Xingchen Ye

13.6k total citations · 4 hit papers
129 papers, 11.5k citations indexed

About

Xingchen Ye is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Xingchen Ye has authored 129 papers receiving a total of 11.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 82 papers in Materials Chemistry, 45 papers in Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials and 35 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Xingchen Ye's work include Gold and Silver Nanoparticles Synthesis and Applications (37 papers), Quantum Dots Synthesis And Properties (34 papers) and Chalcogenide Semiconductor Thin Films (16 papers). Xingchen Ye is often cited by papers focused on Gold and Silver Nanoparticles Synthesis and Applications (37 papers), Quantum Dots Synthesis And Properties (34 papers) and Chalcogenide Semiconductor Thin Films (16 papers). Xingchen Ye collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Germany. Xingchen Ye's co-authors include Christopher B. Murray, Jun Chen, Yijin Kang, Zheng Chen, Cherie R. Kagan, Yuzhi Gao, Thomas R. Gordon, Angang Dong, Nader Engheta and A. Paul Alivisatos and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Xingchen Ye

121 papers receiving 11.4k 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.

Using Binary Surfactant Mixtures To Simultaneously Improve the Dimensional Tunability and Monodispersity in the Seeded Growth of Gold Nanorods

2013 929 citations Xingchen Ye, Jun Chen et al. Nano Letters profile →
A Generalized Ligand-Exchange Strategy Enabling Sequential Surface Functionalization of Colloidal Nanocrystals

2010 770 citations Xingchen Ye, Christopher B. Murray et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
Improved Size-Tunable Synthesis of Monodisperse Gold Nanorods through the Use of Aromatic Additives

2012 740 citations Xingchen Ye, Jun Chen et al. ACS Nano profile →
Ligand Mediated Transformation of Cesium Lead Bromide Perovskite Nanocrystals to Lead Depleted Cs₄PbBr₆ Nanocrystals

2017 413 citations Xingchen Ye, A. Paul Alivisatos et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →

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Author						Papers	Cites
Xingchen Ye	7.9k	3.7k	3.6k	2.7k	1.9k	129	11.5k
Rongkun Zheng	7.2k 0.9×	4.8k 1.3×	4.1k 1.1×	1.9k 0.7×	2.9k 1.5×	371	12.9k
Hongyou Fan	10.3k 1.3×	4.1k 1.1×	2.4k 0.7×	2.3k 0.9×	2.3k 1.2×	118	14.6k
Dong Qin	4.6k 0.6×	2.3k 0.6×	4.0k 1.1×	4.7k 1.7×	1.9k 1.0×	96	10.6k
Elena V. Shevchenko	14.1k 1.8×	7.7k 2.1×	3.9k 1.1×	2.6k 1.0×	2.4k 1.3×	121	17.6k
Xianmao Lu	6.6k 0.8×	5.0k 1.3×	5.4k 1.5×	4.1k 1.5×	3.9k 2.1×	126	13.9k
Nikolai Gaponik	12.0k 1.5×	7.9k 2.1×	2.4k 0.7×	2.4k 0.9×	2.5k 1.3×	263	15.4k
Xing Yi Ling	4.8k 0.6×	2.1k 0.6×	4.1k 1.1×	3.4k 1.3×	2.0k 1.1×	186	9.8k
David Carroll	8.0k 1.0×	5.1k 1.4×	2.1k 0.6×	3.8k 1.4×	822 0.4×	232	13.1k
Nicholas A. Melosh	11.8k 1.5×	3.3k 0.9×	1.9k 0.5×	4.3k 1.6×	1.5k 0.8×	139	18.4k
Jian‐Min Zuo	7.3k 0.9×	4.3k 1.1×	2.6k 0.7×	3.2k 1.2×	1.5k 0.8×	436	14.4k

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Chen, Jun, et al.. (2025). Electron microscopy in nanoparticle self-assembly research. Nano Research. 18(7). 94907286–94907286.

Ye, Xingchen, Yidan Chen, Yibin Ying, et al.. (2025). In situ formed hydrogels for soft bioelectronics. Materials Horizons. 12(22). 9537–9555. 3 indexed citations

Beutler, Elliot K., Yaxu Zhong, Xingchen Ye, et al.. (2025). Scattering vs Interference in Interferometric Scattering Spectroscopy of Plasmonic Nanoparticles. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. 16(18). 4410–4418.

