Xiaozhang Zhu

10.4k total citations · 7 hit papers
165 papers, 9.2k citations indexed

About

Xiaozhang Zhu is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Polymers and Plastics and Organic Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Xiaozhang Zhu has authored 165 papers receiving a total of 9.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 138 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 104 papers in Polymers and Plastics and 38 papers in Organic Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Xiaozhang Zhu's work include Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics (121 papers), Conducting polymers and applications (104 papers) and Perovskite Materials and Applications (76 papers). Xiaozhang Zhu is often cited by papers focused on Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics (121 papers), Conducting polymers and applications (104 papers) and Perovskite Materials and Applications (76 papers). Xiaozhang Zhu collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Japan. Xiaozhang Zhu's co-authors include Shengjie Xu, Feng Liu, Zichun Zhou, Cheng Zhang, Wuyue Liu, Qihui Yue, Chuan‐Feng Chen, Feng Liu, Haijun Fan and Dafei Yuan and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Chemical Society Reviews and Advanced Materials.

In The Last Decade

Xiaozhang Zhu

163 papers receiving 9.2k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

High-efficiency small-molecule ternary solar cells with a hierarchical morphology enabled by synergizing fullerene and non-fullerene acceptors

2018 585 citations Zichun Zhou, Shengjie Xu et al. profile →
Non-fullerene acceptor with asymmetric structure and phenyl-substituted alkyl side chain for 20.2% efficiency organic solar cells

2024 503 citations Yuanyuan Jiang, Shaoming Sun et al. profile →
Organic Solar Cells with 18% Efficiency Enabled by an Alloy Acceptor: A Two‐in‐One Strategy

2021 423 citations Feng Liu, Zichun Zhou et al. Advanced Materials profile →
Subtle Molecular Tailoring Induces Significant Morphology Optimization Enabling over 16% Efficiency Organic Solar Cells with Efficient Charge Generation

2019 409 citations Zichun Zhou, Jianyun Zhang et al. Advanced Materials profile →
19.7% efficiency binary organic solar cells achieved by selective core fluorination of nonfullerene electron acceptors

2024 212 citations Kerui Liu, Yuanyuan Jiang et al. profile →
Organic Solar Cells with Over 19% Efficiency Enabled by a 2D‐Conjugated Non‐Fullerene Acceptor Featuring Favorable Electronic and Aggregation Structures

2023 164 citations Kerui Liu, Yuanyuan Jiang et al. Advanced Materials profile →
20.6% Efficiency Organic Solar Cells Enabled by Incorporating a Lower Bandgap Guest Nonfullerene Acceptor Without Open‐Circuit Voltage Loss

2025 50 citations Yuanyuan Jiang, Kerui Liu 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
Xiaozhang Zhu China	49	7.4k	5.5k	2.2k	1.9k	443	165	9.2k
Weiguo Zhu China	47	7.3k 1.0×	4.1k 0.7×	3.7k 1.7×	1.5k 0.8×	337 0.8×	396	9.1k
Zengqi Xie China	59	10.4k 1.4×	7.4k 1.3×	4.2k 1.9×	1.2k 0.6×	670 1.5×	238	12.3k
Zhiyuan Xie China	59	11.0k 1.5×	7.1k 1.3×	4.7k 2.2×	1.4k 0.8×	811 1.8×	391	13.0k
Yen‐Ju Cheng Taiwan	48	8.4k 1.1×	6.9k 1.3×	2.4k 1.1×	1.6k 0.9×	749 1.7×	137	10.3k
Christian B. Nielsen United Kingdom	54	8.8k 1.2×	7.4k 1.3×	2.3k 1.1×	1.3k 0.7×	1.3k 2.9×	142	11.1k
Rocío Ponce Ortiz Spain	40	5.8k 0.8×	4.2k 0.8×	1.7k 0.8×	1.3k 0.7×	652 1.5×	111	7.3k
Hans‐Joachim Egelhaaf Germany	53	8.0k 1.1×	5.1k 0.9×	3.0k 1.4×	923 0.5×	901 2.0×	175	9.8k
Tsuyoshi Michinobu Japan	46	4.4k 0.6×	2.6k 0.5×	2.9k 1.4×	1.9k 1.0×	1.0k 2.3×	228	7.3k
Barry C. Thompson United States	46	9.3k 1.3×	8.8k 1.6×	2.5k 1.1×	1.9k 1.0×	924 2.1×	139	11.7k
Itaru Osaka Japan	56	9.8k 1.3×	7.4k 1.4×	2.3k 1.1×	3.1k 1.6×	1.1k 2.5×	205	12.8k

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Cui, Yongjie, Cuifen Zhang, Yuanyuan Jiang, et al.. (2025). Electronegativity‐Engineered Multidimensional Interactions Enable 20% Efficiency Organic Solar Cells. Advanced Energy Materials. 15(35). 3 indexed citations

Kong, Jilie, Xingxing Shen, Yuanyuan Jiang, et al.. (2025). Manipulating Molecular Conformation Enables Non‐Fused Ring Electron Acceptors with Compact 3D Molecular Packing and Weak Electron‐Phonon Coupling for Efficient Organic Solar Cells. Advanced Functional Materials. 1 indexed citations

