Yi Yuan

6.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
115 papers, 5.5k citations indexed

About

Yi Yuan is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Materials Chemistry and Polymers and Plastics. According to data from OpenAlex, Yi Yuan has authored 115 papers receiving a total of 5.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 103 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 75 papers in Materials Chemistry and 31 papers in Polymers and Plastics. Recurrent topics in Yi Yuan's work include Organic Light-Emitting Diodes Research (73 papers), Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics (71 papers) and Luminescence and Fluorescent Materials (63 papers). Yi Yuan is often cited by papers focused on Organic Light-Emitting Diodes Research (73 papers), Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics (71 papers) and Luminescence and Fluorescent Materials (63 papers). Yi Yuan collaborates with scholars based in China, Hong Kong and Canada. Yi Yuan's co-authors include Liang‐Sheng Liao, Chun‐Sing Lee, Zuo‐Quan Jiang, Wen‐Cheng Chen, Qing‐Xiao Tong, Yun Hu, Fu‐Lung Wong, Shuit‐Tong Lee, Ze‐Lin Zhu and Shao‐Fei Ni and has published in prestigious journals such as Advanced Materials, Angewandte Chemie International Edition and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Yi Yuan

113 papers receiving 5.5k citations

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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.

The Design of Fused Amine/Carbonyl System for Efficient Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence: Novel Multiple Resonance Core and Electron Acceptor

2019 319 citations Yi Yuan, Zuo‐Quan Jiang et al. profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Yi Yuan China	43	4.2k	3.7k	1.0k	661	503	115	5.5k
Jong H. Kim South Korea	34	3.8k 0.9×	2.7k 0.7×	2.0k 2.0×	449 0.7×	418 0.8×	147	5.1k
Timothy P. Bender Canada	34	1.7k 0.4×	2.4k 0.6×	924 0.9×	424 0.6×	953 1.9×	143	3.8k
Zhi‐Kuan Chen Singapore	42	3.5k 0.8×	1.8k 0.5×	2.7k 2.7×	1.0k 1.5×	567 1.1×	147	5.6k
Stéphane Guillerez France	30	3.2k 0.7×	1.7k 0.5×	2.3k 2.2×	558 0.8×	984 2.0×	61	5.1k
Chang‐Jiang Yao China	31	1.8k 0.4×	1.6k 0.4×	901 0.9×	285 0.4×	826 1.6×	83	3.5k
Ryota Kabe Japan	25	2.6k 0.6×	3.3k 0.9×	322 0.3×	416 0.6×	557 1.1×	52	4.2k
Lili Du China	34	2.0k 0.5×	3.3k 0.9×	474 0.5×	999 1.5×	811 1.6×	101	4.6k
Andrea Listorti Italy	39	4.1k 1.0×	3.8k 1.0×	1.6k 1.6×	254 0.4×	443 0.9×	114	5.9k
Joëlle Rault‐Berthelot France	45	3.0k 0.7×	2.2k 0.6×	1.3k 1.2×	164 0.2×	1.5k 3.0×	144	4.6k
Florian Auras Germany	29	2.3k 0.5×	5.3k 1.4×	703 0.7×	333 0.5×	452 0.9×	53	6.3k

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Cao, Chen, Huan Chen, Jihua Tan, et al.. (2025). Wet Photolithography From Hydrogen Abstraction of a Quasi‐Orthogonal Aggregation‐Induced Emitter. Advanced Science. 12(8). e2408979–e2408979. 1 indexed citations

Cao, Chen, Jihua Tan, Ze‐Lin Zhu, et al.. (2023). Intramolecular Cyclization: A Convenient Strategy to Realize Efficient BT.2020 Blue Multi‐Resonance Emitter for Organic Light‐Emitting Diodes. Angewandte Chemie. 135(10). 14 indexed citations

Fang, Fang, Yi Yuan, Yingpeng Wan, et al.. (2022). Near‐Infrared Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence Nanoparticle: A Metal‐Free Photosensitizer for Two‐Photon‐Activated Photodynamic Therapy at the Cell and Small Animal Levels. Small. 18(6). e2106215–e2106215. 95 indexed citations

Li, Shengliang, Xiangquan Deng, Hui Cheng, et al.. (2022). Bright Near-Infrared π-Conjugated Oligomer Nanoparticles for Deep-Brain Three-Photon Microscopy Excited at the 1700 nm Window in Vivo. ACS Nano. 16(8). 12480–12487. 32 indexed citations

Zhu, Zhaohua, Yan Wu, Yang Shen, et al.. (2021). Highly Efficient Sky-Blue Perovskite Light-Emitting Diode Via Suppressing Nonradiative Energy Loss. Chemistry of Materials. 33(11). 4154–4162. 61 indexed citations

