Xiaodan Gu

15.0k total citations · 6 hit papers
220 papers, 10.8k citations indexed

About

Xiaodan Gu is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Polymers and Plastics and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Xiaodan Gu has authored 220 papers receiving a total of 10.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 154 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 141 papers in Polymers and Plastics and 74 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Xiaodan Gu's work include Conducting polymers and applications (128 papers), Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics (125 papers) and Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials (66 papers). Xiaodan Gu is often cited by papers focused on Conducting polymers and applications (128 papers), Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics (125 papers) and Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials (66 papers). Xiaodan Gu collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Canada. Xiaodan Gu's co-authors include Zhenan Bao, Song Zhang, Tadanori Kurosawa, Michael F. Toney, Yu‐Cheng Chiu, Simon Rondeau‐Gagné, Jie Xu, Kevin L. Gu, Ging‐Ji Nathan Wang and Thomas P. Russell and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Xiaodan Gu

215 papers receiving 10.7k 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.

Intrinsically stretchable and healable semiconducting polymer for organic transistors

2016 1.2k citations Jin Young Oh, Simon Rondeau‐Gagné et al. Nature profile →
Stretchable Self-Healing Polymeric Dielectrics Cross-Linked Through Metal–Ligand Coordination

2016 526 citations Alex Chortos, Franziska Lissel et al. profile →
Efficient Organic Solar Cell with 16.88% Efficiency Enabled by Refined Acceptor Crystallization and Morphology with Improved Charge Transfer and Transport Properties

2020 522 citations Nathaniel Prine, Xiaodan Gu et al. Advanced Energy Materials profile →
The meniscus-guided deposition of semiconducting polymers

2018 395 citations Xiaodan Gu, Kevin L. Gu et al. Nature Communications profile →
Ultra-conformal skin electrodes with synergistically enhanced conductivity for long-time and low-motion artifact epidermal electrophysiology

2021 236 citations Yan Zhao, Song Zhang et al. Nature Communications profile →
Bioadhesive polymer semiconductors and transistors for intimate biointerfaces

2023 147 citations Yunfei Wang, Xiaodan Gu et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Xiaodan Gu United States	57	7.3k	6.8k	4.1k	2.5k	933	220	10.8k
Chan Eon Park South Korea	49	7.2k 1.0×	4.9k 0.7×	3.0k 0.7×	2.1k 0.8×	494 0.5×	263	9.8k
Joseph Strzalka United States	41	5.9k 0.8×	4.6k 0.7×	2.2k 0.5×	2.6k 1.1×	660 0.7×	171	9.5k
Mario Caironi Italy	50	8.9k 1.2×	5.3k 0.8×	2.8k 0.7×	3.2k 1.3×	437 0.5×	247	11.1k
Bob C. Schroeder United Kingdom	44	6.7k 0.9×	5.6k 0.8×	2.3k 0.6×	1.6k 0.7×	595 0.6×	88	8.6k
Natalie Stingelin United Kingdom	53	9.0k 1.2×	6.9k 1.0×	2.2k 0.5×	2.9k 1.2×	902 1.0×	201	11.2k
Yu‐Cheng Chiu Taiwan	39	4.2k 0.6×	3.5k 0.5×	2.4k 0.6×	1.8k 0.7×	474 0.5×	163	6.3k
Yueh‐Lin Loo United States	59	9.2k 1.3×	5.9k 0.9×	3.0k 0.7×	4.6k 1.9×	1.7k 1.8×	216	13.1k
Franziska Lissel Germany	21	2.5k 0.3×	3.4k 0.5×	3.2k 0.8×	1.0k 0.4×	797 0.9×	51	5.9k
Seunghyup Yoo South Korea	57	10.9k 1.5×	3.9k 0.6×	2.8k 0.7×	6.7k 2.7×	639 0.7×	266	14.0k
Youngkyoo Kim South Korea	35	7.5k 1.0×	6.3k 0.9×	1.3k 0.3×	1.9k 0.8×	746 0.8×	233	8.9k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Xiaodan Gu

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Shinde, Vikki N., Zhiqiang Cao, Steve W. Shelton, et al.. (2025). Manipulation of intramolecular hydrogen bonds in conjugated pseudoladder polymer for semiconductivity and solution-processability. Journal of Materials Chemistry C. 13(32). 16590–16599. 1 indexed citations

Nyayachavadi, Audithya, Yunfei Wang, Guorong Ma, et al.. (2024). Tunable Solid‐State Properties and Anisotropic Charge Mobility in Hydrogen‐Bonded Diketopyrrolopyrrole Polymers via Automated Device Fabrication and Characterization. Advanced Functional Materials. 34(40). 4 indexed citations

Zhang, Ben, Weijie Chen, Haiyang Chen, et al.. (2024). Rapid solidification for green-solvent-processed large-area organic solar modules with >16% efficiency. Energy & Environmental Science. 17(8). 2935–2944. 37 indexed citations

