Ying Diao

11.9k total citations · 4 hit papers
135 papers, 10.0k citations indexed

About

Ying Diao is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Polymers and Plastics and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Ying Diao has authored 135 papers receiving a total of 10.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 88 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 52 papers in Polymers and Plastics and 48 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Ying Diao's work include Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics (72 papers), Conducting polymers and applications (50 papers) and Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials (17 papers). Ying Diao is often cited by papers focused on Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics (72 papers), Conducting polymers and applications (50 papers) and Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials (17 papers). Ying Diao collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Germany. Ying Diao's co-authors include Zhenan Bao, Jianguo Mei, Stefan C. B. Mannsfeld, Anthony L. Appleton, Lei Fang, Leo Shaw, T. Alan Hatton, Fengjiao Zhang, Hyun‐Joong Chung and Ge Qu and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Chemical Reviews and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Ying Diao

131 papers receiving 9.9k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Integrated Materials Design of Organic Semiconductors for Field-Effect Transistors

2013 1.3k citations Ying Diao, Zhenan Bao et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
Solution coating of large-area organic semiconductor thin films with aligned single-crystalline domains

2013 874 citations Ying Diao, Benjamin C. K. Tee et al. Nature Materials profile →
Morphology control strategies for solution-processed organic semiconductor thin films

2014 566 citations Ying Diao, Zhenan Bao et al. profile →
From Solution to Thin Film: Molecular Assembly of π-Conjugated Systems and Impact on (Opto)electronic Properties

