Yifan Gao

3.9k total citations · 2 hit papers
60 papers, 3.3k citations indexed

About

Yifan Gao is a scholar working on Biomedical Engineering, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Yifan Gao has authored 60 papers receiving a total of 3.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 29 papers in Biomedical Engineering, 27 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 19 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Yifan Gao's work include Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials (17 papers), Advancements in Battery Materials (12 papers) and Advanced Battery Materials and Technologies (8 papers). Yifan Gao is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials (17 papers), Advancements in Battery Materials (12 papers) and Advanced Battery Materials and Technologies (8 papers). Yifan Gao collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and South Korea. Yifan Gao's co-authors include Zhong Lin Wang, Yudong Gu, Jun Zhou, Gang Bao, Wenjie Mai, Rusen Yang, Min Zhou, Peng Fei, Jinhui Song and Lih‐Juann Chen 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

Yifan Gao

56 papers receiving 3.2k citations

Hit Papers

Flexible Piezotronic Strain Sensor 2007 2026 2013 2019 2008 2007 200 400 600
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. Flexible Piezotronic Strain Sensor
    2008 727 citations Yifan Gao, Zhong Lin Wang et al. profile →
  2. Electrostatic Potential in a Bent Piezoelectric Nanowire. The Fundamental Theory of Nanogenerator and Nanopiezotronics
    2007 510 citations Yifan Gao, Zhong Lin Wang profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Yifan Gao China 19 2.0k 1.7k 1.5k 489 468 60 3.3k
Toan Dinh Australia 34 2.2k 1.1× 1.9k 1.2× 805 0.5× 325 0.7× 628 1.3× 158 3.5k
Hak‐Joo Lee South Korea 27 1.7k 0.8× 1.5k 0.9× 1.6k 1.0× 592 1.2× 658 1.4× 136 3.6k
Tae‐Ho Kim South Korea 14 2.6k 1.3× 2.1k 1.3× 1.8k 1.2× 535 1.1× 1.1k 2.3× 17 4.4k
Zhaohe Dai China 36 2.4k 1.2× 1.3k 0.8× 2.4k 1.6× 627 1.3× 786 1.7× 85 4.8k
Deepam Maurya United States 30 1.7k 0.8× 1.4k 0.8× 2.2k 1.4× 603 1.2× 271 0.6× 85 3.5k
Tohru Sugahara Japan 39 2.0k 1.0× 3.4k 2.0× 1.5k 1.0× 979 2.0× 697 1.5× 131 4.8k
Michael J. Motala United States 16 1.6k 0.8× 1.5k 0.9× 716 0.5× 452 0.9× 388 0.8× 23 2.9k
Alvo Aabloo Estonia 35 2.7k 1.3× 1.1k 0.6× 1.0k 0.7× 764 1.6× 1.3k 2.7× 236 4.3k
Shijo Nagao Japan 43 1.5k 0.8× 3.5k 2.1× 1.2k 0.8× 1.5k 3.1× 507 1.1× 191 5.0k
Young‐Hoon Lee South Korea 25 1.5k 0.8× 1.1k 0.7× 611 0.4× 486 1.0× 684 1.5× 70 2.9k

Countries citing papers authored by Yifan Gao

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Fields of papers citing papers by Yifan Gao

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yifan Gao

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Yifan Gao. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Yifan Gao 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 Yifan Gao. Yifan Gao 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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Li, Zhan, Zhen Zhang, Yifan Gao, et al.. (2025). Precision printing and control of total internal reflection structural colors: Applications in anti-counterfeiting and color blindness detection. Journal of Colloid and Interface Science. 695. 137726–137726. 1 indexed citations
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Xi, Xiangyun, Longfei Lv, Xiaoli Gong, et al.. (2025). Emergence of Voronoi-Patterned Cellular Membranes via Confinement Transformation of Self-Assembled Metal–Organic Frameworks. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 147(8). 6983–6994. 3 indexed citations
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Zou, Yanting, Yifan Gao, Wei Jiang, et al.. (2025). tRF‐3a‐Pro: A Transfer RNA‐Derived Small RNA as a Novel Biomarker for Diagnosis of Hepatitis B Virus‐Related Hepatocellular Carcinoma. Cell Proliferation. 58(7). e70006–e70006. 1 indexed citations
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Yan, Jihong, Jian Ding, Yifan Gao, et al.. (2025). Bio‐Inspired Structural Color Irises as Physical Unclonable Functions for Anti‐Counterfeiting. Advanced Science. 12(34). e04771–e04771. 1 indexed citations
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Yan, Jihong, Jian Ding, Hongyu Yi, et al.. (2025). Additively Manufactured Micro-Pyramid Structured Electronic Skin with [BMIM]BF4 3D Morphology Detection at Low Temperature. ACS Applied Electronic Materials. 7(13). 5906–5919.
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Yan, Jihong, Jian Ding, Hongyu Yi, et al.. (2025). Bioinspired cilia-based electronic skin for multimodal mechanical sensing via additive manufacturing. 5(2). 2 indexed citations
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Gao, Yifan, et al.. (2024). User generated content intelligent analysis for urban natural gas with transformer-based cyber-physical social systems. Applied Energy. 374. 123947–123947. 1 indexed citations
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Cao, Yang, et al.. (2024). Additively manufactured customized microhelix motors' bursting motion in mesoscopic tubes for vessel declogging. RSC Advances. 14(4). 2720–2726. 1 indexed citations
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Chen, Jiahao, Yifan Gao, & Kai Wang. (2024). Study on Weather Vane Effect of a Single-Point Mooring Floating Offshore Wind Turbine. 1 indexed citations
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Gao, Yifan, Junjie Qiu, Xiangyun Xi, et al.. (2024). Densely Branched Carbon Nanotubes for Boosting the Electrochemical Performance of Li‐S Batteries. ChemSusChem. 17(21). e202400799–e202400799. 2 indexed citations
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Yi, Hongyu, et al.. (2024). High-sensitivity and damage redundant detection capable gel-state [BMIM][BF4] electronic skin for aerospace applications. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3. 100077–100077. 2 indexed citations
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Zhou, Wei, Ying Fang, Da Zhou, et al.. (2023). Label-Free Detection of T4 Polynucleotide Kinase Activity and Inhibition via Malachite Green Aptamer Generated from Ligation-Triggered Transcription. Biosensors. 13(4). 449–449. 5 indexed citations
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Yang, Bo, et al.. (2023). GRA-Net: Global receptive attention network for surface defect detection. Knowledge-Based Systems. 280. 111066–111066. 15 indexed citations
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Gao, Yifan, et al.. (2023). Additively Fabricated Electronic Skin with High Performance in Dynamic Sensing as Human Skin. ACS Applied Electronic Materials. 5(4). 2017–2025. 6 indexed citations
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Wang, Min, Yifan Gao, Yaming Liu, et al.. (2021). A facile fabrication of conjugated fluorescent nanoparticles and micro-scale patterned encryptionviahigh resolution inkjet printing. Nanoscale. 13(34). 14337–14345. 13 indexed citations
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Gao, Yifan, et al.. (2017). A 18 mW 12 bit 50 MS/s SHA-less pipelined ADC. 776–779.
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Mantini, Giulia, Yifan Gao, Zhong Lin Wang, A. D’Amico, & Christian Falconi. (2009). Potential distribution in deformed ZnO nanowires. Procedia Chemistry. 1(1). 1403–1406. 2 indexed citations

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