Yunbin Hu

4.6k total citations · 2 hit papers
71 papers, 4.0k citations indexed

About

Yunbin Hu is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Materials Chemistry and Organic Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Yunbin Hu has authored 71 papers receiving a total of 4.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 38 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 37 papers in Materials Chemistry and 29 papers in Organic Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Yunbin Hu's work include Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics (31 papers), Synthesis and Properties of Aromatic Compounds (28 papers) and Conducting polymers and applications (21 papers). Yunbin Hu is often cited by papers focused on Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics (31 papers), Synthesis and Properties of Aromatic Compounds (28 papers) and Conducting polymers and applications (21 papers). Yunbin Hu collaborates with scholars based in China, Germany and Japan. Yunbin Hu's co-authors include Xike Gao, Akimitsu Narita, Kläus Müllen, Daoben Zhu, Chong‐an Di, Yingping Zou, Fengjiao Zhang, Yunqi Liu, Xinliang Feng and Hongxiang Li 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

Yunbin Hu

68 papers receiving 4.0k citations

Hit Papers

Critical Role of Alkyl Chain Branching of Organic Semicon... 2013 2026 2017 2021 2013 2020 100 200 300
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. Critical Role of Alkyl Chain Branching of Organic Semiconductors in Enabling Solution-Processed N-Channel Organic Thin-Film Transistors with Mobility of up to 3.50 cm2 V–1 s–1
    2013 380 citations Yunbin Hu, Xike Gao et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
  2. Tuning the electron-deficient core of a non-fullerene acceptor to achieve over 17% efficiency in a single-junction organic solar cell
    2020 373 citations Yunbin Hu, Yingping Zou 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
Yunbin Hu China 30 2.5k 1.7k 1.4k 1.4k 428 71 4.0k
Yves Geerts Germany 31 2.2k 0.9× 1.7k 1.0× 1.4k 1.0× 884 0.6× 622 1.5× 66 3.7k
Chuandong Dou China 36 2.7k 1.1× 2.1k 1.2× 2.0k 1.4× 1.5k 1.1× 240 0.6× 94 4.3k
Heinz‐Georg Nothofer Germany 27 2.7k 1.1× 1.5k 0.9× 1.4k 1.0× 838 0.6× 388 0.9× 43 3.8k
Khai Leok Chan Singapore 12 2.2k 0.9× 1.6k 0.9× 1.6k 1.1× 1.1k 0.8× 200 0.5× 19 3.5k
Mariacecilia Pasini Italy 30 1.7k 0.7× 1.9k 1.1× 692 0.5× 576 0.4× 330 0.8× 109 2.9k
Hongkun Tian China 41 4.1k 1.6× 1.7k 1.0× 2.8k 1.9× 855 0.6× 395 0.9× 145 5.1k
Juan Luis Delgado Spain 36 2.3k 0.9× 2.1k 1.2× 1.3k 0.9× 1.3k 0.9× 192 0.4× 93 3.9k
Nicolas Leclerc France 35 3.1k 1.2× 1.7k 1.0× 2.4k 1.6× 513 0.4× 459 1.1× 122 4.1k
Ze‐Fan Yao China 34 3.3k 1.3× 1.5k 0.9× 2.6k 1.8× 632 0.5× 539 1.3× 98 4.3k
Elena Mena‐Osteritz Germany 37 2.9k 1.2× 1.5k 0.9× 1.9k 1.3× 1.4k 1.0× 675 1.6× 90 4.4k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Hu, Yunbin, Antoine Hinaut, Long Zhou, et al.. (2025). Non-covalent Molecular Wires of Double Thiahelicene on Cu(111): A nc-AFM Study at Room Temperature. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 129(11). 5637–5644.
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Zhang, Xiaoxi, Yunbin Hu, Juan Li, et al.. (2023). Photoresponse of Solution-Synthesized Graphene Nanoribbon Heterojunctions on Diamond Indicating Phototunable Photodiode Polarity. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 145(16). 8757–8763. 10 indexed citations
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Tan, Jingyun, Xiushang Xu, Serhii Vasylevskyi, et al.. (2023). Synthesis of a π‐Extended Double [9]Helicene. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 62(18). e202218494–e202218494. 42 indexed citations
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Tan, Jingyun, Xiushang Xu, Serhii Vasylevskyi, et al.. (2023). Synthesis of a π‐Extended Double [9]Helicene. Angewandte Chemie. 135(18). 8 indexed citations
