Zhipeng Kan

5.6k total citations · 3 hit papers
121 papers, 4.8k citations indexed

About

Zhipeng Kan is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Polymers and Plastics and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Zhipeng Kan has authored 121 papers receiving a total of 4.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 118 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 104 papers in Polymers and Plastics and 8 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Zhipeng Kan's work include Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics (112 papers), Conducting polymers and applications (104 papers) and Perovskite Materials and Applications (70 papers). Zhipeng Kan is often cited by papers focused on Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics (112 papers), Conducting polymers and applications (104 papers) and Perovskite Materials and Applications (70 papers). Zhipeng Kan collaborates with scholars based in China, South Korea and Saudi Arabia. Zhipeng Kan's co-authors include Shirong Lu, Zeyun Xiao, Pierre M. Beaujuge, Hua Tang, Qianguang Yang, Tainan Duan, Dingqin Hu, Jie Lv, Haiyan Chen and Gang Li and has published in prestigious journals such as Advanced Materials, Angewandte Chemie International Edition and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Zhipeng Kan

116 papers receiving 4.7k 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.

Additive-induced miscibility regulation and hierarchical morphology enable 17.5% binary organic solar cells

2021 232 citations Jie Lv, Hua Tang et al. Energy & Environmental Science profile →
Rational molecular and device design enables organic solar cells approaching 20% efficiency

2024 220 citations Jiehao Fu, Qianguang Yang et al. Nature Communications profile →
Molecular order manipulation with dual additives suppressing trap density in non-fullerene acceptors enables efficient bilayer organic solar cells

2025 19 citations Zhenmin Zhao, Sein Chung et al. Energy & Environmental Science profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Zhipeng Kan China	38	4.6k	3.9k	453	225	224	121	4.8k
Huotian Zhang Sweden	23	4.9k 1.1×	3.9k 1.0×	589 1.3×	262 1.2×	171 0.8×	55	5.1k
Baobing Fan China	37	5.1k 1.1×	4.3k 1.1×	471 1.0×	300 1.3×	213 1.0×	73	5.2k
Yankang Yang China	23	4.5k 1.0×	4.0k 1.0×	298 0.7×	166 0.7×	266 1.2×	32	4.7k
Kui Feng China	33	4.5k 1.0×	4.0k 1.0×	717 1.6×	289 1.3×	216 1.0×	89	4.8k
Safa Shoaee Germany	34	3.7k 0.8×	2.8k 0.7×	723 1.6×	155 0.7×	301 1.3×	76	4.0k
Yunpeng Qin China	29	5.9k 1.3×	5.2k 1.3×	420 0.9×	290 1.3×	274 1.2×	39	6.1k
Mauro Morana Germany	22	4.1k 0.9×	3.3k 0.9×	563 1.2×	294 1.3×	240 1.1×	31	4.2k
Joshua Yuk Lin Lai Hong Kong	18	4.0k 0.9×	3.5k 0.9×	304 0.7×	170 0.8×	283 1.3×	29	4.1k
Fuwen Zhao China	27	5.6k 1.2×	4.7k 1.2×	574 1.3×	292 1.3×	474 2.1×	53	5.8k
Kristijonas Genevičius Lithuania	20	3.4k 0.7×	2.5k 0.6×	627 1.4×	307 1.4×	235 1.0×	53	3.7k

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Shen, Shuaishuai, Rui Zhu, Wenjun Zhang, et al.. (2025). Conformational Planarization Versus π–π Interacted Twisting: Precise Regulation of Chain Length for Rational Design of Nonfused Ring Electron Acceptors. CCS Chemistry. 8(2). 1082–1093. 3 indexed citations

Zhang, Jinghao, et al.. (2025). Regulating Förster resonance energy transfer and cascade energy offset achieves 19.6% efficiency in ternary organic solar cells. Journal of Materials Chemistry C. 13(17). 8494–8502. 2 indexed citations

Zhao, Zhenmin, Sein Chung, Jingjing Zhao, et al.. (2025). Molecular order manipulation with dual additives suppressing trap density in non-fullerene acceptors enables efficient bilayer organic solar cells. Energy & Environmental Science. 18(6). 2791–2803. 19 indexed citations breakdown →

Li, Xin, Yongjoon Cho, Sein Chung, et al.. (2025). Overcoming the Conductivity‐Stability Trade‐Off in PEDOT:PSS via Hydrogen‐Bond Modulation Enables 20.0% Efficient Bilayer Organic Solar Cells. Advanced Functional Materials. 36(8). 1 indexed citations

Zhao, Zhenmin, Sein Chung, Liang Bai, et al.. (2025). Enhancing efficiency in organic electronics via J-aggregation modulation with non-halogenated solvents. Journal of Materials Chemistry C. 13(9). 4421–4428.

