Zezhou Liang

2.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
91 papers, 1.9k citations indexed

About

Zezhou Liang is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Polymers and Plastics and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Zezhou Liang has authored 91 papers receiving a total of 1.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 72 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 68 papers in Polymers and Plastics and 22 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Zezhou Liang's work include Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics (70 papers), Conducting polymers and applications (67 papers) and Perovskite Materials and Applications (44 papers). Zezhou Liang is often cited by papers focused on Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics (70 papers), Conducting polymers and applications (67 papers) and Perovskite Materials and Applications (44 papers). Zezhou Liang collaborates with scholars based in China, Bangladesh and Hong Kong. Zezhou Liang's co-authors include Jianfeng Li, Junfeng Tong, Yufei Wang, Yangjun Xia, Xichang Bao, Lihe Yan, Chunyan Yang, Ningning Wang, Hongdong Li and Xiaoming Li and has published in prestigious journals such as Angewandte Chemie International Edition, The Journal of Chemical Physics and Advanced Functional Materials.

In The Last Decade

Zezhou Liang

83 papers receiving 1.9k 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.

High‐Pressure Fabrication of Binary Organic Solar Cells with High Molecular Weight D18 Yields Record 19.65 % Efficiency

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Zezhou Liang China	23	1.7k	1.5k	317	127	105	91	1.9k
Niva A. Ran United States	15	2.1k 1.2×	1.6k 1.1×	266 0.8×	83 0.7×	126 1.2×	21	2.2k
Kung-Shih Chen United States	18	2.1k 1.3×	1.8k 1.2×	358 1.1×	223 1.8×	124 1.2×	19	2.3k
Iyad Nasrallah United Kingdom	10	1.7k 1.0×	1.2k 0.8×	489 1.5×	356 2.8×	98 0.9×	12	1.9k
Maxime Babics Saudi Arabia	28	2.4k 1.4×	1.4k 0.9×	843 2.7×	90 0.7×	102 1.0×	52	2.5k
Wuyue Liu China	13	1.4k 0.8×	1.1k 0.8×	209 0.7×	86 0.7×	67 0.6×	22	1.5k
Wei Gong China	15	1.8k 1.1×	1.2k 0.8×	426 1.3×	109 0.9×	152 1.4×	33	1.9k
A. Lux United Kingdom	8	1.2k 0.7×	905 0.6×	431 1.4×	132 1.0×	101 1.0×	11	1.5k
Martin Schwarze Germany	12	979 0.6×	559 0.4×	415 1.3×	73 0.6×	106 1.0×	15	1.1k
David J. Harkin United Kingdom	11	802 0.5×	457 0.3×	236 0.7×	171 1.3×	63 0.6×	14	932
Dorothea Scheunemann Germany	18	667 0.4×	418 0.3×	432 1.4×	78 0.6×	48 0.5×	37	872

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Lei, Yifeng, et al.. (2025). Investigating the effect of pyridine substituent position on the corrosion inhibition performance of novel benzophenone derivatives: Experimental and theoretical study. Journal of environmental chemical engineering. 13(3). 116909–116909. 2 indexed citations

Zhang, Xiaoyu, Zezhou Liang, Haimei Wu, et al.. (2025). Efficient Organic Solar Cells Enabled by Structurally Modified Quinoxaline-Based Small Molecule Acceptors with Brominated End Groups. ACS Applied Energy Materials. 8(6). 3866–3876.

Guo, Pengzhi, Tiantian Wang, Jianhong Wei, et al.. (2025). An alkylthio side chain tuned the PM6 structure and elevated photovoltaic performance of ternary donor polymers. Polymer Chemistry. 16(13). 1493–1502.

Li, Mingzhe, Yifeng Lei, Hongmei Ma, et al.. (2024). Mitigation of mild steel corrosion using Schiff base-derived inhibitors in acidic media: An experimental and theoretical study. Progress in Organic Coatings. 196. 108747–108747. 9 indexed citations

Qiu, Yefeng, Chunlin Zhang, Tingting Shang, et al.. (2024). Improving the operating performance of organic solar cells through a novel cathode interface layer. Materials Today Communications. 40. 110015–110015. 4 indexed citations

An, Lili, et al.. (2024). Highly thermo- and photo-stable acceptor-acceptor′-acceptor type perylenediimide dimeric acceptors: Role of monofluorinating the central benzo[c][1,2,5]thiadiazole linking core. Materials Today Communications. 40. 110016–110016. 2 indexed citations

