Yan Zhao

10.3k total citations · 4 hit papers
243 papers, 8.6k citations indexed

About

Yan Zhao is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Polymers and Plastics and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Yan Zhao has authored 243 papers receiving a total of 8.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 163 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 89 papers in Polymers and Plastics and 78 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Yan Zhao's work include Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics (100 papers), Conducting polymers and applications (84 papers) and Perovskite Materials and Applications (42 papers). Yan Zhao is often cited by papers focused on Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics (100 papers), Conducting polymers and applications (84 papers) and Perovskite Materials and Applications (42 papers). Yan Zhao collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Singapore. Yan Zhao's co-authors include Yunqi Liu, Yunlong Guo, Gui Yu, Chong‐an Di, Ziqi Liang, Huajie Chen, Jianguo Mei, Yani Chen, Hongtao Liu and Ji Zhang and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Chemical Society Reviews.

In The Last Decade

Yan Zhao

225 papers receiving 8.5k citations

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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.

A stable solution-processed polymer semiconductor with record high-mobility for printed transistors

2012 807 citations Yan Zhao, Yunlong Guo et al. profile →
Highly π‐Extended Copolymers with Diketopyrrolopyrrole Moieties for High‐Performance Field‐Effect Transistors

2012 731 citations Huajie Chen, Yunlong Guo et al. profile →
25th Anniversary Article: Recent Advances in n‐Type and Ambipolar Organic Field‐Effect Transistors

2013 614 citations Yan Zhao, Yunlong Guo et al. profile →
A Potential Perylene Diimide Dimer‐Based Acceptor Material for Highly Efficient Solution‐Processed Non‐Fullerene Organic Solar Cells with 4.03% Efficiency

