Ye Xu

11.7k total citations · 9 hit papers
97 papers, 10.5k citations indexed

About

Ye Xu is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Polymers and Plastics and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Ye Xu has authored 97 papers receiving a total of 10.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 86 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 64 papers in Polymers and Plastics and 11 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Ye Xu's work include Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics (69 papers), Conducting polymers and applications (60 papers) and Perovskite Materials and Applications (42 papers). Ye Xu is often cited by papers focused on Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics (69 papers), Conducting polymers and applications (60 papers) and Perovskite Materials and Applications (42 papers). Ye Xu collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Sweden. Ye Xu's co-authors include Jianhui Hou, Huifeng Yao, Yong Cui, Ling Hong, Tao Zhang, Jianqi Zhang, Shaoqing Zhang, Zhixiang Wei, Kaihu Xian and Yunfei Zu and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Advanced Materials and Angewandte Chemie International Edition.

In The Last Decade

Ye Xu

93 papers receiving 10.4k citations

Hit Papers

Single‐Junction Organic Photovoltaic Cells with Approachi... 2019 2026 2021 2023 2020 2021 2021 2019 2019 500 1000 1.5k
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.

  1. Single‐Junction Organic Photovoltaic Cells with Approaching 18% Efficiency
    2020 1.7k citations Yong Cui, Huifeng Yao et al. Advanced Materials profile →
  2. Single‐Junction Organic Photovoltaic Cell with 19% Efficiency
    2021 1.3k citations Yong Cui, Ye Xu et al. Advanced Materials profile →
  3. Reduced non-radiative charge recombination enables organic photovoltaic cell approaching 19% efficiency
    2021 512 citations Pengqing Bi, Shaoqing Zhang et al. Joule profile →
  4. Eco‐Compatible Solvent‐Processed Organic Photovoltaic Cells with Over 16% Efficiency
    2019 492 citations Ling Hong, Huifeng Yao et al. Advanced Materials profile →
  5. Wide-gap non-fullerene acceptor enabling high-performance organic photovoltaic cells for indoor applications
    2019 481 citations Yong Cui, Huifeng Yao et al. profile →
  6. 14.7% Efficiency Organic Photovoltaic Cells Enabled by Active Materials with a Large Electrostatic Potential Difference
    2019 459 citations Huifeng Yao, Yong Cui et al. profile →
  7. Achieving Over 15% Efficiency in Organic Photovoltaic Cells via Copolymer Design
    2019 430 citations Yong Cui, Huifeng Yao et al. Advanced Materials profile →
  8. PBDB-T and its derivatives: A family of polymer donors enables over 17% efficiency in organic photovoltaics
    2019 323 citations Huifeng Yao, Long Ye et al. profile →
  9. A New Polymer Donor Enables Binary All‐Polymer Organic Photovoltaic Cells with 18% Efficiency and Excellent Mechanical Robustness
    2022 213 citations Jingwen Wang, Yong Cui et al. Advanced 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
Ye Xu China 43 9.7k 7.8k 1.3k 847 582 97 10.5k
Nan Zheng China 47 5.2k 0.5× 3.8k 0.5× 2.3k 1.8× 548 0.6× 329 0.6× 165 6.5k
Yinhua Zhou China 62 10.2k 1.1× 7.1k 0.9× 3.0k 2.3× 2.0k 2.4× 926 1.6× 225 11.6k
Dong Hwan Wang South Korea 38 6.0k 0.6× 4.4k 0.6× 2.2k 1.7× 967 1.1× 376 0.6× 188 7.3k
Shirong Lu China 44 8.4k 0.9× 5.3k 0.7× 3.2k 2.5× 564 0.7× 441 0.8× 140 9.2k
Aung Ko Ko Kyaw China 43 7.0k 0.7× 5.5k 0.7× 2.2k 1.7× 1.3k 1.5× 374 0.6× 163 8.4k
Ke Gao China 48 7.4k 0.8× 6.0k 0.8× 1.7k 1.3× 693 0.8× 201 0.3× 126 8.4k
Yu‐Cheng Chiu Taiwan 39 4.2k 0.4× 3.5k 0.4× 1.8k 1.4× 2.4k 2.8× 270 0.5× 163 6.3k
Yeong Don Park South Korea 38 4.5k 0.5× 2.3k 0.3× 1.0k 0.8× 1.3k 1.6× 335 0.6× 121 5.3k
Zhigang Yin China 38 11.7k 1.2× 6.1k 0.8× 6.8k 5.4× 841 1.0× 990 1.7× 104 12.8k
Gang Wu China 42 4.7k 0.5× 2.7k 0.3× 3.3k 2.6× 468 0.6× 571 1.0× 130 6.0k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Ye Xu

