Xi Fan

5.7k total citations · 3 hit papers
102 papers, 4.9k citations indexed

About

Xi Fan is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Polymers and Plastics and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Xi Fan has authored 102 papers receiving a total of 4.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 80 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 53 papers in Polymers and Plastics and 31 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Xi Fan's work include Conducting polymers and applications (52 papers), Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics (45 papers) and Perovskite Materials and Applications (29 papers). Xi Fan is often cited by papers focused on Conducting polymers and applications (52 papers), Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics (45 papers) and Perovskite Materials and Applications (29 papers). Xi Fan collaborates with scholars based in China, Macao and Hong Kong. Xi Fan's co-authors include Feng Yan, Huihui Huang, Jinzhao Wang, Naixiang Wang, Yonggao Xia, Guojia Fang, Ya‐Jun Cheng, Bingang Xu, Liujia Ma and Hsinhan Tsai and has published in prestigious journals such as Advanced Materials, Nature Communications and Nano Letters.

In The Last Decade

Xi Fan

99 papers receiving 4.8k 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.

PEDOT:PSS for Flexible and Stretchable Electronics: Modifications, Strategies, and Applications

2019 796 citations Xi Fan, Huihui Huang et al. profile →
Hierarchically Microstructure-Bioinspired Flexible Piezoresistive Bioelectronics

2021 283 citations Tao Yang, Weili Deng et al. ACS Nano profile →
A Double Network Composite Hydrogel with Self-Regulating Cu²⁺/Luteolin Release and Mechanical Modulation for Enhanced Wound Healing

2024 92 citations Xi Fan et al. ACS Nano profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Xi Fan China	38	3.2k	2.1k	1.7k	1.7k	487	102	4.9k
Shougen Yin China	35	3.3k 1.0×	1.8k 0.8×	1.5k 0.9×	2.8k 1.7×	650 1.3×	241	5.3k
Kamal Asadi Germany	37	2.5k 0.8×	1.8k 0.9×	2.4k 1.4×	1.7k 1.0×	190 0.4×	99	4.9k
Xiaoqin Yan China	34	2.2k 0.7×	1.1k 0.5×	1.8k 1.0×	1.8k 1.1×	536 1.1×	64	4.0k
Se Hyun Kim South Korea	45	5.7k 1.8×	2.7k 1.2×	2.7k 1.6×	1.8k 1.1×	205 0.4×	261	7.5k
Kanghyuck Lee South Korea	26	1.8k 0.6×	1.1k 0.5×	2.4k 1.4×	1.7k 1.0×	584 1.2×	47	4.2k
Qi Xu China	45	3.4k 1.1×	2.1k 1.0×	3.3k 1.9×	1.6k 0.9×	549 1.1×	120	5.9k
Lu Li China	41	4.4k 1.4×	2.8k 1.3×	3.3k 1.9×	1.9k 1.1×	299 0.6×	225	7.0k
You Seung Rim South Korea	36	4.6k 1.4×	1.5k 0.7×	1.7k 1.0×	3.4k 2.0×	357 0.7×	144	6.2k
Sang-Hoon Bae South Korea	19	3.0k 0.9×	1.5k 0.7×	1.7k 1.0×	2.4k 1.5×	129 0.3×	20	4.5k
Pei Lin China	42	2.8k 0.9×	1.4k 0.6×	2.5k 1.5×	3.2k 1.9×	446 0.9×	109	5.8k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Xi Fan

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Feng, Wei, Jing Wang, Tao Wang, et al.. (2025). Efficient Rigid and Flexible Perovskite Solar Cells with Uniform Crystallization and Weak Lattice Vibration via Interface Defect Passivation. Nano Letters. 25(42). 15249–15255.

Li, Junfeng, Kwan San Hui, Kaixi Wang, et al.. (2025). Boosting anionic redox of TiS4 via Se anion doping for high-performance Al-ion batteries. Next Energy. 8. 100312–100312.

Gao, Shuai, Xi Fan, Jinzhao Wang, et al.. (2025). Over 26% and 24%-Efficiency Rigid and Flexible Perovskite Photovoltaics through Enhanced Crystallinity and Alleviated Residual Strains. ACS Nano. 19(31). 28888–28899. 1 indexed citations

Chen, Jiwen, et al.. (2024). 22.43%-Efficiency flexible modification-free perovskite solar cells with a uniform and anti-reflective ITO/SiO₂/PET/SiO₂ substrate. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 12(35). 23801–23809. 4 indexed citations

Zhong, Weibing, et al.. (2024). Dual-Layer Textile-Based Wearable Pressure Sensor With Robust Humidity Stability. IEEE Sensors Journal. 24(13). 20742–20749.