Li, Mingzhe, et al.. (2024). An extensive analysis of isoindigotin derivatives as effective corrosion inhibitors for mild steel in acidic corrosive environments: An electrochemical and theoretical investigation. Progress in Organic Coatings. 200. 108960–108960. 9 indexed citations

Ma, Hongmei, et al.. (2024). Isoindigo derivatives as some potential corrosion inhibitors for mild steel in hydrochloric acid solution: Synthesis, experimental and theoretical studies. Journal of Molecular Structure. 1312. 138480–138480. 16 indexed citations

Zhao, Chaoyue, Yufei Wang, Chuanlin Gao, et al.. (2024). Highly efficient and stable organic solar cells achieved by improving exciton diffusion and splitting through a volatile additive-assisted ternary strategy. Materials Science and Engineering R Reports. 160. 100828–100828. 13 indexed citations

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Tong, Junfeng, Pengzhi Guo, Zezhou Liang, et al.. (2024). The optimized energy level, morphology and photophysical procedure boosted the photovoltaic performance of monochlorinated benzothiadiazole-based polymer donors. Journal of Materials Chemistry C. 12(33). 13115–13130. 5 indexed citations

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Tong, Junfeng, Lili An, Pengzhi Guo, et al.. (2024). Boosting solar cell performance during highly thermo- and photo-stable asymmetric perylene diimide dimeric acceptors by selenium-annulation at the outside bay position. Journal of Materials Chemistry C. 12(34). 13353–13364. 9 indexed citations

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Liang, Zezhou, Lihe Yan, Xiaoming Li, et al.. (2024). Suppressing Exciton–Vibration Coupling and Reducing Nonradiative Energy Loss in Conjugated Polymers Through Fluorine Substitution in Side Chains. Energy & environment materials. 8(3). 2 indexed citations

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Bai, Hairui, Ping Li, Yibo Zhou, et al.. (2024). Halogenated Dibenzo[f,h]quinoxaline Units Constructed 2D‐Conjugated Guest Acceptors for 19% Efficiency Organic Solar Cells. Advanced Science. 11(31). e2403334–e2403334. 19 indexed citations

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Liang, Zezhou, Lihe Yan, Ning Wang, et al.. (2023). Effect of 1‐Fluoro‐2‐iodobenzene Solvent Additive on the Crystallization of Donors and Acceptors, and Ultrafast Carrier Dynamics in Polymer Solar Cells. Advanced Functional Materials. 34(13). 29 indexed citations

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Wang, Qi, et al.. (2023). Corrosion Behaviors of Tetrasodium Iminodisuccinate (IDS) as an Environmentally Friendly Inhibitor: Experimental and Theoretical Studies. Coatings. 13(3). 613–613. 11 indexed citations

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Tong, Junfeng, Yubo Huang, Zheyu Li, et al.. (2023). Unraveling the origin of improved photovoltaic performance in acceptor–acceptor-structured perylene-diimide-based polymeric acceptors through partially fluorinating benzo[c][1,2,5]thiadiazole. Journal of Materials Chemistry C. 11(21). 6951–6962. 12 indexed citations

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Si, Jinhai, et al.. (2022). Nonlinear optical limiting property of the carboxyl-functionalized Ti3C2 MXene nanosheets. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 157(16). 164704–164704. 5 indexed citations

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Yan, Lihe, Jinhai Si, Zezhou Liang, et al.. (2022). Nonlinear optical limiting property and carrier dynamics in tin phthalocyanine porous organic frameworks. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 156(5). 54702–54702. 5 indexed citations

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Liu, Xingpeng, Zezhou Liang, Sanshan Du, et al.. (2021). Non-Halogenated Polymer Donor-Based Organic Solar Cells with a Nearly 15% Efficiency Enabled by a Classic Ternary Strategy. ACS Applied Energy Materials. 4(2). 1774–1783. 51 indexed citations

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Li, Jianfeng, Zezhou Liang, Xiaoming Li, et al.. (2020). Insights into Excitonic Dynamics of Terpolymer-Based High-Efficiency Nonfullerene Polymer Solar Cells: Enhancing the Yield of Charge Separation States. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 12(7). 8475–8484. 73 indexed citations

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