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Xiaowei Zhan

Xiaowei Zhan

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Materials Science

D-Index
103
Citations
60900
World Ranking
902
National Ranking
284

Overview

Xiaowei Zhan is affiliated with Peking University in China and has a broad research portfolio primarily within the fields of Engineering and Materials Science. Their work spans several subfields such as Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Polymers and Plastics, Materials Chemistry, Biomedical Engineering, and Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials.

Their research topics focus on areas including 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 Crystallization and Solubility Studies.

Zhan has contributed extensively to scientific literature, with notable papers including:

  • Ultrafast and broadband photodetectors based on a perovskite/organic bulk heterojunction for large-dynamic-range imaging (2020, Light Science & Applications)
  • The principles, design and applications of fused-ring electron acceptors (2022, Nature Reviews Chemistry)
  • Fused-Ring Electron Acceptors for Photovoltaics and Beyond (2020, Accounts of Chemical Research)
  • Reducing Voltage Losses in the A-DA'D-A Acceptor-Based Organic Solar Cells (2020, Chem)
  • Advanced functional polymer materials (2020, Materials Chemistry Frontiers)

Their frequent collaborators include Xinhui Lu, Jiayu Wang, Tengfei Li, Boyu Jia, and Peiyao Xue.

Zhan's work is frequently published in venues such as:

  • Journal of Materials Chemistry A
  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • Advanced Materials
  • ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
  • Solar RRL

Best Publications

  • Aggregation-induced emission of 1-methyl-1,2,3,4,5-pentaphenylsilole

    Jingdong Luo;Zhiliang Xie;Jacky W. Y. Lam;Lin Cheng

  • An electron acceptor challenging fullerenes for efficient polymer solar cells.

    Yuze Lin;Jiayu Wang;Zhi-Guo Zhang;Huitao Bai

  • Non-fullerene acceptors for organic solar cells

    Cenqi Yan;Stephen Barlow;Zhaohui Wang;He Yan

  • Small molecule semiconductors for high-efficiency organic photovoltaics

    Yuze Lin;Yongfang Li;Xiaowei Zhan

  • Rylene and related diimides for organic electronics.

    Xiaowei Zhan;Antonio Facchetti;Stephen Barlow;Tobin J. Marks

  • Next-generation organic photovoltaics based on non-fullerene acceptors

    Pei Cheng;Gang Li;Xiaowei Zhan;Yang Yang

  • n-Type organic semiconductors in organic electronics.

    John E. Anthony;Antonio Facchetti;Martin Heeney;Seth R. Marder

  • A high-mobility electron-transport polymer with broad absorption and its use in field-effect transistors and all-polymer solar cells.

    Xiaowei Zhan;Zhan'ao Tan;Benoit Domercq;Zesheng An

  • Stability of organic solar cells: challenges and strategies

    Pei Cheng;Xiaowei Zhan

  • High-Performance Electron Acceptor with Thienyl Side Chains for Organic Photovoltaics.

    Yuze Lin;Yuze Lin;Yuze Lin;Fuwen Zhao;Qiao He;Lijun Huo

  • A Facile Planar Fused-Ring Electron Acceptor for As-Cast Polymer Solar Cells with 8.71% Efficiency

    Yuze Lin;Qiao He;Fuwen Zhao;Lijun Huo

  • Fused Nonacyclic Electron Acceptors for Efficient Polymer Solar Cells.

    Shuixing Dai;Fuwen Zhao;Qianqian Zhang;Tsz-Ki Lau

  • Non-fullerene acceptors for organic photovoltaics: an emerging horizon

    Yuze Lin;Xiaowei Zhan

  • Single-Junction Binary-Blend Nonfullerene Polymer Solar Cells with 12.1% Efficiency.

    Fuwen Zhao;Fuwen Zhao;Shuixing Dai;Shuixing Dai;Yang Wu;Qianqian Zhang

  • Efficient blue emission from siloles

    Ben Zhong Tang;Xiaowei Zhan;Gui Yu;Priscilla Pui Sze Lee

  • Morphology Control in Organic Solar Cells

    Fuwen Zhao;Fuwen Zhao;Chunru Wang;Xiaowei Zhan

  • High-performance fullerene-free polymer solar cells with 6.31% efficiency

    Yuze Lin;Zhi-Guo Zhang;Huitao Bai;Jiayu Wang

  • Oligomer Molecules for Efficient Organic Photovoltaics.

    Yuze Lin;Xiaowei Zhan

  • π-Conjugated Lewis Base: Efficient Trap-Passivation and Charge-Extraction for Hybrid Perovskite Solar Cells

    Yuze Lin;Liang Shen;Jun Dai;Yehao Deng

  • Structures, electronic states, photoluminescence, and carrier transport properties of 1,1-disubstituted 2,3,4,5-tetraphenylsiloles.

    Gui Yu;Shiwei Yin;Yunqi Liu;Jiangshan Chen

Frequent Co-Authors

Yongfang Li
Yongfang Li Soochow University
Yuze Lin
Yuze Lin Chinese Academy of Sciences
Pei Cheng
Pei Cheng University of California, Los Angeles
Yunqi Liu
Yunqi Liu Fudan University
Xinhui Lu
Xinhui Lu Chinese University of Hong Kong
Daoben Zhu
Daoben Zhu Chinese Academy of Sciences
Wei Ma
Wei Ma Xi'an Jiaotong University
Wenping Hu
Wenping Hu Tianjin University
Seth R. Marder
Seth R. Marder University of Colorado Boulder
Wei You
Wei You University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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