Zhenyu Chen

1.7k total citations · 2 hit papers
38 papers, 1.5k citations indexed

About

Zhenyu Chen is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Polymers and Plastics and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Zhenyu Chen has authored 38 papers receiving a total of 1.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 30 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 21 papers in Polymers and Plastics and 13 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Zhenyu Chen's work include Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics (26 papers), Conducting polymers and applications (19 papers) and Perovskite Materials and Applications (10 papers). Zhenyu Chen is often cited by papers focused on Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics (26 papers), Conducting polymers and applications (19 papers) and Perovskite Materials and Applications (10 papers). Zhenyu Chen collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Japan. Zhenyu Chen's co-authors include Wei Ma, Ling Hong, Huifeng Yao, Jianhui Hou, Yunfei Zu, Ye Xu, Runnan Yu, Dongge Ma, Jingming Xin and Arkady Yartsev 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

Zhenyu Chen

36 papers receiving 1.5k citations

Hit Papers

14.7% Efficiency Organic Photovoltaic Cells Enabled by Ac... 2019 2026 2021 2023 2019 2024 100 200 300 400
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. 14.7% Efficiency Organic Photovoltaic Cells Enabled by Active Materials with a Large Electrostatic Potential Difference
    2019 459 citations Zhenyu Chen, Ling Hong et al. profile →
  2. Self‐Assembled Molecules with Asymmetric Backbone for Highly Stable Binary Organic Solar Cells with 19.7 % Efficiency
    2024 77 citations Xueliang Yu, Pengfei Ding et al. Angewandte Chemie International Edition profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Zhenyu Chen China 19 1.3k 858 414 134 102 38 1.5k
Guy O. Ngongang Ndjawa Saudi Arabia 17 1.7k 1.4× 1.1k 1.3× 656 1.6× 120 0.9× 89 0.9× 26 1.9k
Michelle S. Vezie United Kingdom 9 1.2k 0.9× 896 1.0× 272 0.7× 110 0.8× 72 0.7× 9 1.3k
Jie Luo China 17 874 0.7× 550 0.6× 475 1.1× 152 1.1× 81 0.8× 40 1.1k
Fei Chen China 21 1.4k 1.1× 853 1.0× 542 1.3× 83 0.6× 91 0.9× 61 1.5k
Iain Meager United Kingdom 10 1.1k 0.9× 943 1.1× 264 0.6× 121 0.9× 151 1.5× 12 1.3k
Eric F. Manley United States 22 1.7k 1.4× 1.5k 1.7× 295 0.7× 149 1.1× 101 1.0× 30 1.9k
Yangjun Xia China 26 1.7k 1.3× 1.5k 1.7× 293 0.7× 74 0.6× 100 1.0× 80 1.8k
Ruth H. Lohwasser Germany 17 1.1k 0.9× 913 1.1× 464 1.1× 149 1.1× 217 2.1× 22 1.3k
S. Günes Austria 12 1.1k 0.9× 645 0.8× 313 0.8× 129 1.0× 148 1.5× 19 1.2k
Joel Luke United Kingdom 20 1.5k 1.2× 1.1k 1.2× 293 0.7× 114 0.9× 73 0.7× 37 1.6k

Countries citing papers authored by Zhenyu Chen

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Fields of papers citing papers by Zhenyu Chen

