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D-Index
113
Citations
55532
World Ranking
623
National Ranking
189

He Yan publication distribution in Materials Science in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Materials Science in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where He Yan sits on this spectrum.

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50 publications 1,163+

This scientist: 344 publications — 69th percentile

69% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,163 publications or more.

He Yan D-index placement in Materials Science in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Materials Science scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where He Yan sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 165+

This scientist: 113 D-Index — 95th percentile

95% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 165 D-Index or more.

Overview

He Yan is affiliated with the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in China. Their research primarily focuses on areas intersecting engineering and materials science, with a particular emphasis on electrical and electronic engineering and polymers and plastics.

Their work spans several specialized subfields including biomedical engineering, materials chemistry, and atomic and molecular physics, and optics. The core topics covered in their research involve organic electronics and photovoltaics, conducting polymers and applications, perovskite materials and applications, molecular junctions and nanostructures, thin-film transistor technologies, organic light-emitting diodes research, and nanowire synthesis and applications.

He Yan has contributed extensively to scientific literature, with notable publications in prominent venues such as Advanced Energy Materials, Advanced Materials, Journal of Materials Chemistry A, Joule, and Energy & Environmental Science.

  • Advanced Energy Materials (17 publications)
  • Advanced Materials (15 publications)
  • Journal of Materials Chemistry A (11 publications)
  • Joule (10 publications)
  • Energy & Environmental Science (10 publications)

Their research output includes influential papers on organic solar cells and polymer acceptors. Representative recent papers include:

  • Non-fullerene acceptors with branched side chains and improved molecular packing to exceed 18% efficiency in organic solar cells, 2021, Nature Energy
  • Delocalization of exciton and electron wavefunction in non-fullerene acceptor molecules enables efficient organic solar cells, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Fine-Tuning Energy Levels via Asymmetric End Groups Enables Polymer Solar Cells with Efficiencies over 17%, 2020, Joule
  • Precisely Controlling the Position of Bromine on the End Group Enables Well-Regular Polymer Acceptors for All-Polymer Solar Cells with Efficiencies over 15%, 2020, Advanced Materials
  • Achieving over 17% efficiency of ternary all-polymer solar cells with two well-compatible polymer acceptors, 2021, Joule

Frequent collaborators in their research include Ruijie Ma, Han Yu, Xinhui Lu, Tao Liu, and Zhenghui Luo.

  • Ruijie Ma (79 coauthored papers)
  • Han Yu (61 coauthored papers)
  • Xinhui Lu (57 coauthored papers)
  • Tao Liu (48 coauthored papers)
  • Zhenghui Luo (45 coauthored papers)

Best Publications

  • Aggregation and morphology control enables multiple cases of high-efficiency polymer solar cells.

    Yuhang Liu;Jingbo Zhao;Zhengke Li;Cheng Mu

  • A high-mobility electron-transporting polymer for printed transistors

    He Yan;Zhihua Chen;Yan Zheng;Christopher Newman

  • Non-fullerene acceptors for organic solar cells

    Cenqi Yan;Stephen Barlow;Zhaohui Wang;He Yan

  • Efficient organic solar cells processed from hydrocarbon solvents

    Jingbo Zhao;Yunke Li;Guofang Yang;Guofang Yang;Kui Jiang

  • Non-fullerene acceptors with branched side chains and improved molecular packing to exceed 18% efficiency in organic solar cells

    Chao Li;Jiadong Zhou;Jiali Song;Jinqiu Xu

  • Nonfullerene Acceptor Molecules for Bulk Heterojunction Organic Solar Cells

    Guangye Zhang;Jingbo Zhao;Philip C. Y. Chow;Kui Jiang

  • Fast charge separation in a non-fullerene organic solar cell with a small driving force

    Jing Liu;Shangshang Chen;Deping Qian;Bhoj Gautam

  • Material insights and challenges for non-fullerene organic solar cells based on small molecular acceptors

    Jianquan Zhang;Huei Shuan Tan;Xugang Guo;Antonio Facchetti

  • Design rules for minimizing voltage losses in high-efficiency organic solar cells.

    Deping Qian;Zilong Zheng;Huifeng Yao;Wolfgang Tress

  • Alkyl Chain Tuning of Small Molecule Acceptors for Efficient Organic Solar Cells

    Kui Jiang;Kui Jiang;Qingya Wei;Joshua Yuk Lin Lai;Zhengxing Peng

  • Efficiency Enhancement of Perovskite Solar Cells through Fast Electron Extraction: The Role of Graphene Quantum Dots

    Zonglong Zhu;Jiani Ma;Zilong Wang;Cheng Mu

  • Naphthalenedicarboximide- vs Perylenedicarboximide-Based Copolymers. Synthesis and Semiconducting Properties in Bottom-Gate N-Channel Organic Transistors

    Zhihua Chen;Yan Zheng;He Yan;Antonio Facchetti

  • Quantitative relations between interaction parameter, miscibility and function in organic solar cells

    Long Ye;Huawei Hu;Masoud Ghasemi;Tonghui Wang;Tonghui Wang

  • Delocalization of exciton and electron wavefunction in non-fullerene acceptor molecules enables efficient organic solar cells

    Guichuan Zhang;Xian Kai Chen;Xian Kai Chen;Jingyang Xiao;Philip C.Y. Chow

  • Reduced voltage losses yield 10% efficient fullerene free organic solar cells with >1 V open circuit voltages

    Derya Baran;Derya Baran;T. Kirchartz;T. Kirchartz;Scot Wheeler;Stoichko D. Dimitrov

  • Low-voltage organic field-effect transistors and inverters enabled by ultrathin cross-linked polymers as gate dielectrics

    Myung-Han Yoon;He Yan;and Antonio Facchetti;Tobin J. Marks

  • All-solid-state hybrid solar cells based on a new organometal halide perovskite sensitizer and one-dimensional TiO2 nanowire arrays

    Jianhang Qiu;Yongcai Qiu;Keyou Yan;Min Zhong

  • High-Performance Ternary Organic Solar Cell Enabled by a Thick Active Layer Containing a Liquid Crystalline Small Molecule Donor.

    Guichuan Zhang;Kai Zhang;Qingwu Yin;Xiaofang Jiang

  • High-efficiency non-fullerene organic solar cells enabled by a difluorobenzothiadiazole-based donor polymer combined with a properly matched small molecule acceptor

    Jingbo Zhao;Yunke Li;Haoran Lin;Yuhang Liu;Yuhang Liu

  • Terthiophene-Based D–A Polymer with an Asymmetric Arrangement of Alkyl Chains That Enables Efficient Polymer Solar Cells

    Huawei Hu;Kui Jiang;Guofang Yang;Jing Liu

  • A tetraphenylethylene core-based 3D structure small molecular acceptor enabling efficient non-fullerene organic solar cells.

    Yuhang Liu;Yuhang Liu;Cheng Mu;Kui Jiang;Jingbo Zhao

Frequent Co-Authors

Tao Liu
Tao Liu Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Harald Ade
Harald Ade North Carolina State University
Zhenghui Luo
Zhenghui Luo Shenzhen University
Antonio Facchetti
Antonio Facchetti Northwestern University
Tobin J. Marks
Tobin J. Marks Northwestern University
Wei Ma
Wei Ma Xi'an Jiaotong University
Chuluo Yang
Chuluo Yang Shenzhen University
Xinhui Lu
Xinhui Lu Chinese University of Hong Kong
Yongfang Li
Yongfang Li Soochow University
Chuanlang Zhan
Chuanlang Zhan Inner Mongolia Normal University

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