Zhu, Ze‐Lin, Jihua Tan, Wen‐Cheng Chen, et al.. (2021). High Performance NIR OLEDs with Low Efficiency Roll‐Off by Leveraging Os(II) Phosphors and Exciplex Co‐Host. Advanced Functional Materials. 31(33). 33 indexed citations

Zhu, Ze‐Lin, Shengfu Wang, Li‐Wen Fu, et al.. (2021). Efficient Pyrazolo[5,4‐f]quinoxaline Functionalized Os(II) Based Emitter with an Electroluminescence Peak Maximum at 811 nm. Chemistry - A European Journal. 28(4). e202103202–e202103202. 8 indexed citations

Yuan, Yi, Premkumar Gnanasekaran, Yuwen Chen, et al.. (2019). Iridium(III) Complexes Bearing a Formal Tetradentate Coordination Chelate: Structural Properties and Phosphorescence Fine-Tuned by Ancillaries. Inorganic Chemistry. 59(1). 523–532. 27 indexed citations

Zhang, Jinfeng, Fang Fang, Bin Liu, et al.. (2019). Intrinsically Cancer-Mitochondria-Targeted Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence Nanoparticles for Two-Photon-Activated Fluorescence Imaging and Photodynamic Therapy. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 11(44). 41051–41061. 86 indexed citations

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Gnanasekaran, Premkumar, Yi Yuan, Chun‐Sing Lee, et al.. (2019). Realization of Highly Efficient Red Phosphorescence from Bis-Tridentate Iridium(III) Phosphors. Inorganic Chemistry. 58(16). 10944–10954. 43 indexed citations

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Wang, Sheng Fu, Li‐Wen Fu, Yu‐Chen Wei, et al.. (2019). Near-Infrared Emission Induced by Shortened Pt–Pt Contact: Diplatinum(II) Complexes with Pyridyl Pyrimidinato Cyclometalates. Inorganic Chemistry. 58(20). 13892–13901. 50 indexed citations

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Chen, Wen‐Cheng, Yi Yuan, Ze‐Lin Zhu, et al.. (2018). De novodesign of D–σ–A molecules as universal hosts for monochrome and white phosphorescent organic light-emitting diodes. Chemical Science. 9(17). 4062–4070. 70 indexed citations

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Chen, Wen‐Cheng, Yi Yuan, Ze‐Lin Zhu, et al.. (2018). A novel spiro-annulated benzimidazole host for highly efficient blue phosphorescent organic light-emitting devices. Chemical Communications. 54(36). 4541–4544. 32 indexed citations

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Zhu, Ze‐Lin, Shao‐Fei Ni, Wen‐Cheng Chen, et al.. (2018). Tuning electrical properties of phenanthroimidazole derivatives to construct multifunctional deep-blue electroluminescent materials. Journal of Materials Chemistry C. 6(14). 3584–3592. 59 indexed citations

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Zhu, Ze‐Lin, Shao‐Fei Ni, Wen‐Cheng Chen, et al.. (2017). A high performance deep-blue emitter with an anti-parallel dipole design. Dyes and Pigments. 146. 219–225. 19 indexed citations

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Chen, Wen‐Cheng, Yi Yuan, Yuan Xiong, et al.. (2017). Aromatically C6- and C9-Substituted Phenanthro[9,10-d]imidazole Blue Fluorophores: Structure–Property Relationship and Electroluminescent Application. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 9(31). 26268–26278. 77 indexed citations

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Chen, Wen‐Cheng, Yi Yuan, Shao‐Fei Ni, et al.. (2017). Highly Efficient Deep-Blue Electroluminescence from a Charge-Transfer Emitter with Stable Donor Skeleton. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 9(8). 7331–7338. 93 indexed citations

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Chen, Wen‐Cheng, Yi Yuan, Shao‐Fei Ni, et al.. (2017). Achieving efficient violet-blue electroluminescence with CIE_y<0.06 and EQE >6% from naphthyl-linked phenanthroimidazole–carbazole hybrid fluorophores. Chemical Science. 8(5). 3599–3608. 168 indexed citations

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Yuan, Yi, Jia‐Xiong Chen, Wen‐Cheng Chen, et al.. (2015). The locally twisted thiophene bridged phenanthroimidazole derivatives as dual-functional emitters for efficient non-doped electroluminescent devices. Organic Electronics. 18. 61–69. 21 indexed citations

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Chen, Wen‐Cheng, Yi Yuan, Guangfu Wu, et al.. (2014). Molecular modification on bisphenanthroimidazole derivative for deep-blue organic electroluminescent material with ambipolar property and high performance. Organic Electronics. 17. 159–166. 79 indexed citations

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