Chen, Yongjie, Xuan Zhao, Guanhao Liu, et al.. (2024). Ultranarrow-bandgap small-molecule acceptor enables sensitive SWIR detection and dynamic upconversion imaging. Science Advances. 10(23). 46 indexed citations

Xu, Renjie, Yuanyuan Jiang, Feng Liu, et al.. (2024). High Open‐Circuit Voltage Organic Solar Cells with 19.2% Efficiency Enabled by Synergistic Side‐Chain Engineering. Advanced Materials. 36(26). e2312101–e2312101. 43 indexed citations

Yuan, Dafei, et al.. (2023). Quinoidal conjugated materials: Design strategies and thermoelectric applications. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3. e9120097–e9120097. 9 indexed citations

Sun, Shaoming, Wusong Zha, Chenyang Tian, et al.. (2023). Solution Processed Semi‐Transparent Organic Solar Cells Over 50% Visible Transmittance Enabled by Silver Nanowire Electrode with Sandwich Structure. Advanced Materials. 35(46). e2305092–e2305092. 42 indexed citations

Xu, Renjie, Yuanyuan Jiang, Feng Liu, et al.. (2023). Efficient ternary organic solar cells enabled by asymmetric nonfullerene electron acceptor with suppressed nonradiative recombination. Chemical Engineering Journal. 464. 142507–142507. 8 indexed citations

Zha, Wusong, Limin Chen, Shaoming Sun, et al.. (2023). Bulk Contact Between Silver Nanowires Top Electrode and Interface Layer Enables High Performance of Full‐Solution‐Processed Semitransparent Organic Solar Cell Module. Solar RRL. 7(18). 6 indexed citations

Davies, Daniel W., Sang Kyu Park, Wuyue Liu, et al.. (2023). Controlling Polymorphic Transitions in n-Type Organic Semiconductor Single Crystals by Alkyl Chain Engineering. Crystal Growth & Design. 23(2). 719–728. 6 indexed citations

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Jiang, Yuanyuan, Yixin Li, Feng Liu, et al.. (2023). Suppressing electron-phonon coupling in organic photovoltaics for high-efficiency power conversion. Nature Communications. 14(1). 5079–5079. 103 indexed citations

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Li, Fengting, Yongjie Chen, Xin‐Heng Fan, et al.. (2022). High performance achieved via core engineering and side-chain engineering in organic solar cells based on the penta-fused-ring acceptor. Journal of Materials Chemistry C. 10(19). 7724–7730. 2 indexed citations

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Chen, Yongjie, et al.. (2022). Design of All-Fused-Ring Nonfullerene Acceptor for Highly Sensitive Self-Powered Near-Infrared Organic Photodetectors. ACS Materials Letters. 4(5). 882–890. 52 indexed citations

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Davies, Daniel W., Sang Kyu Park, Prapti Kafle, et al.. (2021). Radically Tunable n-Type Organic Semiconductor via Polymorph Control. Chemistry of Materials. 33(7). 2466–2477. 19 indexed citations

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Huang, Jinfeng, Cai‐Yan Gao, Xin‐Heng Fan, Xiaozhang Zhu, & Lian‐Ming Yang. (2021). A–D–C–D–A type non-fullerene acceptors based on the benzotriazole (BTA) unfused core for organic solar cells. New Journal of Chemistry. 45(29). 12802–12807. 14 indexed citations

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Wang, Pengfei, Xuechen Jiao, Shengjie Xu, et al.. (2019). Boosted photovoltaic performance of indenothiophene-based molecular acceptorviafusing a thiophene. Journal of Materials Chemistry C. 8(2). 630–636. 7 indexed citations

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Zhang, Jianyun, Feng Liu, Shanshan Chen, et al.. (2018). High‐Performance Polymer Solar Cells Achieved by Introducing Side‐Chain Heteroatom on Small‐Molecule Electron Acceptor. Macromolecular Rapid Communications. 40(1). e1800393–e1800393. 25 indexed citations

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Yuan, Dafei, Dazhen Huang, Cheng Zhang, et al.. (2017). Efficient Solution-Processed n-Type Small-Molecule Thermoelectric Materials Achieved by Precisely Regulating Energy Level of Organic Dopants. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 9(34). 28795–28801. 85 indexed citations

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Zhou, Zichun, Cheng Zhang, Jianyun Zhang, et al.. (2017). Efficient Semitransparent Solar Cells with High NIR Responsiveness Enabled by a Small‐Bandgap Electron Acceptor. Advanced Materials. 29(21). 273 indexed citations

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Ren, Longbin, Dafei Yuan, Eliot Gann, et al.. (2017). Critical Role of Molecular Symmetry for Charge Transport Properties: A Paradigm Learned from Quinoidal Bithieno[3,4-b]thiophenes. Chemistry of Materials. 29(11). 4999–5008. 23 indexed citations

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Zhu, Xiaozhang, Hayato Tsuji, Juan T. López Navarrete, Juan Casado, & Eiichi Nakamura. (2012). Carbon-Bridged Oligo(phenylenevinylene)s: Stable π-Systems with High Responsiveness to Doping and Excitation. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 134(46). 19254–19259. 94 indexed citations

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