Yanming Sun

30.3k total citations · 21 hit papers
243 papers, 25.3k citations indexed

About

Yanming Sun is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Polymers and Plastics and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Yanming Sun has authored 243 papers receiving a total of 25.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 228 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 190 papers in Polymers and Plastics and 28 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Yanming Sun's work include Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics (218 papers), Conducting polymers and applications (189 papers) and Perovskite Materials and Applications (126 papers). Yanming Sun is often cited by papers focused on Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics (218 papers), Conducting polymers and applications (189 papers) and Perovskite Materials and Applications (126 papers). Yanming Sun collaborates with scholars based in China, South Korea and United States. Yanming Sun's co-authors include Alan J. Heeger, Lijun Huo, Yunhao Cai, Feng Liu, Jung Hwa Seo, Christopher J. Takacs, Chao Li, Zhaohui Wang, Huiting Fu and Jiali Song and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Advanced Materials and Angewandte Chemie International Edition.

In The Last Decade

Yanming Sun

237 papers receiving 25.1k citations

Hit Papers

Single-junction organ... 2011 2026 2016 2021 2022 2021 2011 2016 2016 500 1000 1.5k 2.0k
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. Single-junction organic solar cells with over 19% efficiency enabled by a refined double-fibril network morphology
    2022 2.1k citations Chao Li, Jiali Song et al. profile →
  2. Non-fullerene acceptors with branched side chains and improved molecular packing to exceed 18% efficiency in organic solar cells
    2021 1.9k citations Chao Li, Jiali Song et al. profile →
  3. Inverted Polymer Solar Cells Integrated with a Low‐Temperature‐Annealed Sol‐Gel‐Derived ZnO Film as an Electron Transport Layer
    2011 1.4k citations Yanming Sun et al. Advanced Materials profile →
  4. High-Performance Electron Acceptor with Thienyl Side Chains for Organic Photovoltaics
    2016 921 citations Lijun Huo, Wei Ma et al. profile →
  5. A Facile Planar Fused-Ring Electron Acceptor for As-Cast Polymer Solar Cells with 8.71% Efficiency
    2016 896 citations Lijun Huo, Yanming Sun et al. profile →
  6. High-Performance Solution-Processed Non-Fullerene Organic Solar Cells Based on Selenophene-Containing Perylene Bisimide Acceptor
    2015 646 citations Lijun Huo, Yanming Sun et al. profile →
  7. Improved High-Efficiency Organic Solar Cells via Incorporation of a Conjugated Polyelectrolyte Interlayer
    2011 520 citations Yanming Sun et al. profile →
  8. Efficient, Air‐Stable Bulk Heterojunction Polymer Solar Cells Using MoOx as the Anode Interfacial Layer
    2011 517 citations Yanming Sun et al. Advanced Materials profile →
  9. High mobility emissive organic semiconductor
    2015 486 citations Yanming Sun et al. Nature Communications profile →
  10. Single‐Junction Organic Solar Cells Based on a Novel Wide‐Bandgap Polymer with Efficiency of 9.7%