Chen, Jiwen, et al.. (2024). 23.81%-Efficiency Flexible Inverted Perovskite Solar Cells with Enhanced Stability and Flexibility via a Lewis Base Passivation. ACS Nano. 18(29). 19190–19199. 32 indexed citations

Wang, Jing, Jinzhao Wang, Jia Li, et al.. (2024). Flexible Narrow Bandgap Sn–Pb Perovskite Solar Cells with 21% Efficiency Using N,N′-Carbonyldiimidazole Treatments. ACS Nano. 18(45). 31390–31400. 10 indexed citations

Fan, Xi, Jinzhao Wang, Jia Li, et al.. (2024). 18.62%‐Efficiency Binary Organic Solar Cells with a PEDOT₁:PSS_2.80 Buffer Layer. Advanced Optical Materials. 12(15). 6 indexed citations

Fan, Xi, Nathan E. Stott, Yunfei Li, et al.. (2023). PEDOT:PSS materials for optoelectronics, thermoelectrics, and flexible and stretchable electronics. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 11(35). 18561–18591. 81 indexed citations

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Li, Yunfei, et al.. (2023). Significant breakthroughs in interface engineering for high-performance colloidal QLEDs: a mini review. Journal of Physics D Applied Physics. 56(34). 343001–343001. 6 indexed citations

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Wan, Juanyong, Xi Fan, Yunfei Li, et al.. (2022). High-Efficiency Flexible Organic Photovoltaics and Thermoelectricities Based on Thionyl Chloride Treated PEDOT:PSS Electrodes. Frontiers in Chemistry. 9. 807538–807538. 7 indexed citations

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Yuan, Cheng‐Zong, Kwan San Hui, Hong Yin, et al.. (2021). Regulating Intrinsic Electronic Structures of Transition-Metal-Based Catalysts and the Potential Applications for Electrocatalytic Water Splitting. ACS Materials Letters. 3(6). 752–780. 105 indexed citations

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Yang, Tao, Weili Deng, Xiang Chu, et al.. (2021). Hierarchically Microstructure-Bioinspired Flexible Piezoresistive Bioelectronics. ACS Nano. 15(7). 11555–11563. 283 indexed citations breakdown →

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Xia, Yonggao, Huihui Huang, Shuangchun Wen, et al.. (2020). Boosted efficiency of conductive metal oxide-free pervoskite solar cells using poly(3-(4-methylamincarboxylbutyl)thiophene) buffer layers. Journal of Physics D Applied Physics. 53(28). 284001–284001. 5 indexed citations

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Kong, Wilson, Cihan Bacaksız, Bin Chen, et al.. (2017). Angle resolved vibrational properties of anisotropic transition metal trichalcogenide nanosheets. Nanoscale. 9(12). 4175–4182. 63 indexed citations

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Wu, Kedi, Engin Torun, Hasan Şahin, et al.. (2016). Unusual lattice vibration characteristics in whiskers of the pseudo-one-dimensional titanium trisulfide TiS3. Nature Communications. 7(1). 12952–12952. 83 indexed citations

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Zhou, Xiaodong, et al.. (2015). Enhanced efficiency of inverted polymer solar cells by using solution-processed TiOx/CsOx cathode buffer layer. Nanoscale Research Letters. 10(1). 29–29. 9 indexed citations

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Cui, Chaohua, Xi Fan, Maojie Zhang, et al.. (2011). A D–A copolymer of dithienosilole and a new acceptor unit of naphtho[2,3-c]thiophene-4,9-dione for efficient polymer solar cells. Chemical Communications. 47(40). 11345–11345. 66 indexed citations

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Fan, Xi, et al.. (2007). Fabrication of well-ordered CuO nanowire arrays by direct oxidation of sputter-deposited Cu3N film. Materials Letters. 62(12-13). 1805–1808. 40 indexed citations

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Yue, Guanghui, et al.. (2006). Solvothermal route synthesis of single-crystalline α-MnO2 nanowires. Journal of Crystal Growth. 294(2). 385–388. 28 indexed citations

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