Yang‐Kun Qu

3.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
39 papers, 2.8k citations indexed

About

Yang‐Kun Qu is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Organic Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Yang‐Kun Qu has authored 39 papers receiving a total of 2.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 32 papers in Materials Chemistry, 29 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 4 papers in Organic Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Yang‐Kun Qu's work include Organic Light-Emitting Diodes Research (26 papers), Luminescence and Fluorescent Materials (24 papers) and Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics (20 papers). Yang‐Kun Qu is often cited by papers focused on Organic Light-Emitting Diodes Research (26 papers), Luminescence and Fluorescent Materials (24 papers) and Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics (20 papers). Yang‐Kun Qu collaborates with scholars based in China, Macao and United States. Yang‐Kun Qu's co-authors include Liang‐Sheng Liao, Zuo‐Quan Jiang, Shengyi Yang, Xun Tang, Xian‐He Bu, Cheng Zhong, Guorong Li, Lin‐Song Cui, Florian Auras and Richard H. Friend and has published in prestigious journals such as Advanced Materials, Angewandte Chemie International Edition and Nature Materials.

In The Last Decade

Yang‐Kun Qu

37 papers receiving 2.8k citations

Hit Papers

Highly efficient luminescence from space-confined charge-... 2020 2026 2022 2024 2020 200 400 600
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  1. Highly efficient luminescence from space-confined charge-transfer emitters
    2020 632 citations Xun Tang, Lin‐Song Cui et al. Nature Materials profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Yang‐Kun Qu China 23 2.1k 1.9k 575 376 254 39 2.8k
Vonika Ka‐Man Au Hong Kong 22 2.0k 1.0× 1.3k 0.7× 622 1.1× 1.2k 3.2× 527 2.1× 44 3.2k
Yuhlong Oliver Su Taiwan 24 1.4k 0.7× 1.2k 0.6× 338 0.6× 476 1.3× 200 0.8× 69 2.5k
Shawkat M. Aly Canada 23 1.1k 0.5× 598 0.3× 372 0.6× 313 0.8× 364 1.4× 68 1.6k
Elena Lucenti Italy 21 1.6k 0.8× 807 0.4× 454 0.8× 558 1.5× 389 1.5× 69 2.0k
Daniele Marinotto Italy 26 1.6k 0.8× 900 0.5× 343 0.6× 522 1.4× 771 3.0× 81 2.4k
Gabriel Canard France 19 1.4k 0.7× 735 0.4× 232 0.4× 380 1.0× 188 0.7× 64 1.7k
Taifeng Liu China 20 763 0.4× 798 0.4× 310 0.5× 524 1.4× 170 0.7× 34 1.6k
Valery N. Kozhevnikov United Kingdom 31 2.0k 0.9× 1.4k 0.8× 372 0.6× 1.3k 3.4× 697 2.7× 83 3.2k
Dong Ryeol Whang South Korea 28 1.4k 0.6× 1.1k 0.6× 197 0.3× 485 1.3× 151 0.6× 79 2.2k
Akitaka Ito Japan 24 1.2k 0.6× 626 0.3× 451 0.8× 697 1.9× 325 1.3× 82 2.0k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yang‐Kun Qu