    2015 483 citations Lijun Huo, Xiaobo Sun et al. Advanced Materials profile →
  11. Non-Fullerene-Acceptor-Based Bulk-Heterojunction Organic Solar Cells with Efficiency over 7%
    2015 481 citations Yunhao Cai, Lijun Huo et al. profile →
  12. Three-Bladed Rylene Propellers with Three-Dimensional Network Assembly for Organic Electronics
    2016 459 citations Wei Ma, Lijun Huo et al. profile →
  13. A Well‐Mixed Phase Formed by Two Compatible Non‐Fullerene Acceptors Enables Ternary Organic Solar Cells with Efficiency over 18.6%
    2021 403 citations Yunhao Cai, Yun Li et al. Advanced Materials profile →
  14. Polymer Donors for High‐Performance Non‐Fullerene Organic Solar Cells
    2018 392 citations Zhaohui Wang, Yanming Sun et al. Angewandte Chemie International Edition profile →
  15. A unified description of non-radiative voltage losses in organic solar cells
    2021 360 citations Xiankai Chen, Wolfgang Tress et al. profile →
  16. Optimized active layer morphology toward efficient and polymer batch insensitive organic solar cells
    2020 312 citations Kangkang Weng, Linglong Ye et al. Nature Communications profile →
  17. Vertically optimized phase separation with improved exciton diffusion enables efficient organic solar cells with thick active layers
    2022 262 citations Yunhao Cai, Qian Li et al. Nature Communications profile →
  18. Fibrillization of Non‐Fullerene Acceptors Enables 19% Efficiency Pseudo‐Bulk Heterojunction Organic Solar Cells
    2022 238 citations Wei Li, Yanming Sun et al. Advanced Materials profile →
  19. High fill factor organic solar cells with increased dielectric constant and molecular packing density
    2022 188 citations Jiali Song, Jianqi Zhang et al. profile →
  20. Auxiliary sequential deposition enables 19%-efficiency organic solar cells processed from halogen-free solvents
    2023 161 citations Siwei Luo, Chao Li et al. Nature Communications profile →
  21. Non‐halogenated Solvent‐Processed Organic Solar Cells with Approaching 20 % Efficiency and Improved Photostability
    2024 133 citations Jiali Song, Chen Zhang et al. Angewandte Chemie International Edition profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Yanming Sun China 73 23.9k 19.6k 3.1k 1.7k 1.4k 243 25.3k
Xugang Guo China 68 15.9k 0.7× 13.5k 0.7× 2.8k 0.9× 1.2k 0.7× 1.3k 0.9× 253 17.3k
Yuze Lin China 55 18.6k 0.8× 14.1k 0.7× 4.4k 1.4× 1.5k 0.9× 725 0.5× 144 19.6k
Changduk Yang South Korea 63 17.6k 0.7× 13.8k 0.7× 3.7k 1.2× 1.1k 0.7× 1.8k 1.2× 275 19.3k
Koen Vandewal Belgium 70 16.6k 0.7× 12.0k 0.6× 3.4k 1.1× 985 0.6× 1.5k 1.0× 206 17.9k
Martijn M. Wienk Netherlands 71 19.7k 0.8× 15.3k 0.8× 5.5k 1.7× 1.7k 1.0× 1.7k 1.2× 210 21.9k
L. Jan Anton Koster Netherlands 58 18.5k 0.8× 13.2k 0.7× 5.3k 1.7× 712 0.4× 1.3k 0.9× 147 19.5k
Wei Ma China 99 41.3k 1.7× 35.4k 1.8× 4.0k 1.3× 2.4k 1.4× 2.4k 1.6× 524 43.1k
Xinhui Lu Hong Kong 99 36.7k 1.5× 28.3k 1.4× 7.1k 2.3× 1.6k 1.0× 1.9k 1.3× 534 38.2k
Lijun Huo China 60 15.0k 0.6× 13.3k 0.7× 1.7k 0.5× 1.3k 0.8× 687 0.5× 138 15.9k
Pierre M. Beaujuge Saudi Arabia 49 10.1k 0.4× 9.4k 0.5× 2.3k 0.7× 1.2k 0.7× 987 0.7× 93 12.3k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yanming Sun

