Yan Yu

3.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
104 papers, 3.3k citations indexed

About

Yan Yu is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Materials Chemistry and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Yan Yu has authored 104 papers receiving a total of 3.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 46 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 45 papers in Materials Chemistry and 38 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Yan Yu's work include Conducting polymers and applications (25 papers), Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials (24 papers) and Perovskite Materials and Applications (15 papers). Yan Yu is often cited by papers focused on Conducting polymers and applications (25 papers), Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials (24 papers) and Perovskite Materials and Applications (15 papers). Yan Yu collaborates with scholars based in China, United Kingdom and United States. Yan Yu's co-authors include Tao Wang, Feilong Cai, Shenglin Jiang, Dan Liu, Liyan Yang, Jianfeng Zang, Robert S. Gurney, Guangzu Zhang, Xuanhe Zhao and German Alberto Parada and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Advanced Materials and Applied Physics Letters.

In The Last Decade

Yan Yu

95 papers receiving 3.3k citations

Hit Papers

Multifunctional “Hydrogel Skins” on Diverse Polymers with... 2018 2026 2020 2023 2018 100 200 300 400
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.

  1. Multifunctional “Hydrogel Skins” on Diverse Polymers with Arbitrary Shapes
    2018 417 citations Yan Yu, Jianfeng Zang et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Yan Yu China 33 1.7k 1.3k 1.2k 1.1k 281 104 3.3k
Zhe Sun China 33 1.5k 0.9× 876 0.7× 1.7k 1.4× 667 0.6× 274 1.0× 107 3.3k
Young‐Hoon Lee South Korea 25 1.1k 0.6× 684 0.5× 1.5k 1.3× 611 0.6× 486 1.7× 70 2.9k
Lu Han China 28 879 0.5× 415 0.3× 1.2k 1.1× 944 0.9× 585 2.1× 98 3.0k
Xiang‐Jun Zha China 24 560 0.3× 689 0.6× 1.7k 1.4× 945 0.9× 287 1.0× 45 3.1k
Meredith N. Silberstein United States 27 828 0.5× 595 0.5× 975 0.8× 584 0.5× 465 1.7× 72 2.8k
Liwei Lin China 22 744 0.4× 813 0.7× 1.6k 1.4× 528 0.5× 279 1.0× 63 2.8k
Pei Huang China 38 785 0.5× 1.5k 1.2× 1.9k 1.6× 879 0.8× 700 2.5× 95 4.0k
Weixing Song China 31 1.5k 0.9× 1.2k 0.9× 1.8k 1.5× 655 0.6× 395 1.4× 67 3.5k

Countries citing papers authored by Yan Yu

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Fields of papers citing papers by Yan Yu

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Yan Yu. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Yan Yu. The network helps show where Yan Yu may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yan Yu

