Zeng Chen

7.0k total citations · 7 hit papers
81 papers, 5.9k citations indexed

About

Zeng Chen is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Polymers and Plastics and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Zeng Chen has authored 81 papers receiving a total of 5.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 74 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 51 papers in Polymers and Plastics and 14 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Zeng Chen's work include Perovskite Materials and Applications (61 papers), Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics (53 papers) and Conducting polymers and applications (51 papers). Zeng Chen is often cited by papers focused on Perovskite Materials and Applications (61 papers), Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics (53 papers) and Conducting polymers and applications (51 papers). Zeng Chen collaborates with scholars based in China, Hong Kong and United States. Zeng Chen's co-authors include Haiming Zhu, Yang Yang, Hongzheng Chen, Jie Min, Xinhui Lu, Rui Sun, Yao Wu, Shuixing Li, Jing Guo and Xinya 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

Zeng Chen

79 papers receiving 5.8k citations

Hit Papers

Single‐Junction Organic Solar Cells with 19.17% Efficienc... 2020 2026 2022 2024 2022 2020 2021 2022 2023 100 200 300 400 500
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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. Single‐Junction Organic Solar Cells with 19.17% Efficiency Enabled by Introducing One Asymmetric Guest Acceptor
    2022 552 citations Zeng Chen, Haiming Zhu et al. profile →
  2. Low-dose real-time X-ray imaging with nontoxic double perovskite scintillators
    2020 408 citations Wenjuan Zhu, Yirong Su et al. profile →
  3. Achieving over 17% efficiency of ternary all-polymer solar cells with two well-compatible polymer acceptors
    2021 335 citations Zeng Chen, Xinxin Xia et al. Joule profile →
  4. Desired open-circuit voltage increase enables efficiencies approaching 19% in symmetric-asymmetric molecule ternary organic photovoltaics
    2022 298 citations Lingling Zhan, Shuixing Li et al. Joule profile →
  5. Compromising Charge Generation and Recombination of Organic Photovoltaics with Mixed Diluent Strategy for Certified 19.4% Efficiency
    2023 275 citations Shuixing Li, Zeng Chen et al. profile →
  6. Highly Resolved and Robust Dynamic X‐Ray Imaging Using Perovskite Glass‐Ceramic Scintillator with Reduced Light Scattering
    2021 237 citations Yirong Su, Zeng Chen et al. profile →
  7. Asymmetric electron acceptor enables highly luminescent organic solar cells with certified efficiency over 18%
    2022 224 citations Chengliang He, Zeng Chen et al. Nature Communications profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Zeng Chen China 38 5.4k 3.9k 1.3k 464 362 81 5.9k
Xuechen Jiao Australia 41 6.0k 1.1× 4.6k 1.2× 1.4k 1.1× 352 0.8× 462 1.3× 116 6.5k
Samuele Lilliu United Kingdom 19 3.7k 0.7× 1.5k 0.4× 2.4k 1.9× 318 0.7× 186 0.5× 34 4.0k
Moses Richter Germany 15 2.4k 0.4× 882 0.2× 1.5k 1.2× 269 0.6× 402 1.1× 16 2.8k
Dong Hee Shin South Korea 32 2.0k 0.4× 631 0.2× 3.0k 2.3× 359 0.8× 1.1k 3.2× 108 3.8k
Wensi Cai China 33 2.4k 0.4× 505 0.1× 1.9k 1.5× 286 0.6× 198 0.5× 69 2.9k
Yuying Hao China 35 3.3k 0.6× 1.4k 0.4× 2.0k 1.6× 282 0.6× 427 1.2× 213 4.1k
Zhaolai Chen China 30 4.9k 0.9× 1.3k 0.3× 3.9k 3.1× 340 0.7× 180 0.5× 77 5.3k
Hui Lin China 30 2.5k 0.5× 1.1k 0.3× 1.2k 1.0× 117 0.3× 257 0.7× 149 2.8k
Shun‐Wei Liu Taiwan 36 3.5k 0.7× 1.3k 0.3× 1.9k 1.5× 170 0.4× 399 1.1× 183 4.2k
Mojtaba Abdi‐Jalebi United Kingdom 38 6.9k 1.3× 2.2k 0.6× 5.2k 4.1× 492 1.1× 218 0.6× 90 7.5k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Fan, Xiaoru, Zeng Chen, Rui Gao, et al.. (2025). Cuprous Halides Scintillator via Anion‐Substitution Strategy for X‐Ray Dynamic Imaging. Laser & Photonics Review. 19(23).
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Liu, Maolong, Limin Liu, Ziyi Xu, et al.. (2024). Development of friction factor and heat transfer correlation of liquid metal flow in helical tube bundles. Annals of Nuclear Energy. 201. 110442–110442. 4 indexed citations
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Cheng, Kun, Hanqing Li, Maolong Liu, et al.. (2024). Numerical study on flow instability in parallel helical tubes under ocean conditions. International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer. 159. 107984–107984. 2 indexed citations
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Fang, Hui, Zeng Chen, Wenjuan Zhu, et al.. (2024). Excited State Dynamics and Transport of Self-Trapped Excitons in Bi-Doped Cs2Na0.4Ag0.6In(1–y)BiyCl6 Double Perovskites. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. 15(23). 6194–6201. 2 indexed citations