Ye, Xingchen, Le Pang, Guozhen Zhang, et al.. (2025). MXene-based zinc-ion batteries: synthesis, applications, and strategies for performance optimization. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 13(29). 23227–23247. 1 indexed citations

Zhu, Baolin, Jun Chen, Ruipeng Li, et al.. (2025). Superstructural phase transitions in polymer-grafted nanooctahedra. Science Advances. 11(29). eadw2740–eadw2740.

Yan, Xin, et al.. (2024). Magnifying Minds: Exploring the Concepts of Size and Scale with a Public Mural and Integrated Activities. Journal of Chemical Education. 101(8). 3556–3563.

Wang, Yi, et al.. (2024). Complementary Nanoparticle Characterization by Resistive-Pulse Sensing, Electron Microscopy, and Charge Detection Mass Spectrometry. Analytical Chemistry. 96(35). 14239–14247. 4 indexed citations

Jeong, Soojin, Myung-Hoon Choi, Yaxu Zhong, et al.. (2022). Unraveling the Structural Sensitivity of CO₂ Electroreduction at Facet-Defined Nanocrystals via Correlative Single-Entity and Macroelectrode Measurements. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 144(28). 12673–12680. 67 indexed citations

Wang, Yi, Jun Chen, Chenhui Zhu, et al.. (2021). Kinetically Controlled Self-Assembly of Binary Polymer-Grafted Nanocrystals into Ordered Superstructures via Solvent Vapor Annealing. Nano Letters. 21(12). 5053–5059. 28 indexed citations

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Choi, Myung-Hoon, Natasha P. Siepser, Soojin Jeong, et al.. (2021). Electrospray deposition for single nanoparticle studies. Analytical Methods. 13(36). 4105–4113. 9 indexed citations

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Ku, Zahyun, Darryl A. Boyd, Yaxu Zhong, et al.. (2021). Novel computational design of high refractive index nanocomposites and effective refractive index tuning based on nanoparticle morphology effect. Composites Part B Engineering. 223. 109128–109128. 5 indexed citations

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Choi, Myung-Hoon, Soojin Jeong, Yi Wang, et al.. (2021). Characterization of Ligand Adsorption at Individual Gold Nanocubes. Langmuir. 37(25). 7701–7711. 13 indexed citations

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Liu, Yang, Yi Wang, Yaxu Zhong, et al.. (2021). Macromolecular Ligand Engineering for Programmable Nanoprism Assembly. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 143(39). 16163–16172. 27 indexed citations

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Chen, Lei, Alberto Leonardi, Jun Chen, et al.. (2020). Imaging the kinetics of anisotropic dissolution of bimetallic core–shell nanocubes using graphene liquid cells. Nature Communications. 11(1). 3041–3041. 50 indexed citations

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Choi, Myung-Hoon, Natasha P. Siepser, Soojin Jeong, et al.. (2020). Probing Single-Particle Electrocatalytic Activity at Facet-Controlled Gold Nanocrystals. Nano Letters. 20(2). 1233–1239. 131 indexed citations

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Jeong, Soojin, Yang Liu, Yaxu Zhong, et al.. (2020). Correction to Heterometallic Seed-Mediated Growth of Monodisperse Colloidal Copper Nanorods with Widely Tunable Plasmonic Resonances. Nano Letters. 21(1). 887–887. 1 indexed citations

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Hauwiller, Matthew R., Xingchen Ye, Matthew R. Jones, et al.. (2020). Tracking the Effects of Ligands on Oxidative Etching of Gold Nanorods in Graphene Liquid Cell Electron Microscopy. ACS Nano. 14(8). 10239–10250. 41 indexed citations

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Jeong, Soojin, Yang Liu, Yaxu Zhong, et al.. (2020). Heterometallic Seed-Mediated Growth of Monodisperse Colloidal Copper Nanorods with Widely Tunable Plasmonic Resonances. Nano Letters. 20(10). 7263–7271. 67 indexed citations

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Raja, Shilpa N., Xingchen Ye, Matthew R. Jones, et al.. (2018). Microscopic mechanisms of deformation transfer in high dynamic range branched nanoparticle deformation sensors. Nature Communications. 9(1). 1155–1155. 5 indexed citations

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Ashkar, Rana, Michael J. A. Hore, Xingchen Ye, et al.. (2017). Rapid Large-Scale Assembly and Pattern Transfer of One-Dimensional Gold Nanorod Superstructures. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 9(30). 25513–25521. 27 indexed citations

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