Yanna Sun

2.6k total citations · 3 hit papers
64 papers, 2.2k citations indexed

About

Yanna Sun is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Polymers and Plastics and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Yanna Sun has authored 64 papers receiving a total of 2.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 59 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 49 papers in Polymers and Plastics and 9 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Yanna Sun's work include Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics (51 papers), Conducting polymers and applications (49 papers) and Perovskite Materials and Applications (31 papers). Yanna Sun is often cited by papers focused on Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics (51 papers), Conducting polymers and applications (49 papers) and Perovskite Materials and Applications (31 papers). Yanna Sun collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Hungary. Yanna Sun's co-authors include Yongsheng Chen, Xiangjian Wan, Ke Gao, Yuanyuan Kan, Huanhuan Gao, Chenxi Li, Yamin Zhang, Xin Ke, Lingxian Meng and Yuliang Li and has published in prestigious journals such as Advanced Materials, Angewandte Chemie International Edition and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Yanna Sun

62 papers receiving 2.2k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Flexible organic photovoltaics based on water-processed silver nanowire electrodes

2019 327 citations Yanna Sun, Lingxian Meng et al. profile →
Achieving high efficiency and well-kept ductility in ternary all-polymer organic photovoltaic blends thanks to two well miscible donors

2022 198 citations Ruijie Ma, Kangkang Zhou et al. Matter profile →
Rational control of sequential morphology evolution and vertical distribution toward 17.18% efficiency all-small-molecule organic solar cells

2022 174 citations Yanna Sun, Yuanyuan Kan et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Yanna Sun China	22	2.0k	1.5k	342	319	117	64	2.2k
Dong Hun Sin South Korea	22	1.5k 0.8×	1.2k 0.8×	280 0.8×	435 1.4×	93 0.8×	38	1.8k
Sang Myeon Lee South Korea	30	2.1k 1.0×	1.7k 1.1×	272 0.8×	431 1.4×	114 1.0×	54	2.4k
Zhongxiang Peng China	25	1.8k 0.9×	1.5k 1.0×	343 1.0×	243 0.8×	55 0.5×	41	2.0k
Yunfei Zu China	21	3.5k 1.7×	2.9k 1.9×	245 0.7×	314 1.0×	91 0.8×	24	3.6k
Jingyu Zou United States	14	2.3k 1.1×	1.7k 1.1×	439 1.3×	409 1.3×	100 0.9×	16	2.4k
Ding Zheng China	23	1.4k 0.7×	1.1k 0.7×	237 0.7×	475 1.5×	50 0.4×	60	1.6k
Kirill Zilberberg Germany	17	1.7k 0.8×	1.2k 0.8×	270 0.8×	576 1.8×	86 0.7×	19	1.9k
Ole Hagemann Denmark	15	1.6k 0.8×	1.2k 0.8×	365 1.1×	309 1.0×	108 0.9×	17	1.8k
Song Yi Park South Korea	28	2.1k 1.0×	1.5k 0.9×	167 0.5×	575 1.8×	100 0.9×	64	2.3k
Sang Ah Park South Korea	12	1.3k 0.6×	1.1k 0.7×	285 0.8×	466 1.5×	69 0.6×	18	1.5k

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

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Sun, Lei, Xu Zhang, Xunchang Wang, et al.. (2025). Green pathway to 14.51% efficiency in all-small-molecule organic solar cells: Apigenin-mediated morphology control with halogen-free processing. Journal of Energy Chemistry. 108. 819–826. 1 indexed citations

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Xu, Yixuan, Wenqing Zhang, Huajun Xu, et al.. (2025). A highly crystalline small molecule donor based on bithiazole units enabling efficient ternary all-small-molecule organic solar cells. Journal of Energy Chemistry. 104. 789–794. 2 indexed citations

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Liu, Caiyue, Jie Liu, Mai Xu, et al.. (2025). Organic Solar Cells With 19.66% Efficiency Enabled by an Amorphous Three‐Dimensional Guest Acceptor. Advanced Functional Materials.

