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Materials Science

D-Index
58
Citations
15563
World Ranking
7579
National Ranking
2208

Chemistry

D-Index
58
Citations
15238
World Ranking
10480
National Ranking
1716

Lei Ying 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 Lei Ying sits on this spectrum.

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50 publications 1,163+

This scientist: 290 publications — 57th percentile

57% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Lei Ying 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 Lei Ying sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 165+

This scientist: 58 D-Index — 41st percentile

41% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Lei Ying is affiliated with the South China University of Technology in China. Their research primarily focuses on engineering and materials science, with a particular emphasis on electrical and electronic engineering, polymers and plastics, materials chemistry, biomedical engineering, and aerospace engineering as subfields of study.

The scientist's work involves key topics such as organic electronics and photovoltaics, conducting polymers and applications, perovskite materials and applications, organic light-emitting diodes research, luminescence and fluorescent materials, thin-film transistor technologies, and nanoplatforms for cancer theranostics.

Lei Ying has published extensively in several scientific journals. Frequent publication venues include:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Advanced Optical Materials
  • ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
  • Advanced Energy Materials
  • Chemical Engineering Journal

Recent papers illustrating the scope and direction of their research include:

  • Efficient Organic Solar Cell with 16.88% Efficiency Enabled by Refined Acceptor Crystallization and Morphology with Improved Charge Transfer and Transport Properties, 2020, Advanced Energy Materials
  • Solution-processed green and blue quantum-dot light-emitting diodes with eliminated charge leakage, 2022, Nature Photonics
  • 14.4% efficiency all-polymer solar cell with broad absorption and low energy loss enabled by a novel polymer acceptor, 2020, Nano Energy
  • A Universal Fluorinated Polymer Acceptor Enables All-Polymer Solar Cells with >15% Efficiency, 2020, ACS Energy Letters
  • Tailoring Regioisomeric Structures of π-Conjugated Polymers Containing Monofluorinated π-Bridges for Highly Efficient Polymer Solar Cells, 2020, ACS Energy Letters

The scientist has collaborated frequently with other researchers in their field. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Wenkai Zhong
  • Feng Peng
  • Fei Huang
  • Yong Cao
  • Ning Li

Best Publications

  • Achieving over 16% efficiency for single-junction organic solar cells

    Baobing Fan;Difei Zhang;Meijing Li;Wenkai Zhong

  • High‐Mobility Field‐Effect Transistors Fabricated with Macroscopic Aligned Semiconducting Polymers

    Hsin-Rong Tseng;Hung Phan;Chan Luo;Ming Wang

  • Progress and perspective of polymer white light-emitting devices and materials

    Hongbin Wu;Lei Ying;Wei Yang;Yong Cao

  • Solution-processed green and blue quantum-dot light-emitting diodes with eliminated charge leakage

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  • Efficient Organic Solar Cell With 16.88% Efficiency Enabled by Refined Acceptor Crystallization and Morphology With Improved Charge Transfer and Transport Properties

    Lei Zhu;Lei Zhu;Ming Zhang;Guanqing Zhou;Tianyu Hao

  • White Polymer Light-Emitting Devices for Solid-State Lighting: Materials, Devices, and Recent Progress

    Lei Ying;Cheuk Lam Ho;Hongbin Wu;Yong Cao

  • Optimisation of processing solvent and molecular weight for the production of green-solvent-processed all-polymer solar cells with a power conversion efficiency over 9%

    Baobing Fan;Lei Ying;Zhenfeng Wang;Baitian He

  • All-Polymer Solar Cells Based on a Conjugated Polymer Containing Siloxane-Functionalized Side Chains with Efficiency over 10.

    Baobing Fan;Lei Ying;Peng Zhu;Feilong Pan

  • Fine-tuning of the chemical structure of photoactive materials for highly efficient organic photovoltaics

    Baobing Fan;Baobing Fan;Xiaoyan Du;Feng Liu;Wenkai Zhong;Wenkai Zhong

  • A generic green solvent concept boosting the power conversion efficiency of all-polymer solar cells to 11%

    Zhenye Li;Lei Ying;Peng Zhu;Wenkai Zhong

  • 14.4% efficiency all-polymer solar cell with broad absorption and low energy loss enabled by a novel polymer acceptor

    Tao Jia;Jiabin Zhang;Wenkai Zhong;Yuanying Liang

  • Aggregation-Induced Multilength Scaled Morphology Enabling 11.76% Efficiency in All-Polymer Solar Cells Using Printing Fabrication

    Lei Zhu;Lei Zhu;Wenkai Zhong;Chaoqun Qiu;Bosai Lyu

  • Regioregular narrow-bandgap-conjugated polymers for plastic electronics

    Lei Ying;Fei Huang;Guillermo C. Bazan;Guillermo C. Bazan

  • Regioregular Pyridal[2,1,3]thiadiazole π-Conjugated Copolymers

    Lei Ying;Ben B.Y. Hsu;Hongmei Zhan;Hongmei Zhan;Gregory C. Welch

  • A Novel Naphtho[1,2-c:5,6-c′]Bis([1,2,5]Thiadiazole)-Based Narrow-Bandgap π-Conjugated Polymer with Power Conversion Efficiency Over 10%

    Yaocheng Jin;Zhiming Chen;Sheng Dong;Nannan Zheng

  • High Mobility Field Effect Transistors Based on Macroscopically Oriented Regioregular Copolymers

    Hsin Rong Tseng;Lei Ying;Ben B.Y. Hsu;Louis A. Perez

  • Molecular doping enhances photoconductivity in polymer bulk heterojunction solar cells.

    Yuan Zhang;Huiqiong Zhou;Jason Seifter;Lei Ying

  • Towards a bright future: polymer solar cells with power conversion efficiencies over 10%

    Zhicheng Hu;Lei Ying;Fei Huang;Yong Cao

  • High-Performance Nonfullerene Polymer Solar Cells based on Imide-Functionalized Wide-Bandgap Polymers.

    Baobing Fan;Kai Zhang;Xiao-Fang Jiang;Lei Ying

  • Low band gap conjugated polymers combining siloxane-terminated side chains and alkyl side chains: side-chain engineering achieving a large active layer processing window for PCE > 10% in polymer solar cells

    Xuncheng Liu;Li Nian;Ke Gao;Lianjie Zhang

  • A Universal Fluorinated Polymer Acceptor Enables All-Polymer Solar Cells with >15% Efficiency

    Feng Peng;Kang An;Wenkai Zhong;Zhenye Li

  • Surpassing the 10% efficiency milestone for 1-cm 2 all-polymer solar cells

    Baobing Fan;Wenkai Zhong;Lei Ying;Difei Zhang

Frequent Co-Authors

Yong Cao
Yong Cao South China University of Technology
Fei Huang
Fei Huang South China University of Technology
Wei Yang
Wei Yang South China University of Technology
Junbiao Peng
Junbiao Peng South China University of Technology
Feng Peng
Feng Peng Guangzhou University
Ning Li
Ning Li University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Guillermo C. Bazan
Guillermo C. Bazan National University of Singapore
Xiao-Fang Jiang
Xiao-Fang Jiang South China Normal University
Hongbin Wu
Hongbin Wu South China University of Technology
Jianhua Zou
Jianhua Zou South China University of Technology

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