Yao Chen

3.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
87 papers, 2.8k citations indexed

About

Yao Chen is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Polymers and Plastics and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Yao Chen has authored 87 papers receiving a total of 2.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 72 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 42 papers in Polymers and Plastics and 20 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Yao Chen's work include Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics (40 papers), Conducting polymers and applications (33 papers) and Perovskite Materials and Applications (21 papers). Yao Chen is often cited by papers focused on Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics (40 papers), Conducting polymers and applications (33 papers) and Perovskite Materials and Applications (21 papers). Yao Chen collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Japan. Yao Chen's co-authors include Antonio Facchetti, Tobin J. Marks, Wei Huang, Binghao Wang, Yan Huang, Jianhua Chen, Zhiyun Lu, Junsheng Yu, Lin Yang and Ding Zheng and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Advanced Materials.

In The Last Decade

Yao Chen

85 papers receiving 2.8k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

  1. Highly stretchable organic electrochemical transistors with strain-resistant performance
    2022 181 citations Jianhua Chen, Wei Huang 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
Yao Chen China 32 2.1k 1.6k 735 544 162 87 2.8k
Yunfeng Deng China 36 3.0k 1.4× 2.4k 1.5× 668 0.9× 572 1.1× 176 1.1× 131 3.5k
Tae Kyu An South Korea 31 2.7k 1.3× 1.6k 1.0× 946 1.3× 704 1.3× 173 1.1× 160 3.4k
Juhwan Kim South Korea 25 2.0k 1.0× 1.1k 0.7× 689 0.9× 678 1.2× 172 1.1× 67 2.7k
Xiaowen Hu China 34 3.0k 1.4× 2.3k 1.4× 838 1.1× 438 0.8× 607 3.7× 98 3.8k
Xiaohan Wu China 29 2.2k 1.1× 900 0.6× 1.0k 1.4× 777 1.4× 251 1.5× 111 3.2k
P. Santhosh India 31 1.9k 0.9× 1.1k 0.7× 474 0.6× 617 1.1× 289 1.8× 76 2.9k
Khaulah Sulaiman Malaysia 27 2.0k 0.9× 1.3k 0.8× 765 1.0× 642 1.2× 189 1.2× 134 2.6k
Xinyi Tang China 25 1.5k 0.7× 1.8k 1.1× 486 0.7× 837 1.5× 390 2.4× 110 3.0k

Countries citing papers authored by Yao Chen

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Fields of papers citing papers by Yao Chen

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yao Chen

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Yao Chen. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Yao Chen 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 Yao Chen. Yao Chen 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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Chen, Yao, Yaohui Li, Qianyi Ma, et al.. (2025). Ester-functionalized nonfullerene acceptors modulate crystallinity enabling 20% efficiency organic solar cells with scalability. Materials Science and Engineering R Reports. 167. 101118–101118.
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Zhang, Junming, Yao Chen, Xiaojie Zhang, et al.. (2024). Au-doped PtCu2 nanonetworks with interface-rich for enhancing methanol electro-oxidation performance. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy. 71. 14–22. 2 indexed citations
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Bu, Saiyu, Yao Chen, Debra J. Searles, & Qinghong Yuan. (2023). Relationship between graphene nucleation density and epitaxial growth orientation on Cu(111) surfaces. Materials Today Chemistry. 31. 101612–101612. 3 indexed citations
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Chen, Baiquan, Bin Hu, Yao Chen, et al.. (2023). Fine-tuning morphology via oligo(ethylene oxide) side chain engineering for squaraine-based organic solar cells. Organic Electronics. 120. 106851–106851. 2 indexed citations
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Wu, Jianglin, Caixia Fu, Robert M. Pankow, et al.. (2023). Copolymers Based on π-Conjugated Asymmetric Naphthalene Diimide Building Blocks: Synthesis, Crystallography, and Structure–Property–Charge Transport/Photovoltaic Correlations. Chemistry of Materials. 35(23). 10106–10118. 13 indexed citations
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Zhuang, Xinming, Joon‐Seok Kim, Wei Huang, et al.. (2023). High-performance and low-power source-gated transistors enabled by a solution-processed metal oxide homojunction. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 120(3). e2216672120–e2216672120. 22 indexed citations
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Campisciano, Vincenzo, Liang‐Wen Feng, Yao Chen, et al.. (2023). Air-stable ternary organic solar cells achieved by using fullerene additives in non-fullerene acceptor-polymer donor blends. Journal of Materials Chemistry C. 11(24). 8074–8083. 14 indexed citations
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Chen, Yao, et al.. (2023). 3D flower-like CuO@NiAl-LDH microspheres with enhanced removal affinity to organic dyes: mechanistic insights, DFT calculations and toxicity assessment. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 11(41). 22396–22408. 17 indexed citations
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Chen, Jianhua, Wei Huang, Ding Zheng, et al.. (2022). Highly stretchable organic electrochemical transistors with strain-resistant performance. Nature Materials. 21(5). 564–571. 181 indexed citations breakdown →
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Pankow, Robert M., Jianglin Wu, Alexandra Harbuzaru, et al.. (2022). All-Polymer Solar Cells Incorporating Readily Accessible Naphthalene Diimide and Isoindigo Acceptor Polymers for Improved Light Harvesting. Chemistry of Materials. 34(7). 3267–3279. 21 indexed citations
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Afraj, Shakil N., Ding Zheng, Arulmozhi Velusamy, et al.. (2022). 2,3-Diphenylthieno[3,4-b]pyrazines as Hole-Transporting Materials for Stable, High-Performance Perovskite Solar Cells. ACS Energy Letters. 7(6). 2118–2127. 41 indexed citations
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Turrisi, Riccardo, Yao Chen, Li Zeng, et al.. (2022). Systematic Analysis of Self-Assembled Nanodielectric Architecture and Organization Effects on Organic Transistor Switching. ACS Applied Electronic Materials. 4(4). 2015–2025. 3 indexed citations
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Chen, Jia, Guoxi Luo, Xiangguang Han, et al.. (2022). Modeling and Characterization of a Novel In-Plane Dual-Axis MEMS Accelerometer Based on Self-Support Piezoresistive Beam. Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems. 31(6). 867–876. 13 indexed citations
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Zhang, Xinan, Binghao Wang, Lizhen Huang, et al.. (2020). Breath figure–derived porous semiconducting films for organic electronics. Science Advances. 6(13). eaaz1042–eaaz1042. 106 indexed citations
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Chen, Jianhua, Xinming Zhuang, Wei Huang, et al.. (2020). π-Extended Naphthalene Diimide Derivatives for n-Type Semiconducting Polymers. Chemistry of Materials. 32(12). 5317–5326. 48 indexed citations
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Huang, Wei, Sawankumar V. Patel, Li Zeng, et al.. (2020). Experimental and theoretical evidence for hydrogen doping in polymer solution-processed indium gallium oxide. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117(31). 18231–18239. 41 indexed citations
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Wang, Binghao, et al.. (2020). Cross-Plane Thermal Conductance of Phosphonate-Based Self-Assembled Monolayers and Self-Assembled Nanodielectrics. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 12(31). 34901–34909. 6 indexed citations
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Shi, Shengbin, Peng Chen, Yao Chen, et al.. (2019). A Narrow‐Bandgap n‐Type Polymer Semiconductor Enabling Efficient All‐Polymer Solar Cells. Advanced Materials. 31(46). e1905161–e1905161. 135 indexed citations

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