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Zhang, Xu, Huanhuan Gao, Yuanyuan Kan, et al.. (2024). End‐Extended Conjugation Strategy to Reduce the Efficiency‐Stability‐Mechanical Robustness Gap in Binary All‐Polymer Solar Cells. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 64(3). e202415583–e202415583. 13 indexed citations

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Gao, Huanhuan, Yanna Sun, Yuanyuan Kan, et al.. (2024). Enhancing efficiency and stability of organic solar cells through a simplified four-step synthesis of fully non-fused ring electron acceptor. Journal of Energy Chemistry. 93. 601–608. 7 indexed citations

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Kan, Yuanyuan, Yanna Sun, Yi Ren, et al.. (2024). Amino‐Functionalized Graphdiyne Derivative as a Cathode Interface Layer with High Thickness Tolerance for Highly Efficient Organic Solar Cells. Advanced Materials. 36(16). e2312635–e2312635. 63 indexed citations

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Zhang, Xu, Huanhuan Gao, Yuanyuan Kan, et al.. (2024). End‐Extended Conjugation Strategy to Reduce the Efficiency‐Stability‐Mechanical Robustness Gap in Binary All‐Polymer Solar Cells. Angewandte Chemie. 137(3). 1 indexed citations

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Liu, Chunyan, Nailiang Qiu, Haonan Liu, et al.. (2024). A Low‐Cost 3D Spirobifluorene‐Based Acceptor for High‐Performance Ternary Organic Solar Cells. Advanced Functional Materials. 35(4). 4 indexed citations

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Zhang, Xu, Yawei Miao, Xinyue Jiang, et al.. (2024). Synergy Effect of Symmetry-Breaking and End-Group Engineering Enables 16.06% Efficiency for All-Small-Molecule Organic Solar Cells. ACS Materials Letters. 6(2). 713–719. 7 indexed citations

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Wang, Qian, Xu Zhang, Huajun Xu, et al.. (2023). Silane or Siloxane‐Side‐Chain Engineering of Photovoltaic Materials for Organic Solar Cells^†. Chinese Journal of Chemistry. 41(24). 3703–3713. 8 indexed citations

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Xu, Yixuan, Qian Wang, Xu Zhang, et al.. (2023). Recent Progress in All‐Solution‐Processed Organic Solar Cells. Chinese Journal of Chemistry. 42(2). 190–198. 11 indexed citations

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Zhang, Xu, Jiawei Qiao, Jifa Yu, et al.. (2023). A Bithiazole‐Substituted Donor for High‐Efficiency Thick Ternary Organic Solar Cells via Regulation of Crystallinity and Miscibility. Advanced Energy Materials. 13(23). 59 indexed citations

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Qin, Ying, et al.. (2023). Structural Fusion Yields Guest Acceptors that Enable Ternary Organic Solar Cells with 18.77 % Efficiency. Angewandte Chemie. 135(11). 3 indexed citations

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Xu, Yixuan, Wenqing Zhang, Jianfeng Li, et al.. (2023). Porphyrin-based donor with asymmetric ending groups enables 16.31% efficiency for ternary all-small-molecule organic solar cells. Chemical Engineering Journal. 469. 144063–144063. 14 indexed citations

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Xu, Huajun, Yanna Sun, Yuanyuan Kan, & Ke Gao. (2022). Recent Progress in Design of Organic Electro‐optic Materials with Ultrahigh Electro‐optic Activities^†. Chinese Journal of Chemistry. 40(24). 3001–3012. 12 indexed citations

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Ren, Yi, Jianfeng Li, Yixuan Xu, et al.. (2022). Enhanced Performance via π‐Bridge Alteration of Porphyrin‐Based Donors for All‐Small‐Molecule Organic Solar Cells. Chinese Journal of Chemistry. 41(6). 644–650. 23 indexed citations

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Ma, Ruijie, Kangkang Zhou, Yanna Sun, et al.. (2022). Achieving high efficiency and well-kept ductility in ternary all-polymer organic photovoltaic blends thanks to two well miscible donors. Matter. 5(2). 725–734. 198 indexed citations breakdown →

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Sun, Yanna, Lingxian Meng, Xiangjian Wan, et al.. (2021). Flexible High‐Performance and Solution‐Processed Organic Photovoltaics with Robust Mechanical Stability. Advanced Functional Materials. 31(16). 50 indexed citations

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Liu, Chunyan, Nailiang Qiu, Yanna Sun, et al.. (2020). All-Small-Molecule Organic Solar Cells Based on a Fluorinated Small Molecule Donor With High Open-Circuit Voltage of 1.07 V. Frontiers in Chemistry. 8. 329–329. 18 indexed citations

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Huang, Youguo, Yi Wang, Xiaohui Zhang, et al.. (2019). N-doped carbon@nanoplate-assembled MoS2 hierarchical microspheres as anode material for lithium-ion batteries. Materials Letters. 243. 84–87. 17 indexed citations

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