Griffin, Anthony, Mark Robertson, Guorong Ma, et al.. (2024). A general strategy to prepare macro-/mesoporous materials from thermoplastic elastomer blends. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 12(22). 13139–13152. 6 indexed citations

Abate, Seid Yimer, Abdul Kalam Shaik, Guorong Ma, et al.. (2023). Fabrication of 1D/3D heterostructure perovskite layers by tetrabutylammonium tetrafluoroborate for high-performance devices. Organic Electronics. 125. 106984–106984. 4 indexed citations

Ma, Guorong, et al.. (2023). Teaching Old Polymers New Tricks: Improved Synthesis and Anomalous Crystallinity for a Lost Semi‐Fluorinated Polyaryl Ether via Interfacial Polymerization of Hexafluoroacetone Hydrate and Diphenyl Ether. Macromolecular Rapid Communications. 44(4). 1 indexed citations

Cao, Zhiqiang, Sara A. Tolba, Zhaofan Li, et al.. (2023). Molecular Structure and Conformational Design of Donor‐Acceptor Conjugated Polymers to Enable Predictable Optoelectronic Property. Advanced Materials. 35(41). e2302178–e2302178. 28 indexed citations

Cao, Zhiqiang, Zhaofan Li, Sara A. Tolba, et al.. (2023). Probing single-chain conformation and its impact on the optoelectronic properties of donor–accepter conjugated polymers. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 11(24). 12928–12940. 13 indexed citations

Abate, Seid Yimer, Ziqi Yang, Guorong Ma, et al.. (2022). Room temperature slot-die coated perovskite layer modified with sulfonyl-γ-AApeptide for high performance perovskite solar devices. Chemical Engineering Journal. 457. 141199–141199. 22 indexed citations

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Galuska, Luke, Eric S. Muckley, Zhiqiang Cao, et al.. (2021). SMART transfer method to directly compare the mechanical response of water-supported and free-standing ultrathin polymeric films. Nature Communications. 12(1). 2347–2347. 56 indexed citations

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Wang, Dongdong, Hongxia Liu, Fang Liu, et al.. (2021). Phase-Separation-Induced Porous Lithiophilic Polymer Coating for High-Efficiency Lithium Metal Batteries. Nano Letters. 21(11). 4757–4764. 72 indexed citations

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Zhao, Yan, Song Zhang, Tianhao Yu, et al.. (2021). Ultra-conformal skin electrodes with synergistically enhanced conductivity for long-time and low-motion artifact epidermal electrophysiology. Nature Communications. 12(1). 4880–4880. 236 indexed citations breakdown →

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Jia, Hanyu, Zhen Huang, Peiyun Li, et al.. (2021). Engineering donor–acceptor conjugated polymers for high-performance and fast-response organic electrochemical transistors. Journal of Materials Chemistry C. 9(14). 4927–4934. 80 indexed citations

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Qian, Zhiyuan, et al.. (2020). Modulating the thermomechanical properties and self-healing efficiency of siloxane-based soft polymers through metal–ligand coordination. New Journal of Chemistry. 44(21). 8977–8985. 21 indexed citations

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London, Alexander E., Md Abdus Sabuj, Joshua Tropp, et al.. (2019). A high-spin ground-state donor-acceptor conjugated polymer. Science Advances. 5(5). eaav2336–eaav2336. 99 indexed citations

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Cao, Zhiqiang, Luke Galuska, Zhiyuan Qian, et al.. (2019). The effect of side-chain branch position on the thermal properties of poly(3-alkylthiophenes). Polymer Chemistry. 11(2). 517–526. 41 indexed citations

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Qian, Zhiyuan, Zhiqiang Cao, Luke Galuska, et al.. (2019). Glass Transition Phenomenon for Conjugated Polymers. Macromolecular Chemistry and Physics. 220(11). 93 indexed citations

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Qian, Zhiyuan, Luke Galuska, Michael U. Ocheje, et al.. (2019). Challenge and Solution of Characterizing Glass Transition Temperature for Conjugated Polymers by Differential Scanning Calorimetry. Journal of Polymer Science Part B Polymer Physics. 57(23). 1635–1644. 41 indexed citations

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Gu, Xiaodan, Yan Zhou, Kevin L. Gu, et al.. (2017). Roll‐to‐Roll Printed Large‐Area All‐Polymer Solar Cells with 5% Efficiency Based on a Low Crystallinity Conjugated Polymer Blend. Advanced Energy Materials. 7(14). 224 indexed citations

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Oh, Jin Young, Simon Rondeau‐Gagné, Yu‐Cheng Chiu, et al.. (2016). Intrinsically stretchable and healable semiconducting polymer for organic transistors. Nature. 539(7629). 411–415. 1160 indexed citations breakdown →

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