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

Aggregation and morpholog... 2014 2026 2018 2022 2014 2016 2016 2015 2016 500 1000 1.5k 2.0k 2.5k
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.

  1. 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 →
  2. Efficient organic solar cells processed from hydrocarbon solvents
    2016 2.2k citations Harald Ade, Wei Ma et al. profile →
  3. 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 →
  4. A Large‐Bandgap Conjugated Polymer for Versatile Photovoltaic Applications with High Performance
    2015 1.1k citations Wei Ma, Harald Ade et al. profile →
  5. High-Performance Electron Acceptor with Thienyl Side Chains for Organic Photovoltaics
    2016 921 citations Wei Ma, Yanming Sun et al. profile →
  6. Single‐Junction Binary‐Blend Nonfullerene Polymer Solar Cells with 12.1% Efficiency
    2017 665 citations Wei Ma et al. profile →
  7. π‐Conjugated Lewis Base: Efficient Trap‐Passivation and Charge‐Extraction for Hybrid Perovskite Solar Cells
    2016 594 citations Wei Ma et al. profile →
  8. 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 →
  9. 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 →
  10. Conjugated Polymer–Small Molecule Alloy Leads to High Efficient Ternary Organic Solar Cells
    2015 511 citations Jianqi Zhang, Wei Ma et al. profile →
  11. Organic photovoltaic cell with 17% efficiency and superior processability
    2019 507 citations Huifeng Yao, Tao Zhang et al. profile →
  12. 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 →
  13. 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 →
  14. Three-Bladed Rylene Propellers with Three-Dimensional Network Assembly for Organic Electronics
    2016 459 citations Wei Ma, Yanming Sun et al. profile →
  15. The influence of molecular orientation on organic bulk heterojunction solar cells
    2014 444 citations Wei Ma, Harald Ade et al. profile →
  16. 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 →
  17. 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 →
  18. High Performance All-Polymer Solar Cells by Synergistic Effects of Fine-Tuned Crystallinity and Solvent Annealing
    2016 394 citations Wei Ma et al. profile →
  19. 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 →
  20. 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 →
  21. A high dielectric constant non-fullerene acceptor for efficient bulk-heterojunction organic solar cells
    2017 351 citations Wei Ma et al. profile →
  22. 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 →
  23. 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 →
  24. 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 →
  25. An organic electrochemical transistor for multi-modal sensing, memory and processing
    2023 203 citations Shijie Wang, Zhaozhao Bi et al. profile →
  26. 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 →
  27. 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 →

Author Peers

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Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Wei Ma 41.3k 35.4k 4.0k 2.4k 2.4k 524 43.1k
He Yan 44.9k 1.1× 36.6k 1.0× 6.0k 1.5× 2.5k 1.0× 3.1k 1.3× 380 47.2k
Xinhui Lu 36.7k 0.9× 28.3k 0.8× 7.1k 1.8× 1.6k 0.7× 1.9k 0.8× 534 38.2k
Hin‐Lap Yip 37.9k 0.9× 27.1k 0.8× 10.5k 2.7× 1.7k 0.7× 2.6k 1.1× 325 40.3k
Yanming Sun 23.9k 0.6× 19.6k 0.6× 3.1k 0.8× 1.7k 0.7× 1.4k 0.6× 243 25.3k
Zhiguo Zhang 23.9k 0.6× 20.1k 0.6× 2.9k 0.7× 1.5k 0.6× 1.2k 0.5× 404 25.9k
Han Young Woo 21.8k 0.5× 17.8k 0.5× 4.9k 1.2× 1.4k 0.6× 2.4k 1.0× 616 24.7k
Hongbin Wu 21.9k 0.5× 16.8k 0.5× 6.7k 1.7× 1.5k 0.6× 1.5k 0.6× 345 25.5k
Xiaowei Zhan 40.4k 1.0× 32.5k 0.9× 8.2k 2.1× 4.7k 2.0× 2.5k 1.1× 415 45.2k
Yingping Zou 18.4k 0.4× 15.6k 0.4× 3.1k 0.8× 1.4k 0.6× 2.0k 0.9× 329 21.0k
Martijn M. Wienk 19.7k 0.5× 15.3k 0.4× 5.5k 1.4× 1.7k 0.7× 1.7k 0.7× 210 21.9k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Wei Ma

