Weilun Cai

700 total citations · 2 hit papers
15 papers, 530 citations indexed

About

Weilun Cai is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Materials Chemistry and Polymers and Plastics. According to data from OpenAlex, Weilun Cai has authored 15 papers receiving a total of 530 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 15 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 10 papers in Materials Chemistry and 5 papers in Polymers and Plastics. Recurrent topics in Weilun Cai's work include Perovskite Materials and Applications (15 papers), Chalcogenide Semiconductor Thin Films (8 papers) and Quantum Dots Synthesis And Properties (6 papers). Weilun Cai is often cited by papers focused on Perovskite Materials and Applications (15 papers), Chalcogenide Semiconductor Thin Films (8 papers) and Quantum Dots Synthesis And Properties (6 papers). Weilun Cai collaborates with scholars based in China, Taiwan and Hong Kong. Weilun Cai's co-authors include Kui Zhao, Wenliang Huang, Tinghuan Yang, Shengzhong Liu, Zicheng Ding, Nan Wu, Jiangshan Feng, Shiqiang Wang, Yachao Du and Yin Wu and has published in prestigious journals such as Advanced Materials, Angewandte Chemie International Edition and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Weilun Cai

12 papers receiving 528 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.

Amidino-based Dion-Jacobson 2D perovskite for efficient and stable 2D/3D heterostructure perovskite solar cells

2023 167 citations Tinghuan Yang, Chuang Ma et al. Joule profile →
Flexible Indoor Perovskite Solar Cells by In Situ Bottom‐Up Crystallization Modulation and Interfacial Passivation

2024 90 citations Tinghuan Yang, Weilun Cai et al. Advanced Materials profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Weilun Cai China	10	525	289	249	20	10	15	530
Wanjia Tian China	9	418 0.8×	240 0.8×	215 0.9×	18 0.9×	7 0.7×	12	429
Vaibhava Srivastava India	16	494 0.9×	218 0.8×	260 1.0×	22 1.1×	12 1.2×	30	509
K. M. Anoop India	6	376 0.7×	179 0.6×	196 0.8×	15 0.8×	8 0.8×	10	392
Peide Zhu China	11	489 0.9×	251 0.9×	209 0.8×	17 0.8×	12 1.2×	23	505
Yingzhuang Ma China	8	514 1.0×	289 1.0×	272 1.1×	19 0.9×	7 0.7×	11	526
Luting Yu China	11	449 0.9×	239 0.8×	317 1.3×	25 1.3×	14 1.4×	11	468
Zhichong Shi China	11	420 0.8×	232 0.8×	266 1.1×	20 1.0×	13 1.3×	15	438
Xiaoxue Ren China	6	363 0.7×	158 0.5×	218 0.9×	21 1.1×	9 0.9×	6	370
Zahra Saki Iran	8	366 0.7×	143 0.5×	225 0.9×	17 0.8×	15 1.5×	12	380
Jiyao Zhang China	10	353 0.7×	175 0.6×	185 0.7×	14 0.7×	13 1.3×	15	377

Countries citing papers authored by Weilun Cai

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Fields of papers citing papers by Weilun Cai

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Weilun Cai

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

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15 of 15 papers shown

Xu, Ruoyao, Xiaoyun Liu, Xinyi Zhu, et al.. (2025). Novel near-unity 0D organic-inorganic copper-based halide TEA2Cu2Br4 for high-efficiency and stable ultraviolet photodetectors. Organic Electronics. 140. 107215–107215. 1 indexed citations

Xu, Ruoyao, Jinfei Dai, He‐Bin Tang, et al.. (2025). In situ coordinated HTL strategy for high-performance and scalable perovskite solar cells. Nature Communications. 16(1). 9110–9110. 2 indexed citations

Tang, He‐Bin, Lin Yang, Jingrui Li, et al.. (2025). Interfacial Hybrid Engineering Strategy for Highly Efficient and Stable Large‐Area Perovskite Solar Modules. Advanced Functional Materials. 36(14).

Cai, Weilun, Jungang Wang, Xinyi Zhu, et al.. (2025). In Situ Dual‐Region Selective Anchoring of Zwitterionic Gel Enables Efficient and Mechanically Durable Flexible Perovskite Solar Cell. Advanced Energy Materials. 16(7).

Wang, Yajie, Tinghuan Yang, Weilun Cai, et al.. (2024). Defect Passivation Refinement in Perovskite Photovoltaics: Achieving Efficiency over 45% under Low‐Light and Low‐Temperature Dual Extreme Conditions. Advanced Materials. 36(23). e2312014–e2312014. 25 indexed citations

Cai, Weilun, Hui Wang, Xin Chen, et al.. (2024). Interlayer reinforcement for improved mechanical reliability for wearable perovskite solar cells. Energy & Environmental Science. 17(21). 8162–8173. 28 indexed citations

Liu, Xinmei, Qingyue Cui, Haojin Li, et al.. (2024). Biocompatible Metal-Free Perovskite Membranes for Wearable X-ray Detectors. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 16(13). 16300–16308. 12 indexed citations

Chen, Xin, Weilun Cai, Tianqi Niu, et al.. (2024). Crystallization control via ligand–perovskite coordination for high-performance flexible perovskite solar cells. Energy & Environmental Science. 17(17). 6256–6267. 52 indexed citations

Yang, Tinghuan, Weilun Cai, Yajie Wang, et al.. (2024). Flexible Indoor Perovskite Solar Cells by In Situ Bottom‐Up Crystallization Modulation and Interfacial Passivation. Advanced Materials. 36(24). e2311562–e2311562. 90 indexed citations breakdown →

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Yin, Lei, Wenliang Huang, Junjie Fang, et al.. (2023). Crystallization Control for Ambient Printed FA‐Based Lead Triiodide Perovskite Solar Cells. Advanced Materials. 35(51). e2303384–e2303384. 30 indexed citations

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Yang, Tinghuan, Chuang Ma, Weilun Cai, et al.. (2023). Amidino-based Dion-Jacobson 2D perovskite for efficient and stable 2D/3D heterostructure perovskite solar cells. Joule. 7(3). 574–586. 167 indexed citations breakdown →

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Cai, Weilun, Tinghuan Yang, Yajie Wang, et al.. (2023). Interfacial Engineering for Efficient Low‐Temperature Flexible Perovskite Solar Cells. Angewandte Chemie. 135(41). 4 indexed citations

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Cai, Weilun, Tinghuan Yang, Yajie Wang, et al.. (2023). Interfacial Engineering for Efficient Low‐Temperature Flexible Perovskite Solar Cells. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 62(41). e202309398–e202309398. 48 indexed citations

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Du, Yachao, Qingwen Tian, Shiqiang Wang, et al.. (2022). Manipulating the Formation of 2D/3D Heterostructure in Stable High‐Performance Printable CsPbI₃ Perovskite Solar Cells. Advanced Materials. 35(5). e2206451–e2206451. 59 indexed citations

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Liu, Qiuju, Weilun Cai, Weiyan Wang, et al.. (2022). Controlling Phase Transition toward Future Low-Cost and Eco-friendly Printing of Perovskite Solar Cells. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. 13(28). 6503–6513. 12 indexed citations

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