Xin Ai

4.8k total citations · 2 hit papers
84 papers, 4.1k citations indexed

About

Xin Ai is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment. According to data from OpenAlex, Xin Ai has authored 84 papers receiving a total of 4.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 52 papers in Materials Chemistry, 44 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 18 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment. Recurrent topics in Xin Ai's work include Organic Light-Emitting Diodes Research (28 papers), Luminescence and Fluorescent Materials (24 papers) and Quantum Dots Synthesis And Properties (13 papers). Xin Ai is often cited by papers focused on Organic Light-Emitting Diodes Research (28 papers), Luminescence and Fluorescent Materials (24 papers) and Quantum Dots Synthesis And Properties (13 papers). Xin Ai collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Germany. Xin Ai's co-authors include Feng Li, Tianquan Lian, Neil A. Anderson, Yingxin Chen, Shengzhi Dong, Haoqing Guo, Emrys W. Evans, Alexander J. Gillett, Richard H. Friend and Garry Rumbles and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Angewandte Chemie International Edition.

In The Last Decade

Xin Ai

76 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.

Efficient radical-based light-emitting diodes with doublet emission

2018 625 citations Xin Ai, Emrys W. Evans et al. Nature profile →
Phenyl-Conjugated Oligoene Sensitizers for TiO₂ Solar Cells

2004 536 citations Xin Ai et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Xin Ai China	29	2.7k	2.1k	1.1k	480	471	84	4.1k
Dengfeng Li China	33	3.2k 1.2×	1.3k 0.6×	688 0.6×	139 0.3×	517 1.1×	138	3.8k
Li Yang China	32	1.2k 0.4×	1.6k 0.7×	833 0.7×	192 0.4×	322 0.7×	161	3.2k
Jeunghee Park South Korea	34	2.6k 1.0×	2.1k 1.0×	746 0.6×	247 0.5×	201 0.4×	60	3.8k
Nina Lock Denmark	33	2.5k 0.9×	894 0.4×	1.1k 0.9×	108 0.2×	355 0.8×	77	3.4k
Mohammad Afzaal United Kingdom	39	2.5k 0.9×	2.0k 1.0×	604 0.5×	146 0.3×	733 1.6×	94	3.8k
Yan Wan China	30	2.0k 0.7×	2.0k 1.0×	210 0.2×	618 1.3×	304 0.6×	109	3.6k
Catherine Combellas France	33	920 0.3×	1.8k 0.9×	490 0.4×	868 1.8×	697 1.5×	163	4.0k
Javad Beheshtian Iran	43	4.7k 1.8×	1.9k 0.9×	386 0.3×	297 0.6×	949 2.0×	109	5.5k
Xijiao Mu China	30	1.5k 0.6×	919 0.4×	377 0.3×	297 0.6×	185 0.4×	96	2.4k

Countries citing papers authored by Xin Ai

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Fields of papers citing papers by Xin Ai

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Xin Ai

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

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

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Wu, Shijia, Jingmin Wang, Zhiyuan Kuang, et al.. (2025). Stable Luminescent Radicals with Efficient Through‐Space Charge‐Transfer Emission. Angewandte Chemie. 137(39).

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Li, Xinye, Rui Zhang, Xin Ai, et al.. (2025). Bacterial cellulose/reduced graphene oxide bilayer films for moist-electric power generation. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 13(12). 8571–8579. 3 indexed citations

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Zhao, Guimin, Xiaoyun Liu, Fangfang Huang, et al.. (2025). Fused nonacyclic carbonyl/nitrogen-containing multi-resonance emitters with simultaneously redshifted and narrowed emission spectra for high-efficiency solution-processed OLEDs. Chemical Engineering Journal. 507. 160102–160102. 5 indexed citations

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Wang, Wang, Miao Feng, Chunxia Chen, et al.. (2025). Strategies for fabrication and potential applications of conjugated microporous polymer films. Chinese Chemical Letters. 37(4). 111611–111611.