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All Works

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Wu, Junzi, Yang‐Kun Qu, Hongyan Yan, et al.. (2025). B─N Covalent Bonds and Twin‐Spiro Fused Design Strategy for the Construction of Narrowband Multiple Resonance Emitters. Advanced Functional Materials. 35(45). 3 indexed citations
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Zhao, Kexiang, et al.. (2025). A Modular Approach Toward BN‐Embedded Terrylene Diimides. Angewandte Chemie. 137(22). 1 indexed citations
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Qu, Yang‐Kun, Dong‐Ying Zhou, Qi Zheng, et al.. (2024). Linearly Arranged Multi‐π‐Stacked Structure for Efficient Through‐Space Charge‐Transfer Emitters. Angewandte Chemie. 136(38).
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Qu, Yang‐Kun, Dong‐Ying Zhou, Qi Zheng, et al.. (2024). Linearly Arranged Multi‐π‐Stacked Structure for Efficient Through‐Space Charge‐Transfer Emitters. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 63(38). e202408712–e202408712. 22 indexed citations
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Qu, Yang‐Kun, Qi Zheng, Dong‐Ying Zhou, et al.. (2024). Unraveling the Configuration Modulation in Spiro‐Based Through‐Space Charge Transfer Materials. Angewandte Chemie. 137(6). 1 indexed citations
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Qu, Yang‐Kun, Qi Zheng, Dong‐Ying Zhou, et al.. (2024). Unraveling the Configuration Modulation in Spiro‐Based Through‐Space Charge Transfer Materials. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 64(6). e202418008–e202418008. 6 indexed citations
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Yu, You‐Jun, Min Song, Yang‐Kun Qu, et al.. (2023). Design and Synthesis of Red Through-Space Charge Transfer Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence Emitters with Donor/Acceptor/Donor Stacking. Organic Letters. 25(32). 6024–6028. 22 indexed citations
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Zuo, Peng, Yang‐Kun Qu, Qi Zheng, Liang‐Sheng Liao, & Zuo‐Quan Jiang. (2023). Sensitized organic light-emitting diodes: towards high efficiency and long lifetimes. Materials Chemistry Frontiers. 7(9). 1760–1780. 29 indexed citations
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Qu, Yang‐Kun, Dong‐Ying Zhou, Fan‐Cheng Kong, et al.. (2022). Steric Modulation of Spiro Structure for Highly Efficient Multiple Resonance Emitters. Angewandte Chemie. 134(22). 10 indexed citations
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Qu, Yang‐Kun, Dong‐Ying Zhou, Fan‐Cheng Kong, et al.. (2022). Steric Modulation of Spiro Structure for Highly Efficient Multiple Resonance Emitters. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 61(22). e202201886–e202201886. 167 indexed citations
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Zheng, Qi, Xueqi Wang, Yang‐Kun Qu, et al.. (2022). Solution-processable through-space charge-transfer emitters via solubilizing groups modification. npj Flexible Electronics. 6(1). 21 indexed citations
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Yu, You‐Jun, Sheng‐Nan Zou, Chen‐Chen Peng, et al.. (2022). Efficient narrowband electroluminescence based on a hetero-bichromophore thermally activated delayed fluorescence dyad. Journal of Materials Chemistry C. 10(12). 4941–4946. 30 indexed citations
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Zou, Sheng‐Nan, Chen‐Chen Peng, Shengyi Yang, et al.. (2021). Fully Bridged Triphenylamine Derivatives as Color-Tunable Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence Emitters. Organic Letters. 23(3). 958–962. 116 indexed citations
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Liu, Taifeng, Qinghai Zhou, Lei Yang, et al.. (2021). Divergent Synthesis of Contorted Polycyclic Aromatics Containing Pentagons, Heptagon, and/or Azulene. Organic Letters. 24(2). 472–477. 12 indexed citations
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Yang, Shengyi, Sheng‐Nan Zou, Fan‐Cheng Kong, et al.. (2021). A narrowband blue circularly polarized thermally activated delayed fluorescence emitter with a hetero-helicene structure. Chemical Communications. 57(84). 11041–11044. 79 indexed citations
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Qu, Yang‐Kun, Qi Zheng, Jian Fan, Liang‐Sheng Liao, & Zuo‐Quan Jiang. (2021). Spiro Compounds for Organic Light-Emitting Diodes. Accounts of Materials Research. 2(12). 1261–1271. 123 indexed citations
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Tang, Xun, Lin‐Song Cui, Hongcheng Li, et al.. (2020). Highly efficient luminescence from space-confined charge-transfer emitters. Nature Materials. 19(12). 1332–1338. 632 indexed citations breakdown →
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Li, Hongcheng, Xun Tang, Shengyi Yang, et al.. (2020). Spatial donor/acceptor architecture for intramolecular charge-transfer emitter. Chinese Chemical Letters. 32(3). 1245–1248. 23 indexed citations
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Wu, Bin, Man‐Rong Li, Shuning Xiao, et al.. (2017). A graphyne-like porous carbon-rich network synthesized via alkyne metathesis. Nanoscale. 9(33). 11939–11943. 41 indexed citations

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