Zhao, Jingjing, Hongxiang Li, Min Zhang, et al.. (2025). Ti3CN MXenes-induced N-N couplings modifies perylene-diimide-based cathode interlayers for 20 % efficiency organic solar cells. Materials Science and Engineering R Reports. 165. 101007–101007. 7 indexed citations

Sun, Yuqing, Sein Chung, Chaofeng Zhu, et al.. (2024). Dual-Donor-Induced Crystallinity Modulation Enables 19.23% Efficiency Organic Solar Cells. Nano-Micro Letters. 17(1). 72–72. 24 indexed citations

Fu, Jiehao, Qianguang Yang, Peihao Huang, et al.. (2024). Rational molecular and device design enables organic solar cells approaching 20% efficiency. Nature Communications. 15(1). 1830–1830. 220 indexed citations breakdown →

Zou, Bosen, Jia Yao, Hongxiang Li, et al.. (2024). Dipole Moment Modulation of Terminal Groups Enables Asymmetric Acceptors Featuring Medium Bandgap for Efficient and Stable Ternary Organic Solar Cells. Angewandte Chemie. 137(3). 3 indexed citations

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Bai, Liang, Sein Chung, Zhenmin Zhao, et al.. (2024). Modulating Acceptor Phase Leads to 19.59% Efficiency Organic Solar Cells. Advanced Science. 12(7). e2413051–e2413051. 10 indexed citations

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Singh, Ranbir, et al.. (2023). Indoor bifacial perovskite photovoltaics: Efficient energy harvesting from artificial light sources. Solar Energy. 264. 112061–112061. 8 indexed citations

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Zhao, Zhenmin, Jingjing Zhao, Sein Chung, et al.. (2023). Suppressing Bimolecular Charge Recombination and Energetic Disorder with Planar Heterojunction Active Layer Enables 18.1% Efficiency Binary Organic Solar Cells. ACS Materials Letters. 5(6). 1718–1726. 52 indexed citations

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Zhao, Bin, Sein Chung, Min Zhang, et al.. (2023). 18.9% Efficiency Binary Organic Solar Cells Enabled by Regulating the Intrinsic Properties of PEDOT:PSS. Advanced Functional Materials. 34(7). 37 indexed citations

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Fu, Zhijie, Weiyang Yu, Hang Song, et al.. (2022). A new simple volatile solid additive triggers morphological optimization and performance stabilization in polymer solar cells. Sustainable Energy & Fuels. 6(9). 2191–2197. 16 indexed citations

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Huang, Xiaodong, Zhenmin Zhao, Sein Chung, et al.. (2022). Balancing the performance and stability of organic photodiodes with all-polymer active layers. Journal of Materials Chemistry C. 10(46). 17502–17511. 18 indexed citations

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Song, Xin, Renjun Guo, Qi Wei, et al.. (2021). Synergistic Interplay between Asymmetric Backbone Conformation, Molecular Aggregation, and Charge-Carrier Dynamics in Fused-Ring Electron Acceptor-Based Bulk Heterojunction Solar Cells. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 13(2). 2961–2970. 12 indexed citations

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Liao, Zhihui, Ke Yang, Jun Li, et al.. (2020). Thiazole-Functionalized Terpolymer Donors Obtained via Random Ternary Copolymerization for High-Performance Polymer Solar Cells. Macromolecules. 53(20). 9034–9042. 25 indexed citations

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Lv, Jie, Yu Feng, Jiehao Fu, et al.. (2019). Energetic Disorder and Activation Energy in Efficient Ternary Organic Solar Cells with Nonfullerene Acceptor Eh‐IDTBR as the Third Component. Solar RRL. 4(3). 52 indexed citations

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Duan, Tainan, Hua Tang, Ru‐Ze Liang, et al.. (2019). Terminal group engineering for small-molecule donors boosts the performance of nonfullerene organic solar cells. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 7(6). 2541–2546. 45 indexed citations

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Gorenflot, Julien, Maxime Babics, Olivier Alévêque, et al.. (2018). Triphenylamine-Based Push–Pull σ–C₆₀ Dyad As Photoactive Molecular Material for Single-Component Organic Solar Cells: Synthesis, Characterizations, and Photophysical Properties. Chemistry of Materials. 30(10). 3474–3485. 60 indexed citations

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