Ze‐Fan Yao

5.3k total citations · 3 hit papers
98 papers, 4.3k citations indexed

About

Ze‐Fan Yao is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Polymers and Plastics and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Ze‐Fan Yao has authored 98 papers receiving a total of 4.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 80 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 61 papers in Polymers and Plastics and 33 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Ze‐Fan Yao's work include Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics (69 papers), Conducting polymers and applications (61 papers) and Perovskite Materials and Applications (36 papers). Ze‐Fan Yao is often cited by papers focused on Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics (69 papers), Conducting polymers and applications (61 papers) and Perovskite Materials and Applications (36 papers). Ze‐Fan Yao collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Hong Kong. Ze‐Fan Yao's co-authors include Jian Pei, Jie‐Yu Wang, Yang Lu, Zi‐Di Yu, Chi‐Yuan Yang, Ting Lei, Jin‐Hu Dou, Li Ding, Xiaoye Wang and Yu‐Qing Zheng and has published in prestigious journals such as Chemical Reviews, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of the American Chemical Society.

In The Last Decade

Ze‐Fan Yao

90 papers receiving 4.2k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Polymer Semiconductors: Synthesis, Processing, and Applications

2023 315 citations Li Ding, Zi‐Di Yu et al. profile →
A Vinylene‐Linker‐Based Polymer Acceptor Featuring a Coplanar and Rigid Molecular Conformation Enables High‐Performance All‐Polymer Solar Cells with Over 17% Efficiency

2022 200 citations Han Yu, Yan Wang et al. Advanced Materials profile →
Defect‐Passivating and Stable Benzothiophene‐Based Self‐Assembled Monolayer for High‐Performance Inverted Perovskite Solar Cells

2024 81 citations Ze‐Fan Yao, Kaikai Liu et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ze‐Fan Yao China	34	3.3k	2.6k	1.5k	632	539	98	4.3k
Chengyi Xiao China	37	3.6k 1.1×	2.8k 1.1×	1.1k 0.8×	800 1.3×	525 1.0×	139	4.6k
Guillaume Wantz France	33	4.1k 1.2×	2.9k 1.1×	1.5k 1.0×	814 1.3×	503 0.9×	134	5.1k
David Hanifi United States	23	3.0k 0.9×	2.6k 1.0×	907 0.6×	418 0.7×	644 1.2×	28	3.9k
Sybille Allard Germany	34	3.2k 1.0×	2.1k 0.8×	1.8k 1.2×	708 1.1×	532 1.0×	72	4.4k
Nicolas Leclerc France	35	3.1k 0.9×	2.4k 0.9×	1.7k 1.1×	513 0.8×	459 0.9×	122	4.1k
Xiaobin Peng China	39	4.2k 1.3×	3.3k 1.3×	1.8k 1.2×	435 0.7×	369 0.7×	104	5.1k
Jason D. Azoulay United States	33	1.9k 0.6×	1.3k 0.5×	953 0.6×	619 1.0×	549 1.0×	89	3.1k
D. Djurado France	29	2.0k 0.6×	1.7k 0.7×	1.1k 0.7×	395 0.6×	591 1.1×	138	3.2k
Hong‐Ku Shim South Korea	43	4.1k 1.2×	3.5k 1.3×	1.6k 1.1×	604 1.0×	385 0.7×	189	5.5k
Youtian Tao China	37	5.7k 1.7×	2.1k 0.8×	4.3k 2.9×	835 1.3×	307 0.6×	122	6.9k

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Ng, Ho Ming, Bosen Zou, Aleksandr A. Sergeev, et al.. (2025). Improved efficiency and stability of outdoor and indoor organic photovoltaics with suppressed voltage loss via alkoxylation on dimeric giant acceptors featured as supramolecular stabilizers. Energy & Environmental Science. 18(13). 6587–6596. 4 indexed citations

Sun, Jiaonan, Jiarong Wang, Ze‐Fan Yao, et al.. (2025). Molecular Engineering of Terminus, Conjugation, and Energetics for Thermally Stable Inverted Perovskite Solar Cells. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 147(35). 31965–31974. 2 indexed citations

Huang, Yi-Fan, Zi‐Di Yu, Ze‐Fan Yao, et al.. (2025). Achieving well-ordered microstructure and enhanced conductivities in n-doped conjugated polymers via dual-affinity dopant. Chem. 12(3). 102755–102755.

