Xiaobo Sun

4.5k total citations · 4 hit papers
63 papers, 4.1k citations indexed

About

Xiaobo Sun is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Polymers and Plastics and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Xiaobo Sun has authored 63 papers receiving a total of 4.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 52 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 43 papers in Polymers and Plastics and 12 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Xiaobo Sun's work include Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics (44 papers), Conducting polymers and applications (42 papers) and Perovskite Materials and Applications (29 papers). Xiaobo Sun is often cited by papers focused on Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics (44 papers), Conducting polymers and applications (42 papers) and Perovskite Materials and Applications (29 papers). Xiaobo Sun collaborates with scholars based in China, South Korea and United States. Xiaobo Sun's co-authors include Yanming Sun, Lijun Huo, Tao Liu, Guangsheng Wang, Huiya Wang, Yunhao Cai, Yunqi Liu, Daoben Zhu, Shuhao Yang and Alan J. Heeger and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Advanced Materials and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Xiaobo Sun

58 papers receiving 4.0k 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.

Single‐Junction Organic Solar Cells Based on a Novel Wide‐Bandgap Polymer with Efficiency of 9.7%

2015 483 citations Lijun Huo, Tao Liu et al. profile →
Hollow porous CoNi/C composite nanomaterials derived from MOFs for efficient and lightweight electromagnetic wave absorber

2020 340 citations Shuhao Yang, Huiya Wang et al. profile →
3D Ultralight Hollow NiCo Compound@MXene Composites for Tunable and High-Efficient Microwave Absorption

2021 250 citations Huiya Wang, Xiaobo Sun et al. Nano-Micro Letters profile →
Bioinspired Disordered Aerogel for Omnidirectional Terahertz Response

2025 38 citations Huiya Wang, Xiaobo Sun et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Xiaobo Sun China	28	2.8k	2.2k	1.0k	879	623	63	4.1k
Wei Shen China	27	2.7k 1.0×	505 0.2×	2.2k 2.1×	216 0.2×	62 0.1×	98	3.2k
Bogyu Lim South Korea	30	2.4k 0.9×	1.8k 0.8×	568 0.6×	184 0.2×	23 0.0×	91	2.9k
Agnieszka Iwan Poland	29	1.8k 0.6×	1.7k 0.7×	903 0.9×	655 0.7×	9 0.0×	160	3.0k
Yecheng Zhou China	36	3.8k 1.3×	2.0k 0.9×	2.3k 2.2×	491 0.6×	15 0.0×	91	4.8k
Zhimin Ma China	21	942 0.3×	139 0.1×	1.3k 1.2×	346 0.4×	56 0.1×	72	1.8k
Ke‐Jian Jiang China	36	2.3k 0.8×	1.3k 0.6×	2.5k 2.5×	164 0.2×	18 0.0×	113	4.3k
K. N. Narayanan Unni India	24	988 0.3×	404 0.2×	655 0.6×	322 0.4×	31 0.0×	76	1.6k
Seokjoon Oh United States	14	1.1k 0.4×	597 0.3×	599 0.6×	74 0.1×	76 0.1×	20	2.0k
Wang Hay Kan China	33	3.0k 1.1×	222 0.1×	1.1k 1.0×	912 1.0×	24 0.0×	97	3.8k
Tai Peng China	27	1.2k 0.4×	295 0.1×	1.6k 1.6×	179 0.2×	32 0.1×	81	2.3k

Countries citing papers authored by Xiaobo Sun

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20 of 20 papers shown

Zhang, Cen, Xiaopeng Duan, Chunhui Liu, et al.. (2025). Star-branched polymer donors enabling high-performance organic solar cells with superior flexibility and intrinsic stretchability. Nature Communications. 16(1). 10141–10141.

Sun, Xiaobo, et al.. (2025). Study of the Micropore Structure and Tribological Properties of PTFE-Modified Porous Polyimide. Lubricants. 13(10). 455–455.

Li, Yun, Hang Jiang, Zhongwei Ge, et al.. (2025). Alkyl chain engineering in β-linked dimer acceptors: Balancing crystallinity and phase separation for high-performance organic photovoltaics. Chemical Engineering Journal. 520. 165809–165809.

Zhang, Wenling, et al.. (2025). Reduced Friction-Wear of Polymer Composites by Poly(ether imide) (PEI)-Induced Transfer Film Adhesion. ACS Applied Polymer Materials. 7(24). 16637–16648.

