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Qifan Xue 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 Qifan Xue sits on this spectrum.

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50 publications 1,163+

This scientist: 90 publications — 2nd percentile

2% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Qifan Xue 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 Qifan Xue sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 165+

This scientist: 46 D-Index — 12th percentile

12% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Research.com Recognitions

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

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

    Lei Yan;Qifan Xue;Meiyue Liu;Zonglong Zhu

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

    Jingjing Tian;Qifan Xue;Xiaofeng Tang;Yuxuan Chen

  • 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

  • Decomposition of Organometal Halide Perovskite Films on Zinc Oxide Nanoparticles

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

  • 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

  • Inorganic Halide Perovskite Solar Cells: Progress and Challenges

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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

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

    Chong Liu;Wenzhe Li;Huanyong Li;Huamin Wang

  • 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

  • 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

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

    Qin Yao;Qifan Xue;Zhenchao Li;Kaicheng Zhang

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

    Yuhui Ma;Heyi Zhang;Yewei Zhang;Ruiyuan Hu

  • 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

  • Recombination Dynamics Study on Nanostructured Perovskite Light-Emitting Devices.

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

  • Semitransparent Organic Solar Cells with Efficiency Surpassing 15%

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

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

Frequent Co-Authors

Hin-Lap Yip
Hin-Lap Yip City University of Hong Kong
Yong Cao
Yong Cao South China University of Technology
Fei Huang
Fei Huang South China University of Technology
Zhicheng Hu
Zhicheng Hu South China University of Technology
Ning Li
Ning Li University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Zonglong Zhu
Zonglong Zhu City University of Hong Kong
Christoph J. Brabec
Christoph J. Brabec University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Xiao-Fang Jiang
Xiao-Fang Jiang South China Normal University
Shihe Yang
Shihe Yang Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
He Yan
He Yan Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

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