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Liu, Junhua, Ying Wu, Yan Yu, et al.. (2025). Preparation and Performance Study of Graphene Oxide Doped Gallate Epoxy Coatings. Materials. 18(15). 3536–3536. 1 indexed citations
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Liu, Junhua, Ying Wu, Yan Yu, et al.. (2024). Enhancing corrosion resistance of Q355B steel in marine environments using graphene doped inorganic zinc-rich coatings. International Journal of Electrochemical Science. 19(12). 100872–100872. 3 indexed citations
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Zhou, Fei, Yanjun Zhou, Kexing Song, et al.. (2024). Mechanism of the synergistic effect of solid solution strengthening and fine grain strengthening in an as-cast Cu–9Ni–6Sn alloy induced by Mn. Materials Science and Engineering A. 892. 146110–146110. 22 indexed citations
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Wu, Rongfang, et al.. (2023). Direct fabrication of flexible strain sensor with adjustable gauge factor on medical catheters. Journal of Science Advanced Materials and Devices. 8(3). 100558–100558. 10 indexed citations
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Yu, Yan, Jing Wang, Xing‐Wang Wang, et al.. (2022). A Tough, Slippery, and Anticoagulant Double-Network Hydrogel Coating. ACS Applied Polymer Materials. 4(8). 5941–5951. 28 indexed citations
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Huang, Yan, Jing Wang, Weijiang Yu, et al.. (2021). A Bioinspired Hydrogel-Elastomer Hybrid Surface for Enhanced Mechanical Properties and Lubrication. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 13(42). 50461–50469. 31 indexed citations
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Zhu, Yu, Changsheng Chen, Shuo Wu, et al.. (2021). Phosphomolybdic Acid-Decorated Carbon Nanotubes for Low-Power Sensing of NH3 and NO2 at Room Temperature. ACS Applied Nano Materials. 4(2). 1976–1984. 15 indexed citations
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Zhu, Yu, et al.. (2020). Modification of a carbon nanotube FET compact model for digital circuit simulation. Semiconductor Science and Technology. 35(8). 85007–85007. 1 indexed citations
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Yu, Yan, Wei Li, Jinlong Cai, et al.. (2018). Improved efficiency in fullerene and non-fullerene polymer solar cells having an interdigitated interface with the electron transport layer. Materials Chemistry Frontiers. 2(10). 1859–1865. 9 indexed citations
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Song, Yongming, Haoyang Li, Lei Ye, et al.. (2018). A universal respiration sensing platform utilizing surface water condensation. Journal of Materials Chemistry C. 7(10). 2853–2864. 9 indexed citations
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Cai, Feilong, Yan Yu, Jiaxu Yao, et al.. (2018). Ionic Additive Engineering Toward High‐Efficiency Perovskite Solar Cells with Reduced Grain Boundaries and Trap Density. Advanced Functional Materials. 28(34). 165 indexed citations
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Wang, Pang, Feilong Cai, Liyan Yang, et al.. (2018). Eliminating Light-Soaking Instability in Planar Heterojunction Perovskite Solar Cells by Interfacial Modifications. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 10(39). 33144–33152. 34 indexed citations
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Li, Wei, Jinlong Cai, Yan Yu, et al.. (2018). Correlating Three‐dimensional Morphology With Function in PBDB‐T:IT‐M Non‐Fullerene Organic Solar Cells. Solar RRL. 2(9). 52 indexed citations
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Yu, Yan, Wei Li, Feilong Cai, et al.. (2018). Correlating Nanoscale Morphology with Device Performance in Conventional and Inverted PffBT4T-2OD:PC71BM Polymer Solar Cells. ACS Applied Energy Materials. 1(7). 3505–3512. 7 indexed citations
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Yao, Jiaxu, Liyan Yang, Feilong Cai, et al.. (2017). The impacts of PbI2 purity on the morphology and device performance of one-step spray-coated planar heterojunction perovskite solar cells. Sustainable Energy & Fuels. 2(2). 436–443. 44 indexed citations
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Yu, Yan, Feilong Cai, Liyan Yang, et al.. (2017). Versatile Device Architectures for High-Performing Light-Soaking-Free Inverted Polymer Solar Cells. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 9(38). 32678–32687. 18 indexed citations
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Li, Wei, Yan Yu, Yanyan Gong, et al.. (2017). Contrasting Effects of Energy Transfer in Determining Efficiency Improvements in Ternary Polymer Solar Cells. Advanced Functional Materials. 28(5). 55 indexed citations
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Ma, Yunlong, Yan Yu, Jingming Xin, et al.. (2017). Ladder-Type Dithienonaphthalene-Based Small-Molecule Acceptors for Efficient Nonfullerene Organic Solar Cells. Chemistry of Materials. 29(18). 7942–7952. 105 indexed citations
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Yu, Yan, et al.. (2010). Thermal Decomposition Character of Carbide Sludge on Acetylene by Dry Process at Atmosphere of Carbon Dioxide Experiment. Journal of Wuhan University of Technology-Mater Sci Ed. 32(7). 5–7.

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