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Shangfeng Yang is a researcher affiliated with the University of Science and Technology of China in China with a substantial publication record across materials science and engineering fields. Their research spans key areas including materials chemistry, electrical and electronic engineering, and organic chemistry. The scientist has produced notable work in subfields such as polymers and plastics, as well as electronic, optical, and magnetic materials.

Their research topics focus primarily on perovskite materials and applications, conducting polymers and their uses, as well as fullerene chemistry. Other highlighted topics include crystallization and solubility studies, X-ray diffraction in crystallography, quantum dots synthesis and properties, and organic electronics and photovoltaics.

Shangfeng Yang has contributed frequently to several publication venues throughout their career. These include The Cambridge Structural Database, where they have 36 publications; Angewandte Chemie International Edition, with 13 publications; Angewandte Chemie, featuring 12 publications; Advanced Materials, where 11 articles have been published; and the Journal of the American Chemical Society with nine publications.

They have collaborated often with several coauthors, including Muqing Chen, Runnan Guan, Jinpeng Xin, Yang-Rong Yao, and Pingwu Du, reflecting a broad network within their research community.

Among the recent papers authored or coauthored by Shangfeng Yang are:

  • "18% Efficiency organic solar cells," 2020, Science Bulletin
  • "Hydrothermal deposition of antimony selenosulfide thin films enables solar cells with 10% efficiency," 2020, Nature Energy
  • "Progress of the key materials for organic solar cells," 2020, Science China Chemistry
  • "A chlorinated copolymer donor demonstrates a 18.13% power conversion efficiency," 2021, Journal of Semiconductors
  • "Highly Efficient Flexible Perovskite Solar Cells through Pentylammonium Acetate Modification with Certified Efficiency of 23.35%," 2022, Advanced Materials

Best Publications

  • 18% Efficiency organic solar cells

    Qishi Liu;Qishi Liu;Yufan Jiang;Yufan Jiang;Ke Jin;Jianqiang Qin

  • Hydrothermal deposition of antimony selenosulfide thin films enables solar cells with 10% efficiency

    Rongfeng Tang;Xiaomin Wang;Weitao Lian;Jialiang Huang

  • Black Phosphorus Revisited: A Missing Metal-Free Elemental Photocatalyst for Visible Light Hydrogen Evolution.

    Xianjun Zhu;Taiming Zhang;Zijun Sun;Huanlin Chen

  • Metal nitride cluster fullerenes: their current state and future prospects.

    Lothar Dunsch;Shangfeng Yang

  • 26 mA cm −2 J sc from organic solar cells with a low-bandgap nonfullerene acceptor

    Zuo Xiao;Xue Jia;Dan Li;Shizhe Wang

  • Numerical simulation: Toward the design of high-efficiency planar perovskite solar cells

    Feng Liu;Jun Zhu;Junfeng Wei;Yi Li

  • When metal clusters meet carbon cages: endohedral clusterfullerenes

    Shangfeng Yang;Tao Wei;Fei Jin

  • High-efficiency ITO-free polymer solar cells using highly conductive PEDOT:PSS/surfactant bilayer transparent anodes

    Wenfeng Zhang;Baofeng Zhao;Zhicai He;Xuemei Zhao

  • Incorporating Graphitic Carbon Nitride (g‐C3N4) Quantum Dots into Bulk‐Heterojunction Polymer Solar Cells Leads to Efficiency Enhancement

    Xiang Chen;Qing Liu;Qiliang Wu;Pingwu Du

  • Low-Temperature In Situ Amino Functionalization of TiO2 Nanoparticles Sharpens Electron Management Achieving over 21% Efficient Planar Perovskite Solar Cells.

    Wanpei Hu;Weiran Zhou;Xunyong Lei;Pengcheng Zhou

  • Progress of the key materials for organic solar cells

    Yang Tong;Zuo Xiao;Xiaoyan Du;Chuantian Zuo

  • Stabilizing black phosphorus nanosheets via edge-selective bonding of sacrificial C 60 molecules.

    Xianjun Zhu;Taiming Zhang;Daochuan Jiang;Hengli Duan

  • A strategic review on processing routes towards highly efficient perovskite solar cells

    Ashish Dubey;Nirmal Adhikari;Sally Mabrouk;Fan Wu

  • An Endohedral Single-Molecule Magnet with Long Relaxation Times: DySc2N@C80

    Rasmus Westerström;Jan Dreiser;Cinthia Piamonteze;Matthias Muntwiler

  • Kesterite Cu2ZnSnS4 as a Low-Cost Inorganic Hole-Transporting Material for High-Efficiency Perovskite Solar Cells.

    Qiliang Wu;Cong Xue;Yi Li;Pengcheng Zhou

  • Highly Efficient Flexible Perovskite Solar Cells through Pentylammonium Acetate Modification with Certified Efficiency of 23.35%

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  • A fast chemical approach towards Sb2S3 film with a large grain size for high-performance planar heterojunction solar cells

    Xiaomin Wang;Jianmin Li;Weifeng Liu;Shangfeng Yang

  • Noncovalent Functionalization of Graphene Attaching [6,6]-Phenyl-C61-butyric Acid Methyl Ester (PCBM) and Application as Electron Extraction Layer of Polymer Solar Cells

    Shuxuan Qu;Minghua Li;Lixin Xie;Xiao Huang

  • Temperature-assisted rapid nucleation: a facile method to optimize the film morphology for perovskite solar cells

    Ying-Ke Ren;Xi-Hong Ding;Ya-Han Wu;Jun Zhu

  • Metal Sulfide in a C82 Fullerene Cage: A New Form of Endohedral Clusterfullerenes

    Lothar Dunsch;Shangfeng Yang;Lin Zhang;Anna Svitova

  • A chlorinated copolymer donor demonstrates a 18.13% power conversion efficiency

    Jianqiang Qin;Jianqiang Qin;Lixiu Zhang;Chuantian Zuo;Zuo Xiao

  • Endohedral clusterfullerenes—playing with cluster and cage sizes

    Lothar Dunsch;Shangfeng Yang

Frequent Co-Authors

Pierre Petroff
Pierre Petroff University of California, Santa Barbara
H. Schellman
H. Schellman Oregon State University
J. T. Linnemann
J. T. Linnemann Michigan State University
P. Slattery
P. Slattery University of Rochester
D. Denisov
D. Denisov Fermilab
H. T. Diehl
H. T. Diehl Fermilab
M. R. Adams
M. R. Adams University of Illinois at Chicago
G. Blazey
G. Blazey Northern Illinois University

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