Zirui Gan

1.8k total citations · 4 hit papers
18 papers, 1.3k citations indexed

About

Zirui Gan is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Polymers and Plastics and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Zirui Gan has authored 18 papers receiving a total of 1.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 18 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 16 papers in Polymers and Plastics and 4 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Zirui Gan's work include Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics (18 papers), Conducting polymers and applications (16 papers) and Perovskite Materials and Applications (10 papers). Zirui Gan is often cited by papers focused on Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics (18 papers), Conducting polymers and applications (16 papers) and Perovskite Materials and Applications (10 papers). Zirui Gan collaborates with scholars based in China and United Kingdom. Zirui Gan's co-authors include Tao Wang, Wei Li, Yuandong Sun, Chuanhang Guo, Liang Wang, Dan Liu, Chen Chen, Weiyi Xia, Jingchao Cheng and Jing Zhou and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Advanced Materials and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Zirui Gan

17 papers receiving 1.3k 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.

π-Extended Nonfullerene Acceptor for Compressed Molecular Packing in Organic Solar Cells To Achieve over 20% Efficiency

2024 384 citations Yuandong Sun, Liang Wang et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
Molecular interaction induced dual fibrils towards organic solar cells with certified efficiency over 20%

2024 259 citations Chen Chen, Liang Wang et al. Nature Communications profile →
Donor–acceptor mutually diluted heterojunctions for layer-by-layer fabrication of high-performance organic solar cells

2024 188 citations Liang Wang, Chen Chen et al. Nature Energy profile →
Diluted Ternary Heterojunctions to Suppress Charge Recombination for Organic Solar Cells with 21% Efficiency

2025 54 citations Liang Wang, Chen Chen et al. Advanced Materials profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Zirui Gan China	12	1.2k	983	98	94	68	18	1.3k
Top Archie Dela Peña Hong Kong	22	1.4k 1.1×	1.1k 1.1×	117 1.2×	110 1.2×	65 1.0×	48	1.4k
Wenkai Zhang China	12	1.2k 1.0×	980 1.0×	74 0.8×	111 1.2×	75 1.1×	21	1.3k
Yuanyuan Jiang China	7	897 0.7×	687 0.7×	61 0.6×	68 0.7×	67 1.0×	12	948
Xinrong Yang China	15	1.3k 1.0×	1.1k 1.1×	108 1.1×	72 0.8×	48 0.7×	26	1.3k
Sung Jae Jeon South Korea	18	971 0.8×	830 0.8×	96 1.0×	108 1.1×	44 0.6×	48	1.1k
Qinglian Zhu China	22	1.3k 1.1×	1.2k 1.2×	148 1.5×	87 0.9×	51 0.8×	29	1.4k
Peiyao Xue China	15	1.2k 1.0×	919 0.9×	76 0.8×	207 2.2×	48 0.7×	25	1.3k
Xiyue Yuan China	17	1.1k 0.9×	876 0.9×	57 0.6×	124 1.3×	40 0.6×	40	1.2k
Mumin Shi China	12	2.0k 1.6×	1.7k 1.7×	180 1.8×	104 1.1×	88 1.3×	17	2.0k
Xiaozhou Che United States	8	1.1k 0.9×	840 0.9×	74 0.8×	149 1.6×	51 0.8×	11	1.1k

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18 of 18 papers shown

Cheng, Jingchao, Liang Wang, Tiantian Wang, et al.. (2025). Vacuum-assisted vertical component distribution in pseudo-bulk heterojunctions: a pathway to high-performance and stable organic solar cells. National Science Review. 12(12). nwaf440–nwaf440.

