Yao Wu

5.1k total citations · 7 hit papers
77 papers, 4.3k citations indexed

About

Yao Wu is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Polymers and Plastics and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Yao Wu has authored 77 papers receiving a total of 4.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 56 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 40 papers in Polymers and Plastics and 9 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Yao Wu's work include Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics (48 papers), Conducting polymers and applications (39 papers) and Perovskite Materials and Applications (30 papers). Yao Wu is often cited by papers focused on Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics (48 papers), Conducting polymers and applications (39 papers) and Perovskite Materials and Applications (30 papers). Yao Wu collaborates with scholars based in China, Germany and Russia. Yao Wu's co-authors include Jie Min, Rui Sun, Tao Wang, Qiang Wu, Jing Guo, Mumin Shi, Wei Wang, Wenyan Yang, Jie Guo and Zhitian Liu and has published in prestigious journals such as Advanced Materials, Nature Communications and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Yao Wu

73 papers receiving 4.3k citations

Hit Papers

Single‐Junction Organic Solar Cells with 19.17% Efficienc... 2020 2026 2022 2024 2022 2020 2021 2020 2020 100 200 300 400 500
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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. Single‐Junction Organic Solar Cells with 19.17% Efficiency Enabled by Introducing One Asymmetric Guest Acceptor
    2022 552 citations Rui Sun, Yao Wu et al. profile →
  2. A Layer-by-Layer Architecture for Printable Organic Solar Cells Overcoming the Scaling Lag of Module Efficiency
    2020 339 citations Rui Sun, Qiang Wu et al. Joule profile →
  3. Achieving over 17% efficiency of ternary all-polymer solar cells with two well-compatible polymer acceptors
    2021 335 citations Rui Sun, Wei Wang et al. Joule profile →
  4. Controlling Molecular Mass of Low-Band-Gap Polymer Acceptors for High-Performance All-Polymer Solar Cells
    2020 289 citations Wei Wang, Qiang Wu et al. Joule profile →
  5. Simultaneous enhanced efficiency and thermal stability in organic solar cells from a polymer acceptor additive
    2020 260 citations Wenyan Yang, Zhenghui Luo et al. Nature Communications profile →
  6. Balancing the efficiency, stability, and cost potential for organic solar cells via a new figure of merit
    2021 206 citations Wenyan Yang, Wei Wang et al. Joule profile →
  7. High-speed sequential deposition of photoactive layers for organic solar cell manufacturing
    2022 160 citations Rui Sun, Tao Wang et al. 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 Wu China 31 3.7k 3.1k 483 408 302 77 4.3k
Tao Yang China 28 2.4k 0.6× 1.5k 0.5× 948 2.0× 276 0.7× 146 0.5× 122 3.4k
Jian Yang China 30 1.9k 0.5× 1.0k 0.3× 870 1.8× 523 1.3× 379 1.3× 122 3.0k
Longxiang Liu China 34 838 0.2× 1.6k 0.5× 746 1.5× 410 1.0× 225 0.7× 57 3.2k
Youning Gong China 25 2.0k 0.5× 555 0.2× 1.3k 2.7× 664 1.6× 175 0.6× 47 3.5k
Teng Wang China 26 2.1k 0.6× 435 0.1× 1.1k 2.3× 231 0.6× 209 0.7× 67 3.3k
Xiaogang Zhang China 29 1.5k 0.4× 671 0.2× 611 1.3× 234 0.6× 157 0.5× 73 2.3k
Edgar Ventosa Spain 37 3.7k 1.0× 471 0.2× 832 1.7× 195 0.5× 353 1.2× 114 4.6k
Junhong Zhao China 32 1.3k 0.3× 485 0.2× 896 1.9× 433 1.1× 905 3.0× 94 3.0k
Vadali V. S. S. Srikanth India 29 1.3k 0.3× 404 0.1× 1.2k 2.4× 492 1.2× 379 1.3× 142 2.5k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Wu, Yao, Rui Zhou, Xiang Gao, et al.. (2025). Fully non-fused acceptors with alkylsilyl side-chains for efficient indoor organic photovoltaics. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 13(40). 34609–34614.
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Wang, Ruoyu, et al.. (2025). Domain and switching dynamics in antiferroelectric PbZrO3: Machine learning molecular dynamics simulation. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3(2). 1 indexed citations
