (unknown), Wei Ma	1
10	Enhancing efficiency and stability of organic solar cells through a simplified four-step synthesis of fully non-fused ring electron acceptor 2024 ·Journal of Energy Chemistry ·(unknown), Huanhuan Gao, Yanna Sun, Yuanyuan Kan, Zhaozhao Bi, Wei Ma, Yani Zhang, Juan Antonio Zapien, Yingguo Yang, Ke Gao	7
11	Progressive evolutions of non-fused ring electron acceptors toward efficient organic solar cells with improved photocurrent and reduced energy loss 2023 ·Chemical Engineering Journal ·Qing Shen, Chengliang He, Baohua Wu, Yi Lin, Shuaishuai Chen, (unknown), Shuixing Li, Zaifei Ma, Wei Ma, Minmin Shi, Yongfang Li, Hongzheng Chen	16
12	Recovery of chlorogenic acid from the DES-based extract of Eucommia ulmoides leaves by molecularly imprinted solid-phase extraction 2023 ·Industrial Crops and Products ·Zheng Liu, Wei Ma, Bowen Chen, (unknown), Haitang Wu, (unknown)	10
13	Improvement of Climate Resource Utilization Efficiency to Enhance Maize Yield through Adjusting Planting Density 2023 ·Agronomy ·W. D. Wu, Lin Zhang, (unknown), Wei Yue, Ying Xu, (unknown), Xiang Chen, (unknown), Wei Ma, Shiji Wang	6
14	Auxiliary sequential deposition enables 19%-efficiency organic solar cells processed from halogen-free solvents breakdown → 2023 ·Nature Communications ·Siwei Luo, Chao Li, Jianquan Zhang, Xinhui Zou, Heng Zhao, Kan Ding, Hui Huang, Jiali Song, Jicheng Yi, Han Yu, Kam Sing Wong, Guangye Zhang, Harald Ade, Wei Ma, Huawei Hu, Yanming Sun, He Yan	161
15	Simultaneous Improvements in Efficiency and Stability of Organic Solar Cells via a Symmetric‐Asymmetric Dual‐Acceptor Strategy 2023 ·Advanced Energy Materials ·Chengliang He, Qing Shen, Baohua Wu, Yuan Gao, Shuixing Li, Jie Min, Wei Ma, Lijian Zuo, Hongzheng Chen	51
16	An Ortho‐Bisalkyloxylated Benzene‐Based Fully Non‐fused Electron Acceptor for Efficient Organic Photovoltaic Cells 2023 ·Small Methods ·Ni Yang, Tao Zhang, Shijie Wang, Cunbin An, Susanne Seibt, Guanlin Wang, Jingwen Wang, Yi Yang, Wenxuan Wang, Yang Xiao, Huifeng Yao, Shaoqing Zhang, Wei Ma, Jianhui Hou	18
17	Enhanced Performance and Stability of Q‐PHJ Devices through Strategic Placement of Dimerized Acceptors 2023 ·Advanced Functional Materials ·Pu Tan, Hui Chen, Hengtao Wang, Xue Lai, Yulin Zhu, Xiangyu Shen, Mingrui Pu, Hanjian Lai, Sen Zhang, Wei Ma, Feng He	35
18	A Polymer Acceptor with Grafted Small Molecule Acceptor Unit for Efficient All Polymer Organic Solar Cells 2023 ·Macromolecular Rapid Communications ·(unknown), (unknown), Kangqiao Ma, (unknown), Wanying Feng, Ruohan Wang, Jiaxin Guo, Wei Ma, Shijie Wang, Andrew J. Clulow, Lester C. Barnsley, Zhaoyang Yao, Chenxi Li, Xiangjian Wan, Yongsheng Chen	4
19	Highly ductile, stable, and efficient organic photovoltaic blends enabled by polymerized ladder-type heteroheptacene-based small-molecule acceptors 2023 ·Chemical Engineering Journal ·(unknown), Yuhang Zhu, Qiang Wu, Yunlong Ma, (unknown), Wei Ma, Qingdong Zheng	6
20	Influence of solution-state aggregation on conjugated polymer crystallization in thin films and microwire crystals 2021 ·Giant ·Yu‐Qing Zheng, Ze‐Fan Yao, Jin‐Hu Dou, Yilin Wang, Wei Ma, Lin Zou, Shayla Nikzad, Qiyi Li, Zehao Sun, Zhiao Yu, Wenbin Zhang, Jie‐Yu Wang, Jian Pei	32

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