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Zhenyu Chen

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Zhenyu Chen. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Zhenyu Chen based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Zhenyu Chen. Zhenyu Chen is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Chen, Zhenyu, et al.. (2025). Preparation and performance testing of curcumin-based polyurethane materials. Polymer Bulletin. 82(8). 2827–2844. 1 indexed citations
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Chen, Zhenyu, et al.. (2025). Unifying sequence-structure coding for advanced protein engineering via a multimodal diffusion transformer. Chemical Science. 16(24). 11087–11102.
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Yu, Xueliang, Pengfei Ding, Daobin Yang, et al.. (2024). Self‐Assembled Molecules with Asymmetric Backbone for Highly Stable Binary Organic Solar Cells with 19.7 % Efficiency. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 63(18). e202401518–e202401518. 77 indexed citations breakdown →
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Yu, Xueliang, Pengfei Ding, Daobin Yang, et al.. (2024). Self‐Assembled Molecules with Asymmetric Backbone for Highly Stable Binary Organic Solar Cells with 19.7 % Efficiency. Angewandte Chemie. 136(18). 9 indexed citations
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Chen, Zhenyu, Daobin Yang, Xueliang Yu, et al.. (2024). Modulation of crystallization kinetics using a guest acceptor for high-performance organic solar cells with 19.8% efficiency. Energy & Environmental Science. 17(20). 7838–7849. 27 indexed citations
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Chen, Zhenyu, Hong Zheng, Wei Ma, & Han Yan. (2022). Study of the doping effect on imperfect morphology at photovoltaic heterojunctions in bilayer organic solar cells. Journal of Materials Chemistry C. 10(33). 11848–11854. 2 indexed citations
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Yu, Kuibao, Wei Song, Jinfeng Ge, et al.. (2022). 18.01% Efficiency organic solar cell and 2.53% light utilization efficiency semitransparent organic solar cell enabled by optimizing PM6:Y6 active layer morphology. Science China Chemistry. 65(8). 1615–1622. 36 indexed citations
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Xu, Yuzhi, Cheng‐Wei Ju, Bo Li, et al.. (2021). Hydrogen Evolution Prediction for Alternating Conjugated Copolymers Enabled by Machine Learning with Multidimension Fragmentation Descriptors. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 13(29). 34033–34042. 20 indexed citations
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Chen, Zhenyu, Muhammad Asif, Yong Li, et al.. (2021). Recent Trends in Synthesis and Applications of Porous MXene Assemblies: A Topical Review. The Chemical Record. 22(3). e202100261–e202100261. 37 indexed citations
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Luo, Shaohong, Xiao Chen, Zhenyu Chen, et al.. (2021). MXene-carbon nanotubes layer-by-layer assembly based on-chip micro-supercapacitor with improved capacitive performance. Electrochimica Acta. 386. 138420–138420. 50 indexed citations
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Wang, Wei, Heng Lu, Zhenyu Chen, et al.. (2020). High-performance NIR-sensitive fused tetrathienoacene electron acceptors. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 8(6). 3011–3017. 18 indexed citations
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Cong, Zhiyuan, Baofeng Zhao, Zhenyu Chen, et al.. (2019). Efficient Polymer Solar Cells Having High Open-Circuit Voltage and Low Energy Loss Enabled by a Main-Chain Twisted Small Molecular Acceptor. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 11(18). 16795–16803. 27 indexed citations
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Cai, Guilong, Peiyao Xue, Zhenyu Chen, et al.. (2018). High-Performance Mid-Bandgap Fused-Pyrene Electron Acceptor. Chemistry of Materials. 31(17). 6484–6490. 41 indexed citations
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Wu, Shuanghong, Junjie Yang, Wenbin Ye, et al.. (2017). Study on interface engineering of layer-by-layer structure for applications in organic photodetector. Synthetic Metals. 235. 16–19. 2 indexed citations
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Zhu, Xiaoli, Zhenyu Chen, Xin Zhang, Zhiqiang Zhu, & Genxi Li. (2010). Biomolecule-Directed Assembly of Binary Gold and Titanium Dioxide Nanoparticles. Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology. 10(2). 1021–1024. 2 indexed citations
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Ye, Tengling, Zhenyu Chen, Jiangshan Chen, & Dongge Ma. (2010). Charge-trapping effect of doped fluorescent dye on the electroluminescent processes and its performance in polymer light-emitting diodes. Materials Science and Engineering B. 175(1). 75–80. 7 indexed citations
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Zhang, Zuolun, Hai Bi, Yu Zhang, et al.. (2009). Luminescent Boron-Contained Ladder-Type π-Conjugated Compounds. Inorganic Chemistry. 48(15). 7230–7236. 87 indexed citations

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