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Li, Tao, Guimin Zhao, Yuanyuan Li, et al.. (2025). Carbocation‐Based Multiresonance Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescent Emitters with Efficient Narrowband Electroluminescence. Angewandte Chemie. 137(33). 1 indexed citations

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Li, Tao, Guimin Zhao, Yuanyuan Li, et al.. (2025). Carbocation‐Based Multiresonance Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescent Emitters with Efficient Narrowband Electroluminescence. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 64(33). e202510511–e202510511. 4 indexed citations

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Ai, Xin, et al.. (2024). A Semantically Aware Multi-View 3D Reconstruction Method for Urban Applications. Applied Sciences. 14(5). 2218–2218. 3 indexed citations

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Kuang, Zhiyuan, et al.. (2024). Dual Channel Emissions of Kasha and Anti‐Kasha from a Single Radical Molecule. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 63(42). e202410552–e202410552. 10 indexed citations

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Ai, Xin, et al.. (2024). MUSE: A Runtime Incrementally Reconfigurable Network Adapting to HPC Real-Time Traffic. 765–779. 1 indexed citations

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Ai, Xin, Zhongliang Hu, Xiaofang Lu, et al.. (2024). Interface kinetic manipulation enabling efficient and reliable Mg3Sb2 thermoelectrics. Nature Communications. 15(1). 9355–9355. 17 indexed citations

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Zhou, Ling, et al.. (2024). Spin manipulation in organic radicals. 2(1). 100052–100052. 2 indexed citations

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Ai, Xin, Bing‐Hua Lei, Magdalena Ola Cichocka, et al.. (2023). Enhancing the Thermoelectric Properties via Modulation of Defects in P‐Type MNiSn‐Based (M = Hf, Zr, Ti) Half‐Heusler Materials. Advanced Functional Materials. 33(48). 22 indexed citations

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Zhang, Qihao, Zhongliang Hu, Meng Jiang, et al.. (2022). Mg₃(Bi,Sb)₂-based thermoelectric modules for efficient and reliable waste-heat utilization up to 750 K. Energy & Environmental Science. 15(8). 3265–3274. 64 indexed citations

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Ai, Xin, et al.. (2020). Effects of Introducing Halogen Atoms to Biphenylmethyl Radical on Photostability, Photophysical and Electroluminescent Properties. Gaodeng xuexiao huaxue xuebao. 41(5). 972. 3 indexed citations

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Cui, Zhiyuan, Shaofeng Ye, Lu Wang, et al.. (2018). Radical-Based Organic Light-Emitting Diodes with Maximum External Quantum Efficiency of 10.6%. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. 9(22). 6644–6648. 40 indexed citations

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Ai, Xin, Emrys W. Evans, Shengzhi Dong, et al.. (2018). Efficient radical-based light-emitting diodes with doublet emission. Nature. 563(7732). 536–540. 625 indexed citations breakdown →

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Bass, John D., Xin Ai, Abdulaziz Bagabas, et al.. (2011). An Efficient and Low‐Cost Method for the Purification of Colloidal Nanoparticles. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 50(29). 6538–6542. 37 indexed citations

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Song, Qing, Xin Ai, Teya Topuria, et al.. (2010). Microwave-assisted synthesis of monodispersed CdTe nanocrystals. Chemical Communications. 46(27). 4971–4971. 7 indexed citations

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Xu, Qi, Qing Song, Xin Ai, et al.. (2008). Engineered carbohydrate-binding module (CBM) protein-suspended single-walled carbon nanotubes in water. Chemical Communications. 337–339. 5 indexed citations

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Ai, Xin, Qi Xu, Marcus Jones, et al.. (2007). Photophysics of (CdSe)ZnS colloidal quantum dots in an aqueous environment stabilized with amino acids and genetically-modified proteins. Photochemical & Photobiological Sciences. 6(9). 1027–1033. 15 indexed citations

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