Yaokai Li

3.6k total citations · 6 hit papers
29 papers, 3.1k citations indexed

About

Yaokai Li is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Polymers and Plastics and Organic Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Yaokai Li has authored 29 papers receiving a total of 3.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 29 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 24 papers in Polymers and Plastics and 1 paper in Organic Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Yaokai Li's work include Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics (27 papers), Conducting polymers and applications (23 papers) and Perovskite Materials and Applications (21 papers). Yaokai Li is often cited by papers focused on Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics (27 papers), Conducting polymers and applications (23 papers) and Perovskite Materials and Applications (21 papers). Yaokai Li collaborates with scholars based in China, Hong Kong and United States. Yaokai Li's co-authors include Hongzheng Chen, Lijian Zuo, Shuixing Li, Xinhui Lu, Lingling Zhan, Minmin Shi, Xinxin Xia, Haiming Zhu, Mengting Wang and Jie Min and has published in prestigious journals such as Advanced Materials, Angewandte Chemie International Edition and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Yaokai Li

29 papers receiving 3.1k 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. Layer‐by‐Layer Processed Ternary Organic Photovoltaics with Efficiency over 18%
    2021 511 citations Lingling Zhan, Shuixing Li et al. Advanced Materials profile →
  2. Self‐Assembled Interlayer Enables High‐Performance Organic Photovoltaics with Power Conversion Efficiency Exceeding 20%
    2024 429 citations Yaokai Li, Mengting Wang et al. Advanced Materials profile →
  3. Desired open-circuit voltage increase enables efficiencies approaching 19% in symmetric-asymmetric molecule ternary organic photovoltaics
    2022 298 citations Lingling Zhan, Shuixing Li et al. Joule profile →
  4. Compromising Charge Generation and Recombination of Organic Photovoltaics with Mixed Diluent Strategy for Certified 19.4% Efficiency
    2023 275 citations Tianyi Chen, Shuixing Li et al. Advanced Materials profile →
  5. Asymmetric electron acceptor enables highly luminescent organic solar cells with certified efficiency over 18%
    2022 224 citations Chengliang He, Zeng Chen et al. Nature Communications profile →
  6. Manipulating Charge Transfer and Transport via Intermediary Electron Acceptor Channels Enables 19.3% Efficiency Organic Photovoltaics
    2022 193 citations Lingling Zhan, Shuixing Li et al. Advanced Energy 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
Yaokai Li China 22 3.0k 2.5k 255 225 114 29 3.1k
Indunil Angunawela United States 24 2.3k 0.8× 1.9k 0.8× 173 0.7× 187 0.8× 93 0.8× 34 2.4k
Jingming Xin China 31 3.4k 1.1× 2.9k 1.2× 265 1.0× 195 0.9× 169 1.5× 65 3.5k
Jinzhao Qin China 15 3.3k 1.1× 2.8k 1.1× 275 1.1× 237 1.1× 149 1.3× 21 3.4k
Shucheng Qin China 26 3.0k 1.0× 2.4k 1.0× 322 1.3× 175 0.8× 132 1.2× 56 3.1k
Kangqiao Ma China 13 2.3k 0.7× 1.9k 0.8× 159 0.6× 115 0.5× 95 0.8× 24 2.3k
Jinfeng Ge China 29 2.5k 0.8× 2.0k 0.8× 273 1.1× 355 1.6× 91 0.8× 50 2.6k
Yunfei Zu China 21 3.5k 1.1× 2.9k 1.2× 314 1.2× 245 1.1× 141 1.2× 24 3.6k
Jianqiang Qin China 14 3.5k 1.2× 2.9k 1.2× 396 1.6× 235 1.0× 146 1.3× 19 3.6k
Jiehao Fu China 21 2.1k 0.7× 1.8k 0.7× 342 1.3× 242 1.1× 79 0.7× 30 2.3k
Kangrong Yan China 23 2.0k 0.6× 1.5k 0.6× 352 1.4× 213 0.9× 52 0.5× 35 2.1k

