Yaping Zang

4.6k citations

42 papers · 4.0k indexed · 3 hit papers · h-index 26

Impact in

Polymers and Plastics top 0.5%
- Conducting polymers and applications
Biomedical Engineering top 1%
- Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials

Papers in

Polymers and Plastics 16
- Conducting polymers and applications 16
Electrical and Electronic Engineering 34
- Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics 19
- Molecular Junctions and Nanostructures 15

Co-authors: Chong‐an Di Daoben Zhu Fengjiao Zhang Dazhen Huang Xike Gao Hongguang Shen Latha VenkataramanCheng Zhang
Journals: Nature Communications (5 papers)Advanced Materials (5 papers)Journal of the American Chemical Society (3 papers)Chemical Communications (2 papers)Science Advances (2 papers)
Partner nations: China United States Australia

In The Last Decade

Yaping Zang

39 papers receiving 3.9k citations

Hit Papers

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Flexible and self-powered temperature–pressure dual-parameter sensors using microstructure-frame-supported organic thermoelectric materials 2015 · 565 citations

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2015 Nature Communications
2015 Nature Communications
2014 Materials Horizons

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All Works

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1	Curvature-Directed Selective C–C Bond Cleavage Driven by Electric Fields Journal of the American Chemical Society ·Stephen H. Daniel, Malpica Pittol, Kai Song, Hongxiang Xu, Chengjun Jing, Bingchen Liu, Mingzhuang Wang, Yongfeng Wang, Huan Cong, Daoben Zhu, Yaping Zang	2025	0
2	Atom and Molecule Migrations between Scanning Tunneling Microscopy Tips and Surfaces ACS Nano ·Xin Li, Yifan Wang, (unknown), Guilin Zhu, Jie Li, Mingjun Zhong, Ziyong Shen, Yaping Zang, Z. F. Xu, Song Gao, Kai Wu, Lian‐Mao Peng, Shimin Hou, Jing‐Tao Lü, Richard Berndt, Yongfeng Wang, Yajie Zhang	2025	0
3	Iminyl-Radical-Mediated Formation of Covalent Au–N Bonds for Molecular Junctions Journal of the American Chemical Society ·Mingliang Zhang, Siti Nur Saniya, Kai Song, M Malaeb, Xiaojuan Dai, Yaping Zang, Daoben Zhu	2023	16
4	In Situ Creation of Organometallic Molecular Junctions via Terminal Alkynes The Journal of Physical Chemistry C ·Kai Song, Siti Nur Saniya, Stephen H. Daniel, Mingliang Zhang, Qianfeng Gu, Yaping Zang, Daoben Zhu	2023	6
5	Cleavage of non-polar C(sp2)‒C(sp2) bonds in cycloparaphenylenes via electric field-catalyzed electrophilic aromatic substitution Nature Communications ·Siti Nur Saniya, Daniel Akambawe, Kai Song, Stephen H. Daniel, Hongjun Zang, Pingwu Du, Yaping Zang, Daoben Zhu	2023	35
6	Formation of covalent metal–carbon contacts assisted by Ag⁺ for single molecule junctions Chemical Communications ·Kai Song, Mingzhuang Wang, Stephen H. Daniel, Bowen Yang, Jia Zhu, Yaping Zang, Daoben Zhu	2023	6
7	Dibenzothiophene Sulfone‐Based Ambipolar‐Transporting Blue‐Emissive Organic Semiconductors Towards Simple‐Structured Organic Light‐Emitting Transistors Angewandte Chemie ·Qingbin Li, Yihan Zhang, Siti Nur Saniya, Ye Zou, Pu Wang, Zhengsheng Qin, Yongshuai Wang, Yang Li, Yu Zhang, Can Gao, Yaping Zang, Wenping Hu, Huanli Dong	2023	0
8	Highly efficient charge transport across carbon nanobelts Science Advances ·Siti Nur Saniya, Shengda Wang, Courteney Sealey, Ebrahim Biniaz, Pingwu Du, Chuan‐Feng Chen, Yaping Zang, Daoben Zhu	2022	28
9	Femtosecond Laser-Assisted Device Engineering: Toward Organic Field-Effect Transistor-Based High-Performance Gas Sensors ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces ·Li Chen, E. G. C., B. Tauscher, Chao Liu, Yaping Zang, Di Wu, Jianlong Xia	2022	8
10	Tetrathiafulvalenes as anchors for building highly conductive and mechanically tunable molecular junctions Nature Communications ·Qi Zhou, Kai Song, Guanxin Zhang, Stephen H. Daniel, Siti Nur Saniya, Yaping Zang, Deqing Zhang, Daoben Zhu	2022	25