2013 451 citations Yan Zhao, Yunqi Liu et al. profile →

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yan Zhao

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

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20 of 20 papers shown

#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Ester-End-Capped Semiconducting Polymers for High-Performance Field-Effect Transistors Processed from Nonhalogenated Solvents 2025 ·ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces ·Yu Zhang, Xinyi Zhu, (unknown), Zhengran Yi, Yan Zhao, Yunqi Liu	0
2	Attapulgite/Fe3O4 synergistically enable the nanofiber composite separator with high ionic transport ability for lithium batteries 2025 ·Electrochimica Acta ·Bin Wu, Ying Li, (unknown), (unknown), Hai‐Peng Ren, (unknown), Zhenzhen Wei, Yan Zhao	0
3	Synergistic multiscale architecture design and heterointerface engineering enable tailored electromagnetic wave absorption and multifunctional integration 2025 ·Carbon ·(unknown), Yan Zhao, Boyang Wang, Yin Sun, Yulong Peng, Jing Huang, Shangqing Zhang, Lei Tian, Yan Wang, Zhiyuan Yang	5
4	Separator’s contribution to the ion transport in lithium batteries 2025 ·Energy storage materials ·Ying Li, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Mengyao Wang, Zhenzhen Wei, Yan Zhao	1
5	Manipulating single-crystal packing motifs via selenium substitution and end-group variation for high-performance n-type molecular semiconductors 2024 ·Chemical Engineering Journal ·Yuzhong Chen, Zeng Wu, Zekun Chen, (unknown), Zhen Jiang, Wenhao Li, Yan Zhao, Yang Wang, Yunqi Liu	6
6	Liquid nitrogen post-treatment for improved aggregation and electrical properties in organic semiconductors 2024 ·Chinese Chemical Letters ·Yuqing Ding, Zhiying Yi, Zhihui Wang, Hongyu Chen, Yan Zhao	2
7	Thermoelectric Modulation of Neat Ti3C2Tx MXenes by Finely Regulating the Stacking of Nanosheets 2024 ·Nano-Micro Letters ·Junhui Tang, (unknown), (unknown), Yan Zhao, (unknown), Ziqi Liang	13
8	Surface deterioration dependent on the crystal facets of spinel LiNi0.5Mn1.5O4 cathode active material 2024 ·Journal of Energy Chemistry ·Qian Li, Yan Zhao, (unknown), Wujiu Zhang, Yi Liu, Yaru Cui, Chao Shen, Keyu Xie	7
9	Cucurbit[8]uril as a supramolecular lock for designing a dual-chain conjugated polymer photocatalyst for enhanced H₂O₂ production 2024 ·Journal of Materials Chemistry A ·Jie Yin, Si‐Zhe Li, (unknown), Yao Lu, Yan Zhao, Kai A. I. Zhang	1
10	Diffusion limited synthesis of wafer-scale covalent organic framework films for adaptative visual device 2024 ·Nature Communications ·Minghui Liu, Junhua Kuang, Xiaocang Han, Youxing Liu, Wenqiang Gao, Shengcong Shang, Xinyu Wang, Jiaxin Hong, Bo Guan, Xiaoxu Zhao, Yunlong Guo, Jichen Dong, Zhiyuan Zhao, Yan Zhao, Chuan Liu, Yunqi Liu, Jianyi Chen	4
11	The anti-correlation effect of alkyl chain size on the photovoltaic performance of centrally extended non-fullerene acceptors 2024 ·Materials Horizons ·Tainan Duan, Jia Wang, (unknown), Xingqi Bi, Cheng Zhong, Yulu Li, Yuhong Long, (unknown), (unknown), Ke Yang, Huiqiong Zhou, Xiangjian Wan, Yan Zhao, Bin Kan, Yongsheng Chen	9
12	Enhanced Photocatalytic Production of Hydrogen Peroxide by Covalent Triazine Frameworks with Stepwise Electron Transfer 2024 ·ACS Catalysis ·Hao Zhang, (unknown), Kai Chi, Yong Zheng, Xin Ying Kong, Liqun Ye, Yan Zhao, Kai A. I. Zhang	28
13	Particle Classification in the Enhanced Gravity Field Using the Knelson Concentrator 2023 ·Minerals ·Ling Zhang, (unknown), Yan Zhao, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Xinran Zheng, (unknown)	1
14	Rapid Self‐Assembly Process at Air/Water Confined Interface for Highly Aligned Crystalline Polymeric Semiconductor Films 2023 ·Advanced Electronic Materials ·Zeng Wu, Yangjiang Wu, (unknown), Yongkun Yan, Wenhao Li, Longfei Yang, (unknown), Zhiying Yi, Yunqi Liu, (unknown), Yan Zhao	2
15	Aggregation structure and glass transition of intrinsically stretchable semiconducting polymers 2023 ·Matter ·Zhihui Wang, Yangjiang Wu, Qing Zhou, Longfei Yang, Zhiying Yi, Yongkun Yan, Yunqi Liu, Yan Zhao	23
16	An In‐Situ Cyanidation Strategy To Access Tetracyanodiacenaphthoanthracene Diimides with High Electron Mobilities Exceeding 10 cm² V⁻¹ s⁻¹ 2023 ·Angewandte Chemie International Edition ·Zeng Wu, Wentao Liu, Xin Yang, Wenhao Li, Lingli Zhao, Kai Chi, (unknown), Yongkun Yan, Weixuan Zeng, Yunqi Liu, Huajie Chen, Yan Zhao	18
17	Effects of light exposure intensity and time on printing quality and compressive strength of β-TCP scaffolds fabricated with digital light processing 2023 ·Journal of the European Ceramic Society ·N. M. H. Butler, Yan Zhao, (unknown), Shuo Yin	7
18	Wafer-scale integration of stretchable semiconducting polymer microstructures via capillary gradient 2021 ·Nature Communications ·Yuchen Qiu, Bo Zhang, Junchuan Yang, Hanfei Gao, Shuang Li, Le Wang, (unknown), Yewang Su, Yan Zhao, Jiangang Feng, Lei Jiang, Yuchen Wu	48
19	Regulation of the backbone structure and optoelectrical properties of bis-pyridal[2,1,3]thiadiazole-based ambipolar semiconducting polymers via a fluorination strategy 2021 ·Journal of Materials Chemistry C ·(unknown), Yanwei Liu, Lulu Du, Yongkun Yan, Zeng Wu, Yan Zhao, Yunlong Guo, Huajie Chen, Yunqi Liu	9
20	Anisotropic Raman spectrum and transport properties of AuTe ₂ Br flakes 2019 ·Journal of Physics Condensed Matter ·(unknown), Wenlong Ma, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Yan Zhao, Xiumei Ma, Lianming Tong, Shuang Jia, Jianhao Chen	5

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