Yao Liu

7.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
145 papers, 6.0k citations indexed

About

Yao Liu is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Polymers and Plastics and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Yao Liu has authored 145 papers receiving a total of 6.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 114 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 75 papers in Polymers and Plastics and 26 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Yao Liu's work include Conducting polymers and applications (75 papers), Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics (70 papers) and Perovskite Materials and Applications (58 papers). Yao Liu is often cited by papers focused on Conducting polymers and applications (75 papers), Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics (70 papers) and Perovskite Materials and Applications (58 papers). Yao Liu collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and France. Yao Liu's co-authors include Thomas P. Russell, Todd Emrick, Zachariah A. Page, Xiaowei Zhan, Wenping Hu, Yongfang Li, Haijun Fan, Volodimyr V. Duzhko, Kirk S. Schanze and Xiaojia Chen and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Advanced Materials.

In The Last Decade

Yao Liu

138 papers receiving 5.9k 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.

Cell Membrane Coating Technology: A Promising Strategy for Biomedical Applications

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Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Yao Liu China	41	4.4k	3.0k	1.6k	673	417	145	6.0k
Yang Wang China	39	3.3k 0.7×	2.1k 0.7×	1.1k 0.7×	782 1.2×	420 1.0×	201	5.0k
Xiaochen Wang China	39	3.0k 0.7×	1.9k 0.7×	1.3k 0.8×	379 0.6×	410 1.0×	123	4.2k
Xin Zhang China	45	6.9k 1.6×	5.4k 1.8×	1.7k 1.1×	971 1.4×	840 2.0×	171	9.1k
Chuanlang Zhan China	44	4.9k 1.1×	4.1k 1.4×	1.8k 1.1×	614 0.9×	1.2k 2.9×	167	7.0k
Shiming Zhang China	31	2.5k 0.6×	1.7k 0.6×	940 0.6×	448 0.7×	288 0.7×	110	3.4k
Wei Huang China	47	5.2k 1.2×	3.1k 1.1×	2.0k 1.2×	1.7k 2.5×	203 0.5×	179	7.5k
Heng Liu China	36	3.7k 0.8×	1.9k 0.6×	3.5k 2.2×	432 0.6×	1.3k 3.2×	209	7.2k
Heng Liu China	42	4.9k 1.1×	1.7k 0.6×	2.0k 1.2×	562 0.8×	233 0.6×	246	6.5k
Roger J. Mortimer United Kingdom	37	3.7k 0.8×	5.6k 1.9×	2.2k 1.3×	899 1.3×	788 1.9×	99	8.0k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yao Liu

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Yao Liu. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Yao Liu 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 Liu. Yao Liu 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

Gao, Aijun, et al.. (2025). Interfacial modification in organic solar cells. Chemical Communications. 61(28). 5253–5263. 3 indexed citations

Li, Qiyu, Jun Liu, Hongkai Zhao, et al.. (2025). Self-powered sensing potential in CO2 adsorption-desorption processes. Sustainable materials and technologies. 43. e01293–e01293.

Zhou, Binbin, Min Guo, Yao Liu, et al.. (2025). 2D Perovskite Heterojunction‐Based Self‐Powered Polarized Photodetectors with Controllable Polarization Ratio Enabled by Ferro‐Pyro‐Phototronic Effect. Advanced Science. 12(11). e2414422–e2414422. 6 indexed citations

Hu, Wenzhi, Rui Yan, Ridong Cong, et al.. (2025). Vertical Pyro‐Phototronic Effect and Lateral Photothermoelectric Effect in Perovskite Single Crystals‐Based Photodetector for Narrowband and Broadband Dual‐Modal Optical Communications. Laser & Photonics Review. 19(15). 1 indexed citations

Yang, Yanlian, Yao Liu, Zhe Chuan Feng, et al.. (2025). Spectroscopic Ellipsometry and Correlated Studies of AlGaN-GaN HEMTs Prepared by MOCVD. Nanomaterials. 15(3). 165–165.