Xu, Fei‐Fei, Xiaobo Sun, Yu Zhang, et al.. (2025). A strategy for modulation of permittivity in manganese doping to induce lattice distortion. InfoMat. 8(3).

Lyu, Wei, Wenlong Cai, Tuan Wang, et al.. (2023). Thermodynamic equilibrium theory-guided design and synthesis of Mg-doped LiFe0.4Mn0.6PO4/C cathode for lithium-ion batteries. Journal of Energy Chemistry. 91. 619–627. 20 indexed citations

Ye, Linglong, Yinuo Yang, Chunhui Liu, et al.. (2023). Directly Cross‐Linked Conjugated Polymer Donor Enables Efficient Polymer Solar Cells with Extraordinary Mechanical Robustness. Small. 19(41). e2303226–e2303226. 11 indexed citations

Sun, Xiaobo, et al.. (2021). NIR responsive AuNR/pNIPAM/PEGDA inverse opal hydrogel microcarriers for controllable drug delivery. New Journal of Chemistry. 45(17). 7893–7899. 9 indexed citations

Wang, Huiya, Xiaobo Sun, Shuhao Yang, et al.. (2021). 3D Ultralight Hollow NiCo Compound@MXene Composites for Tunable and High-Efficient Microwave Absorption. Nano-Micro Letters. 13(1). 206–206. 250 indexed citations breakdown →

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Ye, Linglong, Yunhao Cai, Hwa Sook Ryu, et al.. (2020). Organic solar cells based on chlorine functionalized benzo[1,2-b:4,5-b′]difuran-benzo[1,2-c:4,5-c′]dithiophene-4,8-dione copolymer with efficiency exceeding 13%. Science China Chemistry. 63(4). 483–489. 8 indexed citations

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Li, Chao, Linglong Ye, Kangkang Weng, et al.. (2019). Asymmetric A–D–π–A-type nonfullerene small molecule acceptors for efficient organic solar cells. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 7(33). 19348–19354. 37 indexed citations

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Wang, Rong, Boxin Wang, Jianqiu Wang, et al.. (2019). A universal approach for optimizing charge extraction in electron transporting layer-free organic solar cells via Lewis base doping. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 7(45). 25808–25817. 13 indexed citations

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Wang, Rong, Dongyang Zhang, Shenkun Xie, et al.. (2018). High efficiency non-fullerene organic solar cells without electron transporting layers enabled by Lewis base anion doping. Nano Energy. 51. 736–744. 31 indexed citations

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Pan, Xuexue, Wentao Xiong, Tao Liu, et al.. (2017). Influence of 2,2-bithiophene and thieno[3,2-b] thiophene units on the photovoltaic performance of benzodithiophene-based wide-bandgap polymers. Journal of Materials Chemistry C. 5(18). 4471–4479. 16 indexed citations

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Cai, Yunhao, Lijun Huo, Xiaobo Sun, et al.. (2015). High Performance Organic Solar Cells Based on a Twisted Bay‐Substituted Tetraphenyl Functionalized Perylenediimide Electron Acceptor. Advanced Energy Materials. 5(11). 97 indexed citations

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Zhou, Yinhua, Jianing Pei, Qingfeng Dong, et al.. (2009). Donor−Acceptor Molecule as the Acceptor for Polymer-Based Bulk Heterojunction Solar Cells. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 113(18). 7882–7886. 41 indexed citations

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Chen, Shiyan, Xinjun Xu, Yunqi Liu, et al.. (2007). Highly efficient blue electrophosphorescent devices with a new series of host materials: polyphenylene-dendronized oxadiazole derivatives. Journal of Materials Chemistry. 17(36). 3788–3788. 28 indexed citations

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Sun, Xiaobo, Yunqi Liu, Xinjun Xu, et al.. (2006). Photophysical properties and electroluminescent applications of donor–acceptor–donor functionalized red electroactive fluorescent materials. Synthetic Metals. 156(18-20). 1174–1181. 8 indexed citations

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Gao, Xike, Weiping Wu, Yunqi Liu, et al.. (2006). A facile synthesis of linear benzene-fused bis(tetrathiafulvalene) compounds and their application for organic field-effect transistors. Chemical Communications. 2750–2750. 38 indexed citations

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Qi, Xin, et al.. (2006). Improved electroluminescent performances of europium-complex based devices by doping into electron-transporting/hole-blocking host. Applied Physics Letters. 89(22). 19 indexed citations

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