Yincai Xu

3.2k total citations · 4 hit papers
50 papers, 2.6k citations indexed

About

Yincai Xu is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Materials Chemistry and Organic Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Yincai Xu has authored 50 papers receiving a total of 2.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 44 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 44 papers in Materials Chemistry and 8 papers in Organic Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Yincai Xu's work include Luminescence and Fluorescent Materials (43 papers), Organic Light-Emitting Diodes Research (41 papers) and Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics (28 papers). Yincai Xu is often cited by papers focused on Luminescence and Fluorescent Materials (43 papers), Organic Light-Emitting Diodes Research (41 papers) and Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics (28 papers). Yincai Xu collaborates with scholars based in China, Singapore and United States. Yincai Xu's co-authors include Yue Wang, Qingyang Wang, Chenglong Li, Xinliang Cai, Zhiqiang Li, Jinbei Wei, Jiaxuan Wang, Jianan Xue, Zong Cheng and Baoyan Liang 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

Yincai Xu

47 papers receiving 2.6k citations

Hit Papers

Molecular‐Structure and Device‐Configuration Optimization... 2020 2026 2022 2024 2020 2020 2021 2021 100 200 300 400
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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. Molecular‐Structure and Device‐Configuration Optimizations toward Highly Efficient Green Electroluminescence with Narrowband Emission and High Color Purity
    2020 407 citations Yincai Xu, Jinbei Wei et al. Advanced Optical Materials profile →
  2. Constructing Charge‐Transfer Excited States Based on Frontier Molecular Orbital Engineering: Narrowband Green Electroluminescence with High Color Purity and Efficiency
    2020 362 citations Yincai Xu, Chenglong Li et al. Angewandte Chemie International Edition profile →
  3. Highly Efficient Electroluminescence from Narrowband Green Circularly Polarized Multiple Resonance Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence Enantiomers
    2021 268 citations Yincai Xu, Qingyang Wang et al. Advanced Materials profile →
  4. Highly Efficient Electroluminescent Materials with High Color Purity Based on Strong Acceptor Attachment onto B–N-Containing Multiple Resonance Frameworks
    2021 230 citations Yincai Xu, Chenglong Li et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Yincai Xu China 20 2.3k 2.0k 445 251 77 50 2.6k
Minghan Cai China 21 2.7k 1.1× 2.2k 1.1× 511 1.1× 386 1.5× 87 1.1× 31 3.0k
Shintaro Nomura Japan 8 2.0k 0.9× 1.8k 0.9× 493 1.1× 246 1.0× 62 0.8× 10 2.5k
Nengquan Li China 26 1.9k 0.8× 1.7k 0.8× 549 1.2× 304 1.2× 92 1.2× 85 2.3k
Kiichi Nakajima Japan 5 2.3k 1.0× 2.2k 1.1× 669 1.5× 248 1.0× 50 0.6× 7 2.8k
Yi‐Zhong Shi China 24 2.4k 1.0× 2.0k 1.0× 243 0.5× 256 1.0× 78 1.0× 83 2.7k
Yirang Im South Korea 14 2.0k 0.9× 1.6k 0.8× 242 0.5× 283 1.1× 49 0.6× 19 2.2k
Chensen Li China 11 1.7k 0.7× 1.4k 0.7× 208 0.5× 305 1.2× 84 1.1× 22 2.0k
Toshiaki Ikuta Japan 6 2.0k 0.9× 1.9k 0.9× 538 1.2× 247 1.0× 47 0.6× 10 2.4k
Kazuki Yoshiura Japan 5 2.1k 0.9× 1.9k 0.9× 401 0.9× 225 0.9× 27 0.4× 6 2.4k
Jingping Ni Japan 7 2.1k 0.9× 1.9k 0.9× 536 1.2× 264 1.1× 46 0.6× 11 2.5k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Xu, Yincai, Le Mei, Zhu Wu, et al.. (2025). Organic full-color narrowband afterglow. Materials Horizons. 12(20). 8555–8564.
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Yang, Chi‐Yuan, April S. Caravaca, Qi Guo, et al.. (2025). A Photo‐Patternable Solid‐State Electrolyte for High‐Performance, Miniaturized, and Implantable Organic Electrochemical Transistor‐Based Circuits. Advanced Materials. 37(44). e09314–e09314. 1 indexed citations