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Liu, Chunhui, Yunsong Lian, Jiali Song, et al.. (2025). Oligomeric Carbazole Phosphonic Acid as Hole‐Transporting Layer for Organic Solar Cells With Efficiency of 19.63%. Advanced Functional Materials. 35(13). 10 indexed citations
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Liu, Jinfeng, Xiaopeng Duan, Junjie Zhang, et al.. (2025). Acridine‐Substituted‐Centronucleus Nonfullerene Acceptors Enables Organic Solar Cells with Over 20% Efficiency with Low Nonradiative Recombination Loss. Angewandte Chemie. 137(24). 2 indexed citations
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Liu, Jinfeng, Xiaopeng Duan, Junjie Zhang, et al.. (2025). Acridine‐Substituted‐Centronucleus Nonfullerene Acceptors Enables Organic Solar Cells with Over 20% Efficiency with Low Nonradiative Recombination Loss. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 64(24). e202500129–e202500129. 6 indexed citations
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Zhang, Cen, Xiaopeng Duan, Chunhui Liu, et al.. (2025). Star-branched polymer donors enabling high-performance organic solar cells with superior flexibility and intrinsic stretchability. Nature Communications. 16(1). 10141–10141.
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Song, Jiali, Chen Zhang, Chao Li, et al.. (2024). Non‐halogenated Solvent‐Processed Organic Solar Cells with Approaching 20 % Efficiency and Improved Photostability. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 63(22). e202404297–e202404297. 133 indexed citations breakdown →
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Li, Yun, Le Mei, Zhongwei Ge, et al.. (2024). Conjugation‐Broken Dimer Acceptors Enable High‐Efficiency, Stable, and Flexibility‐Robust Organic Solar Cells. Advanced Materials. 36(35). 23 indexed citations
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Song, Jiali, Jiawei Qiao, Qianqian Wang, et al.. (2024). Binary all-polymer solar cells with 19.30% efficiency enabled by bromodibenzothiophene-based solid additive. Energy & Environmental Science. 18(1). 397–405. 15 indexed citations
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Zhao, Xingchao, Xiaomin Li, Ming Liu, et al.. (2024). Photomultiplication-type all-polymer photodetectors and their applications in photoplethysmography sensor. Acta Physico-Chimica Sinica. 41(1). 100007–100007. 27 indexed citations
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Ye, Linglong, Yinuo Yang, Chunhui Liu, et al.. (2023). Directly Cross‐Linked Conjugated Polymer Donor Enables Efficient Polymer Solar Cells with Extraordinary Mechanical Robustness. Small. 19(41). e2303226–e2303226. 11 indexed citations
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Gui, Pengbin, Yanming Sun, Shuxin Wang, et al.. (2023). Surface Microstructure Engineering in MAPbBr3 Microsheets for Performance-Enhanced Photodetectors. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 15(51). 59955–59963. 2 indexed citations
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Luo, Siwei, Chao Li, Jianquan Zhang, et al.. (2023). Auxiliary sequential deposition enables 19%-efficiency organic solar cells processed from halogen-free solvents. Nature Communications. 14(1). 6964–6964. 161 indexed citations breakdown →
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Wu, Hongbo, Zaifei Ma, Mengyang Li, et al.. (2023). Impact of donor halogenation on reorganization energies and voltage losses in bulk-heterojunction solar cells. Energy & Environmental Science. 16(3). 1277–1290. 32 indexed citations
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Cai, Yunhao, Qian Li, Guanyu Lu, et al.. (2022). Vertically optimized phase separation with improved exciton diffusion enables efficient organic solar cells with thick active layers. Nature Communications. 13(1). 262 indexed citations breakdown →
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Cai, Yunhao, Hongbo Wu, Ailing Tang, et al.. (2020). Solution‐Processed Organic Solar Cells with High Open‐Circuit Voltage of 1.3 V and Low Non‐Radiative Voltage Loss of 0.16 V. Advanced Materials. 32(39). e2002122–e2002122. 197 indexed citations
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Chen, You, Yanfang Geng, Ailing Tang, et al.. (2019). Changing the π-bridge from thiophene to thieno[3,2-b]thiophene for the D–π–A type polymer enables high performance fullerene-free organic solar cells. Chemical Communications. 55(47). 6708–6710. 96 indexed citations
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Sun, Lili, Jun Cai, Yanming Sun, & Deyuan Zhang. (2019). Three-dimensional assembly of silver nanoparticles spatially confined by cellular structure of Spirulina , from nanospheres to nanosheets. Nanotechnology. 30(49). 495704–495704. 5 indexed citations
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Geng, Yanfang, Qingdao Zeng, Jian‐Yong Hu, et al.. (2019). Exploring a Fused 2-(Thiophen-2-yl)thieno[3,2-b]thiophene (T-TT) Building Block to Construct n-Type Polymer for High-Performance All-Polymer Solar Cells. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 11(45). 42412–42419. 15 indexed citations
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Weng, Kangkang, Xiaonan Xue, Qi Feng, et al.. (2018). Synergistic Effects of Fluorination and Alkylthiolation on the Photovoltaic Performance of the Poly(benzodithiophene-benzothiadiazole) Copolymers. ACS Applied Energy Materials. 1(9). 4686–4694. 10 indexed citations

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