Sun, Yuandong, Liang Wang, Chen Chen, et al.. (2025). Extension of the conjugated framework of non-fullerene electron acceptors toward highly efficient organic photovoltaics. Energy & Environmental Science. 18(12). 6009–6018. 4 indexed citations

Wang, Liang, Chen Chen, Zirui Gan, et al.. (2025). Diluted Ternary Heterojunctions to Suppress Charge Recombination for Organic Solar Cells with 21% Efficiency. Advanced Materials. 37(13). e2419923–e2419923. 54 indexed citations breakdown →

Zhou, Jinpeng, Chuanhang Guo, Liang Wang, et al.. (2024). Thiophene structured additives toward enhanced structural order and reduced non-radiative loss for 19.9 % efficiency organic solar cells. Nano Energy. 129. 109988–109988. 13 indexed citations

Guo, Chuanhang, Yuandong Sun, Liang Wang, et al.. (2024). Light-induced quinone conformation of polymer donors toward 19.9% efficiency organic solar cells. Energy & Environmental Science. 17(7). 2492–2499. 67 indexed citations

Cheng, Jingchao, Chuanhang Guo, Liang Wang, et al.. (2024). Device engineering of non-fullerene organic photovoltaics with extrapolated operational T80 lifetime over 45,000 h in air. Joule. 8(8). 2250–2264. 33 indexed citations

Wang, Liang, Chen Chen, Zirui Gan, et al.. (2024). Optimizing the power conversion processes in diluted donor/acceptor heterojunctions towards 19.4% efficiency all-polymer solar cells. Journal of Energy Chemistry. 96. 345–350. 18 indexed citations

Xia, Weiyi, Bojun Zhou, Liang Wang, et al.. (2024). Insulating Polymer Mediated Stability and Photovoltaic Performance of Organic Solar Cells: Influence of Molecular Weight. Advanced Functional Materials. 34(48). 11 indexed citations

Zhou, Jing, Liang Wang, Chenhao Liu, et al.. (2024). Tuning of the Polymeric Nanofibril Geometry via Side-Chain Interaction toward 20.1% Efficiency of Organic Solar Cells. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 146(50). 34998–35006. 63 indexed citations

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Chen, Chen, Liang Wang, Weiyi Xia, et al.. (2024). Molecular interaction induced dual fibrils towards organic solar cells with certified efficiency over 20%. Nature Communications. 15(1). 6865–6865. 259 indexed citations breakdown →

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Sun, Yuandong, Liang Wang, Chuanhang Guo, et al.. (2024). π-Extended Nonfullerene Acceptor for Compressed Molecular Packing in Organic Solar Cells To Achieve over 20% Efficiency. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 146(17). 12011–12019. 384 indexed citations breakdown →

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Chen, Zhenghong, Chuanhang Guo, Liang Wang, et al.. (2024). Electrostatic Potential Design of Solid Additives for Enhanced Molecular Order of Polymer Donor in Efficient Organic Solar Cells. Small. 20(33). e2401050–e2401050. 5 indexed citations

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Wang, Liang, Chen Chen, Yiwei Fu, et al.. (2024). Donor–acceptor mutually diluted heterojunctions for layer-by-layer fabrication of high-performance organic solar cells. Nature Energy. 9(2). 208–218. 188 indexed citations breakdown →

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Sun, Wei, Liang Wang, Yiwei Fu, et al.. (2024). Brominated Quaternary Ammonium Salt-Assisted Hybrid Electron Transport Layer for High-Performance Conventional Organic Solar Cells. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 16(18). 23677–23683. 5 indexed citations

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Gan, Zirui, Liang Wang, Chen Chen, et al.. (2024). 19.1% efficiency all-polymer solar cells enabled by solvent and solid additives. Science China Materials. 68(5). 1369–1375. 2 indexed citations

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Chen, Chen, Liang Wang, Yuandong Sun, et al.. (2023). Realizing an Unprecedented Fill Factor of 82.2% in Ternary Organic Solar Cells via Co‐Crystallization of Non‐Fullerene Acceptors. Advanced Functional Materials. 33(48). 35 indexed citations

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Zhou, Jing, Donghui Li, Liang Wang, et al.. (2023). Bicontinuous donor and acceptor fibril networks enable 19.2% efficiency pseudo‐bulk heterojunction organic solar cells. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2(6). 866–875. 33 indexed citations

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Gan, Zirui, Liang Wang, Jinlong Cai, et al.. (2023). Electrostatic force promoted intermolecular stacking of polymer donors toward 19.4% efficiency binary organic solar cells. Nature Communications. 14(1). 6297–6297. 115 indexed citations

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