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Zhang, Yao, Leilei Zhu, Weijian Tao, et al.. (2024). Transient Photoinduced Pb2+ Disproportionation for Exciton Self-Trapping and Broadband Emission in Low-Dimensional Lead Halide Perovskites. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 146(11). 7831–7838. 16 indexed citations
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Liao, Xunfan, Mingtao Liu, Peipei Zhu, et al.. (2024). Regulating Crystallinity Mismatch Between Donor and Acceptor to Improve Exciton/Charge Transport in Efficient Organic Solar Cells. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 63(11). e202318595–e202318595. 40 indexed citations
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Liu, Tianyu, Peng Ran, Yirong Su, et al.. (2023). Solution-processed halide perovskite microcavity exciton-polariton light-emitting diodes working at room temperature. Photonics Research. 11(10). 1791–1791. 8 indexed citations
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Jia, Zhenrong, Qing Ma, Zeng Chen, et al.. (2023). Near-infrared absorbing acceptor with suppressed triplet exciton generation enabling high performance tandem organic solar cells. Nature Communications. 14(1). 1236–1236. 110 indexed citations
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Kong, Xiangyue, Lingling Zhan, Shuixing Li, et al.. (2023). Spontaneous vertical phase distribution of multi-acceptors system enables high-efficiency organic photovoltaics in non-halogenated solvent and large-area module application. Chemical Engineering Journal. 473. 145201–145201. 13 indexed citations
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Cui, Yongjie, Zeng Chen, Peipei Zhu, et al.. (2023). Enhancing photostability and power conversion efficiency of organic solar cells by a “sunscreen” ternary strategy. Science China Chemistry. 66(4). 1179–1189. 37 indexed citations
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Liu, Heng, Yúang Fu, Zeng Chen, et al.. (2023). Dual‐Additive‐Driven Morphology Optimization for Solvent‐Annealing‐Free All‐Small‐Molecule Organic Solar Cells. Advanced Functional Materials. 33(36). 35 indexed citations
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Li, Zechen, Xiaolei Kong, Zeng Chen, et al.. (2022). Small-Molecule Acceptor with Unsymmetric Substituents and Fused Rings for High-Performance Organic Solar Cells with Enhanced Mobility and Reduced Energy Losses. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 14(46). 52058–52066. 8 indexed citations
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Liu, Yanping, Zeng Chen, Xuehui Xu, et al.. (2022). Efficient solid-state infrared-to-visible photon upconversion on atomically thin monolayer semiconductors. Science Advances. 8(43). eabq4935–eabq4935. 38 indexed citations
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Wen, Tian‐Jiao, Nakul Jain, Zhi-Xi Liu, et al.. (2022). Non-fused medium bandgap electron acceptors for efficient organic photovoltaics. Journal of Energy Chemistry. 70. 576–582. 33 indexed citations
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Chen, Zeng, Xu Chen, Ziyan Jia, et al.. (2021). Triplet exciton formation for non-radiative voltage loss in high-efficiency nonfullerene organic solar cells. Joule. 5(7). 1832–1844. 142 indexed citations
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Li, Shuixing, Lingling Zhan, Nannan Yao, et al.. (2021). Unveiling structure-performance relationships from multi-scales in non-fullerene organic photovoltaics. Nature Communications. 12(1). 4627–4627. 151 indexed citations
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Liu, Zhi-Xi, Zhipeng Yu, Ziqiu Shen, et al.. (2021). Molecular insights of exceptionally photostable electron acceptors for organic photovoltaics. Nature Communications. 12(1). 3049–3049. 158 indexed citations
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Jia, Ziyan, Zeng Chen, Xu Chen, et al.. (2020). 19.34  cm2 large-area quaternary organic photovoltaic module with 12.36% certified efficiency. Photonics Research. 9(3). 324–324. 29 indexed citations
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Yang, Zhaoliang, Xiaomin Wang, Yuzhong Chen, et al.. (2019). Ultrafast self-trapping of photoexcited carriers sets the upper limit on antimony trisulfide photovoltaic devices. Nature Communications. 10(1). 4540–4540. 147 indexed citations
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Chen, Zeng. (2003). Design of orthogonal basis wavelet neural network based on multiresolution learning. Journal of systems engineering. 1 indexed citations

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