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All Works

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Liu, Jinfeng, Xiaopeng Duan, Junjie Zhang, et al.. (2025). Acridine‐Substituted‐Centronucleus Nonfullerene Acceptors Enables Organic Solar Cells with Over 20% Efficiency with Low Nonradiative Recombination Loss. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 64(24). e202500129–e202500129. 6 indexed citations
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Xu, Wei, Xiaolin Zhou, Haoyue Guo, et al.. (2025). High-density, ultraflexible organic electrochemical transistor array for brain activity mapping. Journal of Materials Chemistry C. 13(9). 4385–4397. 2 indexed citations
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Wang, Pei, Jiayou Zhang, Dou Luo, et al.. (2024). A Pseudo Planar Heterojunction Structure for Eco‐Friendly Printable Organic Solar Cells Achieving 19.05% Efficiency. Advanced Functional Materials. 34(38). 31 indexed citations
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Ma, Wei, Yanxia Liu, Xiaoli Jiang, et al.. (2024). Solvation enabled highly efficient gradient assembly creates robust metal–phenolic coatings. Journal of Colloid and Interface Science. 683(Pt 2). 643–654. 3 indexed citations
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Wang, Zhen, Panpan Wang, Jiajun He, et al.. (2024). Genome-Wide Analysis of the HSF Gene Family Reveals Its Role in Astragalus mongholicus under Different Light Conditions. Biology. 13(4). 280–280. 1 indexed citations
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Gao, Huanhuan, Yanna Sun, Yuanyuan Kan, et al.. (2024). Enhancing efficiency and stability of organic solar cells through a simplified four-step synthesis of fully non-fused ring electron acceptor. Journal of Energy Chemistry. 93. 601–608. 7 indexed citations
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Ma, Wei, et al.. (2024). Existence and multiplicity of solutions for a p(x)-Choquard-Kirchhoff problem involving critical growth and concave-convex nonlinearities. Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications. 542(1). 128765–128765.
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Zhang, Lin, Jun Zhang, Zhaozhao Bi, et al.. (2024). Improving efficiency and flexibility of non-halogenated solvent-processed dual-layer organic solar cells through solvent vapor annealing. Organic Electronics. 130. 107075–107075. 4 indexed citations
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Shi, Li, Yong Qi, Wenbin Niu, et al.. (2024). Hydrogen bonding induced ultra-highly thermal stability of azo dyes for color films. Chinese Chemical Letters. 36(9). 110653–110653. 2 indexed citations
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Liu, Han, Hairui Bai, Yibo Zhou, et al.. (2024). Brominated isomerization engineering of 1-chloronaphthalene derived solid additives enables 19.68% efficiency organic solar cells. Materials Science and Engineering R Reports. 162. 100879–100879. 6 indexed citations
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Wu, W. D., Lin Zhang, Wei Yue, et al.. (2023). Improvement of Climate Resource Utilization Efficiency to Enhance Maize Yield through Adjusting Planting Density. Agronomy. 13(3). 846–846. 6 indexed citations
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Luo, Siwei, Chao Li, Jianquan Zhang, et al.. (2023). Auxiliary sequential deposition enables 19%-efficiency organic solar cells processed from halogen-free solvents. Nature Communications. 14(1). 6964–6964. 161 indexed citations breakdown →
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He, Chengliang, Qing Shen, Baohua Wu, et al.. (2023). Simultaneous Improvements in Efficiency and Stability of Organic Solar Cells via a Symmetric‐Asymmetric Dual‐Acceptor Strategy. Advanced Energy Materials. 13(20). 51 indexed citations
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Tan, Pu, Hui Chen, Hengtao Wang, et al.. (2023). Enhanced Performance and Stability of Q‐PHJ Devices through Strategic Placement of Dimerized Acceptors. Advanced Functional Materials. 34(1). 35 indexed citations
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Ma, Kangqiao, Wanying Feng, Ruohan Wang, et al.. (2023). A Polymer Acceptor with Grafted Small Molecule Acceptor Unit for Efficient All Polymer Organic Solar Cells. Macromolecular Rapid Communications. 44(23). e2300407–e2300407. 4 indexed citations
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Yang, Ni, Tao Zhang, Shijie Wang, et al.. (2023). An Ortho‐Bisalkyloxylated Benzene‐Based Fully Non‐fused Electron Acceptor for Efficient Organic Photovoltaic Cells. Small Methods. 8(2). e2300036–e2300036. 18 indexed citations
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Zhu, Yuhang, et al.. (2023). Highly ductile, stable, and efficient organic photovoltaic blends enabled by polymerized ladder-type heteroheptacene-based small-molecule acceptors. Chemical Engineering Journal. 466. 143062–143062. 6 indexed citations
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Shen, Qing, Chengliang He, Baohua Wu, et al.. (2023). Progressive evolutions of non-fused ring electron acceptors toward efficient organic solar cells with improved photocurrent and reduced energy loss. Chemical Engineering Journal. 471. 144472–144472. 16 indexed citations
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Liu, Zheng, et al.. (2023). Recovery of chlorogenic acid from the DES-based extract of Eucommia ulmoides leaves by molecularly imprinted solid-phase extraction. Industrial Crops and Products. 195. 116406–116406. 10 indexed citations
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Zheng, Yu‐Qing, Ze‐Fan Yao, Jin‐Hu Dou, et al.. (2021). Influence of solution-state aggregation on conjugated polymer crystallization in thin films and microwire crystals. Giant. 7. 100064–100064. 32 indexed citations

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