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Li, Linjie, et al.. (2025). Ultra‐Narrowband Organic Electroluminescence with External Quantum Efficiency of 40% from Indolocarbazole‐Embedded Multiple Resonance Emitters. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 64(22). e202504002–e202504002. 11 indexed citations
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Xie, Zongliang, et al.. (2025). Full-color processible afterglow organic small molecular glass. Nature Communications. 16(1). 4526–4526. 7 indexed citations
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Tang, Yufu, Yuanyuan Li, Zongliang Xie, et al.. (2025). Ultrabright 1650 nm-Emitting Biodegradable Organic Luminophores for NIR-IIbc Fluorescence Imaging. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 147(34). 31091–31101. 2 indexed citations
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Xu, Yincai, et al.. (2024). Modulating Charge‐Transfer Excited States of Multiple Resonance Emitters via Intramolecular Covalent Bond Locking. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 63(43). e202411268–e202411268. 12 indexed citations
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Xu, Yincai, Cheng Qu, Qingyang Wang, et al.. (2024). Structurally Tunable Donor−Bridge−Fluorophore Architecture Enables Highly Efficient and Concentration‐Independent Narrowband Electroluminescence. Advanced Materials. 36(31). e2403061–e2403061. 19 indexed citations
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Xu, Yincai, et al.. (2024). Modulating Charge‐Transfer Excited States of Multiple Resonance Emitters via Intramolecular Covalent Bond Locking. Angewandte Chemie. 136(43). 5 indexed citations
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Qu, Cheng, Yincai Xu, Yu Wang, et al.. (2024). Bridging of Cove Regions: A Strategy for Realizing Persistently Chiral Double Heterohelicenes with Attractive Luminescent Properties. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 63(15). e202400661–e202400661. 10 indexed citations
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Xu, Yincai, Yexuan Pu, Pingping Zheng, et al.. (2024). A multi-resonance emitter with five-membered thiophene as the π-core enables efficient, narrowband and reduced efficiency roll-off OLEDs. Chemical Science. 15(29). 11435–11443. 20 indexed citations
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Yu, Feng, Xuming Zhuang, Yincai Xu, et al.. (2023). Constructing solution-processable heavy metal platinum (II) complex with narrowband emission by integrating multiple resonance molecular system. Chemical Engineering Journal. 478. 147123–147123. 13 indexed citations
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Wang, Qingyang, Yuan Li, Cheng Qu, et al.. (2023). Constructing Highly Efficient Circularly Polarized Multiple‐Resonance Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence Materials with Intrinsically Helical Chirality. Advanced Materials. 35(42). e2305125–e2305125. 89 indexed citations
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Wang, Qingyang, Yincai Xu, Tong Yang, Jianan Xue, & Yue Wang. (2022). Precise Functionalization of a Multiple‐Resonance Framework: Constructing Narrowband Organic Electroluminescent Materials with External Quantum Efficiency over 40%. Advanced Materials. 35(3). e2205166–e2205166. 105 indexed citations
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Xu, Yincai, Qingyang Wang, Xiaoxian Song, Yue Wang, & Chenglong Li. (2022). New Fields, New Opportunities and New Challenges: Circularly Polarized Multiple Resonance Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence Materials. Chemistry - A European Journal. 29(12). e202203414–e202203414. 32 indexed citations
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Xu, Yincai, Qingyang Wang, Xinliang Cai, Chenglong Li, & Yue Wang. (2021). Highly Efficient Electroluminescence from Narrowband Green Circularly Polarized Multiple Resonance Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence Enantiomers. Advanced Materials. 33(21). e2100652–e2100652. 268 indexed citations breakdown →

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