2026 Qifan Xue: Materials Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Rising Stars	43	520	520	177	177	90	8026
Materials Science	46	11363	10981	3145	3132	90	9407

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2025 - Research.com Rising Stars Award

Overview

Qifan Xue is affiliated with the South China University of Technology in China. Their research primarily focuses on engineering and materials science, with substantial contributions in electrical and electronic engineering, polymers and plastics, and materials chemistry. The scientist's work also extends to automotive engineering and renewable energy, sustainability, and the environment.

The main topics covered in Qifan Xue's research include:

Perovskite Materials and Applications
Conducting Polymers and Applications
Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics
Quantum Dots Synthesis And Properties
Chalcogenide Semiconductor Thin Films
Organic Light-Emitting Diodes Research
Solid-state Spectroscopy and Crystallography

Frequent publication venues for Qifan Xue include:

Advanced Functional Materials (7 publications)
Advanced Energy Materials (5 publications)
Advanced Materials (5 publications)
Angewandte Chemie International Edition (5 publications)
ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces (5 publications)

Qifan Xue has collaborated frequently with several coauthors, including:

Hin-Lap Yip (24 joint publications)
Tianqi Niu (20 joint publications)
Jing Wang (18 joint publications)
Fei Huang (15 joint publications)
Yao Qin (14 joint publications)

Notable recent papers authored by Qifan Xue include:

Highly efficient all-inorganic perovskite solar cells with suppressed non-radiative recombination by a Lewis base, 2020, Nature Communications
Inorganic Halide Perovskite Solar Cells: Progress and Challenges, 2020, Advanced Energy Materials
D-A-π-A-D-type Dopant-free Hole Transport Material for Low-Cost, Efficient, and Stable Perovskite Solar Cells, 2021, Joule
Dopant-Free Organic Hole-Transporting Material for Efficient and Stable Inverted All-Inorganic and Hybrid Perovskite Solar Cells, 2020, Advanced Materials
Graded 2D/3D Perovskite Heterostructure for Efficient and Operationally Stable MA-Free Perovskite Solar Cells, 2020, Advanced Materials

Best Publications

Highly efficient all-inorganic perovskite solar cells with suppressed non-radiative recombination by a Lewis base.

Jing Wang;Jie Zhang;Yingzhi Zhou;Hongbin Liu

604
Citations
Modulation of recombination zone position for quasi-two-dimensional blue perovskite light-emitting diodes with efficiency exceeding 5

Zhenchao Li;Ziming Chen;Yongchao Yang;Qifan Xue

552
Citations
Effects of a Molecular Monolayer Modification of NiO Nanocrystal Layer Surfaces on Perovskite Crystallization and Interface Contact toward Faster Hole Extraction and Higher Photovoltaic Performance

Yang Bai;Haining Chen;Shuang Xiao;Qifan Xue

450
Citations
Interface Engineering for All‐Inorganic CsPbI2Br Perovskite Solar Cells with Efficiency over 14%

Lei Yan;Qifan Xue;Meiyue Liu;Zonglong Zhu

395
Citations
Dual Interfacial Design for Efficient CsPbI 2 Br Perovskite Solar Cells with Improved Photostability.

Jingjing Tian;Qifan Xue;Xiaofeng Tang;Yuxuan Chen

375
Citations
Amino-Functionalized Conjugated Polymer as an Efficient Electron Transport Layer for High-Performance Planar-Heterojunction Perovskite Solar Cells

Chen Sun;Zhihong Wu;Hin-Lap Yip;Hua Zhang

344
Citations
Decomposition of Organometal Halide Perovskite Films on Zinc Oxide Nanoparticles

Yuanhang Cheng;Qing-Dan Yang;Jingyang Xiao;Qifan Xue

338
Citations
Recent advances in semi-transparent polymer and perovskite solar cells for power generating window applications

Qifan Xue;Ruoxi Xia;Christoph J. Brabec;Hin-Lap Yip

329
Citations
Inorganic Halide Perovskite Solar Cells: Progress and Challenges

Jingjing Tian;Qifan Xue;Qin Yao;Ning Li;Ning Li;Ning Li

325
Citations
D-A-π-A-D-type Dopant-free Hole Transport Material for Low-Cost, Efficient, and Stable Perovskite Solar Cells

Tianqi Niu;Weiya Zhu;Yiheng Zhang;Qifan Xue

299
Citations
High-Performance Color-Tunable Perovskite Light Emitting Devices through Structural Modulation from Bulk to Layered Film

Ziming Chen;Chongyang Zhang;Xiao-Fang Jiang;Meiyue Liu

298
Citations
Dual Interfacial Modifications Enable High Performance Semitransparent Perovskite Solar Cells with Large Open Circuit Voltage and Fill Factor

Qifan Xue;Yang Bai;Meiyue Liu;Ruoxi Xia

246
Citations
Structurally Reconstructed CsPbI2Br Perovskite for Highly Stable and Square-Centimeter All-Inorganic Perovskite Solar Cells

Chong Liu;Wenzhe Li;Huanyong Li;Huamin Wang

230
Citations
Dopant-Free Organic Hole-Transporting Material for Efficient and Stable Inverted All-Inorganic and Hybrid Perovskite Solar Cells.

Kui Jiang;Kui Jiang;Jing Wang;Fei Wu;Qifan Xue

224
Citations
Highly efficient fullerene/perovskite planar heterojunction solar cells via cathode modification with an amino-functionalized polymer interlayer

Qifan Xue;Zhicheng Hu;Jiang Liu;Jiahui Lin

221
Citations
Graded 2D/3D Perovskite Heterostructure for Efficient and Operationally Stable MA-Free Perovskite Solar Cells

Qin Yao;Qifan Xue;Zhenchao Li;Kaicheng Zhang

206
Citations
Enhancing the Performance of Inverted Perovskite Solar Cells via Grain Boundary Passivation with Carbon Quantum Dots.

Yuhui Ma;Heyi Zhang;Yewei Zhang;Ruiyuan Hu

180
Citations
Improving Film Formation and Photovoltage of Highly Efficient Inverted-Type Perovskite Solar Cells through the Incorporation of New Polymeric Hole Selective Layers

Qifan Xue;Guiting Chen;Meiyue Liu;Jingyang Xiao

171
Citations
Recombination Dynamics Study on Nanostructured Perovskite Light-Emitting Devices.

Ziming Chen;Zhenchao Li;Chongyang Zhang;Xiao-Fang Jiang

142
Citations
Semitransparent Organic Solar Cells with Efficiency Surpassing 15%

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135
Citations
The fabrication of color-tunable organic light-emitting diode displays via solution processing.

Fei Guo;Andre Karl;Qi-Fan Xue;Kai Cheong Tam

133
Citations