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Liu, Yirui, Yao Wu, Tianyu Hu, et al.. (2025). Energy Disorder Suppression, Charge Transport Channel Establishment by Integrating Four‐Arm Donor Molecule for High‐Performance Organic Solar Cells. Advanced Functional Materials. 35(32). 7 indexed citations
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Chen, Jin, Yao Wu, Yanzhuo Zhu, et al.. (2025). “1+2” Alloy‐Like Strategy: Restricting Molecular Diffusion Enables Highly Thermally‐Stable and Efficient Organic Solar Cells. Advanced Functional Materials. 35(49). 2 indexed citations
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Ji, Jie, Yao Wu, Xiang Cao, et al.. (2024). Nonylphenol and its derivatives: Environmental distribution, treatment strategy, management and future perspectives. Chemosphere. 352. 141377–141377. 11 indexed citations
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Sun, Rui, Xinxin Yuan, Xinrong Yang, et al.. (2024). Cost-efficient recycling of organic photovoltaic devices. Joule. 8(9). 2523–2538. 16 indexed citations
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Wu, Yao, et al.. (2023). A phase-field-based multiple-relaxation-time lattice Boltzmann method for incompressible multiphase flows with density and viscosity contrasts. Computers & Mathematics with Applications. 144. 237–256. 3 indexed citations
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Wan, Ji, Rui Sun, Qiang Wu, et al.. (2022). High-performance ternary solar cells by introducing a medium bandgap acceptor with complementary absorption, reducing energy disorder and enhancing glass transition temperature. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 10(33). 17122–17131. 20 indexed citations
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Sun, Rui, Yao Wu, Jie Guo, et al.. (2021). High-performance all-small-molecule organic solar cells without interlayers. Energy & Environmental Science. 14(5). 3174–3183. 57 indexed citations
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Guo, Jing, Tao Wang, Yao Wu, et al.. (2021). Revealing the microstructure-related light-induced degradation for all-polymer solar cells based on regioisomerized end-capping group acceptors. Journal of Materials Chemistry C. 10(4). 1246–1258. 11 indexed citations
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Sun, Rui, Wei Wang, Han Yu, et al.. (2021). Achieving over 17% efficiency of ternary all-polymer solar cells with two well-compatible polymer acceptors. Joule. 5(6). 1548–1565. 335 indexed citations breakdown →
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Yang, Wenyan, Zhenghui Luo, Rui Sun, et al.. (2020). Simultaneous enhanced efficiency and thermal stability in organic solar cells from a polymer acceptor additive. Nature Communications. 11(1). 1218–1218. 260 indexed citations breakdown →
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Sun, Rui, Qiang Wu, Jie Guo, et al.. (2020). A Layer-by-Layer Architecture for Printable Organic Solar Cells Overcoming the Scaling Lag of Module Efficiency. Joule. 4(2). 407–419. 339 indexed citations breakdown →
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Sun, Rui, et al.. (2020). Simple (thienylmethylene)oxindole‐based polymer materials as donors for efficient non‐fullerene polymer solar cells. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2(2). 417–424. 1 indexed citations
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Xu, Qingdong, Kejian Li, Zhipeng Cai, & Yao Wu. (2019). Effect of Pulsed Magnetic Field on the Microstructure of TC4 Titanium Alloy and Its Mechanism. Acta Metallurgica Sinica. 55(4). 489–495. 13 indexed citations
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Zhao, Yong, Yao Wu, Zhenhua Chai, & Baochang Shi. (2019). A block triple-relaxation-time lattice Boltzmann model for nonlinear anisotropic convection–diffusion equations. Computers & Mathematics with Applications. 79(9). 2550–2573. 15 indexed citations
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Wu, Yao. (2002). STUDY OF SMART CHARACTERISTICS OF CARBON FIBER REINFORCED CEMENT-BASED MATERIALS. Fuhe cailiao xuebao. 1 indexed citations

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