Liu, Han, Tengfei Li, Wenyan Su, et al.. (2025). Hybrid Linking Sites Constructed Non‐Fully Conjugated Asymmetric Dimerized Giant Molecule Acceptors for Organic Solar Cells with an Efficiency of ≈20%. Angewandte Chemie. 137(19).

Liu, Yi, Huiying Yao, Haoyang Zhang, et al.. (2025). Asymmetrical Substitution Manipulates Stacking Modes in 2D Conductive MOF Crystals. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 147(52). 48127–48135.

Song, Xiaowei, Ze‐Fan Yao, Kexiang Zhao, et al.. (2025). Internally BN‐Doped Coronene. Angewandte Chemie. 137(33).

Yao, Ze‐Fan, et al.. (2025). Internally BN‐Doped Coronene. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 64(33). e202509971–e202509971.

Cordova, Dmitri Leo Mesoza, et al.. (2024). Encapsulation of crystalline and amorphous Sb ₂ S ₃ within carbon and boron nitride nanotubes. Chemical Science. 15(27). 10464–10476. 4 indexed citations

Yao, Ze‐Fan, et al.. (2024). Lattice-guided assembly of optoelectronically active π-conjugated peptides on 1D van der Waals single crystals. Science Advances. 10(24). eadl2402–eadl2402. 7 indexed citations

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Yu, Zi‐Di, Yang Lu, Ze‐Fan Yao, et al.. (2024). Buffer Chain Model for Understanding Crystallization Competition in Conjugated Polymers. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 63(24). e202405139–e202405139. 12 indexed citations

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Cordova, Dmitri Leo Mesoza, et al.. (2024). Functionalization and Structural Evolution of Conducting Quasi-One-Dimensional Chevrel-Type Telluride Nanocrystals. Chemistry of Materials. 36(9). 4714–4725. 1 indexed citations

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Li, Wanhui, Yi Zhang, Cheng‐Zhuo Du, et al.. (2024). Ultraviolet circularly polarized light detection based on chiral BN-anthracene derivatives. Journal of Materials Chemistry C. 12(38). 15408–15412. 1 indexed citations

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Yao, Ze‐Fan, et al.. (2023). Carbodiimide‐Fueled Assembly of π‐Conjugated Peptides Regulated by Electrostatic Interactions**. ChemSystemsChem. 5(4). 10 indexed citations

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Yu, Han, Yan Wang, Xinhui Zou, et al.. (2023). Effects of Halogenation of Small‐Molecule and Polymeric Acceptors for Efficient Organic Solar Cells. Advanced Functional Materials. 33(22). 63 indexed citations

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Yu, Han, Yan Wang, Ha Kyung Kim, et al.. (2022). A Vinylene‐Linker‐Based Polymer Acceptor Featuring a Coplanar and Rigid Molecular Conformation Enables High‐Performance All‐Polymer Solar Cells with Over 17% Efficiency. Advanced Materials. 34(27). e2200361–e2200361. 200 indexed citations breakdown →

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Zheng, Yu‐Qing, Ze‐Fan Yao, Jin‐Hu Dou, et al.. (2021). Influence of solution-state aggregation on conjugated polymer crystallization in thin films and microwire crystals. Giant. 7. 100064–100064. 32 indexed citations

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Ding, Li, Ziyuan Wang, Ze‐Fan Yao, et al.. (2021). Controllable Transformation between the Kinetically and Thermodynamically Stable Aggregates in a Solution of Conjugated Polymers. Macromolecules. 54(12). 5815–5824. 18 indexed citations

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Yang, Chi‐Yuan, Yifan Ding, Dazhen Huang, et al.. (2020). A thermally activated and highly miscible dopant for n-type organic thermoelectrics. Nature Communications. 11(1). 3292–3292. 164 indexed citations

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Jin, Zexin, et al.. (2018). Dinaphthobenzo[1,2:4,5]dicyclobutadiene: Antiaromatic and Orthogonally Tunable Electronics and Packing. Angewandte Chemie. 131(7). 2056–2061. 8 indexed citations

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Jin, Zexin, et al.. (2018). Dinaphthobenzo[1,2:4,5]dicyclobutadiene: Antiaromatic and Orthogonally Tunable Electronics and Packing. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 58(7). 2034–2039. 48 indexed citations

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