Chen, Zhihui, Qi Li, Huijun Tang, et al.. (2025). Dominant Face‐On Oriented Perylene‐Diimide Interlayers for High‐Performance Organic Solar Cells. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 64(18). e202424502–e202424502. 7 indexed citations

Wang, Xu, et al.. (2024). Electroactive and Self‐healing Polyurethane Doped Tin Oxide Interlayers for Efficient Organic Solar Cells^†. Chinese Journal of Chemistry. 42(23). 2979–2986. 3 indexed citations

Chen, Hui, Xiangyang Wang, Yang Xiao, et al.. (2024). iP3T: an interpretable multimodal time-series model for enhanced gait phase prediction in wearable exoskeletons. Frontiers in Neuroscience. 18. 2 indexed citations

Zhao, Sai, Yongkang Jiang, Wei Chen, et al.. (2024). Chaperone solvent-assisted assembly of polymers at the interface of two immiscible liquids. Nature Communications. 15(1). 7423–7423. 6 indexed citations

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Zhang, Lei, Yuxing Wang, Junjie Wen, et al.. (2024). Configurational Isomerization‐Induced Orientation Switching: Non‐Fused Ring Dipodal Phosphonic Acids as Hole‐Extraction Layers for Efficient Organic Solar Cells. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 63(48). e202408960–e202408960. 12 indexed citations

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Liu, Wenxu, Junjie Wen, Yuxing Wang, et al.. (2024). Thienyltriazine Triamides: Thickness Insensitive Interlayer Materials Featuring Fine‐Tuned Optoelectronic and Aggregation Characters for Efficient Organic Solar Cells. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 64(1). e202413135–e202413135. 17 indexed citations

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Jiang, Xing, et al.. (2022). Millimeter-Wave $\pm 45^{\circ}$ Dual Slant Polarization Wide-Beam Antenna. 2022 International Conference on Microwave and Millimeter Wave Technology (ICMMT). 1 indexed citations

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Guo, Yanan, et al.. (2022). Combining Polymer Zwitterions and Zinc Oxide for High‐Performance Inverted Organic Solar Cells. Macromolecular Rapid Communications. 43(22). e2200291–e2200291. 1 indexed citations

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Liu, Yao, et al.. (2021). Syntheses, Crystal Structures, SHG Response and Purple Lumine-scent Property of Tetra(isothiocyanate) Mn(II) and Substituted Benzyl Triphenylphosphonium Cations. 结构化学. 40(6). 739–745.

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Dong, Zhigang, et al.. (2020). Robust cell wall recognition of laser measured honeycomb cores based on corner type identification. Optics and Lasers in Engineering. 136. 106321–106321. 9 indexed citations

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Liu, Yanbo, Yanbo Liu, Ming Hao, et al.. (2020). A review on recent advances in application of electrospun nanofiber materials as biosensors. Current Opinion in Biomedical Engineering. 13. 174–189. 113 indexed citations

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Wang, Zubin, Yao Liu, Pu Guo, Liping Heng, & Lei Jiang. (2018). Photoelectric Synergetic Responsive Slippery Surfaces Based on Tailored Anisotropic Films Generated by Interfacial Directional Freezing. Advanced Functional Materials. 28(49). 66 indexed citations

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Liu, Yao, Baolai Liang, Shufang Wang, et al.. (2015). Electronic Coupling in Nanoscale InAs/GaAs Quantum Dot Pairs Separated by a Thin Ga(Al)As Spacer. Nanoscale Research Letters. 10(1). 973–973. 15 indexed citations

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Liu, Yao, et al.. (2011). High‐Mobility Conjugated Polymers Based on Fused‐Thiophene Building Blocks. Macromolecular Chemistry and Physics. 212(5). 428–443. 97 indexed citations

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Zhang, Shiming, Yunlong Guo, Haijun Fan, et al.. (2009). Low bandgap π‐conjugated copolymers based on fused thiophenes and benzothiadiazole: Synthesis and structure‐property relationship study. Journal of Polymer Science Part A Polymer Chemistry. 47(20). 5498–5508. 96 indexed citations

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