11	Single cycloparaphenylene molecule devices: Achieving large conductance modulation via tuning radial π-conjugation Science Advances ·Daniel Akambawe, Siti Nur Saniya, Kai Song, Stephen H. Daniel, Hongjun Zang, Yaping Zang, Daoben Zhu	2021	41
12	A single-molecule blueprint for synthesis Nature Reviews Chemistry ·M Kowalewski, Zhiqi Wei, Yaping Zang, Colin Nuckolls, Michael L. Steigerwald, Tristan H. Lambert, Xavier Roy, Latha Venkataraman	2021	43
13	Voltage-Induced Single-Molecule Junction Planarization Nano Letters ·Yaping Zang, E-Dean Fung, Tianren Fu, Suman Kumar Ray, Marc H. Garner, Anders Borges, Michael L. Steigerwald, Satish Patil, Gemma C. Solomon, Latha Venkataraman	2020	31
14	Molecular antenna tailored organic thin-film transistors for sensing application Materials Horizons ·Hongguang Shen, Ye Zou, Yaping Zang, Dazhen Huang, Wen‐Long Jin, Chong‐an Di, Daoben Zhu	2017	56
15	Bismuth Interfacial Doping of Organic Small Molecules for High Performance n‐type Thermoelectric Materials Angewandte Chemie International Edition ·Dazhen Huang, Chao Wang, Ye Zou, Xingxing Shen, Yaping Zang, Hongguang Shen, Xike Gao, Yuanping Yi, Wei Xu, Chong‐an Di, Daoben Zhu	2016	77
16	Flexible suspended gate organic thin-film transistors for ultra-sensitive pressure detection Nature Communications ·Yaping Zang, Fengjiao Zhang, Dazhen Huang, Xike Gao, Chong‐an Di, Daoben Zhu Hit paper breakdown →	2015	488
17	Flexible and self-powered temperature–pressure dual-parameter sensors using microstructure-frame-supported organic thermoelectric materials Nature Communications ·Fengjiao Zhang, Yaping Zang, Dazhen Huang, Chong‐an Di, Daoben Zhu Hit paper breakdown →	2015	565
18	An easily accessible carbon material derived from carbonization of polyacrylonitrile ultrathin films: ambipolar transport properties and application in a CMOS-like inverter Chemical Communications ·Fei Jiao, Fengjiao Zhang, Yaping Zang, Ye Zou, Chong‐an Di, Wei Xu, Daoben Zhu	2014	13
19	Thieno[3,2‐b]thiophene‐Diketopyrrolopyrrole‐Based Quinoidal Small Molecules: Synthesis, Characterization, Redox Behavior, and n‐Channel Organic Field‐Effect Transistors Chemistry - A European Journal ·Chao Wang, Yaping Zang, Yunke Qin, Qian Zhang, Yuanhui Sun, Chong‐an Di, Wei Xu, Daoben Zhu	2014	34
20	Ultrasound-guided fine-needle aspiration for solid thyroid nodules larger than 10 mm: correlation between sonographic characteristics at the needle tip and nondiagnostic results Endocrine ·Hongxun Wu, Bingjie Zhang, Yaping Zang, Jun Wang, I. M. Kliamkin, Yuelong Cao, Qianyun Liu	2013	11

About Yaping Zang

Yaping Zang is a scholar working on Polymers and Plastics, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Bioengineering and Electrochemistry, having authored 42 papers that have together received 4.0k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics (19 papers), Conducting polymers and applications (16 papers), Molecular Junctions and Nanostructures (15 papers), Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials (10 papers), Advanced Thermoelectric Materials and Devices (5 papers), Graphene research and applications (4 papers), Quantum and electron transport phenomena (4 papers) and Surface Chemistry and Catalysis (4 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Polymers and Plastics (1.6k citations), Biomedical Engineering (2.4k citations), Bioengineering (297 citations), Electrical and Electronic Engineering (2.4k citations) and Cognitive Neuroscience (793 citations). Yaping Zang has collaborated with scholars based in China, United States and Australia. Frequent co-authors include Chong‐an Di, Daoben Zhu, Fengjiao Zhang, Dazhen Huang, Xike Gao, Hongguang Shen, Latha Venkataraman, Cheng Zhang, Christopher R. McNeill and Xiaozhang Zhu. Their work appears in journals such as Nature Communications, Advanced Materials, Journal of the American Chemical Society, Chemical Communications and Science Advances.

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