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ye Xu

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Ye Xu. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Ye Xu 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 Ye Xu. Ye Xu 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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Zhu, Xuebin, et al.. (2025). Optimization design of lithium-ion battery thermal management system based on Y-shaped air-cooling structure. Thermal Science and Engineering Progress. 66. 104062–104062. 1 indexed citations
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Wang, Xinru, Tao Zhang, Zhifeng Huang, et al.. (2025). Defect-engineered nitrogen-doped graphite felt via biuret activation for high-performance vanadium redox flow batteries. Electrochimica Acta. 539. 147098–147098.
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Wang, Guanlin, Jingwen Wang, Yong Cui, et al.. (2024). Achieving High Fill Factor in Organic Photovoltaic Cells by Tuning Molecular Electrostatic Potential Fluctuation. Angewandte Chemie. 136(17). 6 indexed citations
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Zhang, Tao, Ye Xu, Huifeng Yao, et al.. (2023). Suppressing the energetic disorder of all-polymer solar cells enables over 18% efficiency. Energy & Environmental Science. 16(4). 1581–1589. 97 indexed citations
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Yu, Jing, et al.. (2023). Deciphering the Color Origin of Pink Conch Pearl Using Nondestructive Spectroscopies and DFT Calculations. Minerals. 13(6). 811–811. 1 indexed citations
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Cui, Yong, Ye Xu, & Jianhui Hou. (2022). High efficiency and more functions bring a bright future for organic photovoltaic cells. Science Bulletin. 67(13). 1300–1303. 15 indexed citations
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Li, Xian’e, Qilun Zhang, Jianwei Yu, et al.. (2022). Mapping the energy level alignment at donor/acceptor interfaces in non-fullerene organic solar cells. Nature Communications. 13(1). 2046–2046. 90 indexed citations
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Xu, Ye, Jingwen Wang, Huifeng Yao, et al.. (2022). An Asymmetric Non‐fullerene Acceptor with Low Energy Loss and High Photovoltaic Efficiency. Chinese Journal of Chemistry. 41(9). 1045–1050. 17 indexed citations
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Ma, Ruijie, Miao Zeng, Yixin Li, et al.. (2021). Rational Anode Engineering Enables Progresses for Different Types of Organic Solar Cells. Advanced Energy Materials. 11(23). 127 indexed citations
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Peng, Zhongxiang, Kaihu Xian, Yong Cui, et al.. (2021). Thermoplastic Elastomer Tunes Phase Structure and Promotes Stretchability of High‐Efficiency Organic Solar Cells. Advanced Materials. 33(49). e2106732–e2106732. 186 indexed citations
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Bi, Pengqing, Shaoqing Zhang, Zhihao Chen, et al.. (2021). Reduced non-radiative charge recombination enables organic photovoltaic cell approaching 19% efficiency. Joule. 5(9). 2408–2419. 512 indexed citations breakdown →
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Xu, Ye, et al.. (2020). Efficient charge generation at low energy losses in organic solar cells: a key issues review. Reports on Progress in Physics. 83(8). 82601–82601. 53 indexed citations
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Xu, Ye, Huifeng Yao, Lijiao Ma, et al.. (2020). Tuning the Hybridization of Local Exciton and Charge‐Transfer States in Highly Efficient Organic Photovoltaic Cells. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 59(23). 9004–9010. 189 indexed citations
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Kang, Qian, Qing Liao, Ye Xu, et al.. (2019). p-Doped Conducting Polyelectrolyte as an Anode Interlayer Enables High Efficiency for 1 cm2 Printed Organic Solar Cells. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 11(22). 20205–20213. 31 indexed citations
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Xu, Ye, Huifeng Yao, & Jianhui Hou. (2018). Recent Advances in Fullerene‐free Polymer Solar Cells: Materials and Devices. Chinese Journal of Chemistry. 37(3). 207–215. 47 indexed citations
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Yu, Xinge, et al.. (2015). Effect of thermal annealing on the performance of ternary organic photovoltaics based on PTB7:PC71BM:F8BT. Journal of Materials Science Materials in Electronics. 26(8). 5708–5714. 4 indexed citations
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Guo, Zhan‐Yun, et al.. (2003). Peptide models of four possible insulin folding intermediates with two disulfides. Protein Science. 12(11). 2412–2419. 23 indexed citations

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