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All Works

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Wang, Yiming, Xiangjun Zheng, Tianyi Chen, et al.. (2024). Deciphering the Morphology Evolution of Layer‐by‐Layer Processing Via In Situ Spectroscopy Measurement for High‐Performance Organic Photovoltaics. Advanced Energy Materials. 16(3). 6 indexed citations
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Zhang, Nuo, Tianyi Chen, Yaokai Li, et al.. (2024). Benzothiadiazole‐Fused Cyanoindone: A Superior Building Block for Designing Ultra‐Narrow Bandgap Electron Acceptor with Long‐Range Ordered Stacking. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 64(7). e202420090–e202420090. 15 indexed citations
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Chen, Tianyi, Mengting Wang, Xinxin Xia, et al.. (2023). Solid Additive-Assisted Layer-by-Layer Processing for 19% Efficiency Binary Organic Solar Cells. Nano-Micro Letters. 15(1). 92–92. 116 indexed citations
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Chen, Tianyi, Shuixing Li, Yaokai Li, et al.. (2023). Compromising Charge Generation and Recombination of Organic Photovoltaics with Mixed Diluent Strategy for Certified 19.4% Efficiency. Advanced Materials. 35(21). e2300400–e2300400. 275 indexed citations breakdown →
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He, Chengliang, Zeng Chen, Tonghui Wang, et al.. (2022). Asymmetric electron acceptor enables highly luminescent organic solar cells with certified efficiency over 18%. Nature Communications. 13(1). 2598–2598. 224 indexed citations breakdown →
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Li, Yaokai, Yuan Guo, Zeng Chen, et al.. (2022). Mechanism study on organic ternary photovoltaics with 18.3% certified efficiency: from molecule to device. Energy & Environmental Science. 15(2). 855–865. 81 indexed citations
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Zhan, Lingling, Shuixing Li, Yaokai Li, et al.. (2022). Desired open-circuit voltage increase enables efficiencies approaching 19% in symmetric-asymmetric molecule ternary organic photovoltaics. Joule. 6(3). 662–675. 298 indexed citations breakdown →
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Li, Shuixing, Lingling Zhan, Yaokai Li, et al.. (2022). Achieving and Understanding of Highly Efficient Ternary Organic Photovoltaics: From Morphology and Energy Loss to Working Mechanism. Small Methods. 6(9). e2200828–e2200828. 29 indexed citations
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Wu, Fei, Kangrong Yan, Haotian Wu, et al.. (2021). Tuning interfacial chemical interaction for high-performance perovskite solar cell with PEDOT:PSS as hole transporting layer. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 9(26). 14920–14927. 29 indexed citations
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Zuo, Lijian, Sae Byeok Jo, Yaokai Li, et al.. (2021). Dilution effect for highly efficient multiple-component organic solar cells. Nature Nanotechnology. 17(1). 53–60. 156 indexed citations
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Zhao, Feng, Lijian Zuo, Yaokai Li, et al.. (2021). High‐Performance Upscaled Indium Tin Oxide–Free Organic Solar Cells with Visual Esthetics and Flexibility. Solar RRL. 5(9). 16 indexed citations
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Zhan, Lingling, Shuixing Li, Xinxin Xia, et al.. (2021). Layer‐by‐Layer Processed Ternary Organic Photovoltaics with Efficiency over 18%. Advanced Materials. 33(12). e2007231–e2007231. 511 indexed citations breakdown →
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Li, Yaokai, Chengliang He, Lijian Zuo, et al.. (2021). High‐Performance Semi‐Transparent Organic Photovoltaic Devices via Improving Absorbing Selectivity. Advanced Energy Materials. 11(11). 92 indexed citations
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Li, Yaokai, Shuixing Li, Xinxin Xia, et al.. (2021). Non-fullerene acceptors with nitrogen-containing six-membered heterocycle cores for the applications in organic solar cells. Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells. 225. 111046–111046. 28 indexed citations
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Chen, Shuaishuai, Chengliang He, Yaokai Li, et al.. (2021). Improving the device performance of organic solar cells with immiscible solid additives. Journal of Materials Chemistry C. 10(7). 2749–2756. 16 indexed citations
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He, Chengliang, Yaokai Li, Shuixing Li, et al.. (2020). Near-Infrared Electron Acceptors with Unfused Architecture for Efficient Organic Solar Cells. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 12(14). 16700–16706. 103 indexed citations
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Andersen, Thomas R., Feng Zhao, Yaokai Li, Michael R. Dickinson, & Hongzheng Chen. (2020). An Ink‐Composition Engineering Approach for Upscaling of Organic Solar Cells with High‐Efficiency Retention Factor. Solar RRL. 4(10). 12 indexed citations
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He, Chengliang, Yaokai Li, Yanfeng Liu, et al.. (2020). Near infrared electron acceptors with a photoresponse beyond 1000 nm for highly efficient organic solar cells. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 8(35). 18154–18161. 59 indexed citations
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Wen, Tian‐Jiao, Di Wang, Liting Tao, et al.. (2020). Simple Near-Infrared Electron Acceptors for Efficient Photovoltaics and Sensitive Photodetectors. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 12(35). 39515–39523. 45 indexed citations

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