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Zhang, Xiaoxi, Zongping Chen, Yunbin Hu, et al.. (2022). Self-assembly and photoinduced fabrication of conductive nanographene wires on boron nitride. Nature Communications. 13(1). 442–442. 11 indexed citations
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Hinaut, Antoine, Xuelin Yao, Xiaoye Wang, et al.. (2022). Solution-Synthesized Extended Graphene Nanoribbons Deposited by High-Vacuum Electrospray Deposition. ACS Nano. 17(1). 597–605. 7 indexed citations
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Tan, Jingyun, Guanghui Zhang, Congwu Ge, et al.. (2022). Electron-Deficient Contorted Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon via One-Pot Annulative π-Extension of Perylene Diimide. Organic Letters. 24(12). 2414–2419. 14 indexed citations
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Chen, Qiang, Martin Baumgarten, Manfred Wagner, et al.. (2021). Dicyclopentaannelated Hexa‐peri‐hexabenzocoronenes with a Singlet Biradical Ground State. Angewandte Chemie. 133(20). 11400–11404. 9 indexed citations
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Hong, Juan, Haoliang Liu, Lin Fu, et al.. (2021). X-shaped thiadiazole-containing double [7]heterohelicene with strong chiroptical response and π-stacked homochiral assembly. Chemical Communications. 57(45). 5566–5569. 14 indexed citations
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Chen, Qiang, Martin Baumgarten, Manfred Wagner, et al.. (2021). Dicyclopentaannelated Hexa‐peri‐hexabenzocoronenes with a Singlet Biradical Ground State. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 60(20). 11300–11304. 27 indexed citations
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Zhao, Hao, Xiushang Xu, Long Zhou, et al.. (2021). Water‐Soluble Nanoparticles with Twisted Double [7]Carbohelicene for Lysosome‐Targeted Cancer Photodynamic Therapy. Small. 18(1). e2105365–e2105365. 29 indexed citations
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Zhou, Zheng, Lin Fu, Yunbin Hu, et al.. (2020). Compressing Double [7]Helicene by Successive Charging with Electrons. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 59(37). 15923–15927. 33 indexed citations
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Zhou, Zheng, Lin Fu, Yunbin Hu, et al.. (2020). Compressing Double [7]Helicene by Successive Charging with Electrons. Angewandte Chemie. 132(37). 16057–16061. 9 indexed citations
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Hu, Yunbin, Giuseppe M. Paternò, Xiaoye Wang, et al.. (2019). π-Extended Pyrene-Fused Double [7]Carbohelicene as a Chiral Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 141(32). 12797–12803. 137 indexed citations
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Zhong, Qigang, Yunbin Hu, Kaifeng Niu, et al.. (2019). Benzo-Fused Periacenes or Double Helicenes? Different Cyclodehydrogenation Pathways on Surface and in Solution. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 141(18). 7399–7406. 57 indexed citations
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Hu, Yunbin, Di Wang, Martin Baumgarten, et al.. (2018). Spiro-fused bis-hexa-peri-hexabenzocoronene. Chemical Communications. 54(96). 13575–13578. 29 indexed citations
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Hu, Yunbin, Peng Xie, Alice Ruini, et al.. (2018). Bandgap Engineering of Graphene Nanoribbons by Control over Structural Distortion. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 140(25). 7803–7809. 66 indexed citations
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Ivanov, Ivan, Yunbin Hu, Silvio Osella, et al.. (2017). Role of Edge Engineering in Photoconductivity of Graphene Nanoribbons. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 139(23). 7982–7988. 62 indexed citations
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Martini, Leonardo, Andrea Candini, U. del Pennino, et al.. (2016). Fabrication of three terminal devices by ElectroSpray deposition of graphene nanoribbons. Carbon. 104. 112–118. 20 indexed citations

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