2023 149 citations Azzaya Khasbaatar, Zhuang Xu et al. profile →

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Lyotropic Liquid Crystal Mediated Assembly of Donor Polymers Enhances Efficiency and Stability of Blade‐Coated Organic Solar Cells 2025 ·Advanced Materials ·Azzaya Khasbaatar, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Chenhui Zhu, Eliot Gann, Jong‐Hoon Lee, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Minjoo Larry Lee, John R. Reynolds, Ying Diao	5
2	Photoluminescent delocalized excitons in donor polymers facilitate efficient charge generation for high-performance organic photovoltaics 2025 ·Nature Communications ·Kui Jiang, Robert J. E. Westbrook, Tian Xia, Cheng Zhong, Jianxun Lu, Azzaya Khasbaatar, Kaikai Liu, Francis Lin, (unknown), Jie Zhang, Yuqing Li, Ying Diao, Zhanhua Wei, Hin‐Lap Yip, David S. Ginger, Alex K.‐Y. Jen	9
3	Large modulation of the bottlebrush diblock copolymer morphology and structural color through solvent selectivity 2025 ·Soft Matter ·Sanghyun Jeon, (unknown), Zhuang Xu, Azzaya Khasbaatar, (unknown), Jong‐Hoon Lee, (unknown), Simon A. Rogers, Damien Guironnet, Ying Diao	0
4	Gentler, nanoscale ion implantation 2024 ·Nature Nanotechnology ·Ying Diao	1
5	Closed-loop transfer enables artificial intelligence to yield chemical knowledge 2024 ·Nature ·Nicholas H. Angello, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Alán Aspuru‐Guzik, Martin D. Burke, Charles M. Schroeder, Ying Diao, Nicholas E. Jackson	33
6	Controlling Polymorphic Transitions in n-Type Organic Semiconductor Single Crystals by Alkyl Chain Engineering 2023 ·Crystal Growth & Design ·Daniel W. Davies, (unknown), (unknown), Sang Kyu Park, Wuyue Liu, Dafei Yuan, Stefan C. B. Mannsfeld, SuYin Grass Wang, Yu‐Sheng Chen, Danielle L. Gray, Xiaozhang Zhu, Ying Diao	6
7	Solution Aggregate Structures of Donor Polymers Determine the Morphology and Processing Resiliency of Non-Fullerene Organic Solar Cells 2023 ·Chemistry of Materials ·Azzaya Khasbaatar, (unknown), Austin L. Jones, Justin J. Kwok, Sang Kyu Park, (unknown), Oliver Lin, Nicholas E. Jackson, Qian Chen, Dean M. DeLongchamp, John R. Reynolds, Ying Diao	34
8	Chiral emergence in multistep hierarchical assembly of achiral conjugated polymers 2022 ·Nature Communications ·(unknown), (unknown), Bijal B. Patel, (unknown), Justin J. Kwok, Prapti Kafle, Qian Chen, Diwakar Shukla, Ying Diao	38
9	Using automated synthesis to understand the role of side chains on molecular charge transport 2022 ·Nature Communications ·Songsong Li, (unknown), Nicholas H. Angello, Jialing Li, Hao Yu, Jeffrey S. Moore, Ying Diao, Martin D. Burke, Charles M. Schroeder	28
10	Role of Interfacial Interactions in the Graphene-Directed Assembly of Monolayer Conjugated Polymers 2022 ·Langmuir ·Prapti Kafle, (unknown), (unknown), Fengjiao Zhang, Hao Yu, (unknown), Hyunchul Kim, Charles M. Schroeder, Arend M. van der Zande, Ying Diao	6
11	Modulation of π-stacking modes and photophysical properties of an organic semiconductor through isosteric cocrystallization 2021 ·The Journal of Chemical Physics ·Gonzalo Campillo‐Alvarado, (unknown), Daniel W. Davies, Julio A. N. T. Soares, Toby J. Woods, Ying Diao	8
12	Radically Tunable n-Type Organic Semiconductor via Polymorph Control 2021 ·Chemistry of Materials ·Daniel W. Davies, Sang Kyu Park, Prapti Kafle, Hyun‐Joong Chung, Dafei Yuan, Joseph Strzalka, Stefan C. B. Mannsfeld, SuYin Grass Wang, Yu‐Sheng Chen, Danielle L. Gray, Xiaozhang Zhu, Ying Diao	19
13	Three-Dimensional Printable Nanoporous Polymer Matrix Composites for Daytime Radiative Cooling 2021 ·Nano Letters ·Kai Zhou, Wei Li, Bijal B. Patel, Ran Tao, Yilong Chang, Shanhui Fan, Ying Diao, Lili Cai	168
14	Lyotropic Liquid Crystalline Mesophase Governs Interfacial Molecular Orientation of Conjugated Polymer Thin Films 2020 ·Chemistry of Materials ·Ge Qu, (unknown), Prapti Kafle, Fengjiao Zhang, Justin J. Kwok, Bijal B. Patel, Detlef‐M. Smilgies, Lars Thomsen, Christopher R. McNeill, Ying Diao	23
15	Mitigating Meniscus Instabilities in Solution-Sheared Polymer Films for Organic Field-Effect Transistors 2019 ·ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces ·(unknown), Ge Qu, Xuegeng Yang, Rishi Shivhare, Mike Hambsch, Ying Diao, Stefan C. B. Mannsfeld	11
16	Rotator side chains trigger cooperative transition for shape and function memory effect in organic semiconductors 2018 ·Nature Communications ·Hyun‐Joong Chung, Dmytro Dudenko, Fengjiao Zhang, Gabriele D’Avino, Christian Ruzié, (unknown), Guillaume Schweicher, Jérôme Cornil, David Beljonne, Yves Geerts, Ying Diao	113
17	Conjugated-Backbone Effect of Organic Small Molecules for n-Type Thermoelectric Materials with ZT over 0.2 2017 ·Journal of the American Chemical Society ·Dazhen Huang, Huiying Yao, Yutao Cui, Ye Zou, Fengjiao Zhang, Chao Wang, Hongguang Shen, Wen‐Long Jin, Jia Zhu, Ying Diao, Wei Xu, Chong‐an Di, Daoben Zhu	231
18	Solution coating of large-area organic semiconductor thin films with aligned single-crystalline domains breakdown → 2013 ·Nature Materials ·Ying Diao, Benjamin C. K. Tee, Gaurav Giri, Jie Xu, Do Hwan Kim, Héctor A. Becerril, Randall M. Stoltenberg, Tae Hoon Lee, Gi Xue, Stefan C. B. Mannsfeld, Zhenan Bao	874
19	1,2-Bis(2,4,6-trinitrophenyl)ethane 2011 ·Acta Crystallographica Section E Structure Reports Online ·Wenyan Wang, Ying Diao, (unknown), Jianlong Wang	2
20	1-Methyl-5-nitro-1H-imidazole 2011 ·Acta Crystallographica Section E Structure Reports Online ·Ying Diao, Wenyan Wang, (unknown), Jianlong Wang	1

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